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Slouch By Jim Earle Opinion Give blood for yourself, family You have the opportunity this week to demonstrate that you care for your family, your friends, and your fellow Aggies. And in so demonstrating you can also lend a hand in the fights against cancer, leukemia, and hemophilia. Today through Thursday you can do these things and more by giving blood in the Aggie Blood Drive. Donating one pint of blood and an hour or two of your time entitles you and all members of your family to free blood at any hospital in the United States. With blood selling for up to $110 per unit (pint) at some, hospitals, how can you not give? Further, if enough students give, the coverage can be extended to students’ more distant relatives and friends. This extended coverage has always been the case in the past. In fact, no request for blood from a Texas A&M student has ever been denied by Wadley Blood Bank. You can donate blood in 212 MSC between noon and 9 p.m. or at the mobile blood bank by Sbisa between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Donors must weigh more than 110 pounds, be in good health, and cannot be receiving certain types of medi cation. Don’t be discouraged by a waiting line — take a book along; go with a friend; go with a group and plan how you are going to dispose of those kegs that Loupot’s is offering as prizes to the three organizations that give the most blood. A lot of people in Alpha Phi Omega, Omega Phi Alpha, and Student Government have put in long hours at no pay for your benefit. Now do your part: give. the small society by Brickman W&LUlFTH£ / £AM mav^ W££AN MAV£ ©1980 King Features Syndicate. Inc. World rights reserved. The Battalion U S P S 045 360 LETTERS POLICY lA ttire hi the editor should nut rin i ri 300 u orr/.v uni! urv suhjrct to hrinu ,ut to that h niith or Ir.s.s if loniar. 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The Battalion is a non-profit, self- supporting enterprise operated by students as a university and community newspaper. Editorial policy is determined by the editor. Viewpoint The Battalion Texas A&M University Tuesday April 8, 1980 When it comes to campaigning Reagan is no amateur politician By ARNOLD SAWISLAK United Press International WASHINGTON — It is about time to say something nice about Ronald Reagan. He is a better politician than his opponents and he is winning the race for the Republi can presidential nomination because he is running the best campaign. enough to send many campaign managers to the window ledges. But none of these bloopers untracked the Reagan campaign. Some of that was luck, but most of it had to be that the campaign’s basic merchandise, the candidate, was strong enough to withstand adversity. holding operation. Citizens For The Re public, and kept his people on the string until it was time to start active campaigning again. was advised to start acting tougl aged only to appear hysterical. After almost two months of watching the Republican contenders, it is clear Reagan is the only one who has his campaign and himself under control. That is not to say he has made no mis takes. He has, in fact, committed some classic blunders. The most serious was to refuse to debate in Iowa, which started the campaign with a loss. The funniest was when he identified Hank Sauer as a black baseball player. Reagan has two assets that set him apart. The first, which could be credited to his long years as a professional actor, is that he never seems to lose control. Even when he is surprised by a question or an unexpected turn of events, Reagan is able to respond in a way that elicits more sympathy than con tempt. On camera and on stage, he is the only candidate in either party who seems to be relaxed and the only one who dares to poke fun at himself. Came 1980 and just about every Repub lican who ever looked in a mirror and saw a president decided to run for president. Ev ery one had to start from scratch to build either identification or political organiza tions. Reagan already had both. Sen. Howard Baker was the only GOP candidate who seemed as much at ease on the stump as Reagan. But he didn’t have an organization or a constituency and he started too late to build either. John Anderson is an aberration Republicans can be elected in sow but the hard core of the GOP is on and it is almost impossible for Anderson’s ideas to win the nomination. There never really publican constituency waiting foi son, and as the evidence of that in, John Anderson began John Brown. equal op] ^convince mph lim appears v ett of the tute. Bracke cates tha highway built to d higher sj ;hway ] forcem States I mph fe nalizec His Mafia duck joke alone would have destroyed some candidates, and confessing ignorance of parity in Kansas would be The second is the real plus of his cam paign. When he lost the nomination in 1976, Reagan and his advisers saw that he had built a personal following that could be preserved for another try. So he set up a George Bush worked hard to build an organization and to make the most of his Republican connections around the coun try. But Bush is an amateur campaigner and when something goes wrong, he shows it. Chicago columnist Mike Royko observed with some insight that when Bush Ideology may still he a fflj Reagan, hut so far he has Ml enough not to get caught in fan nouncements, such as advocatinfu^ __ the TV A or turning Social Secaritpr 11 the insurance companies. Reagan still could lose the noi but it will take a campaign and better than what has show upsofrl it away from him. B ^p.\r[^(3(Kwip»iw ■ gepafient.... He'S (kwg the test he 'he dei for the V but it is n ble to vot< 7or in the tion. Count; Gerald have until the runof and until general e Winn s registere< 3,150 has part of Ja estimate* fB-r t Un AUSTI! justice ref Jimmy Ca mate Da penitentia Austin, hi Ruiz, tl challengin Departmi • » transferrei i' placed in S Charles -■ '— tor of Cith n tj 0n 0 fE rr Ruiz has I based on i last time V Clements. Sullivan in Texas f Shedding light on Caperton ’v campaign Editor: I have noticed two letters condemning Judge Kent Caperton’s candidacy for the Texas Senate. I would like to take this opportunity to shed light on Judge Caper- ton’s true position regarding Texas A&M University. First, Judge Caperton is a former Texas A&M student body president. Second, he served as assistant to former President Wil liams. Third, he has been employed by A&M as a visiting lecturer. Kent Caperton has no desire to dismantle the Permanent Fund. On the contrary he has proposed to increase our share of this sacred fund. He does wish to bring Prairie View A&M up to current educational standards, but never at the expense of Texas A&M. Anything to the contrary is simply false, based on innuen do. Let us put a stop to false rumors. Let us scrutinize the records of both candidates and their positions on the issues. Let us not deal in rumor and deception. Lisa Mims ’81 Lively editorial page Editor: From past experience, without your soli citation, I know you guys need this missive. My letter about the letter about the cover age of the Senate Closed Session Con troversy will serve as the next-to-last men tion of a dead or dying and certainly some what boring topic. (Hey, c’mon, we’ve got to handle magnitudinous happenings with respect; reduce the pressure and deflate the plaything of passionate intensity — do this gently and with journalistic decorum (I know, oxymoronic.) Anyway — Stan Otto’s letter in Wednesday’s Batt was a smashingly successful disappoint ment. Why, the fellow starts out so proper and all with the requisite quote from a higher source; I was exceedingly, might I go so far as to say quite, crushed when he concluded with cliche and emotional banality. What I mean to say, wisely avoiding mention of specifics, is the good ole boy missed the point (and I’m not gonna explain by how much); what I mean to say is that his letter is somewhat analogous to the proverbial chainsaw shaver. Did U say proverbial? And “somewhat analogous”? Silly me! His letter is one and with a chainsaw. (Note especially noise, precision and fashionaM ding.) Why complain about "flagrant alism“? It’s produced higher qu* 1 ing than we usually find in t Bragg, Thanks Sager.) And l> ( school newspaper’s purpose is tot; Puppies think differently; no one Finally, Congratulations Battst* e ident Miller and Senate member cial thanks goes to Ron witho- : cooperation the entire effort 0 been a failure. It’s been real: hungry I could eat a horse; Ml runs both ways. John Paul! THOTZ By Doug Grd