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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1974
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle Eisten up
Clarification offered
for SG radio situation
“Keep in mind that th’ worst day to write home for money
is immediately after April 15!”
Editor:
In reference to the article in
Government Radio calling it
quits, I feel a necessity to clarify
the situation. The front page
piece was too short to portray
accurately what really happened
in our brief history of broadcast
ing. The article was correct in
citing engineering problems as
our biggest Achilles heel. Our
first semester of operation the
equipment was scoped and recali
brated once. This semester had
shown improvement until studios
were moved from Midwest Video
to the barber shop next door.
Stereo signals were never re-es
tablished and even the micro
phone was not put back together
properly. This lack of mainte
nance totally ruined our sound.
Some may ask why we at SGR
didn’t advertise more to cover
our expenses. The fact of the
matter is we were taking all com
ers. Originally advertisers were
limited to student orientated bus
inesses. When sufficient income
was not attained this way, we
took any and all comers, includ
ing a bar in downtown Bryan.
Our advertisers cannot be slant
ed. Many of them stayed with us
through our darkest days. I, as
former business manager, had to
tell these intellifgent business
men that their ads were being
Lease Line-
Apartment dwellers cite
maintenance inadequacies
The Fair Housing Commission
has received numerous complaints
from students in recent weeks
concerning the lack of adequate
apartment upkeep. The following
question-and-answers are repre
sentative of those complaints:
Q: Monaco I Apartments has had
a broken air conditioning system
since October. Since the landlord
advertised air conditioning to at
tract tenants, isn’t it a violation
of the law to not provide it?
A. The Monaco lease has a clause
which protects the landlord when
such problems occur. This specific
clause states that the tenant “ac
cepts the building and each and
every part thereof and waives de
fects therein.” Strictly speaking,
the landlord could then allow his
apartments to fall into a state of
disrepair with the tenant having
agreed to abide by such condi
tions. However, College Station
has a housing code establishing
certain minimum requirements for
maintenance, and although air
conditioning would not be includ
ed, there is another law that
would be applicable. Advertising
falsely is a violation of the De
ceptive Trade Practices Act.
However, inquiries into this case
showed that availability of parts
was part of the problem, and ap
parently, the air conditioning ma
chinery has now been repaired.
Q: French Quarter Apartments
has an interior parking lot which
is in a very poor state of repair,
and has been since last summer.
Water stands in the holes even
during dry spells, and they are
so deep that cars cross them with
difficulty. The walkway area also
floods and becomes covered with
mud. What can we do to get
them to fixe the place up?
A: The landlord is legally respon
sible for maintenance of “public
areas,” and should have been re
quired to fix the parking area by
the College Station Public Works
Office, in order to conform to the
local housing code. Although re
pair work has certainly been lack
ing, the ownership of French
Quarter is changing hands, and
the manager has reported that
the contract requires the current
owner to make certain repairs of
the premises. Last week, the
plumbing was repaired, and the
manager said that the pot holes
should be fixed before the end of
the month.
Q: The roads around the univer
sity-owned College View Apart
ments, especially Ball Street, are
in terrible condition. Why doesn’t
the university repair them?
A: Ken Nicholas, the apartment
manager, explained that the roads
will be repaired within a month.
He said that asphalt topping is
planned, but that the university
is still looking for a contractor.
Q: I live in a rented house in
College Station. Recently, while
climbing up the stairs, the top
fell through and I was injured
and unable to work for two days.
Does the landlord owe me com
pensation?
A: You have a good case, since
it is up to the landlord to main
tain the premises.
Q: The septic tank behind my
rented house broke open last
week, causing a serious sanitation
problem. Because of that, the
house was condemned, and the
landlord is telling me that I have
to move, although my lease has
not expired. Does he owe me a
place to stay until the end of
my lease?
A: Most leases contain clauses
which allow the landlord to sever
the agreement upon giving 30
days notice. Additionally, legal
eviction takes about 30 days in
Texas. If you had to move out
before the 30-day span passed,
then you could justifiably claim
compensation for your lodging
costs for that period of time.
However, it is not likely that
you could collect anything beyond
that.
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the editor or of the writer of the article and are not
necessarily those of the University administration or
the Board of Directors. The Battalion is a non-profit,
self-supporting enterprise operated by students as a
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heard by thousands of A&M stu
dents, when it would have taken
a genius to decipher those ads
over the noise. May these men
and the Good Lord be merciful on
me for these things.
The Batt article also leaves out
rhy reasons for quitting. As not
ed in the article, assistant man
ager Darrell Brogdon was forced
into a grade crisis and was
forced to take a leave of absence.
Station manager John Herndon
was admitted to John Sealy Hos
pital in Galveston for treatment
of a skin disorder shortly after
spring break. For almost two
weeks, I dutifully slept, drank
and ate SGR. I am no martyr,
but the absences of these gen
tlemen and the dereliction of
Steve Gray, news director, did
place me in a bind. After 12 days
of this, I collapsed and was ad
mitted to the university hospital.
Later, doctors strongly suggest
ed that I resign. I did and have
felt better since.
In closing, I hope A&M does
get an open air station. I also
hope the politically minded im
beciles at Student Government
never get a hold on it. I was
recently informed that two Radio
board members had told Presi
dent Williams there was no rea
son for an open air station, that
the Midwest facilities were suf-
ificient! That stupidity makes
me proud to say that I quit that
organization.
W. Scott Sherman
★ ★ ★
Not true
Editor:
Kalos’ writing in The Battalion
of April 11 did not present the
readers with a truthful review of
the musical art of Marisa Gal-
vany and the compositions she
performed.
The artistic profile of Galvany,
as it emerged during her recital
on April 9, is that of an opera
singer on the first place, en
dowed with a rich and beautiful
voice. Her gift for acting was
present even on the bare concert
stage.
Kalos did not realize that. In
stead he criticized her singing of
arias and praised her interpreta
tion of songs of Franz Schubert.
Schubert’s songs, composed at
the beginning of the 19th cen
tury, are known in the music
literature as pure representatives
of the musical form known as
the German Lied (Lied—song in
German). This style requires re
fined music and phrasing, feel
ing for subdued expression, con
trol of voice and minute pronun
ciation. These are not the quali
ties of the artistic temperament
of Marisa Galvany, at least in
the present stage of her artistic
development.
After the intermission, Kalos
describes the songs of French
and Spanish composers as: “. . .
the kind of classical novelty
songs, that can be tolerated as
only warm-ups.”
Needless to say, songs by com
posers as Claude Debussy, Maur
ice Ravel, Gabriel Faure, Henry
Duparc, Manuel de Falla, could
never be considered as “warm
ups.” These compositions, cre
ated at the end of the 19th and
the beginning of the 29th cen
tury, present the emergence of
impressionism in music, which is
not a “classical novelty” but a
special chapter in music history.
This musical style could be de
scribed as a pictorial art, trans
ferred into the medium of music,
capturing the fleeting impres
sions surrounding the artist. This
is the style to which Galvany re
sponds. She excelled in Debus
sy’s Chevaux de bo is and espe
cially, in the musical arabesque
of Kaddisch, by Ravel.
Puccini’s and Bizet’s arias per
formed by Galvany captivated
the audience. Her whole being
reflected the melodies she sung;
it was a glorious experience.
At the end, since this was the
first review of Kalos (Greek for
beautiful) I do hope that in the
future his writing will be truth
ful and therefore a beautiful re
flection of the arts performed
on the campus.
Jelena M. Djuric
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