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Page 10 • The Battalion
qpinion
Monday • September 19,
Mail
Call
Some may be offended by
'white bread' description
WHOOPING COUGH (Pertussis)
VACCINE STUDY
We Are Beginning a New Whooping Cough Vaccine Study
Monday, September 19, 1994
& Monday, September 26, 1994
(First Come, First Served Until Study Is Filled)
For further information or to determine eligibility for the study
Come To:
Beutel Health Center, Room 233, 2nd Floor
9:00 AM-3:00 PM
Dr. John Quarles
845-3678
This letter is in response to Aja Hender
son’s column (Sept. 14) “Fear, risk of vio
lent crime warps lives of people throughout
America.”
Kudos to Henderson for delivering a sin
cere, well written article addressing the vi
olent nature of American society. If
enough people realize, as she does, that the
war on crime can be won, we can accom
plish something that all the money, police
and politicians in America cannot - win
ning our nation back from the criminal ele
ment that has robbed us of our right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
My only question after reading this arti
cle was, what was meant by the sentence,
“I don’t know of one person who feels really
safe from crime, even here in white bread
College Station.”
Without wearing my ethnicity on my
sleeve, pointing the ugly finger of racism and
insensitivity or even feigning revulsion and
shock at seemingly racist language, (like vio
lence and crime, unfortunately one builds an
immunity to it after a while). I would like an
explanation for the term “white bread.” Per
haps I am reading too much into this phrase,
or maybe I’m just not up on what could be the
latest slang. Either way, I don’t think the au
thor is talking about the kind of “white” bread
one buys at the store.
Brian Bullard
Graduate Student
five pound text and a half dozen pencils (and a
calculator for you engineers). As Aggies, we
must unite and end this travesty of double
strappin’! This is not an indictment of any
particular minority, race, religion, nation ori
gin or sexual preference. No! This is only an
indictment of those who insist on double
strappin’ — you know who you are.
Let’s look a little deeper. What is the rea
son for double strappin’? Is it for comfort?
Well, in that case, why don’t we just sit on so
fas in the lecture halls. Or why don’t the pro
fessors lecture from a recliner in Bermuda
shorts, sandals with socks and a beer in one
hand? Sorry folks - suck it up!
Is it because we need that second hand
free? It used to be, you threw your backpack
over your shoulder and kept one hand free
for whatever means needed. But now, there
seems to be a growing concern for the need
for two free hands. Why? Does it require
two hands to wave and say “Howdy”? Does
it require two hands to turn that doorknob to
your classroom? Does it require two hands
to guzzle that soda when you are five min
utes tardy to class? Absolutely not! Believe
it or not, but you can still maintain a per
fectly normal college life without having to
use both straps of your backpack. Granted,
there are an exceptional few that need both
straps for medical reasons, for bike riding,
etc. However, for those of you who don’t —
well, let’s put it this way. Do you ever wear
polka dots with stripes? Do you ever wear
sneakers with your suit? Do you ever belch
after dinner on a first date? (Well, OK,
maybe some of you do.) The answer to all of
these questions is no! Unfortunately, there
is an unresolved myth at hand. Backpacks
have dual straps, not for double strappers,
but rather to allow equal use for those who
prefer wearing their pack over their right or
left shoulder. It is simply an effort of the
major name brands to remain politically cor
rect in not showing bias to lefties or righties
- just like we are.
Just remember, when thinking of wearing
that backpack on both shoulders, keep in
mind - we are all watching you!
particular study, huh? It wouldn’t have
thing to do with a liberal, discriminator
would it? I don’t know what these figure;
but I am pretty sure that in each racial
mentioned, the men do better thar
women, but white men do best of all
,Now excluding this racial issuey,
tried to create, let’s look at why mendol
on these exams than women. 1) Is the
hard? Yes. Therefore you have to be s
right? OK. 2) Is the exam long? Yes. 1
fore you have to have enough endurai
keep your faculties at 100 percent throuj:
entire exam. So doing well on this exam
little to do with intelligence or physic
durance. You know something,
men, who are naturally physically stn
than women, have more endurance th;
women. I also bet that this is a big
taking a test like this. I know thatcomii;
of my organic chemistry final, I wastho
ly exhausted. I can just imagine what;
ical exam is like. Now I’m sure thattl
more than one explanation for these Cyl
but I have a feeling that this one if far
important than elementary school gir; : B-ravaged Rwa
getting pushed into science by their ten the first lessc
If they didn’t like math and science orfne of survival,
were “discouraged in the fields of mat;MI eac hers fac
science,” then they wouldn’t be inE;B!' en 9 e °1 nurtl
school, would they? B 6 seer ? c ' a ®. s
■mbers brutally
randan s
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Double strappers carry
leisure on their backs
Cindi Matkins
Class of’94
After a long road of more than five years at
Aggieland, two dead zips have come to notice
a major problem on our campus. There are
just too many people double strappin’ it! Now,
what do we mean by double strappin’? Well,
for those of you who cringe at the sight of a
backpack being worn on both shoulders, you
know who we’re talking about — double strap-.
pers! Now maybe in the third grade, double
strappin’ was the thing to do. Maybe because
our growing little bodies couldn’t support that
ever-so-gosh-awful weight. But what is the ex
cuse now? We are all fully developed, (at least
most of us are), mature young adults who can
support the minor weight of three spirals, a
Chris Carney
Class of ’92
Students question results
of study on entrance exam
• This is in reference to the front page arti
cle in The Battalion Sept. 14 about medical ex
ams being easier for men. First of all, where
is the rest of your data in this bar graph?
Which other data? The percentage of Asian-
Pacific Islander men, African-American men
and Hispanic men that passed this medical
test. I guess they weren’t important in this
Sntryside.
1 B“We have to '
• Is it really possible that a study car.: Everybody must tr
that men do better on medical schoolc |nti live in bre
exams? The study might show that ■ francois Rwabuki
better on this test, but there are other:B |Tia 9 um ha sch
bilities than that the test is “easier” fcr P s P rovincial C£
Maybe men took more science course:I
thus knew more, than the women tala iongressn
test. Maybe men took that P art of'-B
more seriously because they felt itwaB OIOCK P«
best chance to do well overall? MaybeiiH WA „ H|K)r
school, science teachers gave womerN^T^ Yuf
shnft and lavished attention on men? iML, t0 b | 0ck a g
maybe maybe...but the headline is coriBQ 0n g ress tbat ,
“Medical exam easier for men, study::Mct automatically
The bias doesn’t have to have been intkllRep. Jim Light
There was a bar graph beside the flead to another <
with the caption, “Medical gender bisBate for lawmal
gave the percentage of the white m fa rn $133,600. If t
passed, and the percentage of di&l* successful, tl
groups of women who passed (Less ^ econ ^. y
segments.) Well, if the test systm.B ied 'I? 6 a rai ^ {
favors men, we would expeci t»
black men do better than black wome ^irg that he d
panic men better than Hispanic womt:.B e ri Can in 100
so on. Is that what happened? ThesiB n ed an increase
doesn’t tell. Let’s get the facts into tkH The lawmaker
cle, and the editorials out. And to; procedural resolu
women out there, take heart, desp;: will force the Hoi
headline, there's a good chance that if i SSu e
had a solid science education, you'll Jiip l - ast ' :ebruar y’ '
as well on the test as the guys. ^ oley
6 J George Mitchell
r, ’would scrap a cc
T K# e£Wed for JanL
lexasA&MFaM a ft er president
that other federal
Monday, Sept. 19, 1994
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