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OPINION
Wednesday, November 8,1989
Come to open forum
EDITOR:
B The External Aff airs Committee of the Student
Senate is holding an Issues and Grievances Forum
tonight at 8:30 p.m. in 601 Rudder. The forum
Ivill be an opportunity for all students to give their
input, gripes, grievances, etc. on a wide variety of
student issues. If you want to learn more about
what issues the senate has been addressing, if you
have issues you think the senate needs to address,
if you want to meet your senator, or if you have
any other questions about the University, please
attend. Your representatives need your input.
Jody Manier — Public Relations Chair
pKenny Gossett — External Affairs Chair
Guardroom: escorts, etc.
EDITOR:
I Regarding the letter in Mail Call from Gretchen
Thompson ’93 about females in the guardroom, I
would like to correct her misinformed view of the
luardroom’s main function.
I The main purpose of the guardroom is not to
serve the civilian population, but to serve the
Corps of Cadets. The guardroom acts as a
switchboard to relay mail and other pertinent
information to and from the military officers in
tin: Military Sciences building and the corps. The
guardroom is responsible for raising and lowering
the flags at the Academic Building and the Systems
Building, for designating the uniform of the day
Sjiased on weather conditions, to secure the lounges
and to monitor the fire alarm systems for the corps
occupied dorms. The guardroom serves as the
main point of contact between military officers and
cadets if an emergency situation were to arise.
These are not all of the responsibilities of the
guardroom, because they are too numerous to
mention.
i The Cadet Officer of the Day is responsible for
determining whether or not there are enough
individuals in the guardroom to provide an escort
service and still perform the required duties. The
Mail
escort service is not the only required duty of the
guardroom, however, the corps has
magnanimously offered their service whenever
possible. The high number of calls the guardroom
receives nightly makes it difficult to meet all of our
obligations.
For your information, there are other services
available that offer an escort service: Dial-A-Ride
(847-RIDE) and the university police system.
If you really are concerned about your personal
safety, then by all means call the guardroom or one
of the other services to safely escort you to your
destination. But please, don’t abuse the service the
corps offers — we don’t have to do it, but we do.
April Bishop ’90
accompanied by 50 signatures
Mine is a restless heart
EDITOR:
This letter is just one of your basic thank you
letters from one Aggie to another.
Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, October
25, I had one of the most wonderful experiences
of my life. While sitting in line for tickets to the
upcoming Restless Heart concert at G. Rollie
White, I met a young lady who, for a few short
hours, single-handedly brought me out of my
depression on school and on my life. We
introduced ourselves rather quickly and from that
moment, until we parted some 11 hours later, we
became close friends. All I wish is that other
people could have an experience with someone
special like the one I had that night. This is one
moment in my life I will tuck away in the back of
my mind and savor for the rest of my life. This
letter is just to let her know she made a lasting
impression on me and that anyone who feels lonely
should never give up hope on meeting that certain
someone who could affect your life. I find it ironic
that we stood in line for tickets to “Restless Heart,”
because since I met her that is what has been
pounding inside me.
Thank you, Julie for making that time so special
Call
and bringing me back to life!
J. Kyle Jones ’90
Story was discriminatory
EDITOR:
I was appalled when I read the article about
anonymous gay sex in the Academic Buiding. It is
disgraceful that this university would let
something like this happen. It is blatent
dicrimination against heterosexuals. If anonymous
gay sex is going to be allowed to occur in the
Academic Building, then a building should be
designated for anonymous heterosexual sex.
I’m sure the Board of Regents will agree with
this unless they want to face a discrimination
lawsuit. So here is what I propose. Let
homosexuals have the Academic Building and
heterosexuals will take Blocker. I picked this
building because it has the most girls-per-
classroom ratio on all the campus. From now on,
starting around 7 p.m., people who want to
participate in anonymous heterosexual sex should
meet on the second floor of Blocker. A lot of
people will probably show up, so I don’t think the
bathrooms will do. Beds will most likely have to be
brought in to make things more comfortable.
Maybe a stereo system could be brought up, too.
Well, the details will have to be worked out later.
That is all I have to say on the subject right now,
but I hope the Board of Regents and everybody at
A&M takes this seriously. Discrimination is a
serious offense and it should not be allowed to
continue here.
Ronald Selvage ’88
Setting the facts straight
EDITOR:
I commend the actions and conduct of the yell
leaders and the Twelfth Man at the Rice game.
Also, I’d like to set the facts straight to the self-
righteous, ignorant members of the student body
at A&M.
Part of being an Aggie is knowing tradition,
remember, Ags? Therefore, before you judge
what happened Saturday (especially those of you
who weren’t there), may I inform you of past
occurrences:^
1973 (Rice Stadium) — Rice band stepped in
block formation to an out-of-tune “Aggie War
Hymn” as the “unknown band” and formed a fire
hydrant while playing “Where Has My Little Dog
Gone” after the recent death of Reveille
1973 (Parade) — a recently released P.O.W.
reviewed the Corps of Cadets while Rice students
wore swastikas and goose-stepped
1974-1980 — Rice band did not travel to Kyle
Field
1983 (Rice Stadium) — Rice students displayed
a 10-foot phallic symbol with “A&M” on it and
confused the Aggie band by blowing whistles
during their performance
1988 (Kyle Field) — Rice band gave a mock
salute to patriotism for the purpose of getting
“40,000 Aggies to say the pledge of allegiance” as
quoted by the Rice band director the next day in
the Eagle, Aggies responded and degraded
themselves further by giving them a standing
ovation.
No wonder they call us nerds! Which, by the
way, was their halftime show on Saturday. We
accept the abuse and say, “That’s their freedom of
expression, they’re cute.” They don’t realize the
Aggies they spit on gave them this freedom by
defending it in wars.
C’mon Ags. Don’t be ignorant of the facts.
Brush up on “Aggie history.” I’m proud we’re
different from other schools and that our yell
leaders exemplified this by conveying “enough is
enough” without violence, pervertedness or pro
fanity.
Susan Rowland Rice ’85
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