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Cloudy
with
winds
Wednesday, March 24, 1971
Wednesday —- Cloudy with light
rain. Winds easterly at 10-15 mph.
High 72°, low 58°.
Thursday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy. Winds southerly at 15-20
mph. High 77°, low 54°.
845-2226
Four civilian dorms
will be renovated
Major renovation of four civil
ian dormitories amounting to al
most $300,000 has been contract
ed for this summer, Howard L.
Vestal, director of management
services said yesterday.
“This will be just the first
phase in the long-range renova
tion of all of our dormitories,”
Vestal said.
Hotard Hall, which was va
cated at the beginning of the
semester, is already undergoing
the renovation process, which in
cludes repairing the plaster,
woodwork and plumbing, making
general repairs, and repainting
the entire inside of the building.
Law, Puryear and Davis Gary
Halls will also undergo the same
process this summer, Vestal said.
Fluorescent lighting will be
placed in all rooms in Law and
Puryear Halls, and metal show
er stalls will be replaced with
new tiles ones, he said.
In addition to these repairs,
Hart, Hotard, Law and Puryear
Halls will receive new chairs and
chests of drawers, with Walton
Hall also receiving chairs.
“Much of the present furniture
in these dorms have been there
for 30 years or more,” Vestal
commented.
“We have three dormitories
that are so old that we just can’t
afford to put too much money
into,” Vestal said.
Mitchell will be used for the
Fall semester 1971 and then will
be tom down to make room for
•the new hospital addition, he
continued.
“I’m going to recommend that
Leggett and Milner Halls be
torn down because they are so
old that it is not possible to
bring them up to the standards
that we have established for the
housing for our students,” Ves
tal said.
More dormitories will not be
renovated during the summer be
cause there is a limit to how
much can be done while students
are still occupying them, he said.
All corps dormitories will be
closed to all students during the
summer, being occupied only by
visiting students, he continued.
Work contracted for the sum
mer months total $285,000, Ves
tal said, which will come mostly
from student rent payments.
The student board payments
become a part of the management
services budget and goes to pay
maintenance, utilities, personnel
and payment toward the retire
ment of bonds purchased for the
payment of the renovation of the
corps dormitories in 1967, he said.
“We try to renovate the dorm
itories on a five-year basis,” Ves
tal said. “Our experts go around
early each year and make rec
ommendations for work the next
summer.
“Probably within the next year
or so, we will work the corps
dormitories back into our cycle,”
he said.
“All dormitories are not fully
renovated as the corps dorms
were,” Vestal commented, “be
cause many students do not want
air-conditioning, and many can
not afford it.”
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WREATHS IN REMEMBERANCE of the first anniversary of President Earl Rudder’s
death were placed beside the System Building flagpole today by Van Taylor, corps com
mander, and Jim Mobley, of the Civilian Student Council. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett)
SCOPE plans cleanup
program for creek
p
:
By CHARLES MASTERSON
attalion Staff Writer
Final plans are being laid for
lie April 17 cleanup of Burton
preek running through Bryan
nd College Station, Steve Esmon,
|chairman of the water pollution
smmittee for the A&M chapter
|of SCOPE, Student Council On
Pollution and Environment, said
[Tuesday night.
“The purpose of this drive to
|tlean up the creek is to arouse
»mmunity attention to the prob
lems of pollution surrounding
108,” Young said. “We need to
■show that Scope is more than
|just a mouthwash.”
Scope President Jonathon
lloung urged everyone interested
|to participate in the creek clean-
lap as well as the College Station
Jgeneral cleanup program spon-
■sored by the city of College Sta
llion on April 3.
Scope members Bill Heck and
Banking is a pleasure at First
Bank & Trust.
Insurance
’s recent
ohn, CW
utive vice-
D
Roark Rosson took pictures of
the creek and presented them in
a slide show. The slides showed
large amounts of bottles, cans,
tires, trash and land waste pres
ent inside the city limits of both
College Station and Bryan, clog
ging the stream and making it
unsafe.
The creek runs through the
center of Bryan behind the new
shopping center at Villa Maria
and Highway 6, through a resi
dential district and park area in
Bryan and College Station and
out past Tanglewood South to
ward the new bypass.
Young said this project is simi
lar to the Berkeley project in
California in which students
cleaned up a creek running
through their campus. CBS cov
ered that effort in environmental
awareness and newspaper, tele
vision and radio coverage will be
present at this one, Young said.
Young said plans for Earth
Day at A&M have not been final
ized as yet but tentatively Scope
is planning to have several speak
ers in the MSC ballroom and set
up an exhibit in the lobby.
