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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 , Tuesday, May 21, 1957
Editorials
Compu Isory?
Corps leaders have shown their fear for the Corps
future and are ^working desperately to preserve the body
which they themselves can see slowly sinking - .
They are seeking an answer to the Corps' problem by
urging that the Board of Directors restore the compulsory
system to build up the Corps to its needed stature.
Is compulsory Corps the answer to the multiple prob
lems of the organization?
Under the present state of non-compulsory Corps the
body is stronger because those who do not prefer military
life may resign and become Civilians without having to
leave A&M. As a whole the cadets are men who actually
believe in the Corps and want the training it gives.
Under a compulsory system the Corps would be over
flowing with men who don’t have their hearts in the or
ganization but are not dissatisfied enough to leave A&M
and go home to face derision from their hometown friends
The Corps would have quantity, yes, but what of quality?
Continuing under the non-compulsory system, the
Corps could make itself truly unique, having as its mem
bers men who truly believe in the organization and work
for its betterment.
Civilian students could be an active group on the cam
pus, too, when organized, and could point with pride to the
select group which comprises the A&M Corps of Cadets
as all Aggies point with pride at the Fighting Texas Aggie
Band.
The Corps doesn’t need to take a step backward and
pick up the thing which our much respected past President
David H. Morgan saw fit to abolish. They need to quit
worrying about something they haven’t got and which did
n’t work before and start working for some of the things
which President Morgan wanted for the Corps of Cadets
With compulsory Corps there would be a monopoly
but would it result in betterment of the group or merely
domination by them ? The threat of extinction should raise
them to action- to improve their organization under the
present system, but instead they seek domination with the
compulsory system in order to survive. JT
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Guest Editorial
Lunsford Says
• •
(Editor’s note: The space below has been given to
Cadet Colonel of the Corps Jack Lunsford so he may
express his views.)
Slightly less than three years ago the Corps of Ca
dets at A&M was made an elective organization. There
were some good reasons for the action. It could give the
Corps a higher quality of men; it would make the Corps
an elite group on the campus and it would take the pres
sure off the Corps from those who felt the failure of A&M
to grow could be attributed to the compulsory military.
Theory and actuality, however, do not always go hand
in hand.
Even though certain good has come from this pro
gram (it has made the Corps evaluate itself) the overall
and outstanding effects are detrimental to the Corps, to
the Civilian students and to the school as a whole.
I feel the Corps should be compulsory for the first two
years of undergraduate work for several reasons, but none
are valid unless we can agree on one fact—that the Corps
contributes to A&M in the following ways:
(1) By developing its members into better men, and
(2) by giving A&M a distinctive mark throughout the na
tion by having A&M something more than just another
college.
Agreement on this fact will allow us to objectively
evaluate reasons for having compulsory Corps.
The most obvious reason is that there is a great need
for the type of leadership training which the Corps offers.
Not just the military training, though that is important,
but especially training in the ability to understand the prob
lems of groups of individuals, mutual loyalty to leader and
follower, self - discipline, the ability to think fast while
evaluating both sides, the ability to meet people and the
ability to think as an individual under group pressure.
These are just a few of the qualities a man must have
to adjust to our national society. The Corps then makes a
man a better citizen and because it does, membership
should be compulsory for much the same reason history and
government are compulsory.
The second reason is that compulsory Corps will re
move the basic cause of the Corps-Civilian tension. It is
impossible for cadets to feel other than that the “illegitimate
non-reg” (those who are physically qualified, undergrad
uate, non-veterans) are merely parasites on the wealth of
tradition and high standards which the Corps has estab
lished since Aggieland’s beginning. With this feeling
there can never be student body unity. We must keep
A&M “one fraternity, one brotherhood.”
The third reason, more complex, is that the Corps lives
on its members’ believing in it—“Esprit de Corps”. If its
members are,to believe that they are working for a worth
while cause, they must, over a period of time, see the re
sults of their work. But, generally, these results can best
be seen as a reflection from those about us who are ob
serving our development and our product. Now if the
loudest of the Civilian students because of their “eye for
an eye and tooth for a tooth” philosophy continue to an
tagonize the Corps (ex. sitting on top of Bizzell Hall mak
ing* “comical” remarks during reviews), if a segment of
the faculty ( fails to recognize the value of the Corps’ train
ing, if the exes throughout the state continue their “laissez
faire” attitude and if The Battalion continues to be “over
objective” in its articles, then the Esprit de Corps will
suffer.
Compulsory Corps, on the other hand, will be a step
in the right direction, showing the Corps that it still does
and always will have its role of supreme dominance in stu
dent life at this college, not because of its past record, but
because, through its present program, the Corps can con
tribute more to A&M than any other conceivable system
of student organization. Jack Lunsford ’57
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