P.O. BOX 45436
DALLAS, TEX. 75233
Construction
progress repo
AAU't
riMing prociub !■ <m sehMlttlc,
ith wrvral major projocta to bo
aar.
(aaacor CbarUa
Brunt aaid tho H otory occano-
•rapk/ and mataorolofy building
la 76 poreont complete and tho
fire-floor chemistry annex la 90
portent romp!eta, both scheduled
for occupancy this winter.
Brunt noted tho projocta, part
of tho 990 million building pro
gram for the next four years,
hare completion dates raiding
from later summer to the spring
of 1179.
Ho gare tho following summary
on each project:
—Student Dormitory Complex.
This $8.4 minion facility includes
two four-story dormitories and a
ing almost 1,000 students. Work
Is on schedule and should be sees-
plated before the start of classes
on Aug. 18.
—Oceanography and Meteor-
and laboratories in 15
floors. Total cost is 97.6 million.
Structural steel framework and
ceskcrete floors art completed.
Masonry work is 91 poreont com
plete, mechanical work is 88 per
cent ready, electrical work la 75
poreont complete, windows 60 per
cent, plastering 50 percent and
painting has started.
Scheduled for completion this
winter, the ore nail project is 75
pamant ready.
—Chemistry Institute Annex.
The $4 million addition includes a
basement and firs floors of of
fice and lab spacs.
The exterior is completed, along
with inside partitions, windows
and elevators. Electrical and me
chanical work is 90 percent com
plete and lab furniture is 80 per
cent ready.
Overall the project is 90 per
cent complete and scheduled for
opening this winter.
—Auditorium and Conference
Complex. Construction consists of
a building complex containing a
12-floor conference tower, a 2,500
seat auditorium, a 750-seat the
ater and a 250 sent theater. Total
coat is 910 million.
The conference tower is 65 per
cent complete. Structural steel,
concrete floors, exterior precast
panels and roofing are completed.
Glass curtain walls are 90 per
cent complete and mechanical-
electrical work la at the mid-way
point.
The auditorium and theaters
are 45 percent complete. Workers
have finished concrete structure
work for tho large basement, in
cluding waterproofing, subsurface
drainage and electrical-mechani
cal layouts. Concrete columns,
beams, trusses, multi-level con
crete stairs and the largo concrete
girders are completed.
Exterior precast panel installa
tion and roofing see 85 percent
complete.
The project Is 56 percent com-
eve
piste and scheduled for use by the
winter of 1972.
—Memorial Student Canter Ad-
dltions-Modifications. This work
consists of a basement and two-
story addition with a renovation
of the existing M3C Total coat
is 98.5 million.
Percentage work computed in
cludes structural concrete, 96;
masonry and face brick, 75; dry
walla, 40, and roofing, 90. The
©▼•rail project Is 45 percent com
plete and scheduled for use the
summer of 1975.
—8-Story Office and Classroom.
The 93.6 million Phase I includes
a basement and eight-story fa
cility. Structural concrete is 98
percent complete, brick work is 90
percent, electrical-mechanical is
65 percent, windows are 75 per
cent, plastering is 96 percent.
The project is scheduled fer
compietten this winter and cur
rently Is 70 percent reedy.
—Office and Classroom phase
II. This 91>74 million facility is
Battalion
located
on
i of the eight-story
Phase I and consists of a base
ment and two-floor dasaroom
building. It will contain taro 250-
seat classrooms, two 160-eaat
classrooms, two 74-esat class
rooms end seven smaller class
rooms.
Primary use will be by the Col
leges of Education and Liberal
Arts. Currently the basement is
being dug.
—Utilities Expansion. Work
includes installing s 3450-ton
steam turbine drive centrifugal
water chiller, one chilled water
pump, one cooling tower and con
struction of 2,000 feet of tunnel
along Military Walk. The 92.6
million project is 70 percent com
plete and on schedule for winter
completion.
—University Health Center.
