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Vol. 67 No. 174
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College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 31, 1972
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It’s that ‘time of the month
in’ for the bicycle hassle to
rear its two-wheeled head at A&M
students. This time it brings tid
ings of dropping the proposed
plans for a university bicycle
path system.
“I want to drop the entire pro
gram related to the bike path sys-
said A&M President Jack
K. Williams in a letter Friday to
Dean of Students James P. Han-
nigan.
Williams said that since the
issue is creating confusion and
argument among students and
some are accusing the administra
tion of duplicity, he would like
the matter dropped.
“My sole reason for suggesting
bike paths was an assumption that
I could be helpful to students by
so doing,” Williams said. He also
asked Hannigan to call a meeting
of those concerned with the bicy
cle issue so that he could have a
full report on bicycle racks which
have been built (the number, lo
cation, cost and source of funds).
This meeting has been schedul
ed in the Systems Building for
mid-aftexnoon Wednesday.
Williams’ letter was also one
of the major topics of discussion
at the University Traffic Panel
meeting held late Friday after
noon.
The panel based most of its
talk on the assumption that Pres
ident Williams had ordered the
dropping of the system, but ac
cording to Hannigan, this is not
the case.
“We haven’t decided to drop the
plans,” said Hannigan. “We will
take that up in the Wednesday
meeting.”
The next item of discussion in
the meeting was the $3 fee being
assessed students for bicycle reg-
★ ★ ★
istration.
Dr. Don Woods, chairman of
the panel, said he personally
would like to see the bike regis
tration fee lowered to $1.50 “rath
er than lose the whole registra
tion concept,” since only 677 stu
dents had registered bikes at the
time of the meeting.
“Lowering the price to that fig
ure would probably encourage
more students to register,” he
said, “but it won’t cover all the
★ ★ ★
costs of putting up just bike
racks.”
Price estimates tossed around
at the meeting included the fact
that $9,000 is still needed to put
up 750 racks (spaces for 750
bikes), while an additional $36,000
is needed to put up a needed
1,500 more racks.
Woods said students could fig
ure it would cost about $18,000
to buy and put up every 750 racks,
which means the university needs
★ ★ ★
to find some $45,000 to pay bills.
If the price were lowered to
$1.50, this would mean that $1.10
would be available for amassing
revenue out of each registration.
Over a period of 10 years this
would yield roughly $25,000, far
short of the funds needed to put
up bike racks alone.
“For those who are interested,”
Woods said, “we asked the cpn-
tractor what he would charge for
(See Williams, page 2)
★ ★ ★
Bicycle Rules To
University Police
Be Enforced By
Starting Friday
\
THE OUTCOME of the pictured promenade around the Academic Building mall was
dearly evident to most students after Contemporary Arts Committee Film Series chair
man Scott Smith rode the four-legged steed to advertise Friday’s “War Of the Fool’s”
showing. (Photos by Gary Baldasari)
In University Machinery Lecture
Faculty Evaluation To Be Discussed
Faculty evaluation cards, ques
tions and answers and an expla
nation of university faculty pol
icy will typify the second Univer
sity Machinery lecture Thursday
at 7 p.m., in Lecture Room 3 of
the Zachry Engineering Center.
The series, jointly sponsored by
the A&M Student Government
and the Memorial Student Center
Great Issues Committee, will fea
ture Dr. John C. Calhoun, Jr.,
vice president for Academic Af
fairs, speaking on “T h e Truth
About How Professors Rate and
Are Rated.” A Soapbox Forum
will also be held the same day.
Dr. Calhoun will explain the
details of hiring and firing facul
ty, along with an explanation of
faculty management techniques.
He will then pass out evaluation
cards for the audience to fill in.
“Suggestions, gripes, and
thoughtful criticism about any
aspect of the faculty are wel
come,” said Bill Hartsfield, Sen
ate Academic Affairs chairman.
“Dr. Calhoun has assured us
that the proper people will re
ceive this feedback, and results
could be seen from just this one
session.”
