Che Battalion
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THURSDAY & FRIDAY —
Partly cloudy warm and humid
widely scattered thundershow
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High 94, low 71.
warm
Wednesday, July 5, 1972
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Shuttle bus system
approved for fall
THE CAMPUS MALL now extends to the area in front of the Academic Building after
| several weeks of digging up the lawn around the statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross. Work-
| men are shown late last week as they put the finishing touches on another portion of the
J surface. (Photo by John Curylo)
Power failure is prevented
By JOHN CURYLO
Editor
The shuttle bus system, a project which has been thought about
and talked about for a long time at A&M, will be initiated here for the
fall semester, according to Kent Caperton, a staff assistant to Dr. Jack
K. Williams, the university president.
The plan, which is being set up as somewhat of a pilot program,
calls for the purchase of three school-type buses, two of which will be
in operation. The other bus will serve as a standby.
“We feel there is a real need in this area,” Caperton said. “The
idea is to serve the people immediately off campus in the area
surrounding A&M.”
At first, the shuttle system will accommodate faculty, staff and
students living in the commercial apartment complexes along Highway
30, the Redmond district and the North Gate area, in addition to
university-owned housing north of the campus.
Caperton pointed out that the program will be looked at closely,
since support will be needed before expanding the shuttle system to
serve a larger area.
Each bus will hold 44 people and will cost approximately’
$10,000. The cost of operating each bus will be five dollars an hour.
This includes paying for drivers, insurance, gasoline and other main-
fdinricc costs
The total operating expenses for the first year will be at least
$30,000. This money will probably come from student services fee
reserves.
' “The shuttle system is being initiated in response to the expressed
wishes of the students,” Caperton explained. “It’s been anticipated for
several years, and candidates for student government offices have
mentioned it in their campaigns. The Student Senate worked on it quite
a bit last year.
“Perhaps this will relieve some of the traffic problems we have
around the campus,” he added. “Please capitalize ‘perhaps’.”
Since the Student Senate is not in operation during the summer,
the President’s Office has personally contacted student government
officers to obtain their reactions, opinions and suggestions, Caperton
emphasized.
“We contacted Layne Kruse by telephone in Kansas Thursday,”
he said. Kruse, the 1972-73 student body president, is attending U. S.
Army ROTC Summer Camp at Ft. Riley, Kansas.
A committee with extensive student representation will aid in
charge of determining the routes and schedules of the buses.
“Routing and scheduling are the keys to the success of the
program,” Caperton said. “We think having this committee run the
system is important, because it is a student service. The students should
have a lot to do with determining its operation.”
Also, the possibility of on-campus routes and stops for the shuttle
buses is being explored as a possible future addition to the program.
These two features will depend on the support and reaction to the
original system.
at A&M Thursday night
For driver training
Quick thinking by workers at
A&M’s Power Plant prevented
power failure Thursday night
when one of the large boilers
caught fire.
J. C. Redman, plant superin
tendent, said apparently the
forced draft intake fan failed on
Geologist’s paper
receives award
An A&M graduate has received
the best student paper award for
1972 from the U. S. Committee on
Rock Mechanics at the Thirteenth
Symposium on Rpck Mechanics
I held at Pennsylvania State Uni
versity last month.
Dr. Henri S. Swolfs, now a geol
ogist with Terra Tek, Inc., Salt
Lake City, was awarded the Ph.D.
from the Department of Geology
and the Center for Tectonophysics
in December, 1971.
a 100,000 pounds per hour steam
boiler at the plant serving all
university property.
Unburned gases accumulated
in the air ducts between the
boiler and the smokestack, Red
man reported.
When the gases ignited at ap
proximately 8:30 p.m., operators
quickly shifted to a new gas tur
bine generator recently installed
and currently being tested, ac
cording to maintenance fireman
Garnett Eimann.
He said the quick action led to
no loss of power throughout the
university.
Most of the fire was confined
to inside the air duct system,
Redman noted. College Station
firemen extinguished small fires
confined to the insulation around
the equipment.
Redman said the air ducts were
sealed and the fire burned itself
out.
