I Vol. 67 No. 176
Battalion
College Station, Texas Thursday, November 2, 1972
If A Man Doesn’t Keep
Pace With His Companions,
Perhaps It’s Because He
Hears A Different Drummer.
FRIDAY — Cloudy to partly
cloudy. Wind westerly 10 to 15
m.p.h. High 67, low 47.
SATURDAY — Partly cloudy.
Wind northeasterly 5 to 10
m.p.h. High 73, low 41.
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Senate To Discuss Fate
Of Bicycle Registration
At Tonight’s Meeting
A DAWNING SUNSET occurred late Wednesday after-
icon as the rains left College Station to leave only cold
iir behind. The United States flag was still flying at the
Academic Building to accompany the much-appreciated
cloudbreak. (Photo by Steve Ueckert)
$380,000 ‘Facelifting’ Begins
Dorms To Be
Renovated, Improved
Texas A&M will begin a $380,-
)0fl residence hall renovation and
improvement program this se-
nester.
The program is the second
ihase of an overall project start-
d last year at the direction of
President Jack K. Williams to
'make TAMU residence halls as
livable and presentable as possi
ble,” explained Howard Vestal,
management services director.
Vestal, project coordinator, not
ed the program has already
touched virtually all existing dor
mitories.
“We have solicited student in
put to ensure improvements are
made where most needed,” he
added.
Surveys were conducted by the
Student Senate, Civilian Student
Council and Corps of Cadets to
determine the priority of renova
tions.
Vestal pointed out a combined
list of projects submitted by stu
dent leaders based on the surveys
constitutes the Phase II program.
All baths and showers in the
12-dorm area will be painted and
rooms in six of the twelve halls
will receive new paint. Vestal
said housing commitments during
the summer months allowed time
for painting only six halls at one
time.
CSC ‘Casino’
To Offer Dice,
Card Games
‘Beat the Dealer,’ ‘Dice,’ and
‘Twenty-One’ will be among the
games available for Aggie gam
blers at the Civilian Student
Council’s ‘Casino’ at 8 p.m. Satur
day in the Zachry Engineering
Center lobby.
In ’Beat the Dealer,’ bets are
jlaced against the dealer. The
dealer will then roll the dice and
let seven people roll against him.
All players are paid if two is
rolled and all bets are taken if
three is rolled.
Betting may be made on any
one or combination of numbers
in roulette. Chips may be placed
on either red or black colors or
0 or 00, which are green. Split
bets can also be made.
In Blackjack ‘21’ the object of
the game is to have the cards
total 21, or as near to 21 as pos
sible. The dealer will deal two
cards face down to each of the
two players and two cards to him
self, one face down and the other
face up.
Tickets will be $3.50 per couple
in advance or $4 per couple at the
door.
Hart and Walton Halls will be
rewired and Hart, Walton and
Hotard Halls will receive fluor
escent lighting. Heat control ra
diator valves will go into Law,
Puryear, Hart and Walton Halls.
The Hart Hall lounge will be air-
conditioned.
New door locks will be installed
in Walton, White and Utay Halls
and towel bars will be added to
nine halls.
Installation of wall-mounted
ash trays in all carpeted halls
Marine Corps Birthday Ball Slated
For Saturday Night In Duncan Hall
The Marine Corps Birthday Ball
is scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday
in the east wing of Duncan Dining
Hall.
The birthday is actually Nov.
10, but due to the SMU Corps
Trip, it is being held early. The
event will be a fonnal dinner-
dance commemorating the na
tion’s oldest armed service with
197 years of active service.
The Marine ‘social of the year’
will feature a cake cutting by
Col. C. E. Hogan. Oldest and
youngest marines will get the
first cuts of cake. Gen. A. R.
Luedecke will be the special guest.
The ‘Admiral’s Band’ from Cor
pus Christi will provide the en
tertainment. Class ‘A’ winter uni
forms will be worn by corpsmen
and suits and ties for civilians.
Anyone associated with the Ma
rines or Navy may buy tickets for
$4.75 from Gunnary Sergeant
Villario in the Naval ROTC of
fice in the Trigon before 5 p.m.
Friday.
will round out the second phase
program.
Vestal noted delayed projects
in the first phase program are
almost complete.
“The electrical transformer for
Law and Puryear Halls should be
completed by mid-November,” he
said.- “Final carpet installation
and completion of the electrical
power feeder to the Duncan area
is scheduled for the Christmas
holidays.”
Completed projects in the over
all program include weather
stripping of all exposed room
doors in the five new halls in the
west area, installation of 52 new
water fountains and installation
of obscure shower glass.
Painting of halls and doors in
the 12-dorm area, air condition
ing of Walton and Leggett Hall
lounges and complete interior
renovation of Walton Hall were
also completed this past summer.
