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
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being: and “become increasingly
concerned with the knowledge
that people live with other people
in this world.”
“They have arisen because peo
ple have not learned how to live
with other people,” added the
wrapup speaker of the School
Administrators and Supervisors
Conference.
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.
Dr. Heffernan pointed out that
every major problem we face —
the Vietnam war, alienation of
youth, riots and violence, polar
ization of groups, poverty and
environmental deterioration — is
in the field of social studies.
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