A question and answer period
will also be included in the pro
gram.
“Dr. Calhoun has enthusiasti
cally supported this program,
from the cards to the questions,”
said Hartsfield.
A reception will follow Dr. Cal
houn’s question and answer pe
riod, where each student may
make one-to-one contact with
him.
The Soapbox Forum will have
an all-new format. It will meet
from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the
west lawn of the Academic Build
ing. Any subject may be dis
cussed.
Topics may follow along the
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
proposed telephone rate hikes to
faculty to bicycle registration to
future planning, said Hartsfield.
A student need only be recog
nized by the student chairman,
present his ID card to show he is
a student, and he will be given
10 minutes to say anything he
wants, short of profanity. He will
also be given five minutes for
rebuttal, if desired.
T. C. Cone, Great Issues chair
man, explained Dr. Calhoun’s
qualifications to speak on faculty
management.
“Dr. Calhoun has seen action
in just about every type of facul
ty management program a t
A&M,” he said. “He served as
the dean of engineering from
1955 to 57. He became the vice
chancellor for engineering for the
A&M System until 1963. He
served as vice president of pro
grams until 1971, when he was
appointed vice president for aca
demic affairs.”
“With th^ University Machin
ery series giving students a di
rect link with the administration
and the Soapbox Forum giving
students a chance to be heard, we
can bring outstanding men like
Dr. Calhoun to explain complex
university operations and help us
appreciate the decision-making
processes which are followed,”
said Cone.
By MIKE RICE
Beware, Bicycle Riders! The time
has finally come when university
officials will begin enforcing
those much-talked-about but lit
tle-observed bike operation rules.
As a x’esult of a letter from
Dean of Students James P. Han-
nigan’s office, University Police
Chief O. L. Luther said he will
begin enforcing bike regulations,
effective this Friday.
“We think it is imperative to
establish the date of Friday, Nov.
3, preceded by ample notification
and publicity, as the final dead
line for the university to begin
enforcing moving traffic regula
tions,” said Hannigan. “We do not
plan, however, to issue violation
notices, ‘Warning’ or otherwise,
’72 Aggie Blood
Drive To Begin
On Wednesday
A&M students will give from
the heart again Wednesday and
Thursday in the annual Aggie
Blood Drive.
Personnel from the W a d 1 e y
Institute of Molecular Medicine
in Dallas will welcome contrib-
uters from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in
the Memorial Student Center
basement.
Student leaders emphasized
that faculty-staff and area citi
zens are eligible to participate,
along with TAMU students who
turned out in record numbers
last spring. They established 803
credits.
A contribution enables the
donor to request blood from the
Wadley bank the following year.
If four per cent of the student
body donates, credits may then
be used by immediate families
of students or by former stu
dents.
Students pre-registered for the
drive last week, but Student Sen
ate President Layne Kruse
stressed that a student need not
have pre-registered to partici
pate. The procedure requires
about 30 minutes. Donors should
eat before x-eporting to the MSC
station.
Residence halls and Cadet
Corps units will compete for
awards based on best percentage
participation.
for riding on the mall at this
time, or to begin a rigid enforce
ment of parking violations since
we are still very inadequtely
equipped with bicycle racks cam
pus wide.
“We do plan to issue violation
notices to cyclists for flagrant
moving violations where life and/
or property are obviously en
dangered. It is our intention to
issue warning notices at first for
moving violations provided the
bikes have been duly registered.
Unregistered bikes will be con
sidered to have already been duly
warned that lack of registration
is already a violation and that
the free warning already has been
used. Further delay in these cases
could very well contribute to a
potentially serious accident.”
Chief Luther said he would fol
low Hannigan’s instructions by
beginning to issue citations to
persons committing moving vio
lations. He noted he would ‘double
ticket’ anyone who had committed
a violation while having his bike
unregistered.
“If this happens,” said Luther,
“we will allow students to register
their bikes instead of paying the
fines. This will be considered their
warning ticket. All violation tick
ets issued after that will be con
sidered as first, second, etc.,
notices.”
