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te Ut:J silver i of Wj WilljJ sttemp 1 ] it Muniti. later ^obinsotj the bi t able til 26-2^. Che Battalion One Cool Judgment Is Worth A Thousand Hasty Counsels. Vol. 67 No. 209 College Station, Texas Friday, February 2, 1973 FRIDAY — Fair & mild day. Fair & cool night. Wind north west 5 to 15 m.p.h. High 65, low 35. SATURDAY — Fair & mild day. Cool night. 845-2226 ppy ? i -> ■ »yt*> ■ m’*' ' • Bus Costs, Housing Question Overshadow Senate Actions v. ■ >■: • •. • r w*!#?' V's;/ . , 1 I GUARDING ‘SULLY’ for the 1972 Aggie Bonfire took its toll on the newly installed cement in front of the statue. Workers have completed replacing the cement, which was ruined when students built fires on the surface. (Photo by Gary Baldasari) Board Favors Revisions/ In Residency Requirements The Coordinating Board, Tex as College and University Sys tem on Jan. 20 recommended cer tain changes in residency re quirements, tuition fees, and fi nancial assistance programs for Texas college students. These recommendations will be pre sented to the Governor and the Legislative Budget Board. The thrust of the proposed chances is to make current statu tory provisions more equitable and to clarify certain provisions. Details of the recommended changes are included in enclosed information: The major changes recommend ed are: 1. Elimination of the re quirement that a student from another state be "gainfully em ployed” in Texas for 12 months before being classified as a resi dent student. The proposed amendment requires that the student be required to reside in Texas for 12 months and establish “unequivocally” intent to be a Texas resident. 2. Provision that continuous attendance in a Texas second ary school would entitle a stu dent to residency tuition even though the parents change legal residence to another state. 3. Reduction of the minimum tuition for resident students at state supported institutions from $50 to $25 for a full semester or a 12-week summer session and from $25 to $12 for a 6-week sum mer session. The proposed change is to benefit part-time students. 4. Increase of tuition for for eign students from $14 to $40 per semester credit hour. This in crease would result in foreign students paying the same tuition as do out-of-state students. In making the recommendation, the Coordinating Board said it was convinced that foreign students and out-of-state students should be treated equally in Texas col leges and universities. The Co ordinating Board further recom mends a “grandfather clause” for currently-enrolled foreign stu dents which would allow them to pay the present tuition rate until they received the degree toward which they are presently working. 5. Provide for the participa tion of foreign students in schol arships awarded to needy stu dents by institutions from funds set aside from tuition income. 6. Exemption of valedictorians of each accredited Texas high school from payment of tuition fees for all four years of college work rather than just the fresh man year. 7. Modification of the Con- nally-Carrillo Act to provide for more equitable treatment of stu dents who come from low-income families. Under present provi sions, the Connally-Carrillo Act exempts from payment of tuition and fees those Texas students who graduate in the top quarter of their graduating class and whose families have an annual income of no more than $4,800. The proposed amendment would eliminate the $4,800 minimum and provide instead that the qualify ing minimum income level be set annually by the Coordinating Board in accordance with the In come Poverty Guidelines as pub lished by the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Wel fare. The poverty level is now approximately $6,000 per year, although the amount varies in relationship to the size of the family. 8. That legislative appropria tions for tuition scholarships be based on a formula to provide more equal treatment for all in stitutions. At the present time such funding is based on amounts requested by the various institu tions and upon the recommenda tions of the Budget Board in re gard to these requests. Other modifications in statu tory student assistance programs (See Board, page 3) By VICKIE ASHWILL Staff Writer Student senators entered the ever-expanding debate over wom en’s housing Thursday night when they were asked to endorse lower- cost housing for women. "Two years ago the Senate asked for dorm space for women,” said Fred Campbell, chairman of rules and regulations. “Last fall six floors of the Krueger-Dunn complex satisfied the require ments for female housing.” “With the expected female en rollment for the fall 1973, there will not be enough housing avail able for females requesting it,” Campbell continued. “The Board of Directors will hear another re quest in February asking for fe male housing on the civilian side of the campus.” “The Resident Hall Association (RHA) supported the resolution in action Wednesday night,” said Mark Blakemore, (RHA) presi dent “But a total evacuation of dorms in the Keathley-Hughes- Fowler area will not be accepted by the male residents.” “Dorms like Hughes have al ready made it clear that they wish to stay in their hall, but would agree to a coeducational dorm,” said Blakemore. "There are 7,000 dorm spaces on campus,” said Campbell, “and only 700 of these are alloted to women. We (the committee) think that lower-cost housing should be available to women.” Women’s housing will be brought up again at the Feb. 8 meeting. The Shuttle Bus proposal con cerning the level of service and financing arrangements for the 1973-74 Shuttle Bus operation was also brought before the Senate. The proposal concerns the use of 10 buses funded by the user at $19 and Student Service fees. The $120,000 service would take ap proximately $66,000 from the service fee with $54,000 coming from the user fee. “Any bus service has to be subsidized as rider fees do hot totally pay for any service,” said Kent