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Senior finds public attitude important
when planning rapid transit systems
THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 13, li!
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Rapid transit systemsi in major
Texas cities face more problems
than just right-of-way acquisi
tion, construction costs and main
tenance, according to research by
a Texas A&M aerospace engineer
ing major.
Public opinion about mass
transit is another problem, Gene
Witi found.
The Garland senior surveyed
Mic opinion about rapid tran-
in Dallas.
Witt found that the words
“ iipid transit” conjures in peo
ples’ minds the idea of a chain
of subways, overcrowding and
loss of a sense of individuality.
“Everytime a mass transit sys
tem was suggested, the idea of a
crowded subway train came into
focus,” Witt said in an aerospace
engineering course report to Dr.
Charles A. Rodenberger.
Witt’s research, including in
dividual interviews with a large
number of randomly selected in
dividuals, was preliminary to the
feasibility study of a variety of
rapid transit systems. He exam
ined surface vehicles, the over
head monorail and pneumatic
tube conveyances.
“Witt started his survey by tel
ephone, but got so many negative
responses, he decided to go back
and do it in person,” Rodenber
ger said.
Equally negative results were
obtained. Witt said he feels pre
conceived ideas of subways as a
solution to rapid transit and a
bad connotation already associat
ed with subways led to the nega
tivism.
“Even though a rapid transit
system could be proved more eco
nomical and safer to the individ
ual, the majority indicated they
would rather drive their own ve
hicle,” he added.
Most people questioned seemed
to resent having their individuali
ty curtailed, Witt said. Financing
of rapid transit systems primarily
by county and state governments
Degree, experien ce offered
by Peace Corps program
BROCKPORT, N.Y.—The State
University of New York, College
at Brockport is looking for stu
dents who want to earn college
credit while preparing to teach
mathematics and science as Peace
Corps volunteers in Latin Amer
ica.
Peace Corps and college offi
cials announced today that the
unique Peace Corps/College De
gree program at Brockport will
be extended with the admission
of a fifth group of candidates in
June.
The decision by the Peace Corps
to extend the four-year-old pro
gram was made after a compre
hensive evaluation in which grad
uates of the program serving as
Peace Corps volunteers in Peru,
Colombia, El Salvador, Hondu
ras and the Dominican Republic
were interviewed along with their
host country counterparts and
overseas Peace Corps staff.
The program is open to stu-
The program is designed to fill
the need for mathematics and sci
ence teachers in developing Latin
American countries. It includes
one academic year flanked by two
summers of fully subsidized and
integrated academic courses and
Peace Corps training.
Graduates receive either an
A.B. or B.S. degree, secondary
school teacher certification and
an assignment overseas to a bi
national educational team as a
Peace Corps volunteer. While
they are serving overseas, volun
teers may earn up to 12 hours
of graduate credit.
Unique features of the program
include: Academic credit for
Peace Corps training; two fully-
subsidized summer sessions to
taling 30 semester credit hours;
in-depth Peace Corps training
which is fully synchronized with
a liberal arts education; special
ized professional preparation; in
dividualized programs; intensive
audio-lingual Spanish training in
small classes; opportunity for
double majors, and supervised
overseas graduate work.
According to Peace Corps offi
cials, the Brockport program is
the only one in the country to
grant full academic credit for
Peace Corps training.
RVs honor guard
at Smith ceremony
dents who are in good standing
at any accredited college or uni
versity and who will have com
pleted their sophomore or junior
year by June.
Applications must be made to
the Peace Corps/College Degree
Program; State University Col
lege at Brockport; Brockport,
New York 14420 by March 1.
Texas A&M’s Ross Volunteers
have been invited to provide the
traditional honor guard for the
Tuesday inauguration of Gover
nor Preston Smith, President Jack
K. Williams has been informed by
inauguration officials.
The elite honor military unit,
organized in 1887, will form an
Addict rehabilitation first topic
of health education seminars
Drug dependents’ social rehabil
itation, foreign health planning,
environmental effects on mental
health and health aspects of space
travel will be topics of spring
semester Health Education Semi
nars at Texas A&M.
The Rev. Fr. Dermot N. Bros-
nan, executive director of San
Antonio’s Little Village of St.
