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things student government was
already working on, but they
had no idea of this. If I get
elected, I’m going to work to
eliminate that communications
gap and try to create an atmos
phere where student government
is trying to find out what the
average student thinks and try
ing to respond to his views and
problems. Like I say in my plat
form, I’m talking about respon
sive student government.
Q. What do you think ought
to be done about the current
speakers policy?
A. It’s obvious that the present
policy is not quite what it ought
to be for a major university. This
has been reiterated many times.
I think college - level students
ought to be mature enough to
hear both sides of a story. In
fact, they really need to hear
both sides of the story so they
can form an opinion and be justi
fied in that opinion. I think we
need to change the policy to allow
any speaker come on campus who
talks in a positive light. I don’t
think we ought to have negative
people on campus. Some people
are just asking to tear things
down; that’s negativism. We
shouldn’t have people here who
condone violence, or people who
are under indictment; we don’t
need criminals. Those are the
only restrictions I think we ought
to have.
Q. What do you think about
the appeals committee proposals
talked about in the Senate last
week?
A. I think the proposal we had
looked real good, but I think that
after studying the issue we can
find one that is more acceptable
to both sides. I think we can pro
bably work under the existing
system and just add students to
it. Basically, what we want to
do is make sure that there is
student representation on the
committee. In fact, hopefully close
to a majority, where a student
is appealing to his peers. That
point is basic in America.
Q. What are your views on
student housing, especially off
campus? What do you think
needs to be done, if anything?
A. Well, I think a lot of
places off campus are pretty
lousy; I think there ought to
be some restrictions. In our situ
ation—maybe I’m missing the
boat somewhere—I don’t see how
the university or student govern
ment can control the private
owners off campus. Maybe we
could have some informal agree
ments, but I don’t see any way
in the near future where we can
actually say “you own an apart
ment, therefore you must meet
certain requirements.”
Q. What do you think needs
to be done about the laundry
system at A&M?
A. They’ve got the best equip
ment over there, but they’re out
moded in their ideas of manage
ment. I think the student laundry
committee is moving forward in
a lot of these areas. So many
of the things you hear about are
just minor hang-ups that the stu
dents have, like the button-crush
ing bit. Things that have been
destroyed can be appealed. We’re
moving well in this area, and I
think the Senate and the Civilian
Student Council and the laundry
committee did a good job this
year, and made things a lot bet
ter. I believe it ought to be easier
for students to turn in pieces of
laundry that they actually wear;
many of the things on the present
laundry slip most students don’t
even own, much less wear.
Q. What are your views on
the compulsory board at A&M?
A* I’m against compulsory
board one hundred percent. When
I was a freshman here, I didn’t
pay board for the second semes
ter. I ate off campus, saved quite
a bit of money, and ate a little
better quality food. The philos
ophy here at Texas A&M has
always been to try to give the
majority of the students an edu
cation, room and board as cheaply
as possible. We can either pro
duce volume or quality; so far,
we’ve been able to get our food
at a reasonable rate because we’ve
had volume. If we go to non-
compulsory board, I think it would
shoot the price up to about double
what it is. For the good of the
majority of students, I think we
ought to keep compulsory board.
I also think we ought to work
closer with the students; the stu
dent menu committee, for ex
ample. We need to find out stu
dent grievances and do what we
can about the food.
Q. What do you think about
the polling places controversy
that has been coming up lately?
A. I really don’t think it’s just
the last few weeks. Ever since
I’ve been here I’ve heard about
it, and I’ve been here three years.
I remember last year in the class
elections if you wanted to vote,
with only one polling place, you
had to wait as long as an hour
and a half. We only had 800-900
people vote. I think it’s an Amer
ican principle of democracy to
make voting as easy as pos
sible. I’d like to have multiple
polling places, polling places ac
cording to housing unit. If you
live in the Sbisa or Duncan area,
there ought to be a polling place
close to you. I’ve been keeping
up with the Election Commission
this year, and every election this
problem has come up and been
whitewashed over.
Q. What are your views con
cerning student representation on
faculty and administration com
mittees?
A. I think this is the trend
throughout the nation. We’ve done
quite a bit of study of this on
the Senate this year, and most
of your major universities have
some sort of student representa
tion on committees. We need to
have students influence the de
cisions here because, after all,
they directly affect us. Communi
cations between the students and
the administration would be im
proved, and we would be assured
of having the student voice heard
and taken into consideration.
