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Listen up Ags, if you can
Yesterday, I was walking across campus, going to my
favorite restaurant in Northgate, when I noticed I couldn’t
hear what the person next to me was saying.
The reason for this apparent lapse in hearing was not
medical; someone in a nearby dormitory was testing their
stereo by playing the theme from “Alien” at full volume.
Ah, I said to myself (I was the only person who could’ve
heard it, anyway), it must be spring again. This is the time
c for young love, sunshine, blossoming flowers and Aggies
playing their stereos so loud they violate SALT I.
Whenever the weather gets nice — like yesterday — I can
walk by any of the men’s dorms on the north side and hear
the blaring music. If you look closely, you’ll be even able to
spot a pair of Toyota-sized speakers up against the window.
And, of course, there are the guys sitting in front of the dorm
“checking out” the passers-by.
I’ve got nothing against good weather, sitting around or
listening to music. It just seems as though there’s something
strange about playing a record so loud that it can drown out
the Aggie Band.
It would appear as though these people are starving for
attention.
If it is attention that these guys want, a better idea would
be to sit around nonchalantly on the steps in front of the
dorm wearing neon signs that say “Don’t notice us.
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The Battalion
Texas A&M University
Wednesday
February 20, 1980
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Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s gov
ernment has taken an ominous step toward
authorizing Jewish settlement in the big
towns of the occupied West Bank.
Spurred by radicals who have held Begin
hostage to his proclamations defining the
West Bank as “liberated Israeli territory,’’
the government unanimously decided Jews
have the right in principle to settle in Heb
ron or anywhere else in the region.
It was the kind of step the Gush Emunim
settlers have been waiting for. They have
been permitted to live only on the outskirts
of the big towns or in rural areas in the
nearly 13 years since Israel captured the
region from Jordan.
Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful)
wants more. It has been demanding what
amounts to Israeli annexation of the West
Bank to ensure the legality of Jewish settle
ment of the Delaware-sized region.
The United States expressed concern ab
out the unprecedented move to populate
Hebron with Jews and described the impli
cations of the decision as “serious and far-
reaching.” Egypt expressed “condemna
tion and surprise.”
Both nations are Israel’s partners in
negotiations aimed at setting up self-
government for the Palestinians in the
West Bank and Gaza. Begin already is hint
ing the slow-moving talks may go beyond
their May 26 deadline, which would come
as no surprise.
Palestinian autonomy is the second show
of the 1978 Camp David peace accords, of
which the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty
was the main feature. Negotiations about
autonomy and threats to move Jews into
Hebron, Nablus and other towns do not
seem to jibe.
Former Foreign Minister Abba Eban re
cently condemned Begin’s Likud-ruled
government for its “frenzied idea” of Jew
ish settlement in the towns. That it arose at
all, he wrote, “shows how close we have
come . to the loss of intellectual and moral
equilibrium.
Eban seemed to sum up the issue when
he wrote;
“The crisis in the Likud’s position lies in
the gap between the policy that it supports
and the document that its leader has
signed. The policy is to block any possibil
ity of an Arab national destiny in any part of
the West Bank and Gaza. But the docu
ment contains an intrinsic dynamism driv
ing towards an Arab destiny.”
The policy of Eban’s Labor party is not to
permit settlement in populated areas of the
West Bank. Labor adhered to that during
its control of the government until May
1977.
Jews have not lived in Hebron since the
1929 riots, when nearly 70 Jews were killed
in one of the bloodiest Arab-Jewish con
frontations in the turbulent 26 years of Brit
ish rule in Palestine.
Jewish radicals have tried to return to
Hebron. The wife of Rabbi Moshe Levin-
ger, the lanky spiritual leader of Gush
Emunim, and their six children moved as
squatters into a former Jewish clinic in the
town and have resisted efforts to evict
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Begin recently was asked whether his
government intended to let the squatters
remain in the former hospital. His reply,
“It’s not a hospital, it’s a private house."
Begin’s government always has de
fended the right of Jews to live wherever
they want in the West Bank, though its
latest decision left open the qi!fci c ademic (
when and where settlement in ilpiester bi
areas might start. Mgram to
The government’s “in principIfLu proble
sion followed agitation by religioTjth home
because of the gunshot killing in K [ u jlding.
Yehoshua Sloma, 23, an immigmfc. R
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A memorial plaque was affixed
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youth a martyr.
The military clamped a curfewoi|
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to aid the search for the killer. Til
was not found.
Military authorities permittedJi
Kiryat Arba free access to Hebron
the 11 days of curfew.
Religious Jewish children escort
their teachers ran though the
streets searching for clues in a
asure hunt” game. Arab children,
the 70,000 residents who were
stay indoors most of each day, undot!
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Editor:
Your coach, Shelby Metcalf, is a cry baby
— plain and simple. If you watched the
replay of the last few seconds of the game,
then you know three things: (1) U.S. Reed
was set, (2) the ball had left David Goffs
hands when he charged into Reed, and (3)
the foul occurred before time expired. The
foul on U.S. that tied the game was a bad
call, but then Ladson’s shot at the end of
the first half had not left his hands when the
buzzer sounded (so these things have a way
of evening out).
The crowd at Barnhill Arena was very
emotional, and I am not trying to excuse
the actions of certain fans. However, if any
one needs a lesson in courtesy and sport
smanship, it is your team (in particular,
David Britton, Rudy Woods, and Rynn
Wright). They deliberately taunted our
players and antagonized the crowd.
What is most gaulling is that Shelby Met
calf is considering filing a complaint con
cerning the crowd with the SWC. If anyone
should file a complaint, it is the photo
grapher who was shoved by Rynn Wright
for trying to take a crying Metcalf s picture.
In addition, if an Arkansas football player
had not intervened, I believe that Rudy
Woods would have tried to assault one of
our fans. Woods showed class earlier by
flipping off the crowd as he went to the
dressing room at halftime and at the end of
the game. If your players insist on acting
like children, then don’t you think that’s
the way they should be treated.
Eddie Sutton said it best, “a game lasts
40 minutes and you don’t stop officiating it
after 39 minutes and 59 and a half seconds. ”
Don Eldred
Memorial is in Quad
Editor:
I couldn’t help but be amused by the
ongoing debate over a Vietnam and Korean
War monument.
Although much could be said over the
usefullness (or uselessness) of class gifts
(i.e. “Planned for the Future”), awonderful
monument to Aggies who gave their lives in
Korea and Vietnam already exists and has
for over ten years. It’s called the Memorial
Meditation Garden and is located at the
south end of the Quad, in front of Duncan
Dining Hall.
Dedicated on Nov. 8, 1969 by Congrss-
man Olin E. Teague, the inscription was
read into the Congressional Record of the
91st Congress. To quote Teague:
“It is a beautiful place, a quiet and inspir
ing place — a tribute to our dead iF’ ^ e0 '
living memorial to the spirit of Texas.® C L ewi
which has made such a distinguisto!]
continuing contribution to the safety ,
preservation of our nation, and to tie c
tennance of the liberty of its citizens F
And, for Gorge Gagnon, Rick.td* |
Charles Smith, Chesly Adams and it \
uninformed Ags, the inscription read |
“Greater love hath no man thantt p
a man may lay down his life forhisfrie *
“This memorial is dedicated toi F
A&M men who gave their lives indd? N *
of our country since WW II. [
“ Here is enshrined in spirit andk 1 ^
tribute to their valor and devotiontot P
country. ”
The garden was a gift of the c-f
Cadets classes of 1969-73.
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