Campus comments Listen up
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1975
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year. We have enough classrooms to meet the need. I think
that I am employed by the greatest university in the world
and associated with the greatest student body in the world.
Jim Breedlove, director of public relations.
Memorial Student Center
Impose a curfew. Make bed checks mandatory. Serve
nothing but instant oatmeal in the dining halls. Require
everyone to check at the programs office daily. Pahlmann
should be hired to decorate Williams house the same way
that he did the MSC. Exchange T. V. lectures for stag
flicks. Move all the women into Hotard. Trade football teams
with USC.
Jack Tatum, graduate, oceanography
They should start a cat trapping and torture class. We
have to keep up with the trend in the other universities.
Breedlove and I will teach the course . . . Pahlmann should
be redesigned.
Col. Gaines, associate director, MSC
I didn’t like losing at football . . . There is a minor
inconvenience in the road construction on campus ... I
am delighted in the student increase. We have more active
students and it will reflect on our program. I hope that in the
near future the MSC will be open . . . We need to have more
peripheral parking ... It was a great year from our view
point.
Ruth Hewitt, senior secretary, MSC
I don’t have any complaints. I found a parking space
everyday. I’ve enjoyed the increase in students as well as the
caliber of the students . . . It’s always nice to show people
through our new building ... I hope the new University
Center cafeteria opens soon but we ll probably all get fat.
John Garcia, barber, MSC
The barber shop is a 100 per cent improvement. We now
have a beauty salon. People are scared to have their hair cut
here but we can style and do everything like that.
Bob Stahl, senior
Hang the son-of-a-bitch that designed the MSC. I don’t
like the parking situation but I don’t think that there is any
thing that can be done about it.
Tom Wheeler, senior
I’d like to see the construction finished . . . The wall
money should be spent on the Grove . . . They are not build
ing buildings for the students anymore.
Dave Godine, custodian
More'money. That’s all. More money.
Libby Jowell, faculty mail service
There isn’t anything except the fees . . . that complaint is
for my husband.
Dale Powell, student worker, faculty mail service
I’d like them to get some of the construction over with.
Florene Luedecke, student worker, faculty mail
service
. . . yea and stop tearing down the trees. Student workers
don’t make enough money.
C. C. Mathewson, assistant professor, geology
I like the fact that we re a growing school, that we have an
increase in coeds, that we re increasing our national standings.
It’s going to be a great school. I’d like to see “The Battalion”
headline nothing on the front page except the campus. Get off the
wire services.
Dr. Doug Brown, researcher. Cyclotron
The university seems not to have influenced the community
at all. There seems to be no place that is a hangout for stu
dents. The library seems quite good. The bookstore seems
abysmally lacking. Then to add insult to injury, if you order a book
under $10 they charge you extra. It seems to me that if you have a
bookstore on campus — besides making money they should be
very receptive to the needs of the academic community.
Dr. John Murray, assistant professor, electrical
engineering
I’ve just been here a few weeks. The people have been
pretty friendly and the E. E. department looks good in facilities
and research opportunities.
Dr. James McNeal, department head of marketing
Our high enrollment is unusual for a school of high quality.
After really thinking it over and talking to parents and ex-Ags
in West Texas, they say A&M is the only place to send their
children.
This school places education first and social life second.
Their (other schools) parents are saying “we want our young
people to associate with fine upstanding people. ” Here they say
the association is already here. I don’t think the enrollment can
(See CAMPUS, page 3)
Editor hard-up for copy
Ag forever
Claydene Glynn, secretary, registrar
The parking is a hassle . . . My husband and I are trying
to survive on my salary and the building use fees really hurt.
Carolyn Watson, ring clerk
It’s unbelievable how busy the ring desk is. The ring
costs a lot but that’s because of the cost of gold.
Rene Caperton, assistant cashier, fiscal office
I like the traditions. Most universities are stereotyped
. . . The tuition is the fifth lowest in the nation. I really
don’t have any complaints. I’ll take that back. Parking.
Editor:
Marilou Suler-Roelon should
pack up and go to T. U. if she’s not
already there — which I support.
We had a hell of a good football sea
son — I ’m proud of every last one of
the ninety-nine players and Coach
Bellard and his staff — they played
their hearts out.
The editor was darn hard up for
material or he wouldn’t have pub
lished garbage like this. Every other
coach in the conference will show
this letter to potential recruits indi
cating that this is the way football
players at A&M are looked upon by
the student body . . .
Jack Kingsbery ’45
Proud Aggie
Editor:
. . . I paid particular attention re
cently to all the criticism in the
paper after the Aggies were out-
scored by TU this year. Please let’s
give Emory Bellard and the Aggie
Football team some credit instead of
criticism. To give you an example of
how proud I am . . . I’m going to
compare the best three seasons
while I was attending A&M with
Coach Bellard’s three seasons . . .
