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Vol. 68 No. 67
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, February 4, 1975
Streets get
top priority
By STEVE GRAY
Staff Writer
Pavement of six streets in College
Station was given top priority over
five other categories of community
improvements Monday night at a
public hearing of the Planning and
Zoning Commission.
Meeting with the Commission
was the Citizens Advisory Group,
made up of residents from four
neighborhoods designated as low-
income areas. The group was
formed to advise the commission on
community improvement needs in
accordance with the Community
Development Block Grant Prog
ram.
The five other categories were
drainage, street lighting, water
pressure, clearance and removal of
dilapidated buildings and clearance
of vacant lots.
Tlie six general priorities were
discussed at meeting between indi
vidual neighborhoods and city rep
resentatives held during the last two
weeks. City Planner Bill Koehler
had designated four neighborhood
areas in the city as those to benefit
from funding under the grant.
The grant program is part of the
Housing and Community De
velopment Act of 1974 which com
bines all of the existing community
development programs of the De
partment of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD).
College Station has been given
$/1,000 for 1975 under the pro
gram.
The group recommended that the
following streets, in priority order
be paved: Sterling, Park Place,
Churchill, Southland, Avenue B
and Detroit.
Al Mayo, a city planner and or
ganizer of previous neighborhood
meetings, said the last five im
provement items could be paid for
with city funds. He said he will pre
sent the group’s recommendations
to the College Station City Council
Feb. 24 for consideration.
T will weigh the advisory group’s
recommendations very heavily,”
Mayo said, “since I will be making
the official presentation to the city
council, but it will be the city coun
cil who ultimately decides whether
or not these streets will be paved
with city funds,” he said.
About 75 persons attended the
public hearing at A&M Consoli
dated High School Auditorium dur
ing the rainy weather. Mayo said he
had expected about 200 to attend.
Vernon Thompson, of 612 Pierce,
said the six improvement categories
weren’t enough.
“Why don’t we expand the six
categories to include improvements
that the people can really see?”
Thompson asked the commission.
Thompson said he was afraid the
(See STREET, p. 4)
Rules
Lee Groce addresses meeting of four College Station neighborhoods.
Photo by Kevin Fotomy
Voters sent questions
Congressman Olin E. Teague of
College Station sent a four-page
questionnaire to every mailing ad
dress in the 6th District last week in
an effort to obtain a consensus of
views on several national issues.
Residents who do not receive a
questionnaire by the end of Feb
ruary, can obtain one by writing to
Cong. Olin Teague, 2311 Rayburn
Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20515.
“Just as soon as possible, I will
make the results of the question
naire available to the media,
Teague said.
MSC takes control
of Town Hall ‘deals 9
By JUDY BAGGETT
Staff Writer
The MSC Council will have the
final decision in future cooperative
programming ventures between
Town Hall and other student
groups. A resolution leaving the
final decision to the Council was ap
proved at the M SC Council meeting
last night.
The resolution was four-part.
1. All events not previously in
cluded in the Town Hall schedule
for the fiscal year have to be pre
sented to the Council for approval.
The schedule does not include
Town Hall series, TAMU special at
tractions, young artist series, Rotary
series and Opas.
2. The Town Hall Chairman and
the organization requesting the
program have to be at the council
meeting to discuss the issue.
3. The final decision is left to the
council. No alternative plans be
tween Town Hall and other organi
zations will be acknowledged.
4. Concert programming of any
sort should be delegated to Town
Hall.
The resolution stemmed from a
mix-up between student govern
ment, Town Hall and the MSC in
programming a Michael Murphy
concert.
Also at the meeting, SCONA
supplementary budget request to
increase amount of donations by
$2,000 was approved. Unexpected
expenses made the request neces
sary, said John Nash, SCONA
Chairman. Even with the $2,000 in
crease, there will be a deficit of
$460.
‘We expect to have no trouble
raising the money,” Nash said.
Later in the meeting, Ben Klein
was appointed Chairman of the
First woman ever
Logan new MSC head
Photo, by Glen Johnson
Fire breaks in Duncan
A two-alarm fire at Duncan Dining Hall Fri- started in the basement and produced large
day forced a shutdown of the facilities that amounts of smoke. The cause of the fire is
Iced the Corps until Saturday. The blaze not yet known.
Jane Logan, floriculture senior,
was chosen MSC president Monday
night by the MSC Council during
executive session. She will take of
fice April 4.
The period from now until April 4
will be a transition period.
“I will almost apprentice into the
job,” Logan said.
Logan plans to change the image
of the MSC from one of an exclusive
organization to one for all students.
Logan also wants to get more
people involved. She plans to do
this through working closer with the
Residence Hall Association and
Student Government.
“We need programming to cover
everyone’s needs,” she said.
“I want to talk to anyone in
terested in listening,” Logan said,
emphasizing reaching off-campus
students.
Logan plans to consolidate some
of the committees in the recreation
area, but leave the council structure
basically the same.
