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Discipline by Cadets
Corps Takes Operational Responsibility
By JOHN WHITMORE
Battalion Editor
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The Corps of Cadets took a firmer control over their
own body today when Colonel of the Corps, Eric Carlson,
read over a new memorandum of policy.
This new policy was made up by a committee of two
regimental commanders, five company commanders, one
battalion commander and the Corps Commander. It re
ceived the approval of the commandant shortly after be
ing drawn up.
In essence, the new policy code establishes a new and
standard method of handling discipline and “to clarify and
standardize the methods and manner which all upper
classmen will use in correcting underclassmen.”
Unit Commanders to Carry Out
The official policy set forth by the Corps of Calets
with regard to the operation of units is to be carried out
by the unit commanders, under the provisions of the
Articles of the Cadet Corps, Carlson said.
In clarifying the order about correcting the men in the
corps, the order said, “It is the duty of all cadets to de
mand complience with the directives and policies of the
Corps of Cadets. Correction is the act of demanding com
plience with these policies and college regulations.”
Action was taken by the student body after two men
were dismissed from the corps for unauthorized orienta
tion. The group decided to distinguish between orienta
tion and correction. “There was a fine line to draw be
tween orientation and correcting,” Carlson commented.
“We decided to ask the authorities if we could set up
directives concerning the correcting of the cadets.”
Responsibility Given to Cadets
In explaining the order to company, battalion, and
regimental commanders, Carlson and Col. Joe E. Davis,
commandant, gave the responsibility to the cadets,to cor
rect one another.
“It is the specific responsibility of all upperclassmen
to correct all underclassmen on any violation of the Arti
cles of the Cadet Corps; therefore, all upperclassmen will
make these corrections and when doing so will adhere to
the approved policy.”
This statement, made by the Corps Commander,
also made it manditory for all officers and non-commis
sioned officers to correct all cadets.
Many of the policies made by the students are sim
ilar to those followed in the Armed Services, Col. Shelly
P. Myers, PMS&T, remarked.
The new memorandum includes:
• All upperclassmen will use a conversational tone
of voice while correcting the underclassmen.
• Correction is permissable in a classroom until the
time the instructor enters the room, at which time
correction will cease for the duration of the class.
® Upperclassmen will stay at arm’s length from un
derclassmen while correcting the underclassmen. This
item makes it mechanically impossible for underclassmen
to be orientated at a Yell Practice.
• While correcting an underclassman, the upper
classman will put the subordinate “at Ease” at the North
Gate, in the City of Bryan, Memorial Student Center,
Guion Hall, and the Exchange Store.
Similar to System Used In Service
This Colonel Meyers pointed out is similar to the sys
tem used in the service. “When a superior officer is cor
recting a junior he calls him off to the side and corrects
him privately. There is no reason to ‘hang out dirty wash
in anyone elses back-yard.”
The memorandum also said that orientation is a com
mand function and will be handled by Unit Commanders
and their assistants. “Discretion will always be used while
upperclassmen are correcting underclassmen.”
“The Unit Commander has full jurisdiction over his
unit and his dormitory area. It will be his duty to enforce
the corps policies.
Since the salute is not exchanged between members
of the corps, Carlson said, the upperclassmen will require
the underclassmen to speak first in a courteous greeting
on the campus,
salute.
All upperclassmen will report the memo said, under
classmen to Unit Commanders for violations listed under
the Articles of the Cadet Corps.
Becomes Effective Today
This directive became effective at 12 noon today and
all cadet officers and non-commissioned officers were di
rected to enforce the regulations. This memo will also be
read and explained by the unit commanders at organiza
tional meetings.
In looking over past history of the corps, this is the
first time in many years that the students have taken over
the disciplinary of their own ranks. The responsibilities
they have taken have always been listed in the Articles of
the Cadet Corps.
Another important change in the handling of discip
line of the corps will be that the Corps Commander or
the Executive officer of the corps, the company com
mander, the battalion commander, and the regimental
commander will be called in during the discipline of flag-
rant violations.
Senior court events will be recorded and distributed
in the form of a special order after each session. The pur
pose of this, Carlson commented, is to keep the corps
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1951
DOGGING HIS FOOTSTEPS
RHIP and RHIR
“OANK HATH its privileges” used to be the only song
the cadet officers knew how to sing. But starting today
a new verse has been added—“Rank hath its responsibilities.
The corps has asked for and received permission to take
over control of the discipline and regulation of its own mem
bers. This is in accord with the Articles of the Cadet Corps
and the Basic Policy.
Officials of the college said this provision has been in
the articles since their beginning, but this is the first class
that has asked to take over their full duties.
Now, all of this is well and good, but there is a hitch.
What are the cadet officers going to do about handling other
cadet officers and seniors ? This is where the real test comes
in.
If these men can perform their duty as it is outlined
in the regulations of the college and not show partiality—its
good. If these men can not do this the whole thing should be
called off as a bad deal.
In the outset, the men should realize this is going against
what has been called the Aggie Way of Life. This will mean
turning in a “Buddy” if he is breaking a regulation.
