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FRIDAY — It will be fair and
cool with a high today of 64°
and a low tonight of around 38.
There will be a maximum high
tomorrow of 67°. The Gods have
smiled upon us again — no rain
this week-end!
Vol. 67 No. 328
College Station, Texas
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Office, Class Hour
Staggering Proposed
TAMU’s Special Energy Man
agement Committee is consider
ing proposals for a 30-minute
modification in starting times for
classes, staggered office hours
and alternatives to driving off
campus during the lunch break—
all designed to reduce baseline
consumption.
Classes would follow the
Spring, 1974 schedule as pub
lished except that all class periods
would be moved up one-half hour,
said the subcommittee report.
“Classes scheduled for 8 a.m.
would meet at 7:30 a.m., those
Faculty Gets Break
On Library Fines
Unlike students, faculty and
staff do not pay fines on overdue
books, according to John B. Smith,
Director of Libraries.
After a book has been overdue
for six months the faculty or staff
member is sent a bill for the book,
Smith said.
Any faculty member or fulltime
staff member can get a faculty
card. This card allows the bor-
Library Sets
Hour Change
For Exams
Quiet study conditions will be
provided students around the clock
by the University Library again
this semester during final exam
week.
The special library operation
will begin at 2 p. m. Sunday, Dec.
16, announced Director John
Smith.
Library facilities will be avail
able to students studying for fall
semester examinations until mid
night Wednesday, Dec. 19.
Finals start Dec. 17 and end
Dec. 21.
Circulation Librarian Mel Dodd
said the main checkout desk, di
vision service desks and reserve
room will close at midnight and
reopen at 8 a. m., as usual, dur
ing the period. Studying students
may use accessible shelf materials,
however. Doormen will be on
duty.
rower to take books out for two
weeks or for as long as one se
mester. All books must be return
ed to the library at the end of the
two week or semester to be check
ed in or they may be renewed.
No books may be renewed over
the phone. Smith said that this
encouraged the return of books
which were no longer needed.
“An arbitrary limit of 20 books
can be checked out, but it is not
enforced,” Smith said. “The fact
that books have to be physically
carried back at the end of each
semester tends to limit the num
ber of books that are checked out.
Abuses by the faculty are mini
mum and the faculty are by and
large cooperative.”
In 1965 when the automated
system was initiated, the perma
nent loan system was abolished
and books were required to be re
newed at the end of a term loan.
“Our situation is better than
other universities in that some
other universities still have indef
inite loans for faculty,” said
Smith. Faculty must ask for the
term loan or else books are only
checked out to them for two
weeks.
“Most professors have an aver
age of five to 12 books out at one
time although many professors
don’t have any checked out,”
Smith added.
“At one time a female faculty
member had over 200 books
checked out but the books were
returned and she is no longer on
the faculty,” according to Rich
ard Puckett, assistant director
of public services at the library.
scheduled for 9 a.m. would meet
at 8:30 a.m., etc.
According to a proposal for
warded to the SEMC, University
employes would begin getting only
a 45 minute lunch break next se
mester, in addition to getting to
leave work at 4:45 p.m. and still
coming to work at 8 a.m.
“Administrative units should
encourage staff members working
the 8-4:45 ‘regular office houi*s’
to select individual working hours
within plus or minus 15 minutes
of the beginning of those hours,”
the proposal stated. Some individ
uals would therefore maintain
regular hours of 7:45 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., while others might work the
RHA Leaves
All Program
Fees to Dorms
A major constitutional overhaul
was ratified by the Resident H&ll
Association Thursday by a wide
margin.
The main point of the revision
involved funding of RHA proj
ects, Gettermann said. The $5
service fee paid by residents pro
gram dorms previously provided
50 cents to the RHA. Under the
new constitution, all services fees
will go only to the hall the resi
dent lives in with no extractions.
Gettermann said the RHA still
receives allocations from the
bookstore to add to its present
funds.
He said these funds would be
used for dorm activities, like
RHA weekend. RHA Weekend and
the Spring Fling will be combined
this year.
