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Free shuttle bus service to
Texas A&M University began
last week for students living near
the main campus.
The service operates under the
direction of Tom Cherry, TAMU
vice president for business af
fairs, through a contract be
tween TAMU and Transportation
Enterprises, Inc., of Austin.
The local manager for the bus
service is Wendell Harris. Harris
is basing his operations head
quarters at a Gulf Station locat
ed at 300 S. Jersey near the Var
sity II apartments.
The service will consist of five
white with maroon trim buses,
each seating 44 persons and op
erating on two routes.
Route one serves the married
student apartments northeast of
the campus. Route two serves the
commercial apartment complexes
along Highway 30 and the Red
mond Terrace area.
Leaflets are being distributed
in those areas describing the
routes and service times. Each
route begins runs at 7 a.m. and
makes the final run at 11 p.m.
Monday through Friday. There
will be no service on weekends.
Kent Caperton, assistant to
TAMU President Jack K. Wil
liams, described the project as a
pilot program subject to many
changes.
“The bus service is being
geared to only the high density
areas for the moment,” said
Caperton. “The key to success
for the whole system is the bus
frequency. At the moment we
are on a very limited budget and
can’t serve everyone.”
Two buses will serve the mar
ried student apartments from 7
a.m. to 1 p.m. for service every
eight minutes. After 1 p.m., one
bus will make the run in ap
proximately 16 minutes.
Route two has three buses from
7 a.m. to 1 p.m., one every 10
minutes; two buses from 1-6 p.m.,
one every 15 minutes; and one
bus will run at 30 minute inter
vals from 6-11 p.m.
There are six scheduled stops
on the main campus, seven in the
married student apartments area
and seven to eight stops south
and west of the campus.
Signs will be placed on campus
stop signs to designate bus stops.
The off-campus stops will not be
designated until one or two weeks
of operations has determined
where the passengers assemble.
Off-campus stops will have paint
ed curbs.
Each bus has front and rear
side doors. They are not air-con
ditioned and will have student
drivers. Harris said the system
currently has nine of the 15 driv
ers the system needs for opera
tion.
Drivers must be 18 years of
age and be competent drivers
with a chauffers license. More
information on driver positions
may be obtained from the place
ment office in the YMCA build
ing.
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College Station, Texas Tuesday, August 29, 1972
WEDNESDAY—Clear to partly
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SENIOR YELL LEADER John McNevin did his thing at All-University Night Mon
day, spinning a yarn about how the Texas Aggies were going to beat the “ever-lovin’,
Emory Bellard out of TU.” To say the least, a few people seemed to agree with him.
(Photo by Mike Rice)
Fair Housing Group Formed To Help End
3 Student Off-Campus, Apartment Problems
External Affairs Committee
hairman Barb Sears has initi
ated a Fair Housing Commission
or students living off-campus in
niversity - owned buildings or
privately-owned complexes.
Sears, who will be chairman of
the Student Government-oriented
group, said its purpose will be
to take complaints and give ad-
ice to students encountering
roblems with landlords and the
university.
The commission will be able to
seek legal aid through assistance
provided by the Student Govern
ment’s lawyer, one hired by the
university or through the Bryan-
College Station Better Business
Bureau.
“We formed the commission
primarily on the basis of the
number of complaints we were
receiving about difficulties in
getting back apartment depos
its,” Sears said. “Some parties
were receiving only partial re
funds in instances where their
apartments had undergone only
normal wear, while others were
getting the full amount back in
spite of damage to apartments.”
She said students need to be
better informed about lease and
tenant agreements to keep out
the “whims” of landlords.
“Our best ally will be the Bet
ter Business Bureau,” said Sears.
“It is strongly supported by
many of the businesses in the
area and has acted as a third
party many times in helping with
room deposit collections at apart
ments.”
Apartments rented to indi
vidual students and married stu
dents by the university are the
Southside, Hensel and College
View complexes.
“Another frequent complaint is
about the regulation against the
placement of banners and signs
in apartment windows,” Sears
said. “Reasoning behind this fol
lows from the fact that dormi
tory students are allowed to place
these in their windows. This
seems completely unfair to stu
dents who pay their money to
keep their rooms as they please.”
Sears also said the Fair Hous
ing Commission would work
closely with the Apartment Coun
cil, headed by Mike Ehrlich. The
Apartment Council receives com
plaints about road repair, tenant
treatment and speed limits with
in the apartment areas.
“We hope the two can work
together,” Sears said, “with the
complaints g o i n g through the
Apartment Council and the Fair
Housing Commission acting as
the legal rights enforcer for the
tenants.”
Sears said a brochure on the
commission will be published ear
ly this semester.