It all boils down to a choice of one of two things. Are
the officers going to choose honor or friendship ? We feel of
the two, Honor is the more important.
Postman Won’t Ring
ANCE again the cry has gone up to erect mail boxes and
^ house numbers. It must get awfully discouraging for city
officials to continually urge this measure without receiving
a collective response.
The steps are simple; yet, it requires a little time, a
little effort, and a great deal of prodding. All that is neces
sary is to dial 4-7004, City Hall phone number and ask for
the proper numbers which are to be placed on the front of
your house. House numbers can be obtained at any hardware
store.
After that step is completed, make or buy a mail box.
They are available for a nominal sum. Place the mail
box on the gate, if your house has a fence, or place it on
the front of the house. In fact, place it anywhere the post
man can conveniently reach it.
Your neighbors are waiting for you to do your job be
fore they can receive their mail. The Kiwanis Club will con
duct a survey in a few days. Help make the report favorable
so the postmaster can inform the Post Office Department
the community is ready for the service to begin.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
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Son Remember
From Governorship, Coke
Was Elected to U.S. Senate
APME Urges Break
With Czech Gov’t
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San Francisco, Sept. 26—(A*)—A
special investigating committee of
the Associated Press Managing
Editors Association today urged a
full break in diplomatic relations
with Communist Czechoslovakia if
all other means fail to win release
of imprisoned AP correspondent
William N. Oatis.
The committee’s report was pre-
pared for 250 top-flight American
editors meeting in their four-day
annual appraisal of domestic and
foreign news problems.
APME President L. R. Blanch
ard, managing editor, of the Roch
ester, N. Y., Democrat and Chron
icle, pointed up the importance of
the Oatis case, because of its bear
ing on the free gathering of news,
to editors throughout the nation.
He was scheduled to open the first
session at 9:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m.
EST).
Blanchard told interviewers “I
think we should get tough with the
Czechs.”
Oatis Committee Report
The Oatis Committee report went
farther.
Signed by J. R. Wiggins, Wash
ington Post; George Cornish of the
New York Herald Tribune who was
unable to attend, and John Stem-
pel of the University of Indiana
Daily Student, it said:
“If those who retain William
Oatis in prison continue in their
disregard of every plea of humani
ty, in their indifference to every
consideration of justice and in their
defiance of every demand for the
protection of the citizen of a
friendly power, the most serious
measures must be contemplated.
“If all else fails, we must ask
ourselves and our government if
it is wise to maintain international
relations with a power that is un
able or unwilling to fulfill its obli
gations.”
Imprisoned Since July
The report pointed out that Oa
tis, the AP correspondent at
Prague, has been imprisoned by
Czechoslovakia since July 10 “on
the outrageous charge that the rou
tine reporting of events in that
iron curtain country constituted es
pionage.”
It added that not since the days
of the Barbary Pirates “have civ
ilized nations had to cope with
crimes of abduction and false im
prisonment against an individual
as irresponsible and lawless as this
offense.”
The committee reported it was
convinced the State Department
was “profoundly disturbed” by the
incident, and that the U. S. govern
ment was determined to do “every
thing that is consistent with the
national interest.”
Referring to a press conference
Czech Ambassador Vladimar Pro-
zazka held yesterday in Washing
ton, the report, read by Wiggins,
found good news only in the evi
dence that the Czech government
was becoming aware of national
indignation in the U. S. created by
the case.
The editors however were not in
clined to link the Oatis case with
current proposals to expel corres
pondents of TASS, the Soviet
News Agency, from the press gal
leries of Congress.
“If Not Newsmen . .
President Blanchard in his open
ing remarks said “if the TASS
men are not newspapermen they
should have been kicked out. If
they are newsmen I think they
should keep their cards. They’ll
never learn much at a press con
ference anyway.”
The Oatis committee report said
it would be “unfortunate” if the
U. S. used a retaliatory principle
against legitimate newspapermen.
It said that newspaper people
should be the last to suggest that
punishment, imprisonment or ex
pulsion of reporters is a redress
for wrongs that another govern
ment commits against the U. S.
(Editor’s Note—Governor Coke
took over in a time when the state
was just recovering from the ef
fects of the Civil War. He was
elected, and then the retiring gov
ernor decided to try and stay in of
fice. Coke had a hard time get
ting in office, and for the first
days of his office he had a rough
er time staying in office. This is
the fifth part of a six part story
on the original booster of Texas
A&M College — Governor Richard
Coke.)
The remainder of Coke’s first
term in office was comparatively
peaceful and was filled with ac
complishment. The Constitution
was rewritten in 1875 and adopted
in 1876, an instrument of suffi
cient value and durability to serve
Texas until this day.
Carpetbaggers and scalawags
were cleaned out of office in every
county, public respect for official
integrity was restored along with
law and order and the public debt
was appreciably lowered.
When the State Democratic Con
vention was held in the old Tre-
mont Opera House in Galveston,
in January of 1876, Coke and his
mammoth lieutenant governor,
along with practically all other
high state officials, were renomi
nated by acclamation.
They were re-elected with little
opposition, and were installed in
office on the third Tuesday in
April. In May of that same year
Coke was elected to the United
States Senate, but continued to
serve as Governor until the follow
ing January.
