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Local THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1981 page 3 Ihooting reactions range from anger to apathy urces, SecretJ U.S. Rep.K| 1 plane witil he planefni| spot thecrol ed to fight lltl oian, answenj ouriststoo* ;ut through siona]lyonti| to see if thet e important,, lizzical loA is to thin (rat# id TV sets. '■ 'gislatorsdiSK| to write it. Give the little lady a hand Staff photo by Brian Tate Angie Leonard, a third grade student at len Academy in Bryan, watches as Ednan dki, a Texas A&M student from Pakistan, iftints her inital in the palm of her hand, he paint, made from henna leaves, will eventually leave a stain on the skin when it dries. It is used as a ceremonial paint in Pakistan. The exhibit is part of the Texas A&M International Students Association display in the MSC this week. By TERRY DURAN Battalion Staff Local and state reactions to the Monday afternoon shooting of President Ronald Reagan ranged from shock to anger to apathy. Former Texas Gov. John Con- nally said he was “profoundly shocked and saddened.” Texas Gov. William P. Cle ments told wire services, “It is a terrible thing in this country to have people this unstable who will do these things.” Roy Corcoran, a Texas A&M mechanical engineering major from Spring, said, “It makes you wonder what’s happened to this country when so many strange people can do things like this.” Texas legislator Bill Blythe said, “What they should do is hang him within 30 days. The man ought to be hung immediately, after a fair trial.” Several Texas A&M students interviewed Monday night agreed with Blythe’s views. Some of them refused to give their names for publication. “(The man arrested as a suspect in Reagan’s shooting) ought to be taken out and shot,” one student said. “That’s what this country needs, some firm action, ” another student said. “Nobody would complain. After all, they caught the guy red-handed.” “The guy probably doesn’t have all his marbles,” said mechanical engineering junior Dave Schrad er. “Still, something has to be done.” Texas legislator Brad Wright of Houston said, “You need to take people out and beat the hell out of them when they commit a crime. “I guarantee this won’t affect Reagan’s position on gun control, ” Forestry club takes firsts in woods tests ByKAREN KALEY Battalion Reporter A team effort earned Texas V&M s Forestry Club the two top lonors at Conclave, a regional Mmpetition Friday and Saturday. | Conclave, sponsored by the Association of Southern Foresty ]lubs, was held in Knoxville, enn., and featured physical and echnical events such as the log •oil, pole climb and timber esti- nation. The Forestry Club captured he number one forestry club d and the sportsmanship d for the second year. “There’s only two team iphies to win and we have them ioth,’’ Andy Ezell, club adviser, aid Technique and brains won out iver brawn in this competition, he |iaid. The competition involved eight technical and 12 physical events. The scoring weight is distributed proportionally — technical events being just as important as the phy sical. “The competition is severe,” k Ezell said. “What you’re looking at now are the best foresters in the South,” he said. Texas A&M University has been going to the competition for six years, he said. And this year the foresters brought home nine individual trophies. “The individual awards are nice, but the team is the important thing,” Ezell said. “No single indi vidual can win the number one award.” Conclave winners are: Jim Frisch, first place pole climb (new Conclave record, 2.59 seconds), second place knife throw and third place speed chop; David Dignum, first place archer; Paul Holmes first place bow saw (new Conclave record, 13.8 seconds); Dan McKenney and Mike Boriack, third place log roll; Nes Bilir and Glenda Erp, third place women’s cross-cut; Liz Dockery, second place timber estimation and third place com pass and pacing and Jon Morris sey, second place lumber grading (non-point event). zxma uxs. Shin Care jor Men Women McJze.-ufL Co+vUcUatia+i 'jbe&p. Pote GleatiAuUf, Shut GaAe. PfuoducU. C'if&b'UUV SltGfU+Uf Zlect'iolifiil Bihuti jBute Jlexf 'Waju+Kf. Body 'UJ'tap. Call for appointments 693-5909 707 Shopping Village VJ\T ' C (I M B (1 BEYOND NEW WWE” —Rolling Stone APRIL 9,1981 _ RM 201 MSC ’-^^3 8 pm TICKETS at BOX OFFICE t?n- he added. Texas A&M Acting President Charles Samson expressed hope and confidence that Reagan would “pull through,” as did Business Affairs Vice President Howard Vestal: “He (Reagan) is a pretty stout fellow. He’ll come out of this all right.” Samson said that if the presi dent should not survive the assas sination attempt, there would “certainly be some form of recog nition,” although he said he didn’t know what it would be. University officials working at Texas A&M when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated said they couldn’t remember any parti cular form of campus-wide recog nition of the slain chief executive. One student said he expected it. “It’s the zero factor,” he said. “No president since 1840 elected in a year ending with zero has left office alive. “It really doesn’t bother me a lot anyway,” he added. “I really don’t like Reagan, but I don’t like Bush, either, so I guess I hope he makes it.” Abraham Lincoln, elected in 1860, fell to an assassin’s bullet early in his second term. James A. Garfield, elected in 1880, was shot just over six months after his inauguration. William McKinley, elected to a second term in 1900, was shot and killed half a year later. Warren G. Harding, elected in 1920, fell ill and died in 1923. Franklin D. Roosevelt, was re elected to an unprecedented third term in 1940. He died of a stroke in 1945. John F. Kennedy, elected in 1960, was killed by a sniper’s bul let in Dallas in 1963. 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