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lit The Exchange Store—Serving Texas A&M Since 1907
Jchdown, By Gary Mayfield
for 1S4 Battalion Staff Writer
1 and MSince its opening- in 1907, the
t r d s aAchange Store has maintained
me theme of good-will and de-
txists (reloped a policy . of subsidizing
Burnrstudent organizations.
°f Arki; Beginning as a modest one-
2U and worn variety store in the Old
all (iMain Building, the store has
Bown with the university and has
-'developed into a modern depart-
"inent store equipped with virtu-
r/^Y ally every item the student needs.
Ivtl «\\r e operate the store, pay our
iNCE aXpenses and our employes, and
Wd .J£» ke a Profit every year, but we
^Bve only two motives,” com-
10N rented Howard Vestal, director
)f management services. “These
■e to provide a service to the
students and subsidized student
The statement inscribed on its
own Aggie bookcovers has carried
the rule since 1946—“Aggies, the
Exchange Store is your store;
profits are returned to your ac
tivity and welfare projects.”
The store was opened, with this
service in mind, under the man
agement of R. K. Chatham and
management has changed only
twice since Chatham retired in
1945.
It was a year later, when Carl
Birdwell stepped into the mana
gerial seat, that the Exchange
Store advisory committee began
allocating profits to student or
ganizations. Before that time all
profits — which amounted to
$26,000 per year—were needed
for supply and inventory pur
poses.
Exchange Store cleared about
$100,000, one-third of which was
allocated to student organizations.
Chuck Cargill, manager, ex
plained how the system works:
“The profits are ministered by
an advisory committee, chaired
by Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan, composed of students,
faculty and staff. At the end of
each fiscal year the committee
hears requests of each of the
organizations involved, determines
by the total profits how much can
be distributed, and allocates the
profits according to their needs.”
He noted that the remaining
two-thirds of the profits are used
for inventory and building fund
purposes, emphasizing that no
person benefits from them. He
also said that employes and staff
favoritism is employed, and no
commission on sales is offered to
boost competition. Organizations
involved with The Exchange
Store profits include the Ross
Volunteers, Aggie Band, Fish
Drill Team, Aggie Players, Great
Issues, Singing Cadets, rodeo
association, the Grove, and some
80 others.
Cargill said that profits have
increased every year during his
four years as manager. He cited
three reasons—increases in enroll
ment, inflation and more text
books.
The main problem facing the
Exchange Store now, he said, is
the limited floor space which
hinders the flow of student
traffic.
“The very growth of sales re
Cargill said. That is why the
store had to move from the Old
Main to its present location in
1926.
According to R. H. Mitchell,
merchandise manager since 1932,
the present building began with
the supply department, stocking
mostly books and little clothing,
in the space now occupied by the
supply department. The final
addition, now the book depart
ment, was added in 1945 and re
modeled ten years later.
The second floor of the build
ing has been used for everything
from a storage warehouse to the
campus laundry. Mitchell said
that now it holds an extra supply
of necessary items.
An Aggie-ex of 1926, securing
his master's degree from A&M in
?anizations.'
During the last fiscal year, the are given a straight salary, no quires additional inventory items,” 1931, Mitchell began to recall his
Che Battalion
T ol 65 No. 12
College Station, Texas Thursday, October 2, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
SfTenure’ Seating Plan
Presented To Graduates
3) Dave Mayes
wttalion Editor
plan to allocate student seats
itt home football games based on
’tenure” at the university, rather
;han academic standing, was pre-
^^^iented to the Graduate Student
^nB>uncil Wednesday.
^^•■The proposal generally would
df'Mve the first chances to purchase
BHme tickets to those students
Ijy' ¥vho have attended the university
he longest, with special consider-
ilion for first and second-year
Iraduate students.
I Currently the best tickets are
«de available according to aca
demic standing, going first to
graduate students, then seniors,
then juniors, and so on.
In presenting the new plan,
Collier (Doc) Watson, chairman
of the Student Senate’s Student
Life committee, told the council
members that he wanted them to
know exactly what seating pro
posals his committee would pre
sent for consideration at the
senate meeting next Thursday.
Although a decision to endorse
or reject Watson’s proposal was
put off until the next council
session scheduled for Wednesday,
the initial reaction of the gradu
ate student members to the new
plan seemed favorable.
Watson explained that his com
mittee would actually present two
plans to the senate without rec
ommending either one.
The other plan would generally
endorse the existing method of
ticket distribution based on aca
demic standing, but reduce the
size of the upper-deck “consider
ation section,” introduced last
year for graduate and other stu
dents who desire or need to sit
down during a game.
Under the tenure plan, Watson
explained, a ticket would be sold
During Semester Break
Alpine Ski Trip Planned
21
By Jim Searson
Battalion Staff Writer
A&M students, faculty, and
jltaff may be able to spend the
semester break in January ski
ing in France.
An unofficial section of the
Memorial Student Center Travel
Committee, called the “Ski The
Alps 1970 Committee,” was form
ed during the summer to allow
interested persons to do it for
only $298 plus $10 currency ex
change tax, announced Dave
Mayfield, chairman of the com
mittee.
