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r&rtly doudy and warm with ttrtheasterly winds 7-12 i.p.h. High Wednesday 88°. Low tonight 69°. Continued partly doudy Thursday with i high of 90°. Vol. 67 No. 396 Flood plain zoning, road construction Cbe Battalion TtxJay in the Bait Voluntary tuition Aggie entrepreneurs Why Texas won p. 2 p. 5 p. 8 College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 22, 1974 top agenda at College Station P&Z (2)... THE LIBRARY which has also adjusted its hours as follows: May 20-25, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; May 26, 2 p.m.-6 p.m.; May 27-31, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Next we take a look . . . Suicide Ad for professional help to end it all checked out An advertisement in the Rice Thresher for Euthanasia Inc. ! prompted The Battalion to call the proprietor, listed as L. Mortez in the ad, and look for a possible story angle. Mortez seemed quite serious about his service so we assigned News Editor T. C. Gal- | lucci to pose as a person contem- K Vl 1 m ana JM A a la aa aa 4 la «a 4 a broken voice, “Don’t you think that you may be throwing away more than you realize?” “No, I’m not,” I replied. After reaching what could be called a dead end, Linnenman set up a rendezvous on the seventh (See SUICIDE, p. 2) The Battalion is expanding its coverage into the College Station city political arena. This article is an attempt to acquaint the reader with the issues before the Planning and Zoning Commission. —Ed. By GERALD OLIVIER The issues of flood plain zoning, road construction priorities, and Aggie !T fights for hair A former TAMU Corps com mander urges servicemen to band together to avoid harassment over hair length by the Army. Lt. Matthew R. Carroll, a 1971 graduate, states in a press release that “after two months of harass ment, intimidation, threats, a direct order ... all having to do with my hair, the Army is going to try and kick me out.” “What they are going to try to do is slip me out as quickly and quietly as possible without due process of law,” he continued. “They have left me no alternative except to fight them the only way I know how. I am taking the stand that the Army has absolute ly no right to tell people how to wear their hair.” Carroll points out that although the Army claims that it is a mili tary necessity to have a hair policy, other NATO nations have none. Carroll is circulating a petition to be presented to Con gress protesting the treatment of himself and of pSgt. Dan Pruitt (Air Force), who was sentenced to four months of hard labor for refusing to cut his hair. “I am a First Lieutenant and an Airborne Ranger. I was Atom ic Demolition Platoon leader. Corps Commander at A&M in 1970 and was elected to Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universi ties in the United States in 1971. There is no way they can call me a radical,” says Carroll. “I feel that this is the only truly responsible position that an officer in the U. S. Army can take at this point in time, es pecially after the things I have witnessed during my three years experience in the United States Army,” continued Carroll. He further stated “the so-called leaders of the U. S. Army have turned their backs on the legiti mate claims of the citizen soldier in the 1970s and it is time, long overdue, for us to secure those rights which are rightfully ours.” Carroll, stationed in Germany, is encouraging soldiers and the public to attend his upcoming trial. the rezoning of a large tract of land on FM 60 South, faced the College Station Planning and Zoning Commission Monday night. A zone change request for a 17.9 acre tract and one of 4.32 acres was approved. The com mission stressed the need for long range zoning requests, informing potential property owners of the eventual distribution of com mercial, residential, and apart ment building in the neighbor hood. A representative of the Texas Highway Department Planning Office informed the commission of a change in road construction priorities in Brazos County. The building of a road to a proposed county park has been moved into priority one classification. Thisi classification qualifies all projects within it to be let for contract whenever money becomes avail able. Presently included in priority one are: the extension of Foun tain Street to intersect Hwy. 60 at the grade crossing, the exten sion of Briarcrest Drive to inter sect Fountain, and the placement of a traffic light at the interstc- tion of Jersey Street and FM 2154. These problems have been facing the city of College Station for years. The proposed Brazos County park is a relatively new issue. Commissioners expressed fear that the building of a road to the non-existent park would take precedence over current traf fic problems in College Station. Final decision on which project will be funded rests with the Dis trict Engineer for the highway department. The P&Z Commission recom mended a draft of an ordinance governing building in the flood hazard zone to the College Sta tion City Council for review. They also recommended that the council delete that portion of the present city ordinances prohibit ing building within the zone. In further action the commis sion appointed Tom Chaney to be Commission Liason to the Parks and Recreation Committee meet ing on May 28. All meetings of the commission are open to the public. P&Z meets on the first and third Mondays of the month at 7 p.m. in the College Station City Hall. The next meeting will be on June 3. (1) . .. BEGINNING A PICTORIAL TOUR of campus deso lation is the Northgate area where merchants have adjusted wmmm to shorter hours and some have even closed up for the be- tween-session