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Page 4/The Battalion/Thursday, February 19, 1987
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Northgate
Balfa/ion opinion page editor
speaks on abolishment of Corps
By Kent Hawes
Reporter
“I feel that the image created by
the Corps of Cadets distorts the
image of A&M as a whole, and
therefore will prohibit it from gain
ing national academic recognition,”
said the opinion page editor of The
Battalion at Wednesday’s Fountain
Forum, which was held in front of
Rudder Tower.
Mike Sullivan, a senior journalism
student, addressed comments and
questions from a crowd of about 25
people at the forum. Most of the
comments dealt with a column Sulli
van wrote in the Jan. 28 issue of The
Battalion, which proposed the need
for the abolishment of the Texas
A&M Corps of Cadets.
Sullivan noted thatonlvljil
bers of the Corps are conn
into the military each year,r
ing to a comment from out!j
member about the Corps’!
training future military I
livan suggested that theCorpi
shaped into an ROTCpn
would have less influenceo
University's image. Sullivans!
Corps forms only a small pari
University community, yeti
the entire student body at AH
said the majority — not then
— should rule.
Sullivan’s comments drew hot de
bates from an audience composed
mostly of students and members of
the Corps. The discussion was domi
nated by two members of the Corps
and three non-uniform students. A
former student dressed in a military
uniform also voiced his opinion
against Sullivan and The Battalion,
saying they “perverted the news.”
Sullivan, originally from Illinois,
Mike Sullivan
said A&M is perceived as a military
academy instead of an institution of
academic excellence. He said he has
spoken with professors and friends
who agree that “the basic image of
A&M is the Corps of Cadets, because
it is so unique, and if you want it
(A&M) to grow to a world-status uni
versity,” then the Corps should tie
abolished.
I -imlxla Sigma began sp
the debates in Fall l984toal
pie the chance to speakonul
which may be of interesttost
The forum is a weeklyi
sponsored by Lambda
sophomore honor society. U
cently, the program wasImj
Sully’s Symposium andwasi
the Lawrence Sullivan Rossst
front of the Academic Builtel
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Traci Carnahan, sub
chairman for Sully’s' Syif
said the debate was moved fit
statue to the Rudder fouiffij
because of greater student c
High court says state on target with TECk
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Su
preme Court ruled Wednesday that
the state had a legal and legitimate
reason to require all educators to
take a literacy exam to keep their
teaching certificates.
In a unanimous decision, the high
court said a teaching certificate is a
license and not a contract, therefore
the state can change the rules con
cerning the license.
“Teacher testing is a rational
means of achieving the legitimate
state objective of ensuring that pub
lic school educators meet specified
standards of competency,” Justice
Robert Campbell said in his opinion
for the court.
The Texas Examination of Cur
rent Administrators and Teachers,
approved as part of the 1984 school
reform bill, was given to 202,()()() ed
ucators. Eventually, 99.1 percent of
the teachers and administrators
passed the test.
Jim Butler, Texas Stale!
Association’s executive direi i
the state Supreme Court4
was expected. He said TS!|
lieves educators shouldbep
what they do on the job and:
paper-and-pencil test.
U.S. Secretary of Educfi'
liam Bennett, in Austin I
House members, said he is 111
get a copy of the TECAT ?
the test was worthwhile.
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