THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, December 11, 1968
Will The Real SDS
Please Stand Up?
If readers of Tuesday's Battalion article about the
local would-be organizers of Students for a Democratic
Society were expecting fire-breathing, revolutionary rant-
ings from New Left radicals out to turn A&M into another
Columbia, they certainly didn’t get it. Some of the unrevo
lutionary points made included the following (with our
comments added):
• “Every dorm has a parking lot beside it, but you
can't park there.” (That’s true, to a certain extent, and
it has to do with a long-range perimeter-parking plan which
President Earl Rudder has, on several occasions, explained
to student leaders. Campus Security Chief Ed Powell is,
of course, equally aware of the plans and would undoubtedly
be glad to explain them to students who are willing to
quit griping long enough to ask for explanations.)
• The group wondered why women were allowed to
attend A&M but were automatically discouraged because
there are no women’s dormitories on campus. (Women are
still limited to a day-student status by a Board of Directors
policy which will be enforced, we understand, until and
unless the directors rescind it. The place to “go on record
as supporting girls’ dorms on campus” would be at a board
meeting.)
• The group suggested a monthly meeting . . . “to air
complaits . . . about university policy.” (At least two such
meetings have been held this semester, and the student
leaders who participated have pretty unanimously noted
results. As far as we know, no efforts have yet been made
to broaden participation in these talks, and therefore, it’s
difficult to speculate as to the feasibility of doing so.)
• Committees of students, faculty and administrators
should hear student suggestions on matters such as pro
fessor selection and courses offered, the group suggested.
(The Senate’s committee on Educational Procedures and
Excellence was formed to study and seek action on similar
proposals, including pass-fail systems, published professor
evaluations and others.)
• “Many times the students are irked about something
the administration doesn’t know about, but would listen to
if they knew about it.” (Spoken like a true Student Senator.
In fact, it virtually echoes Bill Carter’s sentiments in the
year’s first Senate meeting.)
• “When we want to pattern something after the
University of Texas,” leader Brian Foye complained, “most
students (at A&M) are opposed, even though it may be
good.” (Well, that’s a debatable point, at best. One thing’s
sure: meetings such as the Idea Exchange Conference
coming up this weekend are aimed at patterning some
student activities after successful methods that other
schools have found for accomplishing student goals. Some
students, at least—and they are students in good positions
to sell such ideas to the student body—are not doggedly
opposed to learning from students at the University of
Texas at Austin.)
• “It took some riots here” to get dining hall com
mittees set up, Foye asserted, and students “got results
because the administration is so wrapped up in its own
image.” (That may very well be true; but what’s the
point of bitching about that now? It may be that the
administration’s new attitude toward student participation
in forming university policies stems from a selfish concern
over “imagegranting this assumption requires, of course,
indulgence in the old, familiar, paranoid they’re-out-to-
get-us concept, and even granting it doesn’t gainsay the
progress that has been made and that appears to offer
hope of continuing.)
There remain many points on which students and
administration don’t see eye-to-eye (including the political-
speakers issue) and which don’t seem readily soluble. But
progress is being made here this year; students are becom
ing a vital force in the university; and if it must be granted
that this force has not been felt with the violent shock
with which the SDS paralyzed Columbia and San Francisco
State College, then it must be noted as well that this
student body has not shown such willingness to be led in
such revolts by the SDS and similar groups.
At any rate, the SDS platform outlined by Foye and
others would seem to indicate one of two situations: Either
the SDS planners are totally, ludicrously ignorant of what
is being done already, through constituted student repre
sentation; or they are aware of the Senate’s goals and
accomplishments, and have utterly refused to accept that
any progress is being made, and therefore they state their
objectives as if the Senate did not exist. Neither alternative,
of course, would speak very highly for their mental ca
pacities, and that renders the alternatives unlikely.
Which brings us to the third alternative. If Foye’s
group is indeed “not a typical SDS chapter,” but rather one
“concerned mainly with problems facing students at A&M;”
if Foye’s vehement disowning of such SDSers as Jeff
Daniels and Mark Rudd and of the national SDS organiza
tion are sincere; if all Foye’s goals are as constructive and
mundane and acceptable to the Establishment as those he
named—then why, in the name of legitimacy, did he or
ganize his movement under a banner that he knew was
certain to snap administrative minds? Why did he choose
thus to place his group so far outside the system that it
would have to depend for support on “an organization with
power” — the national SDS, whose leaders frankly see
America as “a monster that has to be stopped,” and who
have decided that violent confrontation is the only way
to stop it?
Foye said his group needs publicity. Tuesday’s story
was published not as publicity, but as a means of showing
Students what the SDS organizers now claim as their goals;
this editorial, along with an upcoming interpretive on their
national organization’s efforts, will hopefully provide the
grain of salt with which their statements must be taken.
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1 SENATE SHORTS
Editor,
The Battalion:
Thursday, Dec. 12, the Class of
’72 must take the final step to
wards unity. The class officers
have yet to be selected. Being
concerned with the situation
here at Texas A&M University,
we endorse these fish for the
class offices: Kirby Brown,
president; Gig Newsom, vice-
president; Joe Schriever, social
secretary.