Patrick, will be featured for the
Feb. 3 seminar. His topic will be
“A Comprehensive Social Rehabil
itation Program for Drug De
pendents.”
Seminars coordinator Mrs. Mel
ba Halford said Father Brosnan’s
presentation will be at 4 p.m. in
113 Biological Sciences Building.
Other seminars in the monthly
series sponsored by the Health
and Physical Education Depart
ment will be in the library con
ference suite.
State Comprehensive Health
Planning director Mario Zetzman
will give the March 3 seminar
on health planning and service
delivery systems in England and
Yugoslavia.
“The Effect of the Environment
on Mental Health” will be the
topic of Stuart Fisher’s April 6
seminar. Fisher is planning di
rector of the Texas Department
of Mental Health and Retardation.
Dr. John R. Hall, in occupa
tional and areospace medicine
with the Space Center Medical
Association in Houston, will speak
May 5 on “Health Aspects of
Space Travel.”
Health Education seminars are
designed for students in the
health education degree programs
of the Health and Physical Edu
cation Department, headed by Dr.
Carl W. Landiss. Attendance is
open, however, to all interested
individuals, Mrs. Halford said.
honor cordon and saber arch at
the noon inauguration ceremonies
on the State capital steps and
provide an honor escort and ve
hicle guards for the governor and
lieutenant governor in the 3 p.m.
inaugural parade.
The 118-member company com
manded by Edward E. Duryea
also was invited to attend the
Tuesday evening inaugural ball.
Rep. Bill Presnal of Bryan fur
nished support for RV inaugura
tion arrangements. The legislator
has a personal interest in the
Ross Volunteers. While in the
commandant’s office at Texas
A&M, he had RV advisor respons
ibility.
Forty members of the company
will be involved in the inaugural
ceremony. The honor cordon and
saber arch will be formed by 32
active seniors and eight juniors.
“Members of the RVs take
great pride in identifying as the
Governor’s honor guard,” Col. Jim
H. McCoy said. The commandant
said the cadets will give up sev
eral mid-year holidays to prepare
themselves for the event.
The company will return to the
campus Friday and Saturday to
work in Saturday and Sunday
drills. Texas A&M’s spring semes
ter classes begin Monday.
The company also will appear
in New Orleans Feb. 19-23 as
King Rex’s honor guard in the
annual Mardi Gras.
Presnal begins second term
State Representative Bill Pres
nal of the 18th Legislative Dis
trict, composed of Brazos, Grimes
and Madison Counties, took the
oath of Office for his second two
year term in the lower house
Tuesday.
Presnal was elected to his sec
ond term as state representative
in the recent elections without
opposition. The oath of office was
administered by Secretary of
State Martin Dies Jr.
The first order of business fol
lowing the administering of the
oath of the office was the re-
election of representative Gus F.
Mutscher as speaker of the
House.
Mutscher has completed his
first term as speaker and fifth
term as a member of the Texas
Legislature from the neighboring
19th Legislative District.
“Speaker Mutscher has indicat
ed to me that he will make ap
pointments to the 45 House stand
ing committees on Jan. 21, the
day after Gov. Preston Smith is
expected to address a joint ses
sion of the Texas Legislature,”
Presnal said.
The Bryan legislator pointed
out that committee assignments
were not made as early in the
previous sessions. “Everyone ex
pects this to be a very difficult
session,” Presnal concluded.
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also caused opposition, due to
tax increases.
The aerospace engineering ma
jor found that the average indi
vidual had no information about
the designs and purposes of rap
id transit systems.
He said he believes that the
Dallas-Fort Worth area is suffi
ciently metropolitan to warrant
such a system, especially in con
nection with the regional airport
facility servicing the cities and
their suburbs.
installed and maintains a rail
way system from car parking
lots to the aircraft boarding lob
by.
“The idea is in practice on a
small scale at Dallas Love Field,”
Witt repoi’ted. Braniff Airways
“This innovation, which pro
vides a quiet, comfortable ride to
the individual flight lobby, has
met with great success because
there is no delay in securing tick
ets or carrying baggage great
distances. Baggage is checked at
the entry point of the train,” he
explained.
“This transit system has great
ly relieved the parking situation
just at this one terminal,” Witt
said.
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