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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1975
PFANUTS
Hensel security
defeats purpose
ONE?! WE HAVE A WHOLE
HARD FULL OF LEAVES'
WHH' DON'T WE JUST
START WITH ONE, AND
SEE HOW IT GOES?
The plan to limit access to Hensel Park won’t solve
any problems.
Putting a gate across the entrance won’t prevent van
dalism, and having guards on duty 24 hours a day won’t
solve litter problems. These measures will, however, dis
courage use of the park and destroy its basic purpose.
No longer will students be able to gather there in
formally, unless, of course, they receive the prior bless
ings of the Student Y Association. But vandals will still
be able to climb the fence and ruin the facilities.
Granted, the new recycling center may need protec
tion, but it doesn’t need protection at the cost of the A&M
student body.
The real value of Hensel Park has always been its
free availability to A&M students. Making students re
serve the facility means that they will now have to pay a
price for its use. And it’s a price we should not have
to pay.
What Hensel Park really needs is the pride and care
of the A&M student body.
If people from outside the University are responsi
ble for damages in the park, let authorities from outside
the University handle the matter.
If the recycling center needs protection, it would be
better to make it vandal-proof rather than imposing 24-
hour guards and limiting access to the park.
What we really need to consider is whether we want
to give up the freedom to use Hensel Park just so it
will be protected. I think that we as students should use
Hensel Park and take pride in the fact that we have
available such a facility.
However, only if we show we care about the park
will it be returned to the way it was.
The function of government
should be to govern, not to deal in
the everyday matters of its con
stituents.
Yet, Americans seem all too wil
ling to allow government to handle
matters that the individual should
handle.
If we really want less pollution,
we should use those products that
pollute less. If we want more re
sponsible performance from busi
ness and industry, we should pat-
ronize those businesses that act re
sponsibly.
These are only two examples,
while the list of government agen
cies is endless.
We also should consider that our
tax dollars support this needless
government work.
Perhaps the real problem is that
we are not the rugged individualists
our forefathers were. Above all
else they feared strong government
intervention. Although we obvi
ously do not, we should.
I believe, as our forefathers did,
that the least government is the
best government. We should de
pend more on ourselves and less on
our elected officials.
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