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2 — Oct. 3, 1975 — THE RANGER
Nov. 4 election needs participation
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You still have time to register
Board should establish pay policy
Letters to the editor
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Reader responds to gun control
Dear Editor
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G. H.
Dear Editor:
Afterthoughts
Writer says litter avoidable
by jim beal
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A .A. Mendoza
Dear Editor:
From the looks of the campus and
buildings it appears the custodians are
losing the battle.
The sad part about litter problems in
general and our litter problem in par-
ticular is that they are totally unneces-
sary and avoidable.
Why leave dirty plates and trays on
cafeteria tables? Why throw newspap-
ers on the floor? Why empty car
ashtrays in the parking lots?
Somewhere along the line of our
search for higher education we seem to
have forgotten a few basic things such
as courtesy, common sense and coop-
eration.
This campus does not need to be
trashy. It may be crowded, but it also
can be clean.
If 21,000 people work at cleaning in-
stead of dirtying this place would be
litter-free in a couple of days.
We all need to work together, throw
garbage in garbage cans and give a
little thought to our environment.
Who knows, maybe.we can even
make a custodian smile.
Teachers also were prominent in help-
ing defeat Sen. Margaret Chase Smith,
R-Me.
NEA hopes to have people who sup-
port the goals and needs of teachers in
government.
Texas State Teachers Association, the
state affiliate of NEA, has experienced
parallel growth to that of NEA.
According to a survey on the lobbies
of Texas, TSTA was found to be the sec-
ond most effective lobbying power in the
state.
Another significant show of teacher
power was the significant gathering of
35,000 educators who met in Austin’s
University of Texas Memorial Stadium
April 26 in support of the TSTA school
finance proposals.
Membership goals of TSTA for 1975
have been exceeded. “TSTA has 164,000
members,” Charles B. Hamilton, direc-
tor of field operations for TSTA, said.
Hamilton believes TSTA needs to
make progress in helping assist deci-
sions affecting teachers.
I recently had some con-
tact with members of the
Young Socialist Alliance.
They are a scary group with
an obsession of power of
the masses. What is really
scary is I realize socialism
is probably one of the most
efficient means of utilizing
governmental power.
Power, no matter who has
it, will nearly always be-
come abused power. Power
also implies force: military,
mob, legal, social, econo-
mic, police, ugly, raw coer-
cern is to promote better education for
school children and secondly improve
the working conditions of teachers,”
Hamilton said.
Hamilton includes other priorities of
TSTA as helping to find a better solution
or way of funding Texas public schools
and finding better ways to recruit and
hold competent teachers.
“We’re also interested in finding ways-
to make more meaningful the profes-
sional rights for teachers and better
ways to find our responsibilities.
“We’re interested in finding ways in
which we can get teachers more politi-
cally active and discovering a better
voice in their association,” Hamilton
said.
Hamilton explained that Texas had
achieved a unified teacher force, but it
had been one of the last.
“Overall, we (TSTA) represent more
than 90 percent of the professional
educators. No other state can boast
this,” Sara Youngblood, regional con-
sultant for TSTA, said. Region 20 con-
sists of 20 counties, including Bexar.
men like Richard Nixon and dealings of such gov-
ernment agencies as the Central Intelligence
Agency, (CIA), exemplify these citizens’ beliefs.
They are dissatisfied with education standards,
busing requirements and federal bureaucracy.
Americans question whether a double standard ex-
ists for government leaders and average citizens.
And these pessimists may be right. But the only
way to correct these situations is to vote. The writers
of the greatest document existing today, the Ameri-
can Constitution, established a method of self-rule,
but the method works only if people use it. The right
to expand or limit the government is the right of all
citizens.
Daniel Webster once said, ‘‘God grants liberty to
those who love it.”
The Constitution grants the right to vote to any
citizen who chooses to use it.
low voter participation in 1972. This does not neces-
sarily mean there is discrimination. Why doesn’t the
federal government face the fact that most people
do not care about what is happening in politics?
For the past years, and especially since the 1972
elections, people have been getting turned off by
politics. The word politicians implies dishonesty to
most people.
Then there are people who are worried of federal
intervention in state and local affairs. Why worry be-
fore the fact?
No one knows for sure what the results of this
extension will be. Give the act a chance to see how it
works.
Worrying before the fact will not change the status
of the act.
Sports Editor..
Photo Editor....
Photographers
Editor...................
