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C ALL
Football team members
should act more mature
Thursday was one of the most embarrass
ing days for me as an Aggie, i was leaving
Heldenfels with a friend and was appalled at
what I saw. I stood by helplessly as I
watched a couple of members of the football
team throw objects and hit people in the
backs of their heads. Then the football play
ers would turn around and laugh. Some of
these students were young ladies. Who do
they think they are? What makes them
think that they are better than anyone else?
As members of the A&M football team, they
are representatives of our school. When
these players are seen participating in such
childish acts, it makes the rest of the stu
dent body wonder if you deserve to be a
member of such a prestigious team.
The person who committed the act itself
knows who he is, and so do many others.
The saddest thing is, this isn’t the first time
something like this has happened. It’s a
shame that a small few can disgrace the
rest. Remember, football players, you are all
Aggies (so I thought), and you represent
A&M.
I hope that some action is taken to pre
vent this type of behavior in the future. I
hope that I don’t have to feel ashamed about
supporting a team that has certain individu
als think that they are above everyone else.
I’ve got news for you, you’re not.
Nicholas Botary
Class of’96
Accompanied by 45 signatures
Homosexuals ruin A&M's
high moral standards
I am writing this letter due to my disgust
of some articles I have recently read in The
Battalion. The articles I am referring to
concern Gay and Lesbian activity at Texas
A&M University.
Throughout my high school years I
viewed Texas A&M as one of the best uni
versities in existence. Not only due to its
academic excellence, Texas A&M has also
been known for its pride, tradition, and high
moral standards. Texas A&M was a school
that I wanted to be a part of. Upon arriving
this year one of the first things I noticed was
an article in The Battalion about GLBA and
“coming out week.” I was shocked to say the
least. This was the university that I thought
would stand up for a high standard of moral
ity. But I guess I expected too much. Don’t
get me wrong, there is no other school that I
would choose over Texas A&M. I still be
lieve that it is the greatest university in ex
istence, only with a few bad apples. To be
frank, I simply wish for those with these dif
ferent private lifestyles to go where they’re
better excepted. LIKE AUSTIN!!! Or at
least keep your private life to yourself.
Jason McKemie
Class of ’98
Anti-gun article makes
many illogical leaps
I must admit, for a paragraph or two Ms.
Preston had me agreeing with her in her
11/14/94 column on “Parents taking more re
sponsibility around their children”. Unfor
tunately this agreement was short lived as
Ms. Preston reverted to one of her signature
“logic leaps” in equating the level of guilt of
the two parents involved in the deaths of
their kids.
I, unlike Ms. Preston, have two small
boys-Tyler (3 1/2) and Conner (1 1/2). Limit
ed as my writing ability is, let it suffice to
say those little guys are my life, period.
Everything I do in a 24 hour period is direct
ly or indirectly related to their well-being.
You can not begin to imagine the intensity of
the love you will feel for your child until
you’ve had one of your own.
Among the many things I want for my
boys, a safe, secure home is right up near
the top. Let me relate a personal experi
ence. My first semester back in school my
wife, Tyler, and I lived in a nice duplex com
munity off of Southwest Parkway. One
night during Spring Break while my wife
was at work and I was in the back bedroom
trying to get a colicky Tyler to sleep, a youth
broke into our home through a window in
the front of the duplex. Before I got to the
front room he was halfway in the window. I
didn’t know what exactly to do. Should I
yell loudly? Should I get an iron skillet and
hit him over the head? Should I take Tyler
and try to get out the backdoor? I chose the
former, yelling, and fortunately it scared
him back out the window and down the
street. Shortening the story, the police re
sponded quickly, the youth was caught along
with a partner who had also broken into 3
other duplexes, and I began giving the police
my statement. While speaking with the po
lice a car full of extremely nasty looking gen
tlemen parked across the street and pro
ceeded to look back and forth between the
Friday • November 18, 1994
two youths and myself. Finally, they drove
slowly away, staring back at me the whole
time. The officer later informed me that
these youths were from Houston and were
probably dropped off at these duplexes by a
“ringleader” with instructions to get any
thing they could. He said it happens quite
often during school breaks when most stu
dents are gone. I agreed to testify if neces
sary and that was that.
As I sat up that night, I didn’t sleep until
my wife got home the next morning, I pon
dered the mysterious gentlemen in the
parked car. I came to the same conclusion
any sane human being would come to in my
situation, they were the so-called ringlead
ers. I ultimately decided to buy a handgun.
My question to Ms. Preston is-does this
make me a bad, irresponsible parent in
your eyes. Since buying it I have never
“been caught in the throes of power when
holding a gun”. I don’t carry the gun in my
belt anxiously "waiting for someone to flip
me off”. I keep it stored so high in the clos
et I’ll probably break my ankle trying to
get it in the dark if the need ever arises.
