Wednesday, November 27,1985/The Battalion/Page 3
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Mail Call
Awaiting Karl’s graduation
DITOR:
Words cannot express how glad I will be when
enior journalism major and Battalion columnist
arl Pallmeyer, along with the rest of the so-called
ggies who expectorate in the face of Aggie tradi
tion, walks across the stage in May. Is it really that
* big of a deal to you that when some rich Aggie do
minates a lot of money he requests that his name be
Remembered at the same time?
I get so sick when people like this kick in with
the of “why don’t they buy books with the money”
’$ob story. Last year it was the Albritton Tower con-
■roversy and granted I was pretty steamed when I
didn’t receive some extra books out of the deal, but
1 soon got over it.
Like the people from AIRCO Technical Insti-
, lute say .. .“The mark of any college lies in the suc-
Ittess of its graduates.” Be grateful that the Albrit
tons, Blockers and Zachrys of this University have
. chosen to leave their mark on the world here on
!||he campus of Texas A&M. If you have a problem
with that, Pallmeyer, I’m sure the folks at Moscow
U. will welcome you for their graduate school pro
gram.
It is my suggestion to The Battalion staff that
you refrain from printing any more of this righ
teous trash. It’s just a lot of the stuff that cattle are
' So good at making. Some rich Aggie might see it
i and decide that we really don’t want his donation.
Steve Lueckemeyer
EDITOR'S NOTE: Sorry Steve, Karl won’t be
graduating until next December.
Too much to ask?
to all my tans:
d>t is the night of tkj
r we go to the Cl
■ t uted at Kyle h:,
i 1 have restrained!
g on the football lei
IDITOR:
.* apartheid, war,B All North Side residents wishing to copy any-
; thing have faced desperate times in attempting to
copy their important papers in the A-l Lounge. It
Seems the beautifully computerized, newly ac
quired copy machine simply never functions. We
are not sure if it has ever worked or if there are ac
tually functioning parts within. The machine that
it replaced at least worked 50 percent of the time.
Students have made futile reports of this malfunc
tioning alien to no avail. Could we please have a
working copy machine is it too much to ask?
i \rvpi mr a siucraj®; or/
stronomiul salam Katrina Miesch ’86
in. It we beai f Kecki Achee’88
omise to write anil Karen Majors '88
and the football teat Accompanied by 162 Signatures
Beware of falling buildings
r is a senior joum ^
ilumnist for Tkl: , . . , _ T ...
1 Nov. 18, right before noon, I was walking to a
class in Heldenfels Hall. As I passed the Biological
Sciences Building on the sidewalk between it and
J ^ the Analytical Services Building, a relatively large
j L chunk of cement broke off the third story of the
s \-/l Iv Biological Sciences Building and crashed on the
sidewalk directly behind me. The cement missed
• added to thearsetii me > but only by a few inches. I was able to laugh at
ranizations time as several witnesses stood staring at me
rists do strike, cof witl1 huge eyes and open mouths.
id willing to launck * have written this letter in the hopes of drawing
; anc [ execu t e m iljtiF attention to the proper party that should be aware
ition to negotiatint this potential hazard, if they are not already
i Israeli raid on Ent aware - ^ would not want the Biological Sciences
Vest German oper building to fall on one of my fellow Ags. I would
• how how a cartliw 0 hke to warn my fellow Ags to beware of falling
veil-executed coJbuildings!
essfully end a hose: LauraDoiron
ntry should develop^.
SKSSelective Aggie-ism
rorism. EDITOR:
s has been resolved,sj In response to Greg Dean’s letter of Nov. 12, I
prisals against thef; would like to address a problem which I call “Se-
be considered t( lective Aggie-ism.” This problem strikes those who
i further attacks. Bn choose to participate only in those traditions which
me than 2,000 Arak are fun or convenient.
li retaliatory laido Regarding the reprimand Deans received for
ime period, 1431 booing: it’s true — good Ags DON’T boo! First of
terrorists. Althoud all, it is extremely rude. Secondly, if you are so
use a revolutionarfB
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itry deals with tew'
loners harshly,
has had some sif
ists, such as the nfe;
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willing to “stand up to support our team” with all
the rest of us, why is it so difficult to express disap
proval with all of us? Anyway, I think it is much
more effective for 37,000 people to “give ’em a
horse laugh” in unison.
Concerning the request to remain off the MSC
grass, this was not some arbitrary decision made by
the persons with the “conspicuously shaved heads”
to irritate the non-regs. The MEMORIAL Student
Center and the surrounding grass was dedicated
to 1951 “in humble reverence ... to those men of
A&M who gave their lives in defense of our coun
try. Here is enshrined in spirit and in bronze en
during tribute to their valor and their deep devo
tion. Here their memory shall remain forever
fresh — their sacrifices shall not be forgotten.”
Have YOU forgotten, Deans?
To me, Deans’ letter exemplifies the pattern of
“Selective Aggie-ism” that seems to be growing
here. If a tradition is enjoyable and exciting, then
it should continue to be upheld. If, however, a tra
dition does not meet with someone’s approval,
such as not booing at football games, or — worse
yet — is slightly inconvenient, such as taking an ad
ditional four steps around the grass (or “sections
of mud”) surrounding the MSC, then OB
VIOUSLY the traditions are useless and merely
touted by “holier-than-thou, power-hungry tradi
tionalists.”
Also, the same traditionalists that you criticize
are the very ones that made A&M a “better,
friendlier place” by instilling the importance of a
cheerful “Howdy!” to everyone they meet (which is
sadly becoming a dying tradition).
By the way, if we “turn down the volume of the
closed-minded traditionalists,” you may not be
“having a blast” at too many more midnight yell
practices.
Kim Stout ’87
Library gifts benefit all
EDITOR:
What would you say is the most important as
pect of a university? The ranking of its football
team? The number of National Merit Scholars
who are students there? What about the excellence
of its library?
Dr. Frank Vandiver, president of Texas A&M,
emphasizes the importance of a library in our
modern technological society: “The library has
evolved into much more than a collection of books
and documents. It has become an information cen
ter essential to all aspects of the University.”
A library is an indicator of the excellence of ed
ucation available from a university. To elevate
A&M to a position of world leadership in schol
arship and research we must begin by improving
the resources of our library.
The Sterling C. Evans Library is currently
ranked 42nd of the 105 members of the Associa
tion of Research Libraries (ARL). This places the
Aggie library a scandalous 36 slots below the 6th
ranked University of Texas.
The problem could be easily solved with one
very important ingredient: money. There is a di
rect correlation between the ranking of a library
and its total operating expenditures. The libraries
which spend the most have the highest rankings.
Harvard, ranked number one, has total expendi
tures of $24,658,246. Texas spends $17,012,306
and is ranked 6th. A&M spends less than half of
what Texas spends: $8,260,270.
Because tne library is essential to all academic
programs, gifts to the library benefit all students,
regardless of their academic interests or abilities.
Anyone wishing to benefit this University may not
readily do so by support of the Sterling C. Evans
Library.
Helen L. Miller
Sterling C. Evans Library Development Council
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