Q. What do you think can be
done about civilian involvement
on campus? It seems they do
more complaining than anyone
else, but do less as far as action
goes.
A. I think you have to realize
that the class of ’70 was the first
class that ever started out with
a large civilian student body out
side the Corps of Cadets. We
started out with 700; the year
before, they had 70. Now I think
that in three years, considering
that that’s how long we’ve had,
the civilian student body has
moved forward. I think there’s
student apathy here at Texas
A&M and student involvement is
at a low pitch. I believe student
government is a vehicle of ex
pression for all students’ thoughts,
and it ought to cover all areas.
Some students feel student gov
ernment ought to work to reform
some of the academic programs;
others want it to make sure they
have hot and cold running water.
Student government ought to al
low students to express their feel
ings in all areas; that’s where
it’s falling down.
Q. What do you think about
published professor-course evalu
ations?
A. I think that having pub
lished evaluation of the professors
would allow not only the student
to know what he’s getting into,
but would possibly allow the prof
to see where he is letting down.
I think this would eliminate some
of the really bad teachers we
have—we don’t have many, but
they should be eliminated if pos
sible. Student selection of profs
is basic; different people are
susceptible to different ways of
being taught, and we ought to
be able to decide which way we
can learn the most, which way
we want to learn.
You’ve got to make the effort to
bring student government to the
student body and show them it
will be successful, and make it
worth their while to take an
interest. The way to do this is
through standing up for the stu
dents and through action and ac
complishment.
Q. What do you think ought
to be done about the current
speakers policy?
A. In the past, people have
complained, but they haven’t of
fered any alternatives. What I’ve
tried to offer is an application of
the speakers of the University
of Texas at Austin policy, which
allows anybody on the campus
except those advocating viola
tion of state laws or overthrow
of the government. To this, I
added persons who advocate vio
lence. Hopefully, we can substi
tute this for the present speakers
policy. Then we would have
guidelines, and the arbitrary de
cision would be a thing of the
past.
Q. What do you think about
the appeals committee proposals
talked about in the Senate last
week?
A. I like the earlier proposal
in that it would have provided
for a lot more student participa
tion. There are objections to it,
like lack of continuity, that I can
understand. I don’t think our
new proposal is quite as good as
the first one from the student’s
viewpoint, but I would be more
than willing to accept it. As
long as there is some provision
made for a student voice — an
effective student voice — I think
it ought to work out fairly well.
Q. What are your views on
student housing, especially off-
campus? What do you think
needs to be done, if anything?
A. There is absolutely no reg
ulation of it. I don’t mean regu
lation of hours, but of rent and
rent increases. There is no
guaranteed lease. It’s a com
pletely arbitrary decision on the
part of the apartment manager
as to whether a student can even
stay in an apartment the next
day. How can he go to classes if
his apartment manager can
throw him out anytime ? He can
double your rent or anything like
that. If you’re going to have
primarily student housing, you
should have some sort of regula
tions which will provide the stu
dent with some kind of guaran
tee that he is not at the mercy
of the manager.
Q. What do you think needs
to be done about the laundry
system at A&M?
A. I think a lot of it’s got to
be updated. Not the equipment
— which is first-rate — but the
policies concerning the number
of pieces allowed, and which
pieces, need to be changed. The
appeals procedure is a lot better
now, since the laundry commit
tee setup allows the students to
have final say on appeals.
Q. What are your views on
the compulsory board at A&M?
A. I’m against it as a phil
osophy. I would say that of
everything on my platform, that
would be the most difficult to
implement. It’s tied closely with
the Texas minimum wage law,
and I don’t think I can change
that. I am against compulsory
board simply because a student
comes here to study. He doesn’t
come here to live in the univer
sity campus, or because he wants
to eat in Sbisa or Duncan mess
halls. He comes here simply be
cause he wants to go to school.
Board should be his decision; it
shouldn’t be made for him.
Q. What do you think about
the polling places controversy
that has been coming up lately?
A. I think it’s a real impor
tant topic for consideration, but
I think now is a pretty poor time
to consider it — just before the
elections. I think a committee
should be set up at the beginning
of the year to determine polling
places and procedures for oper
ating them, and continue these
policies all year for all elections.
