Opinion
Page 2/The Battalion/Tuesday, November 27,1984
Lefs trade Hinckley
to the Soviet Union
Let’s make the trade. John Hinckley Jr. for Soviet
dissident Andrei Sakharov and future draft choices.
Hinckley, who shot President Ronald Reagan in
1981, proposed the exchange this weekend. He said: “I
have made no secret of the fact that I’m currently seek
ing asylum in any foreign country and yes, I’d be glad
to live in the Soviet Union if I’m exchanged for Andrei
Sakharov.”
Hinckley shot Reagan to win the love and respect
of actress Jodie Foster, co-star of the Film Taxi Driver.
Sakharov, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, has
been forced to live in internal exile since 1980 after
criticizing the Soviet Union.
It seems like a fair trade on this side. An assassin
for a prize winning scientist. It’s a trade America can’t
lose. But, it seems, the only way the Soviet Union
would agree to such an exchange is if Hinckley is a
KGB agent. Even if he is, and that’s doubtful, would
the evil empire admit a failed attempt on the life of
America’s President?
So for now, the United States is stuck with John
Hinckley and the Soviet Union is stuck with Andrei
Sakharov. Is there any question which nation is the
worse for it?
The Battalion Editorial Board
A mutt better idea for a mascot
Rev V needn’t be a purebred
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“Howdy Miss
veille Ma’am!”
Ah, the Quad.
Where else would a
dog be more at home ___
than with a bunch of
college students starved
Marcy
Basile
for ‘puppy
love?’ That’s what the cadets who
‘found’ Reveille I must have thought as
they brought her home to Aggieland.
Too bad the tradition of non-ped
igree “Revs” has gone to the dogs.
Reveille I served Texas A&M well.
Considering she was hit by a car driven
by A&M students, “Rev” had every right
to just pack up and leave.
But no. “Rev” stayed and became ‘the
First Lady of Aggieland.’
While sifting through the hundreds
of collie and border collie applications, a
trip to the animal shelter should be con
sidered as a means of finding a suitable
successor to the wonderful Reveille
IV.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t
Reveille III the first A&M mascot to be a
purebred collie? So far the score is tied:
Mutts 2 — Collies 2.
Everyone roots for the, if you’ll par
don the expression, underdog. I’m no
exception. Right now the underdog
seems to be the Mutts, which is a shame.
Why take a dog that would have a
home whether the Aggies took her or
not when there are so many animals at
the shelter? Does a dog have to die for
Correct me if I’m wrong, but
wasn’t Reveille III the first
A&M mascot to be a purebred
collie? So far the score is tied:
Mutts 2 — Collies 2.
made to the animal shelter. I wantedlo
take all the dogs home. None of them
knew what fate the gods had instorefor
them. They still wagged their tails when
I walked by.
Displays in the library show the
ferent Reveilles in their prime. Fot
some odd reason. Reveilles I and
were as regal as Reveilles III and I
Perhaps the reason was love bestowed
upon them by the students. Somewhere
along the line, A&M students must have
decided that only purebred dogs
served to be loved.
A&M to have a gorgeous, purebred col
lie?
Sound morbid? Bet it made you stop
and think though. When I read about
the retiring of Reveille IV and the
search for a collie replacement, I saw
the little yellow dog bank used by the
Brazos Animal Shelter to raise funds.
That dog is crying.
Then I remembered a trip I once
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Come on guys. Think about hon
good you would feel saving thelifeofa
cute, fluffy puppy from the shelter,
member, puppy breath is puppy breatl
no matter what breed the dog.) At least
go to the shelter and look around. Be
lieve me, the trip will sober'you up, and
show you that love doesn’t need a ped
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writer.
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EDITOR:
Many people receive their first im
pression of Texas A&M by word of
mouth. Others get it from visiting A&M.
We have always had a good reputation
and gained the respect of our guests,
whether they were family, friends, stu
dents from other schools, and yes,
maybe a future Aggie. But, could this
reputation be ending?
Well, Ags, the subject I’m referring to
is spread by the word of mouth also. I’m
talking about humpits. Although they
can be a very motivating thing if used
properly, it seems some are turning into
BAD BULL!
I’m sure more dorms are guilty than
the couple I’ll use as examples. Al
though I’m not trying to put down these
dorms, I hope a message will come from
it.
First, in the Astrodome during the
Cougar High game a few Ags forgot
with some girls from Baylor and right
above us was a girl (looked like she was
in high school) with her parents and
younger brothers. Standing to my left
was an old Ag and his family. You
should have seen the disappointment
written on his face. And if that wasn’t
bad enough there were no telling how
many women students of A&M heard.
The dorm was Moses and their hum-
pit was similar, but started off differ
ently. Needless to say this brought a few
negative comments focused at A&M.
Come on Ags, grow up! Sure it’s Fine
to do your so-called yells in your dorm,
at Bonfire Cut, or underneath your pil
low, but spare some Ags the embarrass
ment of having guests and dates hear
the garbage.
Well, we’re all Aggies and it’s up to us
to show others how good it is to be an
Aggie. So, let’s show the true meaning
of Aggie pride and spirit in a way that
will create positive attitudes about
A&M. Let’s work to make people truly
understand how much it means to be a
student at Texas A&M.
who they were representing with their
presence. I had a friend sitting with his
presence.
date from Houston and they received
the undistinct honor of hearing Crock
er’s humpit. It was somewhere along the
line of “Crocker (rhymes
with docks), meanest
mother (rhymes with
suckers) on campus.”
The second example I had the em
barrassment of hearing. It was embar
rassing not because I’ve never heard the
words, but because of the image it was
reflecting on the guests. I was sitting
Zane Russell
Class of’87
SWAMP full of fallacies
EDITOR:
I am a graduating senior now, and I
have yet to write a letter to the Batt. I
have decided that if I don’t write one
now I may never get a chance. The issue
I wish to address deals with a group call
ing themselves SWAMP. I have had the
great misfortune of hearing some of the
speeches made by this group and,
frankly, they are full of fallacies.
SWAMP, you have made statemenu
to the effect that any person which
chooses to be conservative, and noi
agree with other people’s views, is a nar
row-minded bigot. You have put people
down at your speeches, refusing toliv
ten to what they had to say because you
have classified them as bigots. In doing
this, you have done what you accused us
“narrow-minded bigots” of doing, mak
ing yourselves hypocrites, as wellasnar
row-minded bigots.
You have said that traditions at A&M
are dying out. From what I see, ever
since Jackie Sherrill got here, they’ve
gotten stronger. OK, maybe we don’l
have a winning team yet, but Jackie has
been involved in strengthening our tra
ditions since he got here by starting the
Twelfth Man team, working on Bonfire,
making the team stay for yell practice
when they are out-scored, etc. Even
your complaint about not being able
nave parties in the MSC is wrong. Any
organization on campus can reserve the
ballrooms upstairs.
I almost feel sorry for the GSS; with
supporters like you, who needs opposi
tion. I submit that if you don’t like our
school, there are plenty of other |
schools in Texas, where you canwalkon
the grass, wear hats to football games,
and forget traditions. Of course it
be much harder to find something to
complain about. I think that your group
isn’t trying to solve problems; you’re try
ing to make them.
Ron Edwards
Class of ’84
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