I 4 p^»* Collcfrc Station, Texas Wednesday. June J8. II THE BATTALION Registration hassle tKetn St ’Ih^ t *T they " ‘b* ^ ***** * e*taWished for. Without Gvciyth^^b for the ^ ** abov^t^rT? yOUr with the hmpie statements have ^ U * t .. tr> 1 n *!° refr «h your memories. It seems tome people nave forgotten—the faculty, for instance. ,dm,1*111 regi ? ratio,1 ^ * *■■■•• So. H-L. Heaton, the dean of nmnnM . • ffo«P of involved people together to Stu<*ents were included. The solution was drawn p-atend the period to eight hours, enforce alphabetical admission to n . . Hall for registration, have more people handing cut card packets, and try to better inform everyone. Pr^ ^ do"* two weeks ago. Well Monday the Academic rrograms Cormnittee had a meeting and decided that the Registrar’s ice didn t know what it was talking about where registration was concerned. * rou P’ composed of the academic deans, forced its own plan on the students It just so happens naturally, that this plan’s primary purpose is to release the faculty members from registration as soon as pooible. The students? Well no more lines—or so they sriy. Those of us without amnesia remember first session registration. Lines, lines lines. This time it’ll be different. Instead of waiting in line, that time will be taken up walking from Duncan to G. Roilie White Coliseum. »ut, that’s okay, because tisoon is somebody’s through, they can leave. That statement applies to some of the students, but it applies to every single faculty member there. And not all of them are there. Since the faculty can complete its super-complicated job of writing names on a sheet of paper and handing a student a card, then registasdon will last only four hours instead of a leisurely eight Complicated tuition and residency laws for the fee assessors don’t have anything to do with it Don t blame the Registrar’s Office; it isn’t their fault this time and it wasn’t last time. Since the faculty is so overworked, the a-gistur must submit to the academic demands of a shorter time period, regardless of the outcome. That's called not being able to see past the nose on your face. Students are what is beyond the faculty noses The registrar tries to serve the students. That’s called doing your job. The faculty is trying to find the easiest powible solution for the faculty. That’s called being selfish. AD the possibilities of problems are better seen than heard, and if you hang around long enough, you can see them all What if it rains? What if people leave after going through only the Duncan phase? What if they’re refmuhing the floor in G. Roilie, which they will be? What if' 600 people try to register late, like they did last time, and all crowd into the lobby of the Coke Building? In which budding should the people from the Registrar’s Office locate themselves to best answer ' questions and help solve problems? For the answer to these and other troubles July 13, ask your local faculty member—he probably had more to do with it than the registrar. ' , Yarborough dinner here Thursday night tiuil Dinner will bcfield Thursday night at 7:80 to help mise money to pay campaign debts for the defeated United States senatorial candidate. A group of local citisena is sponsoring the dinner tabbed as a “peer man’s aopper” menu, at the Knights of Columbus Hsll on Leonard Road. Among the diatinguiahed speak ers who will accent Yarborough's contributions in education, veter ans' affairs and agriculture will be Cong. Bob Eekhardt, Cong- eWct Barbara Jordan, Leone I Cas tillo, Houston city comptroller, and Ronnie Dugger, editor-at large of the Texas Observer. Also expected to attend is Chief Bat- Indian trib#^^ Yarborough and his wife will attend the dinner. Tickets are $5 each, and they may be purchased at the door or from Mike Beal. 823-5469. Grad announcements now on sale at MSC Graduation announcements are now on sale at the Memorial Stu dent Center for A AM students graduating in July or August The announcement sales will continue through Friday, July 7, at the Caahier's Window in the MSC Ground Floor. Window hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p m. to 4 p.m. Classes closed for July 4tb A AM summer session classes will meet on Monday, July 3, with [only Tue '*■3**1 *cheduled as a holtddg, R#rllti‘dr' Robert A Lacey announced. He noted that this Independence Holiday arrangement applies to all students except those in the College of Veterinary Medicine professional course. TAMU faculty and staff mem bers also will have the Tuesday holidaf. Vet medicine, which began the summer trimester April 24, will have aj July 1-4 class break. Other summer students will have only a week of classes remaining after the holiday, with first term final examinations July 11 and 12. Bulletin Board Tosright Sports Car Club meets at 7:30 in the old College Station City Hall. Tharsdsy Jaly 6 ( < ph» id Variables Science Fic tion Club meets in Room 101 of the Physics Building at 7:30 p.m. 1 St. Thomas Episcopal Chapel and Student Center 906 Jersey Street (southern boundary of campus) * Telephone: 846-1726 Summer Schedule: v Sunday, 8 and 9:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. The Rev. James Moere, Chaplain. The Rev. W. R. Oxley, Rector CASA CHAPULTEPEC 11 A. M. TO I P. F. M. TO »:M F. M. im COLXBCK AVKNUB — FBONX SSS-Mn SPECIALS GOOD WED, THURS. 