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Construction Report:
‘On Schedule Despite
Campus
Texas A&M’s multi-million dol
lar construction program con
tinues on schedule, despite the
unusually wet weather during
the past few months.
Charles Brunt, TAMU manager
of construction, reports three
projects will be completed this
spring. They are the 15-story
Oceanography-Meteorology Build
ing, eight-story Classroom-Office
Building and the 12-floor Confer
ence Tower next to the Memorial
Student Center.
Recently completed was the
$2.6 million utilities expansion,
which included a 3,350-ton steam
turbine drive centrifugal water
chiller, one chilled water pump,
one cooling tower and 2,000 feet
of utilities tunnel along Military
Walk.
TAMU currently has $43 mil
lion of new structures under con
struction, another $800,000 award
ed for renovations and approxi
mately $1.5 million in projects to
be considered by the board of
directors next Tuesday.
Brunt gave the following re
port on campus projects:
—Memorial Student Center Ad
dition-Renovations. The $8.5 mil
lion addition consists of a base
ment and two-story expansion,
plus renovation of the existing
center. Phase I, the new construc
tion, should be completed this
summer. Renovation will start in
April. Overall, the project is 75
per cent complete.
Work on the two-story addi
tion on the southwest side is 40
per cent complete, with work ex
pected to be finished by next
winter. This $1.2 million addition
has 24,000 square feet of meet
ing rooms and housing.
—Auditorium-Conference Com
plex. Construction consists of a
complex containing a 2,500-seat
auditorium, 750-seat theater and
250-seat theater, plus the 12-floor
Conference Tower. The tower is
90 per cent complete and the
auditorium-theaters are 70 per
cent complete. Total cost is $10
million, with the tower expected
to be opened this spring and the
other facilities next winter.
— Oceanography - Meteorology
Building. This $7.6 million, 15-
story structure contains class
rooms and laboratories for ocean
ography and meteorology studies.
Structural work is completed and
interior work is 85 per cent com
plete.
— Office-Classroom Building,
Phase I. Work consists of a base
ment and eight-story structure
housing faculty offices and class
rooms for the Colleges of Educa
tion and Liberal Arts. The $3.6
million project is on schedule and
about 95 per cent complete, with
occupancy this spring.
— Office-Classroom Building,
Phase II. This structure joins the
eight-story building. It consists
of a basement and two-story
classroom building with a gross
area of 44,000 square feet. In
cluded are two 250-seat class
rooms, two 150-seat rooms and
two 74-seat classrooms, plus seven
smaller classrooms. The $2.2 mil
lion project is 30 per cent com
plete and should be ready next
fall. It will serve primarily edu
cation and liberal arts students.
—Health Center. Construction
includes a basement and two-story
reinforced concrete structure with
approximately 36,000 square feet
at a cost of $1.6 million. The cen
ter will house medical doctors’ of
fice space and hospital facilities.
Work is 45 per cent complete.
— Married Student Housing.
The project has 226 apartments
for married students, varying in
size from one to three bedrooms.
Work is 25 per cent complete on
the $2.6 million program sched
uled for completion this summer.
— Athletic Dorm-Training Fa
cility. Construction consists of
two three-story dormitory wings
and a one-story commons area
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Or Heard Of
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between. Estimated cost is $3.4
million with completion next win
ter.
— Military Walk Mall. Com
plete landscape development for
the Military Walk area is included
in this $430,000 project. The pe
destrian walkway in front of the
Academic Building will have new
sidewalks, lighting and landscape
planting. Work is 90 per cent
complete.
—R enovations. Construction
renovations, all scheduled for
completion this summer, include
complete work on the Golf
Course, $310,000 to completely re
model Fermier Hall, $190,000 for
the Chemistry Building freshman
laboratory wing and main lecture
room area and $250,000 to re
model the Geology Building.
Thursday — Considerable cloud
iness with rain or rain showers
today and tonight. High 53, low
43.
Friday — Rains decreasing,
from the west. High of 63.
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Cbe Battalion
Vol. 67 No. 220 College Station, Texas Thursday, February 22, 1973
COMBINED EFFORTS of the A&M’s Singing Cadets and the B-CS Community Singers
with the San Antonio Symphony provided a relaxing evening for the sparse crowd able to
The program was part of Town Hall’s Artist
attend Wednesday’s concert in the Coliseum.
