The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 09, 1993, Image 10

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 09, 1993, Image 10

Newspaper Page TextPage 10 The Battalion Tuesday, March 9,1993 Before you sign, know the truth This letter is intended for those indi viduals who are presently sophomores in the Army ROTC program and are considering whether or not to sign a Guaranteed Reserve Contract. Since I am currently a Second Lieutenant in the Nation Guard, I can give you the real scoop. However, before I do, I want it to be known that I'm not trying to talk any of you out of signing a contract. I just feel that you should be given the whole picture. You will probably have people tell you that the eight year obligation is re quired from you for the $1800 that you receive over your final two years. However, you probably won't be told that this money is considered in your fi nancial aid package (i.e. you wotild have received this money anyway if you were receiving financial aid, but it would have been in the form of a loan instead of a grant). Likewise, you will probably be told that you will receive over $200 per drill. However, you probably won't be told that you can lose up to 30 days of ac tive-duty pay if equipment is lost by your subordinates. Officers will tell you to make your subordinates sign hand-receipts for the equipment. The only problem with this is that there is an extremely high rate of turnover among enlisted personnel in the Army Reserves. Furthermore, you will be lucky if you are allotted time to do an inventory more than once a year. Finally, don't expect your civilian employer to give you vacation time of on top of your two-week annual train ing (many view this as your vacation time). Now weigh this with the good things that you have heard about getting com missioned, so that you may come to the right choice for you. the matter. Inform people that this isn't what college life is supposed to be -get ting drunk of the weekend, sobering up on Sunday, and resuming school on Monday (hopefully) - this isn't what these four or five very important years are all about. They're about growing mentally (and sometimes spiritually), making lifetime friends and commit ments and of choosing what path of life you really want. Hopefully, you can see my side - and T'd appreciate your interest and concern by responding in one of your articles. many more of my fellow students dis play such a lack of responsibility and consideration, these companies may choose to recruit only at schools where they have had high attendance and ap plicants who displayed a strong interest in their companies. I, like everyone else, hope to get before I graduate. Please don't hurt my chances by turn ing employers away. economy. Remember, tax increases have never reduced the deficit, and for proof I point to the tax increases under Reagan and Bush that were supposed to reduce the deficit. The only thing that can reduce the deficit is to cut funding by scraping the "current ser vices baseline" way of funding the gov ernment and only adjust budgets for in flation.- . .. Melissa Megliola Class of'94 Travis Waddell Class of'96 Mark A. Magee Class of '94 2 Lt. Michael Buck Class of '91 Employers irritated with irresponsibility Clinton's economic plan seems slick Religious debate found enlightening Drinking not part of college curriculum There's something that has been plaguing A&M ever since I can remem ber. It has given this University a label with many people I know, and I'm sure it's been branded the same by many others. What I'm referring to is alco holism and drinking. This of course, should be of no surprise to anyone reading this letter, however, I do feel that this topic needs to be discussed on a local newspaper level - and the Battal ion would be ideal for this purpose. I have been in many discussions with many different people about one thing about those choosing not to attend Texas A&M University. Among other obvious reasons, such as "A&M does not adequately accommodate to my needs, and/or my Major," which any one should be able to understand, there has also been the frequently-heard no tation that "Yea - Texas A&M, the Beer- Drinking Capital of the World That doesn't impress me..." Well, it doesn't impress me either. This is where I ask for your help in I am writing this letter in response to the lack of professionalism displayed by many graduating students here at Texas A&M. The placement center on campus works very hard to provide students with as many employment op portunities as possible. To do so, they assure prospective employers that our graduates are responsible students and job candidates. We in turn need to live up to our part of this agreement. My father, a manager and recruiter for a worldwide engineering firm, spent the last two days at A&M recruit ing mechanical, electrical and civil engi neers. His division has openings for college graduates at around $35,000, of fers excellent benefits, and opportuni ties for advancement. Last night, they held and information session for prospective applicants. Around 35 stu dents signed up to attend and between 12-15 actually showed up. The compa ny paid to have refreshments that went to waste and the recruiters were surely irritated by the exceptionally low turnout. If you sign up to attend an informa tional session, you are committing yourself to attend. Companies are by no means required to hire Aggies. If This letter is in response to Charles Lwings' letter printed in the March 2 edition of the Battalion. It seems that Clinton Wants to add the value one could receive by renting their house out for the year to our income, thereby rais ing the number of people who are moved into a higher tax bracket. Sounds kinda SLICK to me. Secondly, I am tired of this liberal lie that the r ich got an unfair tax break and didn't pay their fair share during the Reagan/Bush y£afs. First of all, every body got a tax break in the eighties, but the "rich" got the smallest break of them all, by about 1%. Also, during the last few years, the top 5% of wage earn ers paid 40% of the taxes. Seems pretty fair to me. President Clinton may want to in crease jobs and improve the infrastruc ture, but his stimulus package will cost about $170 billion, and his youth jobs package will cost about $4 billion. The economy is growing better than it has in the past few years. In the last quarter of 1992, Gross Domestic Product grew by 4.55, the. largest growth in 5 years. We don;t need to tinker with the econo my right now. Let the market forces take care of the problems. It seems Clinton doesn't want "shared-sacrifice" or else he would cut his salary and really cut spending, not just reshuffle money in the present I would like to commend both Cam- pys Crusade for Christ and the Agnos tic and Atheist Student Group for carry- v ing out a wonderful debate last Wednesday night. Both groups showed great tact in using facts and reasoning power to answer some very tough questions. I hope to see more of such debates,, especially between other religious and philosophical groups on campus, but all done in a spirit of want ing to understand each other: Peyam Barghassa Graduate Student Editorials appearing in The Battalion reflect the views of the editorial hoard only. They do not necessarily reflecl the opinions of other Battalion staff members, the Texas A&M student body, regents, administration, faculty or staff. Columns, guest columns, and Mail Call items express the opinions of the authors only. 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