THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, October 27, 1967
Shafer Explains
Campus
By MIKE WRIGHT
Battalion Staff Writer
Campus revolts are really cam
pus revolutions, Dr. Carl Shafer,
A&M sociology professor, told the
Apollo Club Tuesday.
“In a revolt, people are elimi
nating a factor completely,” Dr.
Shafer explained
“In a revolution, people are re
placing something that is really
outdated with something that is
contemporary.”
Dr. Shafer said the students
are reaching for a participating
role in education. They want to
have a say in how their classes
are run and in the way a profes
sor delivers the material for the
course.
“An increased work load on the
students due to the emphasis put
on the Russian launching of Sput
nik I also put more pressure on
the students to do good,” he
added.
RISING entrance requirements
also have added to the fire of
student revolution. Dr. Shafer
said the fact that students give
up certain rights to be able to
come to college, such as parking
where they wish, length of their
hair, and irregular hours also
contributes to the list of gripes
that usually start somebody to
reform.
“The de-personalization of the
student from a warm body to an
impartial IBM number also has
agitated many students to the
point where they question the
idea of taking some courses,” he
noted. “Students question
Revolts
whether or not a particular
course will aid them in the fu
ture, which brings up the idea of
specialization.”
In the 1950’s, he explained, all
that was needed was a B.A. de
gree in a person’s field. But in
today’s world, a graduate degree
is often needed to obtain a well
paying job.
“NON-COLLEGIATE activities
such as trips overseas have
raised the intellectual status of
students and stimulated their
minds so that when they return
to the campus, they find it hard
to settle down into the hum-
drum activity of college life,” he
went on.
Dr. Shafer said in order to get
the needed recognition of their
reform and some added spirit,
undergraduate students often try
to interest the graduate students
in taking up their cause. This
gives the undergraduates a rise
in spirit and places more respon
sibilities on them for their re
form.
“The question of what a par
ticular person is doing often
prompts a student to want a
closer fellowship with his profes
sor,” Dr. Shafer said. “This is
often impossible because a prof is
busy with publications to advance
in his field. This leaves no time
to socialize with his students.”
In conclusion, Shafer said he
hopes students are just beginning
to start their education in college
and not finishing it.
Carlos Montoya To Present
‘Flamenco From The Heart’
Flamenco Guitarist Carlos Mon
toya, who calls himself “Gypsy
on all four sides,” will perform
Monday at the Bryan Civic Audi
torium.
The 8 p.m. presentation is host
ed by the Bryan Rotary Commu
nity Series in cooperation with
Texas A&M’s Town Hall Series.
MONTOYA is the author of
“Suite Flamenca,” a suite for
guitar and orchestra. He realized
a 25-year ambition last year when
the suite was given its world
premiere by the St. Louis Sym
phony Orchestra.
Performances by Montoya have
drawn plaudits from critics
throughout the world. The New
York Herald Tribune called him
“A master performer. A unique
exciting star.” The London New
Daily cited him for “Rousing his
audience to thunderous applause.”
And the Los Angeles Examiner
review read “A procession of as
tonishments. Genuine musical
beauty.. .”
Editor,
The Battalion:
I am writing in reference to
Mr. Owens letter concerning the
telephone service here. Except
for the part dealing with charges
and time in connection with his
work, I have the same problems.
I have waited for countless
minutes for the operator to come
on the line. This especially is
upsetting since it was the alert
operator in Ohio who got fire
men to our home in time to save
my two children’s and my life.
If I had had to wait we would
not be here now.
I have been misbilled. My
parents had to contact me by
wire because my lines was report
ed disconnected several times. My
in-laws finally reached a neighbor
to have me call because there
wasn’t a record of my having a
phone. My husband tried for seve
ral hours only to get a busy sign
al (the operator calling). The line
was not in use.
After the difficulty I called in
formation every day for six days;
one day-I wasn’t listed; two days-
my name was mispelled so badly
I would not have known it, each
day differently; one-day my name
corrected but the address wrong;
finally, two days—my name, add
ress, and number all correct.
Rex Bailey’s excellent service
is in neeed of help. I expect much
Bulletin Board
TODAY
Society of Iranian Students
will meet in the YMCA at 6 p.m.
A&M Women’s Social Club will
meet in the Ballroom of the MSC
at 3 p.m.