The 91-3 million center Is two
percent complete. ’ Construction
consists of s basement sad two-
story reinforced concrete building
with 36,000 square feet for doc-
schedule
tors' offices end hospital facUI-
—Military Walk Mall. Werk
has just started and should bo
completed by December on this
9333,213 project. Included ate
walkways, plsaas, s new storm
drainage system and redevelop
ment of the entire pedestrian area
lighting.
—Eastsrwood Airport Renova
tion. Work to 76 percent complete
on the 9800,000 program. Includ
ed are 12,000 square yards of rein
forced concrete slabs for parking
aprons, 6,100 feet of fence and
36,000 tons of hot mix asphalt
surfacing on runways. A rood
around the lengthened runway to
the Nuclear Science Center to 60
percent complete.
—Easterwood Airport Hangar.
Construction consists of a 997,000
metal building for airplane stor
age, with approximately 9,500
square feet of area. The project
to ow-quarter completed.
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THURSDAY A FRIDAY —
Partly cloudy warm and hamid
widely scattered thenderehew-
ere, wind eastern 19 to IS w-ph.
High 94, low 71.
Vol. 67 No. 129
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, June 28, 1972
840-2226
een changed
By JOHN CURYLO
Editor
A solution to the first seesion
registration problems, suggested
by the Registrar’s Office after
consultation with many of the
parties involy d, was overruled
Monday b> A V Academic Pr»-
grin i ComitMtel.
The committee, which consists
of tbs academic deans, met with
H. L. Heaton, dean of admissions
end records, and several associate
deans to discuss the proposal sug-
geated by repre.sentativea of the
(8m related editorial, page 2.)
AFTERMATH OF THE FLOOD in Pennsylvania includes state employes cleaning the
executive mansion in Harrisburg. Cleanup crews had to wait for water to recede be
fore sweeping the mud from the governor’s mansion. The flood left mud and water
logged furniture in its wake. (AP Wirephoto)
Will serve all sports
r.
student body, ths Fiscal Office,
the Registrar’s Office and the
Preaident’s Office. *
Instead of accepting the plan
to double the time allotted for
registration, the Academic Pro
grams Committee derided on re
vamping of . the registration proc
ess.
The procedure which will take
place July 13 consists of holding
registration in two buildings,
Duncan Dining Hall and G. Rol-
lie White Coliseum. There will
be no extension of time, with the
originally scheduled and already
proven inadequate four hours
allotted.
This way, we keep all the
lines inside,’’ explained Dr. Has
kell Monroe, a representative of
the Vice President for Academic
Affairs, Dr. John C. Calhoun.
“Sure, the students will have to
do some walking, but there is
more walking than that involved
in p re registration.
This means that the students
will ha vs to park their automo
biles near where they start or
where they finish,” hs said. “Al
so, if it rains, everyone will be
feisids.”
Yhv *1
calls for the card packets to be
distributed in one wing of Duncan
and the actual academic regis
tration to take part in the other
wing. The fee assessors, cash
iers, housing personnel, scholar
ship representatives and the uni
versity Police will be in G. Rollic
White.
“What we wanted to do was
put the students first,’’ Monroe
said. “We don’t think that’s al
ways been done, because they
keep getting the worst of it. Then,
we put the faculty second. The
other people, such as myself,
are last.
“It’s time the tail stopped
wagging the dog,” he explained.
Other possible innovations will
be marking the students* cards to
denote residence and other factors
involved in fee assessment, start
ing registration full speed, with
the faculty requested to report
promptly at 7:80 a.m., and early
relearn of the academic repre
sentatives from registration.
“This way, the working people
who are through can leave,”
Monroe said. “If the part that
goes on in G. Rollie White takes
longer, then only those people will
Athletic dorm consolidates facilities
“We hope the students, faculty
and staff will get’ together with
us on this thing. It’ll be a facil
ity all of Texas AAM can be
proud of.”
