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
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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
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I think that it is a national
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