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Opinio;
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H ave you ever noticed how some
object can jolt one’s
subconscious? Such a shock hit
me while I was taking a study break
I picked up my trusty copy of “The
Official Boy Scout Handbook.”
flipped through it, entranced by
Norman Rockwell’s pictures of young
men adventuring in the grand North
American woods. I never was much of a
Scout, but I felt like I was there,
biking along with them or grabbing a canoe and
fishing from an ancient lake. Moreover, I found
myself wishing I was there.
In fact, every time I see anything in
magazines or television that shows people
accomplishing ordinary feats in some foreign or
exotic place, I stare in awe.
I have been in school since I was six, like most
people. Each year, all of us are encouraged by
teachers to make the grade, to produce, so that we
all may have stunning futures. As soon as we get
out of school, we have wonderful choices ahead, to
either get a job or go back to school. How exciting!
The more I think about this subject, the more it
bothers me. I don’t want to spend my whole life
dug into the pit of preparing for a life that wall not
be lived, time slowly ticking away.
How few of us have actually accomplished
JOSEF
ELCHANAN
anything in our 20-
year-plus lives.
Alexander the
Great had
conquered the
known world by the
time he was our
age. We have all
this energy, all this
desire and drive,
and we waste so
much of our time in classrooms, memorizing names
and formulas for esoteric theories developed by
other people - whom we are supposed to respect
because they spent their lives out experiencing the
real world! These people created an original
relationship with nature, with humanity, wdth the
ebb and flow of time; and we study them in a stale
environment. After all, Charles Darwin did not sit
in a classroom to figure-out evolution and Whitman
did not write poetry in study hall.
Most importantly, why are we allowed no time
for realization or self-discovery? The University
can continue to push information down our throats
at an increasing rate, but what good will this
information be to us if we have nothing left to
respond to it, no human skills?
I have had very few classes that ever placed
enough value on experience, wisdom, or common
sense. Learning how to do things must be more
important than learning the reasons and
meanings of old events. And none of us get enough
time to build ourselves into people that have
anything but regurgitated information.
An important note is a definition of experience.
Experience is not hanging-out at South Padre
drinking beer or going on cruises or any other
bought-in-a-candy-wrapper vacation. Experience is
one of those things you work for. Hiking through
dense forests, sailing ocean waters on a small boat,
Hiking through dense forests, sailing
ocean waters on a small boat, fly fishing
in Alaska - Why shouldn't these be in
cluded in the educational experience?
fly fishing in Alaska. These activities may not earn
us merit badges anymore, but they are no less
important. Why shouldn’t these be included in the
educational experience? Don’t these self-
actualizing activities have as much or more weight
than any class we take to graduate?
How many of us will get married, have kids, and
get old without ever having looked in a clear spring,
seen our own face, and be able to say, “I know who
that person is?” How can any of us identify with our
mates or our children if we cannot know ourselves?
Is it enough to have drive, without direction,
without true purpose?
Through hard exercise of the spirit, we can learn
our limitations. Through real-life mistakes, each of
us may be able to change now, while we are flexible,
instead of when we are too old for it to make a
difference. I would love to never be trapped in an
office, but see and experience things that will make
me grow and mature. Things that will
make me wiser.
A hundred years ago, if a man
wanted to leave his home and find
himself, he could simply pack a few
things and drop out of time. There were
always undiscovered territories, free
places. Now, society has expanded and
there are no true wildernesses, except
one, our own consciousness. Exploring
ourselves must become as important as exploring
chemistry, math, English and the like.
A complete education can be relied upon, a
classroom “education” is a fallacy, as well as a
misnomer.
Josef Elchanan is a senior
business management major
Endless hike ends with car crisis
Personal experience proves Aggies really do help Aggies on highways
ERIN
HILL
L ast spring as
everything
began to
tloom and finals
liomed ominously
in the not too
Jistant future,the
(pinion page staff
decided to go on a
camping trip to
Huntsville State
Park one Friday. After an enjoyable evening of storytelling
around a campfire, we awoke to lovely weather.
Nature beckoned. And so we took a group walk down the
road that passed our campsite. After successful completion
afthat 100-yard trail, we decided to end the camping spree
with a real nature walk. The lake around which the trail
wound looked small. We could see the other side - it
touldn’t be too bad, right?
But inadvertently we took the path that circled around
the Great Lakes, instead of the two-mile, “jaunt around the
pond” trail. For 12 miles we kept looking around each bend
in the road for our
tents and for
twelve miles we
aw nothing but
nore bends in the
lath. No one had
bod, water or bug
spray... or the
tardiovascular
itness needed to hike 12 miles in the middle of a humid
Texas afternoon. By the time we completed the trail and
ihecked out of the campsite we were beyond tired. We were
ilso beyond rumpled and dirty. The whole lot of us on a
loster with the caption “Save America’s Future - Take care
if a pitiful college student” would have brought in untold
ortunes to A&M’s scholarship fund.
It was in this disheveled and fatigued state that we
leaded back to College Station. Not surprisingly, our well
Janned caravan of cars fell apart after only a few miles. The
ead cars sped ahead and didn’t notice the driver of the car I
ode in. Hard to believe since he was honking, flashing his
rights and swerving across the road. Believe me, other
seople noticed ... and accelerated away from us as quickly as
hey could. After all, a swerving, honking and flashing car
nth smoke billowing out from under the hood means only
We inadvertently took the path that cir
cled around the Great Lakes, instead of
the two-mile, "jaunt around the pond"
trail. No one had food, water or bug spray.
one thing: car trouble.
We pulled off the highway and examined the steadily
growing pool of liquid under the engine. What, we wondered,
were we supposed to do? It beat us.
