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Briscoe, Senate Strike Down
Moves For New Texas Colleges
: 30 p, n
a. m.
)x ky, Ked
OKING LIKE A GEYSER in eruption, a 12-inch water pipe let loose with all its
tiesday afternoon at the comer of S. College Ave. and Bizzell St. where workers
ligging a cable canal for stoplights being erected at the intersection. Job super-
ent Don Hartman of the Alder Electric Co. said initial plummage of the ‘geyser’
(out 100 feet and took about 45 minutes to shut off.
vies Make State History
fith 15,000-Acre Land Gift
and Mrs. Sid M. Kyle of
lave given A&M more than
lores of land in one of the
gifts of its type in the
of the state.
ice rights alone are valued
roximately $500,000. The
retain the mineral rights
1 they would award them
university at a later date.
Educators
re Sunday
Study A&M
essors and administrators
nstitutions of higher edu-
throughout the nation con-
on Texas A&M Sunday to
the institution in its once-
tle reaccreditation project.
37-member visitation team
e representing the South-
ssociation of Colleges and
s in delving into all facets
Mil’s academic, student af-
and administrative and op-
nal programs, noted TAMU
ent Jack K. Williams,
mmittee members are eval-
l, not inspectors, and en-
|r to assist an institution in
pwth and development,” Dr.
kms explained.
CS serves an 11-state area
(a one of the nation’s six re-
1 accrediting agencies.
1 site visit is scheduled to
lide Wednesday, according
(r. Charles E. McCandless,
jiate dean of liberal arts,
has coordinated the univer-
s two-year self-study pro-
■ McCandless said the self-
1 which includes 27 volumes
d by Dr. Robert W. Barzak,
•iate professor of English, is
itegral part of the reaccredi-
n process.
self-study exhibit is on dis-
in the foyer of the univer-
library. Sets of the studyV)
Publications have been placed
le reserve room of the main
and in the College of
finary Medicine library for
'ssted readers.
TAMU visitation commit-
*'ill be headed by Dr. Herman
'ty of the University of Flor-
Wersity National Bank
5 the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
The land is located in Loving
County and borders on New Mex
ico.
In addition to the 15,000-acre
gift, Kyle has leased an additional
35,000 acres and made arrange
ments for the university to as
sume the lease rights.
“This great gift from Mr. and
Mrs. Kyle will be put to use in
research and education aimed at
benefiting Texas ranchers,” TA
MU President Jack K. Williams
said. “We’re grateful to the Kyles
for their continuing faith in Tex
as A&M and its programs.”
Kyle, a 1926 Texas A&M grad
uate, said the land was given in
memory of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Sidney J. Kyle, and his un
cle, E. J. Kyle. Texas A&M’s
football stadium is named in hon
or of his uncle, an 1899 graduate
who served 42 years on the fac
ulty, was the school’s first dean
of agriculture and also served as
chairman of its athletic council.
“Texas A&M has been good to
the Kyle family,” the Pecos ranch
er said. “We have always loved
the high ideals for which Texas
A&M stands, and I feel that any
success that I have been able to
achieve has been in large measure
the result of the education I re
ceived there. I am, therefore, hap
py to make this contribution.”
Arrangements for the gift were
made through Robert L. Walker,
TAMU’s new director of develop
ment.
The university will use the land
for research in range manage
ment.
“In terms of what it can mean
to our research and demonstration
program in grazing management
and range nutrition, this land is
invaluable,” emphasized Dr. Jo
seph Schuster, head of the insti
tution’s Range Science Depart
ment. “It will in essence be an
experimental ranch and give us
the opportunity to conduct some
extensive studies never before
possible in this area of our state.”
Superintendents Are Special,
Finds TAMU Ph.D. Candidate
Texas’ average school super
intendent today is a 48-year-old
man with two degrees from state-
supported institutions. He works
56.5 hours a week.
A new profile on the top man
in Texas school districts was
compiled by Dr. James G. Horn
while a Ph.D. candidate in edu
cational administration at A&M.
His research findings, published
as a four-part series in Texas
School Business, has been given
special attention by the Texas
Education Agency.
Horn, former Snook High
School basketball coach, conduct
ed his dissertation research under
supervision of Dr. L. S. Richard
son, educational administration
professor at TAMU.
Horn found that the average
superintendent began his career
as a social studies teacher. He
switched from teaching to ad
ministration at 28.6 years of age.
Many of his extra hours on the
job include night or weekend
school activities. He statistically
averages three nights a week and
part of three weekends every
month.
During the 1971-72 school year,
the period of Horn’s survey, there
were only two women school sup
erintendents in Texas, down from
five in 1966-67.
