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g< 'ht nial; ■o breali ; bother^ se every : But reJ Che Battalion Luck Is Always Against The Person Who Depends On It. Vol. 67 No. 201 College Station, Texas Thursday, January 18, 1973 THURSDAY — Partly cloudy. Clear this evening. High 79, low 43. FRIDAY — Clear. High of 77. 845-2226 VE IVE Energy Crisis Group l Considers Alternatives k VUUPt mm in H SK2 By VICKIE ASHWILL Staff Writer As a result of the energy crisis that struck Texas A&M in mid- November, a committee has been formed to consider the alterna tives and make recommendations to Dr. Jack K. Williams, TAMU president, in the event it becomes necessary to curtail operations. “The purpose of the committee is to study the ways and means to best cope with the situation of conserving energy,” said Dr. Rich ard E. Wainerdi, assistant vice president for academic affairs and committee chairman. The committee was formed last week at the direction of Williams and held its first meeting Friday to get itself organized. A second meeting was slated for this morn ing in Wainerdi’s office. “There is preasently no energy crisis here,” continued Wainerdi. “It’s just a matter of consolidat ing and conserving energy. It is not unusual to have a natural gas shortage.” The University has an interrup- table rate contract with Lone Star Gas Co. which means the univer sity has agreed to curtailment during the times of natural gas shortage. “Fuel oil costs approximately three times as much as natural gas,” said Logan Council, director of the physical plant, “but the cost is not the problem. The problem is being able to find the fuel.” Approximately 1.3 million gal lons of fuel have been used to supply power to the campus since natural gas curtailment in Novem ber whereas only 100,000 gallons were used all of last year, Logan pointed out. “We have never experienced any long curtailment like this before,” continued Logan. “Cur tailment before was always for short periods of time, such as four to six hours. Of course the weath er is unusual and gas is much shorter on a national basis than it has been in previous years.” In the Jan. 11 issue of the Bry an Eagle Williams said “no oil shortage crisis presently exists at A&M, but indicated the university, as the rest of the nation, is caught in the national fuel crisis.” In the article Williams also said, “Texas A&M will be one of the last institutions of higher learning to close because of fuel short ages.” During the ice storm the week of Jan. 11, university officials con ceded that Milner Hall and dorm five were not needed and students in these 3 housing areas were moved to other dorms. These dorms were closed prior to the committee’s formation. Engineers are also working on a proposal to have fuel storage tanks tied into the power plant by next fall, according to Tom Cherry,vice president for business affairs. The committee consists of three sub-committees t o investigate energy concerns in the academic and classroom area, research prob lems such as the cyclotron and wind tunnel, and auxiliary enter prises such as street lights, mess halls and dorm areas. “The committee is primarily ex ploring the areas of non-essential services without hurting the es sential functions of the univer sity,” said Council. Other committee members are Harry E. Whitmore, Dr. Jarvis Miller, Ed Cooper, Assistant Sci ence Dean William D. Smith, Associate Business Administra tion Dean Earl Bennett, Assistant Geoscience Dean James Scoggins, Julius Dieckert, John Denison, Wes Donaldson and Howard Vestal. Conservative Buckley Giving Wednesday GI Talk William F. Buckley, Jr. will bring his eloquent conservatism to bear on current disorders in a Jan. 24 Great Issues lecture at A&M. “Star polemicist of the politi cal right” is a popular view of Buckley, “On The Right” column ist, host of the syndicated tele vision show “Firing Line” and National Review founder and ed itor. Great Issues will present Buck- ley at 8:15 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum in the Wednes day night lecture, according to Chairman T. C. Cone. Reserve and general admission tickets are now on sale. A shaker of the groves of academe during his student days at Yale, Buckley has gained re nown for a staunchly conserva tive political viewpoint and ver bal pyrotechnics and erudition admired even by those who op pose his views. “Bill Buckley brings to the public forum a verbal flair pos sessed by no journalist since H. L. Mencken and no politician since Adlai Stevenson,” accord ing to Reader’s Digest. He ran for mayor of New York in 1965, and received 13.4 per cent of the vote on the Con- Spring Graduates Must File Formal Degree Application Before Feb. 9 Students who expect to graduate this spring must make formal degree application by Feb. 9. Applications of both undergraduate and graduate students are due 90 days before the spring semester graduation date, May 5. “The degree application is the responsibility of the graduating student,” said Registrar Robert A. Lacey. Applying students should first pay the $5 graduation fee at the Fiscal Office in the Richard Coke Building. Graduate students then apply at the Office of the Graduate College, Room 209. Undergraduate applications are taken in Room 7. The fee receipt must be presented to make degree application. May graduation announcements can be ordered by graduating students beginning Monday. Orders should be placed before Feb. 16 at the cashier’s window in the Memorial Student Center. It will be open Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pianist de Gaetano Performing Here As Town Hall Attraction Pianist Robert de Gaetano will perform Jan. 22 at A&M in the Town Hall-Young Artist Series. The de Gaetano concert in the Memorial SStudent Center Ball room will feature music of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Prokofiev. “His sensitivity . . . reached the keyboard through