“The RHA and Town Hall are
going to pool their efforts to pro
vide musical entertainment that
weekend,” he said. “That way
we’ll split the losses or the profits
right down the middle.”
Gettermann added a number of
other activities will be provided
including bike and go-cart races.
Study Shows Biker Violations
By VICKIE ASHWILL
Types of bicycle violations on
the TAMU campus were discussed
with the Traffic Panel as a re
sult of a study conducted by two
coeds .
Beth Weaver and Marilyn Snell
presented the political science
project to the panel Tuesday to
encourage the Traffic Panel “to
promote regulations and enforce
ment of bicycle riding behavior
that will reduce the risk of acci
dents and injuries” on campus.
During a slide and 8mm movie
presentation, Weaver noted some
of the common bicycle and stop
sign violations.
Weaver said one student made
a left hand turn at the corner of
Ross and Spencer streets with
books in one hand and a milk
shake in another. Other students
avoided the stop signs and parked
them in pedestrian pathways.
“Bike racks are not used,” con
tinued Weaver. “The key word
on bike racks is convenience. The
Old Engineering Building has no
racks. Bolton Hall has two racks
which hold 30 bikes which isn’t
enough and the rack at Nagle
Hall isn’t used.”
Slides showed two unregistered
bicycles chained to a lamp post
and above hte stairs at the Uni
versity Police Department.
In a statement to the panel the
coeds said “the majority of stu
dents who own and ride bicycles
claim to have read and know the
policy statement for operating
bicycles on campus as evidenced
by the questionaire. (Two hun
dred and two said they had read
the policy statement for operat
ing bicycles on the TAMU cam-
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
pus, 36 said no.)
“If the student does know and
understand these regulations,
then he appears to knowingly vio
late them. The fact that the stu
dent consistently violates these
regulations encourages disrespect
for the policy promulgated to en
sure safety,” reads the statement.
“You’ve got to change the be
havior of people riding bicycles,
otherwise it will be impossible to
accomplish anything,” said Weav
er.
The panel recommended to
Weaver and Snell that the slides
and films possibly be presented
to the students in conjunction
with the Memorial Student Cen
ter or the A&M Wheelmen.
The committee acted on the
parking problem for architecture
students in loading and unload
ing their projects at the archi
tecture building.
Jerry Campbell said there was
a suggestion given to him for a
30-minute parking area some
where near the building but he
felt a 15-minute space was ade
quate.
Campbell’s suggestion, which
was unanimously approved by the
panel, makes the two yellow
spaces parallel and adjacent to
the back of the building 15 min
ute spaces.
The suggestion must be ap
proved by the vice president of
student services, Dr. John Koldus,
and the zone administrators be
fore the act goes into effect.
The panel turned down another
proposal by Campbell to make the
back-out parking areas at Nagle
and Lubbock streets and Routt at
Coke no parking areas.
“People shouldn’t be in a posi
tion where they have to back into
an intersection,” said Campbell.
“There are enough places for
loading and unloading elsewhere.”
University Police Chief O. L.
Luther said he had no compaints
about the area and that such a
regulation would be hard to en
force.
Campbell said most of the acci
dents in that area go unreported
and that many cars do stick into
the intersections.
“People realize they’re hazard-
Lights dimmer now. . .
regular day starting at 8:15 a.m.
This will allow easier participation
in car pools and further disperse
the peak traffic load period.
Dr. Virgil Stover, chairman of
the transportation subgroup, said
that he has been urging all those
he contacts to eat on campus and
do more walking. “The time may
come when we won’t be able to
come and go from the campus as
much as we like, Stover said.
Stover said that plans are
being studied by Management
Services to set up an extensive
meal ticket program to attract
more people to on-campus dining
facilities. He noted that stag
gered work hours will mean there
will be some staggering for
lunches, also. He added that
almost a quarter of a million gal
lons of fuel could be saved by on-
campus lunch eating.
Stover’s group has estimated
that almost 150,000 gallons of
fuel per year could additionally
be saved by the 16,000 motorists
who enter and leave the campus
daily through the staggered work
plan. This is what is being called
a “high payoff item” by the
SEMC.
