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Does common
ground exist?
treats concerning national and interna-
When it rains it pours.
A plane leaving Toronto carrying 329 innocent victims
crashed in the Atlantic Ocean Sunday. Canadian authorities sus
pect foul play.
In Tokyo, baggage from another jet exploded, killing two
airport workers.
In Beirut, terrorists continue to hold about 40 Americans
hostage after hijacking a TWA airliner. Several other airlines
have received bomb thi
tional flights.
Global terrorism appears to be on the upswing. Airplane
passengers must wonder whether they will arrive safely at their
destination or wind up in some Islamic Jihad hideaway with the
barrel of a gun shoved in their faces.
Around the world, people are questioning airport security.
Stricter measures are being taken to help curb the current wave
of hijackings. But increased security isn’t the ultimate solution.
Tighter security at one airport will only encourage the gun-tot-
ing fanatics to seek another with less stringent standards.
Sure, tighter security will help. Sky marshalls will help. Gov
ernment condemnation of terrorism might help. But none of
these will remedy the situation.
Communication on a moral basis will not be comprehended
by terrorists. If we resort to actions of terrorism to solve the
problem, we are no better than the people we are condemning.
But we also can’t expect them to negotiate on our level either.
It’s time we found a common ground. The question remains:
does that ground exist?
The Battalion Editorial Board
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Questions about
hostage policy
EDITOR:
Who can but wonder how much
longer this hostage crisis will endure?
Already it seems like it has lasted far
longer than its Iranian predecessor!
Nor does the theatrical genuflect
ing of our decrepit President help
matters any. First he says we cannot
under any circumstances give in to
the terrorist demands, as matter of
principles.
Then he turns around and pres
sures the Red Cross into negotiating
with the Israeli government for re
lease of their PLO prisoners — indi
viduals who are no less terrorists than
those barbarous Shiites holding
American hostages in Lebanon.
In fact, why should the Israelis
give in to President Reagan’s de
mands — he would have them suc
cumb to the same tactics his adminis
tration refuses to practice with the
terrorists!
For that matter, why does he beat
around the bush in negotiating
through the Red Cross; have we
unofficially severed relations with the
State of Israel —one of America’s
most valued allies and staunchest
supporters in the oil-wealthy Middle
East?
Surely the President has more
pressing duties than to attend per
sonally to the grievances of a hos
tage’s family in Indianapolis; though
no doubt he relishes the spotlight af
forded him by this hostage crisis, and
will seek to prolong it as long as he is
able — but to what end?
Finally, you can’t but wonder
about the prudence of NASA’s June
19 launch of an ultra-sophisticated
satellite, funded in part by the PLO
and Libya. Nor can you overlook the
shuttle test of a Star Wars laser, at the
very time SDI is in such a controver
sial light vis-a-vis the all but forgotten
arms negotiations in Geneva! As is
the Arabsat and the laser test with all
the fancy maneuvering done by
NASA to manipulate the aforemen
tioned linkages from our minds!
William H. Clark, II
By ART BUCHWALD
Columnist for The Los Angeles Times Syndicate
A very revealing book about tennis
has just crossed my desk. It’s titled “Sex
as a Sublimation for Tennis” (Workman
Press, $4.95) and was written by The
odor Sartsky, a Freudian specialist at
Adelphi University and full-time tennis
fanatic.
Saretsky told me on the phone, “It
was Freud who first wrote that ‘all hu
man beings are motivated by a primal
lust which translates itself into the end
less and fruitless search for an unused
tennis court on the weekend.’”
Saretsky said he lucked into all of
Freud’s writings on the subject when he
bought a trunk at a tennis memorabilia
sale at Sotheby’s in 1980. The trunk
contained some of the master’s greatest
work, including “The Myth of the Sweet
Spot,” “Interpretation of Tennis
Dreams,” “The Primitive Taboo of the
Foot Fault” and “The Nightmare of the
Canceled Tennis Game: A Study in
Obesity, Perversion and Suicide.”
This year Saretsky decided to share
this gold mine with the public.
The professor said one of his most
fascinating discoveries was that Freud
lost interest in the sex act when he dis
covered that a tennis game lasted much
longer.
Saretsky has found Freud’s theories
invaluable because more and more pa
tients are coming to him with tennis
problems rather than sexual ones. Up
until recently experts refused to accept
tennis court mental cases because they
were too difficult to cure.
“The hardest thing for a patient with
a tennis neurosis or psychosis is to find
an analyst who will take the time to treat
him,” Saretsky said. “Freud discovered
the more a patient talked about his
deep-seated tennis problems the more
anxious the analyst was to go out on the
court and hit a few balls himself. This
attitude is diametrically opposed to how
the analyst feels when he listens to a pa
tient talk about sexual dysfunction.”