There is a need for more spot
programming, Logan said. She gave
the example of the “eat the hell out
of Rice Krispies” Contest. She also
said the directorate committees
need to pull together more as a
group.
When the decision was an
nounced, applause broke loose in
the conference room.
Bob D. Bell, former student rep
resentative, reminisced about the
change from an MSC president
from the corps to one who was
civilian.
“Look what has happened in the
last 10 years,” he said.
camera committee, replacing Joe
Lamm, who resigned to do student
cooperative work.
The MSC executive committee
usually doubles as the Awards
Selection Committee. However,
the number of people on the execu
tive committee has been reduced.
To fill the void, three appointments
were made. Kyle Klemcke, Mary
Ellen Martin and Don Henson were
added to the committee.
Bill Davis, MSC President, had
appointed Bill Flores to the com
mittee until it was pointed out to
him that Flores was already on the
executive committee. “I’ll take two
votes, ” Flores joked. Don Henson
was chosen, then.
Other appointments were ap
proved in the meeting.
Don Powell, Phil Schraub, Tony
Bonnett and Mary Ellen Martin
were appointed to the building
studies committee.
Calvin S. Walser, council consul
tant, was named to the nominating
committee.
Jane Logan
Battalion
desires
take-over
The Battalion editorial
board will accept interim
editor applications for the
editions of March 6 and 7.
The regular staff is attending
a Southwest Journalism
Congress convention,
March 6-8 and, therefore,
needs a caretaker staff for
that period. Deadline for
applications is 5 p.m., Feb
ruary 14.
Because the purpose of
this experiment is to initiate
those unfamiliar with news
paper production, applicants
need not have previous
journalistic experience. The
editorial board woidd prefer
members of other campus
organizations which deal
with The Battalion on a day-
to-day basis — namely the
MSC, RHA, Corps, and
Student Government.
Interim editor will be an
nounced Feb. 17 and will be
expected to present a com
plete list of his staff by Feb.
20. New staff training begins
with the Feb. 21 edition.
All interim staff members
are required to attend two
days of workshops with regu
lar editors of The Battalion
Feb. 22 and 23. The interim
staff will then work with the
regular staff until convention
time.
Students question
Traffic panel answers
By ALAN KILLINGSWORTH
Staff Writer
Traffic is a major concern of the
Relents and staff at TAMU. The
.owing L a summary of the most
widely asked questions about cam-
P Us traffic policies. These answers
w er e formulated by the University
Traffic Panel.
The T raffic Panel is a recom-
■riending committee. It does not
lave the power to change the pres-
en t regulation but only to make re-
c °mmendations to do so. Their re
sponsibilities cover pedestrians as
Wel1 as vehicle traffic.
All the members of the Traffic
anel are appointed by the presi-
j; n t. The Traffic Panel is made up
0 5 people, seven faculty and eight
students.
The Traffic Appeals Panel hears
appeals of individuals who have
oen given tickets by the University
0 'ce. The decisions of the panel
are final. It is composed of 10 peo-
Tl? ^ even °f whom are students.
e faculty members of the Traffic
.J’Pfahs Panel are selected by Dr.
0 dus on the recommendations of
deans. The student members are
selected by the Student Govern
ment.
A vehicle registration fee was in
stituted because the state does not
allocate funds for parking facilities.
The fee is a charge for the services
rendered by the University.
The last fee increase was submit
ted to the Academic Council but the
meeting in which it was to be dis
cussed was cancelled. Since action
on the measure had to be approved
by the Board of Directors, the bill
was passed on to them for consid
eration.
The 100 per cent increase was
due to the rapid growth of the stu
dent body and the escalating costs of
construction. The cost of each park
ing space is estimated at $500.
If the State won’t pay for the park
ing facilities then why not borrow
the money? If the money was bor
rowed the principal plus the in
terest would be higher than the
expected soon since it isn’t likely
that the amount of parking spaces
ay as you go plan.
No reduction in the fee should be
will catch up with the number
needed by 1980.
In order to drive a second car on
campus a duplicate sticker is
needed. The cost of this sticker is !4
which goes for administrative and
material costs.
Vehicles must be registered to
provide a record of vehicles on cam
pus, to estimate parking demand, to
assign parking areas and for security
reasons.
On cars with duplicate stickers,
there is also a window display card
given to insure that the owner has
only one car on campus each day. It
is estimated that 200 to 300 parking
spaces are being utilized each day
be students with duplicate stickers.
The enforcement cost of duplicate
stickers is very high and the display
card is an attempt to lower these
costs.
Car pools have also been insti
tuted on the campus and it is esti
mated that there are 500 more
spaces on campus due to car pool
ing.
(See TRAFFIC, p. 3)
The old heave-ho
Photo by Steve Krauss
Mud is no object to a struggling team. Here Wal- Saturday. As the object of the game is not to cross
ton Hall tugs for victory in the RHA tug-of-war the ditch, Walton obviously lost... to Moses Hall.