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Cbe Battalion
Vol. 68 No. 87 College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 11, 1975
★★★★★
Late edition
Inside
Music review p. 3
Silver taps p. 4
Batt wins third p. 5
Confidence or no
Top A&M execs
may get review
By JERRY GEARY
Staff Writer
No more waiting in line for foot
ball tickets?
At Wednesday night’s Student
Senate meeting, another Aggie
tradition could end if the Senate ac
cepts the proposed revision of the
present method of obtaining gridi
ron tickets. The meeting is set for
7:30 p.m. in room 204 of the Har
rington Center.
Essentially, the new allocation of
tickets will be by a random drawing
with better seats available to the
more senior students.
Another interesting resolution
which may be presented before the
Senate is the concept of a confi
dence — no confidence vote
whereby the senate would establish
and support a system for periodi
cally evaluating and reporting the
actions of the TAMU Board of Di
rectors, president, vice president of
academic affairs, vice president of
business affairs and vice president of
student services.
This vote of confidence would in
volve the selection of a senate com
mittee that would decide those ad
ministrative actions that would be
reviewed semiannually by the Se
nate.
In other Student Senate business:
• Vice President of Finance Curt
Marsh will present the proposed
Student Service Fees budget for
1975-76.
• Distribution of revenues from
campus Vending Machines will be
discussed.
• Progress made on procuring
professor teaching assignments for
the fall semester will be reviewed.
• The feasibility of Academic
Program Evaluation funding will be
deliberated. The evaluation would
consist of a survey of former and
present students that would ap
praise their particular departments
ability to prepare students for their
field of study.
• Income tax deductions for par
ents and students who lend financial
support for college educations will
be assessed.
• Funds for a Recycling Center
at Hensel Park will also be re
viewed.
Senate group
to recommend
services fees
Photo by David McCarroll
Here’s looking at you
Walton Hall held their traditional Spring party
Friday night at Tabor Hall in Bryan. This shot of
Sam Morrison and Lynette Knippa shows
some of the fun and games at the party.
By ROXIE HEARN
Staff Writer
Final decisions will be made to
night by the Student Service Fee
Allocations Committee on budget
requests for next year.
Nine groups have made requests
and a tenth, the choral program,
will be heard tonight.
The committee, composed of 10
senators, will consider the requests
and make recommendations to the
Student Senate Wednesday night.
The Senate will vote on the re
quests the following Wednesday.
These recommendations will
then be submitted to the Academic
Council, which will present its deci
sions to the Board of Directors.
The University Health Center
submitted the largest request of
$654,948.
This amount does not come from
student service fees, but from a
separate Health Center fee. How
ever, it must still be reviewed by
the Allocations Committee.
From its budget, $528,258 will be
used for salaries and wages,
$235,831 for supplies, operating ex
penses and utilities, and $2,500 for
capital expense.
The Memorial Student Center
submitted the second highest re
quest of $333,976.
The $81,990 increase over last
year will finance additions to per
sonnel and salary increases, which
have been made mandatory by the
Texas Legislature.
Their programming budget in
cludes $45,000 for Town Hall (a
New ticket policy asked
No more campouts at G. Rollie?
CS residents scheduled
for utilities rate increase
By JERRY GEARY
Staff Writer
Those starry and frequent stormy
?hts spent wallowing in the trash
the entrance to G. Rollie White
)liseum waiting for football tickets
ay soon be ended by a novel
ethod of distributing football
icats.
At Wednesday night’s Student
nate meeting, a new allocation
chnique recommended by a se-
ite committee will be presented
Tore the senate on first reading.
ie senate will probably vote on
is measure at the following meet-
g-
The proposal is somewhat confus-
g and many points are not clear at
is time, but a basic outline of the
solution that will be presented to
ie senate follows.
• The primary objective of the
vision is the elimination of long
nes in front of G. Rollie White Col-
eum.
The seniority system will be
maintained. Graduates and seniors
may receive their tickets on Mon
day and Tuesday; juniors and
sophomores on Wednesday and
Thursday; and freshmen on Friday.
• Tickets will be drawn randomly
with better blocks of seats available
to the more senior students. The
size of the blocks will vary from
game to game based on projected
demand.
• Tickets in the upper deck,
lower deck or consideration section
(for those who want to sit) may be
requested. These tickets may be
distinguished within the drawing
containers by color coding.
• Once a classification of stu
dents (sophomores, juniors etc.) be
comes eligible to draw tickets, it
may continue drawing for the rest of
the week.
• Each student will be eligible to
draw a maximum of 6 tickets and
must have one activity card for each
guest ticket purchased.
• The individual who draws the
tickets must be identified by one of
the activity cards used for drawing
and must be of proper classification,
(i.e.; a sophomore drawing for tick
ets must have a soph, activity card)
• The accompanying activity
cards may be of any classification.
Tickets will be available in packets
up to six.
• The term “activity card” refers
to the combination of either the stu
dent activity card and the athletic
season pass or to the student activity
card and the student purchase
price.