Managing Editor.
News Editors.......
that he or she does not have office hours.
The amount of time lecturers spend on campus is
another reason for the higher pay. Many evening
division instructors teach more than one class and
they have to come to campus more than one night.
Many lecturers teach only one class and they only
have to come on campus either two or three days a
week, depending on their schedule.
Day division teachers who teach in the evening
also should be paid $1,100 instead of being put into
the evening division pay scale. In other professions,
most people are paid for overtime. These teachers
also are working overtime.
The lecturer is here only for four and one-half
months. He was hired because of the increased en-
rollment.
If the school has to use more lecturers in the
future, then there should be a written policy which
would establish a certain amount of money per
course that they would be paid.
This policy should be that lecturers would be paid
an amount between $605 and $1,100 per course.
.....................................Tom Reiter
.................................Karen Stallins
Alex De La Pena, Beverly Lopez,
Debbie Swift
................................Felix Sanchez
................................Jesse Quiroga
...... Roland Navarro, Eliza Saenz
Lecturers should not receive the same amount of
money per course full-time day division teachers do.
Nor should they receive more money per course
than evening division teachers.
All full-time teachers, regardless of academic
training, experience or tenure here, receive $1,100
per course.
Part-time evening division teachers with a
master’s degree receive $605 per course. These
teachers are on a pay scale depending on their
academic training. A teacher with a PhD receives
more money than a teacher with a master’s degree.
It is not fair, to full-time or part-time teachers, to
pay the lecturer $1,100 per course.
One reason lecturers get more money is because
they are expected to keep office hours. Many full-
time teachers who carry overloads in the evening
from the day division keep office hours and they do
not receive the same amount of money.
Some evening teachers keep office hours during
breaks between the class period. Others come early
or stay a little later. Just because an evening division
teacher does not have an office, it does not mean
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Growth and influence in national and
local politics are the most significant
gains made by the National Education
Association (NEA) and its state affiliate,
the Texas State Teachers Association,
(TSTA).
As of this year, NEA has approximately
1.7 million teachers in the association.
The number represents a sizeable and
potent force which is now only becom-
ing aware of the influence they can have
on decisions affecting teachers.
Statistics of 1972 national elections
show some of the power of the NEA.
During the 1972 national elections,
teachers were politically active in 184
national races with 128 of 165 House
candidates they supported winning and
13 of 19 Senate candidates they sup-
ported winning.
Among candidates supported by
teachers and winning was Barbara Jor-
dan, D-Tex., who was elected to the
House of Representatives on her first try.I read Tom Reiter’s “View-
point” with mixed emotions.
I do not believe the author
was specific. He seeks gun
control, but is that control of
all guns or restrictions on
handguns alone? If hefavors
control of all arms, I disag-
ree.
I believe a person should
have the right to purchase a
rifle with which to hunt. I do
not believe a handgun is
necessary. The only animal a
person can hunt with a
handgun is his neighbor.
A rifle, however, cannot be
concealed in a crowd or hid-
den in a coat pocket and
taken into a dingy bar. It
could, I suppose, be left on
the gun rack in the back of
the pick-up truck, but how
JIYoungblood attributed the 90 percent
representation to TSTA’s concern for
child education. “We have based our
whole program for 90 years around the
child,” Youngblood said.
Both Youngblood and Hamilton be-
lieve that because of TSTA’s concern for
children’s education, the association
will continue to grow and with that
growth will come an increase in the abil-
ity to further education’s needs.
“Because of our physical strength
(number of teachers in the association),
we can exert political pressure,”
Youngblood said. Youngblood believes
NEA and its affiliate state associations
will have a strong national impact.
“With 1.7 million strong we represent
the teacher’s profession. NEA (and state
affiliates like TSTA) plan to be a strong
powerful force in the next presidential
election.”
“If we educate our members about
political activism, this assumes a certain
amount of political membership,”
Youngblood concluded.
many bar fights allow the
people involved time to run
out to the truck?
I am not a hunter. I cannot
recall firing a rifle, but I do
believe in a hunter’s rights,
just as I believe in the right of
a football player to play foot-
ball.
You are correct when you
call for legislation control-
ling the sale of handguns. I
lack the details, but I believe
New York has a good
method of controlling hand-
gun sales and registering
those sold.
