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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1970)
Dr. Heffernan says: LISTEN UP Incompatibility is cause the halt forum Dear Sir, lines other than the small little for all world problem Having only minutes agro ex perienced class registration for the eleventh time at Texas A&M, I am moved to express my frus tration, disbelief, and anger at what seems to me to be unbe lievably mismanaged and unor ganized procedure. Time after time the same procedures that prove awkward, unfair, and un necessary are repeated with seem ingly no attempt at improve ment. Specifically, the very worst bot tleneck in the entire procedure is the distribution of card packets. This process gives life to every Aggie joke ever told. The packets are distributed on a schedule in accordance with an alphabetical sequence for order of registra tion. Granted, a specific order for registration is necessary, but why must the card packets be distrib uted in the same order? The reg istration order could be set in the same manner, but the card pack ets should be distributed prior to registration day, or, if necessary, even on the same day, but cer tainly not in just a 90 minute period of madness. signs above the windows. Aisles for each window should be fixed by roping them off or building railings. The experience of stand ing in line for 40 minutes and finally approaching a window, only to see a new name sequence being put up, and hearing a voice tell you that you are now late and your card packet has been moved to a side window, and to please form new lines, in stills tears of futility and deep seated hatred. No such change should occur. “All the great problems, na tional and international, with which we are confronted have not arisen because people can or cannot read, or spell or do the multiplication tables," Dr. Helen Heffernan declared Wednesday at Texas A&M. Further, the traditional place of distribution is grossly inadequate to handle the long lines that form, if you can call a mob a line. No attempt was made to organize the May I make the following sug gestions: (1) Hand out card pack ets by departments during the week before registration; (2) Bar ring this, hand out all packets at the same time, using at least 10 to 20 persons distributing the packets. (Six girls having to look up one by one alphabetically each registrant’s packet for the entire student body is rather slow.); (3) Post two to three persons to manage the formation of lines in well roped off aisles; (4) Control the order of registration at the entrance to the registration hall, not by the distribution of card packets. Dr. Heffernan is an early child hood education specialist and the retired California State Education Department elementary education bureau chief of 40 years experi ence. Chorus group seeks members There are many other correct able bottlenecks inside the regi stration hall, but they are minor compared to the distribution of card packets. Surely, an institu tion with as many educated per sonnel as A&M can carry out a smooth running, efficient regi stration. The New Tradition Singers, A&M’s new mixed chorus, is look ing for new members. Any stu dent or student spouse is eligible and welcome. The group started during the spring semester of 1970 and is now a recognized committee of the Memorial Stu dent Center. The first summer re hearsal is Thursday, June 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 119 of G. Rollie White Coliseum. Ron Windham Chemistry Department ★ ★ ★ Editor: To the students, faculty, and friends of Texas A&M: She denounced the nation’s edu cational practices and issued con ference participants four chal lenges in her “Challenges of the ’70s’’ address. “From my point of view, if we respond to the call for action in these four challenges, we can look back at the 1970s with more approval than we may think the ’60s merit,” Dr. Heffernan said. “And perhaps what is more important, we might make it through the ’70s. We are launched into a decade in which the vital and perhaps final decisions of mankind may be made.” Challenges to superintendents, kindergarten teachers and in structional supervisors attending the conference were: 1) to exploit all of man's ca pacities; 2) provide a more relevant cur riculum; 3) establish closer relations be tween parents and children to enhance people’s faith in educa tion. Robert L. Boone, director of the Singing Cadets, is the director for the group. No auditions are required. Anyone interested can call Mr. Boone at the Student Programs Office in the MSC or come to the rehearsal. On May 7 of this year, Gary Beckcom Day was held. For this, I would like to extend my deepest appreciation to all those who made it possible. I was greatly honored by the thoughtfulness and support of all my fellow Ag gies. The spirit which has been so good to me is only to be found in one school .. . Gig ’Em AggiesI “Education has put almost ex clusive emphasis on cognitive learning and comparatively little emphasis on other equally im portant aspects of the human mind,” Dr. Heffernan explained. “We have disregarded the fact that man’s emotions govern him much more than his rational or intellectual processes.” Thank you again, Gmry Beckcom Education instead must take into consideration the child as an active, thinking, feeling human €Ik Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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She believes that schools, as a major social institution, should have the basic aim of development of the highest quality of citizen ship. Reading, spelling and writ ing are necessary to communi cate. Math enables students to understand quantitative aspects of his environment and partici pate effectively in business. To justify the school curricu lum in terms of its ultimate con tribution to maintenance of the society which supports it. Dr. Heffernan claims social studies should occupy a more strategic role. Social studies, she says, helps the student see the relationship between man and his physical environment, involves civic liter acy necessary for participation in democratic government and could be used to develop interest in cooperative endeavor and con cern for the welfare of mankind. 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