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Page 2 THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1977
Opinion/Commentary/Letters
Situation of students is common
Do you live in a student ghetto?
Do you wish you could sell your
roommate to the gypsies?
Do the folks above you give
By
Art Keewey
and Mark Willis
able is in the dorms. No, not those
by the golf course, but all those
others that give the Texas A&M
University campus a little bit of that
good old Harlem atmosphere.
square dancing lessons at two in the
morning?
If you answered yes to any of the
above questions, this column is for
you. It will not improve your condi
tion in the least, but it may make
you feel less alone.
Probably the worst housing avail-
Those of you who live in these
monuments to the forties, you have
our deepest sympathy, we have
been there. We have known that
feeling of actually living in the same
room your father once lived in as a
student himself. We have tasted
mystery meat, coming and going.
Unfortunately, there is little chance
of your living conditions improving;
they have become tradition.
Slouch
by Jim Earle
“I FEEL MORALLY OBLIGATED TO WRITE A
LETTER IN REBUTTAL TO YOUR LETTER TO
THE EDITOR THAT YOU’RE WORKING ON.
WOULD YOU TELL ME WHICH SIDE OF THE ISSUE
YOU’RE TAKING SO I CAN START MINE?’’
Dorms will probably always have
the intellectual atmosphere of a
swamp. Legett Hall will probably
always serve as the breeding ground
for experimental rats used by the
biology department. And Sbisa will
probably always rate slightly below
McDonald’s in the gourmet’s hand
book.
Yet, there are certain advantages
to living on campus. You’re close to
your classes, a questionable advan
tage, we admit. But, where else can
one see and hunt the mythical 12-
point buck roach, never discover
that your roommate can’t cook, and
find prehistoric ruins right in your
own room? If you still insist on mov
ing off campus, despite these advan
tages, there are some things you
should consider.
First, apartment rent is expen
sive. Yet, the price is reasonable
compared to your fuel adjustment
bill, which for those of you who
don’t know, can steal the book
money right out of the hand of a
baby-faced freshman.
The benefits of apartment living,
however, may well be worth the
price. The social life is great. You
will know this because inevitably,
your next door neighbors will be the
area’s social leaders. The sound al
ways gives it away. There are tennis
courts, where you can sit and watch
others play all day, knowing you will
not have to tire yourself because
you won’t get to the front of the line
untill after graduation. Then there
are the pools, heated, of course, by
more than 2,000 human bodies at
any one time. And last but not least
there is the joy of shuttle bus riding,
where you really get close to your
neighbors. So close in fact, that sex
ual satisfaction can be attained
without detection or even recogni
tion.
Your third choice of living ac
commodations, is in real honest-
to-God houses. Yes, those things
your parents live in, with rent, and
bills, and upkeep, and everything.
They may be a dying breed, but oc
casionally you will meet someone
who lives in one.
They will tell you of the hardships
of lawn mowing, frozen pipes, no
A/C, and terror of terrors, local
landlords.
Again, however, there are advan
tages. No one lives on the other side
of the wall. You have a yard, al
though many are better described
as swamps during the rainy season,
Jan. 1 through Dec. 29. Often
houses are actually cheaper than
apartments, despite bills for every
thing from gas to sewer improve
ment (which means they make your
toilet run the right way).
It all depends on what you’re
looking for— economy, privacy, or
even luxury, and how hard you
look. You won’t find any of these
things, but the longer you look, the
fewer that are available, so that in
the end the choice makes itself.
Over the wall
President chosen
at Lamar University
LAMAR PRESIDENT INAU
GURATED
Dr. Charles R. Kemble took the
oath of office Tuesday as president
of Lamar University.
Kemble has been president of
New Mexico Military Institute in
Roswell since 1972. The selection of
Kemble ended a 100-day search ac
cording to a report in the “Univer
sity Press.
The 30-member selection advi
sory committee included students,
faculty, staff, alumni, and regents,
regents.