Statistics and analysis were
derived from Dr. Horn from 571
questionnaires returned by super
intendents across Texas. Several
interesting facts came from the
analysis.
No Texas school district em
ploys a superintendent under 30
years old. Only 21, or 3.7 per
cent, are under 35. Twelve are 65
or older and 47, 8.2 per cent, are
in the 60-64 age range, according
to Horn’s articles in the Novem
ber, 1972, through February, 1973,
issue of the Texas school manage
ment magazine.
Almost one-fourth of Texas
superintendents began their ca
reers as social studies teachers,
with science or mathematics next
at 16.3 per cent. More than half
took master’s in educational ad
ministration.
Most superintendents grew up
and began their careers in rural
areas or small towns. They either
migrated to larger cities or the
small towns grew up around
them.
They see challenges that must
be met, according to Horn’s re
search. Three major issues are
support for public schools to
meet increasing costs, growing
federal involvement in education
and social-cultural problems such
as race relations.
AUSTIN <A>> — Gov. Dolph
Briscoe and the Texas Senate
took a stand Tuesday against
expansion of higher education
that some called a “moratorium”
against any new colleges and
universities until 1980.
The issue, in the form of a
Senate resolution and bill, was
passed on to the House for final
action.
“Mere growth in our system
of higher education is not enough
— especially if that growth is
uncontrolled and largely un
planned,” Briscoe said in an un
usual letter addressed only to Lt.
Gov. Bill Hobby and the Senate.
“Future growth must be coordi
nated and it must he dictated by
the needs of our state as a
whole.”
Briscoe asked specifically that
the Coordinating Board, Texas
College and University System,
be given even more power to reg
ulate the growth of state colleges
and universities.
The Senate replied by passing,
25-5, a resolution calling for an
entire new study by the Coordi
nating Board of higher education
needs in Texas through 1980.
Then senators passed a bill, 25-
5, that would prohibit the crea
tion of any new state colleges
and universities unless approved
by two-thirds of the Coordinating
Board. The bill would not affect
community or junior colleges.
“All this measure is designed
to do is tie the hands of this
Senate to pass on anything to do
with higher education in this
state,” said Sen. H. J. Blanchard,
D-Lubbock.
“This takes the right to act
on higher education away from
the Senate and puts it in the
hands of an agency. . . . This is
just an effort to create a mora
torium on colleges and universi
ties until 1980.”
“We’ve got to do something,”
said Sen. Charles Herring, D-
Austin, in the Senate debate.
“Year after year chambers of
commerce come down here and
want a new college or university
as a new industry in their town.
Then when you want taxes to
pay for them you can’t find these
chamber of commerce men. . . .
We have created so many new
colleges and universities that
none of them can ever become a
first class school. ... I think we
are destroying higher education
in Texas.”
Later Briscoe told a luncheon
meeting of presidents of private
colleges and universities of Tex
as that “We cannot afford com
petition for the higher education
tax dollar by unnecessary prolif
eration of over-building, over-
staffing and over-financing.”
In earlier action Tuesday, a
Senate effort to debate a bill
that would let the Texas A&I
University branch at Laredo of
fer graduate courses was blocked
by a parliamentary point of
order. When Sen. Bill Meier, D-
Euless, protested that the bill,
Trinity Project Election
Fails To Get Needed Votes
Voters dealt the Trinity canal
project a devastating and per
haps fatal blow Tuesday night,
spurning a $150 million tax-bond
proposal essential to the $1.6 bil
lion program.
The issue won clearcut ap
proval in only eight of the 17
counties which comprise the
Trinity river basin, one short of
the requirement for passage.
Equally important, it appeared
headed for a decisive rejection
with a majority of the voters,
mostly from opposition in heavi
ly populated Dallas County where
it lost by more than 17,000 votes.
The tax-bond proposal also
trailed at a late hour in Tarrant
County, but the Fort Worth op
position there was less than in
Dallas.
The eight counties endorsing
the project were Navarro, Hen
derson, Kaufman, Freestone, An
derson, Leon, Trinity and Liberty.
Opposing the dual tax-bond
proposition were Ellis, Houston,
Madison, Walker, San Jacinto,
Polk and Chambers Counties.
Shortly before 11 p.m., David
Brune, general manager of the
Trinity River Authority, said the
outcome remained in doubt, but
indicated the issue was headed
for defeat.
“I think it’s been a very close
race. ... I knew it would be dif
ficult from the beginning,” he
told newsmen.
“I don’t think we made clear
enough to the voters the eco
nomic advantages of the project.”
