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Page 8 The Battalion Tuesday, September 14, B] 2702 Texas Ave. S. College Station, Texas 77802 (409) 693-0054 Fax: 696-0901 For your convenience, 'Pwivu'*. offers private dining for parties, rehearsal dinners, and business meetings for lunch or dinner. We have private seating for up to 100. We serve steaks, seafood, chicken, and Italian food. Call us when planning your next party. Services Wednesday: 8 p.m. Thursday: 10 a.m. Friday: 10 a.m. B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at Texas A&M University 800 George Bush Dr. 696-7313 Rabbi Peter Tarlow T>0 >4OX READ XH1S!!! ....Unless you woul d I i Le to spend a semester havincj the lime of your life. earning TAMU credits, and seeing Ike worl d Mb ALL AT ONCE!! - tat SCRAPBOOK PARTY WEDNESDAY, IEPT. IS 6-7JJO P.M. 145 MS< Come and meet the students who attended in Spring ’93. GOOD FOOD GOOD FUN Slu<ly Abroad Prograins 161 Bizzell Hall W. 845-0544 Professional Computing 505 Church Street College Station (409)846-5332 HP DeskJet 500 * Affordable 300-dpi laser-quality printing * Wide variety of built-in fonts * Supports leading software applications including Windows 3.1 * 3-year limited warranty Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m.-5:30p.m. Sat. 10:00 a.m.-3:00p.m. Whal HEWLETT iC'&J PACKARD Authorized Dealer What disturbed Silver Taps? For the sake of those fallen Aggies remembered at Silver Taps last Tuesday night, I sin cerely hope there is a severe whooping cough epidemic going around. I would be greatly disturbed if all the coughing and sniffles were due only to some incredi bly rude and disrespectful Ag gies attempting to get some sort of sick, personal satisfaction by detracting from such a solemn Aggie tradition. Brian C. Murrell Class of '95 When will Beutel answer phones? Recently, I sought medical at tention at Beutel Health Center for treatment of a minor illness. However, I had extreme difficul ty in scheduling an appointment. The telephone scheduling hours are supposedly in effect from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Re gardless, I attempted to contact the center beginning at 7:30 a.m., but listened to a recording until 7:40 a.m. As I had an 8 o'clock class that morning, this delay caused me considerable prob lems. It is my understanding that the staff is compensated for their work from the time of 7:30 a.m. Therefore, shouldn't they be working? Jennifer Mullen Class of ‘97 Where did all the communists go? Poor misinformed Michael Kraft! In his letter which ap peared Sept. 3, Kraft apparently dated the cold war from 1954 and, calling it a hoax, laid the blame for it at the feet of the CIA. I wonder if Kraft heard of Winston Churchill's 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri when he said, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended over the continent." The ringing down of the "iron curtain" by the Soviet Union, separating the communist world from the free world, marked the beginning of the Cold War. The threat of the Soviet Union was real. There was nothing hol low about the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, their nuclear bomb, their hydrogen bomb or the bombastic threat of Mr. Khrushchev to bury us. His mis siles in Cuba were real! If Mr. Kraft questions our role in the Cold War, he should pon der the meaning of the graves lo cated near the remains of the Berlin Wall. The young people who died there were murdered when attempting to flee to the West! The wall was built, not to keep people out, but to keep peo ple in! Two highly respected German educators stated while visiting Texas A&M recently, "Among Europeans who have seen the ravaging results of Communism, one will find no admitted com munist — nor even one who would admit to having been a communist. "In fact," they continued, "about the only place one would find an admitted Marxists today is in Eastern American universities." Well, I suppose they are not all at Eastern American universi ties, are they Mr. Kraft? Why are people quick to judge? This letter is written in re sponse to Kyle Robinson's and Francisco Sanchez's letter con cerning non-regs, C.T.s and Greeks which appeared in The Battalion on Wednesday, Sept. 8. First, I agree with your opin ion that we are all Aggies and that we should have the right to pursue our individual prefer ences in student lifestyles. However, I disagree with your opinion that all of us partic ipate in the same traditions. Bonfire and the building of it (a tradition in itself) represents Texas A&M's burning desire to Beat the Hell Outta t.u., but not all Ags seem to share this desire. I believe this is best illustrated by explaining why "much ani mosity" is directed towards the Greeks by non-regs and C.T.s . This animosity originates from many (not all) Greeks' choices to participate in Aggie traditions only when it serves their goals. For example, many Greeks will be in attendance during the burning of Bonfire (another ex cuse for a keg party), but prefer to have some one else build it for them so that during the fall they can sleep in Sundays, hungover, after their frat's eight-keg party. Further, these Greeks will he the same ones to complain about how Bonfire stood for only ten minutes when they did nothing to make sure Bonfire was built to their satisfaction. It is for this reason that "much animosity" is directed towards fraternities. As for the yells that you heard in the quad, these yells are not used exclusively between non- regs and C.T.s. These yells are also used between rival dorms as a motivational tool for dorm members. These yells were simply a re flection of a friendly rivalry that has existed between non-regs and C.T.s since non-regs were first admitted to this campus, and these yells cannot be consid ered more than a friendly rivalry. What is great about the tradi tions and students of Texas A&M, is how the students can be so diverse, push each other to be their best, yet come together at traditions like Silver Taps, Muster and Bonfire. Perhaps if you (Kyle and Francisco) had spoken to mem bers of the groups involved, you might have discovered why and for how long this arrangement has existed instead of making an uninformed judgment and get ting upset over a tradition of fel low Ags encouraging each other to get involved and improve each other's character. 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