The equipment was still hot
Friday morning and Redman
estimated it would be Monday
before workers could get inside
the system to check damage and
determine the exact mechanical
breakdown that caused the fire.
The university has full power,
including the gas turbine and two
older boilers with a combined
output of 275,000 pounds of steam
per hour.
Redman said the damaged
boiler will be repaired.
Education college gets grants
Refrigerators
to be returned
Hannigan improving
after mild heart attack
A&M Dean, of Students James P. Hannigan is still in The
Community Hospital in South Broward, Florida, after suffering a
mild heart attack early last week.
Hannigan, who was vacationing in Florida, was moved Lorn
intensive care into a private room Friday.
The heart attack, which occurred June 26, was described by
doctors to be a Fibrillation of the heart.
According to reports from Florida, the former U.S. Army
general is improving, although no word was received on his condition
early this week.
Saturday, July 8, is the turn-in
date for refrigerators rented for
the first summer session only,
refrigerator manager Ray Hold-
brook announced Monday.
Hold-brook said that students
who rented them for the first
six weeks only and wish to rent
them for the second six weeks of
school may do so Friday, July 7,
at the refrigerator office in the
basement of the hospital.
He added that students wish
ing to turn in refrigerators early
may do so Friday. Refrigerators
must be turned in clean and dry
or there will be a charge. Also,
refrigerators turned in late cause
a charge of $1 per day beginning
Monday, July 10.
Holdbrook said that there will
be someone in his office to car
ry refrigerators for female stu
dents for a fee of 50 cents per
unit.
Refrigerator office hours for
this weekend are 3-7 p.m. Friday
and 9-12 and 1-6 Saturday.
Texas Education Agency
grants of $120,506 have been
made to A&M’s College of Edu
cation for training driver educa
tion teaching assistants and
training equipment, Dean Frank
Hubert announced.
Grants of $80,506 and $40,000
provide for 1972 summer train
ing conducted by Dr. Leslie V.
Hawkins and purchase of a 15-
place driver simulator and mo
bile classroom unit.
First major use of the $40,000
unit will be this summer in pre
paring paraprofessionals in driv
er education. Hawkins expects
48 participants in the teaching
assistants program.
The unit, a 14 by 64-foot trail
er, will be housed at the TAMU
Research Annex and used for both
instruction and research pur
poses, noted Dr. Donald L. Clark,
associate dean for research in
the College of Education. It also
includes a 14xl5-foot observa
tion room, besides driving sim
ulators and film projection and
sound equipment.
He said it will be employed in
ongoing teacher education pro
grams and for university research
purposes.
A&M is in its fourth summer
of driver education teaching
training under TEA support. In
dustry and public schools have
provided equipment in previous
years.
Clark said the simulator and
mobile equipment will be used
for teacher preparation, teaching
assistant training, research and
teaching traffic safety in sec
ondary school.
The Industrial Education De
partment in which Hawkins and
Clark are faculty members has
been involved in preparing driver
education teachers 24 years.
Broader concern has evolved over
the years to interest in research
in evaluation of individuals and
programs, curriculum develop
ment for content and production
of equipment and facilities for
use in traffic safety education.
Teachers and teaching assist
ants prepared at TAMU are
trained in operation of technical
equipment and media, as well as
theory of teaching traffic safety,
utilizing the new unit as well as
existing facilities.
The latter includes a 16-place
multi-car driving range that
meets state specifications, a 30-
place multi-media student re
sponse system, psychophysical
testing equipment and others.
TAMU offers seven driver and
traffic safety education courses,
including graduate-level problems
and research courses. Offerings
in other departments are of in
terest to students concerned with
traffic safety.
Hawkins, Clark and Dr. Jack
K. Weaver of the Industrial Edu
cation Department instruct
teachers of driver education at
A&M.
Participants selected for bicultural program
Eight participants have been
selected by the College of Educa
tion at A&M for a junior college
bicultural guidance specialists
program.
The one-year program will pre
pare student personnel specialists
for guidance work with Mexican-
American junior college students.
Understandings and skills neces
sary for assisting the bicultural
student in today’s society will be
emphasized in the Education Pro
fessions Development Act
(EPDA) Fellowship program.