Arab Student Club will meet
in room 202 of the YMCA at 7
p.m. Sunday’s picnic in Hensel
Park will be discussed.
MONDAY
The Memorial Student Center
Bridge Committee will conduct
classes in the Birch Room of the
MSC at 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY
The American Marketing Socie
ty will hear a talk by Jim Het-
herley from McCann-Erickson in
Rooms 2C-D of the MSC at 7:30
p.m.
Election Commission will meet
in room 3-D of the MSC at 7:30
p.m. to plan the freshman class
elections.
WEDNESDAY
The Table Tennis Club will have
open house and a tournament at
6:30 p.m. in the basement of the
Memorial Student Center.
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Sound Off
from the company that has so
much to do with my personal life.
I wasn’t only for my family to
be able to reach me and when
I dial 0 let the operator answer.
It could be mine or anyone of
your many users’ cry for help. If
I had had to wait 22 minutes for
an operator once it would have
been too late.
Mrs. Charlotte Jensen
Bryan
Editor,
The Battalion:
In reference to Mr. Owen’s
letter criticizing the local tele
phone service, we would like to
express our displeasure also. Hav
ing lived in several areas of the
country, we find the local service
the most incompentent we have
yet to experience or ever hope to.
We have experienced difficulty
and postponement in having the
phone installed, waiting for an
unreasonable length of time for
the operator to answer, rudeness
from the operators, incorrect bill
ing, and complaints from friends
that when trying to obtain our
number, they have found it very
difficult due to receiving the
wrong number and general in
efficiency.
As to the local managers’ de
fense of the local system in his
citation of plans to incorporate
Direct Distance Dialing, other
areas if the country have had
this convenience for several years
and it’s about time the South
western States Telephone Com
pany enters the 1960’s before the
decade is over.
Bill and Carol Hughes
Y-2-L Hensel Apts.
College Station
old tradition of Yell Practice has
through the years been the Twelf
th Man’s way of expressing his
loyalty toward the team’s effort;
however, they were not meant to
debase the very things that our
school has stood for for 91 years.
At A&M we have hallowed sev
eral areas of our campus and de
dicated them to the men who have
made our school the stalwart that
it is by making the supreme sacri
fice for our country. One such
area is Spence Park.
For those civilian students who
are carrying our traditons deep
in their respective comer of the
campus, they might possibly show
a deeper love of school and
Spence Park by observing these
rather than mobbing towards the
Corps dormitories.
the judgement of our Battalion’s
editor an aggressor.
It seems that the editor is
brainwashed by the soft and in
nocent words of the Israelis that
all they want is peace and se
curity. In fact, they want peace
by the submission of the Arab
refugees and security for what
they have stolen from the Arab
land.
I only hope that our Battalion
does not take sides in internation
al crises, and do hope that our
Battalion's editor be politically
more qualified and more familiar
with what he is talking about.
Mohamed Abu-Elgheit
Dept, of Chemistry
Their leaders, if any exist,
should either pass out campus-
ology books to their followers or
contain the spirit until authorized
Yell Practices when the entire
Twelfth Man may participate.
K. C. Williams ‘68
Editor,
The Battalion:
Your editorial, “Egyptian At
tack Threatens Peace,” is aston
ishing. It lacks sense and came in
a poor taste. Have you forgotten
that the U.S.S. Liberty was hit
by Israeli missiles once it ap
proached the Israeli territorial
waters and this incident took 34
American lives besides 75 wound
ed? Have you forgotten the
Israeli shelling of three cities
along the Suez Canel that result
ed in one hundred civilians killed ?
I am afraid your knowledge, if
any, about the Middle East pro
blem is very distorted.
Editor,
The Battalion:
Your editorial “Egyptian At
tack Threaten Peace” is false and
regrettable. It appears that you
lack knowledge about the Middle
East. In addition, it is my under
standing that the Battalion ed-
itoral is not supposed to take
sides on International issues.
M. T. Al-Layla
Editor,
The Battalion:
I am writing this letter in re
ference to the civilian “Yell Prac
tice” on Wednesday night in the
Corps dormitory area. The fine
For your own information, that
aggressive Egypt that threatens
peace, as you accused her, was
invaded twice by Israel in Oct.
1956 and last June. So, a country
being attacked is considered, by
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