Yell Practice Tonight At 10:30 P.M.
Battalion
College Station, Texas Thursday, September 7, 1972
Quality is Never
An Accident;
It’s The Result
Of Skillful Work.
FRIDAY — Partly cloudy be
coming mostly cloudy. After
noon thundershowers. Wind
southerly 10 to 15 m.p.h. High
92, low 73.
SATURDAY — Mostly cloudy.
Wind easterly 10 to 15 m.p.h.
High 81, low 62.
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AMIDST PROTESTS against the new parking lot a timely request for A&M President Jack K. Williams. De-
'being built on the Administration Building lawn, Aggies spite protests, construction is still progressing. (Photo by
|3ruce Clay and Mark McAvoy appeared on the scene with Mike Rice)
iLuedecke Having to Fight Change,
esthetics To Solve Parking Pains
■ Editor’s Note: This story is
taken from a recent interview
with Gen. A. R. Luedecke, Ex-
utive Vice-President of A&M,
nd was prompted by the many
lomplaints on the new parking
let being built by the Adminis
tration Building. lt‘s intention
if? to relate some of the prob
lems having to be contended
ith in finding agreeable places
J to park cars on campus.
(f By MIKE RICE
rw|Fighting aesthetics and chang-
Mew Handbook
Wo Be Passed
Out On Monday
■The new Texas A&M Student
|andbook for 1972-73, will be dis
tributed to students starting Mon-
fday, said handbook editor Bob
litz, Wednesday.
JjThe main purpose of the free
'“Hhandbook is to provide the fresh-
tmen and transfer students with
critical information and to con-
Klidate the various efforts of
jjveral other publications.
It is hoped that if combined
|th the University Regulations
jand the general catalogue, the
, sjboi klet will provide students with
^all the reference material needed
ng schooling at A&M.
[^Distribution will be handled for
npus students through the
Student Publications Office on the
ipSwecond floor of the Services Build-
[l?.
[Those living on campus will
|ceive their handbook through
offices of the Dean of Men
jand Women, with the cooperation
A the resident advisors in the
parious halls.
ing. times isn’t an easy thing for
many people to do, and for Gen.
A. R. Luedecke, the situation at
A&M isn’t getting any better.
Luedecke has the sometimes
thankless job of being in charge
of the construction projects going
on throughout the campus, not to
mention the problem uppermost
on everybody’s mind — parking
lots.
Probably the project receiving
the most vocalized protests is the
one currently getting underway
next to the Systems Administra
tion Building and across the street
from the yet unfinished Ocean
ography-Meteorology Building.
Does the general believe that
the parking lot justifies taking
away the aesthetic value of the
Administration Building lawn?
On a sentimental basis, he
doesn’t.
But looking at the situation
realistically, he said Wednesday,
people can’t afford to look at the
buildings for their design any
more because others making the
decisions aren’t architects and
therefore must look at parking
problems on need and location
basis.
According to the architect’s
blueprint, the new lot will be sunk
18 inches below the original sur
face of the lawn in an effort to
partially hide the cars from view
upon entrance to A&M from the
east.
Luedecke said there will be
seven trees planted within the lot
and it will be bermed and
screened with shrubbery.
He said the lot has been in the
works for six to seven years and
it is just the price the university
will have to pay for opening the
Oceanography Building.
“If the building opened and we
couldn’t park cars of the em
ployes, we would be in bad shape,”
he said. He pointed out that
there are three or four parking
lots which are going to be re
moved in the near future for
building expansion.
“We would love to have strictly
periphery parking for A&M,” said
Luedecke, “with only a certain
few getting to park on campus.
But the problem arises of decid
ing who is going to park across
from the campus or on its very
edge.”
Luedecke said there are cur
rently four parking areas that are
yet to built, including the one next
to the Administration Building.
Lots included in the campus’
master plan are those across the
railroad tracks at the West Gate
entrance; one behind G. Rollie
White Coliseum; and one located
across from the Coliseum and the
Memorial Student Center addi
tions.
“We have explored the idea of
multi-layered parking for our
campus,” said Luedecke, “but the
cost is the only thing holding us
back. It would cost between
$1,180-$!,000 for one space in a
three story garage.”
Luedecke said this can be inter
preted to mean he would have to
find people willing to pay around
$120 a year for a parking space
for approximately 10 years. The
general, needless to say, would
have a hard time finding those
people.
He said it has been suggested
on numerous occasions that people
be told not to bring their cars on
campus. Then their human nature
will cause them to find a solution
to parking problems.
