Over 5,500 Expected To Enroll
Between 5,500 and 6,000 stu-
ients are expected to enroll in
H&M’s second summer session
Thursday, according to Donald
K Carter, director of registra-
iion
■Registration will be run the
«me as it was for the first ses-
lion.
alleviate the problems en-
intered in June, extra cashiers
been added and the fiscal
fice has been alloted more space
the lines will be shorter and
it will be generally less crowded
in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
“The second session has his
torically less students than the
first,” said Carter. “With the
changes and the fewer students,
we hope this to be the smoothest
registration we’ve ever had.”
Registration activities will be
gin at 8 a.m. in the east wing
of Duncan Hall for all enrollees
with surnames H through O. All
those with surnames P through Z
will register at 9:15 and from A
through Z will sign up at 10:45.
Carter announced that the first
group of students may pick up
their card packets and get in line
for academic approval which be
gins in the west wing at 8.
After securing card packet with
departmental approval, students
then report to G. Rollie White
where fee assessing, housing ac
commodations, food services and
packet turn-in operations will take
place.
Late registration starts at 8
a.m. Friday and Monday will be
the last day for registering. Late
registration will be held in the
foyer of the Richard Coke Build
ing where instructions will be
given as to where students must
report to complete the task. A
fee of $4 is charged for late com
pletion.
Juniors and seniors in the Col
leges of Agriculture, Architec
ture and Environmental Design,
Education, Engineering, Geosci
ences, Liberal Arts, and Science
must have their cards initialed by
the heads of their major depart
ments before the cards are pre
sented to their deans for approval.
Identification cards issued dur
ing the 1972-73 session will be
used for the 1973 Summer Ses
sion. Those students who do not
All students in the Colleges of
Agriculture and Engineering who
have attained junior standing or
above must have their approved
degree plans when presenting
their assignment cards to their
deans for approval.
Any course may be withdrawn
from the Summer Session sched
ule in case the number of regis
trations is too small to justify
offering the course.
The normal amount of tvork a
student may carry in a five and
one-half week summer term is
six semester hours (or even if
part is lab). Hours in excess of
a normal load may be authorized
in certain cases by the student’s
dean in conformance with the
limitations that apply during the
academic year. For the entire
summer session, the maximum
number permissible is 15 hours.
have such a card will be issued
one for $1.
Any student withdrawing of
ficially during the first week of
classwork will receive a refund
of one-half the tuition fee and
after the first week, no refund
will be made. No refund of the
student services, building use.
Student Center Complex, or lab
oratory fees will be made after
the second day of class work.
Classes will begin at 8 a.m.
Friday.
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Vol. 67 No. 267
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, July 11, 1973
3,500 Firemen Expected
More than 3,500 participants
ire expected for the Texas Fire-
nen’s Training School which will
K>ld its 44th annual session at
k&M beginning July 22.
The school, conducted by the
Engineering Extension Service, a
iivision of A&M, in cooperation
pith the Texas Education Agency,
is being sponsored by the State
firemen’s and Fire Marshals’ As-
(jOciation.
| The school will feature 18 sep
arate courses for firemen, cover
ing all aspects of fire fighting
and prevention, from basics and
resuce to military fire protection
and public relations.
A new feature, a night class,
will be included in the school this
year, according to school chief
Henry D. Smith.
“We will hold regular eight-
hour sessions Monday through
Thursday,” Smith said, “but will
add a three-hour night session
Thursday night, allowing partici
pants to depart for their homes
at noon Friday.”
Preparations for the school re
quire most of the year, Smith
said. Workshops and teaching
methods reviews are conducted on
a regular basis to prepare instruc
tors for the school.
More than $600,000 in equip
ment has been loaned to the school
Sew Federal Aid Program
Available This Fall
by manufacturesr for use as
training aids. Many of the in
structors will come from industry
to explain various types of equip
ment and their uses.
The most important benefit a
community receives by sending its
firemen to the school is the in
creased ability to provide fire
protection and save lives. Another
benefit is seen in the form of in
surance premium reductions.
Insurance rates are based heav
ily on the abilities of the local
fire department. Cities are rated
with a “key rate” system, and
the rate for a city is reduced
when firemen participate in train
ing arid educational activities.
The school is working on fuel
and water recycling systems that
would make any ecologist proud.
All water and unburned fuel used
in training exercises at the Bray-
ton Fire Training Field near
Easterwood Airport will be re
cycled in a closed circulation sys
tem to be re-used, rather than
drained off into the environment.
Smith pointed out that the bil
lowing smoke seen coming from
the school each year does pollute
for a very short time, but the
total amount of fuel burned in
three weeks at the field is less
than that amount used by a large
passenger plane taking off and
landing three times.
Smith added that the school
participants spend approximately
$100 each during their stay in
the Bryan-College Station area.
Last year 3,423 firemen attended
the school, and Smith predicts an
increase of more than 100 at this
year’s three sessions.
The three sessions include the
firemen’s school, an industrial
fire protection school and a school
for Spanish-speaking firemen.
