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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1969)
Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, January 16, 1969 THE BATTALION Everyone’s cheering the high trade- in allowance or cash prices on used books Loupot's North Gate Potts Talks Sense To Troubled Ags With a friend in every county in Texas, Dr. Richard C. Potts finds it easier to talk with home sick youths making their first bid for an education at A&M. “I see a lot of boys homesick and wanting to quit,” said Potts, associate dean of the College of Agriculture. "But because of the long time I’ve been here, I know somebody in every county. By talking about someone in a boy’s own area, I get him talking and find out more about his problems,” he added. POTTS, WHO joined A&M in 1936 as an agronomist, finds no student is too big to “spank” and often does, academically speak ing. As a result he is loved and respected. His interest in students earned him the Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award for student relations in 1964. Three years later he received the Distin guished Service Awards from the State Association of Young Farm ers of Texas for outstanding serv ice to Texas youth. POTTS IS directly concerned with faculty-student relations and thinks they are at an all-time high in the college. He attributes the sound footing to faculty mem bers interested in their students. CANTEBURY BELTS 3im pt nr n co umtoersttp men’s toear 329 University Drive 713 / 846-3706 College Station, .Texas 77840 Back of it all, perhaps, is the unique philosophy of Potts who maintains an open door policy toward students. “By the time a young man gets to A&M he isn’t a failure,” em phasized Potts. “I never see a failure.” Admitting some students do leave school, he observed that “this is a relative sort of thing.” “In my own philosophy of work ing with young people I ask my self a question, ‘Suppose this boy was my own son—how would I want him treated?’,” Potts said. ALTHOUGH POTTS directs all faculty - student programs, he places the success of the program on his faculty advisors “who handle their own programs.” “I don’t tell them how to do it. They’re mature men,” he said. “I’ve always got faculty mem bers on a waiting list to serve as freshmen advisors,” he noted. “They do it because they want to. This is the key.” Potts also divides students among faculty members on a “common interest” basis. “For example, a student in terested in animal science is as signed to an animal science pro fessor. We get both together,” he said. Professors share their office and home telephone numbers with students’ parents through letters, creating closer bonds between the university, students and families, he stressed, adding, “Again, they do it on their own.” LARGE KITCHEN Using- the wide open spaces of his mobile home kitchen, Lewis Holmes, Fort Worth se: ior, prepares a meal. The kitchen comes fully equipped with stove, sinks, and refrigen tor. Its size would match most apartment kitchens. (Photo by Mike Wright) Mobil Living Students Bring I lome By MIKE WRIGHT While most Aggie residents give up the comforts of home in a dormitory room, some day stu dents bring their homes to school with them. Several mobile trailer parks surrounding the A&M campus provide students with not only a space to park their mobile homes, but also quick access to the campus. Most students either own their trailer or are purchasing it, via the monthly payment route. A few are kept by individuals for saferny has me cow evewDAy prices S a“ wsakwav Safeway Baby Beef Sale! Sirloin Steak Baby Beef. Safeway Waste-Free Trim Baby Beef - Round Steak 88 Baby Beef. Full cut. Lb. C Boneless—tenderized .Lb. 98*) Baby -Lb. T-Bone Steak Rib Steak Rump Roast Boneless Roast Del Monte Peas Early Garden C 17-oz.$ 1 W Cans JL Baby Baaf —Lb. Baby Baaf —Lb. PIkat Paak. Baby Baaf —Lb. FRYERS USDA Inspected Grade "A" Everyday Low Price! Whole (Cut-Up... 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Without Beans 15-02. Can Safeway Special! Giant Tide XK Gets Clothes Whiter! (10* Off Label) Safeway Special! 49-oz. Box 43 I With $5.00 purehmtm ar mora. aicUd/ag cfyaratfatl Banquet Dinners ssorted. 39* 1 Reg. Pkg. Everyday Low Price! Enriched Flour Harvest Blossom 39* 5-Lb. Bag Everyday Low Price! mm Shop Safeway for the Freshest Fruits & Vegetables! m Bananas 10 Tangerines Tangelos Carrots Winesap Apples Red Potatoes Navel Oranges US No. 1 "A” Bast for frying 10-Lb. Bag Medium Size Sunkist Fancy —Lb. 49* 19* Red Grapes _Lb. 294 Yellow Squash cSsx* —Lb. 294 Pineapple ,.,..,..1. » _..b394 Orange Juice,, Sr* 394 Papayas l..^. h.*.,. —1.., 394 Raisins „.... £•■354 Yellow Onions ,.7'.'.".,, i.7 354 Prunes ,«*■ kf: 474 Cookies i“w>.if» k i r r'1 ** r«tf» Asstd. Cookies wss it? 394 Sandwich Cookies Vanilla Wafers i*. Prlcos Kffoctlva Thar*., PrJ. and Sat., Jaa. 14,17 aad IB, in — Wa Reserve the Right to Limit Quentitiei. No Se(e« to Deeler*. 494*5,;' SAFEWAY 294*5,7 ©Ceyyrifht ItM.'Safewey Stem, leeerpereteW. rent. Campus students pay close $600 a year in room rent, b« and room deposit fees. In fi years, a student will have sp approximately $2,300 for w and board on campus. Excellent mobile homes available for under $1,500. A dent will use it for four yes and when he graduates, the st dent can usually sell it wlif the trailer sits for close to 6 purchasing price. But, the stuif has the chance to be repaid p of the cost for a room while school. If the student does not to cook in the trailer, there s boarding houses in Bryan wlii offer “all you can eat met for a dollar. Rent for a trailer space s the Bryan-College Station ar ranges from $20 to $35. H trailer park usually supplies i water. Peace and quiet is a key living in a mobile home, parking space is usually surrom ed by trailers occupied by ol students, traveling people, occupants who just like to S in mobile homes. And in w parks, the noise is held to amt mum. There is a lack of privacy a residence hall or dormit* room. Any minute friends» unintentionally interrupt stilt ing and sleeping with noises visits. But in the mobile home, ti chance is cut down considers! by the fact that the trailer some distance from the cam? This fact also, however, nisi a car essential for travel to * from school. If a student is wise, the money he will be out for college education will be his ; ition, fees, board, utilities $ tricity, telephone, gas, etc., 1 pending on the trailer and dent) and gasoline. Living in a trailer is not* roses. The occupant learns think small and conserve sft The low ceilings and shorter 1* can make it rough on tall peof 1 But they can be worked out' arranging the trailer to hous* larger bed. Also at the present time, trsi spaces are scarce. Students i renting them in this area as sf 1 as they are built. The problem of communicst* with campus news is also hin^ ed since usually the whole ^ is not spent on campus by a s student. Mobile home living may not 1 the best for every student, ^ it Will privide some with an ex' 1 lent place to study, sleep, and ; while attending college. Did Greyhound Bus Lines 1300 Texas 823-8071 Inexpensive Charter Sen'' ice for student groups or classes. Group accomodations arranged. YOU CAN'T LOSE WHEN YOU SELL AT LOU'S