Caperton, Shuttle Bus Com mittee chairman. The service would include an on-campus service available to any student with an I.D., a one dollar night parking and vehicle registration fee and coupon book for occasional riders Caperton said the Shuttle Bus Committee will meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the System Building conference room. Senators endorsed the Interna tional Student Facility resolution tabled at the Jan. 18 meeting. The resolution, brought up again by Paul Turner (grad-L.A.), is a long-range plan to provide a facil ity on-campus for cultural ex changes and cultural activities of all A&M students. The facility would also provide cooking facilities, lounge areas and meeting rooms. Chairman of External Affairs Barb Sears received the Senate’s endorsement of two publications created by the Fair Housing Com mittee. These publications include a Tenants’ Legal Rights brochure and the publication of an apart ment-landlord evaluation to assist students who rent in the Bryan- College Station area, the second of which will be financially assist ed by the Senate. Student Government President Layne Kruse is appointing a com mittee to look into and evaluate the refrigerator problem. Steve Hill, refrigerator manager, came before the Senate with the pro gram’s policy and progress this semester. “The policy has always been to pick up refrigerators one week be fore commencement as it takes a week’s time to pick them up,” said Hill. “There are 15 refrigerators still unaccounted for from last semester.” The Senate accepted the revis A&M Sets Spring Semester Enrollment Record, 15,118 Texas A&M has a record spring enrollment of 15,118 students, Registrar Robert Lacey reported Wednesday. Current registration represents an increase of 9.99 per cent over the 13,816 enrolled last spring, Lacey noted. Women students total 2,687 this spring, for a 51-per cent increase. Lacey said the figures include cadets enrolled at the Texas Maritime Academy in Galveston. The registrar noted spring enrollment is traditionally lower than in the fall. TAMU enrolled 16,156 students last fall, but 990 were graduated at mid-term. He said the enrollment totals are based on figures compiled as of the twelfth class day, the official reporting date specified by the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System. Married Housing Picture Brightens 226 Apartments Being Built By SHEILA SCHRONK A&M is offering its married students and those planning to be married another choice in housing. Presently under construction are 226 apartment units adjacent to the Student Apartments Of fice on Ball Street. Eighty units are expected to be completed in March or April. The rest are scheduled to be ready for occu- Grover Predicts 2-Party State Texas is moving toward bi partisan politics at a rate Henry C. “Hank” Grover believes will culminate in election of a Repub lican governor in 1974. The gubernatorial aspirant who ran four per cent of the vote be hind Dolph Briscoe Nov. 7 said Thursday a variety of factors, including division among Demo crats, a more enlightened voters and Southwest trends, point to the outcome. “I’d like to make this point. Gov. Briscoe has a tough job and deserves our support,” Grover in formed 300 A&M students, fac ulty and staff in a Political Forum address. “He won the election and has my support until campaign time comes,” vowed the veteran of 12 years in the Texas legislature. A conservative Democrat mem ber of the state House of Repre sentatives three terms, Grover be came a Republican in 1966 and won two terms in the Senate. His 1968 election to the Senate was by 73 per cent of the vote in his northern Houston district. He was elected in 1966 by a 2-to-l margin over a Gov. Connally- supported candidate. “Governor Conally then took a dim view of people switching parties,” joshed Grover, now a history professor at Houston Baptist College. “Party labels aren’t that im portant any more,” he remarked. He recalled Sen. Barry Gold- water said a number of times he “never voted a straight ticket and didn’t think anyone should, be cause it allows a party to put up poor candidates.” Others factors Grover believes are signs of a political revolu tion in Texas are splintering of Southern Democratic factions, Texas Democrats “moving more toward the National Democratic Party,” trends among neighbor ing states and that the Republican party in Texas “is no longer con trolled by 25 members of the country club set.” The ultra conservative politi cian claimed that in general elec tions, Democratic liberals hold the balance Of power. If with held, it can defeat a Democratic candidate, Grover said, using the John Tower-Waggoner Carr race as an example. “Look around Texas,” Grover suggested. “Three of our four neighboring states have Republi can governors, Oklahoma its sec ond straight. Louisiana hasn’t, but came close last year.” Grover said he is in his cam paign before THE campaign. “The problem last year was that most people didn’t think it could be done. Just winning 25,000 households would have changed the election,” he said. “I think I proved it can be done.” The politician who styles him self anti-establishment (“I ran against the entrenched Demo crats and the Republican hiera- archy”) said another $50,000 would have made the difference, used for advertising in the right places. Grover claimed he had strong county and precinct sup port, and will get the financial support next time. He said a Dallas newspaper survey showed 37 per cent of the voters were undecided just prior to the election. “They knew who the Democra tic candidate was, but not who was representing the Republican party,” Grover noted. He favors enforced capital punishment and believes local control of public school education should be retained, whatever the financing plan. Grover indicated that if the ad valorem tax is ruled unconstitutional, a one cent increase in the state sales tax would provide necessary state funding. pancy in late summer of 