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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 13, 1972
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Doing Your Own Thing, Or
Crusoe In The Melting Pot
By SAM BAYS
Good ideas apparently have a
way of getting lost in the shuffle.
At one time or another, most all
of us dream of getting away to
some sparsely inhabited stretch of
land where we could live without
the frustrating impositions of
society.
Though we have experienced
only the comfortable, artificial
world of urban suburbia, we
imagine that being close to nature
would more than adequately com
pensate for all the clever Pax
Americana conveniences we would
leave behind. We dream of com
plete individual freedom, of really
doing our own thing.
In moderation, such pipe-
dreams are necessary and healthy
—they help us keep our heads
straight. Yet until we actually
cut the umbilical cord of the com
munity and go primitive on a
permanent basis, as long as we
remain enmeshed in the social
web, we must be ever mindful
that our individual freedom and
rights are tempered by social re
sponsibilities and values. And
while these societal norms vary
widely with time and circum
stances, they do exist and cannot
be realistically ignored.
The idea of individual freedom
can easily becom e a distorted
rationalization for those who
would seek to enjoy the benefits
of social life without bearing the
burden of the social contract up
on which those benefits rest.
How often do we say that we
only want “to do our own thing”
ISA Touches 67 Countries
Wants International Aggies
‘Hut There’s Only Three Streets!’
Listen Up—
RV’s Present Answer To
Provoking Taps Letter
Editor:
The Ross Volunteers would like
to present their views on Silver
Taps. These can best be illus
trated by the following letter, ex
tracted from a newspaper article
a few short years ago:
COLLEGE STATION, T e x.
(Special)—In late October (some
years ago) a freshman cadet from
Corpus Christi, Don Coward, at
tended Silver Taps. The cere
mony was held for John B. Tower,
^ pre-med student who died of a
‘¥>Wlh Ti'emotrhage while playing
Ivaifer polo.
Young Coward was deeply
moved, and in his next letter to
his parents, he wrote of his feel
ings.
“Dear Mom and Dad,
Right now it’s 11 a. m. and Call
to Quarters is over. I should be
in bed, but there’s something I
have to tell you both first. I’m
sitting here at my desk with
tears in my eyes and thinking
more about life itself than I ever
have before.”
“I’m not crying because of
what I’m going through—but
rather because I’ve experienced
tonight what A&M is all about.
Mother and Dad, we’re one big
family here and now I know what
it means to be an Aggie. Tonight
was Silver Taps.
“In case you don’t know what
that is, I’m going to tell you and
you’ve got to listen. Any time
a student heie loses his life—no
matter how—on an assigned date
soon afterwards we have what is
called Silver Taps. Everyone
gathers in front of the Academic
Building, in front of which is a
flag pole on which Silver Taps
notice is posted.
“No one says a word from the
time we leave the dorms until
next morning. All is quiet and all
the lights on campus are turned
off. Even lights on the coke ma
chines in the dorms are covered.
“At 10:30, when everyone is in
place in front of the Academic
Building, a firing team fires a 21
gun salute in honor of those who
died. Then buglers play Silver
Taps and its over.
“Tonight I experienced one of
the most solemn feelings I’ve
ever had and feel so good inside.
Mom, Dad, it was just like God,
Himself was there with us I
guess you’re wishing I would
grow up and quit carrying on
like this over Silver Taps—but
it was so, I can’t ever tell you
how it was—there’s nothing else
like it.
“Be careful and I love you
both.
‘D. C.’
Three weeks later, Silver Taps
again rolled into the chill dark
ness from the dome of the Aca
demic Building. This time it was
for three A&M students killed in
a car-truck accident near Roanoke
in Denton County, November 9.
One of them was Don Coward.
The Ross Volunteer
Company ’73
By DEBBIE HOLZEM
“ISA has seen, touched and
felt the sights and sounds of 67
different countries. There is
hardly a city in the world that
ISA hasn’t seen and visited.
There is no major language ISA
does not speak; no major custom
ISA does not know.”
With these words, Friedrich
Mack, chairman of the local Inter
national Student Association
from Munich, Germany, summed
up the national organization of
ISA.
The group will hold its first
meeting Thursday night at 8
o’clock in the Assembly Room of
the Memorial Student Center. Ac
cording to Mack, the number of
international students on campus
reaches 690. Both foreign and
American students are encouraged
to attend, he said.
“The purpose of ISA,” said
Mack, “is to encourage, foster
and organize international living
on campus. This involves a wide
range of activities, including con
cern and involvement in the prob
lems of the international student
in his situations on campus to the
organization of fun and games.”
Currently, ISA is involved in
a housing issue, an effort to house
international students in dorms
other than Hotard and Schu
macher Halls.
“It’s good to live with other
foreign students, but this doesn’t
give international students a
chance to mix and live with
Americans,” said Mack.
ISA is also trying to establish
an international meeting room in
the MSC or any other building.
“We don’t have a central meeting
place yet,” said Mack.
Besides helping the internation
al student adjust to American
campus life, ISA also organizes
sporting events and intramural
games. The group, in its second
year on campus, also holds social
and cultural activities, ranging
from parties and dances to films,
lectures and debates.
“One of our main projects,”
said Mack, “is the International
Festival in the Spring.”
The International Student As
sociation is organized similar to
the organization of the United
Nations. The main body is the
General Assembly. “Each country
represented on campus, including
the United States, elects one del
egate to the General Assembly,”
said Mack. “The assembly then
elects the Executive Committee,
the official head of the interna
tional student body.”
Other officers of the group in
clude Luis Juarez, Vice-chairman
from Cuba; Carlos Candia, vice-
chairman of programs from Boli
via; Heike Rode, treasurer, Aus
tria; and Shayed Hasan, secre
tary, Bangladesh.
Interested students with ques
tions can contact Mack at 846-
8538.
when we really mean that we only
want “to do as we damn well
please and to hell with everybody
else?” To what extent do we
ignore the feelings and sensitivi
ties of other folks simply because
we don’t make the effort to care?
And when we are called to task
for walking roughshod over the
rights of someone else, how loudly
do we howl that our freedoms are
being abridged, ignored, or op
pressed?
So long as we think about the
extent and limitations of our
individual freedom only in ab
stract terms, we can keep the
issue at an impersonal, comfort
able distance. But consider a
couple of real everyday situations.
Do those of us who own western
hats rightly have the freedom to
wear them in class and in the
dining halls and violate social
convention simply because we
want to create a certain image?
Or do those of us who participate
in intramural sports have the
freedom to impose the sweat and
dirt of the athletic field upon
others in crowded public places
just because the shower is not
convenient?
How we deal with seemingly
unimportant situations, how wise
ly we exercise our rights and
acknowledge our responsibilities
on a day to day basis provides an
indication of how well we under
stand what ‘doing our own
thing” is all about.
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