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The Battalion
Wednesday, November 24, i
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
"Community bicycle support
overwhelming," says Hard
Aggies, TBC and Freebirds help bike plan
pass unanimous vote
By Kevin Cochran
With over 3000 Aggie signatures
and support from the Texas
Bicycle Coalition, Freebirds World
Burrito, the Mayor of College
Station, and city planners, the
Bikeway Master Plan passed the
City Council vote 7-0 on October
28. Ed Hard, the foremost
bikeway planner for the City of
College Station, said the "com
munity bicycle support at the
hearing was overwhelming." The
standing room only City Council
session was the most attended in
recent memory.
Texas Bicycle Coalition spokes
person Danise Hauser and
Freebirds spokesperson Mike
Moses made statements and
presented the book of signatures at
City Hall Council Chambers. The
City Council then pledged its
support for cleaner air and safer
roadways by approving the
Bikeway Master Plan.
The first step has been taken. On
November 6, the City of College
Station formally applied for $1.2
million in federal funding for
bikeways. This transaction should
occur over the next six to twelve
months. However, funding is not
guaranteed due to the compet
itiveness of the application
process. In response to the chance
of non-funding. Hard said,
"continued bicycle support is
therefore important for bikeway
enhancements according to the
Bikeway Master Plan."
The Texas Bicycle Coalition and
Freebirds World Burrito will keep
you informed on the status of the
federal funding process and on
other bikeway developments. If
future petitions are necessary to
insure action on bicycle issues, the
Aggie grass roots movement will
be used again to rally support.
FREEBIRDS
mtHlSHBUHRITO
319 UNIVERSITY DRIVE, NORTHGATE
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
CALL
Reverse discrimination
alive and well today
I would like to rebut an article headlined
"Reverse discrimination claims lack support
from faculty" printed in the Nov. 22 Battal
ion. The major interviewee was associate
professor Mark Fossett. He claims that re
verse discrimination does not have data
which supports this claim; further, "If re
verse discrimination was widespread, then
white males would try to act like ethnic mi
norities to benefit."
First, let's explore the idea that no data is
available. Look at any university or law
school. Also, examine the mean exam scores
and GPRs of the incoming students by
group. Most of the time, white males will
have higher means in both categories. As a
result, administrators routinely admit stu
dents who are not qualified to satisfy some
kind of quota.
For example, the article suggested that if
500 people are to be admitted into t.u.'s law
school and ten percent of the applicants are
black then close to 50 of the incoming law
students will be black regardless of qualifica
tions. What happens to those students who
are below the mean of their perspective cate
gory, yet place above the other means? They
tend not to be admitted. Hence, reverse dis
crimination is at work.
Second, "...white males...act like ethnic
minorities...." Groups have been organizing
around the nation where white men com
plain about reverse discrimination. These or
ganizations usually are not taken seriously.
Sometimes the members are called racists.
Other times people just do not listen because
they fear being tagged "a racist" when that is
not the issue.
I believe affirmative action is the main cul
prit of discrimination. Not only does affir
mative action hinder white males, it also
hurts minorities.
People may think that the only reason a
minority received a promotion was to create
a racial balance in the management level
even though that person may well be quali
fied and has earned the status. This stigma
will hang over us until affirmative action and
quotas are discontinued.
David W. Britt
Graduate student
Body functions in MSC
insulting to dead Ags
The old Ag who complained about people
sleeping in the MSC was right! It's an insult
to dead Ags to sleep in the MSC! WAKE UP,
AGS!
And something else. Peeing in the MSC is
worse! What if YOU were a dead Ag? How
would you feel knowing someone peed in
your MEMORIAL? HOLD YOUR WATER,
AGS!
Dave Pruett
Graduate student
Environmental policies
are necessary, not PC
On Nov. 15, The Battalion published a col
umn by Eliot Williams in which he equated
environmentalism with "political correct
ness." The article attempted to show that en
vironmental policies are destroying our indi
vidual rights. In fact, this served only as a
source of ignorance and misinformation.
