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by Jim Earle
Guest Editorial
Student Senates
Seek Responsibility
(ACP) — Gone are the days of torchlight parades
for campus politicians, massive marches on the Capitol
and rigged cheerleader elections. Election turnout is the
same as ever — appallingly small, but in the old days at
least a portion of the student body seemed to care about
the University’s brand of personal politics.
Student government has gone “responsible.” Candi
dates and electorate no longer care about the froth that
once consumed so much sound and fury. This trend
toward seriousness could be for the better, but unfortun
ately the Student Assembly and Students’ Association are
still geared to the days when somebody really cared about
getting his best friend appointed to the sweetheart nominee
appeals board sub-committee.
Today’s students are asking for a role in the govern
ing of the University. They are willing to sit through
hours of droning Regents meetings, plow through acres of
administrative red tape, delve into important but un
spectacular aspects of University policy. Student leaders
have approached the Board of Regents, asking for seats
on some of the policy-making committees, and the Regents
have shown a willingness to consider their requests.
This plea for a voice in University affairs is a plea
for the very life of student government. For if students
cannot have a significant voice within the University they
will attempt to influence it from the outside through such
methods as demonstration and unionization.
If student government is not granted a greater degree
of power, fewer and fewer outstanding University students
will be attracted to it. Even now, independent groups at
tract many potential leaders by confronting significant
issues such as integration, American foreign policy and
academic ills which student government most often ignores.
There has been a change in attitude among thought
ful elements of the student body. But if student govern
ment does not herald — or at least reflect — this change
it will alienate itself even more from potential leaders and
lose its opportunity to articulate and help solve the Uni
versity’s problems.
—Daily Texan
P
urely
ersonal
By Dani Presswood
“ . . . After every quiz I have a conference and explain why
I did poorly, I laugh at his jokes, I give him original excuses
when I’m absent, I even borrow a textbook to carry to class!
I’m at my rope’s end - what else can I do to make th’ grade
in that course?”
Noon Rush Unnecessary
One of the many problems be
setting this ever-expanding in
stitution is a lack of space during
the noon hour, both in local eat
ing establishments and on the
streets.
During the 60 minutes between
noon and 1 p.m., all 9,300 stu
dents of A&M are dismissed
from classes, as are professors
and secretaries, and the vast ma-
pority of auxiliary offices, both
on and off campus, are closed.
The result is several thousand
people trying to occupy crowded
campus streets, the traffic cir
cle and crammed cafes at the
same time. While no one has
starved yet, the situation is get
ting worse and should be reme
died.
One possible solution is the
initiation of noon classes. The
prime source of friction here is
the Corp’s noon formation. If
Cadets could be assured of free
noon hours so they could march
and eat together, this would go
a long way toward allevating the
problem.
Also, some personnel could take
lunch hours at different times,
keeping their offices open dur
ing the lunch period. This would
perform a dual service of taking
pressure off overcrowded pub
lic facilities and better accomo
date the students. Many days
some students have only their
lunch hour during which to con
duct personal business, but closed
business offices prevent it.
The guy at the desk was telling
me about the day he hanged him
self.
Hanged himself?
“That’s right,” Larry Sweat
said. “I was about five years old
at the time.
“I remember I was out playing
cowboys and Indians all by my
self one day and it came time to
hang the bad guy. So, not being
one to let anything stand in my
way, I tied a rope to the clothes
line, put it around my neck and
jumped off the picnic table.”
Well, that’s nice, Larry. Uh,
by the way, what are you doing
here now ?
“My little 3-year-old brother
happened to be crawling around
at the time and he mentioned to
my Mother that I was hanging
on the clothesline,” Sweat added.
A sophomore physics major,
Sweat is a graduate of Grand
Prairie High School.
One of his most shocking ex
periences, he claims, was the day
President Kennedy was assas
sinated.
“It happened on Homecoming
Day my senior year,” he recalls.
“It put a real dampener on the
festivities. But we beat Wichita
Falls for the first time in about
15 years.”
Sweat, a firm backer of coedu
cation and student freedom, has
undefinite plans for the future.
“I may work along the lines
of research in nuclear physics,”
he remarked. “However, I’ve
been giving thought to joining
the Peace Corps after graduation.
“I definitely plan to get
and
master’s degree, though,
would like to get my Ph.D.”
And he may do it someday if
he’ll just hang on.
Graphics Contest
Scheduled April 23
The annual Engineering
phics Competition at Texas A&J!
will be held April 23.
Students enrolled in Depart-
ment of Engineering Graph®
undergraduate courses may enter
said Samuel M. Cleland, contest
chairman.
Competition will be held at 1
p.m. April 23 in Room 301 of th
Engineering Building.
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