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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.
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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
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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)
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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