Saretsky says, “Freud took one of the
great steps in modern analysis by stating
categorically, ‘The only way to know
one’s patients is to play tennis with
them.’”
I don’t have the space here to reveal
everything that Prof. Saretsky says
Freud said about tennis other than to
print a few highlights.
One is Freud observed that individu
als who immerse themselves in work
and who stress family obligations and
engage in extensive sufficient tennis,
will suffer from severe tension anxiety
and nosebleeds.
Another is that people who are con
stantly measuring the height of the net
have a paranoidal delusion that the net
is higher on their side of the court.
When a distinguished colleague, W.
W. Wilner, after years of research, ar
rived at the conclusion that tennis
spelled backwards was “sin-net” it con-
Students should be educated, involved
On Sunday, June
16, 1985, Governor =
Mark White signed a ChfiS GovrOS
bill which will in- Guest Columnist
crease tuition for all " "
students attending
state-supported institutions of higher
education in Texas.
The bill, which will be implemented
beginning with the fall semester of
1985, will triple tuition for resident and
non-resident students. Resident stu
dents will be paying $12 per semester
hour and non-resident students will
ante up $120 per semester hour. As the
plan now stands, resident tuition will
peak at $24 per semester hour in 1995
and non-resident tuition will be main
tained at an amount equal to 100 per
cent of the cost of educating a student,
or approximately $120 per hour pres
ently.
Sunday’s signing brought to an end a
task begun nine months before by the
Legislative Study Group, the represen
tative voice of the Texas A&M students’
to the Texas Legislature. A great deal of
research, weekly trips to Austin, and ap
pearances before House and Senate
committees filled the nine-month pe
riod. Despite the work of LSG and other
student groups, the inevitability of the
situation became apparent. The law
makers in Austin sought new revenue
but were reluctant to increase taxes. For
this reason, fees such as tuition would be
increased. The bottom line was simple:
to escape projected cuts in the budget of
higher education, tuition had to be in
creased.
However hopeless the situation was
perceived, students were able to obtain
two sizable victories. For the first time
ever, students will be offered the oppor-
tuition and 5 percent of non-resident
tuition be set aside by the universities
for grants and loans. Twenty percent of
that tuition set aside will be available for
short-term loans.
LSG, along with other student lobby
groups, was instrumental in obtaining
these provisions.
Although the steep increases could
seemingly not have been worse and the
bill appears to set the agenda for tuition
for the next 10 years, a warning is in or
der.
If students across the state turn their
backs, an even steeper increase could be
implemented during the nextscheduled
legislative session in 1987. It is imper
ative that students realize this state is not
out of the woods yet as far as the budget
crisis stands.
Many in Austin feel that legislators
will again have to dig for new revenue in
1987. If this indeed is the case, tuition
will almost assuredly be examined as a
possible revenue generator. Just be
cause tuition was increased this past ses
sion does not mean it cannot be in
creased again.
If this scenario does present itself, all
students must take the time to educate
themselves on the issue and become in
volved. If every student at A&M wrote
just one brief letter to their representa
tive, senator or other government offi
cial, the impact would be felt in Austin.
A visit with one of the above would yield
even greater benefits.
One mistake made this past session by
students which cannot be repeated is the
deplorable way in which several stu
dents cornered Lt. Gov. Hobby in a hall
way and demanded no tuition increase.
The group offered no respect to this
important official. This behavior is the
quickest way students can lose all sympa
thy for their cause.
Chris Gavras is a senior political sci
ence major and a tuition coordinator
for the Legislative Study Group at
Texas A&M.
Graduate and professional students
will also be required to pay higher tu
ition fees.
tunity to pay their tuition and fees in
two or four installments. Second, the
law requires that 15 percent of resident
firmed Freud’s scientific theory dial
there are murky, mysterious forces bur
ied alive in the human psyche.
As soon as he checked it out, Freui
rejected his own classical view of infant
sexuality as the mainspring of the hu
man condition and replaced it with the
dictum that “tennis truths lie .every
where; they are the essence of being,”
This led him to devote the remaining
years of his life to studying the lingering
fantasy of the empty tennis can.
Saretsky believes that Freud’s tennii
writings undermined all orthodot
thought in the Western world. The
Viennese doctor exposed the offensive
lob for what it really was, a sadistic un
derhanded shot of which he wrote,
“The lob must be given a chance, but
this is a disgusting stroke to use in
mixed company if its sexual and exhibi
tionist roots are not honestly acknowl
edged and properly analyzed.” .1
In conclusion, if you buy only one
book this summer, I would recommend
“Sex as a Sublimation for Tennis,” If
you don’t play the game yourself you
could save the life of someone who does.
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