The subject is the 93,938,790
athletic dormitory planned for
construction and approved last
week by the Board of Directors.
Ths speaker to Dr. Charles H.
Samson, chairman of ths AAM
Athletic Council sad head of the
Chril Engineering,'*t>epartment.
Located weal of the present
Memorial Student Center, the
new dorm will incorporate the
present living facilities of Hen
derson and Fowler Halls, ths
dining facilities of Sbisa, ths
training room of Kyle Field and
the film and meeting rooms im
provised in various locations,
putting these widespread activi
ties all under one roof.
“I think anyone who looks at
tbs situation will find this justi
fied,” Samson explained. “We’re
not going to have gold-plated
water faucets and shower beads
or any unreasonable things Hke
that.
“What this structure does is
replace and modernise what to
no# In five or so different
areas,” he added. “This new
dorm will last s long time. In
addition, Henderson and Fowler
will be used by the university
as additional housing. So, the
non-athlete students will benefit
directly."
Samson pointed out that the
dorm will house approximately
200, which will easily accommo
date all of AAM’s athletes in the
seven Southwest Conference
sports. Henderson Hall, which
was built in 1958, bolds 96, all
of whom are football players.
“Henderson Hall was a fine
dorm when it was built,” Sam
son said, “but it to out of date
now. Ths re art still community
showers and toilets, the closet
space to insufficient, the walls
are bare brick, and the carpeting
to in poor shape.
“One of the things Emory Bol
lard to working toward aa ath
letic director is equality among
athletes of all sports," hs con
tinued. This dorm will help him
realise that go*L This will be a
first class facility.”
Another advantage to students
i
is the location of the new dorm,
Samson said. With the living,
sating, training and meeting as
pects of the athletes' livss next
to the MSC and the coaching
function being moved to the new
part of the complex, the non
athlete students will be in closer
contact and thus more involved
with the athletic department.
Each pair of rooms in the
dorm will be joined by a bath-’
room. The individual rooms will
have lavatories and large closets,
with the total width being 18
feet. Samson explained that the
large rooms were necessary in
this particular caae.
“Many athletes are much larg
er than the average AAM stu
dent,” he said. “As a result, we
need to furnish the rooms with
beds seven feet long and wider
than the beds in the other
dorms.”
The idee behind having a sep
arate cafeteria in the dorm to
based on convenience for the
athletes and the employes of
Food Services. This way, ths
workout and training schedules
of tho various teams will not be
dictated by the meal serving
schedule of Sbisa Hall. In the
past, practice schedules had to
adhere to the working hours of
personnel serving all the stu
dents, not athletes exclusively.
The training room will be- in
the basement of the new dorm.
The present facility, located in
Kyle Field, forces an injured
athlete to go there for all treat
ments. The new one will enable
them to go downstairs from
where they live to have injuries
attended to.
Another aspect of the dorm is
the academic counselor's living
quarters and offices. The ath
letic department’s scholastic su
pervisor. Max Bumgsrdner. livss
in an apartment in Henderson
Hall and has an office in G.
Rollie White Coliseum. His du
ties include being in charge of
study conditions and the ath
lete’s academic life, in addition
to performing many of the tasks
of a resident advisor.
The new dorm will have a two-
bedroom apartment for the aca
demic counselor, in addition to
separate office space In the dorm.
Also included will be study rooms
and areas set aside for tutoring
and group sessions.
“Ws cant apologise for the
.
be iavelved.”
No compensation was made for
late registration that day. On
rsgistration day the first session,
some 600 late registrants crowded
the lobby of the Richard Coke
Building. The proposed plan for
an sight-hour registration period
eve eliminated tibia, prab
Also, Monroe was asked
why no students were consulted
during the decision-making proc
ess for the final plan.
“The Academic Program Com
mittee consists of academic deans
and others invited,” he answered.
“Students are not usually re pre
sented there. We had no idea of
excluding the students.”
