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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 30, 1973
TAMU At Galveston
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
Briscoe Signs Legislation
To Expand Mitchell Campus
Energy We Save
May Be Our Own
San Antonio, Austin and Houston are all facing large problems due
to the energy crisis we are all to be concerned with. San Antonio and
Austin are hardest hit and may be forced into electricity rationing by
the end of the week. Residents of that city have already been asked to
curtail their usage.
It’s not going to get much cooler around our fair, hot state this
summer and asking people to curtail their usage of electricity is not
going to be an easy task if not impossible. So, it looks like it’s going to
be rationing rather than individual curtailment.
What bothers this reporter is with the electricity wasted here at
A&M. While taking a walk the other night trying to digest a Mexican
TV dinner, the wife and I noticed the campus lit up like downtown
New York City.
The engineering center was most distasteful. It looked like we were
trying to display to all who cared to view that we have all the electricity
we need and can do with it what we wish without any reagrd
what-so-ever of problems suffered by any of our Texas neighbors.
San Antonio may have a black-out before summer even begins, but
we’ll keep a million watts of light on our new engineering center all
night so the world can see it if they care to.
The question of why this procedure must take place was submitted
to Logan B. Council, director of Physical Services in a telephone
conversation last week.
“Unless we are in a brown-out period, we do not curtail the usage
of building lighting,” he said. “Building lighting is in the same category
as street lighting and we do not turn off street lights.”
I really can’t see the logic behind this practice. There seems to be a
lot of difference between street lighting and intensely spotliehtine a
building except to display our vast supply of energy. At two o’clock in
the morning, nobody really cares what the engineering center looks like
as I doubt no more than one car every 30 minutes goes by it.
Council also conveyed that we have enough electricity to last us
and does not foresee any curtailment needed at the university.
The saying, “If you got it, flaunt it,” does not seem to fit with
electric power. If you’ve got a lot of money, you can flaunt it beacuse
someone will get it and be able to use it again. But, if you flaunt
electricity, no one will ever see it again.
Since we’re all in this together, how about cutting off some of the
lights around here and try to save some energy for somebody else.
Before the deluge of letters storm this office, I would like to
commend the Physical Plant for the job done this winter in keeping
things going while other schools had to keep their doors closed. It just
seems care need be taken always, not just in times of crises. Those lights
aren’t really necessary—are they?
Gov. Dolph Briscoe formally
signed into law Wednesday legis
lation which will make possible
extensive expansion of facilities
at A&M’s Mitchell Campus in
Galveston.
The legislation, Senate Bill 2
sponsored by Sen. A. R. (Babe)
Schwartz of Galveston, allows the
university to use tuition-backed
bonds to finance construction of
buildings totaling up to $7.5 mil
lion for TAMU’s Moody College
of Marine Sciences and Maritime
Resources on Pelican Island. The
bill also authorizes the University
of Houston to utilize similar funds
for construction of facilities at
Clear Lake City.
In signing the bill, Governor
Briscoe pointed out that through
issuance of tuition-backed bonds,
the two campus development proj
ects can proceed without expen
diture of general revenue funds.
“Maritime studies and research
are becoming increasingly impor
tant to our state and to our na
tion,” the governor observed in
reference to the TAMU portion
of the bill, “and these projects
will permit the further develop
ment of the work which is being
conducted at the Mitchell Campus
in Galveston.”
TAMU President Jack K. Wil-
Smajstrla Gets
$500 Grant
John Wayne Smajstrla, a junior
at Texas A&M University, Col
lege Station, Texas, has been se
lected to receive the Ralston Pu
rina Scholarship Award for the
1973 fall semester, according to
an announcement made in St.
Louis by George H. Kyd, Division
Vice President and Director, Pub
lic Relations, Ralston Purina
Company.
The Purina Scholarship amounts
to $500. It is awarded each year
to an outstanding junior or senior
in the state universities and land-
grant colleges in each of the 50
states, and in three Canadian ag
ricultural colleges and in Puerto
Rico.
Winners are selected at each
college by a faculty scholarship
committee on the basis of their
scholastic record, leadership, char
acter, ambition in agriculture and
eligibility for financial assistance.
Smajstrla is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. George H. Smajstrla,
Victoria, Texas.
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Hams and Dr. William H. Clayton,
Moody College dean, attended the
signing ceremonies-, along with
Sens. Schwartz and William T.
(Bill) Moore, TAMU System
board member H. C. Bell who
heads the board’s Galveston com
mittee, University of Houston
President Philip Hoffman and sev
eral other UH representatives.
“The enactment of this legisla
tion is the culmination of a decade
of effort to build a great marine
campus in Galveston,” Dr. Wil
liams said, “and we are grateful
to all who have helped in this
effort.”
“We can now move ahead with
our plans to build at Galveston a
vigorous and meaningful marine
oriented research and educational
program,” the TAMU president
continued. “We shall proceed to
do so with all possible speed.”
“This is a great boost for Tex
as A&M and its plans in Galveston
to provide a focus for marine
education within the state univer
sity system,” Dean Clayton add
ed. “It’s a significant step for
ward for Texas A&M and Gal
veston. More simply stated, we
turned the corner from planning
to action.”
TAMU received approval last
month from the Coordinating
Board, Texas College and Univer
sity System to initiate this fall
the state’s first undergraduate de
gree program in marine sciences.
The program will be the first un
dergraduate degree offered by the
Galveston-based Moody College
other than those included in the
Texas Maritime Academy curric
ulum.
The first three buildings on the
100-acre Pelican Island campus
were formally dedicated last
spring.
With the new authority for fi
nancing the facilities, the univer
sity can now implement the sec
ond phase of its Galveston master
plan which provides for ultimate
Construction of approximately 20
buildings.
A new dormitory is in the
final stages of planning and is
expected to be ready for bids this
summer, Dr. Williams noted.
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THE NAGGING QUESTION:
WHERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO EAT?
THE DELICIOUS ANSWER:
PENISTON CAFETERIA AND SBISA HALL!
Since the MSC Cafeteria is closed due to construction, Sbisa Annex Cafeteria
will serve three meals a day and Peniston Cafeteria will continue to serve
lunch:
Serving- Hours:
Sbisa Annex
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
7:00 a. m. to 9:45 a. m.
11:00 a. m. to 1:15 p. m.
5:00 p. m. to 6:30 p. m.
Beverages, desserts & pastries will be
available 9:45 a. m. to 11:00 a. m.
1:15 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Serving Hours:
Peniston
Lunch 11:00 a. m. to 1:15 p. m.
The MSC evening specials you knew and loved have been moved to Sbisa
Annex so you won’t miss a thing.
For Coffee drinkers and in-between snackers the “sidewalk cafe” snack
bar is available in the new portion of the MSC, across from the Post Office.
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