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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MAR. 30, 1976
Zionism not religious matter
UN adviser speaks at banquet
An attack on Zionism is not an at
tack on Jews, Abdelwahab Messiri,
an adviser to the United Nations of
fice of the League of Arab States, said
in a speech at the Arab Students
Banquet at Texas A&M Sunday.
The banquet, which opened
International Week at A&M, also
featured Arabic food, music and
Arabic belly dancing.
Messiri spoke on “Zionism and
Racism.” Zionism is the movement
to establish a Jewish state in Pales
tine.
Although Zionism is harmful to
the Arabs, and must be contained,
Messiri said that it is possible for
both Arabs and Jews to live together
peacefully.
“Zionism is a political matter, not a
religious one. Only Christ can lead
Jews back to the Promised Land, not
(former Israeli prime ministers)
Golda Meir or Ben-Gurion, ” he said.
The return of the Arab lands cap
tured by Israel during the 1967 war
would not solve the problem, Mes
siri said. The conditions which
created the war still exist, he said.
To achieve peace in the Middle
East, Israel must change its
isolationist policies, Messiri said.
“The civil rights of the Jews are
sacred insofar as human rights are
sacred, but there is nothing inhe
rently sacred or profane about any
political ideology, even if it is
Zionism, or any state, even if it is
Israel,” Messiri said. He stressed
that the rights and human dignity of
both Jews and Arabs must be recog
nized before a solution is found.
After Messiri’s talk, traditional
Arab food was served. The meal in
cluded taboula (a tossed salad), kufta
(meatballs stuffed with parsley, on
ions and spices), kabsa (rice and
lamb), roast beef, Arabic bread and
pastry stuffed with dates.
Fatima, a belly dancing teacher at
the University of Houston, per-
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hobby convention disappointing
Godbey dissatisfied with policy
A&M representatives went to
Minnesota last weekend to possibly
help organize a new national student
lobby, but left midway through the
convention “antagonized,” accord
ing to Jeff Dunn, student body pres
ident.
The four day meeting, held at the
University of Minnesota, Min
neapolis, was to be purely organiza
tional, Dunn said. It was attended by
student representatives from large
universities across the nation. Rajesh
Kent, vice president of academic af
fairs; Stan Stanfield, an A&M stu
dent; and Dunn attended from
A&M.
The University of Minnesota sent
information to large schools last
January stating their interest in form
ing a national student lobby organi
zation to act as an alternative to the
National Student Association (NSA),
also a national campus lobby group.
“In the past,” Dunn said, “NSA
has not met the needs of large uni
versities. As a result of this, most of
these universities, including A&M,
are not members of NSA. So the
University of Minnesota decided to
get these schools together to decide
whether or not to start a new organi
zation.”
The convention pointed out two
alternatives the schools could pursue
in order to meet their needs. The
first was to form a new organization
and the second was to form a caucus
of all large universities and land
grant schools and with this caucus
join NSA. “By doing this,” Dunn
said, “we would have such a strong
voice in NSA that they would have to
listen to us.”
Dunn commented, however, that
there was a faction at the convention
that didn’t want to consider forming
a caucus and joining NSA. These
wanted to form a new organization
regardless of how other representa
tives felt. He said the issue of joining
NSA was never fully discussed.
The convention as a whole voted
against starting a new group, but that
same faction decided to form such an
association anyway, passed a resolu
tion to organize, and began writing a
constitution on Saturday.
Dunn said that upon this action
A&M representatives, who were ig
nored as far as input after the major
vote had been taken and who by now
felt antagonized, left the convention.
“I guess now we wait and see what
they have to offer us. We have to
make a choice to either join this new
organization which has no creden
tials whatsoever and never really
discussed the alternative of joining
NSA, as opposed to maybe joining
NSA, or maybe not joining either,”
Dunn said. “We haven’t decided to
go with them, but we haven’t de
cided to go against them either.”
Forming this organization will cost
an estimated $30 thousand which
will come from fees and dues of
member schools, Dunn said. He
then added, “NSA is at least an estab
lished organization with established
funds.”
Dunn said he expects feedback
from this new group in a month or so,
and based on this, the A&M repre
sentatives to last weekend’s conven
tion will make a recommendation to
next year’s leaders as to whether or
not they think A&M should join the
organization.
