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1993 SIVOWITjAKE EESTIVAL
A Week of
Winter Entertainment
NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 3
MSC FLAGROOM
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1st:
12:00 pm
Black Awareness Committee and
Fade to Black, Pre-Kwanzaa
Awareness
12:30 pm
Ross Elementary, “The Nutcracker”
THURSDAY, DEC. 2nd:
12:00 pm
B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation,
Hanukkah Presentation
12:30 pm
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. New
Alpha Chapter, Pre-”Greek Expo” Step
Show
FRIDAY, DEC. 3rd:
12:00 pm
Baptist Student Union
1:00 pm
MSC Hospitality Winter
1:30 pm
Fashion Show
The Texas A&M Singing Cadets
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Page 10
The Battalion
Wednesday, December 1,
GALL
Parking garage patrons
charged for extra hour
Transfer students must
fight new ring policy
The operators of the North Side Parking
Garage have figured out a way to increase
their revenue without raising their rates.
It's probably illegal but, hey, they need the
money, don't they? NOT!
Their scam works like this: The entry ma
chine stamps the time on your receipt five
minutes behind the time on their machine in
the booth. If you happen to park in the
garage for just a little less than an hour or
two or three, you'll get charged for the next
hour also, because anything over the hour
on the toll booth clock is considered a full
hour charge, even though reality says some
thing else.
What's my evidence? At first I only had
a hunch. Every time I entered the garage
my receipt indicated a time that was about
five minutes behind that on my watch.
On several occasions when I checked out
of the parking garage at a time that I
thought was just under the hourly time lim
it, I was charged for an extra hour.
A couple of days ago, I started the timer
on my watch when I got my parking receipt.
When I checked out, my timer said 1 hour
57 minutes. The girl in the booth said that I
had been there 2 hours and 2 minutes and
hit me up for another hour charge.
Could it just be a problem with my
watch? No way! Several weeks ago I got a
parking receipt from the machine and not
more than a minute later I asked the atten
dant what time her machine said. Again
five minutes' difference.
It may not seem like a lot, but everyone
who checks out within five minutes of the
hour limit is being stuck for another hour
charge. Illegal? Probably so.
When I transferred to A&M, the policy to
order senior rings was explained to me and I
worked towards this goal. I knew I would fall
two hours short of the 30 hours required to or
der my ring; I would take the remaining 2 in
spring of '94. Aggie ring, here I come.
With the new ring policy going intoeSf
Jan. 1, all transfer students that hadbt;
counting the residency hours will havetols
counting; 60 hours will be required.
Transfer students were not given theopp
tunity to plan for policy change regarding
nior ring orders. If I had been advised o:
policy change, I sure as HELL would have!;
en two more hours this semester.
I need your help. If you care to expi
your views, as I did, please call or write:
Porter Gamer III '79
Associate Executive Director for All®
Programs
P.O. Box 7368
College Station, TX 77844
yol. 93 N
Ron Sk
Class of 1
Bonfire fizzles — but Aggie spirit still blazes
Dean Merrill
Graduate student
Lost: One Aggie ring
• After reading the letters ridiculing Aggie
Bonfire in Tuesday's Mail Call section, I felt
that I had to write a response. I was crew chief
in Law Hall this year, and it hurt me to hear all
the criticism Bonfire received .
We put in a full two months of hard work
to build the nation's largest tradition, and this
year Bonfire was the largest it's been in almost
a decade.
I worked hard on Bonfire last year, and
when it fell within thirty minutes of being lit,
I overheard ungrateful Ags saying how we
didn't do a good enough job building it. This
year, in an effort to keep Bonfire standing
longer, not as much fuel was put on it as last
year.
It turned out that it wasn't
enough, but Bonfire did get
burning and Center Pole did
not fall until midnight. Even
though supposedly this signi
fies that A&M will win the
Cotton Bowl, once again we
heard complaints this year,
not about how quickly it fell,
but about how long it took.
We put in so much effort
into Bonfire. What you see
when it burns is the blood,
sweat and tears of fellow
Ags. All we ask is that some
one appreciates what we
have done for our school.
Aggie Bonfire is one of the
traditions that makes our uni
versity so unique, but it only
happens when Aggies build it.
pole stood 'til midnight, the last three yes
people complained that the Bonfire:
fast. We beat the hell outta t.u., we're Coin
Bowl bound for the third straight year,j!
what do you want?
In defense of the yell leaders, I've bea
all the yell practices and I think Markin
been a great head yell leader. I'm sure noon
feels worse than he about "The Last Con
Trip" recital.
Finally, my hat is off to this years rec
and all the other pots who did one hel
job buildin' the hell outta Bonfire'93
don't sit around and complain, getouttk
and help build the hell outta Bonfire 1 )!
WHOOP!
Robert Vaugh
Class of i
Howdy Ags! This is a hopeful call to all
with Aggie spirit out there. Last week dur
ing Elephant Walk my class ring fell off
while wrestling with a good buddy of mine.
I was told by the kind people at the
Alumni Center that many people every year
lose their rings. Many are returned, but
mine has not been.
For those who do not know, each ring
has its owner's name engraved inside. I be
lieve I lost mine near the north corner of the
library.
If you have found my ring, or anyone
else's, I beg you on the grounds of Aggie
honesty to please turn it in to the Alumni
Center as soon as you can. Thanks Ags!
It's not a non-reg, CT, or freshmen Bonfire.
It's an Aggie Bonfire, and I challenge any Ag
who felt this year's Bonfire wasn't good
enough to put in at least one day at cut and
one night at stack next year.