Dr. Robert R. Reilley, associate
professor in educational psychol
ogy, directs the federally funded
project.
Participants hold bachelor and
master’s degrees, the latter usu
ally in counseling and guidance.
Experience in counseling, student
personnel work, teaching and ca
reer development are common to
their backgrounds.
The participants are Marcelino
Cuellar, Edcouch-Elsa school dis
trict teacher; Ann R. Nunez, Mi
chigan Vocational Rehabilitation
Center counselor; Jerome B. No-
vosad, Wharton County Junior
College counselor; Ivan V. Sim
mons, Carol Stream, 111., indus
trial career training coordinator.
Also, Dale Gilsdorf, training
development officer, Catholic
University, Ponce, Puerto Rico;
Michael W. Sharp, San Antonio
East Central High School teach
er; Dan C. Galvan, extension serv
ice advisor in the Dominican Re
public for the Office of Interna
tional Programs, TAMU, and
Charles Schubert, John Carroll
University counselor and psycho-
metrist, Cleveland, Ohio.
Ph.D. language requirement studied
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The foreign language option
for Ph.D. candidates will be vot
ed upon by the Academic Council
in August, and graduate students
need to be made aware of the
action which is proposed.
The Graduate Student Council,
which initiated this effort to
change the present requirements,
is encouraging all doctoral stu
dents to make their preferences
and ideas knowh to their depart
ment heads.
“It is important for every stu
dent to familiarize himself with
what is going on,” explained Dick
Zepeda, GSC president. “The new
program may call for stiffen re-
Friday is housing deadline
for second summer session
A&M summer students who
will attend the second summer
session continue room reserva
tion through Friday, July 7.
Housing Manager Allan M.
Madeley announced that the cur
rent reservation period is for
students who wish to stay in
their present rooms.
making reservations July 10, on
a first-come, first-served basis.
Students desiring to reserve
another room for the second six-
week summer session will begin
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Students completing work and
leaving campus at the end of the
current summer term July 12
must make advance arrange
ments with their hall resident
advisors to have rooms cleared.
The advisor will pick up keys,
room clearance cards and other
university property.
Second summer term registra
tion will be July 13. Classes be
gin Friday, July 14, and con
tinue through exams August 17
and 18.
quirements or no requirements at
all, but either way, it will be bet
ter suited to the field of study.”
Zepeda said that he judged the
major complaint to be the “across
the board” requirement, with no
consideration given to field or
concentration. In other words,
the language requirements are
the same for a Ph.D. student in
agricultural economics and one
in science, for example.
At the present time, there are
three possible options for doc
toral candidates. The first is for
a student to make a score of 450
or higher on the Graduate Stu
dent Foreign Language Test in
two foreign languages approved
by the Graduate College. The
second possibility is for the stu
dent to pass the exam, making
a higher score in one language,
thus showing a proficiency in
that language. The third option
calls for making 450 on the
GSFLT and taking six hours out
side one’s field for broadening
the background of the individual.
The alternative plan, which has
been passed by the Graduate
Council, must be approved by the
Academic Programs Committee
and the Executive Committee be
fore going to the Academic Coun
cil.
This option calls for each de
partment to set the requirement
for its field, thus filling the need
for that course of study. This
would go into effect in Septem
ber, and it would be written into
the next university bulletin.
The proposed plan eliminates
the foreign language require
ments in doctoral programs for
which such study and knowledge
is not especially useful or neces
sary.
Zepeda said that any interest
ed individuals could contact the
GSC concerning the matter or
come to a meeting to discuss the
issue.
“This is not a closed thing for
us,” he added. “We think that
the proposed option is best for
all concerned. If everyone will
let departments know how they
feel, then the vote in the Aca
demic Council will reflect the
needs and wishes of the stu
dents.”
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WE KNEW KENT CAPERTON had several fringe benefits in his job as a staff assistant
to A&M President Jack K. Williams, but no one realized that caddy service from batgirl
Susan Cummings was one of them. The assistance paid off, though, since Caperton shot
a five-over-par 75 at the Bryan Municipal Course Friday afternoon. (Photo by John
Curylo)