Fall Activity Cards Now Available
Distribution of fall activity
cards for students began Mon
day morning in the lobby of G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
The cards were not issued this
summer when fee receipts were
mailed with students’ identifica
tion cards as has been done in the
past.
Wally Groff, Business Mana
ger for the Athletic Department,
said the cards weren’t issued be
cause students changed their
classification too often after tak
ing summer school.
“I estimate we were having to
exchange 50 per cent of the cards
in the past,” Groff said. “This
created many problems since stu
dents signed their cards and we
couldn’t reuse those turned back
in.”
Groff cited past experience
with freshmen throwing cards
away because they didn’t know
what they were as another prob
lem that arose frequently.
Groff said his office will con
tinue to distribute the cards in
the lobby for the next two weeks
between the hours of 8 a.m. and
12 p.m. and 1-5 p.m. If cards
aren’t picked up within the al
lotted two week time, students
should go to the business office,
Groff added.
Board Of Directors Gives OK
To Law And Medical Programs
The Texas A&M board of di
rectors approved Tuesday the in
stitution’s plans to establish a
law school and expand its coop
erative program with Baylor
College of Medicine to include
initial training of medical stu
dents.
The board had earlier directed
the TAMU administration to pre
pare the plans, which will now be
presented to the Coordinating
Board of the Texas College and
University System.
TAMU President Jack K.. Wil
liams explained the proposed pro
gram in medicine would allow
students to begin their profes
sional medical education at the
end of their sophomore year.
Students selected for the pro
gram would take a two-year
basic medical sciences program
at TAMU, receiving a B.S. de
gree upon successful completion,
Dr. Williams added. The stu
dents would then transfer to
Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston for an additional two
years of instruction, the clinical
phase, with graduates receiving
the M.D. degree from BCM/
TAMU.
Target date for starting the
program is September, 1975 with
an initial class of 16 students.
Dr. Williams said the program
is proposed as a “partial answer
to the great demand for medical
graduates in Texas and through-
Aggieland Distribution On Friday
Joe Arredondo, 1972-73 editor of the Aggieland, said Monday he
‘anticipates’ starting distribution of the 1971-72 Aggieland Friday.
“I talked with the publishers Monday afternoon,” Arredondo said.
“Apparently the holdup in delivery is not their fault as the shipment
has been ready for delivery for awhile.”
Arredondo noted that students must “personally” pick up their
yearbooks at the Student PubUcations Office in the Services Building.
“Students must have their own I.D.’s in their possession to pick up
annuals,” he said. “Only one annual will be' given to each person, no
one else can do it for you.”
A&M Starts 97th
Year Of Classes
out the nation.
“This program would enable
a student entering college at age
18 to complete formal medical
education at about age 24,” the
TAMU president continued. “It
also would mean that a public in
stitution would join hands with
a private professional college to
meet medical manpower require
ments in an experimental and in
novative way.”
The proposed program would
be an expansion of plans an
nounced last spring by Dr. Wil
liams and Dr. Michael E. De-
Bakey, BCM president, for a far-
reaching affiliation between the
two institutions.
Dr. Williams said the proposal
to establish a law college is based
on the state’s apparent need for
additional centers for legal edu
cation, coupled with the oppor
tunity to develop specialized law
programs related to certain fields
in which the university is already
well established, such as marine
sciences.
“If it is determined that Tex
as should enlarge its capabilities
for instruction in the law,” he
noted, “Texas A&M University
proposes that the state would be
served best by a college of law
of the highest quality at College
Station.”
Dr. Williams emphasized a new
teaching facility for law in Col
lege Station “will cost little, if
any, more than comparable ex
pansion at one of the existing
law schools.”
In other action the board ap
proved a record $161,402,157 op
erating budget for the Texas
A&M University System for the
fiscal year beginning Sept. 1. The
new budget represents a 11.3 per
cent increase over the 1971-72
budget.
Included in the new budget is
an $81,236,412 allocation for
TAMU, $16,235,840 for Prairie
View A&M College and $5,388,-
081 for Tarleton State College.
Budgets for other parts of the
system are $21,175,703 for the
Texas Agricultural Extension
Service; $18,931,384, Texas Agri
cultural Experiment Station; $8,-
945,401, Texas Engineering Ex
periment Station; $2,557,002,
Texas Engineering Extension
Service; $3,264,925, Texas Forest
Service; $1,024,990, TAMU’s
Texas Maritime Academy and
Moody College of Marine Sci
ences and Maritime Resources at
Galveston; $879,857, Rodent and
Predatory Animal Control Service
and $318,453, Texas Veterinary
Medical Diagnostic Laboratory.
