Students ‘Tell it like it is’
Transfer, Room Shortage Can Cause Some
By Pam Troboy
Battalion Staff Writer
“This really isn’t such a bad
deal,” Richard said, tossing a
pile of books on the motel room
floor.
“It’s a little crowded,” agreed
Ken, “but we won’t be here long.
The housing office said that they
could get us in a dorm in a week
or so.”
“If it wasn’t so far from cam
pus, I wouldn’t mind staying here
all year,” Richard remarked.
“It’s right across from the
campus, but we had to borrow a
buddy’s car to get to class. It
takes a while to get on campus
and find a parking place.”
“Yeah and we got a ticket to
day for parking in a faculty spot
too. They didn’t even have a sign
up either!”
“Our biggest problem, though,
is that we don’t know what’s go
ing on on campus.”
“I’ll be glad to get on campus;
there’s nothing to do here.”
“But we really don’t live here,”
Ken said, “we stay at the ‘C’ be
tween classes and sleep here.”
“I’m surprised that it’s been so
cheap so far. We’ve got board
on campus, so all we have to pay
for is rent, gas and beer.”
“We’re doing our best to get
in a dorm, we bug the housing
office every day. I think we’ve
still got about 100 in front of
us though.”
This is how two of the many
students who came to A&M this
fall, only to find that they had
no dorm room, are “making it.”
Motels and homes of friends or
relatives have been converted in
to temporary residences for the
dormless.
Richard and Ken are both
freshmen who decided to drop
out of the Corps. They have been
staying at a motel near the cam
pus until they are placed in a
dorm.
Early this week an employe in
the Housing Office said that
there were 125 students on the
waiting list to get in a dorm.
Problems
Eighty-eight of these had never
been placed in a room before,
while the remainder were fresh
men who transferred out of the
Corps.
To help students who have no
place to stay, the Housing Office
keeps a list of off-campus ren
tals, real estate agents and apart
ment complexes. A file is also
maintained on roommates, and,
when they are available, the of
fice also passes out city maps
to find the off-campus dwellings.
Cbe Battalion
Vol. 65 No. 7 College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 24, 1969 Telephone 845-2226
‘Discrimination’ Charge
False: Campus Security
By David Middlebrooke
Battalion Managing Editor
Charges of discrimination by
Campus Security officers in their
choice of which cars to stop were
denied Tuesday by Assistant
Chief Morris A. Maddox.
The charges were made last
Wednesday night by Gerry Geist-
weidt, Student Senate president,
during the Senate’s first meeting
of the school year. Geistweidt
William D. Reed, First Brigade
commander, led 307 Army ROTC
cadets on an assault of top rat
ings during summer camp at
Fort Sill, Okla.
Cadets were rated by brigade,
company and platoon during the
summer training.
In the final standings, 190 Ag
gies were in the top third and
86 — better than a quarter of
the A&M cadets at Camp Eagle
— were rated in the upper 10
per cent, announced Col. Jim H.
McCoy, commandant.
“This is an enviable record,
since the A&M cadets were in
competition with 2,800 cadets
from colleges and universities in
the Fourth Army area,” the mili
tary science professor com
mented.
told the senators that he had re
ceived several complaints from
students to the effect that offi
cers stopped them for no other
reason than the way they looked.
He also told the Senate that
several students who had made
the complaint believed that they
were stopped because of their
race.
“This is no gossip, either,” the
president said. “A good friend
An Oct. 1 review will recog
nize 36 Army and 27 Air Force
ROTC cadets who achieved No.
1 rankings during summer train
ing. The 5:30 p.m. main drill
field event will have Fourth
Army commander Lt. Gen. Harry
H. Critz as reviewing officer and
distinguished military guest.
Army honorees include Reed,
first in the summer camp Second
Brigade; seven cadets among 16
ranked No. 1 in their respective
companies and 32 who were tops
in their platoons, of which there
were 62.
No. 1 company ratings were
achieved by John R. Drewien,
corps staff adjutant of Ana
heim, Calif.; Robert R. Harding
Jr., corps supply officer and yell
leader, San Antonio; Daniel J.
of mine rode in a car one day
with a student who had com
plained about this, and they were
stopped twice by Campus Securi
ty for questioning because they
looked suspicious.”
“Harrassment is not being
done,” Maddox said. “When we
stop someone, we have a reason
— especially early in the night.
“If an officer sees someone
driving back and forth in one of
K u b i n, Company E-l, Crosby;
Glenn O. McDonald, G-2, Hous
ton; Richard J. Oates, F-l com
mander, Pineland; Roland S.
Torn, F-2 executive and head yell
leader, Houston; and Michael R.
Waring, D-l commander, Hous
ton.
Best in their respective pla
toons were Gerald Bramlett,
Shreveport; Ford R. Davis, Paul
W. Irhke, Michael A. Villars and
Robert A. Webster, Houston;
Robert H. Dean, Carrizo Springs;
Neil W. Ellis, Kilgore; Arthur
G. Geistweidt and Roily D. Lump
kins, Mason.
Also, John R. Gingrich, Fort
Sam Houston; Richard G. Gon
zales and Robert O. Segner, San
Antonio; Daniel W. Gower, El
the parking lots about 2 or 3 in
the morning,” the officer ex
plained, “he will stop that per
son. We think that people should
be in bed by 3 or so, and we will
stop anyone found in the lots.”
Maddox was quick to add that
the policy on stopping persons
in the lots late at night applied
only to those found loitering in
them, not to those students who
drive in, lock their car, and head
Paso; John R. Graeser and Les
ter B. Hatcher, Dallas; Richard
J. Hodge, Pledger; Robert M.
Holcomb and James R. (Bob)
Jones, College Station; David J.
