Battalion Editorials
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1954
Too Many Committees
Restrict Individualism
Independent thought is being sacrificed
on college campuses through too much
organization. This opinion is expressed by-
Max S. Marshall of the University of Cali
fornia Medical Center in the January issue
of School and Society.
Although Marshall realizes the necessity
for a certain amount of organizations he
believes that the country has overdone it. He
explains that organizations tend to snuff out
independent thought and individualism.
‘Tn every one (organization) there is the
menace not only to society but to the person
and through him to the future of society,
sacrifice of independence of mind and
thought,” Marshall warns.
The author points out that students are
following this example and they are learning
it in their campus activities. “In defense and
in imitation of what they see around them
students are even now organizing along
political lines with over-organization and
dubious needs and motives when they could
be learning the restrictions of organization
and the propriety of the independent mind,”
Marshall says. He lists the college committee
as one of the danger points.
If there is any basis to Marshall’s warn
ings—and we believe there is—A&M should
certainly blush with shame. If this college
has an excess of anything it is certainly com
mittees. To count the number of these cam
pus groups now in existence here would pro
bably require hiring a full staff of account
ants with several well oiled adding machines.
Whether an A&M student organization is
large or small, each meeting may expect the
formation of a new committee to handle
some question no matter how trivial. The
Student Life committee accented this ope
rational merry-go-found recently when a sub
committee was formed within a sub-com
mittee.
But the Student Life committee is only
one in many with a knack for organizing at
the drop of motion. The talent seems to be
inherent here from home town clubs to
oerps staff.
Situations have arisen too many times
this year which could have been solved by
the president of the organization or one of its
members. Instead a new committee was
formed to “study” the matter.
This is a sorry situation for a school which
brags about graduating officers and leaders.
What chance does a student have to learn to
think for himself and make decisions if pro
blems are continually shoved to committees
for a solution ? Officers of important campus
groups become only figureheads.
Marshall also says that some people
from organizations to further their own sel
fish purposes. “A vigorous organizer will
band together persons with strong bonds of
sympathy and turn them to a purpose they
did not have in mind at all.”
Referring to such persons in American
colleges Marshall says, “a seemingly
endless chain of leaders is forever proposing
reclassifications of knowledge to suit some
fancy of theirs, apparently creating some
thing from nothing but actually creating
something at the expense of basic subjects
from which parts are drawn.”
Whether to preserve their own in
dividualism or insure against becoming the
dupes for someones ambitionj .members of
A&M campus groups should start organizing
their own minds for independent action—and
let the committees take a long overdue rest.
Draft Laws—9
Regulations Guard
Rights of Appeal
(Editor’s note: This is the
ninth of a series of 10 articles
on the draft laws and how they
affect persons of draft age.)
The rights of men registered
with a draft board are guarded by
appeal regulations. Appeals from
local board decisions are heard by
four state appeal boards.
Both the national and state di
rectors of Selective Service may
appeal from the determination of a
local board at any time.
A man registered with a board,
any person who claims to bp his
dependent, his employer under cer
tain circumstances, and others may
appeal to the appeal board from
any classification except a deter
mination of physical or mental con
dition.
The registered man and others
named in the above paragraph, in
most cases, are allowed only 10.
days from date a notice of classi
fication is mailed to file the ap
peal. Regulations allow a longer
period, from 30 to 00 days, when
the man is in certain U. S. terri
tories, foreign countries, or on the
high seas.
The local board may allow ap
peals beyond these time limits if
it is satisfied that the failure of
the person to appeal within the
period was due to lack of under
standing or to some cause beyond
control of the person.
The person who desires to appeal
must file written notice with the
board. The notice need not be in
any particular form but must state
the registrant’s name, and identity
of person appealing. If a regis
trant is registered with a Texas
board and is working or living in
California, for example, he may
appeal to a California appeal board
if he wishes.
If the registrant is placed in a
class available for military service
(1-A) by the appeal board, and
there is a dissenting vote, he may
appeal to the President of the
United States.
Phi Eta Sigma
Offers Scholarship
Phi Eta Sigma, freshman honor
society, is offering two $300 schol
arships to senior members who
plan to do graduate work.
The scholarships arc based on
grades, creative ability, financial
need, promise of success, and per
sonality.
Interested seniors can get further
information from J. L. Shaw, fac
ulty advisor, room 114 Bagley hall.
Seniors to Discuss
Ring Dance Plans
Plans for the senior banquet and
ring dance will be discussed at the
senior class meeting at 7:30 p. m.
Monday in the MSC ballroom.
Other items on the agenda are
the class gift and cotton ball
dutchess.
Class president Pat Wood said
all seniors should be present at
this important meeting.
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years before in the same city. An
accompanying letter from the post
office said it was stuck in a crevice
of a machine which had been re
tired to the basement for some
years. It was mailed December 18,
1934.
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Job Calls
• The Lutcher and Moore Lumber
company in Orange, Texas, is in
need of an office engineer. The
work will consist of the mapping,
drafting, planning and office work
of a technical nature necessary in
the management of their lands.
They prefer to hire someone train
ed in the field of agricultural engi
neering, but will consider a civil
engineering major.
• The Baldwin - Hill company,
manufacturers of industrial and
home insulation, is in need of a
sales engineer in the Dallas and
Houston areas. They prefer some
one between the ages of 28 and 45,
who is trained in either mechani
cal or industrial engineering, in
dustrial education or architecture.
There is about 60 per cent travel
involved during the week. Company
car furnished and expenses paid
while traveling.
• Hardware Mutuals Insurance
company is seeking men trained in
business administration, agricul
tural economics or economics for
employment in their southwestern
district. One position is as an
underwriter in their Dallas Office,
and they also want to add three
men to their claims staff as claims
investigators. One or two of the
men employed as claims investi
gators would be working out of
their Houston office. Claims men
must be able to provide their own
automobiles, but they are reim
bursed for all expenses connected
with their work. No previous busi
ness experience required.
• There is an opening in the stores
control department of The J. B.
Beaird Company, Inc. of Shreve
port, for a trainee as a truck dis
patcher. They own and lease about
twenty-five trucks at the present
time and this job will be primarily
concerned with the trucks and their
operati’en. Applicants must be able
to type and should be familiar with
the procedure for computing mile
ages on highway maps. Business
administration, agricultural econo
mics and industrial education ma
jors may qualify.
® Spaw - Glass Incorporated in
Houston is in need of a civil or in
dustrial engineer who is interested
in the construction business. Suc
cessful -applicant would first be
placed on one of their jobs where
he could learn the business from
the bottom up.
Planning Begins
For Military Day
With the formation of student
and military personnel committees,
tentative planning for the annual
Military day ceremonies has begtln.
Military day will be March 6,
with a corps review that afternoon
and the Military Ball that night.
The combat ball and the world pre
mier of the A&M film “We Are
the Aggies” will be the night of
March 5.
Invited for the weekend will be
nationally famous military men and
representatives of college and high
school ROTC units. The guest
list has not been definitely deter
mined.
Also invited will be members of
A&M’s Academic council and Ex
ecutive committee and their wives.
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Moret han 2,000 teachers, farm
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agricultural education department.
The program, under the direction
of R. N. Craig, farm shop special
ist, consists of demonstrations of
techniques in skills, safety and
methods of teaching a farm shop
program.
The program has been in opera
tion since July 1.
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