1961 was 4-5-1; 1962 was 3-7; 1963
was 2-7-1; combined record 9-19-2
. . . Now in the three years Coach
Bellard has been at A&M, he has
produced a combined record of
16-17, with the last of course, 8-3.
I think we really have something
to be proud of in Coach Bellard and
his staff and, of course, the players
themselves. I don’t believe the
football players woidd have come to
A&M in the first place had they not
wanted to win every game. In clos
ing, please let it be known that this
is one Aggie who is proud of our
coach, his staff and the players who
gave all they had.
R. C. Florence ’65
Editor:
I too was greatly disappointed by
our loss to t. u. but one football game
will never make me lose the Spirit of
Aggieland and the pride I take in
being an Aggie.
It seems that some people (like
the “Ag’ in the Dec. 5 Batt) con
sider the 1974 season a loss, but I
think differently. How would that
guy like to lose, instead of win, eight
games?
I don’t care where the fair
weather Ags go (how about that
God-forsaken school in Waco), but
why don’t they get the hell out of
Aggieland?
I’ll back Bellard and his team in
the good times and bad, through
victory and defeat.
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New study endangers
student loans
Ron Hendren
WASHINGTON
A recent
study has concluded that more and
more young people are defaulting
on their federally guaranteed stu
dent loans, and that report has pro
vided new and potent ammunition
to congressmen, senators and
White House aides who want an ex
cuse to disembowel the program.
More than half a million students
have obtained college educations
with the help of these loans.
The study projects that the gov
ernment will likely lose some $20
million annually in defaulted notes,
about one half of one percent of the
total amount guaranteed, and about
half the cost of a single C5A trans
port aircraft.
But never mind, $20 million is
$20 million, and in these perilous
times a lot more people are spend
ing a lot more time looking for ways
to tighten other people’s belts. And
rightly so, although the fiscal ad-
monishers would do well to start at
ho pie.
-The problem is that those who are
’strangh'ng abdominalh ’are the ones
who are asked, or forced, to he the
first to take in still another notch.
Thus it is that Social Security and
medicare and medicaid recipients,
students, and others living on slim
WASHINGTON
rietary” schools increased a whop
ping 700 per cent in this same
period. This latter category includes
trade schools, secretarial schools,
management training schools, and a
host of other generally small institu
tions.
Could it be that many of these
schools are fly-by-night operations,
the kind which often are advertised
on matchbook covers, the same slick
operations which bilked so many
veterans in an attempt to siphon off
G. I. benefits? Could the high de
fault rate be because these schools
often ask students to sign a full con
tract before the recipient has a
chance to spend a semester deter
mining whether the institution is
able to further his or her career?
This is one of the points raised to
me recently by Robert M. Pickett,
legislative director of the National
Student Lobby. But Pickett goes
further. “Because it is generally the
poorer students who default, it is
generally the larger loans which the
government gets stuck with, Pick
ett says. “I don’t believe that any
student, however poor, should be
put in the position of hocking him
self up to his neck to meet educa
tional expenses. Before a student
should be allowed to borrow more
than $1000 a year, we should be
certain that all other sources —
part-time work opportunities and
the like — are exhausted.
Pickett also feels that not enough
information is provided to students
about their obligations and rights
under loan agreements. “Most of
these people are borrowing for the
first time, and the kind of informa
tion they get, both about their new
financial obligations and the kind of
education they can expect to get for
that money, is often dreadfully poor
— particularly at trade schools and
the like.”
The outcome of the legislative
battle that is sure to ensue over the
future of the guaranteed student
loan program will hinge on how ef
fectively these arguments are made,
for the program though successful is
by no means a sacred cow immune
to congressional slaughter. If it dies,
as that expensive study made clear,
there are quite literally hundreds of
thousands of young Americans who
will never have the chance to get
beyond high school in pursuit of
formal education.
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fixed incomes are the first to he
asked to sacrifice still more.
And that brings us back to the
recipients of guaranteed student
loans. The four volume study
(which, incidentally, cost the Office
of Education $180,000) found what
most educators already knew: that
the recipients of these loans tend to
be students from families in middle
and lower income brackets, and are
people who for the most part would
not receive formal education
beyonct high school were it not for
this program.
The study also shows that defaul
ters tend to be lower income per
sons, are more likely to be black
than white, and attended poorer,
less prestigious schools. Many at
tended trade schools.
Richard L. Tombaugh, executive
secretary of the National Associa
tion of Student Financial Aid Ad
ministrators fears that “some banks
will be more carefid now in making
loans to the kinds of students who
could default. Federal officials are
already suggesting higher loan
standards, and similar “solutions”
will come from state officials you
may be sure.
The result: those who need help
the most could become those to
whom help is denied.
A careful reading of the $180,000
study, however, suggests a different
course. The study shows that de
faults for students attending public
and private schools decreased about
threefold between 1968 and 1972,
while claims from so-called “prop-
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