“We only wish it were that
simple,” said Luedecke. “If people
would begin to realize that cars
(See Luedecke, page 2)
TAMSS Registration Is Today
The Texas A&M Scholastic Serv
ice (TAMSS) is holding registra
tion today in the Memorial Stu
dent Center Library and in the
Academic Building Lobby from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tutors have been assigned to
specific dorms and areas on
campus. They are:
Jerry Miller, Dorm 5, 5-6468;
Mark Fanner, Dorm 2, 5-2491;
Bill Black, Leggett, Room 17D;
David White, Mclnnis, 5-3589;
Brad Adams, Hughes, 5-2109; Ken
Butler, Keithly, 5-7307; John
Cogan, Davis-Gary, 5-6566; Nancy
Jordan, Off-Campus, 846-4395; Ed
Jordan, Utay, 5-1293; William
Wade, White; Jane Logan, Krue-
ger-Dunn, 5-5274; Todd Gordan,
Moore, 5-2848; Fred Zieche, Wal
ton, 5-2779; David Sent, Crocker,
5-7439; Jim Stocks, Hart, 5-4906;
Lynn Barton, Puryear, 5-2178;
Phil McGuire, Fowler, 5-1080; Bill
Crockett, Dorm 3, 5-4904; and
Steve Eberhart, Dorm 8, 5-6985.
Anyone who is not covered by
the above should contact Shariq
Yosuszi at 5-3051. All tutors
should check in with their dorm
representatives, said Senior Ad
visor Yosuszi.
f he Controlled Society 9 Chosen
ISCONA XVIII Chairman Announces Conference Topic
“The Controlled Society” will
the theme of the 18th Student
inference on National Affairs
P>C0NA) next spring at A&M.
“It was chosen out of 40 sug-
stions as a topic that will
imulate a wide range of inter-
t among students and non-
8 tudents,” announced SCONA
IVlII Chairman Chet Edwards
I Houston.
The conference, an annual
AMU event that attracts par-
icipants from throughout the
•S., is scheduled Feb. 14-17,
973.
SCONA XVIII speakers and
ound-tables will focus on the
flfi ature and extent of control ex-
E rcised by government, big busi-
iJII ess, unions, lobbyists and mass
2^
media, Edwards explained.
Delegates also will discuss im
plications of psychological con
trols of man’s behavior, such as
those mentioned in “Brave New
World” or advocated by the
controversial Harvard psycholo
gist, B. F. Skinner, the chairman
added.
Control of individual behavior
and large populations of people
has become an issue discussed by
medical experts, psychologists
and politicians, among others.
Ramifications of such actions
fey leaders in society will have
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Significant and perhaps grave
consequences on human value
systems, freedom as we now en
joy it and future directions of
countries, the conference execu
tive committee agreed.
“That an entire society can be
directed to behave in specified
ways through application of re
inforcement techniques is an at
tractive possibility to some and
a not-so-attractive possibility to
those who oppose on ethical
grounds the intentional control
of people,” pointed out Dr. Wil
liam R. Smith and Dr. Alan R.
Waters, SCONA advisors who
teach psychology and economics
at Texas A&M.
Edwards said students inter
ested in working on SCONA
XVIII should contact executive
committee members at the Me
morial Student Center Director's
office, 845-1914. A variety of in
terest areas are available.
Planning chaired by Phil Ko-
sub includes steering, public re
lations and personnel commit
tees. Arrangements, housing,
transportation and host commit
tees are coordinated by James A.
Lawson, operations chairman.
The SCONA XVIII finance com
mittee is chaired by Gordon Pil-
mer. Phillip Smith works closely
with Edwards as conference vice-
chairman.
TAMU delegates to the 18th
conference will be selected in
January from applications and
interviews.
Senate To Open Year
With Hot Issue Agenda
By MIKE RICE
Editor
The Student Government of
A&M will get things rolling again
for the 1972-73 school year as the
Student Senate meets tonight at
7:30 in Room 102 of the Zachary
Engineering Center.
Highlighting the second meet
ing of the Senate year will be the
establishment of a procedure for
replacing yell leaders. This has
become necessary since Head Yell
Leader C. H. Long resigned his
position for personal reasons.
Randy Ross, vice president of
the Senate and chairman while it
is in session, said no provision was
made for this in the recently ef
fected constitution for the Student
Government.
Ross added there is no provision
for electing or appointing a re
placement in the 1972-73 Univer
sity Regulations handbook or
“blue book.”
The Senate will also establish
a selection process for the 1972-
73 Aggie Sweetheart, who is due
to be selected later this semester
by students.
The A&M student body voted
in a referendum last spring to
keep the Aggie Sweetheart honor
from going to any girl other than
an A&M coed. This was done
over protests from A&M’s “sister
school,” Texas Woman’s Univer
sity.
Ross said the Senate will dis
cuss various ways of selecting a
chairman pro tern for the Senate,
in the event he is unable to pre
side at any of the bi-monthly
meetings.