lull. The next stop is . . . Pub board status quo backed By KATHY YOUNG Five faculty members out-vot ed three students on dress code and Student Publications Board issues before the Rules and Reg ulations Committee last Thurs day. The committee discussed pro posed changes and additions to the university regulations as sug gested by the Student Senate and Student Services. Dean John Beckham chaired the committee in the absence of Dr. Haskell Monroe. Three students and five university staff mem bers were present. The three students, Randy Ross, Steve Eberhard, and John Nash voted in favor of changing the Student Publications Board from three students to five stu dents and prohibiting the direc tor of student publications from being automatic chairman of the board. This measure however was defeated by four votes and one absention from the remaining of the board. Dean Beckham abstained say ing that he did not feel that the committee had the power to rule on the Student Publications Board. Howard Perry, assistant vice president for Student Serv ices; Roger Miller, assistant to the president; Mike Goeken, busi ness affairs office, and Judge James Amis, system attorney, all voted against increased student representation in the policies and actions of the Student Publica tions Board. The Student Senate proposed deleting the present dress code from the university regulations. TAMU applicants rise 84 per cent Dean Beckham opposed the dele tion on the grounds that certain clothing is needed for the safety of the student in laboratories. The students then proposed a change in the wording of the dress code to require it only in the cases of safety in labs. This was defeated by a five to three vote. The dress code will remain as it is presently stated with the addition of one sentence concern ing tobacco. “The use of tobacco in instructional classrooms and laboratories is prohibited.” This statement which governs both the professor and student was ac cepted unanimously. The committee also clarified certain portions of the existing rules. In section 62, No. 2 was changed to “Students must secure permission from the area coordi nator before making any substan tive changes to or within their rooms.” This general statement replaced specifics such as mat tress covers and furniture rear rangement. Also in that same section, No. 3 it was stated that “students may paint their rooms under cer tain conditions. Students should consult with the area coordinator for information on painting.” This wording change was proposed by Dr. John Koldus, vice president for student services. Under the next section concern ing the resignation procedure it was stated that, “any student who resigns should vacate uni versity housing within a reason able period of time.” These recommendations will be submitted to the Academic Coun cil for approval. However, Pres ident Williams has final approval in the councils actions. By STEVE BALES TAMU led all state and land- grant colleges in its percentage of increases for fall, 1974, appli- plating suicide in hopes that |jEuthanasia Inc. would come up | with a suicide plan. The resulting | story follows.—Ed. By T. C. GALLUCCI : 1 Tired of pressures from finals and every day life ? Want to end j it all ? L. Mortez, a student at ij Rice University, placed an ad- Ivertisement in the Rice Thresher joffefing to help . . . for a small ' fee. However, when I contacted Mor tez, proprieter of Euthanasia Inc., by telephone, (under an alias) he was hesitant to discuss his pro fessionally planned suicides. His consultant, unnamed — but later i Fevealing his identity as Mark Linnenman, was more cooperative. Linnenman explained the dif ferent plans, “We can supply any thing from the standard rub-out to our more elaborate, luxury of fers.” Soon realizing, however, that I was dead serious about the ad, Linneman’s voice took a se rious tone. “Well, before we go any further, wouldn’t you like to tell me about yourself?” he asked. "No,” I replied. Eventually Linnenman asked in University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” Adv. (3) ... OYER SULLY’S SHOULDERS at the usually bustling Academic mall area, site of the women’s carnival and two Free Tunes programs from the Basement Committee last se mester. And for our last attraction we have .. . cations, according to a recent survey by the National Associ ation of State and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). Total applications at TAMU increased almost 84 per cent for this fall, according to the NASU LGC survey. TAMU’s out-of-state applica tions increased more than 170 per cent and in-state applications in creased about 80 per cent. As of March 1 the national total of applications for next fall’s freshman class showed an increase of 3V2 per cent over applications received for fall, 1973. The esti mated freshman enrollment, how ever, is predicted to drop slightly from 312,933 in fall, 1973, to 311,192 in 1974. The primary reasons, according to the survey, for decreases in freshman enrollment were: • A decreased interest in at tending college and the elimina tion of the draft. • A decrease in the size of the college-age population combined with limitations on freshman en rollment and increases in student charges. A greater number of qualified freshman applicants are expected to be rejected by state and land- grant universities in 1974, the survey points out. Twenty-seven institutions re ported that they expect to reject a total of 36,943 qualified appli cants. Twenty-three institutions listed the main reason for these (See APPLICATIONS, p. 2) (4) . .. ONCE CROWDED RACKS outside the Biological Sci ences Building. (Photos by Kathy Young and Steve Bales)