Jacoby, Ozona.
In addition, David F. Kellam,
Tyler; Gary L. Leverett, Spring;
Max D. Melcher, Austin; William
H. Persky, Fort Hood; Stephen
F. Petitfils, Galveston; Davis L.
Swords, Bellaire, and Mark X.
Vandaveer, Freeport.
McCoy said 15 A&M cadets
were commissioned second lieu
tenants at the completion of
summer camp and of the 308,
including one Aggie at Fort
Lewis, Wash.. 172 were recom
mended for Distinguished Mili
tary Student status and a Regu
lar Army commission.
for their room.
“From 2 a.m. on, he said, “we
don’t need a reason, and we are
going to stop people often. We
had a bad theft problem in the
parking lots last year, and we’re
trying to prevent it from recur
ring this year.”
The usual procedure when stop
ping a student in the lots, the
officer said, is to ask for some
identification. Students should
not mind being asked to show
their identification cards, he said,
and most don’t; they are nice
about it.
“They know we’re stopping
them for a reason,” he explained.
Grounds for stopping a car on
campus, Maddox said, include a
flagrant violation of posted cam
pus traffic ordinances, such as
running a stop sign or speeding.
Other reasons include safety
violations such as no tail lights
or a burned-out headlight, he
said.
WEATHER
Thursday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy. Easterly winds 10 - 15
m.p.h. High 83, low 67.
Friday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy, afternoon rainshowers.
Southerly winds 10 m.p.h. High
84, low' 71.
Lincoln Kickoff—Partly cloudy
to cloudy. Southerly winds 10-
15 m.p.h. Temperature, 71;
..relative humidity 45 per cent.
During Summer Camp
Reed Earns High Rating at Ft. Sill
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon L. Pellett were among approximately
700 faculty and staff members greeted by President and
Mrs. Earl Rudder at the annual president’s reception Tues
day evening in the Memorial Student Center ballroom.
Pellett recently joined the Agricultural Extension Service
as a mental health specialist.
Thundershowers Forecast
For A&M-Nebraska Drive
Aggies making the thousand-mile drive to Lincoln, Neb.,
later this week for the A&M Nebraska football game will find
a few eye-openers along the route.
Scattered thundershowers for Oklahoma and West
Kansas are in the Friday weather forecast.
A&M meteorologist Jim Lightfoot says the nation’s
mid-section weather activity will be moving toward Lincoln,
but shouldn’t arrive with rainshowers and thundershowers
until after the intersectional tilt.
Forecast for the 1:30 p.m. Saturday kickoff is partly
cloudy to cloudy, southerly winds at 10 to 15 knots, 71
degrees and 45 percent relative humidity.
With the latter due to increase, perhaps rather suddenly,
the regional television broadcast of the game—which will be
available in the Southwest—may have lots of customers.
Young Marrieds Have
A WELCOME CONVENIENCE . . .
Susan Frankel dumps a load of wash into the washing
machine that came with her new College View apartment.
One of the distinctive features of the new units is a washer-
dryer combination in each individual apartment.
By Steve Forman
Battalion Staff Writer
“Cool, comfortable and com
plete”—that’s what most married
couples think about the new Col
lege View apartments.
Air conditioning provides the
coolness, new furniture makes
them comfortable, and washers
and dryers make them complete.
The new quarters, constructed
of brick, add a new look to the
area that used to look like, part
of an Army post. It now looks
like the Army installation is being
deactivated.
The old World War Il-type
barracks served their purpose
above and beyond the call of duty.
For meritorious service under
direct fire by wall-demolishing
movers and crayon-carrying chil
dren, the remaining huts of the
village should be thought of with
the tenderness of Mr. Wipple
squeezing the Charmin.
But progress is on the move at
Texas A&M and the new College
View apartments are testimony
to the fact.
The modern apartments pro
vided by the university filled up
fast. Rent of $115 per month
(utilities paid) was one of the
resons. The new units are one
bedroom apartments with the
washer and dryer in a spacious
bathroom.
The living room has modern
furniture with a couch that folds
out into a double bed or a double
bed that folds into a couch. It
depends on how you look at it.
“The new apartments have
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Praise For New Apartments
more space and the air condition
ing really makes the difference,”
said Leo Flores, an accounting
senior from Laredo, while re
laxing on the new couch in his
70 degree living room.
“It’s the best thing the university
has ever done for the married
student,” said Jack Jones, a
newly-wed second year Vet stu
dent concerning his new domain.
“The only problem is the park
ing: When it rains, it is really
muddy and there is no way to
get around it.”
“They utilized the space well
with the bookshelves, and with the
desks in the bedroom you have a
perfect place to study,” said
Richard Frankel, a management
senior from Los Angeles, Calif.
“The washers and dryers are
a real joy,” Mrs. Frankel added.
Again, the only complaint the
Frankels had was about the
“groad hole” in front when it
rains.
“We’re pleased with the ar
rangement of the furnishings; we
couldn’t have planned it better,”
Larry Schilhab, a petroleum en-
gineeing senior from Conroe said.
“I really like the bookshelves. I
usually have to take one to school
each year.”
“The best part for me is that
the washing machines are right
here in the apartment,” Mrs.
Susan Bradbury said. Her hus
band, A1 Bradbury, is a graduate
student in metorology. “It was
nice moving into a place that’s
(See Apartments, page 4)
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. . . AND MODERN STYLING
Meanwhile- husband Richard Frankel, standing before the much-appreciated bookshelf
area in the new apartment, is in the process of choosing a record to play on the stereo.
(Photos by Mike Wright)