Battalion Editorials
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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1955
Class Elections Reset
Nothing Much Done
The Student Senate last night gave itself
a terrific setback on its path toward becom
ing the outstanding governing body of A&M.
After more than two hours of often point
less and trivial debate, the senate failed to
present a satisfactory solution to the tangled
student election situation, and almost missted
declaring its opinion of primary elections.
The senate decided to go ahead and have
this year the class of ’56 and ’57 elections,
postponed because the army students in both
classes had primaries to determine a slate of
officers.
The senate voted to erase the present fil
ings, which have about one army student to
five air force students for each position, and
reopen filings. In other words, have a whole
new filing and elections.
This was done, senators said, because it
would be “fair,” and give some more army
students a chance to file.
This action was taken in spite of the fact
that three members of the senate, all army
juniors, told the senate that no more army
juniors would file even if the filings were
reopened.
The intimitation of the original primary
would obviously keep any more army juniors
from filing—a fact the senate tried to ig
nore, although all the members must have
been aware of it.
Because of this, the elections for these
two classes will be exactly the same as they
would have been before they were postponed
—an army slate of candidates will be run
ning against a scattering of air force candi
dates, giving the army an tremendous edge,
an edge gained by trickery.
Then the senate finally got around to
deciding whether or not they were in favor
of primaries, although this almost got lost
in a maze of motions, amendments, and,
amendments to the amendments.
The results, after some clear and frank
talking knocked some sense into the meeting,
was a recommendation to the college to out
law primaries, starting next year.
This is good; primaries should be out
lawed ; there is little doubt about this.
But the senate still placed itself in the
position of okaying an election which is
stacked because of a primary, then disapprov
ing of primaries in general.
It would have been easy to outlaw pri
maries, then postpone the two class elections
until next fall, when the participants would
have had a chance to cool off.
Instead, the senate went about it the hard
way, and unless the candidates themselves
do something about it, the class of ’56 and ’57
elections may leave scars that will take a long
time to disappear.
(Continued from Page 1)
Army juniors at the meeting,
were asked if they thought any
more army juniors would file if
the filings were reopened this year.
Three army juniors said “no,” in
cluding one who said, “No, but we
should do it anyway to be fair.”
After more discussion, including
a description of the primary held
by the army juniors, a motion was
made to erase the present filings,
open them again, and have the
election later this spring.
' Several juniors present said the
junior class wanted its officers this
spring, “so we can begin working
on our senior Ring dance.”
Now to Primaries
This motion passed, and the sen
ators turned to deciding what they
would do about primaries in gen-
Gen. Weyla n d
Top Ex To Speak Here
Gen. O. P. Weyland, who will be
Muster speaker here Thursday, is
A&M’s highest ranking former stu
dent, and one of the nation’s top
air force commanders.
But he -was a leader while he
was at A&M, too—the whole corps
followed his lead.
He was the corps bugler.
His old roommate, State High
way Engineer DeWitt Greer, re
leased this fascinating bit of in
formation the last time Weyland
visited A&M, last spring.
Weyland stopped off at A&M
then on his way to take command
of the tactical air force, a job he
still holds.
At that time, the corps put on
a review for him, and about 25 of
his classmates from the class of
’23 had a luncheon here for him.
Weyland, who goes by the name
“Opie,” was bom at Riverside,
Calif., in 1902. After he got his
BS degree from A&M, he went
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into the service immediately, and
accepted a regular commission a
couple of years later.
He has ratings as both a Com
mand Pilot and Combat Observer
now, but in those days served al
ternately as a flight and observer
instructor, and commander of Kel
ly field’s observer section.
He spent a year in the air force’s
Tactical school, then went to the
Command and General Staff school.
After a time in the National Guard
bureau, he took over as chief of
staff of the Sixth air force in the
Caribbean area.
In 1942, after the start of World
War II, he became director of air
support, then chief of allocations
and programs, both Washington
headquarters jobs.
Then he went overseas for his
first combat job, as commander of
the 84th fighter wing. In 1944
he became conunander of the XIX
tactical air command, the combat
unit that gave air support to Gen.
George Patton’s dash across France
in the spring of 1945.
After the war, Weyland served
in several staff positions and as
assistant commandant of two serv
ice schools.
In 1950 he was named comman
der of the tactical air command,
but he held this post only a week—
the North Koreans invaded South
Korea, and Weyland went to the
Far East as vice-commander of the
Far Eastem air force.
In 1951 he was made commander,
where he served for the rest of the
Korean conflict.
His American decorations are the
Distinguished Service Medal, the
Silver Star, the Distinguished Fly
ing Cross, the Legion of Merit, the
Bronze Star, and the Air Medal.
He is married to the former
Miss Kathryn McFarland of San
Antonio, and they have a 21-year-
old daughter, Mary Kathryn.
No, we don’t know if the daugh
ter is coming with him.
Social Whirl
Friday
The Foods group of the A&M
Social club will have the monthly
luncheon today at 1:15 p.m. in the
A&M Presbyterian church.
Saturday
The Electrical Engineering Wiv
es club will have a picnic at 4:30
p.m. in the country club park.
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eral, a question that had been in
and out of the night’s debate.
A simple motion to outlaw pri
maries gathered an amendment to
form a committee to study punish
ment, and an amendment giving
the election commission the power
to say whether or not a primary
had been held.
Senate President Jerry Ramsey
left the chairmanship in a dramatic
gesture to tell the senators that
they were trying the “pass the
buck” and that the senate should
definitely state its opinion of pri
maries.
Both amendments and the mo
tion were withdrawn, and a motion
was made that any election not
conducted by the election commis
sion was invalid and any student
participating in such an election
would be inelligible for student-
elected posts for a year.
In other action, the senate voted
to bring to A&M several North
Texas State college entertainers,
including Dick Penner and Wade
Moore, the “Uby-Duby” singers of
the Intercollegiate Talent show, to
put on a show to raise money for
the Twelfth Man scholarship.
The meeting adjourned.
Snake Hunters
Several members of the wildlife
management 315 class are leaving
for Anahauc this afternoon, arm
ed with snake sticks, herp bags,
mosquito repellent, and a determ
ination to catch enough snakes to
fill their 100 specimen collection
quota. No mention was made of
snake bite medicine.
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