The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, April 13, 1973 Page: 4 of 8
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DEAR EDITOR:
Student trustees
Miracles at 21?
ANNA ARGUIJO
What incenses me so much is
that for years we heard the cry
of the 18-21 year olds. We want
to vote. Finally that privilege
has been granted to them and they
still do not have the sense to
use it.
There are 16,000 students at
San Antonio College, most of them
who are eligible voters in the
trustee elections. If just a frac-
tion ofthese turned out, they could
control the board of trustees, and
put students on the board in full
official voting capacities.
As far as calling political op-
ponents names -- all is fair in
love, war and politics. However,
all is not fair when a student
is singled out to be called a
sell-out to her race.
Advancement through coopera-
tion would be a better slogan
for Valdez to adopt. Cooperation
is needed through all phases of
life.
When there is no cooperation,
isolation reigns and history has
proven that nothing is accom-
plished through isolation.
If they do not turn out, then it
would be apparent the students of
this school do not support this
wild-eyed idea of railroading the
board of trustees into putting stu-
dents on the board without full
district elections on the matter.
NS
a person reach his 21st birthday before he can be
regarded as responsible? What miracle occurs?
Mr. Grover, the times and people, they are a-changin .
In accordance with this change, so must the laws.
Francisco Valdez -- open your
eyes and ears -- learn to be
criticized and when you criti-
cize, do so constructively not
destructively.
DEAR EDITOR:
I wish to comment on Fran-
cisco Valdez's letter to the edi-
tor in the April 6 Ranger.
If Christine Garcia's re-
marks are ''rather typical of ven-
dida, coconuts . . ." then I
would rather side with her than
with a narrow-minded human who
hasn't the decency to see two
sides of a story.
There is such a thing as
a healthy attitude of one's heri-
tage, but an obsession kills ad-
vancement, and advancement is
what Valdez preaches.
All this talk about putting stu-
dents on the board of trustees
leaves me somewhat bewildered.
It is apparent, at least among
some of our so-called student
leaders and candidates for lead-
ership positions, have not been
subject to an educational system
which correctly explains the
theory of government make-up.
Students have no right, in an
official or ex-officio capacity,
sitting on the board of trustees
unless they are. elected to those
positions by the taxpayers of this
district.
It is true that students pay tui-
tion to attend school buttheyalso
pay admission to go to a movie.
Do they thus demand the right to
tell the movie manager who to
hire and fire, how to pay his em-
ployes and, generally, how to run
his business?
Valdez appears to be calling
the kettle black.
He cuts down all racists and
sell-outs against the Mexican
race.
In doing so isn't he a racist
himself?
There is no real Mexican race.
Chicanos are Mexican-Ameri-
cans, and only when discrimi-
nation is shouted against “unfair
employment practices,” is this
name used.
The Mexican race is a blend
of Spanish and Indian blood --
there is no exclusive Mexican.
Full majority rights for 18-year-olds impose responsibility,
Texas Republican Henry Grover said. He added, however, that
this responsibility might prove too great for today's youth. This
is a point for disagreement.
Although they may not be the best educated or most intelligent
generation ever to have come into existence, young people of
today have the edge over past generations in being the best
informed.
They have an awareness of their environment and an experience
of events surrounding it that yesterday's youth can never lay
claim to.
Through these learning experiences, they have come to know
and understand the meaning of responsibility better than Grover
realizes.
Grover also feels that young people would lose the protection
of their parents if they gain the rights of citizenship. In this
respect, he is right.
One of the main ideas behind this proposal is to recognize
the maturity of today's youth in handling “adult” responsibilities.
It marks a rejection of the protective parental wing and the
establishment of a mentally, if not physically, independent human
being.
Does Grover favor restricting the development of youth as
individuals?
Does he believe that young Texas citizens 18 years and older
are so immature as to require their parents to make their
decisions?
Why must
David Castro, president of the Student Representative Assem-
blage, has submitted a resolution to the board of trustees that
would permit the student body presidents from here and St.
Philip's to sit on the board in an advisory position.
Because of the restrictions of state law, no member can be
appointed to the board with voting privileges. All members must
be elected at large for six-year terms.
At this time, students are allowed to make suggestions or
comments to board members during monthly meetings ata desig-
nated time. Therefore, the student government presidents, along
with other students, already may advise board members. Yet
without voting privileges, their comments may have little effect
on the board's decision.
It is possible for a student to run in the election for a position
on the board; however, it is difficultfor a student to be committed
for six years.
Rather than see'k a position for which the board members
already allow, the student government should investigate the
chances of revision of the present law concerning students on
the board of trustees.
At this time, a bill has been enacted in the House of Represen-
tatives which would allow students of senior institutions to be-
come board members for a certain length of time. With encourage-
ment from the students and administration of junior colleges,
the same type of act could be passed to include two-year institu-
tions.
4 - April 13, 1973 - THE RANGER
One of Castro's biggest fears is that
the assemblage will become an isolated
organization, a puppet of the administra-
tion.
Castro's fears should be put aside. If
the record voter turn-out in the recent
elections is any indication of things to
come, the assemblage should be aware that
many people are not only aware of its
existence, but willing to take an active
part in it.
-All the students need is a little more
awareness and more information.
The assemblage has produced and still
can produce effective leadership and
policy. It is finally on the long road to
success but there are some curves and
detours ahead that might slow the trip
to effectiveness.
All the assemblage has to remember is
to stay on the road.
By ANNA ARGUIJO
A Ranger interpretive
As in all administrations, the only
events remembered are thosg that caused
sensation or controversy.
So it is with . David Castro, Student
Representative Assemblage president, as
he ends his year as head of the organiza-
tion.
"Of all the things the assemblage did,
the most attention-grabbing item was the
Young Socialist Alliance resolution," he
said as he reflected on the past.
The YSA approached Castro and asked
for the assemblage to support the organi-
zation on Florida State University campus.
When the resolution came up for a vote
and tied, Castro broke the tie in favor of
the resolution.
"I still feel if the resolution comes up
the Southwest Texas Junior Col lege Student
Government Association.
Personal conflicts, always evident,
divided the assemblage many times during
voting procedures on many bills and re-
solutions.
"Sometimes my job consisted of acting
as compromiser between factions,"
Castro said.
In this position he encountered not only
conflicts of his own, but at many times
the factions would join together and go
against Castro.
He is the first to say that many of those
in the assemblage are on ego trips.
"They get elected for their own good,
not the good of the students. I would like
to see people in the assemblage who are
not on ego trips, people who have the-
interest of the students at heart," Castro
said.
Student president reflects on assemblage effectiveness
for a vote again, I'd still vote the same,"
he said.
The assemblage came under fire from
not only its members, but also from other
students and administrators.
One thing Castro should appreciate is the
attention given to the council. However, it
would be harsh to say that the YSA
resolution is the only thing accomplished
by the assemblage.
The O'Shaw Recreation Room started
under the present head, as did the Lyndon
B. Johnson Memorial Scholarship Fund.
The handicapped students profited by the
new ramps built after the assemblage
caused commotion over their plight. An-
other undertaking by the group is the re-
routement of escalator traffic after the
spring vacation.
As far as government is concerned,
this campus is regional vice president of
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