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Page 2/The Battalion/Thursday, September 8, 1983 Letters Milwaukee Ag writes Editor: Howdy Ags. It sure is great to know that Texas A&M is alive and well in that southern town, College Station. Since I graduated a year ago and then moved to Milwaukee, it is hard to keep abreast on all the events. Today, I opened to the f ront page of the Sunday Milwaukee Journal and to my surprise I saw a new freshman holding a Texas A&M shirt. Wow! A wonderful feeling of closeness I had known for four short years during my undergraduate studies. Then I noticed Hester Garcia cutting the freshman’s hair. I am a for mer member of the Corps of Cadets and Hester had cut my hair every other week (that freshman picked the right man). I am elated that Texas A&M is making the news as far north as Milwaukee. I assure you that the A&M spirit is alive here, for our Aggie Muster ceremony gathered former students who traveled more than 150 miles to participate. The moral here is that Aggie life con tinues, our tradition remains strong and Texas A&M develops that fine breed of people we call “Ags“. Once an Aggie, always an Aggie. Gig- I don’t mind paying for what I use, but not twice. If I can deduct the $40 yearly swimming fee from my student service fee, I’ll gladly pay. And for those of you who think this letter has nothing to do with you since you don’t use the pool, how long do you think it will be until they start charging court fees for basketball or racquetball? Tony Tripp Oceanography Graduate Student Breed name incorrect Editor: Battalion writers always refer to Re veille IV as an “American collie.” If you will check with the United Kennel Club and the American Kennel club (the all breed dog registries in this country), you will find there is no such breed as the “American collie.” In the Monday, Aug. 29, edition of The Battalion, Reveille II was called a “Shetland shepherd.” There is no recog nized breed by that name. I suspect that Reveille II was a Shet land sheepdog and Reveille IV is a collie. U THIM&S AR& A/WIN6 M&PRGSIPfNT. jVg $0\l£D DOU/M jo sme uNpgBsrANPAgig eumevrs/" William Douglas Lord ’82 Jan Lang Returning a clean shirt TA’s need higher pay Government watchers decider^ who’s running foreign policy already hittin by Carol Smil Editor: I’m an accident victim who was hit by a car Monday Aug. 8 while biking on Jersey Street. Two fellow Aggies stopped to help me and lent me a shirt to wrap my bleeding mouth. I never saw them as I was unconscious at the time. But I’d like to thank them deeply and tell them I’ve got a clean shirt for them. To those Ags: please call and let me return your shirt and thank you in per son. My number is 693-1356. M.D. Randolph Party mars Silver Taps Editor: It was with disgust and indignation that I noted the Marketing Society was having a party at the same time as the first Silver Taps. I may be a sixth-year senior, but I don’t think that my feelings of respect and loss for the death of a fellow Aggie are yet antiquainted. The Marketing Society is setting a very poor example of this great school. The mark of an Aggie is in the values he places in his life. Nothing should ever rank above Silver Taps. David Imes ’82 Pool fee complaint Editor: J ust when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, up from the depths of Wof ford Cain Pool comes the pool use fee. You’ve heard of building use fees and student service fees. Well, now the people at the Health and Physical Educa tion Department have decided they need to charge their own fee. So if you want to go to the pool you’ll either pay $1 per visit, $8 per semester or $40 per year. Editor: As a student, I am alarmed at the schemes to throw money around. Texas A&M, to fill the goal of our Board of Regents to become “The Harvard of the Southwest,” should stop spending and appropriating money for nebulous ends. A school is only as good as its faculty and students. Therefore, more money should be spent to provide more scholar ships for students and higher wages for teaching assistants. In T exas, all public colleges are com parably priced, so why should a student choose Texas A&M? Why not attract stu dents by giving more scholarships. You may ask where the money for these scho larships can come from. The interest on $1 million could provide 60 $1,000 scho larships. Teaching assistants lay the ground work in basic courses for all upper-level courses. The pay for TAs ranges from close to $1,000 per month to less than $500 per month. Would a bright, self- sufficient grad student choose a school that required them to take nine hours of course work and teach two sections and that pays less than schools outside of Texas? The solutions to our problems are simple — more money for student scho larships and FA pay. Scholarships would attract more of the better high school seniors and help keep a few of the older