Mayfield said that Group
Travel, Inc., of Chicago, has of
fered a joint plan to 150 A&M
students, faculty, and staff mem
bers, and 100 students from the
University of Houston to travel
to Europe at minimal rates next
January.
Advisers for the trip are Tom
Gillis, Dr. T. W. Adair, and J.
Wayne Stark. Gillis, class of ’42
and president of Best Industries
of Houston, is a member of the
Houston Ski Club. Adair is an
Who’s Who Forms Available
| Nomination forms for Who’s
Who Among Students of Ameri
can Universities and Colleges are
[now available at three locations.
They may be picked up at the
Memorial Student Center main
desk, Housing Office and Office
'iOf the Dean of Students, main
floor of the YMCA building.
; To be eligible for election to
Who’s Who a student must be
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
an academically classified senior
(95 hours) and have an overall
grade point ratio of 2.5 on a 4.0
scale. The student must also be
active in campus activities, dem
onstrate leadership in the posi
tions he occupies, and expect to
graduate no later than August
31, 1970.
Students are urged to nomi
nate themselves, but may also
be nominated by other students,
members of the university staff,
and by campus organizations.
Forms must be turned in by
noon October 14.
assistant professor of physics.
Stark is the director of the MSC.
Plans for the trip begin with
a chartered jet flight from
Houston to Geneva, Switzerland,
on January 23, 1970. From
Geneva the skiers will travel by
bus to Courchevel, France, heart
of the French ski country, May-
field said.
In Courchevel the skiers will
stay in modern apartments with
all conveniences, including cook
ing facilities for those wishing
to save money, Mayfield ex
plained, adding that the cost of
meals is not included in the trip
price.
The skiers will be able to make
short trips to such areas as Paris
during their eight day trip in
the Alps. On February 1, they
are scheduled to return to Hous
ton International Airport.
A $50 deposit at the Student
Finance Office in the MSC is
required for a reserved seat on
the flight with the balance due
Nov. 15, Mayfield said. He
noted that a general meeting
will be held Oct. 14 in the MSC
for all interested students and
possible financing will be dis
cussed.
according to the first two digits
of a student’s permanent number
as stamped on his identification
card.
The first two digits signify the
year in which the student entered
the university. Hence, according
to the tenure plan, if a student’s
first two digits are “65”, he will
have a chance to buy a ticket
before a student whose digits are
“66.”
Generally, Watson said, stu
dents with numbers “65” and low
er will get first chance at buying
tickets; the next day, students
with “66” numbers may purchase
them; the day after, students
with “67” numbers, etc.
Watson said the tenure plan
will have little effect on graduate
students who have attended A&M
for three years or longer.
He noted that second-year
graduate students, who would
have to buy tickets with under
graduate sophomores, would still
have a chance to get in the upper
deck, recalling that last season
many upper sections were filled
by sophomores.
Using last year’s graduate en
rollment figures, Watson esti
mated that perhaps 300 first-year
graduate students would be af
fected if the senate adopted the
tenure plan.
“It will be the first-year grad
uate students and the under
graduate transfer students who
will be getting hurt by this plan,”
he said.
1,100 Coeds Here
For 69-70 Term
More than 1,100 women are
included in A&M’s record 14,042
fall enrollment.
Registrar Robert A. Lacey said
current registration represents a
nine per cent gain over the 13,081
enrolled last year. This marks the
fifth consecutive year, he said,
that enrollment has increased by
approximately 1,000.
This year’s freshman class of
boyhood as he grew up on the
campus:
“Before the Exchange Store,
the boys had to ride the train
from here to Bryan for their
supplies. Bryan seemed about as
fhr then as Navasota does now!
“For awhile,” he continued,
“some ol- boy from Bryan would
come out twice a week to take
orders for students’ supplies.”
He admitted that it was quite
a slow process and the Exchange
Store was truly a blessing. Since
it was set up on campus, state
law required ownership by the
university, preventing any self
profit operation.
The store grew with the uni
versity, aided by technological
innovations and a rapid increase
of students. Twenty years after
its opening, the store was moved;
approximately twenty years after
that the building was enlarged
and renovated; and after 20 mure
years, plans are on the drawing
board for construction of a new
Exchange Store within a $4
million Memorial Student Center
complex.
The new location, according to
Vestal, will be the present site
of Guion Hall and will boast of
more than four times as much
floor space in a two-story accom
modation. When completed, Vestal
said the new store should have
more than 40,000 square feet as
opposed to the present 10,000
square feet of floor space.
He said that construction is
expected to begin next summer.
Next week: A look at Ex
change Store book policy.)
Watson pointed out, however,
that first-year graduate students,
as well as second-year graduates,
could get tickets for the upper
deck by asking for them in the
“consideration section.”
Last season the consideration
section was open to any student
who requested tickets for it.
Tony Benedetto, president of
the CSC, asked Watson if he
thought the senate might restrict
the consideration section to just
graduate students.