First, Mr. Williams tries to demonstrate a
connection between multiculturalism and en
vironmentalism. Thinking that being pro-en
vironment is liberal is a common misconcep
tion. The result is that the process of neces
sary enforcement and reform of environmen
tal policy has been slowed. Mr. Williams
fails to show any connection between the "P.
C." movement and environmental regula
tion.
Secondly, Mr. Williams presents extreme
examples of enforcement. These types of ex
amples exist with most regulations, but they
are not the "average" example. Mr. Williams
fails to remark on the advantages of the clean
water act or the benefits of the Migratory
Bird Treaty Act. Do mistakes in the Justice
Department mean that we shouldn't have
any regulation?
In truth, what Mr. Williams is complain
ing about is the problems of the judiciary ac
tivism and the lack of restraint courts show
when interpreting new policies. The prob
lem is not one of over-regulation, and envi
ronmental policies are not Republican/De
mocrat or conservative/liberal disagree
ments.
Mr. Williams fails to show how environ
mentalism is the next P.C. issue, and the situ
ations he describes are inaccurate, extremist
scare tactics. The analogy to the Sigma Al
pha Epsilon or multicultural problems is, at
best, limited.
If U.S. environmental problems scare you,
take a look at Eastern Europe or Russia. Lim
ited policies and lack of concern in those
countries led to large scale degradation of
air, soil, water and other natural resources.
They have very little to pass on to their chil
dren in terms of economic sustainability.
The U.S. must be progressive on environ
mental issues, or we will follow in the foot
steps of these other disadvantaged countries.
Russell Singleton
Class of'95
Accompanied by 18 signatures
Students square off on
the issue of gun control
•I would like to refute the argument
made by Mr. Webb regarding a citizen's
right to carry a firearm. Mr. Webb would
have us believe that the primary reason for
this "right" is to protect the citizenry from a
military coup or a foreign invasion.
These arguments are archaic and invalid.
The right to bear arms was written into the
Constitution in the 18th century. The world
of today is far deadlier. In the face of a Ml-A
Abrams tank or an Apache helicopter, sawed
off shotguns and .38 caliber handguns are of
little use. Furthermore, paranoid end-of-the-
world gun nuts can rest assured that the US.
military has more than enough firepower to
prevent any possible foreign invasion with
out need for further assistance.
Stricter gun control will make prosecuting
criminals who use guns easier. Gun control
will also reduce the number of "passion
crimes" which are done on an impulsory
urge. Guns do kill people. Visit a trauma
ward in any major city and you, too, will un
derstand this statement.
Paul Castro , I
Class of'91
f >
•In Brian Stucker's Nov. 12 letter in The
Battalion, he asks the question "if the five
day waiting period saved just one life .,
wouldn't it be worth it?" I say it would. On
the other hand, what if the waiting period
costs a life? I can cite several specific inci
dents where, had there been a waiting peri
od, the victim would have been seriously in
jured or killed. In other words, the waiting
period can work either way.
Mr. Stucker also mentions banning guns
entirely. To those of us who own and use
firearms in a lawful manner, this idea sounds
as ludicrous as banning tire irons or baseball
bats.
What about banning just the guns that
don't have a "sporting purpose?'^ Well, it
would depend on what you define asa
sporting purpose. It seems ironic that the
only people I've ever heard try to define a
"sporting purpose" are those who don't own,
use or even know the first thing about
firearms.
From watching the news for several years,
I can understand why people would be in
clined to think that guns are evil. Most peo
ple do not see the other side. They do not see
the hundreds of shooting matches and com
petitions that take place each year. With the
way the media reports the news (murder,
robbery, murder, death, weather, sports,
murder), the vast majority of people do not
hear about the thousands of times lives have
been saved by the mere presence of i
firearm. I have literally hundreds of newspa
per accounts of ordinary citizens defending
their life or property from criminals with
firearms.
Crime is a problem. But until people real
ize it is not the gun, but the criminal that
causes the problem, this country's crime
problems are far from being solved.
Mark Bell
Class of‘91
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