SIDEWALK LETTERING A
DILEMNA
The NoZe Brotherhood, a sort of
anti-fraternity fraternity on the
Baylor University campus has been
victim of a mad sidewalk stenciler,
and no one knows what to do about
Approximately 35 “Unrush” an
nouncements appeared mysteri
ously on Baylor sidewalks in Sep
tember. The reversed lettering,
applied with blue spray paint, an
nounced the NoZe’s unrush meet
ing, said an article in the “Baylor
Lariat.”
After the announcements ap
peared, a spokesman for NoZe said
the group was not responsible for
the writing.
The lettering is still there. No de
cisions have been made concerning
what to do about it. The NoZe
group has offered to paint the rest of
the sidewalks blue. So far the ad
ministration hasn’t taken the mem
bers up on their offer.
UTA EDUCATION HEAD
RESIGNS
Jon Wiles, education department
head at the University of Texas at
Arlington has resigned. He said his
reasons for resigning were organiza
tional problems.
In a report in the “Shorthorn”,
Wiles said he was limited in financ
ing, staffing, and establishing cer
tification standards. He said there
was not enough support on campus
to establish and maintain a quality
education program.
Let Our Musical Figurines
Say
We Also Have A
Large Selection of Music Boxes
£ Happy Cottage
&
Pardon opens wound agm
Editor:
President Carter’s attempt to heal
one of the last of the national
wounds caused by the Vietnam in
volvement has only torn open
another. By unconditionally pardon
ing draft evaders, he has angered
not only veterans and Legionnaires,
but many other citizens as well, my
self included.
I recognize that the move into
Vietnam by the United States was a
naive, ill-advised one, and perhaps
these draft evaders were justified in
their resistance to the war effort.
But regardless of the reasoning,
they broke the law.
If a society is to function effi
ciently, its citizens cannot be al
lowed to decide which laws they do
or do not wish to obey. If we obeyed
only the traffic laws we believed in,
our streets would be littered with
wreckage.
President Carter’s pardon sets a
dangerous precedent in the case of
our Selective Service laws. How are
we to raise an army in the future, if
need be, with this pardon hanging
over us? Nobody wants to be shot
at, and this pardon just offers an ex
cuse not to serve for that reason.
But perhaps more important is
the case of those men who faced the
consequences of their beliefs by
serving time in prison. How does
the President propose to make up
that lost time of their prime years?
And then there are those men
who bravely went and fought in
Vietnam regardless of their personal
opinions of the war and suffered loss
of limbs, sanity, and even life. Who
will pardon them from their wheel
chairs, hospital wards, or
cemeteries?
Former President Ford took
these ideas into consideration in
formulating his amnesty program.
Those men who truly loved the
country were glad to perform alter
native duties to return, and many
Get into some
great pants!
TOP DRAWER
Culpepper Plaza
MAHENDRA
THAKRAR, M.D.
takes pleasure in announc
ing the relocation of his
medical practice specializ
ing in Obstetrics and Gyne
cology
at
2112-B Villa Maria
Bryan, Texas
779-7943
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took advantage of the program.
Maybe those who did not take
advantage of Ford’s program felt
they didn’t owe the country any
thing for living here. They were
wrong. This great country of ours
doesn’t ask a great deal of us in re
turn for all the freedom and oppor
tunity it offers. We are asked only to
pay our taxes, serve on juries, and
serve in the military if our leaders
feel it is really necessary. Not much
if you think of the return on that
investment.
Perhaps if President Carter can
resolve these issues, he can indeed
heal the wounds of Vietnam. I hope
so. It would be nice to finally leave
the Vietnam matter to the histo-
versity since the fall of
noticed that the University
cial adjustments for the [
ped. Mainly, ramps for
wheelchairs, elevator numl
Braille for the blind, andeva|
cial accommodations in tie
rooms. But it seems to ml
A&M has forgotten one area,
they are by no means hani
left-handed people arediffei
they need special desks tow
It is very difficult to take
class when the desks are
handed.
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Scott Perkins, ’77
More seats
for left-handers
I believe that adjustmei
left-handed students woull
great improvement in tie
room. There are a lot of left
Aggies out there who are
bent out of shape by tryingli
form to a right-handed world
Editor:
I have attended Texas A&M Uni-
I think A&M should instal
tain amount of left-handed di
each room so they will not l
criminated against.
-Sandri
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