Another plan being studied by
Stover’s group would call for six
class days per week and urge more
weekend activities for students
on campus and in Bryan-College
Station. It has been estimated
that nearly four million gallons
of fuel could be saved if students
didn’t go home between six-day
periods and went home to stay
at Christmas. Other implementa
tion ideas for this would include
assistance for increased car pool
travel. Restriction of student
parking is also being examined.
Another high payoff item for
the SEMC would be a plan that
would provide shuttle bus service
for the faculty and staff. Almost
150,000 gallons of fuel could be
saved in a nine-month period if
4,000 cars coming to the campus
now quit coming, the group con
tends. This would represent about
half the faculty and staff.
SUMMARY OF POSSIBLE ACTIONS AND
AREAS OF POTENTIAL FUEL SAVINGS
FOR TAMU
Implementation Action
A. Reduce Weekend Travel
B. Increase Bicycle Use
C. Increase Shuttle Bus
D. Car Pooling To/From Campus
E. Noon Meal on Campus
F. On-Campus Trips by Walking
G. Reduce Off-Campus Dorm
Student Travel by Auto
H. Improved Traffic Flow
I. Buses for Special Event Travel
J. Increased Use of Motorcycles
K. On-Campus Residency for
Summer Sessions
L. Walk or Ride Bicycle To/From
University Housing
M. Shuttle Bus for Faculty/Staff
6 day class schedule
+
on-campus weekend activities
+
restrict student parking
+
+
+
+
+
provide bicycle paths and racks
+
-
+
reduce on-campus parking
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
increase auto registration fee
+
+
+
staggered office and class hours
+
-
+
parking fee incentive for car p>ools
+
+
+
location incentive for car p>ools
+
optional 1/2 hour lunch period
+
day student noon "meal ticket"
+
assistance in organizing car pools
+
-
+
issue bicycle parmit with auto
+
-
nominal bicycle registration fee
+
-
covered walkways
+
improved traffic operations
+
-
-
+
charter or university bus
+
limit ticket sales
+
motorcycle parking
-
-
-
-
-
+
+
no shuttle service to/from p>oints less than 1 mile
+
increase shuttle routes
-
+
-
-
-
+ indicates positive effect saving; — indicates negative or offsetting effect
State Rep Bernice Johnson
Sets Noon Forum Speech
State Rep. Eddie Bernice John
son of Dallas — central figure in
a dispute with Texas Comptroller
Robert Calvert that brought em
phasis to the state’s hiring prac
tices — will speak Tuesday.
Rep. Johnson’s talk, sponsored
by the MSC Black Awareness
Committee in conjunction with
the TAMU Political Forum, will
be held at noon in Rooms 225 and
226 of the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
It was Rep. Johnson’s dispute
with Calvert that led Lt. Gov.
Bill Hobby to announce that all
state agencies will be required to
submit reports on their hiring
trends when they submit budget
requests.
Hobby cited a little-known pro
vision of the state appropriations
bill that prohibits expenditures of
funds by agencies that do not
comply with federal equal oppor
tunity guidelines.
Formerly a leading psychiatrist
in the Dallas area, Mrs. Johnson
was elected to the 63rd legislature
in 1972. She was vice chairper
son of the State Democratic Con
vention last year and has served
as SDEC committee woman and
a member of the National Demo
cratic Credentials Committee.
In the legislature she was a
member of the House State Af
fairs and Human Resources com
mittees.
Students will be admitted to the
speech free. Non-student admis
sion will be 50 cents.
Plant Ideas Are Exhibited
New ideas on plants, Christmas
gifts and arrangements will be
displayed in an open house in the
floriculture greenhouses.
The greenhouses and displays
in the Memorial Student Center
can be seen Saturday from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m.
A slide show and a collection
of over 2,000 stamps showing
flowers Will be displayed.
New varieties of plants and
free samples of candy are includ
ed.
ous corners,” said Ron Miori. “I
don’t feel the problem is that
bad.”
In other action, the committee
accepted a recommendation from
Luther to tow away those cars
not registered with the University
after the third ticket.
The present towaway minimum
is six tickets for non-registered
cars.
to conserve scarce energy
(Photos by Gary Baldasari)