Showcase series. (Photo by Steve Krauss)
Kicks Off Military Weekend
Freddie Hart
Sings Friday
He was also voted the Country
Music Association’s Best Song of
the Year Award for his composi
tion, “Easy Loving,” in 1971 and
1972, and the Music Operators of
America voted Freddie’s “Easy
Loving” the Most Programmed
Counti-y Song of the Year.
The entertainer who started at
age five with a makeshift guitar
constructed from a long cigar box
has guest appeared on Hollywood
Bowl, Hee Haw, the Glen Camp
bell Show, Buck Owens Ranch
Show and Larry Kane Show.
Freddie frequently works out
on the road and, accomplished at
judo and karate, taught self de
fense to the Los Angeles Police
Department many years. One of
15 children in his family, Hart
joined the Marine Corps at 14,
toux*ed Southeast Asia and the
Pacific with the 1st Marine Di
vision and received an honorable
discharge when he was just 17,
the legal age for joining.
Hart met the legendary Lefty
Frizzel while in Phoenix and went
from there.
Country and Western star
Freddie Hart and his show will
highlight entertainment Friday
for Military Weekend at A&M.
"Easy Loving” Hart will per
form through Town Hall, with
the show at G. Rollie White Coli
seum to begin at 7:30 p.m.
Military Weekend starts after
ward with the Air Force and
Combat Balls, a Saturday after
noon Corps of Cadets review and
the Saturday night Military Ball.
The Freddie Hart show fea
tures his acclaimed music with
f'The Heartbeats” and Belinda
Myric, Miss Texas of 1971, ac
cording to Town Hall Chairman
Philip Goodwin. Admission will
be by student activity card, Town
Hall season pass or separate
tickets on sale at the Student
Program Office in the Memorial , , , . , , , , i
Student Center. How ordinary citizens deal with a power-mad ruler will be treated
The only man in the history of in an A Sg ie Pla y ers production that opens Monday for a six-night rua
the Academy of Country and “Caligula,” an Albert Camus play set in Rome, will perform
Western Music to win five awards Monday through Saturday (Feb. 26-28 and March 1-3) at the A&M
at a single presentation, Freddie Consolidated Middle School auditorium. Curtain time is 8 p.m.
Hart is a Gold Record performer The play features Richard Taylor, Audie Beeson, Yvonne Schmitz,
with three number one singles John Tyler, Walt Meissner, Charles Tyler and Larry Davis in key roles,
and three number one albums in n w iij be performed in Roman period dress and surroundings,
a recent year. Taylor, who started locally with the Premiere Players of the Texas
He had hit after hit at the top A&M Theater Arts Section, portrays the mad Caligula. He seems bent
of the country music charts, many on ruling an empire peopled only by the dead and relatives of the dead.
Ag Players Open ‘Caligula’
At Consolidated On Monday
Shuttle Bus To Receive Vote;
Higher Medical Fee On Agenda
of which he wrote: “The Whole
World Holding Hands,” “One
More Mountain To Climb,” “My
Hangup Is You,” “Bless Your
Heart,” “Got The All Overs For
You” and the gold-plated “Easy
Loving.”
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(See “Caligura,” page 2)
By VICKIE ASHWILL
Staff Writer
Once again student senators
are faced with the problem of
financing the 1973-74 Shuttle Bus
system.
The proposal, tabled a t the
Feb. 8 meeting by a vote of 41
to 24 with one abstention, will
be voted on at 7:30 tonight at the
Student Senate meeting in Room
102 of the Zachry Engineering
Center.
“The Senate got the wrong
idea at the last meeting,” said
Randy Ross, Student Government
vice president. “The real ques
tion is whether or not they want
to spend $66,000 from the Stu
dent Services Fees. Senators may
decide to delete the two inner-
periphery buses and lower the
cost to $42,000.
“The Senate ought to have
faith in the Shuttle Bus Com
mittee,” continued Ross, “and let
the committee worry about the
routes and the raising or lower
ing or the $18 user fee.”
“I was kind of glad the issue
was tabled, as a lot of people
weren’t taking the matter seri
ous.”
