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THE BATTALION
Will Athletic Council
get student members?
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THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1974
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The Texas A&M University Athletic Council is com
posed of five members. Not one of them is a student.
Dr. Charles Samsom, head of the civil engineering
department, is chairman of the council. He said the structures
of the athletic councils differ from school to school.
“I think most of them have some student involvement,
but it’s usually in an advisory or non-voting capacity,”
Samson said. He has been at A&M since 1960.
The four other members of the council include Dr. O.
D. Butler, Dr. Earl Bennett, Harry Kidd and Dr. Lannes
Hope. All are faculty members.
Butler is head of the Animal Sciences Department;
Bennett is the associate dean of the College of Business
Administration; Kidd is assistant dean of the Graduate
College and Hope is a professor of educational psychology.
The council members are appointed by President Jack
K. Williams. The chairman is approved by the board of
directors.
Samsom said the primary functions of the council are to
work out a budget for the athletic programs, set admission
and eligibility standards for athletes and dictate general
program policy for various events.
“What I try to do is to involve the council in all of the
primary decision-making activities that have to take place,”
Samson said.
Although there are less than half a dozen members on
the council, Samson believes this has a positive effect when
decisions must be reached.
“There is an advantage in having a sufficiently small
number on the council so that decisions can be reached
quickly on a large number of items,” he said.
Samson added, however, that adding more people to the
council would result in better representation for students and
other university organizations.
“On the other hand, one could say the larger the group,
the more representation you can get. Back in the 1950’s we
had a smaller number of colleges and they were represented
on the counciL But now there’s a much larger number of|
colleges and to achieve equal representation on the council
we’d have to have more people,” he said.
Recently, the question was raised as to whether or not a I
student would be permitted to serve on the council. Samson
said a similar request was made several years ago by a group
of students. A&M had students on the athletic council in the
mid-1950’s.
“The board of directors’ response to this request was if
they admitted undergraduate students they would also have
to consider other interested groups that wanted to par
ticipate,” said Samson.
Samson also said he felt the decision of whether or not a
student could serve on the council would have to be left up
to the board of directors.
“If a student were to serve on the council I would hope
that he or she would be a person interested in improving
intercollegiate athletics and in having a good successful
program at Texas A&M,” he said.
Emory Bellard, director of athletics and head football
coach, said he is impartial as to whether or not a student
should serve on the athletic council.
“We have, at the present time, an advisory group that
our athletic council meets with and discusses business
matters. Actually, we’ve probably had more student input
under this system than there would be if there were a student
representative. I have no strong feelings one way or the
other,” Bellard said.
Coach Bellard said the Athletic Department and
Athletic Council have met with the student body president
and other interested representatives of the student body.
“I’ve seen a lot of unhealthy situations in which an
individual on the council did not contribute to the council
and I don’t think we need people on the council with an
anti-athletic attitude,” he said.
Bellard said he has witnessed these situations at other
schools.
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A&M whips Wisconsin for third straight win
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the season against eight losses.
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Bill Wright, in the second match,
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the second. But Wright made his
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Smith, playing his first top
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backed by Hoover’s quickness at
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Dan and Tom Courson broke
serve in the 11th game of the
second set and went on to win
the match in straight sets, 6-1,
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Dan was especially proud of
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Emley and John Kirwan had a
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The Ags have lost only one
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