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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1986)
Reader Mail Editor: I’m writing in response to your letter about Bonfire. It seems to me that you are totally un aware of what Bonfire is. It is a Powerful Spirit Builder that motivates the student body and brings us close. It gets a multitude of people working for a common goal and the people in volved gain tight bonds with one another. It is a pride-filled event which 98 percent of the Aggies support... I commend your courage for printing such a condemning letter about one of the most che rished traditions at A£?M (especially since you have to live here), but I beg you to go out and feel that special and unique spirit that the Bonfire will install in all of us this year... Editor’s note: or how about... Editor: More use is attained from the trees burned as a representation of our burning desire to beat the hell out of t.u. than if a contractor comes in, clears the trees, collects his money and then leaves. I hope now you are enlightened on the topic of Bonfire and will exercise control over opin ions on something you don’t seem to under stand. Editor: Well Ags, it’s come that time of year once again where all the forest and nature lovers come out from hiding to protest to the Battalion about how useless Bonfire is and how we’re de stroying perfectly good forests just for the sake of a football game. These trees aren’t the type that a national forest would be made up of. They’re trees that have been labeled as expenda ble. Why not honor these trees in our Bonfire. Around this glorious Bonfire thousands of Ag gies and followers will sing, chant, and celebrate to the Great Bonfire God in hopes that He will bring us good luck come Thanksgiving Day. Bonfire is a part of Aggie life and one of the few good traditions we have. I’m not one of those 100 percent, yah-hoo traditionalists, but I just wanted to express my views. Editor: WANTED Brilliant Master Politician to administer the Re public of the Philippines according to American interests. Applicants must possess qualifica tions to win Philippine presidential elections and to remain in office for twenty years. Qual ified applicant must guarantee indefinite stay of American military bases and economic holdings in the Philippines. To the qualified applicant, we offer unlimited capitalism opportunities, 20 years of power, friendship with the U.S. administration, unlim ited wealth, military support, massive press cov erage and guaranteed political asylum in the United States at the end of his term. Send applications to the U.S. Ad Hoc Commit tee on Covert Action, P.0. Box 1986, Washington DC. An Equal Opportunity Employer Sincerely, a Filipino Editor: Apartheid is the higher morality. The black foes of white South Africa are struggling neither for freedom nor democracy. They struggle for power. The enemies of apartheid condemn the power of whites over blacks. How will the exer cise of power over whites by blacks be any more just? Because it is exercised in the name of “de mocracy?” Black Africa is a continent of terror, murder and misery. Blacks continue to leave “li berated” black Africa to find a better life in South Africa working under a white boss. How dare anyone demand that South African whites sub mit to black Africa. The moral duty of each individual is to re member his duty to his own historical people, and to respect the right of other peoples to na tional self-determination. White politicians had better stop mistaking the cowardly fear of black violence with “conscience.” Blacks and other non-whites had better stop mistaking their hatred and envy of whites with the cause of “justice.” White “liberals” had better seek psychiatric help for their alienation from their own race, and their neurotic identification with blacks. Sincerely, Peace Lovers for Apartheid Editor’s Note: Yeah right.