He said no nominations would
be taken at this meeting but
would be accepted at the next one,
Sept. 21. The chairman pro tern
will be elected by the Senate and
be a full-fledged member of the
Senate Executive Committee upon
his election.
In other action, Ross said the
Senate will discuss the merits of
joining the Texas Intercollegiate
Student Association and the Na
tional Student Lobby with voting
Fish Tryouts To
Begin Wednesday
Fish Yell Leader tryouts will
be held Sept. 11, 12 and 13 in the
Grove, announced Griff Lasley
on Wednesday afternoon.
Lasley said applicants must be
in attendance all three days and
should report to the Grove at 5
p.m. each day.
Applicants will be expected to
know general knowledge and his
tory of A&M along with yells
used by the school.
The Fish yell leaders will at
tend all Fish football games this
season and basketball games next
spring.
Lasley may be reached at 845-
4086 or in Dorm 4, Room 124, for
additional information.
to be done at the next meeting.
External Affairs Chairman
Barb Sears will present a reso
lution to the senators asking that
the residents of the new Krueger-
Dunn dormitory complex be al
lowed to make inputs or suggest
ideas for the new dorms sched
uled to be added in the same area.
Ross said Sears has received
a number of questions from stu
dents concerning construction
faults of the present dorms and
these students wish to be of help
before new construction starts.
Student Government President
Layne Kruse will brief the Senate
before the agenda is started to
report on policies currently being
studied for campaigning on cam
pus.
Approval of student appoint
ments to university committees
and judicial appointments by the
Senate will also be done at the
meeting.
Sears Gives Calhoun List
Of Complaints On New Dorm
External Affairs Committee
Chairman Barb Sears presented
Dr. John C. Calhoun, Jr., vice
president of the university for
academic affairs, with a list of
complaints given her this week
by irate students who are pres
ently residents in Krueger-Dunn
Halls.
“When the list of complaints
reached a substantial 15,” said
Sears, “I just wondered what
kind of dorm Krueger-Dunn was
turning out to be. So I began to
write them down until I thought
I had just about all there could
be.”
Sears said she is worried about
the construction of the next wing
of the complex and hopes that
university officials will allow stu
dents to make sufficient input
into its design so there won’t be
as many problems.
A resolution will be presented
by Sears to the Student Senate
Thursday night asking that stu
dents be allowed to put as much
input as possible into the con
struction of the new wing.
“It seems like the architect has
the plans and is pulling hard on
the reins to start construction,”
she said. “And I’m not so sure
that he doesn’t want to change
details in the plans as much as
he is anxious to start work.”
“I think we should have input
now from students who have
lived there,” Sears said. “I don’t
think a two week or one month
delay will hurt the contractor’s
schedule irrepairably.”
Sears noted that this is the
best dorm the campus has and
its faults are being overlooked
because it is so good. “It wouldn’t
take much effort to change as
long as problems are found out
about in time,” she said.
Among the major problems she
cited in her compaint list were
the roaches and mice on the sec
ond floor of Dunn; the paint on
the walls not being able to with
stand masking tape while nails
for hanging pictures are too low;
poor lighting for the mirrors and
showers in bathrooms; and too
short cords on the telephones.
In addition, Sears pointed out
that the courtyards aren’t the
desirable ones originally pre
sented by the administration for
sunbathing because of no grass;
inadequate parking for bicycles
around the dorms for bikes; pow
er outlets are too low; and the
washing machines don’t fit the
allotted space very well.
Sears said there are numerous
other problems she cited to Dr.
Calhoun, but noted these were
minor and could be ironed out as
the dorm becomes settled.
She added Dr. Calhoun assured
dier the situation is receiving
close attention and that every
available way of using student
ideas would be used in the new
wing construction.
Applications For
Aggicland Are
Being Taken
Applications for Aggieland
staff membership are now being
taken, announced Joe Arredondo,
editor.
“I am interested in finding
some yearbook aides who are will
ing to work for the experience,”
he said.
There are openings for 10
freshmen aides who will do what
ever work needs to be done.
Previous experience in yearbook
work is preferable, he noted.
There are also openings for
five juniors or sophomores who
will plan and do layout for several
sections in the yearbook. Experi
ence with the mondrian style lay
out is preferred, but not neces
sary, Arrendondo noted.
Applications for photographers
are also being taken.
The applications may be picked
up and turned in at the Student
Publications office on the second
floor of the Student Services
Building, or at the Student Pro
grams Office in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Deadline for applications is 5
p.m., September 22. Interviews
will be made shortly after the
deadline, Arrendondo reflected.
NEW BLEACHERS were recently installed next to the old parade reviewing stands
on the parade field. A&M maintenance men Tom Johnson, Lest Banker and Melvin Wig-
ins are shown putting the finishing touches on the new seats. (Photo by Gary Baldasari)