Battalion/Page 3
November 3, 1982
Code violations provoke
adesire for Honor Court
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by Jennifer Carr
Battalion Staff
Several incidents of students
violating the Aggie honor code
have prompted the Student Sen
ate rules and regulations com
mittee to research the possibility
of reviving the Honor Court at
Texas A&M University.
Greg Bates, vice-president of
Student Government and chair
man of the Rules and Regula
tions Committee, said the Stu
dent Affairs office has not effec
tively dealt with several inci-
ents at the University. Bates
listed examples including a
Corps of Cadets senior pulling
his saber on a Southern Method
ist University cheerleader, a stu-
stealing computer time to
change grades, and a student
taking and wrecking a Texas
A&M Flying Club plane. The
plane accident endangered the
lives of two other people, Bates
'said.
Bates said these incidents
were matters of honor as well as
against the University’s disci
pline code, but the breach of
honor was not considered in the
students’ disciplinary action.
Bates, who also is president of
the Flying Club, said the lenien
cy of the students’ punishment
makes a mockery of discipline
and the Aggie honor code. The
student who wrecked the plane
was put on conduct probation.
Bates said he thought the pun
ishment wasn’t severe enough
and tells other students they can
break the rules and get away
with it.
Student Government has
been considering reviving the
Honor Court since last year,
Bates said.
The Rules and Regulations
Committee is researching honor
courts at other schools, includ
ing the University of Virginia,
Rice University, the University
of Florida and the military
academies, Bates said. The com
mittee will present a proposal
for a first reading to student
government Dec. 8. The prop
osal will be voted on after the
holidays.
Bates said the committee has
no specific plans, but will consid
er the committee’s findings
from other schools along with
the Texas A&M Cadet Court
and the old University Honor
Court. The old court also dealt
with incidents other than honor
violations.
Bates said the court would
probably consist of students
appointed to the court by the
student government president.
The court would consider the
cases brought before it and in
each case would make a recom
mendation to Dr. John Koldus,
vice president of student ser
vices, or President Frank E.
Vandiver. Koldus or Vandiver
would make the final decision
on discipline. He said student
body President Pat Pearson dis
cussed the idea with Vandiver.
Bates said the major dis
advantage to the honor court is
the responsiblity w ill be with stu-
cients, who may not be as un
biased and objective as someone
hired by the University. But he
believes the honor code is some
thing that must be enforced, and
that it’s up to students to enforce
it.
Honor, he said, is not some
thing read in a book and for
gotten.
“It’s something to live by for
the rest of your life,” Bates said.
The code is “only asking that
you live by accepted standards.”
Bill Kibler, assistant director
of student affairs, is in charge of
discipline at Texas A&M. He
agrees the honor code is not up
held as it should be, and that
students should police them-
White males get
ahead in business
by Mary Ann Swick
Battalion Reporter
The people who get ahead in
corporate America are white Re
publican Protestant males who
attended such schools as Har
vard or Princeton, the division
manager of labor relations for
Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania
said here Tuesday night.
In 1978, the Harvard Busi
ness Review showed those were
ihetypes of people making it in
the business world, Dr. John P.
Fernandez told an audience at
Rudder Theater.
Those were the types of peo-
who were getting ahead in
the corporate structure, and still
are today,” he said.
At lower corporate levels,
alies that* management looks for techni
cians, electrical engineers,
ng the issU lawyers, accountants and labor
specialists, but for upper-level
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rial,organizational and adminis
trative skills, he said.
The search for those skills has
led to the exclusion of women
and minorities and also has
forced'the exclusion of white
males who don’t fit into the cor
porate role, Fernandez said.
In a corporation, minorities
who are the most confident and
.said. Those are the individuals
most likely to be criticized by the
white males they are making un
comfortable and the least likely
to be promoted, he said.
Instead, minority women
with average capabilities are
promoted because they don’t
cause problems for the existing
management, Fernandez said.
“White males that don’t ‘fit
in’, don’t have to deal with race
or sex,” Fernandez said. “Minor
ity males have to deal with race,
but minority women have to
deal with both race and sex.”
White males control society’s
institutions and build up
stereotypes and myths in peo
ple’s minds until the people be
gin to believe them.
Minorities and women
should develop a strategy to deal
with the problems in business,
Fernandez said.
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selves. His office does not con
sider the honor code in its deci
sions, he said, and deals only
with the discipline code in the
University Rules and Regula
tions handbook.
Kibler said the problem with
enforcing the honor code is that
it doesn’t say what happens if a
student violates it. Enforcement
of the code depends on how it is
interpreted, he said.
Kibler said his judgments
usually are interpreted as being
too lenient or too severe. He said
the problem with other people
making judgments on his deci
sions is that outsiders have no
way of knowing exactly what
went on in the hearing and they
don’t always understand the
ramifications of the punish
ments given.
For example, a student who is
on conduct probation is not eli
gible for financial aid from the
University, must withdraw from
any office he holds and cannot
represent the University in any
way. Most importantly, Kibler
said, if the student gets into any
other trouble while he is on
probation, he probably will be
suspended.
Punishments range from a
verbal reprimand to dismissal
from the University indefinitely,
Kibler said. The punishment is
determined in a hearing and de
pends on the severity of the
offense, whether the student has
been in trouble before and the
student’s attitude.
“My interest is, number one,
I’ve got to temper whatever I do
by the severity of the infraction,”
he said. “Other things I look at
are the more personal charac
teristics of that student.”
Kibler said if a student seems
to realize the severity of what he
has done and is truly repentant,
he tries to give the student the
benefit of the doubt. He said he
must have a clear, obvious
reason to choose a severe pun
ishment.
Kibler said he takes a chance
on the students and said he
usually is right. Those who come
back again and again usually
don’t stay around too long, he
said.
The B’nai BYith
Hillel Foundation
and
The Texas A&M
Theatre Arts
Department
present to you
an evening with
Elizabeth
Swados
Nov. 4 8 p.m. Rudder Forum
“Elizabeth Swados, at 31, is already an internationally known
writer, composer, and theatre director. She has received
numerous honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, three
Obie Awards and the Outer Critics Circle Award. Her 1978
Broadway musical hit, Runaways, received five Tony nomina
tions.”
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