a firm tech nique acquired to serve his inter pretive ideas rather than as an end to itself,” reported a Chris tian Science Monitor critic. A native New Yorker, de Gae tano was discovered by two Soviet Union musicians in Philadelphia in 1969. The 1971-72 season was his first as a touring artist with S. Hurok. De Gaetano performed for en thusiastic audiences with the At lanta Symphony, San Antonio Symphony and other orchestras. The first musician to win the Rotary International Scholarship played recitals in Boston, Cincin nati, Memphis and other U. S. cities. Emory University invited de Gaetano back for a second stand- room-only recital in the same week. Among 1972-73 appearances are debut performances with the San Diego and Dallas Symphony Or chestras. The Dallas Symphony has a Rotary Community Series billing here Jan. 18. The 26-year-old pianist gradu ated from the Juilliard School of Music where he studied with Adele Marcus and Rhosina Lhe- vinne. The 1970 Rotary award led to Paris recitals and study with the renowned pianist Alexis Weis- senberg. His program, beginning at 8 p.m. Jan. 22, will include Bach’s “Italian Concerto,” Sonata in E Major by Beethoven, Chopin’s Scherzo No. 2 and Nocturne in C Sharp Major and Prokofiev's. Sonata No. 7. Admission will honor Town Hall season tickets and TAMU students’ activity cards. Date tick ets are $1 each, other students $2 and adults $3. There will be no reserved seats. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. servative Party ticket. Asked what he’d do if elected, Buckley dropped the famous quip: “De mand a recount!” Buckley is “foursquare for free enterprise, against communism, in favor of cracking down on lab or unions and for stricter law enforcement,” according to the Digest. “He would abolish the gradu ated income tax, farm subsidies, collective bargaining on an in dustry-wide basis, unemployment compensation and current welfare programs.” The former Yale Spanish in structor uses complex words with adroitness. He airily tosses out “energumen” and “oxymoronic,” and favors “eudaemonia” to de scribe himself. His last two books were “Cruising Speed,” an ac count of one week in his hyper kinetic life, and “Inveighing We Will Go.” “Buckley is never boring,” con ceded a writer who disagrees with everything Buckley is for. “Tricky, yes; outrageous illogi cal, yes; appalling partisan, yes; show bizzy, yes — but tiresome never.” The holder of Southern Cal’s Distinguished Achievement Award in Journalism has been to Vietnam to report on the war, faced angry black militants in Los Angeles’ Watts district and tangled with radicals on cam puses across the U. S. Reserve seat tickets for the Jan. 24 Great Issues talk by Buckley are available only at the Student Program Office in the Memorial Student Center, at $1 per student and $2, non-student. General admission, on sale at several local businesses, are 50 cents per student and $1.50 for others. “THERE’S A ROIT goin’ on” as it may seem to some who fight their way into A&M’s Exchange Store while buying books at tthe last minute during the first week of classes. Manager Chuck Cargill predicts shopping will begin to level off about the be ginning of next week. (Photo by Steve Ueckert) Aggies: Just Dial-A-Price By KARL JACKSON Three A&M students have come up with a fresh idea and have turned it into a community serv ice and a promising business for the Bryan-College Station area. ‘Dial-a-Price,’ a service to pro vide area residents with the loca tion and price of good buys in the area, is the brain-child of Joe Roberts, John DuBose and Dwain Blakley. “It’s a service for people,” said DuBose. “We have salesmen that will visit every business in this area.” The service, primarily designed for the local merchants, also pro vides a service for individuals. “We can advertise anything that is legal as long as its not securities,” reported DuBose. DuBose explained the ‘Dial-a- Price’ system. The ‘Dial-a-Price’ salesmen have visited many of the businesses in the area and persuaded them to list several of their best buys in ‘Dial-a-Price.’ The consumer dreams up what he needs and calls ‘Dial-a-Price’ for a listing. Of the several hundred list ings, DuBose said the present items included: autos, real es tate, homes, apartments, mobile homes, retail merchandise, furni ture and several types of services such as auto repair, baby-sitting and typing. The lifeline of ‘Dial-a-Price’ is 846-8744. “We ask General Tele phone for a sexy number and that’s what we got,” said Du Bose. With a small initial investment, Dial-a-Price hopes to make it big. “We came up with the idea about a week and a half ago and have been making a go of it ever since,” said DuBose. They have located their offices at 303 An derson. The cost of the service is nom inal. Dial-a-Price charges one dol lar, per item, per month, for both retail items from local merchants and items from students and in dividuals. Real estate is slightly higher with a charge of five dol lars per month, per listing. New listings may be added by visiting their office or by phone. DuBose feels the low cost ad vertising would be very valuable to the local merchants. “We have had several business men say, ‘Come back when you get it going,’ or ‘I don’t think it’s right for my business,’ but it is,” said DuBose. “Every caller is a customer.” Senate To Vote On ISO House An International Student House proposal presented Nov. 30 by Frederick Mach, former Interna tional Student Organization chair man, will be put before a Senate vote tonight at 7:30 in Room 102 of the Zachry Engineering Cen ter. “The International Students are asking for the Senate’s sup port for their proposal asking for a place on campus where they can meet, socialize and cook their na tive foods,” said Randy Ross, Student Government vice presi dent. “There is no central meeting place for the international stu dents at A&M,” said Mach. “Oth er campuses such