Opinion
The Battalion
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Page 4B • Thursday, April
Math student was
incorrectly quoted
In response to Sonia Moghe’s
March 31 article:
In your cover story on
Heterosexual Awareness Day,
you have signed the quote of one
of the representatives of “hetero
sexual pride” with my name.
The quote happened to be the
bold attention-getter quote, and I
merely would like to point out
that the original statement came
out from Bill Sebring, a sopho
more general studies major.
I think that the Department of
Mathematics at Texas A&M
University would also appreciate
it if there wasn't a closed-minded
statement of implied hatred and
bigotry falsely credited to one of
its students.
Ilya y. Rostovtsev
Class of 2005
MSC did not use
any scare tactics
In response to David
Shoemaker's March 31 column:
First, Mr. Shoemaker incorrect
ly quoted a statement that I
made at the Student Service Fee
Forum last Friday. I stated that all
marketing expenses for the fee
referendum were covered by
donated funds and services and
money out of students' — includ
ing my own pockets. Contrary to
what Mr. Shoemaker may have
indicated in his column, my
statement is absolutely true. This
is not merely a claim as Mr.
Shoemaker indicates.
The sandwich boards and
reproductions on them were
donated by the MSC and Print 'N
Copy. The paint used on the
sandwich boards was paid for by
my boyfriend and myself. The
MSC did in fact sponsor the con
cessions permit for the sandwich
boards and is ultimately respon
sible. Additionally, Mr.
Shoemaker seems to doubt how
other advertisements were paid
for. All flyers and buttons were
donated by Print 'IM Copy. Other
advertisements and stickers
were paid for by donated funds,
none of which were from student
service fees.
Finally, any allegations that the
information being disseminated
about the Student Service Fee
Referendum is a scare tactic are
completely false. Unfortunately,
all areas supported by the stu
dent service fee stand to suffer if
the infrastructure of these stu
dent services is not supported.
I hope that in the future Mr.
Shoemaker will do his research
more carefully, record quotes more
accurately, and take the word of
honest students more seriously.
Elizabeth Dacus
Class of 2003
54th MSC Council President
Proposed fees
would benefit all
I do not agree with opinions pub
lished in The Battalion, so could I
have my student service fees from
The Battalion back? I understand
that Student Service Fees are not
a pick-and-choose kind of thing.
As a whole, Student Service
Fees serve students beyond the
actual dollar amount spent.
I cannot decide which ones
are best — I entrust that deci
sion to a well-qualified board
called the Student Service Fee
Allocation Board.
If Mr. Shoemaker has issues
with particular items in the
SSFAB recommendation, he
needs to address changing the
students who are on the board—
not discourage an increase in
Student Service Fees.
An increase in Student Service
Fees should be encouraged if it
would benefit the student body.
To best serve students through
new programs and projects, stu
dents should provide a way to
pay for them; this requires an
increase in Student Service Fees.
Lizzie Stubbs
Class of 2003
President should
not be elected
In response to March 31
Editorial:
Recently, several people have
proposed electing the Memorial
Student Center Council presi
dent claiming that it better bene
fits students. In actuality, A&M
students would suffer greatly,
and they need to know why
before voting.
The majority of students don’t
know exactly how complex the
MSC Council is; in fact, they may
not even know the MSC’s actual
purpose. The MSC houses 22
student organizations and
involves more than 1,800 stu
dent volunteers, including the
MSC President and other
Council officers.
To insinuate that all an MSC
president needs is “hard work,
integrity... willingness to listen”
insults every student leader on
this campus. The current selec
tions process guarantees a per
son who has all those traits and
much more.
Additionally, the MSC was
never designed to be a student-
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We are about programming, for
and by students. And as for
accountability, as Council offi
cers, that is our entire purpose
for holding our positions. We all
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grams benefit you, the student
body. What kind of leaders would
we be if we didn’t think our work
was in your best interest?
Nicole Hoegg
Class of 2005
54th Council Development
Vice-President
Former president
served students
I am appalled to read the edito
rial concerning the MSC presi
dent issue. I want to address
Josh Rowan, former MSC presi
dent, specifically. Josh worked
hard at what he did, and he
devoted countless hours to being
MSC president. I, nor any of the
editorial authors, was present
when the issue concerning Josh
occurred so nobody should pass
judgment on him.
Josh had graduated from
Texas A&M, moved, and started
new life. Before the editorial
board is critical of others, they
should be critical of themselves.
I personally want to thank Josh
for his hard work and wish him
luck in the future. It is time for
the authors of the editorial to
move on and stop attacking peo
ple who are no longer around to
defend themselves.
Carter Hall
Class of 2004
Texas A&M must
never change time
I think it is necessary to bring
up an issue that is effecting all of
us: Daylight savings time.
Every spring and fall we set our
clocks ahead or behind an hour
because someone a long time
ago thought it would be fun. I'm
tired of it.
Texas A&M should jump on
board with Arizona and other
mountain standard time states
that do not recognize daylight
savings. Whenever I visit the
Grand Canyon, I can't remember
whether to set my watch back an
hour, forward two hours, or drive
a stake in the ground and use the
sun's shadow as a clock. The
University of Texas recognizes
daylight savings time; therefore,
we should not.
I say we set our clocks ahead
six hours and go by Greenwich's
universal time. Then, wherever
we go in the world, we know what
time it is. Game time.
Charles Holland
Class of 2005
VIP program hurts
white applicants
In Response to Matt Maddox's
March 30 column:
I have a brother in junior college
who is applying to attend a four-
year university. He has made the
dean's list every semester of his
college career so far, and should
be accepted to pretty much any
major state-funded college he
applies to. But because his skin is
white, he does not qualify for the
Very Important Prospect program.
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