THE BATTALIONPage 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, April 6, 1967

CADET SLOUCH by Jim EkirleSound Off

“Why couldn’t we have a whistle jock like other outfits instead of a drum jock?’,

Eco Department Has New Profs

Five new Texas A&M Eco­nomics Department faculty mem­bers have been announced by Dr. M. L. Greenhut, department head.

They include Dr. Svetozar Pejovih, Dr. John Allen, Dr. Robert Ekelund, W. Philip Gramm and Charles Maurice.

Dr. Pejovich, now at the Uni­versity of Dallas, will be an associate professor and coordina­tor of graduate programs. His Ph.D. degree is from George­town Universtiy, and he has a bachelor of law degree from Bel­grade University.

Dr. Allen will coordinate under­graduate programs as an assist­ant professor. His Ph.D. is from the University of Illinois where

he is a research associate in the Bureau of Economic Research.

Dr. Ekelund, Gramm and Mau­rice will be assistant professors at A&M. Ekelund is on the eco­nomics faculty at Louisiana State where he was graduated with honors in December.

Gramm and Maurice, doctoral candidates at the University of Georgia, expect to receive Ph.D. degrees this spring. They will join the A&M faculty in June.

Dr. Ekelund specializes in history of economic thought and economic regulation of industry. Gramm will teach economic his­tory. Maurice’s specialty is mathematical economics.

Prejovice, Allen and Ekelund will join the A&M faculty in September.

Editor;The Battalion:Dear Sir;

I saw with interest your pic­ture captioned “Victims of Apathy” and your editorial in Wednesday’s Batt. The most in­teresting thing to me was the sentence about the gathered crowd of 12. A quick count gives me 110 office seekers; I may have miscounted, but not by many. It looks as if my decision not to attend the “stump speeches” was a wise one, since it still would­n’t have given me any idea who to vote for. Some of those 12 (most, you said) were potential office seekers, and that gives me an idea at least one was not, which means that considerably less than 10 per cent of the people who wanted to get elect­ed showed up. Now whose apathy are you griping about, anyway?

It was also interesting that the three people pictured on your cover as victims of apathy were members of the Corps of Cadets. I’m a non reg (to put it mildly) and I don’t necessarily want a Corps member as my class pres­ident. Unfortunately, I don’t even know which ones of the candidates are non regs and which are not, and if your cover picture was representative of the stump speech turnout I still wouldn’t if I had gone. Now get this; I would vote for a Corps member if I thought he would try to do something for me. I really would! I ain’t proud. But I don’t even know which of these guys stands for what, or who thinks how about a subject, and if there were less than 12 candidates at the stump speeches I couldn’t have learned much by going, since after all two other classes were represented.

I don’t intend to vote tomor­row.

You tell me, “If you don’t vote, don’t gripe.” But if I do vote, my votes will simply be so much junk that some other junk voter will cancel out, and the candi­dates who have the most friends will be elected, just like every other year. The reason for this is simple: I don’t know whatthe BLANK I’m voting for. And if I don’t know what I’m voting for, there’s simply no sense in my throwing levers on the ballot machine, because somebody else equally ill-informed will simply

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cancel out my vote — the only possible result of your get-out- to-vote editorial policy.

Over - the - shoulder kibitzers have already gotten unhappy with me for just griping and not offer­ing any constructive suggestions. So here’s a couple.

Why can’t candidates be allow­ed to compaign for a week or so instead of just for one lousy day? There are ways of get­ting crowds, and if I heard some­one talking about something per­taining to my life and times I’m sure I’d try to find the time to start listening. And candidates standing in front of the mess halls would be sure to get lis­teners.

Couldn’t one special issue of the Batt be printed giving a pic­ture of each candidate and a short (50 words or so) discussion of his views ? Such an issue, just before an election, would be more valuable to me than any­thing else that could be done. Certainly I’d be better informed — and 100 per cent more likely to vote in the following elections! It would be costly and trouble­some to do, but worth it.

Your official nemesis Ric Locke ’70

★★★Editor;The Battalion:Dear Sir;

The annual farce of elections has begun again, only this time a little prematurely. I am re­ferring to the non-existent elec­tion “rally” on the steps of Guion Hall Tuesday. The scene was tension-packed. The candi­dates milled around, each anxi­ous to say something in his be­half and perhaps win enough votes (five or ten) to get elected. Things really got going when a Batt photographer appeared, but unfortunately one photographer is not sufficient audience for a rally, so the thing was inglori- ously over before it began.

This is very unfortunate, be­cause such rallies could be a great opportunity to find out what a candidate stands for, if anything. However, because of such total initial failure, the administration would be justified in discontinuing such attempts in the future.

Before this concept is aban­doned, however, a few changes might help. For example, much

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more publicity should be given, since people have to be aware of an event before they will attend it. Also, rallies could be held near Sbisa, since student traf­fic there at 5:00 p.m. is quite heavy. At any rate, something must be done to increase inter­est in such rallies, or the oppor­tunity will be gone again, prob­ably for a long time.

Sincerely,Claude R. Glover ’69

Luncheon Honors Mrs. D. L. BakerMrs. D. L. Baker, wife of the

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