Ms. Preston, is my mind “over-anxious” in
my attempt to secure my “castle”? Would
Matilda still be alive if her father had just
hit her over the head with a bat, or just
stabbed her with a kitchen knife? Have
you ever had someone break into your
house and all you can do is stand there and
wonder if he has a gun?
Sit down and chew on some of these ques
tions Ms. Preston. When you paint with
such broad “anti-gun” strokes you are not
displaying a solid, objective grasp of the top
ic, merely a glaring lack of life experiences.
I fully agree that something must be done to
stem the current trend of increasing hand
gun violence. Personally, 1 have no solution.
I am just trying to protect my two little boys.
Maybe someday when you have some kids of
your own, you will realize that your current
naive, idealistic judgment that all guns are
bad-PERIOD is no solution either.
Alan Gilbreath
Class of’95
Student angered over
Battalion's Mail Call
Just want some clarification on the proce
dure yoLi employ to select articles that are
printed under “Mail Call.” If your criteria is
simply, “if it’s conservative, we won’t print,”
then please let me know so that I can write a
letter to the president and complain about
such blatant misreporting practices em
ployed by our school newspaper.
Jon-En Wang
Graduate Studeni
Women
Continued from Page 1
University.
Zentgraf filed a lawsuit in
1979 alleging A&M excluded
women from Corps-affiliated or
ganizations. Five years later, an
out-of-court settlement was
reached that required A&M to
encourage women to participate
in Corps activities.
Today, more than 60 women
are members of the Corps, twice
as many as last year, and all
Corps units are fully integrated.
Joanna Hetsko, supply opera
tions officer and the only female
on Corps Staff, said that al
though women’s position in the
Corps has improved, education
is still needed to better it.
“The big wall that females are
up against right now is that
most males haven’t worked with
females before,” Hetsko said.
“They get it set in their minds
that they’re getting into an all
male organization, and they al
most are.
“We’re all forced to work with
different ideas, but we’re all here
to meet the same goals. If every
body understands that, it would
be a lot easier.”
Laura Eustace, a senior in A-
Battery, said the Aggie Band
has an excellent reputation for
its women’s recruitment, reten
tion and integration.
“We’ve come a long way,” Eu
stace said. “The band has had
women the shortest time, yet we
have the best integration in the
entire Corps. All four of our out
fits have females in them.
“Most men in the band have
worked with females already.
When I entered the band, my
sophomore said to one of the
males ‘You are not a male,’ and
he turned to one of the females
and said ‘You are not a female.’
He said ‘You are all cadets, and
you’ll be treated as cadets.’
We’ve come a long way in a
short time.”
Maj. Gen. Thomas Darling,
commandant of the Corps, said
the women who entered the
Corps twenty years ago paved
the way for the female
cadets now.
“Joining the 98-year-old all
male Corps in 1974 called for
strength, courage and dedica
tion, but the women proved that
they were not lacking,” Darling
said. “Today, women are a vital
part of the Texas A&M Corps of
Cadets’ tradition of excellence.”
Roper said he is proud of the
strong-willed women who stuck
through the Corps and the brave
cadets who supported them be
cause they helped make the
Corps what it is today.
“This is a very special an
niversary,” Roper said. “It’s an
event iA our time that changed
the history of A&M. It’s effects
are evident, even today, 20 years
later.”
Roadway
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Appleton said. “Moving the railroad
would be very expensive and would cost as
much or more than roadway construction.”
Appleton said the consulting firm will
also determine if there would be ways to
fund moving the railroad, such as whether
any obscure federal programs exist that
could provide aid.
The citizens of Bryan and College Station
will be able to participate in this study by at
tending three sets of meetings being held in
the next year, he said.
“We want to get public involvement,” Ap
pleton said. “The meetings will get input
from citizens on what they need and feel are
the best options. We may have a brain
storming session with maps to let people
show what they think are the best options.”
This is not the first time major changes to
Wellborn have been considered, Appleton said.
Fischer said that several years ago,
there was a proposal to lower Wellborn and
the railroad.
“The Department of Transportation would
pay for the actual construction,” Fischer
said. “The local government, city or county,
typically purchases the right-of-way and
pays for the cost of moving utilities.”
The proposed changes in 1991 would have
cost $30 million, Appleton said. Today, the
project will cost around $40 million, he said.
Fischer said that when a project is so ex
pensive, the city must let the voters decide if
they want to use bonds to fund the project.
In 1991, the College Station voters did not
approve such a funding, she said.
Appleton said there were many reasons
why the voters rejected the proposal.
“The bond got put on the December election
at the last minute and did not have time to
gain public support,” Appleton said. “The Col
lege Station people saw it as benefiting mainly
A&M and they did not want the City of College
Station spending its money for the project.”
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