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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1976
Attendance policy bad What about trees and grass?
The new University regulation
which allows professors to figure at
tendance into a student’s final grade
is a step backward.
Encouraging class attendance is a
worthy cause for the University to
promote, but there are ways to do so
other than instituting rules and regu
lations governing attendance.
For most students, class atten
dance is a requirement for learning
the material anyway. So why add a
regulation which is unnecessary, in
sulting to the student character and,
above all, destructive of the princi
ple of individual responsibility
which is so stressed by the Univer
sity.
In order for Texas A&M Univer
sity graduates to be truly educated
and responsible, they must have
freedom within which to make re
sponsible decisions.
A sense of responsiblility is ac
quired only through individual ac
tion and initiative and cannot be
forced upon a student by the Univer
sity.
This reversion to a policy which
allows professors to figure atten
dance into the grade is another item
to add to the list of direct and indi
rect administrative pressures on
students to conform to established
procedures. This pressure to con
form is not unique to Texas A&M but
is prevalent throughout our society.
True, the administration’s tra
ditionally strict demands to conform
to rules leads most Texas A&M
graduates into jobs which demand
this type of conformity. But training
for jobs and setting a student into a
mold in order to fit into a job is not
the purpose of a university.
The people of America must re
kindle the ideals of the Revolution
and fight back against unrealistic
demands by established bureauc
racies.
Many may think this is a minor
issue and not one in which to bring
up talk of revolution, but bureau
crats will eradicate all of our tra
ditional American freedoms unless
we start somewhere in trying to re
gain them.
There is some question whether
last year’s policy did allow professors
to figure attendance into grades, but
the move by some members of Stu
dent Government to get the regula
tion changed should be supported.
Since University rules and regu
lations are revised only once a year,
and the procedure is a long and
drawn-out one, it will take a con
certed year-long effort by the stu
dents to follow through and actually
get the regulation changed.
— Jerry Needham
Editor:
I keep reading letters to you com
plaining of the crowded parking on
campus. Everyone keeps saying that
we need more parking places closer
to the heart of the campus. While I
feel that this is a very legitimate
gripe, I must also ask everyone if
they have thought of the conse
quences of this action.
Adequately parking everyone on
the central campus would require
more concrete and parking lots.
Trees and shrubbery would be a for
gotten memory to say nothing of
grass. Let’s face it—it would look
just like the U.T. campus and what
Aggie would want that to happen to
dear of A&M.
But, you say, there is still the
problem of parking. A solution might
be to buy a shuttle dingie (or about 7
or 8) and have a schedule course
which it followed every 5 or 10 min
utes from the parking lots to the
campus and back.
In case anyone doesn’t know what
a shuttle dingie is, it looks like the
train that runs from the parking lots
at Six Flags Over Texas to the front of
the park. This way, the school could
build more parking lots farther away
but yet everyone could be to his class
in a matter of minutes. This could
also be a good idea for the students
who have to walk all the way across
campus in the 10 minutes to get to
their next class.
Another solution might be to build
two and three story parking towers
over old parking facilities. Either
way, the beauty of the A&M campus
would be saved.
Jana Thieme ’78
Pedestrians
need crosswalks
Editor:
Why is this campus so devoid of
well marked crosswalks? One espe
cially bad spot is the corner where
Joe Routt Boulevard (which runs in
front of the Memorial Student Cen
ter) meets Spence Street (which runs
between the Military Science Build
ing and the Corps Dorms). Any
pedestrian who has had to cross the
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road during the eight, noon, or five
o’clock rush hours knows the danger
in crossing the street at this point.
Pedestrians must dodge impatient
motorists rushing to beat the heavy
traffic.
This area is heavily travelled by
pedestrians. It is the most direct
route to the Memorial Student Cen
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Dunn, Aston, Mosher complex and
residence of the Corps Dorms. More
than once I have seen near misses
with pedestrians and motorists. I
asked a campus policeman about the
problem. He cited examples of near
misses he had seen at the corner.
Motorists often forget or don t think
to make a conscious effort to yield to
the pedestrian.
It is ironical that such a dangerous
situation could be easily remedied
by creation of a crosswalk. To solve
the problem, all that is needed is
placement of a “Stop” sign on the
corner of Joe Routt Boulevard and
the senior parking row beside the
Corps Dorms as well as a "Yield To
Pedestrians ’ sign by the new
crosswalks similar to the ones behind
the Zachry Building on Bizzell
Street.
Such a crossing would be safe to
pedestrians and fair to motorists as
well, because they would not have to
stop unless there were pedestrians
in the crosswalk. The crosswalk
would be especially helpful during
football games and to old or hand
icapped people.
The answer seems so simple. Why
haven’t the proper authorities taken
care of this obvious problem?
Robin Linn, ’78
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