In addition to the law and
medical proposals, the board ap
proved TAMU plans to offer new
bachelor of science degree pro
grams in earth sciences and ocean
engineering, a bachelor of arts
program in physics and a mas
ter’s in educational technology.
(See Board Meeting, Page 11)
Texas A&M began its 97th
year Monday with the first day
of fall semester classes as stu
dents started the school year on
a couple of unprecedented notes.
The 1972-73 freshman class
will be seniors during TAMU’s
centennial year, 1976. The Class
of ’76 has been called the univer
sity’s centennial class by Presi
dent Jack K. Williams.
C. C. Krueger and J. Harold
Dunn Residence Halls are hous
ing women students on the
TAMU campus for the first time
this Fall.
President Williams noted dur
ing All-University Night activi
ties Monday that at the close of
the record books Monday after
noon, A&M officially had 2,496
coeds enrolled in school.
Dr. Williams also noted he esti
mates the final enrollment for
the fall semester will be “some
where between 15,500 and 16,000
students overall.”
Fall semester classes will con
tinue through Dec. 12, according
to Robert A. Lacey, registrar.
Fall commencement and commis
sioning will be Saturday, Dec. 9
with semester exams slated for
Dec. 13-19.
TAMU’s only fall semester
class break will be Nov. 23-26,
for the Thanksgiving holidays.
But still missing from the
campus are 382 students who will
enroll beginning Friday in the
professional College of Veteri
nary Medicine.
The veterinary students study
under the trimester system,
which means going to school 11
months out of the year.
Col. Thomas R. Parsons said
recently “Things look exceedingly
bright for the corps this year.”
He cited a 10 per cent increase
in freshmen and total corps
strength that is expected to sur
pass 2,700.
The commandant pointed out
that the corps freshman group
should increase “to over 900.”
The TAMU military organiza
tion started the 1971-72 fall
semester with 2,586. With better
retention than for any year in
which records were kept, the
semester was completed with 2,-
223 cadets in the corps.
New Bike Rules
Are Approved
The Executive Committee and
the Academic Council recently
approved new bicycle regulations,
some of which are in effect now,
others to come later in the year.
A&M officials are currently
planning an overall bicycle path
system for the entire campus but
until this is done cyclists must
adjust to the joint use of side
walks to minimize traffic con
gestion.
The University Police Depart
ment has the jurisdiction to en
force any regulations passed by
the groups with the right to im
pound vehicles found in violation
of established rules.
Police Chief O. L. Luther said
his men hope to begin the bicycle
registration program in October,
once auto problems are solved.
Registration of bikes will cost
$3 per year.
Refrigerators Available In
Civilian Area Until Wednesday
Refrigerators are now being
made available on an outlined
distribution schedule set up by
Steve Hill, student distributor ap
pointed by the Student Govern
ment.
Distribution began Monday as
part of the program initiated by
last year’s Student Senate. Two
types of machines are being of
fered to students, ones with locks
and without. Refrigerators with
locks are very limited.
The cost for renting the ma
chines per semester is $20, plus
a $10 deposit that is returned
when the machines are checked
back in. The deposit money will
be used to cover any damages in
curred while in use.
“One change in the program
stems from the loosening of re
strictions in the corps area,” said
Hill. “All students there will be
able to have refrigerators in
their rooms.”
Distribution began in the ci
vilian area with Schumacher, Mc-
Innis, Crocker and Moore halls
scheduled first.
Students from Davis - Gary,
Moses, Hughes and Fowler can
pick up their machines Tuesday
inside the laundry substation un
derneath the University hospital.
Keathley Hall and students who
didn’t get their machines during
the first two days may pick them
up Wednesday. |
Students in the Kreuger-Dunn
area will be able to rent machines
Thursday and Friday from a
point to be announced later in
the week.
Dorms 1 through 4 will get
theirs Monday; dorms 5 through
8, on Tuesday; and dorms 9
through 12, on Wednesday.
“We’re sorry the corps area
has to wait,” said Hill. “We were
just unable to set up a distribu
tion point soon enough and are
limited in our manpower to move
machines to the area.”
Law and Puryear Halls will be
able to rent the machines after
the new transformer is put into
operation for the dorms’ electri
cal supply.
Hart Hall still needs to be re
wired before refrigerators can be
allowed in rooms.
Silver Taps
Held Tonight
Silver Taps is slated for to
night in rememberance of Jim
Later, a student who died in a car
accident during the summer.
Later would have been a senior
and was a member of the Ross
Volunteers. He was in Company
G-l and an environmental design
major. Mission was his home
town.
Ceremonies will be held at
10:30 p.m. in front of the Aca
demic Building. Lights will be
turned out at approximately
10:20 p.m.
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