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College Station, Texas
Friday, October 13, 1972
THE BATTALION
Drivers Complain About Maintenance
Shuttle Bus Strike Averted At UT
Annual School Costs At A&M Said
Less Than At Other Universities
A possible shuttle bus strike
was averted this week at the Uni
versity of Texas when Transpor
tation Enterprises, Inc., officials
promised an increase in bus
maintenance.
Bob McMinn, Austin director
of TEI, said the corporation is
“somewhat behind in our mainte
nance at this time and we need
to bring it up to par.”
Mark Gregg, president of Amal
gamated Transit Union (ATU)
Local 1549, said many of the bus
es currently in use were improp
erly maintained and the drivers’
power to deal with the problem
is limited to refusing to drive
them.
The maintenance problem does
not keep the buses off the street
at this time because most of the
drivers are new to the job and
accept the bus TEI assigns them,
Blossoming Plants Predicted In Two Weeks
For Fans Searching For Natural Beauties
Kyle Field and the Floral Test
Gardens are providing natural
beauty for fans attending A&M
home football games.
William L. Vitopil, TAMU
grounds superintendent, reports
approximately two-thirds of the
4,000 chrysanthemum plants in
the test garden east of Kyle
Field are blooming. Full bloom
is predicted within the next two
weeks.
Vitopil said there are 69 chrys
anthemum varieties in a full
range of colors and sizes, includ
ing dwarfs. The chrysanthemum
bloom should last until the first
heavy frost, he noted, probably
through the Arkansas game week
end.
Also in bloom are spring an
nuals replanted as an experiment.
They include salvia, amaranthus,
petunia and statice flowers.
“It looks real good so far,”
Vitopil stated. He anticipates
more planting of spring annuals
for fall bloom next year.
Chrysanthemums also are in
bloom around Kyle Field and G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
Inside Kyle Field, at the south
end zone, more than 10,000 alter-
nanther plants, commonly called
Joseph’s Coat, are planted in a
design. Three varieties of alter-
nanther provide the colors green,
bronze and red for “1876 Texas
Aggies 1972” cut in relief.
Vitopil said as the weather
cools the plant colors will inten
sify.
Each variety of plant is iden
tified in the test garden. There
are no barriers, so the garden
makes a beautiful setting for pic
nics, Vitopil observed.
TAMU’s garden is designed to
exhibit and test thousands of
flowers each year. Vitopil ex
plained testing under field condi
tions exposes the flowers to the
public and gives gardeners an op
portunity to find varieties which
will grow well at home.
Batt News Summary
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Republicans
Thursday boycotted hearings on
the financial aspects of the Wa
tergate case, possibly dooming
the House Banking and Currency
Committee’s efforts to probe the
incident.
ney R. Porter of Oxford Univer
sity in England shared Thursday
the 1972 Nobel Prize for Medi
cine for their research in break
ing down the chemical structure
of antibodies that are important
in the human body’s defense
against disease.
SAIGON—U.S. planes attacked
North Vietnam again Thursday
but they were reported to be
operating under restrictions gov
erning raids in the vicinity of
Hanoi after the heavy damage
to the French diplomatic mission
there.
BOSTON — Democrat George
McGovern accused the Nixon ad
ministration Thursday of collab
orating with big business on a
calculated policy to fight inflation
by increasing unemployment.
WASHINGTON — The Senate
Finance Committee cleared for
floor debate Thursday the bill
giving President Nixon unlimited
power to hold federal spending to
$250 billion in the current finan
cial year. The panel failed on an
8-8 tie vote to write into the
House-passed measure restric
tions on the President’s power to
make budget cuts to keep within
the $250-billion ceiling.
mise $74.3-billion defense appro
priation bill—one of the largest
in history—was passed by the
House Thursday and sent to the
Senate.
It includes an estimated $5.5
billion to $6 billion for operations
in Southeast Asia, including $2.7
billion for the Vietnamization
program.
PEKING — Premier Chou En-
lai told visiting Foreign Minister
Walter Scheel of West Germany
Thursday that China will support
the entry of both Germanys into
the United Nations.
Chou also described the divi
sion of Germany as unnatural,
Scheel said after their two-hour
meeting in the Hall of the Peo-
n
pie’s Congress.
ATLANTA — President Nixon
rode down Peachtree Street
Thursday through a torrent of
confetti and a huge midday cam
paign throng and declared that
his is not a Southern strategy
but “an American strategy.”
STOCKHOLM — Dr. Gerald M.
Edelman, 43, of Rockefeller Uni
versity in New York and Dr. Rod-
AUSTIN — Their hopes of ear
ly adjournment vanished, Texas
House members take a final vote
today on that chamber’s version
of a competitive auto and home
insurance rate bill.
Senators, meanwhile, planned
to vote on an amended version
of the House-passed bill creat
ing a state commission to plan
an offshore port of jumbo oil
tankers.
Plans For
WASHINGTON — A compro-
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for Texas A&M, has said the
environment can be changed only
if the students contribute.
Chairmen of the committee were
announced at the beginning of
the meeting. Nick Jiga and Les
Swick are acting as co-chairmen.
Another meeting is slated for
next week. Times and places will
be announced at a later date.
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said Gregg.
McMinn said he was “very
pleased” with the maintenance
program and added some of the
problems with the buses were
due to driver abuse. He did agree
with the fact that the older equip
ment did require more mainte
nance.
Approximately 60 of the 135
shuttle drivers are union mem
bers and not permitted to strike
according to a contract made with
TEI last spring.
Gregg maintains that TEI is
violating the contract by not pro
viding well-maintained buses and
“if something is not done soon,
we will have no other choice” but
to strike.
More than 30,000 UT students
use the shuttle bus system at the
present. During peak hours of
operation Tuesday, four out of
42 buses were not running and
were in maintenance at TEI in
Austin.
Gregg recommended a thorough
inspection of each bus to deter
mine the condition of the buses.
Students at A&M pay an aver
age of $211 less than the student
at other state-supported univer
sities or land-grant colleges.
Aggies pay on the average of
$1,256 annually in room, board,
fees and tuition, reported a sur
vey by the National Association
of State Universities and Land-
Grant Colleges.
The average state college or
university expenses cost approx
imately $700 less than the state
supported average land-grant
college and $500 less than A&M.
The lowest annual cost for a
Texas university is Lamar Uni
versity, which charges $676 for
its fees. The University of Hous
ton leads the list with a cost of
$1,390 and the University of Tex
as is not far behind with $1,334.
These figures represent an in
crease of between three and nine
per cent.
The national average cost for
a non-resident attending a state-
supported university for one year
is $2,087. This is an increase of
eight and one half per cent over
the 1971-1972 school year.
The out-of-state or internation
al student going to school in Tex
as should expect to pay $1,300 in
tuition and fees and $876 for room
and board. This amounts to $2,176,
which is higher than the national
average.
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