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CP.03IW CRHTtR, IHC, . BOX 4343(> B LAS, TEX. 75235 Vol. 67 No. ia4 < I • » K Jl Battalion Clear and warm College Station, Texas Wednesday, August 16, 1972 TkanAajr — CUady to partly rtoady. Aftoraooa tkaadavahaw- ara, aaatorly wiada S-1t aipfc. Hifli U*. tow 71°. Friday — Partly ctoady, aaatk- ariy wiada Id-lS aipk. Hick W 0 . tow 74°. 845-2226 County court okays campus polling place A plan for rfellfninf Precinct 9 in Collcca Station to include an on-campus polling place for AAM students was approved Monday by the Brasos County Commissioners Court. Worked out by members of the Student Government at TAMU, the plan provides for dividing Precinct 9 into three precincts including one com posed of the university campus. It will become effective March I, 1979, by a 4-1 vota of the court, A second proposal presented to the Commissioners Court by Stu dent Body President Layne Kruse and Barb Sears, Student Senate external affairs chairman, failed to pass. The student proposal would have asoved the Precinct 9 box from AAM Consolidated to G. Rollie White Coliseum for the November general election. It bad President Jack Williams' and Dr. Carl Landiss' approval. Kruse said the readjusted pre cinct lines break up Precinct 9 into three precincts georraphi- cmlly defined by University Drive north to the College Station city limit. University Drive sooth to Jersey Street and south of Jer sey to Holloman Drive, with the latter's western boundary moved from Fairview Avenue west to FM 8164. The new precincts re main to be numbered. The present large precinct, ac cording to voter registration lists provided by County Judge Wil liam R. Vance, has a 8,718 vot ing population. "State law requires 2,000 max imum per precinct," Kruse point ed out, “so the precinct lines bad to be readjusted.” Commissioner Raymond Nolan, Pet. 1, made the motion to ac cept the student proposal. The motion received support of four of the five commissioners. Kruse said the new alignment encompasses 1,040 registered vot ers in the new University Drive- city limit precinct; 1,381 on cam- *pu«, and 1,284 in the Jersey- Holloman area. Kruse said another voter reg istration drive planned on cam pus this fall may push the cam pus precinct too high, necessitat ing a pother division of the box. He said 6,000 students now live on campus, with more projected. A breakdown of the voter reg istration list covering the new north College Station precinct "reveals interesting informa tion,’’ Kruse added. It includes 668 registered voters in the Col lege View area and 488 in the North Gate area. Of the latter, 284 voters, are below age 86 and 66 tore over age 86. The president said details of the precinct organisation are to be worked out. Thinking ia that the on-campus polling box would be located at the Memorial Stu dent Center. “I think a lot of students will be willing to get involved and work on tt," he said, "because of political activism among young people." "It would have been convenient for nearly everyone if the second proposal relocating the Precinct 9 box for this fall’s election had passed," Kruse evaluated. "I'm happy with the outcome though." The second proposal was re jected, according to Judge Vance, because Precinct 9 Chairman Dr. E. E. Bums has already made arrangements' for the polling place to be at A&M Consolidated. 13 i :• ■ - r n>~- sr i SCHOOL FINISHED WITH a splaah for high school the final ctearifier at the TAMU wastewater plant. Ed science teachers completing a five-week course here Fri- Ganze of Mesquite and Fred D. Brown Jr of Garland threw day. Charles Wall, water utilities training instructor at Wall into the final process tank, which Wall claims is very A&M’s Engineering Extension Service, was thrown into clean processed water. School year preparations, include on-campus women Preparation for the 1972-73 school year at AAM will include •xtonsive activities for women students, to be housed on-campus for the first time this fall. They will be intthe new C. C. Krueger and J. Harold Dunn Resi dence Halls. TAMU fall semester classes be gin August 28. Organisational activities occur ; August 21-26, along with delayed registration for new students and returning students who did not pre-register last spring. Orientation week activities for women will include training for 18 resident advisors who will live in Krueger and Dunn Halls, orien tation for all new coed students by a new women’s organisation— Cwens—and activities of Omega Phi Alpha, national service soror ity, according to Dean of Women Toby Schreiber. Coed graduate students Betsy Price of East Orange, N. J., and Mary Ann Glueck of Cat Spring will be bead residents In Krueger and Dunn Hall,. Eighteen under graduate upperciaas coeds will be resident advisors. They begin training August 22. Alpha Zeta Chapter of Cwens, sophomore honor organisation dedicated to service on campus, plans an orientation Saturday. August 26, for all freshman girls. Cynthia Galbreath of Houston is president of the Cwens chapter, installed at TAMU last spring. Cwens, which replaced University Women, recognises academic achievement as well as leadership during the freshman year. It annually inducts new sophomore members, consisting of no more than 10 per cent of the freshman women. OP A, chaired by Stuart Stewart of Bryan, plans a variety of activ- tie* for women next week. OPA’s brother fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega, will provide man power to help coeds move into Krueger end Dunn Halls during the week. Mrs. Price, whose husband Wayne ia head resident for male students in Dunn Hall, is study ing for a master’s degree in edu cation. She was a resident advisor in an upperciaas dorm at South western University where she graduated in 1970. Dean Hannigan returns home with smiles, sign Thursday A&M Dean of Students James P. Hannigan returned to his home Thurstky, reporting he wu “tfad to be bock with the Aggies’ The dean was flown by Army helicopter to Easterwood Airport tnd returned to his home for continued convalescence after suffering • serious heart attack in Florida in late June. He had been moved to San Antonio’s Brooke Army Hospital last month. Five Alpha Phi Omep national service fraternity members, the dean’s wife and Melon Southerland from the dean's office met the helicopter ! Dean Hannigan pve the group the “Gig TJnT sign from inside the chopper and walked to his car. “I feel great,” he said smiling. “I challenge you to a 100 yard dash.. .as long as you give