I think it’s something the Elec
tion Commission should have
done this year and should do
next year.
Q. What are your views con
cerning student representation on
faculty and administration com
mittees?
A. I think it is without a
doubt necessary. After talking
recently with representatives of
30 student governments in Texas,
I can pretty honestly say that
we have the least representation
in campus decision - making.
Whether it concerns academics
or anything else, we really have
very little to say about it. I think
we ought to have institution
alized procedures whereby the
students will be allowed to voice,
their opinions on anything that’s
going to affect them; it’s just
common sense. Everybody com
plains about lack of communica
tions; how else are you going to
get communication unless you
get a student who can sit there
and give his opinions ? Whether
the administration chooses to pay
much attention to them or not is
their decision, but I think the
fact that students have the op
portunity to express their opin
ions will eliminate much of the
resentment on campus.
I also think it’s a good idea to
have students on the board of
directors. It’s a little difficult
to implement here because our
board is also the board of direc
tors for the Texas A&M Univer
sity system, and I don’t think
many students are qualified to
make decisions that would af
fect Tarleton State, for instance.
I do think it’s necessary to have
students on the board so the stu
dents can make their views known
in areas they think important. If
this requires a member of the
board, I’m for it.
Q. What do you think can be
done about civilian involvement
on campus? It seems they do
more complaining than anyone
else, but do less as far as action
goes.
A. I don’t think it’s a prob
lem with just the civilians. I
think the Corps has much the
same problem. The MSC, and
its committees, is the main source
of student involvement, and rep
resentation from either side of
the campus is noticeably slim.
Involvement is a campus-wide
problem, and the way to do some
thing about it is to show people
it’s worth their while to partici
pate.
Q. What do you think about
published professor-course eval
uations?
A. I definitely think it ought
to be done. The chances of get
ting it this semester or next are
pretty slim because of all the
research and work involved. You
need to have some sort of stand
ard to grade courses on; this
takes research from sources other
than the university. We have the
best Civil Engineering depart
ment in the nation, but how can
we evaluate it unless we have
some type of standard for civil
engineering courses ? How many
students here have ever taken civil
engineering elsewhere and would
be able to evaluate us ? A lot of
time and capital input will be
required to come up with some
thing like this, and it will take
some students who are willing
to work on it. I think the admin
istration is amenable to some
thing like this, and will help us.
Q. Do you have any other
comments you would like to
make?
A. I think it’s really impor
tant to the university to have an
active, responsible student gov
ernment. I think student govern
ment has come a long way from
ten years ago, when all it was, as
stated in the college catalog, was
“training students in the use of
democracy.” It’s up to us to
make student government a little
better than that at Texas A&M.
way is found to generate enough
interest for the senators to go
to their constituents and, in turn,
their constituents to go to them,
the problem is almost impossible
to solve. As far as other things
I’d like to see done, there are a
couple of things I’m pushing as
a student. I believe that unity
on the campus is a word that’s
been kicked around and given a
lot of lip service, yet in essence
very little has been done to really
accomplish this. I think that unity
on the campus will simply require
time, and is an evolutionary type
thing. I think this could be noted
by the progress that has been
made in the past four years. The
Corps and the civilian student
body have come closer together,
more so each year. There are
some things that could be done
to speed up this process. The es
tablishment of some all-university
traditions, with both civilians and
Corps participating in an activity
to accomplish a desired end.
Another thing is possibly having
a car smash in the fall, immedi
ately proceeding the Texas Tech
game, and calling it simply
“Wreck Tech.” Have both Corps
and civilians smashing cars; have
yell leaders there, and have a yell
practice. Let people actually ex
hibit some physical—and emotion
al—spirit.
Something could also be done
along the lines of residence halls,
and that is a combined outfit-
residence hall activity; a party,
mixer, or get-together. On this
informal basis, people who feel
strongly one way or the other
would be allowed to see that
civilians and Corps members are
all Aggies. The Student Senate
should provide for the students
at A&M what they desire. In no
way, shape, or form do I think
the Senate should be any type
of “rubber stamp” for the ad
ministration’s policies, now or in
the future.
Q. What do you think ought
to be done about the current
speakers policy?
A. I think that the policies
on other state-supported cam
puses show how conservative the
A&M policy is, and it needs to
be liberalized. I am in favor of
a free selection of speakers on
the campus. I think it’s fairly
well substantiated that this
would not be detrimental to
A&M’s academic excellence, if
you would, by affecting the
amount of money allocated to us.