Senator 18 Years
He was seated in the national
Congress on March 4, 1877, and
served there 18 years, practically
without opposition. He retired
voluntarily on March 4, 1895, and
returned to his home in Waco.
During his service in the Senate,
Coke was a highly regarded and
most effective member of that
body. As a member of the com
mittee on commerce he secured
large appropriations for the im
provements of rivers and harbors
in Texas and on the judiciary com
mittee his legal attainments made
him a power. Nor did he by any
means give up his interest or ac
tive participation in Texas affairs.
Throughout his career, nothing
could swerve Richard Coke from
the path of what he considered
right. Even when his old friend
George Clark, the man who had
first persuaded him to run for gov
ernor, and who through the years
had successfully managed his cam-
gaigns, decided to run for office
against James Stephen Hogg, Coke
would not allow these old ties to
hold him from the course of his
convictions.
The fight between Clark and
Hogg for the governorship of Tex
as in 1892 was one of the bitterest
political campaigns Texas ever
saw.
Rail Commission
The principal issue was the new
Texas Railroad Commission, which
Hogg had created to regulate the
railroads. Many people, including
Clark, feared such a regulatory
body would cause the railroads to
fight shy of new ventures in Tex
as and slow up the state’s indus
trial expansion. A federal court
ruled on the matter, granting an
injunction against the operation of
the Texas Railroad Commission.
Had he been a different sort,
Senator Coke could easily have
avoided this issue and allowed the
candidates for governor, both of
whom he liked personally, to fight
it out. Instead he came back to
Texas and stumped the State for
Hogg.
From a score of platforms he
waved his heavy cane and shouted
that “a whole cowpen full of Fed
eral judges cannot keep Texas from
regulating the railroads within her
sovereign borders.”
Center of Storm
Nothing came easy for Richard
Coke. Throughout his public life;
he was often the center of a rag-'
ing storm. He did things “the hard
way”, choosing deliberately the
course w'hich he believed to be
right, apparently without thought
or care for the consequences. He
bull-dozed his way through, this
powerhouse of a man, and came
out on top a remarkable percen
tage of the time, his head “bloody,
but unbowed”.
Even his funeral, at Waco on
May 17, 1897, closed amidst a ter
rific storm. Dr. Rufus C. Burleson
was pronouncing the benediction
and the vault was being closed
when a bolt of lightning from a
sinister cloud overhead struck a
tree within thirty feet of the grave.
There was a deafening detonation
and a blinding flash, but not a
person of the hundreds who had
gathered to pay final tribute to
Richard Coke stirred.
Many were shocked and the huge
former Governor Hubbard was
knocked to his knees. Several
women fainted, horses reared and
plunged and two teams ran away,
only to be stopped when their
carnages mired down. All of the
people stood calm in a blinding
rain until the services were ended.
“Governor-Senator Coke,” writes
one who knew him well, “was a
remarkable man in any aspect that
he might be viewed. He was of
gigantic stature, massive head,
heavy brow and beard. A His Voice
was deep and cavernous; slightly
husky, but very pleasant 1 ' inj it)
soft southern ' accent, Generally
he spoke with deliberation and sup.
pressed emphasis, but when arous
ed to earnestness or anger*' hi!
tones were like the roar of . a Jbull
Intellectually, he was pro^durjd, a
little ponderous in his pfocesse^
slow to form conclusions.” j $
Above the tomb of Richard Coki
in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, rise)
a twenty-foot shaft, topped by i
life-size figure of the former gov
ernor. On the shaft you will find
this inscription:
RICHARD COKE
Characterized by a Splendid
Manhood
The Brave Soldier
The Able and Impartial Judge
The Enlightened and Patriotic
Governor
The Distinguished Senator
In Congress for Eighteen Years
Born March 18, 1829
Died May 14, 1897
(The sixth and last portion of
the Governor Coke story will be
published tomorrow.)
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Notes From
Grad School
A graduate student should out
line his work on the accomplish
ment of the terms of his admis
sion to the Graduate School, thus-
ly:
• Whatever prerequisite or de
ficiency courses are required they
should be put on the schedule of
classes the first time they are of
fered. This is in hopes that the stu
dent’s background will be streng
thened for work which will come
later.
© All grades in the graduate
program must he A’s, B’s, and
C’s and must average at least a
B or else a graduate degree can
not be granted. And, while register
ed in the Graduate School, the stu
dents grade point ratio must al
ways be at least 2.0,
© Students should note that C’s
and D’s on record for prerequis
ite work is not likely to make gnod
impressions with future employers.
The importance of prerequisite
courses should not be taken lightly
by either the graduate student or
his instructor, and be fully aware
of the situation and should help
in seeing that the student does not
get in trouble academically by
failing to prepare himself ade
quately for his later academic
work.
NIGHT SCHOOL OPENS
Monday, October First
INTENSIVE training will be given in Gregg
simplified shorthand, typing, bookkeeping, and
College arithmetic.
Registration accepted now.
McKenzie-Baldwin Business College
702 South Washington Avenue
Bryan, Texas
Dial 3-6655
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