students in school for another year. By f raming a pay raise — in all colleges — to 800 per month for TAs with a bache lor’s degree and $1,000 per month for TAs with masters degrees, A&M could attract the bright young grad student that is the Achilles Heel of our Academic Program. I cannot tell the Board of Regents where to spend funds allotted to the Uni versity or Old Ags who try to write a check to, but maybe a view from the undergraduate side of the fence might help. Les Mauldin by Art Buchwald A group of elite Eastern establishment government watchers was having lunch the other day, discussing one of our favo rite subjects: “Who is really in charge of U.S. foreign policy?” It was of particular concern to all of us, because the odds of President Reagan running again look better all the time. We decided to do it by process of eli mination. “We know it isn’t anyone in the State Department,” Bramhall said, “State’s been out of it since Reagan moved into the White House.” “Haig was fired because he tried to interfere in foreign affairs, and George Shultz usually gets his information as to what the U.S. has done from The Washington Post.” “What about Secretary of Defense Gas- par Weinberger? He’s an old pal of the president and has tremendous input in foreign policy.” “We can’t discount him,” Healy said. “But I don’t think he’s Mr. Big. I believe he is more concerned with getting as much military equipment as possible for the Defense Department. But he doesn’t really care where we use it.” “It doesn’t have to be a man,” Zeigfried said. “It could be a woman.” “You mean Nancy Reagan?” “Not necessarily, though she certainly has the ear of the president. I was think ing of United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. The president is very taken with all her ideas. Wouldn’t it be wild if a women was in charge of foreign policy?” “Kirkpatrick could be the power be- hing the throne,” Christmas said. “Yet I believe it’s someone right in the White House.” “What about Vice President George Bush?” “Let’s be serious, guys. When has a vice president ever had anything to say about foreign policy?” Cannon said. “There’s Jim Baker, Mike Deaver and Ed Meese.” “They’re too busy worrying about the president getting re-elected to get in volved in foreign affairs. The only time they mix in is if they think a policy is going to affect votes in the U.S.” “Well, that leaves the president’s Na tional Security Adviser William Clark. He’s a hardliner on the Soviet Union.” “He’s too obvious,” Trenchant said. “Besides, I just have a gut feeling he doesn’t have the smarts to conceptualize foreign policy. His strength is carrying out orders.” “But whose orders?” I asked. Everyone tried to think hard. Vagra “Bill Casey of the UIA! gested. We ignored him. “Is there someone in the cabinet that could be running tliii “The kitchen cabinet doesn'texis|B av | or u n i vers j tv j n.„ l. riiica Battalion Staff exas A&M is not ice where cars circl like buzzards tin iy, hoping for that ak—an open park :her Southwest C ools also are ex| irking problems ixpandin pth expanding enrol make its campu Idestrian campus by streets entering th xaslech Universip isitions to the camp only faculty, star! its to drive onto it ie University of He iguntocut off throt tm one end of c other by making dexitstoits parking in streets surrou hen c; more. They all went hack to after the elec tion. I theforeigi cy of the U.S., its it stands now,istolf the Soviets for evervthing, hut them wheat. Show American p| around the world, but don’t get. 1 ican soldiers involv ed. Give a blood)! to Khadafy, reward all our fnendsj military equipment by claimingtlic| not violating human rights, stal talks until we get the Pershing mi placed in Europe, make Castro tlq gest threat to worldwide peace, suit with our allies only after wen cided to do something that they 1 object to. Now who is behind alll “Phis is just ;i crazv idea, Ire™ said. “Bui could Reagan himself^ Big?” “You mean the president ol tl'd Texas Tech has 3 ited States?” 1 asked, flabbergasted, ,gspaces for 7,000 “Why not? He’s got the authforitf ents, 6,000 spaces f< Bramhall said: “Reagan doesn'tIrs,and 4,300 reser anything about foreign affairs, ft campus. In additic “So pipus. dor has barricai Jtting through its ca armed a traffic loop streets which Hire campus. miiul-bogjj The thought was so none of us could f inish our salads. 