Dunn said, however, “Now, I
don’t think the convention was con
ducive to beginning a new organiza
tion. The group is just not as strong
as we wanted it to be.”
— LeAnn Roby
The U.S. Congress was never de
signed as a final resting place, said
Congressional candidate Ron God
bey Sunday. Godbey is seeking elec
tion against U.S. Congressional Dis
trict Six incumbent Olin Teague.
“Mr. Teague said in November or
December that he would run on his
record, and that,” said Godbey, “is
exactly where we want Teague: on
the record.”
Godbey said he decided to run be
cause, “I got angry and frustrated all
at the same time...with my con
gressman.”
Godbey told seven Texas A&M
Young Democrat members that
Teague’s attendance record had
Fitch
TSA
Board tables Willie Nelson issue
Willie Nelson’s 1976 Fourth of
July picnic will probably not be
sponsored by the Texas Student As
sociation (TSA), according to Jerri
Ward, vice president for external af
fairs. The issue was discussed last
weekend at the student lobby
group’s Spring Convention in San
Antonio, Texas.
The issue was tabled by TSA’s
Board of Directors at the conven
tion. “At the time, we didn’t have
enough information on the legal as
pects to make a decision on whether
or not to sponsor the picnic,” Ward
said.
Student Body President, Jeff
Dunn, said that TSA will probably
end up selling tickets to the concert,
instead.
“Tickets would be sold on each
campus of member schools and a
large part of all profits made will go to
TSA, Dunn said.
“This would be a service to the
students in a way,” he continued.
“They could get tickets on their own
campus and the proceeds would
benefit them through TSA.”
Other action taken af the conven
tion included elections of next year’s
officers and Board of Directors. The
new president is Julie Margin from
Texas Tech University and the vice
president is Alton Porter from Sam
Houston State University.
Members attended the usual
workshops on lobbying and other
projects the association has been
working on this year, and they
passed three resolutions at a general
assembly.
The first resolution supports stu
dent regents, and the second sup
ports liquor on campus for all state
universities. The last supports the
rights of left-handed students, mean
ing that the association agreed to
pursue educational freedom for
left-handed students in the form of
writing materials, left-handed desks,
etc.
U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen at
tended the convention Saturday af
ternoon and spoke briefly at a small
reception on the importance of the
student vote.
—LeAnn Roby
(Continued from page 9)
them from lamp posts and leaving
them there for the buzzards, this is
my respect for them.
The trouble is that you have to go
through a lot to prove their guilt and,
in the meantime, they’re out in
timidating the people that they sell
to.
I propose to thoroughly back our
police department and encourage
them in every way, but as a school
board member, I don’t see there’s
anything that we can do about it.
Have you been satisfied with the
performance of the current school
board?
One of the things that’s wrong
with the past board in my opinion, is
they have failed to set out a clear
policy. They have published a policy
statement, but it doesn’t say any
thing, it garbles on for paragraphs.
They get up there and argue at
these school board meetings for
hours, can’t come to any conclusions,
they don’t allow any audience par
ticipation.
I think I’d start each school board
meeting by permitting people to
stand up and say what they want to
say. I would recommend to them,
but not necessarily require them, to
come with a written statement to
present as they say it.
Poetry contest
features editor
Poet Robert Bly, founder-editor of
Sixties Magazine and Sixties Press,
will be featured March 31 when
Texas A&M University honors win
ners of the second poetry and fiction
contest.
The 49-year-old Minnesota native
has been a leading figure in a “revolt
against rhetoric” and was a critic of
Southeast Asian policy, co-editing in
1962 “A Poetry Reading Against the
Vietnam War.”
He has been represented in such
anthologies as “New Poets of Eng
land and America” and “Contempor
ary American Poetry.”
Texas A&M was re-elected to the
Board of Directors for next year.
A&M will represent all large schools
in Texas having an enrollment of
15,000 or over. There are nine
members on the TSA Board of Direc
tors.
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dropped from 50 per cent to 58 per
cent in the last two years.
Teague has missed votes on the
anti-busing bill, the oil depletion al
lowance, various tax bills and the au
tomatic congressional pay raise mea
sure, claims Godbey. “Yet, he will
tell you that the only votes he has
missed are unimportant ones,” God
bey said.
