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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APR. 7, 1976
Endorsements
a vote for clean hands
David S. Broder
Jackson exhausted by Carter! J
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Only three of the six executive positions of the Student
Senate are being contested.
Student body president and vice-president of finance
each have three contenders and vice-president of student
services has two.
For student body president The Battalion endorses
FRED McCLURE. Beneath his excess verbiage lies
sound theory and good ideas. McClure is an impressive
individual with a strong personality. He’ll be a definite
asset in the students’ dealings with other schools and
organizations.
Of McClure ? s two opponents, Duane Thompson is un
impressive and Richard Scruggs’ greatest attribute is his
past non-inv6lvement with Student Government.
Scruggs has some good ideas, but McClure is still the best
choice.
MILWAUKEE — It was the tag
end of a miserable day of campaign
ing, and Scoop Jackson was beat. His
throat was sore, his head clogged, his
eyes red and tired. As he slumped
back in his airplane seat on the last
leg of the journey, his raincoat pul
led around him for warmth, the
senator from Washington looked on
the verge of exhaustion.
Presidential primaries are tough
on a man of 63, even one as fit as
Henry Jackson. This day had been
worse than most: an early-morning
flight from New York to Milwaukee,
then a switch to a chartered DC-3
and a six-stop swing from airport to
airport, with a press conference and
a quick pep talk to local union lead
ers at each.
It was a cheap way to establish a
presence in a state where Jackson
has neither the time nor money for
much of an effort — a sideshow to
the main event for him on Tuesday in
New York.
But jumping around Wisconsin
skies in a DC-3 on a day of spring
thunderstorms is no fun for anyone.
At Madison, the next to last stop, the
same charming youths who had
heckled George Wallace in wheel-
In the race for vice-president of finance. The Battalion
endorses HAL BRUNSON. Admittedly, he’s been in
volved in student senate since his freshman year, but he
nonetheless shows the promise of effectiveness. His plans
are not so long-range to be beyond his grasp; his view of
his position is realistic and down-to-earth.
Brunson’s opponents are Scott Gregson and Dan
Kasper. Gregson admits unfamiliarity with too many
major governing groups on campus to be an effective
manager of student funds.
Kasper is scared to death of University administrators,
totally ignorant of his rights. To study the business affairs
of the University, Kasper says with a sigh, “If you have to
you could go to the records and see what they’ve done.”
In the student services vice-president race, Troie
Pruitt has definitely been out-classed by the energetic
GREG BALL. Ball is a freshman and has not been tainted
by this year’s unproductive, chaotic senate. He’s in touch
with the every-day student and knows what he wants from
his student service fees.
Waggle’s car vandalized
Of the uncontested races, all three, regrettably, are
old-line senate members. Susan Rudd, running for vice-
president of rules and regulations, lacks the force neces
sary to represent students in campus policy matters. She
feels the Board of Regents shouldn’t be bothered, refer
ring instead to a nebulous “administration” little realizing
the two are one and the same. The Battalion votes NO
CONFIDENCE on this one.
JERRI WARD, running for vice-president of external
affairs has some good answers to campaign questions.
That, however, might just come with practice, since she’s
held the position for two semesters already. External
affairs was one of the more active committees this year,
but in view of how inactive the others were, that’s not
saying much.
Editor:
This letter is directed to that per
son or those people who vandalized
my car Sunday, March 28th. My tire
valves were slashed, and my antenna
and side view mirror were removed.
Why did it happen? Because I am
female, and I am in the Corps.
I find this turn of events disgust
ing. The vandals were of college age,
attending a university where stu
dents are required to be of above-
average intelligence to even be ad
mitted. Those people were probably
in the Corps, an institution based on
the goal of producing soldiers,
statesmen, and knightly gentlemen.
Yet here, on this campus, there
exists a group of people who can con
ceive of no other way to express
themselves than to destroy a per
son’s private property.
I ask those vandals this: What was
your purpose? If it was to make me
change my license plates, which
read “WAGGIE,” it didn’t work. If it
was to make me leave the Corps, it
didn’t work. If it was to tell me that
there are people who object to the
presence of women in a formerly
all-male institution, I was already
aware of them. If it was simply to be
destructive, you would be well ad
vised to direct yourself to the nearest
psychiatrist. You are badly in need of
psychotherapy.
Juanita A. Stubblefield
routes would be helpful. The two
routes that I am most interested in
seeing implemented are one that
would pick up people from the back
side of married student housing and
one that would go around the
perimeter of campus. Perhaps it
would also be possible to establish a
large parking lot somewhere away
from campus and run a bus over
here.
It would be nice if these improve
ments could be funded through a
mandatory fee. If it is not possible,
then I would be willing to pay a large
fee (after all, parking permits are
$36, besides gasoline and car
maintenance) but only if the service
was DEPENDABLE!
Lois Reibach
Twisted meaning
STAN STANFIELD, unopposed for the position of
vice-president of academic affairs, is straight-forward
and knowledgeable. He appears well-qualified for the-
office.
Voter inertia
The student turnout in Saturday’s city elections was
deplorable.
What does the future hold for our country when even
students from Texas A&M, that bastion of patriotism and
conservatism, abandon their rights in the democratic pro
cess?
Less than eight per cent of those registered on campus
voted. The two student-dominated precincts, 10 and 21,
averaged only a 21 per cent turnout.