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Address correspondence to Lite* Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building. Ukge Station, Texas 77943. lb* Battalion, a ■iaSint nvwspai Jtskad la Col We* Sutiur. Taxaa, i4ay. Monday, and holiday peri™ at Temas ASM. Is owyv^mDer tnruuirn MEMBER The Associated Press, Taxaa Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press Mail •ubaeriptloaa are |S.M per awa—ter; (4 per mUsodt year; ftM per fall rear AU eafcearlstfou. sekWat iTT* ^Ta^ ,4±' h Y U * in *, - rm ^ A4*rem The Battalion. Room 1 Texas TTS4S. lit. •* ** **v* eSmr* at<-h mbaewtm ereWlad la the paper and oriahs PaMWInJ herein. Rlphte of ■eettar herein are alee reeerrrd iaaaiiy he MatWaal BMwMs—I A+rertietn. Tort Cite. CMeae*. Lee AaceWesmfBaa EDITOR 4 JOHN CURYLO Staff Writers Sue Davis and Hayden Whiteett Highway program in trouble CORPUS CHRISTI — Members of the Texas Bmss Association wars told Fnd4^ at the State’s entire highway program la in jeopardy. Charles Sissons, a member of the Texas Highway Commission, discussed problems confronting the State Highway Department in its responsibility to construct and maintain a highway system to serve el] the people of Texas. Simons warned that the high way program is threatened by proposed environmental controls, raids on the Federal Highway Trust Fund, government reorgani sation, Federal revenue sharing and bureaucratic red tape. "We propose that the Federal government finish the Interstate system as pledged, then release to the states responsibility for collection of the special highway user taxes invoked in 1966 to establish the Highway Trust Fund." Prior to 1966 tht states col lected most of the highway user tax revenues. Since then the federal government has collected specially imposed taxes on gaso line and other motor-related prod ucts to match state funds for Interstate and Primary system highway construction. “Congress established the Highway Trust Fund with a sol-, emn pledge that H would be uaed exclusively for the construction of the Interstate system and other primary highways,” Simons said. "Now schemes to divert Trust Fund revenues to build rail mass transit systems in Eastern Sea board and Midwest cities have been bounding around Washington like a basketball.” Simons explained that the Tex as Highway Commission fully supports mass transit systems and pointed out that Taxaa has built one of the best networks of rubber-tired mass transit in the United States, which he de scribed as most economical, most flexible and moat practical for all but about 10 cities in the U.8. i "Texans have paid for their own mass transit system with their own highway use taxes," Simons said. “We on the Com mission believe riders on other mase transit systems in other states should pay for their own systems from the fare box or self- imposed genera] tax revenues. It is as simple as that." Another cause for concern to the Highway Commission outlined by Simons is the Administration proposal for governmental reor ganisation. In this proposal is a plan to merge elements of the Department of Transportation (DOT) with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), elements of the Department of Health, Edu cation and Welfare (HEW) in a Department of Community Af faire. "Highways are not a commun ity affair. They are a a tats eon- corn," Simons said. ’This is a ridiculous grouping of non- related government organisations. It should ha recognised for ex actly what it la: a move to domi nate the highway program and to divert highway user tax reve nues to wild-eyed welfare and other socialistic schemes.” Simons blamed withholding of distribution from the Highway Trust Fund for hampering high way construction. "More than 25 billion a yaar flows to the fund,” Simons said. “This is a prime attraction to bureaucrats and political oppor tunists who see it as the greatest potential slush fund for financing pork barrel projects in the entire history of the country." Manipulated balances of the Highway Trust Fund have re sulted in the delayed completion of the Interstate System. Origin ally planned • for completion in 1972, the system is now only about three-fourths complete. Simons expressed doubt that the system will be completed until the 1980’s. “Wa are enmeshed in a bureau cratic stranglehold of red tape and directives that have stretched the time necessary to get a high way project ready for contract from 84 months to 78 months,” Simons said. “Congress is at long last looking at this very threaten ing problem. Rep. Jim Wright (Dem.-Tex.) is chairman of a House subcommittee whoee mem bers recently were appalled to learn of bureaucratic interpreta tion and red tape imposed on con- tion and red tape imposed on congressionally approved legisla tion.” Simons pointed out that Con gress now is considering iegislnr tion known as the "Transporta tion Revenue Sharing Plan." 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