Page 2 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1975
Seminar focuses
Blackmail on student writing
By JERRY NEEDHAM
City Editor
The recent actions taken by the Bryan Council in the utility rate
proceedings with College Station indicate a lack of total understanding
of the situation existing here in Brazos County.
Bryan’s actions can be called nothing but blackmail.
Bryan officials, in effect, delivered an ultimatum demanding an
almost unconditional surrender. The choices offered were to accept
Bryan’s offers or to go to court.
From all indications, Bryan’s demands for an increase would not
have held up in court.
College Station spends $3.5 million a year purchasing electricity
from Bryan. Most of this money is redistributed and circulated in
Bryan and Brazos County. This is a tremendous economic boon in
almost anyone’s book.
If College Station officials are antagonized into resorting to other
sources for utilities (such as Gulf States Utilities), that $3.5 million
would be leaving this region of Texas. The Bryan Council does not
seem to understand the implications of such an action.
This writer is not advocating that Bryan should sell utilities below
cost to College Station just to preserve a sizable economic input into
their community. Bryan officials however, should show a willingness
to submit the matter to an impartial arbitrator if College Station
officials favor that course of action.
The recent surrender of College Station to terms dictated by Bryan
might lead Bryan to believe College Station is a pushover. This writer
urges the College Station City Council to stand up for their rights.
Bryan’s position of treating the city of College Station as a single
family residence in Bryan is unfair. If Bryan wants to do it this way they
should be required to provide the same services to College Station that
they provide their own residents. These responsibilities include instal
ling and maintaining transmission lines, reading meters, collecting
fees, and suffering losses for those who don t pay.
Bryan has overshadowed its sister city to the south for many de
cades, but now College Station is becoming a city in its own right.
Bryan is in the driver’s seat now, but who’s to say what the situation
will be in 10 or 20 years. It appears Bryan officials intend to subjugate
College Station to its will at all costs — even friendship.
A cooperating and friendly attitude should be preserved between
the cities, but College Station should not bear the complete burden of
preserving this goodwill.
Time will tell who has won and who has been left behind.
Students today face an unparal
leled crisis in writing despite a grea
ter need than ever to communicate
effectively, says a TAMU English
professor.
TAMU is the host of an institute
in Dallas this week that may lead to
some solutions.
Dr. Forrest Burt, TAMU as
sociate professor and institute direc
tor, reports that what started out as
a regional meeting on the teaching
of writing has reached national
proportions because of the wide in
terest in writing skills.
Although the July 21-25 institute
is limited to 75 persons, representa
tives will be there from 15 states.
Texas institutions to be represented
include Southern Methodist Uni
versity, El Centro, Mountain View
Community College, Tarrant
County Junior College, Ranger
Junior College, San Antonio Col
lege, University of Houston and
Turner High School in Carrollton.
During the six-hours-a-day work
shop, participants will seek possible
solutions in writing instruction by
becoming writing students them
selves.
Three well-known figures will
criticize the teachers’ work. They
are James Kinneavy of the Univer
sity of Texas, Peter Elbow of Everg
reen State College in Washington
and Lou Kelly oflowa State Univer
sity.
Moderating the workshop will be
Dr. Elizabeth Wooten of the Mod
ern Language Association and As
sociation of Departments of English
in New York.
The institute is being held at the
Space research may aid
earth’s energy problems
CAPE CANAVERAL — The
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project may
yield valuable information about
applying space technology to the
earth’s energy and environmental
problems, according to U.S. Rep.
Olin E. Teague, D-Tex.
However, original plans for the
joint U.S.-Soviet space mission did
not include the 27 experiments car
ried out by the Apollo-Soyuz crews.
Half of the experiments were re
quested by the Defense Dt;parJ r
ment.
“We wanted to be sure we had
more than a $250 million handshake
in space,” Teague said.
“One project, for example, will
teach us more about the way crystal
formations are affected under zero
. gravity conditions,” Teague said.
NASA (National Space and
Aeronautics Administration) scien
tists believe that if certain assump
tions prove true, the crystal exper
iment could lead to accelerated
ways to converting certain materials
in space or space-like environments
to produce greater yields of usable
fuel.
,, u j .Teague said thaj the Apollo
energy experiments may result in a -
renewed interest in the entire space
program as a vital research tool.
He noted that the House last
April authorized the first budget in
crease for NASA programs since
1966.
Teague said that while the in
crease from $3.3 billion to $3.6 bill
ion is small, “It is encouraging to see
a reversal in the downward trend
which has plagued the space prog
ram for ten years.”
Teague said the space program
has resulted in many practical
technological advancements such as
weather and cqmmunications satel
lites and has made significant con
tributions to the medical field. For
example, the development of
pacesetters for coronary patients
came from space research.
‘Texas Monthly’ features projects
TAMU, particularly its research
program, is featured in the August
issue of “Texas Monthly.”
The nine-page cover story writ
ten by James Fallows is entitled
“Super Hero! How the Aggies Are
Going to Save the World.
Special emphasis is given to the
programs being conducted by the
Food Protein Research and De
velopment Center. Included are
the Center’s glandless cottonseed,
coconut and peanut projects, which
hold promise as major low-cost
sources to offset worldwide protein
shortages. Coverage also is given to
numerous other projects in agricul
ture, engineering and oceanog
raphy.
The writer for the Austin-based
Che Battalion
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Sensing a need for help in student
writing, Dr. Burt and other plan
ners began preparing an institute of
regional scope for Dallas and Fort
Worth. Before all was done, how
ever, it became apparent that this
was an issue of nationwide atten
tion. A number of schools in other
states put in bids to send represen
tatives, Burt said.
The informal, action-reaction
format of the workshop is expected
to determine the success of the
program and the ultimate success of
other institutes in the planning
stages, Burt said.
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