By VICKI ASHWILL
Bicycle registration will appear
as a special item on the agenda
at tonight’s Senate meeting at
7:30 in Room 102 of the Zachry
Engineering Center.
Student Government President
Layne Kruse and Student Serv
ices Chairman Steve Wakefield
will present alternatives pertain
ing to the amount of bicycle regis
tration fee and how many bike
racks different registration fees
will buy.
Bike racks cost $8.40 per stall
when manufactured here, accord
ing to figures presented in Wed
nesday’s committee meeting. Bike
racks are being ordered from an
other company for $5.65.
Kruse said he feels students are
not against the bike registration
as such, but are against the fee
and the price.
The Senate will vote at the next
meeting on a bicycle registration
fee and then present this recom
mendation to the administration.
The controversial issue about
the proposed changes in the Aggie
yell leader election procedure will
also be discussed and voted on.
The proposed changes were pre
sented before the Senate two
weeks ago by Fred Campbell,
chairman of the student Rules and
Regulations Committee. These
provisions were accidentally
omitted from the 1972-73 fall
printing of the rules and regula
tions handbook.
The three major revisions sug
gested by the committee include
the omission of the initial screen
ing of prospective candidates by
the yell leader committee, letting
all students vote for yell leaders
(See Senate, page 2)
Faculty Management Topic
For Calhoun Talk Tonight
Dr. John C. Calhoun, Jr. will
speak at 8 tonight in Lecture
Room 3 of the Zachry Engineer
ing Center on the general topic
of academic administration and
faculty management.
For this second University Ma
chinery program Calhoun, vice-
president of A&M for Academic
Affairs, will discuss various as
pects of faculty recruitment and
retention.
Faculty evaluation cards will be
distributed at the meeting by stu
dents responsible for the Univer
sity Machinery program. The
cards will be made available to
the administration.
A question and answer session
will follow with a reception after
award to allow the students to
make one-to-one contact with Cal
houn.
The third University Machinery
presentation will be made by
President Jack Williams in his
speech, ‘TAMU: 2001.’ Williams’
program will be made at 8 p.m.
Tuesday in the Assembly Room
of the MSG.
According to Bill Hartsfield,
Senate Academic Affairs chair
man, Williams will speak on fu
ture plans for the university.
“Students are always wanting to
know what future plans have been
made and Dr. Williams’ ‘2001’
will answer these questions,” he
said.
T. C. Cone, Memorial Student
Center Great Issues chairman,
commented that students will be
able to ask questions afterward
and that a reception will also be
held.
A Soapbox Forum will also be
conducted Tuesday on the west
lawn of the Academic Building
from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Any
subject may be discussed. Both
the University Machinery lectures
and the Soapbox Forum are free.
Ex-Addicts Visit A&M In Drug Program
Spring Housing Reservations Being Taken
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M/’
—Adv.
On campus housing reserva
tions for the 1973 spring semes
ter are now being accepted at
the Housing Office, announced
Allan M. Madeley, manager,
Wednesday.
Students returning to Dunn and
Krueger for the 1973 spring se
mester must reserve rooms in the
office of W. G. Ferris in the Com
mons. Students who wish to re
serve the room they now occupy
should report to him through 5
p.m. Wednesday.
Students in Krueger-Dunn who
wish to reserve a room other than
the one they now occupy, but
within the same hall, should re
port from 8 a.m. Nov. 9 through
Nov. 13. Men occupants of Dunn
Hall who wish to change to an
other hall may do so at the Hous
ing Office during the first come-
first served period beginning at
8 a.m. Nov. 15.
Residents of Fowler, Hart,
Henderson, Hughes, Keathley,
Law, Legett, Milner, Moses, Pur
year, Schumacher, and W a 11 o n
Halls should report to the Hous
ing Office through 4 p.m. Wed
nesday to reserve the room they
now occupy. Those wishing to re-
seiwe a room other than the one
they now occupy but within the
same hall should report through
Nov. 10.
Board Payment
Due Wednesday
The third installment board
payment for the 1972 fall semes
ter is due on or before Nov. 8,
1972. The amount is $95.50 for
the 7-Day Board Plan and $85.00
for the 5-Day Board Plan. Pay
ment is due at the Fiscal Office,
Richard Coke Building, to avoid
penalty.
Residents of Crocker, Davis-
Gary, Hotard, Moore, Mclnnis,
White and Utay Halls should re
port to the head advisor today
and Nov. 10 to reserve present
rooms or any other rooms in the
hall in which they now reside.
Students who wish to change
halls or who did not sign up for
rooms during the periods above
will report from 8 a.m. Nov. 15
thru 7 p.m. Nov. 22 on a first-
come, first-served basis.