We just stood there, opening and closing the hood in hopes
that the fanning action would trigger long lost memories of
basic car repair skills. But no such memories came back to
us since they were never there in the first place.
Thankfully, I discovered that the Indian Paintbrush found
plentifully in every nearby field was edible (even tasty if
you’re into that flora kind of thing).
Just as I was trying to weave a basket in which to store
our food supply, a truck pulled over. The driver asked if he
could help and offered the use of his cellular phone. The man
who had been driving our car walked over to the truck to
place a call while I, waited behind the car with another
woman. Then came the real kicker.
Out of nowhere came a Honda with an A&M sticker in
the back window. This Aggie stopped because, as she told
us, she was concerned when she saw the two of us standing
by ourselves and wanted to make sure we were safe.
She had nothing to fear, since the man who stopped was a
well-intentioned camper returning to
College Station - he ended up taking us
back to town. But, it was incredibly
thoughtful that she stopped to make
sure we were in good hands. With a
smile, she drove away into the sunset.
As we watched her go, we laughed.
Laughed because of the irony of these
two kind souls stopping to help us: the
man in the truck and the Aggie.
You see - and I admit this somewhat hesitantly -1 thought
The Battalion was receiving an excessive amount of “Aggies
helping Aggies on the highway” letters to Mail Call. I may have
snickered once or twice at the improbability of so many people
being helped and some people may have heard me making
comments like, “Where do these letters come from, anyway?”
What’s the likelihood that an Aggie will be on the same
stretch of road when one’s car breaks down? I don’t know,
but it didn’t seem promising.
Well, promising or no, I learned my lesson. And now I
promise that I will never again chuckle when someone writes
in with a heartwarming story about kindness on the
highways of Texas. I’ve been there and seen it.
Erin Hill is a senior English major
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Choice Chancellor
Thompson capable of meeting challenges
iP ty,A)
Dr. Barry Thompson, newly
named chancellor of the Texas A&M
University System, fulfills the Sys
tem’s need for a strong, experienced
leader in that position.
Thompson has been lauded by the
Board of Regents as an individual
with an exemplary track record. He
has spent many years in both public
schools and university educa
tion as a teacher, scholar
and administrator.
In addition to his
honors in these po
sitions, Thomp
son has dis
played energetic
commitment to
community and
professional or
ganizations.
Dr. Thompson
also boasts a his
tory of close, per
sonal ties with his
students and is re
portedly ready to hit
the ground running and
working hard. He earned
the nickname “Dr. T” from some
of those former students.
His many accomplishments in only
three years as president at West Texas
A&M University include significant in
creases in enrollment, retention, grants
and other development funding. Hope
fully the System will benefit from his
bstinence remains
referable to abortion
I am writing in response to the July
editorial about the inaccessibility of
'ortion facilities. It is not the corn-
unity’s responsibility to provide a
ace where mothers, who are irre
sponsible, can go and have their ba
bies killed. It saddens me to think that
no one would have said anything if the
student who was indicted for
manslaughter would have gone and
had an abortion. It is the same thing,
it’s still murder. People think just be
cause the baby is inside the mother’s
womb that it’s not a person, and that
makes it right to kill. It is terrible to
think in some hospitals on one floor
they are fighting to save premature
babies and on another they are killing
them. There are so many people who
are not able to have children and
would give almost anything to be able
to adopt a baby.
I think it is the community’s re
sponsibility to teach their children
that abstinence till marriage is the
only way to prevent unwanted preg
nancy and the spread of disease. I can
only hope that our community and its
doctors will continue to have a conser
vative attitude about this matter.
Stacie Blake
Texas A&M Staff
Nobody 'knows' right,
wrong of homosexuality
While reading Buzz Refugio’s letter
on July 18, I was pleased to see an ar
ticulate response to Susie Carter’s
July 13 letter, and I felt he made sev
eral good points. I, too, felt that
Carter’s letter heavily implied that
AIDS and sodomy are exclusive to the
homosexual community, and indeed
any article on AIDS will show that
they are not. I was disappointed, how
ever, when I came across Refugio’s
closing paragraph which began, “As a
Catholic, I know that homosexuality is
wrong ...” because his next sentence
reads, “... as humans, we are not and
never will be the final judge and jury.”
His use of the word “know” indicated
that it is fact that homosexuality is
wrong, when really it is Refugio’s own
personal belief. If we as people cannot
judge others, then perhaps he would
have made a better point by saying
that he “thinks” or “believes” this wav
direction to the same extent.
Thompson already has made plans
to polish the tarnished image from
which our school is currently suffering.
This “Operation Lone Star” will be de
signed to aid in changing the public’s
view of the System and particularly the
University. Under Thompson’s leader
ship, perhaps the recent setbacks, ath
letic, the state budget and the
recent indictments among
other pressing public
relations sticklers.
Despite this ap
pearance of per
sonal readiness,
Thompson will
face many chal
lenges after he
takes the helm
on August 1.
First and fore
most among
these responsi
bilities will be the
preservation and
extension of the Sys
tem schools’ academic
reputations and financing.
Dr. Thompson deserves a
warm welcome to this campus and best
wishes for the best of luck running the
System. Hopefully, the decision to
choose Dr. Thompson as head of the ad
ministration will prove as productive
and impressive as his previous record
indicates it will be.
about homosexuality. No person can
ever declare that he or she “knows”
that homosexuality is right or wrong,
because one can only know facts which
can be proven; despite the endless dis
cussion concerning this matter, no one
has yet to prove either case.
Jennifer Wormuth
Oceanography Department
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