The Senate will also vote on
whether or not to retire the title
of Aggie Sweetheart.
“Because of the diversity of
the present student body on this
campus, it is no longer necessary
or feasible to have a position
such as Aggie Sweetheart in
Bellard’s Wife
Hospitalized
Mrs. Mary Kay Bellard, wife of
Athletic Director and Head Foot
ball Coach Emory Bellard, was re
ported in serious condition at
Houston’s Methodist Hospital this
morning.
Mrs. Bellard was found uncon
scious at the Bellard home in
Bryan about 4 p.m. Wednesday by
their son, Bob. She was first treat
ed at St. Joseph’s Hospital and
transferred to Houston.
Ted Brown, president of Meth
odist Hospital, gave the following
statement at 9:30 a.m. today:
“Mrs. Bellard apparently had
an aneurysm in the cranial area.
Her condition is serious, but not
critical.
“She is undergoing diagnostic
tests today. There was some im
provement during the night.”
which a single girl is honored,”
said Ron Bento earlier. “Also,
the position itself is no longer
representative of its original in
tent.”
Kerry Hulse, Student ‘Y’ rep
resentative, will present the issue
to the Senate.
The bill under study in a Texas
State Legislature committee con
cerning the levying of the hospi
tal fee will be presented to the
Senate.
The bill reads as follows:
“The Board of Directors of the
Texas A&M University System
may levy and collect from each
student at Texas A&M Univer
sity a compulsory group hospital
fee of not to exceed $15 for each
regular semester and not to ex
ceed $7.50 for each term of the
summer session.
“The importance of this legis
lation and the crowded condition
of the calendars in both Houses
create an emergency and an im
perative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills
to be read on three several days
in each House be suspended, and
this rule is hereby suspended and
that this Act take effect and be
in force from and after its pas
sage, and it is so enacted.”
“This bill is to allow more
flexibility in the Student Serv
ices fees,” said Ross. “We want
(See “Shuttle,” page 5)
2 Former A&M Students
Nabbed For Major Theft
University police officers have
recovered stolen goods valued in
the thousands of dollars within
the past week, said University
Police Chief O. L. Luther Tues
day.
Two former A&M students,
Firooz Sharifi, 23, and Nosrat
Seyed-Taheri, 25, are in custody
of the Brazos County Sheriff’s
Department after charges were
filed by Luther against the pair.
Taheri was arrested in Dallas
Feb. 15 and Firooz on Feb. 16.
Both of the Iranian interna
tional students had been junior
petroleum engineering majors at
A&M before transferring to
Richland Junior College in Dal
las at the end of the 1972 fall
semester.
The bulk of the stolen goods
recovered by Luther and Texas
Ranger Charles Moore consisted
of engineering books stolen from
the University Library.
However, $5,000 worth of slides
from the university’s Geology De
partment comprised most of the
economic value of the recovered
goods.
Over 100 books were handed
over to Luther by the pair. Lu
ther said four books on Chinese
art and also belonging to the Li
brary were given him. He noted
these were considered “almost
irreplaceable.”
Other items recovered by Lu
ther’s office included six alarm
clocks, two cassette tape record
ers, three electric shavers, two
pen and pencil sets and small
inexpensive paperweights.
Also among the items were a
complete Polaroid camera outfit
and a “Minolta SRT 100” 35mm
Hale—Mainly A Newspaperman
Freddie Hart
By TED BORISKIE
Leori Hale told Journalism 204
students Wednesday that he
writes books because they are
more permanent than newspapers.
“I started writing books be
cause I want to get rich,” said
Hale, novelist and Houston Post
columnist. I’m a newspaperman,
mainly, but books are something
nice to leave behind when you’re
gone.”
Hale has lived in the Bryan-
College Station area for 16 years
since working out an agreement
with The Houston Post, allowing
him to travel around the state
and mail in his column.
“I didn’t want to bring up my
kids in a big city,” he said. “As
I was to write about the rural
scene, I was able to work out the
agreement.”
Hale became a journalist be
cause of a recommendation made
by his dean his sophomore year
of college.
“I was completely undecided as
to what I wanted for a major and
the dean just happened to recom
mend journalism,” said Hale. “If
he had said American history I
would probably be teaching at
some high school now.”
