THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 25, 1973
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
“With a guy named Capone playing linebacker, do you
think we might have been robbed by the Mafia?”
Washing the Press
We wish to take issue with an article printed in the
Saturday (Sept. 22) edition of the Bryan Eagle, entitled
“Student Apathy Attacked,” written by an A&M student,
Peggy Ingram.
The story is an obvious attempt by TAMU student
Government Vice President Shariq Yosufsai to “snow” the
very people he may possibly be turning to at a election time
this spring. This is all right for an “overzealous” foreign
student.
Mr. Yosufsai has been doing the same and saying the
same thing since the beginning of his tenure in office which
started after a slightly-questionable campaign in which a
small controversy centered over a letter with forged signa
tures, endorsing the Bengali Senate President.
But Mr. Yosufsai has been causing headaches for many
“elite . . . senators” with his incessant push for placing the
Student Senate meetings on KAMU-TV, Channel 15 (our
local educational TV station)—a move that would surely
lose many viewers for the station, the few that it already
has (of college age, that is).
Throughout the summer he has been bombarding The
Battalion with ideas of what he would like to do, rather than
taking his ideas to the students for a test or survey of what
the majority would like done.
The lord of parliamentary procedure, Mr. Yosufsai, has
also tended to drive student senators up the wall with his
unending failures to recognize the commonest courtesy with
out becoming lost in his parliamentary booklore.
Ms. Ingram’s article also reaked of sad editorialism,
perhaps understandable for an Eagle intern. But none the-
less, there is really no excuse for either her or Mr. Yosufasai
to refer to A&M student body as the “lower class,” a term
obviously intended on the writer’s part to tempt to low-key
hatred of the A&M Student Government within an article
intended by Mr. Yosufsai to bolster the SG’s effectiveness.
The second note of editorialism is, of course, the head
line “Student Apathy Attacked.” Nowhere in the story
does the vice president indicate there is apathy anywhere
at A&M, unless its call is aimed at unexpecting student
senators by the ill-informed writer and A&M intern putting
out the “Saturday Sunrise Edition.”
By all rights, though, the two ought to come to
gether and PR themselves away from the unwary reader-
ship where no one is hurt by their amateur abilities.
'EVIRY AMERICAN FAMILY HAS A RIGHT TO A HOUSE LIKE THIS, AND I'M GOING TO SEE
THAT THEY GET IT!'
Cbe Battalion
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EDITOR MIKE RICE
Managing Editor Rod Speer
News Editor T. C. Gallucci
Women’s Editor Louie Holzem
Sports Editor Kevin Coffey
Ass’t. Sports Editor Ted Boriskie
Ethical Dilemmas Unanswered
By DR. DAVID VAN FLEET
As this is the first “faculty
comment” column for the student
(hopefully soon to be the univer
sity) newspaper, I should like
to address the issue of faculty
ethics, especially as they pertain
to student related matters. One
question of a newcomer, of
course, is why is this the first
such faculty expression in this
paper? Is is considered unethical
for faculty members to state opin
ions outside of the classroom?
Perhaps faculty members pre
fer other media, i. e., the AAUP,
the “Free University,” or faculty
advisory committees. Or perhaps,
like working with, on, or for the
city and county government,
school boards, political groups,
OPAS and so on.
Maybe many faculty members
do not really care about students
learning outside the classroom.
Then again, maybe students don’t
care what the faculty have to say.
Listen Up—
Coeds
Editor:
We have had it! We are sick
and tired of sleepless nights and
constant nuisances on the tele
phone. We do not know what
comes from these phone calls
that upset Maggies. What do guys
get out of these calls where they
call up a girl and breathe heavily
into the phone. So what if they
can breathe? We do not care.
We like to sleep at night and stay
awake in class. Do guys get turn
ed on by breathing heavily into a
phone while a girl is on the other
end wondering what the hell is
going on? Why is such a thing
happening to her?
We are not the only ones that
this has happened to, but we are
the only ones who have decided
to try to end it. Who are you
perverts ? Why do you not get
psychiatric help? However, on
second though, even that might
not help people like you. All we
ask is you stop!
Brenda Atherton ’75
June Dunn ’76
Debbie Calhoun ’76
Cissy Bale ’77
Janet Burrow ’77
★ ★ ★
Editor:
So Velesa Lewis doesn’t care
for the laundry’s nomenclature,
eh ? She’s lucky that her stuff
came back. I’ve lost count of the
number of my socks they have
Perhaps this is the first “faculty
comment” column merely because
faculty members have never be
fore been asked to write such a
column.