me a 98 yard handicap,” he quipped to one of the group. He also carried a hand-lettered sheet of paper which read “Aggies are the best people in the world-Hannigan.” “1 brought the sign in case the engine noise prevented me from being heard,” he reported. His medical trip from Florida was aboard the same Air Force plane used to transfer Gov. George Wallace from Maryland to Miami to Alabama. The helicopter and Air Force plane both had Aggie pilots, which the dean said “rfiows Aggies are everywhere.” The dean arrived in high spirits with a broad smile. Doctors, however, have ordered a month’s convalescence to build his strength. Leadership Conference begins Friday in Palestine AAM student leaders will establish working bases for the 1972-73 school year at tbs Me morial Student Center Fall Lead- erahtp Conference Aog. 18 the- The three-day conference at the Lakeview Methodist Assem bly grounds near Palestine will feature student-to-atudent and student - to • administration ses sions designed to develop work ing relationships. “We hope to have 80 students | and 20 faculty-staff involvad,” indicated Joe Arredondo of Go liad, conference chairman. Invited to participate are stu dent leaders of the MSC execu tive council and committee chair men, Student Senate, Civilian Student Council executive com mittee and residence hall presi dents, the Cadet Corps staff and corps commanders. Graduate Student Council representative Dick Zepeda, the Dean ef Wom en’s council and dormitory head residents. Students will participate in en counter groups of eight to 10 peo ple each in the first phase of the 1 conference, conducted by Charles E. McCandless, associate dean of the College of Liberal Aria. McCandless will employ sensi tivity-type Encounter Tapes de- vetopad - by the Western Behav ioral Science Institute of Lajolla. Calif., in the Friday and Satur day sessions. A Sunday question-answer panel moderated by Kent Caper- ton of the president’s office will bring together students and ad ministrators. The panel will consist of Dean of Men Charles Powell, Dean of Women Toby Schreiber; Robert H. Rucker, university landscape architect end soil and crop sci ences professor; Tom D. Cherry, vice president for business af fairs; Col. Robert F. Crossland, professor of aerospace studies, and Col. Clarence E. Hogan, pro fessor of naval science. After-lunch small group ses sions will allow student leaders clossr contact with the faculty- staff members. A Saturday evening barbecue will be sponsored by the Associa tion of Former Students, with Tod Maffitt, AAM graduate of Palestine, handling arrangements. New ETV operation will be improved and efficient v-r r I Microwav® equipment carrying KAMU-TV signals from the Educational Television building to the station’s trans mitter-antenna site in Hensel Park will be mounted on this 100-fool tower. Electronics installation is pro gressing on scbsdule in the Edu cational Television Department at AAM. Relocated last spring, ETV will bs ready for closed circuit class- I room presentations and coureas taught ia its studios at tbs start of the 1978-78 school year Aug. 28. The department moved into its own specially-designed building southeast of Kyis Field in March. Allocations enabled purchase of new equipment for all ETV pro grams, including a new RCA col or television transmitter for KAMU-TV. During the time the ETV pub lic television station has been off the air. the exact location for the transmitter and antenna was changed, requiring a 60 to 90 day postponement of the time KAMU planned to resume broadcasting, according to Dr. Mel Chastain, ETV director. Original plans called for leas ing a tower. New plans include construction of the station’s own tower. “The additional time required to design and construct our 878- foot tower and antenna is the primary reason for the delay," Chastain said. A two-kilowatt RCA transmit ter, ETV*s former one-KW GE transmitter and the anteana will be located hi Hensel Park. Sig nals will be microwaved from the building to the transmitter-an tenna site. "Equipment installation and testa in the on-campus building eyill be completed by the end of August,” Chastain said? He in dicated work in the new build ing is 80 per cent complete over all. The transmitter-antenna ar rangement in on the drawing- board. It includes conversion of part of a building, tower con struction and transmitter-anten na installation by ETV tochni- cians headed by George Shearer. Improved signal quality of the new equipment will make the wait for KAMU-TV to return to the air worth it, Chastain be lieves. He noted that with the GE as a back-up transmitter, failure of the RCA machine will cause a two-second interruption of picture and sound reaching viewers’ iwceivers. Studios and engineering quar ters ere near completion and in clude a number of unique fea tures. The engineering control center where all video, audio and internal communications ia con trolled and control rooms for 8,- 600-square-foot and 1,000-square- foot studios ineluds "a lot of sophisticated electronics work," University National Bank "On tha aids of Tsxas AAM." —Adv. Chastain said. The engineering staff has dubbed tha former the "Star Trek" room, after the space ship command dock in the TV series. "It’s fantastic,” Chastain cred ited. "And George and his crew did it from the ground up. They have strengthened my respect for their abilities." Part of their work consists of tying together two video switch ers, which will allow multiple imaging called video effects. "This is a highly sophisticated task. It involves hundreds of cables of varying lengths that have to be timed to determine phasing and then cut to just the right length," the director ex plained. "The length affects phasing, which in color TV af fects color balance. It is going to take time, and we can’t begin until all tbs switchers are bora." A computer program was de signed and run to determine phasing feasibility between the switchers. The process will in volve four color cameras, with signals from all four showing up on either switcher at any given time. ETV acquired two new Noreko Ftumbicon color cameras, to go with two color and taro black- and-white cameras moved from Begley. “Here, we have two in-house control rooms," Chastain added. (See TV SUtien. peg* 4) / An interior view of the building shows some of the many cables needed to broadcast a television show. The inside is designed with convenience in mind, so much of the equipment will be easily accessible to workers. (Photo by John Curyk>) ‘ i