The plans of this group show
serious thought, imaginative
solutions, and a willingness to
work together. Their first step
will be to organize a "fish coun
cil,” composed of representatives
from each Corps outfit, civilian
residence hall, and day student
organization. The council will
provide a means whereby the
fish class will work together to
achieve the goals which they
have set. Their expansion of the
Fish Ball into a complete Fish
Weekend is only one example of
the various projects which they
will undertake during the course
of the year.
Most significant of all, they
are working together as Aggies
to help improve Texas A&M Uni
versity. Rather than represent
ing their separate factions, they
are working for the entire stu
dent body. If you want a group
of leaders who are ready to work
for you now, we urge you to
support Kirby Brown, Gig New
som, and Joe Schriever.
David Maddox ’69
Senate Vice-President
Garry Mauro ’70
Yell Leader
Editor,
The Battalion:
★ ★ ★
Before you read this, you
should realize that I am Black
and you are White. When I say
I am Black, you picture one of
two types of Black men. But I
refuse to be either; and if you
read this as if I were one of
them, you will never realize who
and what I represent, and you
will leave this place just as your
fathers and grandfathers left it.
I am the New Black. I will
neither babble with you about
how much I love this school nor
entertain you with racial com
edy. I will not eat with my
fingers nor go out of my way
to sit down at a dining hall table
with you. I will not flunk out
of this place, but neither will I
participate in the childish fa
naticism of raving with you
about your math test or your
English grade. I don’t want your
love, your pity, your guilt, or
your fear. I demand only that
you respect me as I respect you.
In show of this respect, I ex
pect you not to use or exploit me.
But you have done both (display
case at MSC). By using my
pictures, are you trying to in
dicate an air of tranquility in
Black-White relations here ? If
so, you fool only visitors, be
cause you and I and other Black
students know this depiction is a
farce. And knowing your dis
play is a false manifestation of
the racial climate here, you ex
ploit me by displaying those
pictures.
Awareness of the Black chal
lenge can never be recognized
by a southern conservative uni
versity that denies Black stu
dents the right to organize. Such
is A&M.
Only through communications
can our problems be settled here.
But you seem more interested in
what outsiders think than in the
problems that have led to Black
students’ disgruntlements.
Allen E. Giles
Moore Hall, 333
5-1239
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Again members of the Fresh
man Class, Class of ’72, will
have an opportunity to choose
their class officers in the fresh
man run-off election Thursday,
Dec. 12. As before every mem
ber of the Class of ’72 should
make a special effort to vote
Thursday at the polling center
in the Memorial Student Center
basement.
I am a candidate in the run-off
for vice-president. There will
also be run-offs for president,
secretary-treasurer, and social
secretary.
On Thursday vote as Aggies
to elect Aggies.
Gerald Bratz ’72
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Editor,
The Battalion:
We, the officers of the Class
of 1972, wish to thank the fresh
man class for electing us as their
student representatives.
Senators
Don Mauro
Dwain King
Phil Morley
Bill Hartsfield
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SENATE SHORTS N ... 6 ...4rit
The Student Senate will host
its second student “Idea Ex
change Conference” this Friday
and Saturday at the Memorial
Student Center. The theme for
this year’s conference will be
“Student Government: Fact or
Fiction.”
The “Idea Exchange Confer
ence” was originated by the Sen
ate last spring, and was termed
very successful by the delegates
who attended from other schools.
The Conference was established
to give student leaders from the
Southwest Conference schools an
opportunity to meet together to
discuss student problems and pos
sible solutions to these problems.
Each SWC school, with the ex
ception of Rice, will be repre
sented at this year’s conference.
The Conference will be key
noted Friday morning by a panel
discussion of student body presi
dents from Arkansas, Baylor,
TCU and Texas Tech. Their
topic will be the theme “Student
Government: Fact or Fiction.”
This should prove to be a very
provocative and possibly contro
versial discussion. The panel
discussion will be at 9:45 a.m.
in the Assembly Room of the
MSC. I would like to personally
invite everyone to attend. Also,
all roundtable discussions are
open and everyone is invited to
sit in on these as often as pos
sible. Some of the possible
topics for roundtable discussions
are Student Rights, Student-
Faculty Relationships, Student
Protests, Faculty Evaluations,
New Left organizations, and
Roles and Responsibilities of
Student Publications. A calen
dar of events for the conference
will be appearing in today’s and
Thursday’s Batt.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Thursday
9-10 p.m.—Social Room—Mixer
Friday
8- 9 a.m.—2-C & 2-D—Breakfast
9- 9:45 a.m.—Serpentine Lounge—
Registration
9-10 a.m.—Assembly Room—
Welcome—Bill Carter
10 a.m.—Assembly Room & Birch
Room—Panel Discussion—Stu
dent Body Presidents
12-12:50 p.m.—2-A & 2-B—Lunc
heon
1-2 p.m.—3-B, 3-C, & Art Ro#
—Conferences
2:15-3:15 p.m.—3-B, 3-C, & Art
Room—Conferences
3-30-4:30 p.m.—3-B, 3-C, & Art
Room—Conferences
Saturday
8:00-9:00 a.m.—2-C & 2-D-
Breakfast
9:00-10 a.m.—3-B, 3-C, 3-D—
Panel Discussion
10:15-11:15 a.m.—3-B, 3-C, B
D Conferences
12:00-1:00 p.m.—Assembly Rmi
—Luncheon
1:15-2:15 p.m.—3-D—
Conferences
2:15-3:15 p.m.—3-D—
Conferences
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across as Santa Claus!”
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