THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 2, 1972
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“No issue in particular,
take a stand!”
I just thought that I should
Lack of help
Reviewed in yesterday’s editorial was why having a student on
the Board of Directors would not be such a good thing unless he is in
on all of the activities. It was assumed then that placing a student on
the Board of Directors could be done.
The placing of a student on the board does not have that many
apparent difficulties, but the administration refuses to help. Just why
they are doing so should be looked into further.
President Jack K. Williams and his advisors feel that the students
are adequately represented by the administration and, if past record
means anything, they probably are. But past experiences have shown
that the students can easily be ignored—something more difficult to do
with a student on the board.
It is these past experiences that lead us to want a student on the
Board of Directors. Though the system may now be “workable and
good,” as Assistant to the President Ed Cooper told the Graduate
Student Council, one cannot be sure of the future and it is against this
that we must also guard.
These considerations are not the main reasons that the adminis
tration is unwilling to back having a student on the board, however.
The best guide to their resistance comes from a statement made
by Cooper before the GSC. Though referring to something else, Cooper
said, “the president would be put in a precarious position.”
This is it exactly. The relationship between Williams and the
board is, in a manner, precarious. Williams has not had the time to
establish a firm relationship with the Board of Directors.
Most of the current Board of Directors are from the Earl Rudder
period. They are like him in many respects and Jack Williams, who is
unlike Rudder in many respects, knows it. For him to go up against a
very resistant group of men with the idea of putting a student on the
board would be like butting his head against a brick wall. He
would be hurting his position if anything.
The administration is also arguing that it may be against the law
to have a student on the Board of Directors. They say that the way to
do it is go through the legislature, then place a student on the board.
There are two things wrong with this. Gov. Preston Smith has
already said that universities may place non-voting members on the
board. Tire second is that no one, especially Texans, places great trust
in the legislature doing anything right. One might almost be willing to
trust Smith more than the legislature.
Tomorrow: Why a student should be on the Board of Directors.
Listen up
Messing with the board
Dear Editor:
Regarding the article, “Don’t
Mess With Board . . .,” which ap
peared in the January 28 issue
of the Battalion, I have the fol
lowing comments. First of all,
there are reasons to believe that
student representation on the
Board would improve the present
system of student-board communi
cations which Mr. Ed Cooper de
scribed as “workable and good.”
Second, there seems to be no
grounds for Mr. Cooper’s con
cern that to “allow the Student
Senate president to be a member
of the board would give numerous
other organizations justification
for asking for the same repre
sentation.” In fact, Ron Thomas,
GSC president, informed me that
the GSC appears to favor having
the president of the Student Sen
ate serve as the only student
representative on the Board. Con
sidering the great amount of time
participation in Board activities
entails, I doubt if there will be
any rush on the part of student
and faculty groups to get in
volved. Even so, no other student
groups on campus can rightly
claim that they represent all un
dergraduate and/or graduate stu
dents as the SS and GSC do.
Concerning the administration’s
desire that the proposal go only
to the state government, I be
lieve that the administration and
the Board have an excellent op
portunity to use their tremendous
influence and prestige in getting
the legislature to seriously con
sider the proposition. Indeed,
TAMU can take the lead in Texas
in improving student-board com
munication at public institutions
of higher learning and thus help
to avoid violent confrontations.
(Southern Methodist University
and St. Edward’s University have
already exerted leadership in the
private realm by placing non
voting faculty and student repre
sentation on their boards.) Rather
than putting himself in a precar
ious position by asking the At
torney General if the Board could
legally permit nonvoting student
representatives to participate in
Board meetings, Dr. Jack K. Wil-
Bu lletin Board
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Committee will
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meet in the‘lobby of the MSC at
6 p.m. Members should bring
money to go off-campus for din
ner and the meeting.
Thursday
Cepheid Variable Club w H1
meet in the Physics Building at
7:30.
Panhandle HTC will meet in
room 201 of the Physics Build
ing at 7:30.
Sophomore Class Gouncil meets
in room 146 of the Physics
Building at 7:30.
Chemical Engineering Wives
will hold a meeting at the home
of Mrs. Leo Durbin, 3711 Sweet-
briar, Bryan, at 7:30 p.m.
Student Senate will meet at
7:30 p.m. in the Library Confer
ence Room.
San Antonio Hometown Club
will meet in Room 301 of the
Physics Building at 7:30 p.m.
Rio Grande Valley Hometown
Club will hold a meeting at 7:30
p.m. in the MSC to select a
sweetheart.
Port Arthur Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
Trigon.
Saturday
Wheelmen will meet at the
Beef Center at 9 p.m. for time
trials.
Cbe Battalion
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As a result, his stature as a
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boards can legally involve stu
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nonvoting or ex-officio basis.)
If Dr. Williams cannot bring
liimself to actively work for the
proposal, I hope that he will at
least suggest to the Board that
perhaps the proposition should be
assigned to a Board committee
for futher study and considera
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that the committee would inten
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faculty and student leaders be
fore making a decision.
Burton R. Hermann, ’63
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