Anyone wishing to purch-
ase a handgun must have a
good reason to do so, or they
will notbeissuedapermitfor
purchase. A good reason
could be the need of a
jewelry salesman for protec-
tion when traveling, or an
Students and faculty here who are not registered
to vote should do so by today’s deadline.
At 5 p.m. today, voter registration ends for the
Nov. 4 election. For non-registered voters it is a last
chance to become eligible to vote in the constitu-
tional election.
The results of the election will determine the fate
of the new constitution. The Texas Constitution sets
up the fundamental principles by which the state is
governed. This nation was founded on the belief
people govern themselves, so it is essential Texans
have a voice in determining their constitution.
As of Monday 323,000 voters were registered in
Bexar County. Bexar County’s population exceeds
one million, two-third’s of which have the qualifica-
tions to be able to vote.
Americans can see the corruption of government
L and may decide the system is useless. The deceit of'
Voting Rights Act deserves trial
The controversy over the extension of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965 is a mystery.
Some people say there is discrimination in voting
and others say there is no discrimination. The ques-
tion is Is there discrimination? Apparently nobody
knows for sure.
Some people say that by applying this act to Texas
it makes the state look like a racist state. Well if this
is the case, then Texas has finally joined the Union.
All the other states can be called racist in one way or
another.
Discrimination was once thought to be a Southern
custom.
This is no longer the case. Boston is a good exam-
ple of this.
Congress applied this act to Texas because of the
off-duty police officer.
I may be wrong about this
type of control in New York,
but it sounds logical. If it
were made federal law, cion. How do you trust those
perhaps I could shake
Gerald Ford’s hand and not
fear an errant shot from a
would be assassin.
What is needed is in-
terested individuals who
give a damn, not an or-
ganized mob. What is
necessary is a logical
breakdown of large corpo-
rations, not the destruction
of free enterprise. What is
needed is less government,
not more.
I believethe socialists are
wrong. Government should
be on a human scale, not on
a mass power scale in order
to respond to people. It all
should be localized to
eliminate as much as pos-
sible any great power base
and be as diversified as
possible to insure survival.
If nothing else, this pro-
cess could take us until the
tricentennial.
In your Sept. 12 issue of
The Ranger two errors were
made concerning the
Psychology Club. The names
of the president and vice
president were mispelled.
The correct spelling is Au-
rora Arriaga, president, and
Humberto (Bert) Arriaga,
vice president.
Humberto Arriaga Jr.
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who have a philosophy of a
bully?
Obviously there are many
problems, but the power of
the masses would not stave
off war. A major class upris-
ing would not stop famines
or starvation. A socialist
state does not produce free
creative thought or end ra-
cism or make peace and
fruitfulness suddenly out of
nowhere.
Power does not necessar-
ily create glory. You cannot
force minds without killing
them.
Old smashed beer cans, hamburger
wrappers, piles of cigarette butts,
styrofoam cups - a description of the
city dump? No, a description of the
parking lots.
Mounds of chicken bones, empty soft
drink and coffee cups, candy wrappers,
newspapers, napkins - a restaurant
dumpster? Wrong again, it is adescrip-
tion of the cafeteria and snack bars.
This college has hundreds of trash
barrels and garbage cans scattered
around the campus. Most of these
waste receptacles are half filled at best
when the school day is over. Mean-
while, the grounds are littered with
trash. Table tops and floors in Loftin
Student Center and Moody Learning
Center snack study are covered with
garbage and the parking lots get what-
ever rubbish is left.
This college employs48 full-time cus-
todians to try to clean up behind more
than 21,000 students. That many peo-
ple can generate a lot of trash in one
day.
OS
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Teacher associations strive for political influence
“We definitely would like to have a
voice in matters that affect us. In years
past, school boards have made deci-
sions that affect us. We would like to be
consulted about our ideas and opin-
ions,” Hamilton said.
Hamilton mentioned four different
areas of concern to teachers. “First,
teacher-pupil ratio; improving the work-
ing condition for teachers; establishing
the rights and responsibilities of
teachers, and improving teachers’
salaries and economic benefits.”
Hamilton said teacher-pupil ratio is
not agreed upon by teachers. “It-de-
pends on the class,” he said.
He pointed out classes such as history
and mathematics usually vary in
number.
Hamilton favors improving working
conditions, supplies and teaching aids.
“We teachers expect to be treated as
citizens, regardless of race, color, creed
or gender,” Hamilton explained about
teachers’ rights.
“What we’re trying to do is promote
the quality of education. Our first con- „
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