THE FOURTH OF JULY —was spent eating peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches for
Doug Pautz. He and his roommate had decided to take advantage of Sbisa not serving
board student meals on the Fourth by sponsoring a sandwich eating contest. Only one
other student was interested in out-eating other contestants for the big prize of all left
over supplies. Consequently, the contest never got off the ground. Pautz did manage
to consume 38 sandwiches in an eight-hour period nevertheless. He said he was prac
ticing for a contest this fall. (Photo by Doug Kirk)
Student Group Fights
To Save Big Thicket
The Texas A&M Big Thicket
Association has been created to
muster support for a bill that
would make the Big Thicket, a
unique ecological habitat in
A new federal aid program be
comes available this fall to Class
if ’77 college students.
The Basic Educational Oppor
tunity Grant (BEOG) Program
is the result of Public Law 92-318
fessed last year amending the
fitle III education act.
j “This program provides the
rtudent an entitlement, sort of like
(|ie GI Bill,” explained Robert M.
Eogan, student aid director at
j|exas A&M University.
• If fully funded by Congress,
feie BEOG Program entitlement
((ould run as much as $1,400, or
|alf the cost of a year of college
Education, less a formula-deter
mined amount that the student’s
family can contribute.
First time freshman students
enrolling after July 1 are eligible
this year. The program eventu
ally will apply to all fulltime
Undergraduate post-secondary ed
ucation students.
Logan said applications can be
obtained at the Student Aid Of
fice, third floor of the YMCA.
The office is mailing 4,200 to
freshmen who have been admit
ted to TAMU.
The program is restricted just
to freshmen this fall by the De
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare due to the funding
level. Logan said student aid of
ficers across the country estimate
the current funding lave* of $1.22
million is about one-tenth of what
is needed.
Completed applications go to
the American College Testing
Service. ACTS makes a family
need analysis and notifies the
student by card of the amount of
the family contribution.
Presented, to the financial aid
officer of the institution at which
the student enrolls, the card en
titles him to the balance of the
$1,400 grant under the Basic Ed
ucational Opportunity Grant
Program. The balance is deter
mined aaginst institutional costs
on a formula basis provided by
the government.
Logan noted that the family
contribution amount computed by
ACTS cannot be altered by the
university or college.
He added that students must
apply for the BEOG every year
for subsequent undergraduate
school terms.
Appointees Announced For
University Center Positions
Frank K. Nicolas and Donald
B. Powell have been appointed to
key administrative positions in
Texas A&M University’s new Urii-
versity Center, announced Chuck
Cargill, center manager.
Nicolas was named assistant
for conference administration,
and Powell was named facilities
manager.
The University Center includes
the Memorial Student Center, the
Conference Tower and the The
ater Arts Center.
For the past 11 years, Nicolas
has been administrative assistant
to the Commandant at TAMU.
He retired from the Army in
1964 after 21 years of service.
Nicolas attended the University
of Maryland and various service
schools. He has been an advisor
Airport Receives
Special Certificate Iceboxes Due
to the Ross Volunteer Company,
Alpha Phi Omega and the Student
Conference on National Affairs.
Powell was associated for 13
years with the J. C. Penney Co.
where he was operations manager,
supervising business operations
and sales supporting activities in
full line department stores.
While doing graduate work he
was assistant to C. K. Esten,
chairman of A&M Theater Arts
Section. Powell received his B.A.
degree in 1955 from A&M, where
he was a member of the Aggie
Band and a delegate to SCON A I.
Southeast Texas, a national re
serve.
“We are losing a priceless and
beautiful wilderness,” said Shariq
Yosufzai, spokesman for the
group. “Real estate developers,
publishing and lumber companies
are destroying 50 acres a day.”
Students from throughout Tex
as and Louisiana have also joined
together in an effort to save the
Big Thicket.
The House Subcommittee on
National Parks and Recreation
will consider Big Thicket propos
als at a set of public hearings in
Washington on July 16-17. Among
the proposals is a bill sponsored
by Bob Eckhardt (D., Texas) that
would establish an ecologically
sound National Reserve of 100,000
acres.
The A&M group plans to send
a telegram to Eckhardt stating
support.
The Big Thicket, once a forest
of 3.5 million acres, has shrunk
to about 300,000.
Receiving 60 inches of raftt a
year and possessing over 100 dif
ferent soil types, the thicket is
considered a “region of critical
speciation” where species are ac
tively evolving to meet the stress
es of the environment.
, Over 300 species of birds are
native to the thicket and 40 dif
ferent orchids grow there, at least
one kind of flower that grows no
where else in the world.
It may already be too late for
some animals.
The ivory-billed woodpecker,
native to the thicket, is considered
extinct by most scientists. Some
naturalists, however, claim that
they still catch an occasional
glimpse of this large, gaudy bird.
The woodpecker has become a
symbol of what has been lost, an
example of irreparable damage
already done.
A&M Receives
Milestone Grant
The Texas A&M University-
operated Easterwood Airport has
received the first Federal Avia
tion Administration operating cer
tificate issued to an airport in the
nation not served by a major
commercial airlines.
