Page 2 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1974
Listen up
Planned construction a disaster
Editor:
Administrators evidently don’t
care about anything but their jobs
and having large, plush offices. A
200 per cent increase in building
use fees is ridiculous. All one has to
struction on campus to see what a
waste the building use fees have
been. If this is an example of the
“taste” and “quality” to be used in
future construction, and we re sure
it is, then the state legislature
We have seen our money wasted
on the Memorial Student Center’s
“inferior desecration.” That’s not a
memorial, it’s a mausoleum!
What’s practical about tearing up
existing sidewalks in perfectly good
do is look at the completed con- should disband A&M. shape and putting arches on the
University Center Questionnaire
To determine whether the Center is meeting the needs of the University community and
visitors, we would appreciate it if you would answer the questions below. Please return to:
Room 216 of the Reed McDonald Services Building, a member of your dorm council, or drop
in one of the marked boxes in the Library and the MSC. Thank You.
1) How frequently do you use the University Center?
Daily.
Once a week
2-3 times a week.
4-5 times a week.
Never
Other (specify)
2) What activities or services do you come to the Center for (please list)?
How do you like the overall design of the new Center? (Please be specific concerning those
things you like and don’t like.)
If you had the opportunity in previous years of using the old Memorial Student Center
(MSC) how would you compare the new MSC to the former?
Much better
Better
Comparable
W orse
Do you find the new Center a comfortable facility?
Yes
No
Other (specify)
(a) Do you like the furnishings in the MSC part of the complex?
Yes
No
Other.
Please state your reasons.
(h)
Yes
No-
Do you like the furnishings in the Theatre Arts Center of the complex?
Other
Please state your reasons.
Do you have any comments about particular pieces of furnishings that you like or dislike?
(List pieces with reasons below.)
8)
Are there any functions important to the University community or a segment of it that the
new Center has neglected to consider? (Please explain or list the necessary space.)
Personal Data about Respondent
What is your classification?
LT ndergraduate
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Faculty
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13)
Other (specify)-
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Age:
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Corps dorms for decoration? It may
be a part of the over-all landscape
and building plan, but that is no
excuse for waste and tackiness.
Americans are noted for their non
caring attitudes concerning money
and value. We used to consider that
a belief attributed mainly to the
lower social class. We thought A&M
rated higher since it is an institution
of higher education, but we guess
not.
Increasing our building use fee
will definitely not improve the cam
pus. All wfe can see now is that a
person with 16 hours paying close to
$165 in the fall, will now have to pay
$64 more. An amount well over
$200. What’s worse, is that we won’t
be around to see what happens, not
that the disaster will be much to
miss.
It’s too bad that the administra
tion can only see fame and glory and
money in their eyes. In a period oi
inflation when money is tight and
students must already scrounge for
money to attend school to get a
longed for education, adminis
trators raise those fees 200 per cent.
Why 200 per cent? What ever hap
pened to gradual changes?
Maybe this is too simple for ad
ministrators’ minds. After all, with
more money to spend, these ad
ministrators will have nicer offices
and nicer working conditions—oh,
yes, and a nice, new campus to show
off for the centennial. But how
they’ll have the guts to show off this
"perverted” campus, we ll never
know.
When are they going to put gar
goyles on the buildings?
Vickie Ashwill
Debbie Ashwill
Becky Williams
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ous degrees of outrage, bewilder
ment, and tragedy.
Hopefully, there are some Aggies
on the team, but there is no way to
separate these from the lousy
whole, just as the nation in general
will not trouble to separate the Ag
gies — the Twelfth Man — from
those few fumbling two-percenters
on the football team. But the foot-
ball team can fade quietly into the
locker room after they blow it. The
Twelfth Man is left standing in the
cold, holding a Yell Practice for an
unbelieveably unworthy team, and
staunchly singing The Spirit above
catcalls and jeers from the t.u. band.
The Twelfth Man has been bet
rayed.
What will be the outcome of this?
Will we perhaps hear rumors that
the poor little jocks just “can’t play”
for nasty old Emory just like they
“couldn’t play’ for mean old Gene?
Perhaps we ll give another good
coach another raw deal and build
another, more plush, jock dorm. Or
perhaps, by some miracle, the
pampered darlings could be instal
led in one of the Corps jock outfits
where they could acquire some of
that Fightin Texas Aggie Spirit.
Their “talent having failed them,
perhaps a little motivation is in
order.
Whatever the answer may be, 1
earnestly pray that it will come
about quickly. I am sick and tired of
seeing the Texas Aggies hurt and
disgraced by the TAMU football
team.
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