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TUESDAY, APRILS, 1975
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Squadron 9 thanked
Cadets' conduct after student s death
Editor:
I would like to express the
deepest gratitude on behalf of my
family and myself to the men of
Hellcat 9. These men provided
deep emotional support and sym
pathy after the death of my brother,
Wallace Reinke. The high degree of
espirit of the Corps was demon
strated by the presence of the entire
squadron at my brother’s funeral.
Age requirement is first step
In particular, I should like to
thank the Hellcat 9 senior group
consisting of Robert Fagner, Jerry
Hiller, Hubert Hillman, Stephen
Koplin, John Mazzurana, Eric
Schaefer and David Tiller for their
graciousness. I would like to thank
Lieutenant Colonel Yarr and Major
McClesky for their concern and
sympathy. I could have wished for
no finer friends for my brother.
Robert T. Reinke, M. D. ‘64
Gun control
Editor:
First, I would like to congratulate
Mike Perrin on his superb editorial
(The economic reply, March 12),
“Keep Your Pistol - Some dark night
you might need it as a club.” Perrin
looked at the topic of handgun
legislation objectively — something
it richly deserves but rarely gets.
Perrin s point was that banning
pistols or their ammunition will not
eliminate them from the hands of
criminals and/or eliminate crimes
committed with deadly weapons.
For some further proof of this look at
a few of the presently outlawed
weapons; the sawed off shotgun and
sawed off rifle, the silencer, and the
fully automatic weapons such as the
machine gun. Has the banning of
these weapons gotten them out of
the criminals hand? Certainly not!
One of the reasons this ban has
not worked is because these
weapons can be either made or sto
len from legitimate sources like the
military or police. It is again the
military and police who would be
the only legal owners of handguns
according to the bill introduced into
the National Legislature by U. S.
Senator Hart and U. S. Represena-
tive Bingham. Why can’t people
leam by experience? It would be
sheer folly to believe that the crimi
nal will fork over his gun —only the
law abiding citizen will come
through.
Please tell your U. S. Congress
man that you are against the inde-
scriminant banning of all handguns.
John Sablatura
By BILL SHEEN
There are two bills pending in the
state legislature which could signifi
cantly affect our Board of Directors.
One is a bill by Matt Garcia (of
Bexar County) calling for a non
voting student on all Boards of Di
rectors throughout the state. The
other bill is by “Mac” McAllister
(of Lubbock) specifying that there
should be at least
one member less
than 32-years-old
on all boards. If
you really want
to get something
done, I think
pushing the lat
ter is your best
bet.
I ve argued against students on
board of directors in this column
before. I still don’t think that
TAMU or any other university in
Texas is mature enough for a stu
dent on the Board. But I do think
McAlister’s idea is a good one.
Representative McAlister origi
nally introduced that bill two years
ago. It made it out of committee
but was defeated on the floor. The
amount of support it might rally
today is a question that even
McAlister is unprepared to answer,
but it probably is more likely to
do well than Garcia’s bill. No one
can say for sure, but since Garcia’s
bill is a good deal more radical, I
believe that resistance to it is likely
to be stronger. So the chance that
our representatives will be able to
objectively consider the bill are
immediately minimized.
However, McAlister’s bill may be
just enough of a step in the right
direction, without being too radi
cal, to ease its passage. But there
are objections to it also.
Some say it is too conservative,
and it will only introduce young
conservative political appoint
ments. Maybe so. But I’ll take a
young conservative political ap
pointee over an old conservative
political appointment any day. The
idea behind the bill is to inject
youth into the boards. It doesn’t
deal with politics at all.
And, of course, there are those
who will give you the old line that
youth precludes experience. And
experience is necessary to make
responsible decisions. That argu
ment assumes that for every ar
gument, there is a mythical “right”
answer which age will unerringly
provide. I don’t believe that age
is always right any more than I
believe that youth is always wrong.
Another criticism is that 32 is a
“magic age without any particular
value. That reasoning is used to
slight the bill’s value. However, it
doesn’t pretend to any magic quali
ties. If you believe, as McAlister
does, that more young representa
tion is needed, you’ve got to pick
a bottom line. There is nothing
more important to passing any bill
than political expendiency. And at
this point in time 32 seems to be
the politically expedient age. If
you say that 32 is a “magic age,”
all you’re really saying is that you’re
against the bill and not that you’re
against the chosen age.
But the idea behind the bill isn’t
so complicated; these criticisms
are not important. All it really
means is that boards of directors
throughout the state need some
youth. Almost any board you could
name is top-heavy with older con
servatism. It isn’t really a compro
mise between having students and
old political appointees on boards
of directors. It says that as things
now stand we already have an abun
dance of the best of conservatism.
What we need now is some of the
best of the freshness that youth
will give us.
Younger board members serve as
a conduit between youth and age.
The young and the old will meet
and influence one another. Maybe
even learn a little from each other.
We might even get lucky and
change a few conservative minds
from time to time.
The chairman of the subcommit
tee considering the bills appreciates
input. His address is:
The Honorable Bill Caraway
Capitol Building
Austin, Texas 78767
Express your support. Only you
can give it that. It may not be as
much as you want, but it’s the best
you’re going to get for a while.
Slouch
Jim Earle
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