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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 16, 1969
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
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“I know records are important, but I want someone else
to be the watermark for a while!”
BOARD
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into an additional elementary
school.
“WE ARE in the midst of a
population explosion,” Dr. Por
ter noted in outlining projected
school enrollment.
School board figures, compiled
with the assistance of a con
sultant, indicate an enrollment
of 4,340 children in the College
Senate Agenda
The following items will be
considered at Thursday's Student
Senate meeting at 7:30 p.m. in
the library conference room, ac
cording to Senate President Bill
Carter:
• Committee and Representative
Reports
• Old Business
A. Report on Reapportionment
Amendment
B. Change in Appeals Board
Recommendation
C. Education Committee
1. Pass-Fail
2. Published Professor-
Course Evaluation
3. Curriculum Reforms
4. Teaching Techniques
5. Library Utilization
• New Business
A. Faculty Achievement
Awards
B. TISA Report
C. Activity Fees
D. Senate Banquet
E. Report on Governor’s Stu
dent Body Presidents Com
munications Comference
F. Aggie Sweetheart
G. Constitutional Amendment
H. Fish Handbook
I. Speaker Policy Revision
J. Voting Booths Location
K. MSC Brochure Proposal
Station school system by 1978-
79 — double the present enroll
ment.
Porter said the figures are
based on a population estimate
for College Station of 37,200,
excluding single Texas A&'M
students.
He emphasized the school sys
tem needs more classrooms now.
Its effective utilization rate is
more than 90 per cent, well over
the 83 per cent considered the
maximum desirable.
IN ADDITION to Drs. Wooten
and Porter, other school board
members at the College Hills
PTA meeting were Drs. Lambert
Wilkes and Benton Storey.
School Supt. W. T. Riedel also
participated in the meeting. He
discussed the academic aspects
of the school program, pointing
out plans are being made to
place counselors in elementary
schools, similar to the ones in
high school and middle school.
Dr. Porter said the board plans
to realign the grades in elemen
tary and middle school. If the
plan is adopted, elementary
school will include grades one
through five and middle school,
grades six through eight. Ele
mentary school currently encom
passes grades one through four.
Board members plan to visit
other A&M Consolidated schools
and make presentations similar
to the one conducted for the
College Hills PTA.
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Editor,
The Battalion:
We have just returned from a
student conference on political af
fairs. We were “privileged” to
meet delegates from the U. S.
Military Academy. All delegates
arrived in civilian dress. The
majority of delegates were stu
dents who do not participate in
the ROTC program; therefore,
for the majority, civilian dress
was their normal attire. Like
wise, for us, a uniform was our
normal attire. We were shocked
to find, however, that the dele
gates from the military acad
emies never once wore their uni
forms.
Delegates from the Naval
Academy received slight ridicule
when they arrived at the confer
ence, and quickly put away their
uniforms along with any thing
else that might connect them
with the military. The repre
sentatives from the Merchant
Marine Academy and West Point
brought uniforms with them but
never once put them on. Since
a uniform is our daily dress, we
felt no need to change for a con
ference where anti-military fac
tions were present.
Maybe this is insignificant, but
it seems to us that one of the
purposes of attending this kind
of conference is to represent one’s
university. We are sad to find
that students of the other insti
tutions are not as proud of their
schools as we are of ours. We
found in general that students of
other schools were eager to learn
about the uniform and particu
larly the school which we repre
sented, both the military and
civilian parts.
We are also sad that the stu
dents from the military schools
missed a wonderful chance to
favorably represent the United
States military system. A lot of
people may tell Aggie jokes, but
no one can say Aggies are not
proud of their school. Did you
hear the one about the Ensign
who . . .
Gary Hall ’71
Bill Brady ’71
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Editor,
The Battalion:
On April 24 our student body
elects a new Student Senate
president. The student body as
a whole needs an elected member
who can best represent the
wishes of the majority of stu
dents on this campus. The office
that best fits this need is Stu
dent Senate president. The per
son that best fits this need is
Garry Mauro. Garry has shown
his capability in the past by
serving in many elected positions
on our campus. In this cam
paign he has shown his maturity
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Editor,
The Battalion:
The National Champion Fight
ing Texas Aggie Fish Drill Team
returned from Washington, D.C.
Sunday to a demonstration of
spirit and unity typical only of
Aggieland. The Fish Drill Team
is grateful for the tremendous
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Editor,
The Battalion:
The purpose of this letter is
to inform the Civilian students
of certain cold, hard facts about
the political situation at Texas
A&M at this time. Since the
Corps became optional in 1964,
the Civilian Students have al
lowed themselves to be com
pletely subjected to the will of
the steadily decreasing minority.
Civilian Student leaders have con
tinually preached and believed
unity between Corps and Civilian
students. Corps leaders, to a
large extent, have gone along
with this idea as long as it was
to their best advantage. When
this was no longer the case, the
“unity” idea was scrapped and
pleas such as “Keep the uniform
where it belongs — at the top”
were renewed. Whenever there
was any doubt of winning an
election, a plea to keep the Corps
at the top was usually sufficient
to draw (or maybe force?) ade
quate support. I think me
Civilian Students stop this fool
ish nonsense and take their
rightful place on this campus!
Why should we tolerate the
burning of Civilian candidates’
signs in the Duncan sign area
within 15 minutes after they are
erected ? Why should we toler
ate such uncalled for actions as
drowning out Civilian campaign
ers in the Corps area ? Why
should we continue to tolerate
hypocritical preaching of unity
to us and then out-and-out advo
cation of Corps supremacy to
them ? Why should we continue
to tolerate Corps domination of
elections by totalitarian tactics
as in the recent Class Elections?
Will we become an active part
of this student body or continue
to allow ourselves to be intimi
dated ? If you care about Texas
A&M and its future, get out and
vote Thursday, April 24, 1969,
and see that your voice is heard
so that student government will
represent you! Your individual
vote is extremely important as
is that of each of your friends.
Let’s end this intimidation! Get
out and vote!
David L. Alexander
Candidate for Vice-Pres.,
Civilian Student Council
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BATTALION: Has the image
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in the last five years ?
REDDIN: “I think the middle
class and higher classes of the
population have learned to look
to the police departments as
their authority for protection
because of the turmoil of race
riots and violence that has erupt
ed in our cities in the last five
years. But I still believe - there
is doubt in poverty stricken
areas whether the police depart
ments really care or not.”
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