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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1977
Opinion/Commentary/Letters
Daycare center doesn't benefit all
Editor:
'Hie Student Senate recently ap
proved $41,000 out of student serv
ice fees for the support of a daycare
center that will accommodate 32
children. The use of student service
fees for a project such as this is appal
ling to all who understand the phi
losophy behind these fees. The pur
pose of the fees is to provide services
which all students will or can benefit
from. In the case of the daycare cen
ter, only the students who happen to
be parents can benefit from the serv
ice and only 64 of them. We oppose
the actions of the Student Senate on
philosophical and financial grounds.
The proponents of the daycare
center argue that such a service will
provide financial benefits to the par
ents and educational benefits to the
children involved as well as to the
education majors that will operate
the center. Since when has it be
come acceptable to expect students
to support other students financially
or to educate their children? The fi
nancial ramifications of supporting a
family while undergoing the educa
tional process should be considered
before the creation of the family.
Others should not be expected to
bear the burden of a decision in
which they had no voice.
Another advantage that was
claimed is that the center will al
leviate the present shortage of day-
care centers that allegedly exists. It
is ludicrous to claim that a center
that will accommodate 32 children
will provide the solution to such a
problem.
The final argument posited by the
supporters of the center is that finan
cial support will probably be as
sumed by the university within the
next two years. However, they have
no indication that this source of fund
ing will materialize. This year they
requested $41,203 in addition to
$12,165 that will be paid by the par
ents. Next year s expected request
will be approximately $26,000 with
an additional $18,000 coming from
parent fees. If support from the uni
versity does not materialize, it would
be ridiculous to assume that the rev
enue paid by the parents will more
than double to cover their operating
costs. They would have to return to
the Senate for funding. And, as the
Federal Bureaucracy has so aptly
demonstrated, it is far easier to start
a project than to end it. Even if fund
ing is assumed by the university, the
use of student service fees to provide
the initial capital cannot be justified.
The fact remains that we are being
forced to pay for a service from which
the vast majority will not and cannot
benefit.
— Jerri L. Ward
Vice President for External Affairs
— Robert W. Harvey
Senator, College of Engineering
Daycare center
"pure socialism'
the poor. Also, this promotes irre
sponsibility and neglect on the part
of A&M students. Some of us wait
until graduation to get married and
some of us have a home established
before we bring children into the
world. Yet we must pay for those
who don’t.
Am I cold-hearted, selfish, and
cruel? No, just fair. What about the
33rd child, the minority person in
Houston who can’t afford to go to
school here, and the student who’s
working his way through school?
Why not let A&M students subsidize
them? Let’s not forget to indoctri
nate these youngsters as Aggies right
away because we must remember
young minds can easily be influ
enced.
The proposed daycare center is
pure socialism and it’s absurd for
A&M students to pay for it. It’s just a
shame that our Student Senate fol
lows the example of the big boys in
Washington. Unfortunately, “like
Father, like son,” is still true.
— Dan Kaspar ’77
The letter will be signed by all of
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Editor:
I would like to comment on the
abortion article written by Phil
Robinson and Terri Floyd (The Bat
talion, March 9). Rather than bother
ing with their sloppy and irresponsi
ble journalism and their faulty logic,
which should be pretty obvious, I
will get right to the point. If not
interfered with, the impregnated
egg will develop into a being as
human as you and I. Any conscious
attempt to prevent this from happen
ing is murder. Period. The right to
life must not be subordinated to self
ish expediency.
— Leo A. Radovich ’78
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Editor:
Unless the Board of Regents has
more common sense and a greater
perspective of realism than we the
students, then our Student Senate
just spent $41,000 of hard earned
student money on 32 children.
That’s approximately $1,282.50 per
child and an imposed tax of about
$1.46 per student per year by our
Student Senate.
I’m talking about a proposed day
care center for children of A&M
married students who can’t go to
school unless they have someplace to
put their children. However, what’s
worse than the money spent is the
principle involved. In this case, it’s
taking from the poor and giving to
Chinese students
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Editor:
On page 9 The Battalion of March
1, 1977, a “paid political announce
ment” appeared among other com-
merical advertisements, which ex
pressed four false statements about
Taiwan, Republic of China.
We, a group of TAMU students
from Taiwan who had been shown to
and agreed upon this letter, want to
express our strongest protest toward
The Battalion and whomever made
that advertisement:
1. The tragedy happened on Feb-
ruary 28, 1947 was resulted from
misunderstanding between two
groups of people that newly came
into contact. Both groups had lost
lives and none of them should be
blamed for the tragedy. We wish
that you can reveal the truth about it.
2. A university newspaper should
not interfere with the domestic affair
in a foreign country and incite revo
lution.
3. Taiwan in now under a steady
progress and coherence. Any State
ment like that is an attempt to de
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in Taiwan.
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necessarily a person who has the
right to speak for 16 million people.
We demand to have a satisfactory
answer from those people who were
responsible for that announcement.
We, as a group of students without
financial ability or support to make
newspaper advertisement, sincerely
hope that you would publish this let
ter in The Battalion.
This is a new proposal for the
Board of Regents to consider: spring
break should be extended from one
to two weeks.
The first week would be an ad
justment period and the second a
vacation.
The following problems, obstacles
and embarrassments could be al
leviated by this action:
V Trying to shut-off the alarm
when the phone rings early in the
morning.
V Falling off the bed trying to
answer the phone when you realize
it’s not the alarm ringing.
V Realizing that the short people
around you are really little children
and not your roommate shrunk even
shorter.
V Remembering that at A&M
you get up on the right side of the
bed, but at home, the right side is a
wall.
V Adjusting to a phone that con-
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ing all the cold water when the toilet
is flushed.
V Having to find clothes in your
own closet instead of going through
your roommate’s and the people
down the halls.
V Picking up a newspaper to
read about something besides the
GSSO or the housing shortage.
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V Not answering late ii 'ereas !
phone calls from your dad's bos lelex;
same way you answer lateniditi irt to i
from friends at school.
Maybe the Board should cot
extending spring breaka
Provide a week for re-a
life at A&M.
V It takes at least two days before
you stop trying to adjust your little
black and white television and enjoy
the luxury of a full size color set.
stantly rings, then to the fact none of
the calls are for you.
V Counting the hours before
Thursday night’s venture to the
Dixie Chicken and learning there
isn’t a Chicken across the street from
you.
V The glares from across the
table when you try to start a food
fight.
V Trying to explain to your date
what you meant when you warned
against being caught in the room “af
ter hours.”
V Being able to shower without
someone yelling “crapper” and los-
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