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Editor: Imagine a jury which is com posed of some persons wh6 have not heard the defense or viewed the evidence. Imagine a court session in which the judge who is to dic tate to jurors the interpretation of the law is the subject of the trial, since it deals with his elec tion. Imagine a law which allows for the same jury to reverse its decision after the case has been heard and closed and which does not allow for anyone other than a selected group of people to question the validity of the law. You don’t have to imagine very hard, since all these figments of the imagination are real and present at Texas A&M. There is no question that the general elections held last week were invalid. The Election Com mission admitted it and decided to hold another election to com pensate for gross errors made during the election. There wasn’t secret balloting — a guarantee enumerated in the Texas A&M Election Code Book and in the U.S. Constitution. There wasn’t consistency in electoral proced ures since they were changed illegally (admitted by the Elec tion Commission) in the middle of the election. And there is even a question about the valid ity of the ballot count. It would seem, then, that the Election Commission was taking one large step toward represent ative government and college stu dents’ rights to govern them selves when they decided Tues day night to declare last week’s election invalid and to hold an other election which would in sure the rights guaranteed in a democratic society. But they held another session Wednesday morning: composed of some persons who had not heard the defense (Condry, who was pulled in by the commission so they could have a quorum, and Caperton, who was appoint ed as a proxy, and possibly oth ers); led by a student, Kent Caperton, who was willing to sacrifice the rights of over 5,000 students for his position which he had won during an illegal elec tion; basing the reversal of the decision on “a law” which doesn’t allow any interested citizen to question the validity of the law. And that "law” was written by one person. A student during the Election Commission hearing Tuesday night made the statement that college student’s couldn’t be ex pected to hold “good” elections, and that college students weren’t capable enough to govern such a large undertaking. I disagreed, and, obviously, the Election Commission initially agreed with me, as they were willing to hold over the election. But, then, Kent Caperton, the newly elected pres ident in an illegal election, was appointed to the Board which threw out the protest on the basis that a candidate did not write the protest. We could try to get the elec tion contested at the Senate meeting tonight through popular appeal. We could try to get a candidate to write a letter of protest to the Election Commis sion. But it is my opinion that the only person who SHOULD contest the election is the person who is supposed to be the guard- Caperton. Unless we have a leader who is willing to put the guaranteed rights of the students above his personal interests, we don’t have a leader. Kent Cap erton, lead. Contest the elec tion. Evelyn Dunsavage ★ ★ ★ Editor: May 7, run-off elections will be held to determine next year’s officers in several vacan cies in which candidates did not have a clear majority. Nick Jiga and Mike Milliner will be vying for the all-important post of Sophomore Class President.- As a candidate for Sophomore Class President, I had a chance to meet with Nick Jiga and to discuss many issues with him. It is my opinion that he would be the best man for the job since he would be both hard-working and responsive to the needs of the total Sophomore Class. If you want a more efficient, active Class of ’73 executive council which will bring some social life to A&M, vote for Nick Jiga, Class of ’73 President. Steve Paulson Class of ’73 ★ ★ ★ Editor: Having been given, a week or two ago, a “No involuntary servi tude, end the draft” sticker by a member of the Young Americans for Freedom, I was quite sur prised by the letter by Robert S. Miles of YAF in The Battalion of April 23, in which he stated that conscription may be justi fied only during a declared war. I think that this position would justify the changing the name of his organization to “Young Amer icans for Freedom—Except,” and would indicate the value of the Author of War Hymn To Join Sul Ross J. V. (Pinky) Wilson, author of “The Aggie War Hymn,” will be on campus until Saturday for the induction of his class into the Association of Former Students’ Sul Ross group. Sul Ross is an organization of all former students who grad uated 50 or more years ago from Texas A&M. Wilson wrote the fight song while standing guard on the Rhine River during World War I. To attempt to justify the draft on whether war has been declared by Congress is to be a victim of two fallacies: 1) that the legiti macy of the draft is determined by the legitimacy of the war, and 2) that if Congress considers a war legitimate, then a citizen is supposed to consider it legitimate. I have already shown that slavery is immoral regardless of what the slave is made to do. If Congress declares the existence of a state of war, it is the Government, in cluding the armed forces, to which the war is legitimate, not the people as a whole. If the YAF wish to take part in the defense of the principles of this country, I think they need to show a greater consistency than what they have shown up to now. It is a matter of life and death. Johnnie B. Linn III Graduate Student Architecture Profs To Exhibit Work An exhibit of paintings, sculp ture, low-relief sculpture and jewelry will be displayed in the Architecture Lobby this week, ac cording to Jean Mah, chairman. Sponsored by the Forum for Environmental Studies, the ex hibit represents the work of six architecture professors: Gra ham Horsley, John Fairly, Joseph Donaldson, Larry .Shiffhauer Rodney Hill and Lane Coulter. A&M Student Elected Head Of SWJC Biologist to Present Cell and Tumor Talk Dr. Armin C. Braun, professor of cell biology at Rockefeller University, will discuss “The Multipotential Cell and the Tu mor Problem” at a graduate lec ture here Wednesday. The 3:30 p.m. presentation in Room 113 Biological Sciences is jointly sponsored by the Institute of Life Science and the Biology Frank Griffis, junior journal ism major, was named president of the student Press Club of the Southwest Journalism Congress during the organization’s annual convention at Oklahoma City, Okla. Fran Haugen, also a junior journalism major, was elected sec retary of the club. The A&M delegation to the conference also included junior journalism students David Mid- dlebrooke and Charles Hale, and sophomore journalism major Janie Wallace. Fifteen senior colleges and uni versities from four states are members of the congress. Next year’s convention will be at A&M March 18-20. TRY ian of the people’s rights — Kent and Plant Sciences Departments. 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New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San iciaco. EDITOR DAVE MAYES Managing Editor David Middlebrooke Women’s Editor Cindy Burleson News Editor Pam Troboy Sports Editor Richard Campbell Assistant Sports Editor Mike Wright Staff Writers Hayden Whitsett, Bob Robinson, Chancy Lewis, Janie Wallace, Fran Haugen, Randy Murdock, Billy Buchanan, Gibril Fadika, Tommy Thompson Sports Writer Clifford Broyles Columnists Roger Miller, Mike McClain Photographers Jim Berry, David Gawthorpe, Mel Miller, Robert Boyd Sports Photographer Mike Wright Professional and Technical Graduates Apply Now Shamrock EMPLOYMENT SERVICE Home Office: Houston, Texas • College Division • North Gate 331 University Dr. 846-3737 A division of ERC CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle group when the real fighting starts. The draft should be abolished because it is immoral. Whether it aids, hinders, or has no effect on the fighting ability of the country is irrelevant. For I hold this truth to be self-evident: that the country does not have the right to exist if its existence is possible only through the enslave ment of a subset of its population. Therefore, to claim that the draft is justified is to admit that the existence of the country cannot be justified. The argument is often made (and is made by Mr. Miles in his letter) that the draft is “neces sary” when volunteers are not sufficient. Necessary for what? For the preservation of our free doms? What freedoms? The free dom to be drafted? “We violated your rights in order to protect them. “The operation was a suc cess, but the patient died.” “We got rid of your termintes, but we had to burn the house down!” I think that it is a national shame that men are forced to serve, fight, and sometimes die, for rights which have been denied to them. Small wonder that young men turn against their country or flee into exile when the only choice they have here is to be a slave or a criminal. 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