“It won’t be as elaborate as
the one last year. We simply
want to call attention to the fact
that we need to do something to
better our environment,” Young
said.
Publicity chairman Bonnie Wig
gins will handle a term paper to
be presented to the city papers
and television on statistics and
developments of community en
vironmental concern. The paper
will be presented to the public
on Earth Day and will provide
a survey of local consumer atti
tudes on area pollution, Wiggins
said.
Anyone interested in working
with either of these two projects
should contact Jon Young at
845-3011.
The next general meeting of
Scope will be April 14 in the
MSC.
The Federal Aviation Admini
stration has announced its inten
tion to allocate $328,450 to repair
and improve Easterwood Airport,
provided A&M can provide match
ing funds.
President Jack K. Williams was
notified of the federal agency’s
plans in a letter from William N.
Dale, chief of the Airports Branch
of the FAA in Houston.
“We are pleased that the pros-
Comedy due
by KAMU-TV
Thursday night
Folk, popular and comedy will
be the theme of KAMU - TV’s
“Entertainment Now” for March.
“Judy, Lee and Mike” will he
hosts at 8:30 p.m. Thursday on
Channel 15 in their own style,
one that has become familiar to
patrons of The Basement at the
Memorial Student Center and the
Sebastians Club in Bryan.
Their style ranges from the
serious, such as “Mr. Bojangles,”
“Spooky” and “He’s My Broth
er,” to spoofs from the country
and western and folk sets.
“Entertainment Now,” pro
duced by Bob Robinson and di
rected by Dave Williams, is a
regular monthly program from
KAMU-TV featuring the many
talented performers available lo
cally and regionally.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
pect of federal assistance is now
a reality,” Dr. Williams said,
“and we are exploring possibilities
of meeting the requirements for
a local allocation of $328,450 to
match the federal funds.”
He said university representa
tives will be discussing the grant
and all airport improvement mat
ters with officials of Brazos Coun
ty, Bryan and College Station.
The university has previously
taken the lead in seeking finan
cial support from local governing
bodies to make repairs and im
provements at the airport, though
more were forthcoming.
The tentative allocation was
made in response to the univer
sity’s request submitted under the
FAA’s Airport Development Pro
gram.
Proposed improvements include
overlay, leveling and strengthen
ing Runway 16/34, the principal
runway.
Other improvements include re
pair of the 16/34 taxiway, recon
struction and expansion of the
parking apron, acquisition of a
clear-zone easement for Runway
16 and site preparation for an
instrument landing system.
The federal government will
pay the entire cost for ILS in
stallation, university officials not
ed.
The next step in the airport im
provement proposal is for the
university to submit a project
application, which includes de
tailed plans and specifications for
the outlined projects.
If the plans are approved, the
FAA will formally offer a grant
to the university and, if accepted,
will authorize the institution to
take bids.
Easterwood Airport Manager
Guy Smith estimated work could
get underway as early as June,
barring any delay in plans.
The university has retained the
Houston firm of Lockwood, An
drews & Newman as consulting
engineers for the project.
A HEADON COLLISION awaits the Aggie lineman as Coach Elmer Smith watches
their performance during the first day of spring training football workouts Tuesday on
Kyle practice field. See story, page 6. (Photo by Mike Rice)
The inquiring Battman
Should students be expelled before having a court trial?
ill!!
Tom Wilmoth
sophomore
“A student caught in the act of
disobeying a regulation should be
disciplined according to rules. Af
ter suspension, the school should
wait for a court decision before
expulsion.”
Larry Vickery
freshman
“Yes. It is the right of the ad
ministrators to expel students for
disciplinary reasons. Why not for
charged felonies?”
Joan M. Wilson
freshman
“Our whole system of life is
based on the belief that we are
innocent until proven guilty. Why
should the university take it up
on itself to convict the innocent ? ”
Jim Wiley
senior
“The university must exercise
responsibility i n determining
what charges are sufficiently
serious to warrant suspension.
Anyway, the individuals will
probobly want to spend full time
on beating the charge.”
David L. Smith
senior
“Until a person is proven guilty*
he should not be denied a right
or privilege. The student pays
for his privilege of attending the
university. If he were expelled
and found not guilty, the univer
sity would have no cause for
suspension.”
Brian Tschirhart
sophomore
“I think a student found in
volved in a crime, especially con
cerning possession of marijuana,
should be allowed to remain in
school and in his dorm until he
is found guilty.”
W. E. Sweet
graduate
“I believe everyone has a right
to be tried in court before being
declared guilty. I also believe
the university should give the
students some type of hearing
before expelling them.” (Photos
by Alan Zupan)