You'll see the effort that goes into Bonfire,
the friendships it starts, and just what it means
to those who have given of themselves to
build it.
• I am writing inti
sponse to the criticism
the time it took to light
gie Bonfire this year,
my opinion, this wasti
prettiest Bonfire in yeai
It burned evenly andsto;
past midnight.
Perhaps many Aggi
could have enjoyed ith
they stayed past thefic
attempt to light the fire
Aggies that spend me
of their time building Bo:
fire realize that thero
more to Bonfire thanjit
Kevin Wang
Class of '96
Law Hall crew chief '93
Daniel P. Brown
Class of '94
• Hey Ags, what's the deal? I'm tired of
the whining and crying about this years Bon
fire. I, for one, feel Bonfire '93 was one of the
best I've ever witnessed, and I don't need a
bunch of two-percenters who only show up
to watch it burn tell me otherwise. Center-
burning it. Building Bonfire is truly the ms
important part.
Building Bonfire is where friendsi
made and bonds are strengthened. I belie
as many of my friends, that the reason Bo
fire burns is to clear the field to beginco
struction on the next one.
I am confident that Aggies who bin
Bonfire will agree with me. Those whod
agree did not travel tens of thousands
miles with me building Bonfire. They:
not miss my classes or anger my girlfrid
I believe in Bonfire.
If you were disappointed in this yea: -
Bonfire, perhaps you should have stayed
little longer or done more than just show:
to watch it burn.
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Bryan Dierln
Class of
Brown pot 1
CBS and the Kennedy assassination
I t is very distressing
to see the latest
avalanche of major
network documen
taries on the assassina
tion of John F.
Kennedy that present
ed themselves as ob
jective appraisals of
the events in Dallas on
november 22,1963.
The average viewer
not familiar with all
the available facts sur
rounding the assassi
nation would not real
ize the reports' general
total disregard for im
portant evidence. I
GUEST
COLUMN
JAMES R.
STANLEY
think that if you look at CBS's track
record pertaining to the Kennedy Assassina
tion, you'll see that not once have they pre
sented any program that didn't attempt to
vindicate the Warren report. Their recent
documentary, "Who Killed JFK? The Final
Chapter" was another case of presenting only
evidence that support the Warren Report's
conclusions or evidence that they can attempt
to refute.
This is the same CBS that in 1964 had al
ready had produced a documentary support
ing the Warren Report before the report itself
had been published. CBS has lead the way in
misinformation about the assassination.
To illustrate CBS's journalistic ineptitude,
let me run down a few facts that, according
to CBS, weren't relevant. First and foremost,
Lee Harvey Oswald was given a nitrate test
immediately after his arrest to try to deter
mine whether he had fired a rifle within the
last 24 hours.
The test results were negative — he had
not fired a weapon. This fact was hidden by
the federal government for 10 months and
now we can entrust CBS to conceal it.
Another fact that apparently wasn't im
portant to CBS was that the FBI twice had
foreknowledge of the assassination. First,
they had a tape recorded conversation on
Nov. 9 that an FBI informant had with Joseph
Milteer, a right-wing extremist, outlining a
plot to kill Kennedy will a high powered rifle
from an office building.
Hmmm. That sounds strikingly similar to
what happened in Dallas. So the FBI made a
small error and failed to act. I'll forgive them.
But on Nov. 17 the New Orleans office of the
FBI received a telexed warning of a plot in
Dallas to kill Kennedy. It was ignored once
again.
Sounds to me like J. Edgar didn't want to
take any precautions. But as CBS feels, this
probably didn't have relevance. The fact that
the FBI could have prevented the assassina
tion is not important (sarcasm noted).
One more example of reportorial incom
petence so skillfully exhibited by CBS was
their disregard for the botched autopsy at
Bethesda. Not only did the pathologists not
have any experience in combat gunfire, but
they were professors that hadn't been in the
business of conducting autopsies of any sort
for quite some time.
Under oath Dr. Pierre Finck admitted tbi
the FBI had controlled the autopsy andi
rected them not to dissect the neck wound
Also, in documents released under the Fief
dom of Information Act, it is revealed M
the pathologists removed an additional build
from Kennedy's body
This wasn't presented to the Warren Co®
mission as evidence. This revelation
pletely destroys the Warren Commission
Theory of one man, three bullets.
We will never know the truth beyond
reasonable doubt. The CIA will nevertf [whisked
lease incriminating documents. They wil
just turn up "missing," as Kennedy's’
did, or accidentally destroyed as other do: Mosernar
uments have.
But at least when you present the knotf
facts about the assassination, tell the whol‘
story. Don't pick and choose which evident 'mands in
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you want to present or just present eviden:;
that conveniently supports your theory. OWhave son
has done this ever since Nov. 22, 1963. TM mands. F
have just perpetuated the cover up.
As for the professors who believe it w*
the "lone nut" Oswald, I'll be more thanhaf
py to debater this with you in an openforu®
One warning though — the facts are on® 1 !
side. You'll be stuck having to defend M
"magic bullet" theory and other useful#
elusions drawn by the Warren commission
James R. Staley is a junior business manag
Off Campus Aggies
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is having a general meeting
Wednesday, December 1
601 Rudder 8:30 pm
The BAGGIEST Pants Win a Groovy Prize!
For more info., please call the OCA office at 845-0688
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Spend the first summer session of 1 994 in Pueblo,
Mexico studying Latin American culture and
advanced Spanish.
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