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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1974
Summer Planning for wall continues
summary
July festival draws critics
This summary will acquaint stu
dents with local activities over the
last three months and should dispel
the belief that nothing happens in
College Station during the summer.
Plans continued during the sum
mer for the construction of a wall
between the campus and North
Gate. The wall will stretch from the
USDA Building to the Zachry En
gineering Center and has been
questioned by a number of students
and College Station merchants.
Several students on the Long
Range Campus Planning Commit
tee felt students’ opinions were not
considered. The high cost of the
wall prompted suggestions of other
ways to separate the campus from
Northgate.
President Jack Williams stressed
the beauty of the wall and assured
students traffic between C.S. and
campus will not be hindered.
After leaving the Corps area un
touched most of the summer, con
struction began a few weeks before
cadets returned to their dorms.
Plans project that out of the mud
Cadet Slouch
and chaos that surrounds the area
will arise a new Military Quadrant,
complete with brick arches across
the north end.
Another major change in the
98-year history of the Corps is the
admittance of coeds into cadet
ranks. The phasing in of women, the
“Minerva Plan,” was conceived and
designed by the juniors on Corps
staff last semester.
The women’s company, W-l, will
function initially as a day duck outfit
but plans are for it to be moved into
the Corps area as a regular outfit.
W-l will be an invisible outfit
until uniforms arrive. The uniform
will follow the basic one worn by
other cadets but will be styled for
women.
The major social event of the
summer was Willie Nelson’s 4th of
July Picnic held at the Texas World
Speedway. An estimated 35,000
fans attended the festival which met
with stiff criticism.
Both Bryan and College Station
city councils, the Chamber of
Commerce and the First Baptist
By Jim Earle
Church Board of Deacons passed
resolutions censuring it. The picnic
was called indecent, immoral, and a
bad reflection on Brazos County.
Earlier in the summer the Sing
ing Cadets made a good will tour of
Romania. The choir travelled
through the Iron Curtain country
for three weeks hoping to establish
friendship through music.
At home, the proposed College
Station budget for the fiscal year
1974-75 increased 14 percent from
$3.26 million to $3.72. This was ac
counted for by inflation and in
creased growth.
Construction of a park and pavil
ion was planned at the cost of $1.5
milhon. The Brazos County Park
would provide a.multi-purpose facil
ity capable of seating 3,500; 6 acres
paved and 3 acres turf parking;
13-14 acres of picnic facilities; 10-12
acres of public use equipment in
cluding an outdoor theater and 20
acres left in the natural state with
trails.
Opponents noted the park is
proposed on the site of a natural
bog.
Economically disadvantaged area
youths were given jobs through the
Brazos Valley Development Coun
cil Youth Summer Program. The
goal was to provide 390 kids, aged
14 through 21, with as much work
experience and instruction as possi
ble.
Leases were filed later in the
summer by Dow Chemical Com
pany for strip mining in about five
years. Lignite coal is the goal of this
operation.
A $230,000 program for a seven
county area, including Brazos
County, will provide vehicles and
materials for ambulance and hospi
tal services.
Bryan will get radio equipment
for its ambulances while College
Station will get a modulance (a van
with detachable coach), extrication
equipment (to pry into wrecks and
pull out injured victims) and radio
equipment.
Federal funds of $16,000 caused
differences between Bryan and Col
lege Station over a common plan
ning committee. The planning
committee, the Metropolitan Plan
ning Organization, will draw up and
submit a Unified Work Program for
approval and administer the funds
received by it.
College Station councilmen
thought planners were partial to
Bryan’s planning efforts.
Enrollments drop; Expenses
increase in nation’s schools
WELCOME
BACK
AGGIES
AGGI
74
Enrollments are expected to drop
and expenses to rise in the nation’s
schools and colleges during the
1974-75 school year, according to
U.S. Commissioner of Education
Terrel H. Bell.
An estimated 58,610,000 stu
dents will answer the school bell
this fall, compared with 59,009,000
actually enrolled last September-
—an anticipated decrease of seven-
tenths of one percent. Dr. Bell said
that the biggest decline, about
730,000 students, will be felt by the
elementary schools.
The Commissioner indicated the
total cost of education is expected to
rise about $11 billion over the pre
vious year. Funds from local, state,
and federal sources during 1973-74
totaled $97 billion, while in 1974-75
the prediction is for $108 billion, he
said.
Education expenses will repres
ent nearly eight percent of our gross
national product and will directly
involve almost 62 million Ameri
cans.
“Education will be the principal
occupation of 29 percent of our
population,” said Bell. “In fact edu
cation is considered to be the
country’s largest enterprise in terms
of the number of people involved
and the dollars spent.”
A continued rise in high school
enrollment is predicted. Assuming
that the same proportion of 18- to
21-year-olds enroll in institutions of
higher education in 1974 as in 1973,
there will also be another small in
crease in college enrollment.
Enrollment in kindergarten
through grade 8 is expected to de
crease from 35.1 million last fall to
34.4 million in 1974. A decrease of
more than 600,000 is anticipated in
public schools, while nonpublic
school enrollment will probably de
cline by about 100,000.
In grades 9 through 12, enroll
ment is expected to rise from 15.4
million in 1973 to 15.6 million this
fall. Since little or no change is an
ticipated in nonpublic school en
rollment, all of the increase will
occur in public high schools.
In colleges and universities an in
crease of about 100,000 degree-
credit students, from 8.5 million to
8.6 million, over last fall’s enroll
ment is expected.
Virtually all the higher education
increase will take place in public in
stitutions since enrollment in pri
vately controlled colleges and uni
versities is expected to remain rela
tively stable. The figures for both
years exclude undergraduate stu
dents enrolled in occupational or
general studies programs that are
not creditable toward a bachelor’s
degree. There were 1.1 million of
these nondegree-credit students in
the fall of 1973.
Expenditures for elementary and
secondary schools are expected to
total $68 billion ($62 billion for pub
lic and $6 billion for nonpublic
schools) during the next school year,
while expenditures for higher edu
cation are estimated at $40 billion
($27 billion for public and $13 bill
ion for private institutions).
More than 3 million persons wifi
be engaged in classroom instruction
this fall. This includes more than 2.3
million persons teaching at the
elementary and secondary school
levels (2.1 million in public and
200,000 in nonpublic schools) and
over 600,000 instructional staff
members in colleges and univer
sities (more than 400,000 in public
and 200,000 in private institutions).
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