“I would be afraid to quit news
paper writing now because of two
things. I would probably feel
miserable if I wasn’t writing my
column and every break I’ve ever
gotten has come as a direct re
sult of my writing for the Post.”
( Hale began writing for the
Post in 1947 and has never writ
ten regularly for any other news
paper. He spent five years re
porting daily news before selling
the editor on the idea of the
column. Because of the rural na
ture of his column, he travels
30,000-35,000 miles a year for
his work.
“Money is not as important as
it used to be,” he said. “Now my
main concern is becoming a bet
ter writer. I can truthfully say
I am writing better at age 51
than I was at 31.”
Deadlines have played such a
major part in his life that he
now applies a deadline to every
thing he does.
“I can’t do anything without a
deadline,” he said. “My life is
In other University Police
news, Luther noted that his de
partment has received the two
new police cars his department
ordered several months ago.
The cars, 1973 Plymouths, are
equipped with 400 cu. in. engines
although they only have 2 bbl.
carburetors instead of the 4 bbl.
which the Department of Public
Safety utilizes.
Luther said that Dan Allen
Boldt of San Antonio has been
charged by the Bryan Police De
partment for breaking and enter
ing a police car.
Officers at the scene said the
A&M freshman apparently was
attempting to steal a briefcase
from the front seat of the car
when he saw a police officer ap
proaching the car.
Briscoe, Hobby Speakers
For Spring Commencement
Gov. Dolph Briscoe and Lt. Gov. William P. Hobby will be the
commencement speakers at A&M’s spring graduation ceremonies,
announced President Jack K. Williams.
Governor Briscoe will address the university’s traditional exercises
Saturday, May 5, with the lieutenant governor scheduled the preceding
evening.
The decision to split the graduation ceremonies into two separate
programs was prompted by the anticipated record number of graduates
and seating limitations, Dr. Williams noted.
Friday evening ceremonies will include all recipients of graduate
degrees and baccalaureate degree candidates from the Colleges of
Architecture and Environmental Design, Geosciences, Marine Sciences
and Maritime Resources and Veterinary Medicine.
The Saturday ceremonies will include baccalaureate degree
candidates from the Colleges of Agriculture, Business Administration,
Education, Engineering, Liberal Arts and Science.
5 Tessies Oppose
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ruled by them. My most produc
tive writing period is two hours
before deadline.
“I’ve been with the Post long
enough that they’ve given me
complete freedom to control the
topics of my column as long as
I stay within the realm of good
taste and keep them out of libel.
“The only disadvantage to my
arrangement with the Post is that
it takes a week for my column to
get published. I have to stay a
week ahead.”
Hale said recently friends have
tried to talk him into abandoning
his column and writing books full
time.
“I try to write a few books,”
he said, “but I’m still mainly a
newspaperman.”
Five coeds from Texas Wom
an’s University agreed unani
mously that they were not in
favor of A&M coeds being select
ed for Aggie Sweetheart.
“We just don’t like it,” said
Kathy Hess.
Hess and the other coeds were
members of the second Viewpoint
Panel which discussed aspects of
dating and social behavior for
Aggies and their Tessie dates.
“We feel,” said Hess, “that
when the Aggie Sweetheart was
created, it was for Tessies. The
first Aggie Sweetheart was a
Tessie. Now that Maggies fill this
role, we think that the ceremony
has lost much of its meaning.”
Apparently, some Aggies feel
the same way. There is now a
proposal by the A&M Student
Senate that would do away with
the position of Aggie Sweetheart
since the “position itself is no
longer representative of its orgi-
nal intent.”
Panel members also voiced
their opinion on such social mat
ters as clothing, drinking, smok
ing and other dating information.
Several members of the panel
stressed that TWU was in a dry
county if the visiting Aggies were
thirsty. “If you’re coming to Den
ton to drink, forget it, boys,” said
panelist Martha Jane Stephenson.
All of the Tessies agreed that
smoking was improper on a date.
“I would rather have my date
dip snuff and chew tobacco than
to smoke,” said Tricia Smith.
The second Viewpoint panel of
TWU coeds will meet next Wed
nesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Me
morial Student Center Ballroom.
This panel will include last year’s
Aggie Sweetheart, Becky Mc
Creary.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
Adv.