The FAA approval assures
maximum safety regulations md
certain operational facilities at
Easterwood, an FAA official
pointed out. No FAA certificate
is required for the airport with
its feeder airline which makes
connections with major airlines
in Houston and Dallas.
The FAA certificate was issued
to Easterwood as a requirement
of the Airport Airways Develop
ment Act, the office of Cong.
Olin E. Teague noted in announc
ing the federal agency approval.
Easterwood is heavily used by
private aircraft during the foot
ball season and for other campus
events during the year.
Students who have rented re
frigerators for the first session
are required to return the units
to the Refrigerator Rental Office
in the basement of the university
hospital by 6 p.m. today.
The office will be open from
4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Students wishing to rent refrig
erators for the second semester
may also do so today.
For further information or
questions, call 5-6342.
The 1,000th grant processed by
the Texas A&M Research Foun
dation was awarded Thursday to
Dr. Carl M. Cater, director of
A&M’s Oilseed Products Labora
tory.
The milestone grant was recog
nized Thursday afternoon in an
informal gathering of foundation
personnel in the Zachry Engineer
ing Center on the A&M campus.
The foundation, established in
1944, was created as a vehicle to
promote the development, imple
mentation and coordination of
sponsored research at A&M.
Speaking to foundation person
nel, TAMU College of Engineer
ing Dean Fred J. Benson, vice-
president and director of the
foundation, said the foundation
had averaged about 30 grants per
year since it was founded.
“In the last two years,” he
said, “the number of grants ad
ministered per year has grown
to more than 200. At this rate,
I expect number 2,000 to come
alohg in five or six years.”
‘Crystal Tree’ Decorates Campus
‘CRYSTAL TREE’ ATTRACTS ATTENTION—A 36-
foot-tall man-made “crystal tree” has appeared in the com
mons area of Texas A&M’s new University Center. The
crystalline “tree” rises into the second-floor esplanade be
tween the 11-story Continuing Education Tower and main
auditorium. It is acceptable to the birds. They built a nest in
it. (Photo by Peter Leabo)
There’s a new tree on campus
that the Texas Forest Service will
have a difficult time identifying.
The “Crystal Tree,” so named
by its creators, is 36 feet tall and
looks like any respectable crystal
tree would look. At least the birds
think so—a nest was built in the
structure only two days after it
was lifted into place by a crane
last week.
The “tree” spreads its three
crystalline limbs skyward in the
commons area of the new Uni
versity Center, in the shadow of
the 11-story Continuing Educa
tion Tower.
The limbs stretch from a large
“trunk,” all constructed of weld-
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ed pieces of a special steel, Cor-
ten, which oxidizes on the surface
only, creating a color which har
monizes with the copper trim of
the surrounding center. The
“leaves” are 2,500 pieces of glass,
chipped with facets to reflect the
light.
The work is a joint effort by
the Kebrle Studios, a stained glass
company in Dallas, and Hilliard
Stone, a display specialist and
artist with LTV Aerospace Cor
poration.
The “tree” is one of three
pieces designed for the new com
plex by the team, the other two
being similar glass and metal ob
jects which will be hung as chan
deliers in the auditorium foyers.
“The three pieces represent one
of our most interesting challenges
in recent years,” commented John
Kebrle, owner of the studio. “The
balance between metal and glass
in the ‘crystal tree’ is extremely
important. The sizes of the glass
range from the size of a golf ball
to a softball and vary in their
spacing to pick up rays of light.”
Stone, who studied at the Amer
ican Academy of Art in Chicago
and received both his bachelor’s
and masters of Fine Arts from
the University of Oklahoma, is
responsible for the metal work.
“During the six months of fab
rication time,” he noted, “we had
a chance to see it grow from the
base plate up. We gained a spe
cial feeling for its structure.
“We designed the framework
to accept a certain amount of
sway and movement, like an air
plane wing or a tree. Actually,
much of the design came from
our observations of the natural
trees which surrounded our work
site.”
The idea for the sculpture came
from the architects of the Uni
versity Center complex, Jarvis
Putty Jarvis of Dallas.
“We created the second floor
plaza with an opening to a garden
below,” Donald Jarvis explained,
“konwing it was important that
a piece of art be located there.
“The plaza needed a focal point,
one that would be a conversation
piece. Since the Theatre Center
is primarily a nighttime building,
we felt the special need for some
thing which would introduce a
sparkle and glitter to enliven the
experience of coming to the
theatre. What the artists have
created fills that need quite well.”
Jarvis, a 1949 graduate in Ar
chitecture from TAMU and mem
ber of the Century Council Study
at the university, was asked if it
bothered him to hear critical com
ments about the sculpture.
“Not at all,” he replied. As a
matter of fact, we expect that
few people will be lukewarm to
ward it—people will either like
it a lot or dislike it vehemently.”
Joyce Kilmer wrote “Only God
can make a tree.” He v ' 1 '
in the original form, but Stone
and Kebrle have created a good
duplicate. Just ask the birds now
in residence on the structure.
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