All single undergraduate stu
dents are required to live on cam-
(See Housing, page 2)
By ROD SPEER
Three former drug addicts and
current inmates of the Texas De
partment of Corrections Unit in
Huntsville told of their drug-re
lated experiences in the Student
“Y” Association’s third drug
abuse presentation Wednesday
night.
The white-clothed inmates were
referred to as Inmates Number
One, Two and Three in the tradi
tion of “To Tell the Truth.”
Inmate Number One said he
began shooting drugs as an es
cape from his problems. He had
a wife and a child while still in
high school. He later divorced
his wife, went AWOL while in
the Air Force, got convicted on
drug charges while on parole and
received a Dishonorable Dis
charge from the Air Force.
“Drugs was an easy way out
from my problems,” he said.
Inmate Number Two came from
a well-to-do family, participated
in his high school band and
played football. He was a beer
drinker before becoming involved
with .marijuana and hard drugs.
Number Two was forced into
dealing heroin to support his
habit.
“Drugs changed me from an
average kid to a thief,” Inmate
Number Three said. “It gave me
hepatitis,” he added.
Number Three admitted he
stole “little things like car parts”
before getting involved with'
drugs. He began robbing drug
stores to support a speed habit
and received a couple of probated
sentences for various drug-relat
ed offenses which failed to damp
en his desire for speed.
Number Three is currently
serving a seven-year term.
Like the other two inmates,
Number Three drank alcohol and
smoked marijuana before moving
on to harder drugs.
After the inmates’ stories,
George Lively, Director of Oper
ation Kick-It, described the pris
on conditions in Huntsville.
“These inmates live in tiny
cells which have floors with the
area of a ping-pong table,” he
said. He called prison life “a liv
ing hell.”
Education is encouraged in pris
on, Lively continued. “College
professors give night classes
there and inmates can get as
much as two years college credit.”
Lively dramatized the effects
of amphetamines when he told of
a 6’2”, large framed “speed
freak” who came to the Hunts
ville prison weighing only 113
pounds.
Lively, referring to alcohol,
cigarettes and marijuana, com
mented, “It seems things that are
legal are sometimes as bad, if not
worse, than things that are ille
gal.”
Fish Elections
Set For Tuesday
Freshman class elections will
be held Nov. 7 for the election
of class officers and senators,
said Steve Vincent.
The class offices are president,
vice-president, secretary-treasur
er, and social secretary. Also on
the ballot will be elections of six
freshman senators.
The polling places will be lo
cated in the Academic Building,
the library, the guard room, and
at the Sbisa newsstand.
Only freshmen are allowed to
vote and must have their I.D.
cards and activity cards to vote.
Kruse Given OK To Present
Facts, Figures To Students
After deliberating for two
hours and 15 minutes, a commit
tee of 22 people voiced its ap
proval of Student Government
President Layne Kruse’s plan to
present facts and figures to the
Student Senate on bike racks.
Discussion in the meeting cen
tered around the raising or lower
ing of the present bike registra
tion fee of $3 as approved by the
A&M System Board of Directors
upon recommendations made by
the Traffic Panel and Executive
Committee.
Under Kruse’s plan, the Senate
could decide to lower the bike
registration fee to 50 cents and
not add any bike racks to campus
facilities, make adjustments in
the fee to any other amount or
vote for a student referendum on
the issue.
Student Services Chairman
Steve Wakefield suggested that
the fee be lowered to $1.50, build
racks for full capacity at dorm
areas and just a percentage of
spaces needed at academic areas.
He also suggested moving some
of the parking areas.
Kruse said he would have a
count made of the number of
bikes being parked at the dorm
areas to ascertain the exact need
of racks in the living areas.
“If we find we don’t need as
many racks as has been said in
the past,” said Kruse, “I don’t
think we should buy extras. If
the need isn’t too great I think
we ought to lower the fee to $1.50
or $2.00 or whatever is needed to
cover the cost on a six-year loan.”
Tom Cherry, vice-president of
A&M for business affairs, said
that if students wanted to lower
the fee to 50 cents, it’s fine with
him. “We just won’t be able to
put up any more bike racks,
though.”
Bob Rucker, university land
scape architect, presented figures
on bike spaces to the group mem
bers. He said there are presently
1,075 parking spaces available
while an additional 1,418 are
ready to go in.
“But, I told him he couldn't put
them in,” said Cherry. “We are
already $9,000 overdrawn on the
bike account due to installing 750
spaces. I can’t let him put any
more up until someone shows me
how to make this up and pay for
the rest.”
The bicycle path system was
considered early in the meeting.
The group decided to leave the
system completely out of the pic
ture as far as student bicycle
registration fees were concerned.
STUDENT AND FACULTY leaders met Wednesday afternoon to discuss the contro
versial bike path system and registration hassle currently going on. Students Steve Wake
field and Layne Kruse (left) and Dean of Students James P. Hannigan were among the
most vocal of the 22 people present,