Monroe said that the possibility
was being explored of aUw
fees while waiting hi Una a
having the workers from i
Fiscal Office check the asae
ment before the fees are paid.
mLm
Hannigan suffers •
fibrillation of heart
Date of Students James P. Hannigan is in the Community
Hospital in South Broward, Florida, after suffering what doctors
described as a fibrillation of the heart Monday afternoon.
Hannigan was in Rorida on vacation.
The former U.S. Army brigadier general had what was termed
as a “good day” Tuesday.
Hannigan is in his 13th year at AAM, having joined the staff
August 7, 1959, foflowing 30 years in the Army. He graduated from
the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., in 1929.
Bizzell Street is now closed.
to through traffic, Perry says
academic facilities in ths dorm,”
Samson said. “Athletes are sto-
depte, too. They have a hard
time because of practice and
traveling to games, so many of
them need help In their studies.”
Among the other feetures of
the dorm wiU be the film room,
complete with auditorium-type
chairs, blackboards and movie
screens, television and recreation
rooms and two lounges.
One of the lounges will be a
public area. This will b# for
guests, with ths kiss that it
serve as a greeting area for
dates, parents and friends. The
other lounge will be more casual,
an area for informal gatherings
and relaxation.
Included in the move 9o the
new MSC complex will be the
football, basketball, baseball and
track coaches and the associate
athletic director. This will leave
only the business office and the
sports information office in G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
What to now the main coaches’
office will become the sports In
formation office end press con
ference room, with the physical
education department taking over
the offices which are now occu
pied by the coaching staff.
AAM permanently dosed
portion of Bissell Street at mid
night Tuesday to reduce un
necessary safety hasards and
improve campus traffic, Howard
S. Perry, associate dean of stu
dents, announced. *
The street directly behind the
» i '4 f
Worker dies
f
at MSC site
A construction worker was
killed and another escaped injury
Wednesday whan scaffolding
broke loose on,the 12th floor of
the Continuing Education Tower
under construction at AAM.
University Police Chief O. L.
Lather identified the dead worker
aa Aden Leon McKinley, 39, of
1529 E. Admiral Place, Tulsa,
Oklahoma. Hs was employed by
Sta-Drl Co. of Dallas, a water
proof caulking material firm. Mc
Kinley and bis wife were living
at the State Motel while be work
ed on the AAM job.
Jessie J. Koontx of Rt. 4, Box
296, Bryan, was with McKinley
on the southeast corner when the
scaffolding gave way at 9:55 son.
Koonts’ leg eras caught in the
cable, and be pulled himself to
safety.
McKinley fell and hit the sec
ond floor patio before bitting the
ground. He was dead at the scene.
Services are pending at Cal
laway Jonas Funeral Home.
Construction Co. to
general contractor on the tower-
theater faciUty.
System Administration Building
will be closed between Roberts
and Hubbard Streets, with street
parking modified between Ross
and Lamar Streets.
Perry said no parking will be
allowed where parallel parking is
presently permitted. All angle .
perking will be converted to
“b*ad-in” 90 degree perking.
The 90 degree parking will be
on the west side of Bissell be
tween Hubbard end Lamar
Stre«ta and the eest side ef
Bissell between Roberts and Ross
Streets.
Persons using Parking Arts
16, on the south aide of the Sys
tem Building, will enter Bissell
from the south. Drivers using
Parking Area 16 must enter from
the north end of Bissell.
AH persona currently using
■Lreet parking on Bissell are ad
vised to plan ahead to avoid con
flict with the closing plans. ,
Pery reported Roberts Street
will continue as a one-way street
between Bissell end Spence
Streets.
Individual assistance, patience
and understanding in the imple
mentation of thto improvement to
requested, Perry said.
Closing Bissell Street to
through traffic will benefit the
univeratiy. it# employes and its
student*, Perry said.
The changes in the ‘ street
system are considered essential
* for the overall traffic operatien
sad development of the central
campus mall, Perry added.