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Vol. 67 No. 209
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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.