Watson replied that he person
ally believed the senate would not
go along with this idea.
Asked if the first- and second-
year graduates could pick up
tickets for the consideration sec
tion at the same time as the other
graduate students, Watson said
that this was a good suggestion
and that he would include it in
his report to the senate.
He added that under the tenure
plan students who have attended
A&M longer than their academic
standing indicated would be able
to sit with the people with whom
they had started school.
“This is of particular interest
in the corps, where up to now
some students have had to sit
with upperclassmen because they
did not have enough hours aca
demically to get seats with their
own class,” Watson said.
He added that he believed that
there would be more people help
ed in this way by the tenure
plan than hurt by it.
2,449 also represents a new high,
the registrar noted. Last year’s
class totaled 2,2711 The previous
high for women was the 979 last
year.
Graduate enrollment exceeds
2,700, Lacey reported.
Tuesday was the final day stu
dents could enroll for the fall
semester.
$ mk,
FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE
Fourth Army commander Lt. Gen. Harry H. Critz (right)
presents a first-of-its-kind award to Texas A&M during a
review held Wednesday to honor 63 cadets for their sum
mer camp performance. The award will be presented an
nually to the school that is tops at summer camp, with
the most people rated best overall. Accepting the award
are (from left) David Kellam, Corps Commander Matt
Carroll, and Max Melcher. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Outlook Good On
West Point Trip
Brisk weather and excused absences are what those
traveling to New York for the A&M-West Point game this
weekend can expect.
Dean of Students James P. Hannigan said Wednesday
that he was sending a letter to all department heads and
professors, with a list of those persons flying on the Senior
Class-sponsored trip to the game, asking them for their “usual
cooperation” in helping students make up work missed due
to the trip.
The dean said that while it is not the usual official
excused absence for things such as sickness and officially-
sponsored trips, it is the “next best thing” and that no
trouble has been experienced in the past. He has a roster of
all those going on the trip, he said, and urged anyone who
was not sure he was on the list to go by his office and check.
Thunderstorms over the Appalachian Mountains and
light rain in the New York area Friday will be encountered
by the charter flight, as well as drivers to the game, according
to A&M meteorologist Jim Lightfoot.
Weather will improve, he said, and should be drier by
game time at 2 p.m. Saturday.
The forecast is cloudy to partly cloudy, winds north
west 10-20 m.p.h., 60 degrees, and 65 to 70 per cent relative
humidity.
“It will be a biting wind,” the Meteorology Department
official said.
He said the charter flight will have better return flight
conditions. He noted that a system developing south of
Houston will cause cloudy skies and occasional light rain, but
“nothing to hamper the plane coming in.”
The Life Style of a Mafioso—Conclusion
Dignity In Death Is Idealized
QUIET SCENE
An ROTC junior and his wife spend a peaceful afternoon on the campus with their baby,
shaded by one of the campus’ many trees. (Photo by Mike Wright)
By Bernard Gavzer
(dP) Newsfeatures Writer
On one occasion, a De-Caval-
cante member got into a hassle
with two members of a Brooklyn
Mafia family and Sam had to
meet with the head of the latter
to avert what could have been a
gang war.
DeCavalcante was particularly
miffed one day about the be
havior of Joe Sferra, a capore-
gime (or lieutenant) in his fami
ly.
It all began with an incident
in which Sferra broke his leg.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
BB&L
-Adv.
Here is the transcript version of
what DeCavalcante said:
“SAM: You know how Sferra
broke his leg. He was taking his
daughter home from school and
there were three other girls from
her school with them. So, he gets
behind this young kid whose got
a broad in the car almost sitting
on his lap. Sferra gets mad at this
and goes around this kid’s car
cutting him off. The kid chases
after him and when Joe stops at
a light, both of them get out of
the cars. Joe berates the kid and
words are exchanged until Joe
pushes the kid. The kid went
after him like a tiger and puts
Joe off his feet. When he fell, he
broke his foot. Now is this any
way for an amico nos and a ca-
pofegime to act?”
Dignity in death—in the in
evitability of execution—is part
of the idealized credo. In the
DeCavalcante papers, there once
was a discussion regarding the
propriety of telling a victim it
would be better for his image to
cooperate in his death, other
wise he would be subjected to a
messy murder which could em
barrass next of king.
One Angelo Ray De Carlo is
quoted as giving his suggestion:
“Now, like you got four or
five guys in the room. You know
they’re going to kill you. They
say, ‘Tony Boy wants to shoot
you in the head and leave you
in the street’ or would you rath
er take this (a fatal shot of
dope) ? We put your behind your
wheel; we don’t embarrass your
family or nothing.”
The life style of the Mafioso
is frequently hampered by con
stant surveillance of their ac
tivities. Tony Accardo of Chi
cago went to court to complain
about it and once said:
“I can’t even take a bath with
out one of them college boy
gumshoes peeking through the
Venetian blinds.”
The result is that they seek
places which are safe: restaur
ants they control or in which
they have friends.
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