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Wednesday — Clear to partly
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high 96°, low 69°.
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winds 5-10 mph, high 88°, low 69°.
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“I don’t know where all these
ars came from,” Morris A. Mad-
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8 flox, assistant chief of University
“folice said.
t®™lTh e police office has been
^ jooded by students and faculty
iy »H“ft em bers requesting permits and
ive ^Appealing tickets during the first
; comp®eek of classes. There is really
icperienBo way of knowing how many
eill aapBermits or how many tickets for
■e natuftarking violations have been is-
Jued thus far, Maddox said.
In the past, the department
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has held that more parking per
mits than parking spaces could
be issued, since all the students
are not on the campus at any one
given time. But this year a much
greater number of dormitory stu
dents have brought their cars on
campus, he continued.
“We are working around the
clock to keep these students from
blocking driveways and parking
in the staff lots,” he said.
Parking along most of the ma
jor streets on the campus are
reserved strictly for the overflow
from the staff parking lots.
There have already been over
2,200 staff parking permits is-
SC goers may
se visitor parking
A&M campus visitors, students
Mid personnel using Memorial
11 ' Student Center services or at-
; mt)r! tending events at the “C” may
an ’* use visitor parking in the area,
vvant officials remind.
Areas designated “visitor park-
jig” include most of the streets
mmediately around the MSC and
most of a new gravel lot west of
Clark Street.
University Police Chief O. L.
Luther and MSC director J.
Wayne Stark explained the “vis
itor” in this case applies to people
from off-campus and students,
eulty and staff in the MSC for
meetings, conferences, concerts,
speakers or business, either day
or night.
MSC visitor parking may not
be used for day student nor facul
ty parking for class attendance
purposes, Luther reminded.
Campus police have determined
in several instances that individu
als are using visitor spaces for
class parking and issued cita
tions, he warned.
Luther and Stark jointly an
nounced a description of the MSC
visitor parking situation. Visitor
parking includes both the dead
end Bailey Street and a short
unnamed drive just west of White
Coliseum, formerly for faculty-
staff parking.
The north half of the east lane
of Clark Street is now zoned 30-
minute visitor parking. The MSC
contractor has the south end of
the lane fenced off.
The west lane of Clark Street
is temporarily a two-way street
with two-hour parallel parking on
both sides. The contractor has
agreed to try to keep the west
lane open, especially for home
football games and special events
at the MSC.
A new 220-car gravel lot be
tween the Grove and MSC also
includes visitor parking. MSC
staff personnel have 20 spaces
next to Clark Street and also
park on Ferguson Street.
Also designated visitor parking
are the north lane of Lamar
Street, between the MSC and drill
field, and Joe Routt Blvd., south
of the center.
The south lane of Lamar Street,
currently blocked for service tun
nel construction, is expected to
be open soon. It also will be for
visitor parking.
Rice fowl
joke may
HOUSTON OP>—Sammie the
owl turned up missing Tuesday,
but the joke may be on his ab
ductors.
Sammie is the mascot of the
Rice University Owls, who play
their first game of the season
Saturday and their first ever
sued for the 2,046 spaces in these
lots, Maddox said.
And there is little relief in
sight.
Students in civilian dormitories
such as Hart Hall are encouraged
to park either in lot 48 next to
Kyle Field, or lot 50 across the
street from the new Engineering
building, Maddox said, and not
in the Corps area.
The overflow from the corps
area, he continued, should also
go to these lots, and not along
the streets where there are no
spaces.
“If it will eliminate the corps
parking problems, put the fresh
men in these lots,” Maddox said,
“though I don’t think the Kyle
Field parking lot can take them.”
The only long range plans for
future parking lots, he said, are
for a possible lot across the rail
road tracks from Kyle Field, and
an extension to corps parking lot
24 next to the new dormitory,
scheduled for completion fall se
mester 1972.
“If they don’t make this 800-
1,000 space addition,” Maddox
said, “we’re really in a fix.”
Traffic-p a r k i n g regulations
state all cars in parking lots No.
48 and 31 next to Kyle Field, No.
49 along Wellborn Road and No.
9, the day student lot by the drill
field, must be cleared before
10:00 a.m. on football game days.
Football parking will be per
mitted in a temporary lot stretch
ing for the length of the campus
across Wellborn Road by the rail
road tracks.
“These are good lots as long
as it doesn’t rain,” Maddox com
mented.”
Much of the football parking
has been lost to the construction
on campus, he continued.
Dr. and Mrs. Jack K. Williams (right) greet Mrs. Andrew President’s reception for faculty-staff in the MSC Tuesday
Bowtell, wife of math department faculty member, at the night.
Whole new concept
6 to test new dorm furniture
By STEVE DUNKLEBERG
Staff Writer
“A new furniture concept for
dorms” will complement the 1,000
student dormitory complex when
it opens next fall, according to
Howard Vestal, director of Man
agement Services.
Vestal is heading a pioneer pro
gram where six students will
evaluate three proposed room
furnishing designs. The six stu
dents will be divided into three
groups of two each, and each
group will live in a different
room for a week. At the end of
the week they will turn in a
written evaluation.
The students will evaluate the
turns up missing;
be on the thieves
against the University of Hous
ton.
Gregg Young, who cares for
the great horned owl, said he
apparently was stolen from his
perch over the Labor Day week
end. Rice officials said they sus
pected a prank.
But the prank may backfire.
Officials said Sammie had been
under a veterinarian’s observa
tion for the past six weeks. He
is suspected of having parrot
fever, a malady dangerous to
humans.
rooms in order to help in the
selection of the design of furni
ture to use. They will judge the
prototypes in relation to their
function, their appearance, and
their maintenance.