as Michigan State and Sanford University do provide meeting places for their foreign students.” “There are more than 700 inter national students enrolled here from 64 different countries and an international house would pro vide an ideal situation for both the international and American students,” said Mach. The Fair Housing Committee under the direction of Barb Sears, chairman of External Affairs, will ask the Senate to sponsor two publications compiled and written by the committee. One publication containing apartment complex lists and eval uations of the facilities and land lords is asking for financial back ing. The other publication con cerns tenant legal rights and Sen ate support is being sought. Fred Campbell, student rules and regulations committee chair man and Bill Hartsfield, chairman of academic affairs, will present revisions concerning the academic regulations on the first seven pages of the University Rules and Regulations handbook. These re visions include several rules that were revised by the Senate last year but were not passed by the University Rules and Regulations Committee. At this time these changes will only be presented to the Senate for its recommendation. A Constitutional Evaluation Committee will be appointed by Layne Kruse to examine the pres ent constitution and evaluate it in order to clarify and redefine parts. Nuclear Engineers Redesign A&M Reactor Faculty and students in the A&M Nuclear Engineering De partment have completed modifi cations on the control system of the department’s low power nu clear reactor. The modification and redesign ing was accomplished in conjunc tion with a power increase in the reactor from 100 milliwatts to five watts. “The new power level doesn’t sound like much,” Dr. Robert Cochran, Nuclear Engineering De partment Head, said, “but it rep resents quite an increase in our teaching and research capabili ties with the reactor.” Dr. Cochran said the two main reasons the control console was reconditioned were the age of the unit and the necessity for more information for training purposes. “The console was built in 1957,” he said, “so it was getting out moded. The new console gives us more information about malfunc tions, power status of the reactor, and so on. This added information improves the facility as a train ing tool.” The reactor, located in the basement of the Zachry Engineer ing Center, is an Aerojet General AGN-201. It was purchased in 1957 with the aid of a U. S. Atomic Energy Commission grant. Eight students and the faculty of the Nuclear Engineering De partment accomplished the reno vation of the console at a cost far below figures shown in bids submitted to the department by commercial companies. Donated equipment and gifts from Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C. enabled the economical reconstruction of the console equipment. Final assem bly of the equipment required three weeks of holiday work dur ing the Christmas recess. The license amendment request submitted, by the department to the AEG passed with only one small question of interpretation. Dr. Cochran said a good knowl edge of the rules and regulations of the AEC was evident in the students, since requests for license amendments for power increases usually require several resubmis Shades Of The Calvary Return To A&M Cadet Jimmy Griffith Members of Texas A&M’s Corps of Cadets will receive ad ditional uniform issue items next fall, including the cavalry-style campaign hat. The flat-brimmed campaign hat, now worn by Marine Corps and Army drill instructors, was regu lar issue to GIs in World War I. It was part of the Aggies’ uni form until 1947. Col. Thomas R. Parsons, com mandant, announced that the new and additional uniform items is sue will reduce costs of required uniform purchases to cadets, par ticularly freshmen. He said the improved issue is possible through funds made available to TAMU by the Army, Air Force and Navy for ROTC uniforms. “Our goal is to provide the cadet everything he requires for membership in the corps, except for those extra things he consid ers essential,” Parsons said. The recently approved issue in cludes a set of new design gabar dine trousers and shirts, long and short sleeve, per each senior and junior. Garrison caps with dis tinctive braid for each class, belts and buckles that vary with the class year and other accessories are included. Each freshman will receive as an additional part of the uniform issue an extra pair of shoes, gar rison caps, name plates and tapes, an ascot and a Marine utility cap. By getting an extra pair of issue shoes, freshmen will not have to buy a required second pair at their own expense. Besides the campaign hat, all cadets will also be issued two athletic sweat suits, a necktie and two pairs of white gloves. Excitement has been generated in the corps by the idea of the campaign hat again becoming part of the uniform. Corps supply officer Jimmy Griffith of Lufkin termed it “tre mendous.” “It will provide a definite boost to morale,” Parsons said. The campaign hat will replace the helmet liner as a rain hat, with the liners on hand to be used for bonfire work, the commandant added. Other uses may be author ized. Parsons said the liner is un attractive and difficult to main tain. Distinctive crests are now in use by members of Corps. The Maroon and White insig nia with gold trim will be worn by members of the Corps staff, and officers and non-commission ed officers assigned at TAMU, said Parsons. The commandant noted that the crests are the first in the his tory of Texas A&M to represent the entire corps. Brigades, wings and the Aggie Band have their own crests. The new insignia was implemented largely as a morale factor, Par sons added. Most ROTC institu tions in the U. S. have them. Thomas M. Stanley, 1971-72 corps commander, of Mt. Pleas ant, and Sgt. Maj. John McDonald of the Military Science Depart ment, designed the crest.