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The most recent poke came when Speakes relayed an invitation to repor ters from Meese for them to attend a movie on terrorism at the Fiesta Theater in Santa Barbara. The problem was that the film was to be shown at 12 a.m., the same time Speakes holds his daily briefing. When reminded that reporters would not be able to see the movie at that time, Speakes said: “I know. He asked me to move up the briefing time,” but added that he told Meese reporters might not be amenable to the switch. When pressed further about the movie, Speakes said: “Meese likes ter rorism.” Luci, who is now divorced from Pat rick Nugent, may marry Ian Turpin, a banker on Grand Caymen Island in the Bahamas, her friends say. Luci has been visiting Turpin’s family in Scotland. Since she broke up with Nu gent, Luci has had many romances, but her friends say she is very serious about Turpin, a British subject. Luci, like her mother, Lady Bird John son, and sister, Lynda Bird Robb — the first lady of Virginia — has remained an activist and is on many boards in Austin, where she resides. about Marcos lifted his shin to show thatlj fl no scars and therefore had not ^ kidney transplant as rumored, thep graph was reminiscent ol anotherj| In the late 60s, President Fy 1 Johnson summoned reporters to da Naval Hospital where he was 1^1 ating from gall bladder surgery, n sitting on a terrace when he r ’ lifted his shirt to show his sc the amazement of the catneranteir The picture was transmitted dwide and appalled a lot of America" the time. Letters to the Editor should not exceed 300 words in length, and are subject to being cut if they are longer. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit letters for style and length, but will make every effort to maintain the author’s intent. Each letter must also be signed and show the address and telephone number of the writer. Columns and guest editorials also are welcome, and are not subject to the same length constraints as letters. Address all inquiries and correspondence to: Editor, The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, Texas A&M Uni versity, College Station, TX 77843, or phone (409) 845- 2611. Editorial Policy The Battalion is published Monday through Friday during Texas A&M regular semesters, except for holi day and examination periods. Mail subscriptions are $16.75 per semester, $33.25 per school year and $35 per full year. Advertising rates furnished on request. Our address: The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843. President Reagan’s chief political adviser, Edwin Rollins, has been tempor arily muzzled. Rollins, who has been in California with Reagan, canceled a string of inter views with reporters after some of his more dire political predictions evoked the ire of chief of staff James Baker and others. Rollins, who will move over to Reagan’s re-election committee if the president seeks a second term, usually calls them as he sees them. He has credi bility and is candid and that sometimes gets him into trouble in a White House where the news is well managed. The White House press corps was sad dened by the death of Cleve Ryan, a tele vision electrician who retired from pres idential coverage six years ago. Ryan who died of Gloucester, Mass., at the age of 71, two days after his birthday, had been on the White House beat since he worked on Franklin Roosevelt’s “fire side chats.” He was a pioneer in television lighting and in a way created his own job at the White House. He is remembered most of all for always singing “Everything is Beautiful” when it seemed that every thing was falling apart. When he would be asked to test the microphones, Ryan would regale repor ters with Irish stories always flourishing a big cigar. He will be missed. Slouch rsityhas two dirt ov at increase residem minuter parking b )nal 6,000 spaces. ipil nent for the fall ser jan, coordinate nd parking at Texas by Bonnie Lan Battalion Repor The College St: ar niud 1 louncil will hold Jonthly meeting at 1 lily Hall. There will be a pul by Jim Earl! JS The Battalion is a non-profit, self-supporting news paper operated as a community service to Texas A&M University and Bryan-Collcge Station. Opinions ex pressed in The Battalion are those of the editor or the author, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Texas A&M University administrators or faculty mem bers, or of the Board of Regents. United Press International is entitled exclusively to the use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it. Rights of reproduction of all other matter herein reserved. Second class postage paid at College Station, TX 77843. Luci Johnson, whose wedding during the White House days of her father, the late President Lyndon B. Johnson, made a big splash, may soon march down the aisle again. The electronic explosion is very much in evidence in the White House press corps. Reporters and television corres pondents no longer carry typewriters. They carry personal computers on which they can file their stories instantly to their home offices no matter where they are traveling in the country. The computers have revolutionized press filing. The White House press office also has been computerizied with many new innovations in recent months. h b I did it! I finally finished When Philippine President Ferdinand gistoring! Now, class begin?” when dot