A mock-up of the new furni
ture designs has been set up
inside the bid laundry station
across from Sbisa. Each of the
three designs is represented there
in simulated dorm rooms.
Vestal explained that all the
furniture would be movable. He
said he felt it was a more prac
tical situation and it was better
for the student if he could ar
range the furniture in the man
ner he wanted.
The three designs include de
signs from the R-way Furniture
Co., Thornet Ind., and an origi
nal design presented by Robert
S. Boyce, architect for the Phys
ical Plant.
R-way Furniture Co.’s ideas in
clude a dual set of desks, chests
and beds. One set for male stu
dents and one for female.
The furniture is made from
laminated plastic with a simu
lated wooden finish. The beds are
stackable, and can be made into
bunk beds or singles.
The main difference in the de
signs is that the female students’
desks and chests will have an all
purpose white top, with a rose
wood finish on the panels.
Of four in nation
The men’s will have a mahog
any-type finish.
One of the major innovations,
according to Vestal, is that swivel
chairs will be provided in each
room.
“I have never seen a swivel
chair in a dormitory,” Vestal
said. “I think a guy needs some
thing to relieve the rigidity of
studying.”
Thornet Ind.’s design features
a bright color arrangement in
their furniture using vinyl panels
set in aluminum.
The desk has a built in over
head bookshelf wtih a reading
light.
The desk’s main feature how
ever, is that the drawer cabinet
is detachable and can be moved
from under the desk top to any
where in the room. It also serves
as a typing table. The drawers
are claimed to be “indestructible”
and are made of molded plastic.
The beds in this design also
can be made into singles or bunk
beds.
“The nice thing about the de
sign of this group’s bed,” Vestal
said, “is that there is an extra
panel at he foot of the bed where
a girl could stairstep,” rather
than have to use a ladder.”
Boyce’s design did not incorpo
rate stacked beds. Instead, he
stacked everything else.
The desks, chests, and book
cases, all have flush tops. There
fore, someone can have a long
work table, or they all can be
stacked on top of each other.
Under the beds there are four
large drawers, which will provide
the student with more storage
place.
There are several things that
all the rooms will have in com
mon no matter which design is
picked.
Every two rooms will be con
nected by a bath. The sinks in
the new complex will be in the
bathrooms, rather than in the
rooms as they are presently.
All of the rooms will have
drapes, and there will be around
six to eight electrical outlets, with
twice the normal power.
“We didn’t know that girls
would be in there,” Vestal ex
plained. “They have so many
things to plug in that they would
pop every circuit in the building.”
Each room will also contain a
large wardrobe, with sliding door
closets. They have a storage cabi
net above the closet.
The halls of the new complex
will have a different color scheme
for each floor. The halls and the
rooms will be painted to match
the color scheme of the carpeting.
The new complex will have
larger rooms than most present
dorm rooms. The rooms measure
about 220 square feet.
A&M now Sea Grant College
Workers give new life to the Aggie trademark at Kyle
Field. S. M. Meeks, stadium equipment manager (center),
supervises the operation, which is just in time for the open
ing of the fall season. (Photo by Joe Matthews)
A&M received federal designa
tion Tuesday as a “Sea Grant
College” with a mandate to pro
vide leadership in developing the
nation’s marine resources, an
nounced Sen. John G. Tower.
Only four institutions in the
nation were awarded Sea Grant
College status under the program
administered by the Department
of Commerce’s National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration.
Also named were the University
of Rhode Island, Oregon State
University and the University of
Washington.
“Sea Grant College designation
recognizes the increasingly im
portant role that Texas is playing
in the field of marine affairs,”
Senator Tower said. “I believe
that in years to come, this desig
nation will be as important to
A&M as was the land grant des
ignation in the 19th century.”
Secretary of Commerce Mau
rice H. Stans said designation as
a Sea Grant College symbolizes
the mutual recognition of the
continuing responsibility by the
Department of Commerce and the
institution to maintain and de
velop marine resources.
“I know of few other programs
which offer as much long-term
promise for the nation,” Secre
tary Stans observed.
The formal designation, with
official ceremonies scheduled in
Washington, D. C., later this
month, comes more than three
years after A&M and several oth
er institutions received initial
grants to begin programs which
could lead to Sea Grant College
status.
A&M has been awarded federal
funds totaling $3.8 million, in
cluding the recently announced
$1.4 million grant for support
during 1971-72. The university
has contributed nearly $2 million
to the program, bringing total
funding up to approximately $5.8
million.
“We expect to develop a total
program which will do for ma
rine resources what the land grant
colleges did for development of
agriculture,” noted Dr. Jack K.
Williams, A&M president. “Sea
Grant College designation clearly
reflect A&M’s leadership and
commitment in marine affairs in
the state and nation.”
A&M’s Sea Grant Program in
cludes research and education ac
tivities, as well as advisory serv
ices. The university is currently
conducting more than 60 proj
ects through 16 departments and
divisions.
Cooperative work also is in
progress with the Bates College
of Law at the University of
Houston, Dow Chemical Co. and
Brazosport Junior College at
Freeport, Lamar University at
Beaumont, Del Mar College at
Corpus Christi and Texa.s State
Technical Institute at Waco.
Dr. John C. Calhoun, director
of A&M’s Sea Grant Program,
cited coastal zone laboratories
being initially supported at Gal
veston and in the Sabine Lake
area as “focal points” in the Uni
versity’s Sea Grant plans.
“Designed as a nucleus of or
ganized research activities, these
laboratories emphasize develop
ment of marine resources and un
derstanding of environmental
quality measures in each area,”
explained Dr. Calhoun, who also
serves as A&M’s vice president
for academic affairs.
The A&M Sea Grant Program
emphasizes research in six major
areas: fisheries, commerce, sci
ences, environmental quality, en
gineering and technology and re
sources management.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
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