Board harassment
Editor:
A small group of students in this
university, by the hue and cry that
they raise, by the flood of harsh
criticism that they publicly unleash,
by their harassment of our Board,
and our President, and by their di
rect initiation of contacts with State
legislators so that they may air grie
vances — real and fancied — with
this audience, are inflicting griev
ous harm upon the university.
Is it too much to ask that they
recognize the consequences of their
actions? The punishment of the uni
versity and the retribution that they
seek cannot fail to hurt our students
as a whole and this small group are
unwitting allies of those who do not
wish us well.
We have no lack of avenues
within our university through which
complaints and criticisms may be
directed to the appropriate persons.
This small group of willful students
appear determined to play Samson
among the pillars which support our
university community, in their
shortsightedness. I do not question
their motives — only this impair
ment of vision — but the result is
the same as though they sought the
worst for the university of which
they are a part, and in behalf of
which they profess to act.
W. David Maxwell
(Editor’s note: Maxwell is dean of
liberal arts)'-
Slouch
Foolish spending
Editor:
Today’s (April 13) Dallas News
had a half page describing the new
building and its furnishings for the
Board of Directors. I was a little bit
surprised that the public would be
allowed such a close look and de
tailed description since it follows
that some more frugal and
sensible-minded people might ob
ject.
I am against such lavishness — it
would be much more to the point if
that huge sum for the building and
decoration could have been spent
on bringing the older buildings up
to comfortable standards.
I have been alarmed about the
foolish spending of some of the
heads of departments in Washing
ton — I wonder if other persons
don’t have the same feeling about
the Texas A&M directors’ spending
for splendor.
Maybe some firm of decorators
had the “ear” of the committee
chairman or its members.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Kathleen Holmes
Dallas, Texas
New election
Editor:
Congratulations all you under-
Jim Earle
grads living off campus. The Judicial
Board thought that you did such a
good job of voting the ftfst time that
they want you to do it again.
Thomas Donahue has won his
case before the J-Board asking for a
new election because he was placed
on the wrong ballot in the original
election.
According to testimony at the,
J-Board meeting and an article that
appeared in The Battalion (April
17), Donahue “did not specify for
which off campus position he was
applying.” This omission was made
in three of four places that require
the candidate to specify the position
for which he is running.
Donahue listed himself on the
application forms as a junior who is a
member of the class of 75. The
registrar’s official listing of Donahue
is as a senior. On the basis of these
listings, Donahue was placed on the
graduate ballot.
According to the Election Regu
lations of the Texas A&M University
Student Government in paragraph
70 section l-b-2, “The University
Registrar’s classification as to clas
ses, colleges, and overall grade
point ratio shall be final.”
Apparently the J-Board does not
agree with the Student Govern
ment constitution or they feel the
registrar does not know what the
official classification of Mister
Thomas Donahue is. In either case,
the J-Board has decided to call for a
new election on May 1, 1975 until
which time the approximately
12,000 undergrad Ags living off
campus are not represented in the
student government.
Jimmy Arnold ’77
Joanne Arnold ’76
Mike Garrett ’77
Karen Gilmer ’77
Steve Ingram ’77
Dave Johnson ’78
Marcy Roman ’76
Dick White ’76
ERA reply
Editor:
In reference to Terry Hunt
Tooley’s letter (Listen Up, April 16)
on the ERA now in the Texas legisla
ture:
(1) So, the country is going to
draft women for combat duty? That
has to be one of the more absurd
things I have heard since the build-
ingofthe Northgate wall. I seriously
doubt the DOD would, in all its
knowledge of strategic warfare, “cut
its nose off despite its face.” Any
rational person understands that a
woman is simply nowhere equal to a
man in physical strength. On the
average, a man can run faster, lift
more and perform other physical
tasks with more quickness and con
centrated strength effort than any
woman. Drafting women for combat
duty would be like sending boys
under 15 and men over 65 out, be
fore men in their prime. Come on,
people, let’s not get so wrapped up
emotionally in this issue that we
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‘I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THAT PART IN CLASS SO I
DIDN’T STUDY IT.”
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TUESDAY, APRIL 22,191!
‘inflicts harm \ says dean
stop thinking in rational terms. So
what if women can be drafted? Who
was running the factories during
WWII, guys? And to add a rather
pertinent fact, I seriously doubt
there will be one whole hell of a lot
of “combat duty” in the next war.
They have buttons and test tubes
now.
(2) Marriages between people of
the same sex will be legal? Don’t
you straights out there see the
amusement in that? The gays with
enough social conscious, liberalness
or whatever one has, to speak
against the status quo, that of a
heterosexual society that persecutes
homosexuals, want to get married.
Big deal, that poses no threat to any
secure heterosexual. If they want to
get married, let them. I mean, ugh,
how conventional can you get? The
sooner the straight society can ac
cept gays as productive citizens with
different sexual preferences, the
better off we will be. And, don’t
hand me any psychological ifs,
and’s or but’s. There are too many
unstable straights. (Besides, think
of the population growth benefits.)
(3) As far as sex laws protecting
women, I see Mr. Tooley didn’t
mention the one closest to any
woman’s fears. I’m talking about
rape. If anything, seduction laws
work against us. Seduction is what
women get hit up with when they
report rape to police. I would like
Mr. Tooley to show me the last con
viction of statutory rape. What a
laugh! And obscene language? I’ve
heard ’em all and you know what? A
man can’t coerce or threaten me
with obscene language like he can
my mother. When you argue with
me, baby, you stick to the facts.
Please, brother, don’t hand me any
out-dated, 19th century bull. The
person who opens the door out of
helpfulness should be the most
able, not the male. I ve opened
plenty.
I could go on about the inequity of
passion killing, how a married
woman needs her husband’s signa
ture to buy property or a car in many
states, even though she maybe
making twice his salary andhowtlie
list goes on and on, but I ve ahead)
written more than allowed.
I encourage every individual to
become aware of the hundreds i
state law inequities this amendment
would abolish, instead of the fe»
emotional issues everyone seems to
he talking about.
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