Saying it was premature to
comment on certain aspects of
the election, Brune added, “I
don’t think this is the end of the
navigational project. We’ll have
to see what develops. . . . We just
have to take another look at this
thing.”
At issue was the local share
of the $1.6 million program that
would open the sometimes tur
bulent and sometimes turgid
Trinity to navigation from Fort
Worth to the Gulf of Mexico.
As envisioned, vessels would
move through a network of dams
and locks along a 335-mile, 200-
foot-wide channel lined with in
land ports.
Completion target date is 1985.
(See Trinity Project, page 2)
by Sen. John Traeger, D-Seguin,
would cost more state funds he
was upheld by Hobby. Single ap
propriation bills cannot be de
bated before the general appro
priation bill, which is still being
prepared.
Elephant Bowl
Charity Game
Raises $630
The Elephant Bowl Football
game at Texas A&M produced
$630 for charity benefit, offic
ials of the student event indicated.
The March 1 game at Kyle
Field crunched to a 0-0 tie be
tween Army and Air Force sen
ior cadet teams.
Funds raised through the bene
fit game will be presented to the
Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Cen
ter at a ceremony the week after
TAMU’s spring recess.
The 1973 Elephant Bowl was
sponsored by Wings and Sabers,
an organization of military schol
arship holders, and Corps of Ca
dets seniors with support from
the TAMU Athletic Department.
A spokesman said inclement
weather held down attendance and
the size of the BVRC contribution,
“inspite of hard work by the or
ganizations and individuals” who
helped stage the contest.
The second Elephant Bowl
accomplished little in determining
superiority of Air Force or Army
ROTC cadets athletic ability. In
two years, the games have been
decided by a combined total of
one point. Army won last year,
21-20.
Claim Widespread Use
Kruse, Reynolds Testify At
House Drug Abuse Hearing
AUSTIN (A 5 )—Use of marijuana
is widespread at Texas A&M Uni
versity and three-quarters of the
University of Texas law students
have used it, witnesses have told
a House subcommittee.
Layne Kruse, president of the
A&M student body, said TAMU
has a conservative image but “I
can assure you that in Bryan and
College Station and on the A&M
campus that you’re going to find
a widespread use of marijuana.”
Kruse said 15 to 20 Aggies are
arrested each semester for smok
ing marijuana in dormitories.
“Six students in my dorm were
arrested last week for smoking
marijuana,” he said.
David Reynolds, representing
the UT law students association,
said the 550 students who voted
in a recent law school election
also answered a questionnaire on
marijuana. Seventy-five per cent
said they had used it, he said, and
50 per cent said they were occa
sional or regular users.
Kruse and Reynolds testified
before the House Criminal Juris
prudence subcommittee in sup
port of a 107-page bill proposed
B-CS FROM 60,000 FEET—This photograph of the Bryan-College Station area is
one example of the information relayed to TAMU’s Remote Sensing Center by satellite
and high-flying aircraft. The photograph was taken from a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft
in October 1972.
by a Senate interim study com
mittee on drug abuse.
The bill would decriminalize
private possession of three ounces
of marijuana.
The chairman of the House sub
committee, Rep. Felix McDonald
D-Edinburg, said the committee
may vote as early as next week
on some of the drug bills that
have been referred to it.
Among the witnesses against
the Senate interim committee bill
was Chester McLaughlin, chief
federal probation officer for the
Western District of Texas, who
said the number of drug addicts
in El Paso has grown from 300
in 1967 to 3,000 today.
McLaughlin said he recalled
“one exceptionally bright young
man” who told him, “When you’ve
smoked pot and you’ve used acid
and the uppers and the downers,
you’re no longer afraid of heroin.”
Dr. Robert B. White, psychia
try professor at the UT medical
branch in Galveston, testified in
support of the bill, but he said
clinical data on heavy users show
ed marijuana “does result in un
deniable effects on adolescents—
apathy, confused thinking, an in
ability to concentrate on complex
problems.”
White said all the evidence on
drug education programs indicates
they are “a total flop.” Many
teachers who lecture on drug
abuse know less about drugs than
the students, he said.
More research is needed on ma
rijuana, he said, and there is a
“desperate” need for money to
continue this research.
The chairman of the Senate in
terim committee that proposed the
bill, former Sen. Don Kennard, D-
Fort Worth, said many of the
present drug laws were passed
through public health committees
in the House and Senate when he
was chairman of those commit
tees.
“We, including myself, made
very many mistakes—we passed a
lot of bad law,” Kennard said.
His bill calls for the creation of
the Texas Drug Abuse Authority,
which would coordinate efforts of
the 17 state agencies that deal
with some aspect of drug abuse.