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Students must take destiny in their hands and take classes on their own terms
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A&M cam
pus, a classroom
sits empty.
Somewhere in
Bryan, in the
heart of the ghet
to, a student lies
sleeping. His
head is filled with dreams of sug
arplums and scantily clad women.
Piles of trash and half-eaten pizza lie
on the floor around him; roaches
.wander in mid out. Everything is as it
should be. However, there is a seed
of discontent in this harmonious
scene — the student is skipping
class, and the few grains of guilt that
will eventually grow into a mountain
wheels of this great sewer system
turning is severely chastised. Who
at this campus has not had a finger
waggled at him or been roundly in
sulted for degrading the Student
Handbook, the Torah of the Aggie
synagogue? A&M and its piddling
interests are not the center of the
universe, and any student who real
izes this fact probably skips class
and all other University functions
on a regular basis.
The root cause of A&M faculty’s
and staff’s self-congratulatory and
student-deprecating attitude is that
they have forgotten who they work
for. Out-of-state students pay more
than $10,000 a year to attend this
University. In any other business,
would the vendor thumb his nose at
a customer spending that much
money at his kiosk? What hot-
dog vendor or garage would
dare insult a customer spending so
much money?
Part of the capitalist ethic is that
the customer has the ultimate power.
The customer’s money is what keeps
the businessman afloat, so the busi
nessman inevitably does what the
customer wants,
except in academia. In the academic
realm, it is the customer who serves
the service provider.
Students pay to work, like inden
tured servants. It will not be long be
fore students will not only do home
work, but serve as butlers and
The answer to the first question is
'obvious. A&M’s staff and faculty
suffer from a collective delusion of
grandeur, for which the student body
continually suffers. Anyone who has
ever had to drop a class or get rein
stated into one has felt the sanctimo
nious wrath of the self-prtK'laimed
demigods who rule this veritable
Mount Olympus, or Hades, depend
ing on one’s point of view.
Any minor mistake in the
mountainous trash heap of
service provider (ISPle , , ,
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bathroom attendants for faculty
members. What is next? Will the
Corps of Cadets have to shine the
bald heads of our administrators
rather than those of hallowed campus
landmarks? How long will it be be
fore graduate students are picking
cotton? Remember, this is the South;
it could happen.
Students inevitably feel guilty for
skipping class because they feel they
are wasting money by not going to
class. This is true. One pays for a se
mester of school, and this time is not
made up.
However, what sense does this
make? In
theory, it is
an oxymoron
to pay someone
to have power over
the buyer. Any stu
dent should, in theory,
' ^ ave t ^ ie t0 £° b ac k
•"^and retake classes he
missed or complain about a
Substandard grade. After all, the
Student paid for this time. In any
other field, the student would get it.
If one makes an appointment with a
barber and does
not make it, one
does not still have
to pay for the hair-
The only answer to such un- £-
American and anti-capitalist business
practices is a boycott (and if neces-
sary, hostage-taking, raping, pillag- •
ing, the usual). How can the student^
of a major university in such a great.’
country sit by and let The Man have !
his way with them like a wife beater;
whose dinner is late.
Americans are traditionally ac- '*
tivists, and, in that great tradition, /
students of this University should !
stand up and take arms. The only /
way to get the administration's atten
tion is through bloodshed.
Only when the streets run ma-
roon with the blood of the infidels;;
who run the cult compound that is
A&M will sanity return to the edu-'
cational institutions of the nation.
What this campus needs is a leader
for the revolt, a Spartacus-like fig-?
ure. Of course, he will need a Tony
Curtis look-alike for a sidekick so ;
that Bowen, after plastic surgery to
look more like Olivier, can take him
prisoner an question him on the
merits of snails and oysters.
Rise up, fellow students, and put
your teachers to the sword. And
whoever our Spartacus may be —
his name is probably Garth or
Jethro — but whatever, lead us to ■
everlasting glory (and oysters, or ■
perhaps snails). ;
Jason Bennyhoff is a
senior journalism major.
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