Luther said that if students do
not wish to register their bikes
at that time they will have to pay
a $2 fine each time they receive
a ticket plus paying for the vio
lation. “It can and will get ex
pensive.”
The scale for assessed penalties
on moving violations is $2 for
the first, $4 for the second, $6
for the third, $8 for the fourth
and $10 for the fifth. Anyone
receiving six or more notices will
have his permit revoked and be
prohibited from riding his bike on
the campus for the remainder of
the semester.
If the operator feels the viola
tion is unwarranted, he may file
an appeal at the University Po
lice Office and be scheduled to
appear before the Traffic Ap
peals Panel. The appeal must be
made 72 hours from the date of
(See Bike Rules, page 2)
Halloween Candy Drive To Provide
Retarded With Christmas Goodies
Halloween in Bryan-College
Station means a happier Christ
mas at the Austin State School
for retarded children.
Mr. and Mrs. James Robinette,
both TAMU employes, have an
nounced plans for their ninth
annual candy drive to rexxiember
the “forever children” at Christ
mas time.
Leftover Halloween candy is
collected at area schools, churches
and retail stores through Nov. 8,
when the candy will be taken by
the Robinettes to Austin.
The candy is given to more
than 1,000 children who remain
in the dorms over the holiday
season. Some of the candy also
will be used in speech therapy
classes.
Collection boxes are located at
Crockett, Sul Ross, Henderson,
College Hills and South Knoll ele
mentary schools; Piggly Wiggly,
Safeway, Kroger’s, Lone Star
Grocery, Skaggs Albertson’s,
Gibson’s and Kelly’s Toylane;
Mrs. Beard’s and Mrs. Hard
away’s Kindergartens.
Also, the TAMU Chemistry
Building Room 41, Keep Build
ing Room 216, Veterinary Serv
ice Building Room 307 and the
First Baptist Church of Bryan
Sunday School Department.
9 9!
Aggie Players Present “Forty Carats
To Near Capacity Opening House Crowd
By VICKIE ASHWILL
Staff Writer
The Aggie Players opened suc
cessfully Monday night before a
near capacity crowd with the pro
duction of the recent Broadway
comedy “Forty Carats.”
The two-act comedy adapted by
Jay Allen from a play by Barillet
and Gi’eedy is directed by C. K.
Esten, chairman of the Theatre
Arts Section of the English Dept.
The play opens on the terrace
of a little cafe in the Greek Is
lands where 40-year-old Ann
Stanley, played by Mary Hanna,
is stranded with her mother due
to car trouble. Trying to be help
ful, 22-year-old Peter Latham,
portrayed by John A. Steele, of
fers his sleeping bag to Ann as
a convenient place to stay.
From here the story moves to
the United States where the ques
tion, “can a 40-year-old woman
find happiness as the chick of a
22-year-old kid on a motorcycle?”
is debated.
Pat Lockstedt does an excellent
job playing the busy-body mother
and grandmother, Maud Hayes.
The busy chitt-chat of the inter
fering old-lady, dressed as if she
was in her second-childhood high
school days, added to the humor
and confusion of the story.
Another top performer of the
evening was Pat Castle in his
role as Billy Boylan, second hus
band to Ann Stanley. Divorced
and on his owm as the roaming
actor, Billy appears on the scene
looking for hand-outs.
Castle performs this part with
the conceit and high-handedness
that people picture in actors. He
adds to the performance in that
he is always there with his sim
ple sarcasm and witty remarks on
any subject mentioned.
Hanna, in her x-ole as Ann Stan
ley, w'as slightly over-dramatic
on-stage, but Stanley, with his
calm and realistic manner, put
the audience back into the life of
the play with his performance.
Eddy Edwards and Trina Stan
ley, portrayed by Rusty Mcln-
truff and Jan Colp, played roles
contrasting to those of the main
characters in the sense that Jan
was the 17-year-old looking for
happiness with a 45-year-old man.
The play will continue through
Saturday starting at 8 p.m. each
night. Admission is $1.