1973. Charles C. Haltom, manager of the student apartments, discussed the new apartments in a redent interview. Sixty-seven of the units will have one bedroom and 159 will be two-bedroom units. All will be completely furnished, including stove and refrigerator, and will be centrally heated and air-con ditioned. Haltom explained that individual washers and driers will not be permitted in these apart ments, but that laundry rooms will be provided for the occupants. The use of the laundries will be at the residents’ expense. Shag carpeting will be in the living room, hallway and in one bedroom. All windows will be fur nished with ceiling to floor draperies. The anticipated rent for the new apartments will be $125 for the one-bedroom units and $135 for the two-bedroom units. Haltom said that the master ‘CIRCUS’ WILL PERFORM after the A&M-TCU basketball g-ame Saturday nig-ht in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. The free dance will run from 10 p. m. until 1 a. m. Circus is a rock group from Houston. A Square Dance is set for 8-11 p. m. in the Zachry Engineering Center Friday. It will feature a professional caller. These are the final activi ties of MSC Week. building plan called for the con struction of more apartments within the next two years. Some of the old College View Apart ments will be tom down to make room for this new construction. “We are an auxiliary enterprise of the university,” Haltom said, “as is the Exchange Store and the laundry. This means that we get no state money. We must make it our own way.” The time to begin more con struction will depend on the money situation. The apartments make their money from rent and electricity. Haltom said that present ten ants of student housing will be allowed to apply for transfer to the new apartments at first. In terested tenants may have their names placed on a list in the Student Apartment Office. Pros pective applicants may indicate on the present application form that they would like to be con sidered for one of the new apart ments. This request would apply only if a new apartment is avail able at the time they are offered an apartment. Williams To Greet Foreign Students Tonight President and Mrs. Jack K. Williams will greet Texas A&M international students at a re ception tonight in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. The international students re ception will be from 7 to 8:30 p. m. It will be the occasion of the university’s formal welcome for new international students who enrolled last summer or for the 1972-73 school year. All new in ternational students are urged to attend. Refreshments will include inter national foods. TAMU’s 14 in ternational student clubs will pro vide decorations and exhibits ty pical of their countries. Four tal ent performances also will be pre sented, highlighting Oriental, Latin American and Indian cul tures. ion made in the first half of the academic portion of the Univer sity Rules and Regulations hand book which included such changes as: “Registration for 21 hours or more must be approved by the student's department head and/or dean.” “The instructor of a course shall not be informed by the registrar’s office that the student is tak ing his course on a pass/fail basis.” Academic Affairs Chairman Bill Hartsfield presented the second half of the academic regulations to the Senate to be voted on at the Feb. 8 meeting. Turner presented a proposal to the Senate asking for their en dorsement of the Texas bill per mitting graduate students to choose their own retirement plan rather than having to mandatorily join the Teacher Retirement Sys tem (TRS). The bill, to be introduced to the Texas Legislature this week, has been endorsed by the Grad uate Student Council and will be voted on at the next meeting. Kruse announced that the Day Care Center, sponsored by the Senate, will not open until the fall of ’73. "The center does not have enough funds in reserve to operate on and take care of a potential loss while the program is just beginning to grow,” said Kruse. The Senate endorsed a resolu tion recommending that the pol ling place on campus be located in the Registration Headquarters in the Cushing Building. William Wade (S. Campus dorms) presented the possibility of a pre-law advisor to be avail able to pre-laws students. He said the university needs an of ficial advisor to be in a central location to advise these students. The Senate Reapportionment Committee proposed to increase the Senate strength one person, from 85 to 86. The one extra senator would be from the Galves ton living area (Galveston campus of the Moody College of TAMU at College Station.) Penny Ball (Jr.-Ed.) received the Senate’s endorsement on the gen eral concept for the creation of a student crisis aand referral center. The center would be used as a central location where students could go with problems that needed counseling. YMCA March Planned To Raise Money Members of A&M’s Student “Y” Association plan to walk “Miles for Mankind” March 24 to raise money for local youth groups and national YMCA pro jects. Logan E. Weston, YMCA coor dinator, said the students will walk 20 miles. Local businessmen sponsor the students and pay for each mile completed. A meeting will be held at 7:30 p. m. Jan. 25 in Memorial Student Center Room 2D to explain the project of Bryan-College Station businessmen and civic leaders. The guest speaker will be Lawson Kately, YMCA regional coordina tor of “Miles for Mankind.” Kately will show a film on the project and explain how the funds will be used. Keith Singleton of Rosharon, project chairman, said funds raised will be distributed one- half to the YMCA United World Services Fund, a student ex change project; one-quarter to the regional and national YMCA organizations, and one-quarter to aid local youth organizations and TAMU student projects. Any person interested in spon soring a student in the walk should contact Weston at the YMCA, 845-1626. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.