Godbey said there are two great
problems facing the United States
today—inflation and energy. “The
federal government, just as you and
I, must function on a fixed income,”
he said.
HEW’s budget this year equals
the budget for the entire country 10
years ago, said Godbey. “We can’t
afford it.”
Coal is a short-term answer to a
long-term energy problem, said
Godbey. However, he did not rule
out the development of other energy
sources as energy solutions.
“We are going to have to get into
other areas,” said Godbey,” and cer
tainly nuclear power is one of them. ’
He also suggested exploration of
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begins conferenu
formed after the banquet.
“The thing I like about the dance is
the music. The music creates the
dance,” Fatima said. Of the three
types of belly dancing, (Greek,
Armenian and Arabic), she prefers
the Arabic the most.
“Arabic dancing is full of soul and
feeling, almost sensual,” she said.
Judging from the audience’s reac
tion, they felt it too.—Richard
Chamberlain
hydro-electric and geothermal
power sources as other possible so
lutions.
“Agriculture will probably be the
next crisis this country will face,”
Godbey said. High land prices and
rising property and inheritance taxes
are major problems faced by the
farmer, he said.
“We’ve got to have some tax relief
for the farmer to keep him in busi
ness,” Godbey said. “It’s the same
for the dairyman and the rancher.”
Godbey favors fluctuation of farm
prices on the open market in order
for the farmer to make money.
Agriculture is important in main
taining the United States’ role as an
international leader, Godbey said.
“Russia is dependent on us for food
and as long as they are dependent,
they won’t bomb us.”
Godbey, however, contends we
must look after the needs of Ameri
cans. “If it comes to feeding Ameri
cans or feeding any other country
you would care to name. I’d have to
vote for America first.”
— Dave Johnson
The Women’s Career Conference
began yesterday with speaker Gaye
Brown-Burke leading the 30-
member female audience to an ac
tive discussion about life planning for
women.
Gaye Brown-Burke, supervisor of
counselors with the Vocational
Guidance Service in Houston, told
the audience, "One of the biggest
things while you are in school is to
gather information.”
The audience was diversified in its
types from young student women to
women who haye been married
twenty years and say they’re tired of
an aimless life.
Three questions every woman
should ask herself, said Brown-
Burke, are: 1) Who am I , 2) What do
I know about my assets, and 3) What
are my alternatives in career choice
and life style?
“Career and life planning
something that you suddenlj
you must keep up a contim*;
cess of looking at it to makeih
for you,’ said Brown-Burke,
The career conference \i
until Friday, April 2. Thescl
for the week is:
Tuesday, March 30, 12:30
p.m. — Women’s legalrighl
301 Rudder Tower,
Wednesday, March 31, m
p.m. — Speaker BarbaraBrij
301 Rudder Tower,
Thursday, April 1,12:30to2:3l)|
— Panel on obstacles andadvai!
for women, 601 Rudder Tower
Friday, April 2, noon to
Panel of the experiences
men, 601 Rudder Tower.
— Denise Ei
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(Continued from page 9)
Should the curriculum be ex
panded on both the elementary and
secondary levels? What courses
should be included?
Any expansion of programs has to
be evaluated on a program by pro
gram basis. You have to weigh the
cost of that program versus what
you’re having to give up, because
you do have a limited amount of
money to spend.
In what cases should corporal
punishment be used?
Corporal punishment should be
used judiciously and as an absolute
last resort.
Is there a drug problem in the
district? If so, what corrective mea
sures should be taken?
I’m not aware of it. The board may
have information they have not made
tee that every taxpayer get
money’s worth.
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Have you been satisfiedUy 0r
performance of the current! nn ( se
hoard? ates [
I cl have to say yes and no. P' 1 and
worked very hard. Them I
very diligently to put this pi
together for a bond issue tea)
the facilities. At the same6i I [ j . 1| . n
believe that the first bondi I
would have passed if it had hw
sented to the voters inenoujli ier CI *3
that each voter could have mi vs ’ P ai
what was there in termsoflisi
and what he wanted. I think* I )f may
there needs to he more respa I for Pkn
ness to the citizens and morel falter,
ness to the fact that the ritiai iext ye
own the school system, so top candi
They have a right to knowwk iewed
board is doing. We needlol eekon
people on the board that will {i >city.
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