Texas A and M University - Aggieland Yearbook (College Station, TX)

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Letters Bad bull Editor: Directed to the editor of the “Butta- lion” Where w ere you raised? In a gutter in Austin? You criticize our “pinheaded stu¬ dents”, “third-rate faculty” and “egg¬ sucking mascot yet you dare not show your face or name your name? I guess I ' d be embarrassed to admit to it myself, more embarrassed than if I attended t.u. Your paper was the epitome of bad bull — worse than “killing someone for step¬ ping on the MSC grass.” Beth Bizzell ’86 Save a napkin? iitor: Never have I witnessed an irony of ? ch magnitude as manifested by an in- ! tution which piously urges cafeteria ; irons to “Save a tree, take ohiv one pkin” , hut annually builds a bonftrg : iequalled workiwici-e-. -; • ' • ' 1 • ■ ; -7. . Michael. Donahue f Graduate Student. Prisoner request Editor: I am a prisoner on death row at the Arizona State Prison and I was wonder- ng if you would do me a favor. I have )een here for quite a while and I don’t lave any family or friends on the outside to write to so what I was wondering is if you could put an ad in your campus newspaper for me for correspondence, f not in your paper then maybe you have some kind of bulletin that you could put it in. I know that you are not a pen-pal club or anything like that but I would really appreciate it if you could help me I will just make a small ad and th j you have to change it around or anything ° and do what you need to. ■Qeath Row prisoner, caucasion male ige 3b, desires correspondence with either male or female college students. ants to form some kihd of friendly type elationship and more or less just ex- P ast experiences ahd ideas. Will nsWer all lettersrurd exchange pictures - t0 J im J effers Bok Floreiice, Arizona; 85232• ; m + J + In a story on Northgate 7 uesday, The ♦Battalion incorrectly called A1 Mayo thej Editor: ♦rVU -ilirm-amrror- At ic.4 Stereotypes College Station city manager. A1 Mayo isj city planner. North Bardell is city man- ♦ager. In your attempt to be especially snide. : about women athletes and women cadets; ' story on the National Organiz. It (“stereotypes” 1 At Ease), you brought tty T Women, The Battalion inco. J ' « lr d an itsy-bttsy quaktltg in the pre- sence of women. Why did you twice invoke the Marine:? Corps? If I were your mother, God should q forbid I’d spank you h r d on vnnr fat | little misogyny. it a .tion for Women, The Battalion incoi Erectly quoted Jo Katherine Foy, presi , ♦dent of the local NOW chapter, as saying NOW considers lesbian values “oui priority issue.” Foy said the issue is onlyi ♦ one of their priorities. She said getting £ J women into public office is their main priority. The Battalion regrets the errors. 28 Bitckc +0 4 We $ £ Jean Black Williamson A twice-blessed Aggie monr I Editor: This is a letter concerning William Jordan’s views of our great University and the fine traditions that our student body upholds. As far as I’m concerned, he doesn’t belong here. If all you came here for is to f urther your education, that’s fine. I’ll have to tell one thing though; you’re in Aggie Coun¬ try and standing up at football games and not wearing a hat in Kyle Field comes with the territory. I have a word of advice for all of the people who left the game early and also for those people who refuse to stand or take off their hats in Kyle Field. Go to the other side! By going to the other side of the field you can sit down with all of the ( old folks and wear your hats with all of I the people who don’t understand Aggie tradition. By the way, you can also leave early and complain about how your team let you down. Don’t ask what your team can do for yon ask: what you can do for j yonr team ap d University. Lee Thompson ‘84 [Editor: In reference to Mr. Jordan’s letter of Sept. 8; BRAVO! P.S. Ditto for me. Randy K. Watkins ‘84 Editor: In regard to William Jordan’s letter in The Battalion (Sept. 8) in which he states that not wearing hats in Kyle Field is an asinine childish tradition, w e reply: Good Bull! Sergio Davila ’85 Charles Rennspies ’85 [im Schicker ’85 Jim Jeffers ■ pgt peeV6 Editor: I would like to chide