Wednesday, November 13,1985/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
Special courses
instruct students
in leadership skills
By LINDA SIPPOLA
Reporter
A series of leadership classes is be
ing offered this spring through the
Department of student Activities,
the management department and
the sociology department.
The classes focus on aspects of
management and leadership skills
student leaders need in their posi
tions, says Dr. Carolyn Adair, direc
tor of student activities.
Students learn to train and super
vise others as well as to manage time
and money, Adair says.
The Department of Student Ac
tivities started the classes to inform
student leaders about the University,
Adair says.
From there, new classes devel
oped as they were needed, she says.
The courses now offered by stu
dent activites include: Emerging
Leaders Seminar, Speakers Seminar,
Management of Student Organiza
tions, Leadership Ethics in Organi
zations and Minority Student Lead
ership.
Students earn one credit hour for
any of the courses except the Emerg
ing Leaders Seminar, which is of
fered for freshmen only with no
credit given.
All of these courses are listed in
the course schedule as Management
481 except the class in minority lead
ership, wnich is Sociology 489.
Because different classes have the
same course number, Adair warns
that students must pay attention to
the section numbers when register-
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Martha Bellens, a student senator,
says that in her class she learned to
motivate people and to draw out the
quiet ones.
Controlling large and small
groups is another skill Bellens says
she learned.
“The classes are like a bi^
workshop more than anything else/’
Bellens says.
Michelle Davis, president of Off-
Campus Aggies, says she took two of
the classes because she felt they
would help her learn communica
tion and leadership skills.
“The classes helped me under
stand how to deal with other peo
ple,” Davis says.
Adair says most students taking
the classes are in leadership posi
tions, but the classes are open to all
students.
The enrollment in certain classes
is limited, but others accept as many
as the room will hold, Adair says.
Students can register for these
classes just as they do for their regu
lar classes unless the class is by appli
cation, Adair says.
Students must apply for the
speakers’ seminar. The leadership
ethics course has a limited enroll
ment, but is open to all students.
' Before enrolling in these classes,
Adair says, the student must contact
her office.
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:alized how ttiparing to charge your battalion,
near Eastern* You grab your weapon and brace
■en the afterms yourself for a confrontation.
:d how horrif)i$l The bugle sounds and, with a wild
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j'or you’re a member of the Texas
A&lVf Living Historians.
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J The Living Historians is an orga-
Inization comprised of students inter-
?nior iourm ested j n American military history,
t for The M primarily the Civil War.
|, "Our organization offers the op
portunity to go back in time and re-
J live history,” said Scott Swenson, a
T7 TT; past presiaent of the club.
.t 0 n I “Vou get to experience some of
the hardships soldiers faced during
. J mat time period.”
i'Bob McCaP ! Although the members of the club
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affiliated “We strive for education of the pub-
tudent Sena® he on historical accuracy,” Swenson
ts any iticori't said.
I “We want to quell some of the
myths about this time that Holly
wood has started. There was a quote
once in a historical magazine that we
like to go by. It said, ‘History pre
served through knowleo
shared.’ ”
“We even get down to how (the soldiers) stitch the but
tons on their uniforms and the underwear they wore.
When you wear the clothes and eat the food you can ap
preciate what they did more. ”
— Scott Swenson, past president of the Texas A&M
Living Historians.
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Swenson said before the Histori
ans go to a re-enactment, they re
search the uniforms, weapons and
food eaten at that time.
“We even get down to how they
stitch the buttons on their uniforms
and the underwear they wore,” he
said. “When you wear the clothes
and eat the food you can appreciate
what they did more.”
The Living Historians was started
in 1979, but Swenson said it only was
an information center for people
who wanted to go to re-enactments.
“Most of the people who got into
the group were already involved in
re-enactments and we never really
did things together,” he said.
“In 1982 we decided to make our
own unit because we felt it was stu
pid for there to be a group of Aggies
at a re-enactment and some to be in
one regiment and some in another.
There were some even fighting for
the Union.”
Swenson said he also noticed a
change in the distribution of the
members in the club.
“In 1981, when I got here, there
were about eight or nine members
and all of us were in the Corps,” he
said.
“Right now I would say about 80
percent of our members are in the
Corps and 20 percent are non-regs.”
David Boutwell, president of the
Living Historians, said some people
take what their forefathers dia more
seriously than others.
“It’s an awesome feeling when you
see your ancestor’s grave and know
that he fought in the war,” Boutwell
said.
Re-enacting the Civil War is some
thing someone already must be in
terested in, he added.
“One of the biggest problems we
have in getting members is the cost
of the hobby,” be said.
There are no club dues, but each
member is required to have his own
uniform and equipment.
Swenson says the average cost to
be a well-equipped infantryman is a
minimum of $600.
“The longer you are involved in
re-enactments, the more uniforms
and equipment you want,” he said.
To allow prospective members the
chance to see if the club is for them,
members will loan uniforms to them
for their first battle.
“The only requirement we have is
if they want to stay with the group
after the first battle that they buy
their own equipment as they can af
ford it,” Swenson said.
To accommodate more members
and help defray expenses, the club
will be holding a bicycle auction Fri
day at Rudder Fountain with bicy
cles that the campus police have in
their possession, he said.
The money raised at this auction
will enable members to go on more
re-enactment trips in the next year.
Next year will be the 125th anni
versary of the start of the Civil War
and will be a busy year for the club,
he said.
The club goes to about eight or
nine events a year, but he said, in
1986 members hope to attend about
15.
“This hobby is bigger in the East
because they live closer to Civil War
historical sites,” Swenson said.
“Traveling for eight or nine hours
by car is nothing for us, but in the
East they can go to re-enactments all
year ana never get more than one or
two hours away from their home
towns.”
Traveling will not be a problem
for the club next spring when mem
bers hold a re-enactment on the
A&M campus.
There will be an instruction camp
set up on the Ormond R. Simpson
Drill Field complete with tents and
Confederate troops drilling.
This re-enactment will give the
club an opportunity to be in the pub
lic eye.
Until then, the Living Historians
will be defending the Confederacy
and doing their best to “whup” the
Federals.
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