Questions but no answers. A
typical academic delemma. But
while I’m raising questions, let
me raise some on ethics which, at
a previous institution, develop
ed some interesting reaction and
discussion among students, fac
ulty and administrators.
Is it ethical for a professor uni
laterally to decide to require a
text from which he or she receives
royalties ? W h a t if colleagues
agree?
Is it ethical to use students
(even graduate students) as
graders? Only if the material to
be graded is objective in nature ?
Is it ethical for a teacher to
assign term papers and then not
really grade them ? To grade them
by volume, appearance, or number
of pages?
Is it ethical not to return to
students their work after the
teacher has evaluated it ?
Should faculty and administra
tion be more concerned with how
many students can get into a pro
gram rather than with how much
the students can get out of the
program ?
Is it ethical to permit unqual
ified part-time persons to teach
merely because it is economical
to do so?
Is it ethical for a professor to
accept compensation for “lab” or
“seminar” work not requiring
his or her presence or prepara
tion?
Is is ethical for a teacher to
Resent Callers!
lost over three years. Since when
is A&M a country club? “Who
wants to wear only two pairs of
slacks during a seven-day span?”
What does she do to get her
slacks so dirty, slop the hogs ev
ery day of the week and twice
on Sundays? Poor little lamb!
And while I’m on the subject, ^
who’s this Julia Jones you have
writing for you ? She writes an
editorial on classroom manners—
for professors, not for students.
After having been back for less
than three weeks, I don’t believe
there is a larger group of people
in Christendom who are as rude,
as smart-alecky, as the A&M stu
dent body this year. I’ve been
here three years and with only
a very few glaring exceptions,
I’ve never met nicer people than
the member of the faculty here.
I won’t vouch for the staff, but
I will stand up for the faculty.
The next day this Jones per
son does the Batt Book Review
of Arthur Bremer’s diary. “Bre
mer seems to be sane.” Few neu
roses makes their bearer com
pletely nonfunctional. “He
emerges as a fairly reasonable hu
man being.” Never mind that he
attempted to assassinate a presi
dential candidate. I resent her
calling it “an American experi
ence.” I am an American and I
warmly resent it. I read a com
parison of me with Arthur Bre
mer and I hate it. The desire for
power, money, fame, is not indig-
enuous to America.
Larry Spain ’74
★ ★ ★
Editor:
I’m writing this letter to in
form whoever threw Barney, a
formerly healthy rubber plant, off
the fourth floor of Fowler Hall
that he is in very poor condition
and may die as a result of this
cruel act.
I have investigated the possi
bilities of Barney falling off on
his own. Since the pot is too large
to fit under the rail and there
was no spilled soil on the balcony,
I can only assume that some de
ranged person threw him down.
The damage (tow badly split
leaves and torn roots) has been
done. I hope whoever did this is
satisfied with himself.
Lynne Edwards ’76
★ ★ ★
Editor:
The Wednesday (Sept. 19) coed
page was an outstanding piece of
journalism, with Kathy Morgan
and Steve Goble to be highly
commended for their articles on
abortion. Such reporting is a very
pleasant surprise for the readers
of the ince-staid bastion of con
servatism, The Battalion. I hope
this the the start of a new tra
dition.
Carol Moore ’76
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to simply dismiss classes when l*
or she is sick, attending a profe
sional meeting, or desires a vaa
tion ?
Should faculty members “lit,
gain individually” for higher ai
aries if such efforts merely ^
duce the funds available for otlij
faculty members?
Is it ethical for a teacher to <>
ganize classes into “self Mf
or “work session” groups daritj
which the teacher is not prestj
and hence may obtain a slights
duction in course load and/orpu
paration time? Only if such
rangements are acceptable to tj)
leagues? Deans?
Is it ethical for a teacher t
teach as few as six hours a ten
H)\v about three? Does
denend? Upon what?
Is it ethical for one fai
member to call poor perfomiau
or unethical behavior to the i‘
tention of another faculty me)
ber? Is it ethical not to?
Should one faculty member a
to the attention of the depait
ment head or dean the poorje
formance or unethical behaii
of another faculty member? Is
ethical not to ?
Is it ethical for a professor
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Is it ethical to use an indefa
sible grading standard or prw
dure merely because ishaslsj
traditional to do so? Onlyifit
“official”?
Shouldn’t one work to chaaj
such standards? Is it ethical
to ?
Is it ethical to entertain ip
dents rather than teach them!]
some entertainment not necessai
to learning? How much
enough ?
Is it ethical to teach “them
things were when I was then
rather than “the way things«
likely to be when you get there’
Is “publish or perish” ethicil
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