the uncaring person who allowed his dog to defec ate only a couple of feet from the sidewalk m front of the Academic Building several days ago. I had to walk off of the sidewalk last Tuesday because of maintenance people cutting limbs. Instantly understanding what happened, due to my unsure foot¬ ing, I immediately scraped my shoe across the grass. Because of various stares and gags which were evoked with my pre¬ sence later in class, it was evident that I had been unsuccessful in cleaning my shoe. I was embarrassed. Could dog owners, if they insist on walking their pets on campus, at least rush their animals to the bushes when it is apparent that bodily processes are about to occur. Kenneth Herbst ’86

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Silver Taps conflict Editor: I was reading Tuesday’s Battalion when I stumbled upn Pi Kappa Alpha’s and Kappa Sigma’s advertisements for their respective fall rushes. Much to my dismay, I noted that it coincided with Sil¬ ver Taps. I remembered that two years ago the same thing happened with another fraternity. Several critical letters appeared in the Battalion concernin ' their lack of respect for Aggies. That par ticular fraternity wrote a letter back ex¬ plaining their mistake and saying in gen¬ eral that the Greek system was very pro Aggie- Bull. Thp Greeks have done it agin. No frats at Texas A M. Bill Mcspadden ’8! James Seiler ’8! Moses Hal Editor’s note: This letter was accompa nied by 116 other signatures. Must be Last Friday nignt, my uace aim i were involved in an automobile accident in which my car was destroyed. Immediate¬ ly we were being calmed by a man who had rushed to our aid. Since we were trapped, he kept talking to us and in¬ formed us as to what had happened. Nancy, my date, had strained her neck so that we had to go to the hospital in the ambulance. The man said that he would follow us in his truck. Then he said that he would get a, friend to follow him so that he could “give me his truck . He said that he “didn’t need it” that weekend. I shook his hand and said “John Freeman,- you must be an Aggie!” Morgan Levy ’86 Nancy Jones 86 jck S ' Editor: Friday night, I attended the Mara- natha Rock and Roll Seminar, and the only thing I wasVonvinced of was how- dangerous these rekgious fanatics really are to our { flThcalJSd social freedom in the UciAdiStajks. fMATyyTfce Rock and Roll as evil’ or ‘satafi H, in my opiniiwi, utterly absurd. RoW niusic is an t in he highest sense of the word, anc| conarier it anything other tha mode of. Granted rock culture,, society in Christian Chu that this is a uni a4m ffa Solve the dormroom puzzle fulfilling in the look at even the e ages to realize al phenomena. Editor: I am enclosing a puzzle for you to solve since I cannot. Housing assured me this was possible and could even be enjoyable. Three girls in a room 11 ! 2 x 15 l 2 — surely they are joking and all for the reasonable rate of Jifi78 a semester per student. Let me know the results. This is an Aggie puzzle. Fit the extra furniture in the room, allowing each College is sudjDosed to be a relatively liberal period of a person ' s life, and it really disturbs me to see people accepting viewpoints reminiscant of the dark ages so easily. I challenge anyone out there in the mythical “Moral Majority” land to really listen well to the music of Neil Young or Pink Floyd and tell me it is the -u-orl of ‘Satan’. In the meantime, I’ll keep m stereo cranked, thank you. John McGhee’85 Watch found Editor: I found a lady’s watch outside Zachry Engineering Center about two weeks ago. I’ve been looking for a letter, but there hasn’t been one. If you re in¬ terested in getting your watch back, call Ted at 260-7007 and tell me what it looks like. Ted Callahan occupant enough space to open drawers contained under each bed and “walk” room between furniture. If don successfully, I will then admit that thret people can be housed in this area and that the designer is a genius. Keep iij mind, before you begin, that all f urnitmx came with the room and so was obvioush deemed essential for comfort studying. anc Mrs. Burton C. Boweii Houstoi DORM ROOM IN CLEMENTS HALL PZ$K CUBE: EXTRA FUMITORE FOR THlRO OCCUPANT 29