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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1957)
Freshman Edition the BATTA wmmr r^k 1 ■ JT^m Number 11: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1957 Price Five Cents n of Students Safe Campus A&M has a safe campus, ac cording: to Fred Hickman, chief of Campus Security. This is made possible ■ not through our police force, but by combined efforts of . both students and the Campus Se curity forces. “Students are welcome to bring their cars to the- campus but cer tain procedures have to be ob served and certain regulations a- bided by”, Hickman added. College regulations provide stu dents must register their vehicles (including motor scooters, etc.) at the Campus Security Office, loca ted in the basement of the YMCA not later than 48 hours after ar rival. This pertains only to a car you plan to keep here with you. Reg istration fee is $1 per semester and registration will take place in September. You will be given a decal that should be placed on the light hand side, of the car wind shield. Parking Decals , This decal will have a partic ular color, depending on which area of the campus you live, and this Color will indicate the parking lot area in which you are to park your vehicle. • The different colors of the de cals indicate the following park ing areas: blue—day student s’ parking areas, red—dorms 1-12, brown—dorms 14-17 and Walton Hall, green—Law, Puryear, Miteh- pll and Leggett Halls, black—Hart, {iizzell and Milner Halls. During business hours campus streets are adequate only for hand ling of traffic necessary to col lege business. These hour’s are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Students’ cars must be parked in their proper parking area by 2 a.m. Thus, between 5 p.m. and 2 a.m., Monday through Saturday mornings, students can park their cars in areas usually reserved for business. Twelve noon Saturday until 2 a.m. Mon day are also free parking periods. Students cannot drive cars to classes. They may use them for off-campus trips during classroom hours provided no stops are made on the campus. State Laws Texas laws governing Itraffic are effective at A&M. Speed lim its are 20 and 30 mph, and are posted. PEDESTRIANS SHALL AT ALL TIMES HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY, and at intervals between classes vehicular traffic is expected to stop for a sufficient period of time to allow pedestrians to ci'oss drives and streets. Now that the majority of the basic college traffic regulations has been discussed, the next step is what happens when a regulation is violated. Under an authoriza tion granted by the A&M System Board of Directors a fee may be levied for regaining college driv ing permits taken from violators of college traffic laws. The maximum fee authorized was $2 for parking violations, $3 for moving car violations and $5 for violation of driving cars on the campus after the permit had been withdrawn. Each violator has 72 hours to redeem the driving per mit without an additional fine be ing added. At the bottom of every ticket issued will be insti’uctions on how you may go about getting your car reinstated and the procedure and place to go. If the driver thinks the ticket is unwarranted he should report to the Campus Security Office where notice of appeal may be prepared. Appeal Court The coun t appeal is to be open from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Student Loan Office, with Col. E. F. Sauer, student labor and loans director, as appeal authority. Sauer’s de cisions on appeal cases will be based on the circumstances under which violations occured. Should a student lose his appeal or if he does not appeal, he must pay the fee to get his driving right restored. If he wins his case, his ticket will be torn up. The fee is technically not a fine, for the student does not have to pay it unless he wants his driv ing privileges on the campus re stored. A larger fee will be assessed if a student drives his car on the campus without first getting his permit back, either by paying the violations fee or by winning his appeal to the traffic officer. Fur ther violations may cause the case to become a matter for disciplin ary action. Money Question The question every student wants to know is, “Where does the money go that is taken in as reinstatement fees?” The answer is very simple and important. According to Hickman, every cent taken in under this pro gram is used to improve and make available more adequate parking lots for the students. This is the I’eason for the hike in registration and reinstatement fees,, When you register your car, you will be given a pamphlet of the traffic rules. BE SURE TO READ EVERY LINE. You can help yourself and the college at the same time. Civilian (Council Assists Student Orientations Civilian student orientation will be assisted by the Civil ian Student Council through special programs for all new students. Orientation for the “Non Regs” will consist of meetings concern ing “worthy traditions” such as silver taps and yell practices. Al so a major part of the civilian or ientation will be an attempt to eliminate possible conflicts with the Corps of Cadets. Councils from the various dorms will coordinate to eliminate fric tion with . the cadets. An invita tion is sent to representatives of the Corps staff to visit the Civil ian dorms and council meetings. Most Civilian students, like most cadets, are interested and anxious to cooperate with the Corps in reaching agreements and in ad vancing relationships. Other objectives of the councils are to build interest in the dorms. Looks and cleanliness are empha sized. Song fests are suggested for getting the students within the dorms more acquainted with each other. The students will have access to NO, IT IS NOT A STILL, it’s A&M’s new atomic reactor. The HEN 201 reactor, loca ted in the ME Shops, is safer than a driver on the highways. The reactor, to be used for research, will “go critical” or be active within two weeks. academic help through the year. Social activities will give the stu dents a chance to get together and talk about everything from dances to quizzes. The social activities, may consist of smokers, coffee and doughnut gatherings. Last year there was a coffee and doughnut party in the lounge of Puryear Hall which was paid for by the students themselves. Open house is another social activity suggested. Another program for the coun cils will be the coordination of rec reational activities. Intramural teams are a product of such ac tions. The Civilian Student Council was first put to work in Septem ber 1954 and has proved to be a valuable asset to the students and to the administration. The pri mary functions of the council are adequately covered in the consti tution. Students are given an opportuni ty to file for positions and 'parti cipate in regular elections, thus gaining experience in important democratic procedures. After councilmen are elected the council is organized by election of officers and selection of commit tees. Participants gain valuable knowledge in proper parliamentary procedures and in developing sys tematic. work programs. Members get experience in pre senting their personal ideas and in representing their constituents. They also get much first hand knowledge of the many problems confronting the college staff and the students. Projects of no importance should be left alone and energies turned to worthwhile means. 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