Q. What do you think about
the appeals committee proposals
talked about in the Senate last
week?
A. Well, as I see it, the big
question is, will this really per
form a vital service that is not
already being done by the Civil
ian Honor Council? How many
cases has the Civilian Honor
Council had brought before it for
appeal? The Civilian Honor
Council acts as an appeals board
in any type of judgment handed
down to an individual at the
present time. I don’t know how
well this is known, but this is the
case. I think there should be a
more adequate way of selecting
these people.
Q. What are your views on
student housing, especially off
campus? What do you think
needs to be done, if anything?
A. The primary interest, as I
see it, is approved housing for
women students as it exists now,
considering the fact that there
are no women’s residence halls
on campus. I think that this
might possibly be an aid to re
cruiting, if you will, young ladies
to attend A&M. As to the prob
lems it would encounter, I think
they would be vast. You would
have to have administration peo
ple to go out and approve housing.
I know of campuses where this is
not done, and they seem to func
tion okay.
Q. What do you think needs
to be done about the laundry sys
tem at A&M?
A. Something definitely needs
to be done about the number of
pieces allowed. There has been
a discrepancy all year long in
that a person is not allowed
enough to sustain him through
out the week as far as clean
clothes go. It’s obvious that the
number needs to be increased,
especially in the number of shirts
and pants. I think that the num
ber of whites is ample. Another
thing that should be improved,'
if at all possible, is to have the
shirts delivered on hangers. This
would vastly improve the quality
of the service. As I understand
it, the shirts look okay after
they’ve been pressed, but once
they go through the folder they
degenerate in quality.
Q. What are your views on
the compulsory board at A&M?
A. As I see it, the administra
tion is deadlocked on the pro
gram, and it would take a major
student-supported boycot of Sbisa
to obtain non-compulsory board
on this campus. I think if people
are going to live on campus,
they’re going to have to “grin and
bear it,” and try to improve the
program as much as they can.
If an increase in board payments
is the only way, then possibly
this is what needs to be done.
Q. What do you think about
the polling places controversy
that has been coming up lately?
A. I’m really critical of the
Election Commission. I think the
Election Commission has no for
mat, no constitution, nothing it
has to adhere to; it simply does
as it feels and goes its own little
way, as the people who manipu
late it seem to desire it to go.
I’m for a strong Election Com
mission format, responsible to
the Senate. As things are now,
the Senate can override what the
Election Commission says, but if
there were some rules they would
have something to go on. I think
that that is the trouble with the
Election Commission. As to how
many polling places should be set
up, I think one of the major pur
poses of the Election Commission
is to get out as many people as
they can to vote. They should
provide enough places so the stu
dent population can and will vote.
I was strongly in favor of the
additional polling places if they
could be properly manned by re
sponsible personnel in an above
board manner.
Q. What are your views con
cerning student representation on
faculty and administration com
mittees?
A. I’m strongly in favor of
this. I’m chairman of the menu
committee, and the past few meet
ings I’ve been allowed to actually
chair the committee, presiding
over it and having an agenda that
I make out myself and send out
to the student and staff members
of the committee. I bring up the
proposals, the feedback I receive
from the students, and we go from
there. I think that the efficiency
of the system has vastly improved
in the last two meetings. So, I
am very much in favor of student
representation on all committees,
if only for a communications aid.
Q. What do you think can be
done about civilian involvement
on campus? It seems they do
more complaining than anyone
else, but do less as far as action
goes.
A. I’ve been confronted with
apathy all year long. It’s very
frustrating at times to try and
work out a program for the peo
ple who say they would like to
do something, but who just don’t
turn out. The only think I know
to do is to keep plugging. You’ve
got to build interest and work on
a personal contact basis with
people. You’ve got to convince
people that they should do some
thing.
Q. What do you think about
published professor-course evalu
ations?
A. I’m strongly in favor of
such a program. I know that
some schools up north have it,
and the evaluations are sold in
the college bookstore. The fac
ulty and staff are strongly op
posed to it, but it provides an
impartial evaluation of the
courses and the profs. I think
that this is something that could
aid all students. If the students
are not allowed to select their
profs, though, this becomes of
limited value.
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