Campaigners Make Local Stops As Election Nears
Mrs. Sanders Attacks Congressional
Voting Record Of Incumbent Tower
Jan Sanders, wdfe of the U.S.
Democratic hopeful, and Lucy
Johnson Nugent attacked Sen.
John Towner’s voting and attend
ance record in Congress while
harping on the merits of Barefoot
Sanders at an informal gathering
in the Ramada Inn Monday after
noon.
The campaigners were not dis
mayed by the small crowd, com-
pidsed lai-gely of local new'smen,
and vigorously shook hands and
talked with everyone in sight.
Mrs. Sanders considered the re
sponsibility of the office of U.S.
Senator as the main issue of the
campaign.
“Tower hasn’t done the job in
the past 11 years,” she said. She
cited Tower’s poor attendance
record in Senate voting and his
acceptance of large lecture fees
from special interest groups as
evidence.
Mrs. Sanders, a Sunday school
teacher and volunteer worker for
the Headstart program, said her
husband has good contacts with
important people in the state. She
named Congressman Olin Teague,
Senator Lloyd Bentsen and for
mer President Lyndon Johnson as
Sanders supporters.
Mrs. Sanders stressed that
Mrs. Barefoot Sanders
Barefoot Sanders has had a
chance to see the problems of
Texas as well as the good points.
“He has seen the choking pol
luted air of Houston, heard the
wheat farmer’s complaints,
know r s the cotton prices are going
up, and has seen the beautiful
Big Thicket of Texas being clear-
cut,” she said.
Jan Sanders, who campaigned
for Lyndon Johnson in 1964, had
no qualms about verbally attack
ing the incumbent.
“He makes an articulate speech
and does a super job of combing
his hair, but has been absent from
Congress more than any other
Senator running for reelection.”
Mrs. Nugent asked her audi
ence to take the time to look at
Sanders’ record and look at the
record of the opposition.”
She referred to Barefoot San
ders as “a man of integrity who
has the respect of Congress and
is a doer and not a talker.”
Nugent supports George Mc
Govern even though she doesn’t
agree wholeheax~tedly with his
foreign policy proposals. “I be
lieve in the Democratic party,
the party of the people.”
Grover ‘Understands’ Texas Voters,
Predicts Man To Win Over Party
‘People don’t vote for the par
ty, they vote for the man,” said
gubenxatorial candidate Hank
Grover Monday at Bryan’s Holi
day Inn.
The Republican candidate, who
beat Dolph Briscoe in A&M’s
“Mock Election” Thursday, made
a brief appearance in Bryan-Col
lege Station before flying to Am
arillo to meet Vice President
Spiro Agnew.
Grover said he knows Texans
will vote for the man because he
understands rural Texans. He
pointed to George Bush who ad
mitted he lost his election bid
because he didn’t understand
Texan voters.
“Look at the other candidate,”
he said. “People just can’t vote
for a man who would probably run
his office like he is running his
campaign — in abscencia. Voters
should consider it an insult for a
candidate not to talk to them.”
The Republican state senator
said the campaigns of both came
down to two choices, to continue
government under the same ma
chine of scandal or to restore a
good image to state government.
Grover said he felt that Bi-is-
Sen. Henry Grover
coe, his gubernatorial opponent,
killed his campaign when he “pub
licly cast his vote” for George
McGovern.
“The people of Texas are like
those of the rest of the United
States in not wishing to cut $30-
40 million from the nation’s de
fense budget to virtually ‘disarm’
the country,” he said. “People
won’t elect a chief executive who
backs McGovern.”
Grover said he stands against
the corporate income tax because
personal income tax “would be
just around the corner.”
He added that the Texas Edu
cation Agency and welfare de
partment should be made to tight
en up their budgets to increase
available funds without increasing
the rate of taxation.
Asked how he would react to
having to work with a Democratic
legislature if elected, Grover re
plied that having been a Demo
crat for six years and a Republi
can for the same time, he had
realized that party labels aren't
important.
“A person’s philosophy is all
(See Grover, page 2)