One suspects that A&M students have a very immature
political conciousness, tending toward apathy.
On May 1, there will be presidential, state and county
primary elections. A statewide turnout similar to Satur
day’s A&M student turnout would not be an example of
representative government.
Overcoming voter inertia is not an easy task. It takes a
conscious effort by each individual to become aware of the
candidates and issues, and to understand the implications
of non-participation.
Editor:
In an article appearing in yester
day’s Battalion concerning candi
dates for yell leader I was quoted as
saying that people wanted me to run
because they wanted a civilian yell
leader. It’s true that people told me
that last year, but in writing the arti
cle the reporter left out the rest of
my statement, and in doing so com
pletely twisted the meaning of what I
was saying.
Last year I told the people who
encouraged me that if I ran for Junior
Yell Leader I would run not as a
civilian but as an Aggie. This year I
am running for Senior Yell Leader as
an Aggie who would represent a un
ified student body, and not any sepa
rate group within the whole.
I find it most unfortunate that this
omission should appear in the Battal
ion on the eve of the election.
Mark Pool
Shuttle bus
Editor:
It seems that every day lately I
have seen or heard complaints about
the parking situation on and near
campus. I believe the time has come
to improve the shuttle bus system.
Adding buses to the existing
routes as well as including some new
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chairs and Arthur Bremer masks
were at the airport to chant
obscenities at Jackson. One of them
managed to spit on the senator as he
passed.
To add insult to injury, when
Jackson boarded his plane for the last
leg, he found it boxed in by a 727 jet
chartered by his rival, Jimmy Car
ter. Not until a dozen staff members.
Secret Service agents and reporters
rolled the DC-3 backward, clear of
the chartered jet, was Jackson able to
leave.
There was strong symbolism in
Jackson’s plane being pushed by
hand to get around the sleek Carter
jet. But Jackson is not much one to
worry about symbolism.
And now, as his plane lumbered
toward Milwaukee, he looked ahead
to what it might be like — the show
down battle with Carter which he,
like many others, expects to begin
Wednesday, after starting the voting
in Wisconsin and New York.
Jackson admits to being puzzled
by Carter, saying he’s “never had an
opponent like him, never known
anyone quite like him in politics. ” As
Jackson tells it, the process of dis
covering began during the 1972
Democratic convention in Miami
Beach, when the governor of Geor
gia volunteered to make the presi
dential nominating speech for the
senator from Washington state.
The two men did not know each
other well, but they shared a strong
distaste for George McGovern, his
followers and his policies. Jackson
liked the idea of having “an attrac
tive spokesman for the New South”
nominate him.
It was the morning after
McGovern’s victory, as Jackson tells
it, that he got his first surprise from
Carter. The Georgian called him to
inquire what Jackson thought Car
ter’s chances of being elected as
McGovern’s running mate might be.
Jackson and Carter and their wives
lunched that day, and the Jacksons
felt by the end of the meal that the
nomination and ambition of the gov
ernor were much more complex and
encompassing than they had previ
ously calculated.
As his ambitions have unfolded,
Jackson finds himself the main re
maining roadblock to the nomination
of the man who nominated him for
President four years ago. If a novelist
had written this plot, he could not
have provided a sharper contrast in
the personalities.
Jackson is the ultimate
Washington insider: 35 years in the
corridors of the Capitol, unrivaled in
the manipulation of the
bureaucratic-interest group-
legislative game. Carter is the essen
tial outsider, his main virtue in the
eyes of his supporters his innocence
of any involvement in that
Washington power struggle.
Jackson is perhaps the most
literal-minded man in American
politics, a lawyer who inserts every
clause in every answer — to the
point of excruciating boredom. He is
blunt and often tactless, not content
to call a spade a spade when he can
raise someone’s hackles by calling it
a blankety-blank shovel. He wants
you to, know where he stands,
whether you like it or not.
Carter, by contrast, is a magician
with words, weaving a spell with his
language and rhythm of speech,
building a mood-web that gathers
people to him without their ever
Hys
knowing they are being piiMhr s
is as elusive as Jackson is sU vvas
fined.
It is the classic confronti
ween the slogging infantr
politics and the dazzlingjell
outcome seems obvious. Butj
cannot see it that way.
What he calls Carter’s “a
sonality” — really, Carter’sij
tap the deeper strains of i
traditionalism, beyond the I
most conventional politick
worked in rural areas, in sir
where Carter has been able|
the voters personally, Jacks
Carter will continue toil
the small city’s primaries a
caucuses, where the person
is vital. “But in the nig, in|
states,” Jackson says, “hec
very far down the street witlt]
ting involved in issues.
“He didn’t do well
sachusetts, and NewYorki*
ing him. People in thosesta
real problems. The recessl
over for them, ’’ Jackson says f
Carter to win, he mustbeaijj
in that kind of state.
The senator has a roadiwi
own — from Pennsylvania a
27 to Indiana on May 4 to Ul
on May 18 to New Jersey,0a.m.-n<
California on June 8. Even]
those states has union
ethnic voters who compra
Jackson calls his “lunch budaj
stituency.
For Carter to win the nontj
he will have to work his
those voters. Jackson, the
minded plodder, sits upinl
the DC-3 approaches Mil
and says, “I’m damned if I V
can do it.”
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