•The athletic season pass is a re
commended (by Athletic Depart
ment) optional fee for students
wanting to purchase a season pass to
all football games.
• If this allocation method is ap
proved by the Senate, it will not
necessarily become operative. In
passing the measure the Senate
would only be making a recommen
dation to the Athletic Department,
which would make the final deci
sion.
College Station residents may
have to dig a little deeper into their
pockets next month when they pay
their utility bill.
The 12.34 percent rate increase
scheduled for April apparently will
have an additional interim rate in
crease tacked onto it. Bryan
Utilities, which supplies the Col
lege Station area, was told by Lone
Star Gas Co. that the company is
passing on the increase, ordered by
the Texas Railroad Commision, to
all power plant users.
Such an increase cannot be ap
proved until a hearing is held at a
Bryan City Council meeting. Lone
Star is now required to pay an in
terim rate increase to LaVaca
Gathering Co. for its purchases of
natural gas, according to a commis
sion ruling in September of 1973.
Bob Arnold, a Lone Star spokes
man, said the matter has been
under appeal with the commission
for more than a year. He said Lone
Star was unable to hold off action on
the increase any longer.
Should the Bryan City Council
approve the interim increase. Col
lege Station residents will have to
pay their share of the additional
$350,840 cost increase expected for
the rest of fiscal 1975. The total cost
is estimated at $1.15 million for the
entire year. That means the average
customer would pay an additional
$3.60, or about 16.8 percent more,
during February alone or about $25
annually.
Jack Ard, Bryan Utilities man
ager, said he estimated the increase
would be about 50 percent of the
present fuel adjustment figure paid
by Bryan Utilities.
The contract between Bryan
Utilities and Lone Star allows fuel
adjustment increases to be passed
on the the city, automatically. Ard
said monthly fuel adjustment
charges were to range between 18
cents to 27 cents but now with the
new increase they could be ex
pected to fall between 53 cents to as
high as 88 cents, an average of 50
percent increase during the year.
Lone Star, Ard said, is asking for
permission from the commission to
pass on 100 percent of the increase
to the consumer. The commission
granted the company permission to
pass on only a 65 percent rate in
crease.
$5,392 increase), $12,926 for Politi
cal Forum and $16,200 for Great
Issues.
The athletic department re
quested $219,000. It is also request
ing a student user fee of $3.50 per
home game.
The user fee, in the form of a sea
son ticket pass, would be purchased
when fall semester fees are paid.
The total athletic budget, includ
ing the $219,000 request and
$140,000 from user fees, plus foot
ball ticket sales, scholarship gifts
and media sources is $1,977,400.
Intramurals has requested
$172,282. Its budget breakdown in
cludes $57,850 for salaries, $73,972
for wages, $38,159 for other ex
penses and $3,200 for capital outlay.
The Battalion requested $96,120.
Along with its projected income of
$252,120, $80,120 will be used for
wages and $172,000 for mechanical,
advertising, editorial, circulation
and administrative costs.
The shuttle bus service requested
an allocation of $55,320. Their
budget makes provision for addi
tional riders, another bus, dispatch
radios and four on-campus shelters.
The student legal adviser re
quested $35,262.
Intercollegiate club sports re
quested $26,700.
Student Government requested
$21,420, a $3,820 increase.
Its budget includes $3,150 for
Academic Affairs, $3,850 for exter
nal affairs, $3,000 for the executive
branch, $10,000 for general ad
ministration and $1,020 for reserve.
No choke
The Rotary Community Series with Town
Hall and Tom Mallow presented Fiddler on
the Roof Monday night in the Rudder Audi
torium. The musical, starring Bob Carroll
is from the original New York production
based on Sholom Aleichem stories.
Aggies win SWC by beating Texas
By TONY GALLUCCI
Staff Basketball Writer
Hail, hail, the choke is dead.
Long live Aggie basketball!
Bury those jokes, those enigmas,
those curses and those premoni
tions, for in one fell swoop the Ag
gies did away with one of the oldest
of Aggie traditions. They proved
they could win the big one and beat
Texas to do it.
In two hours of televised basket
ball the Ags held off a determined
team of Longhorns to win 74-63 and
went to bed with the 1974-75
Southwest Conference basketball
title tucked safely away.
It was totally irrelevant that Ar
kansas and Texas Tech were to maul
their opponents later Saturday for
there was no way for them to catch
the sky high Aggies.
The win over the Horns gives the
Ags their first SWC title since 1969
with a 12-2 record. It was the first
time in A&M history for the Ags to
gain twenty wins and the win just
put them there at 20-6.
The Ags will now venture into
Lubbock, a successful town for the
Later this week, look
for a section on stu
dents’ rights and pri
vacy and a compilation
of the professor evalua
tions.
The evaluations were
taken by the academic
affairs committee of the
student government.
The privacy section
will deal with the new
law governing student
rights to keep their re
cords from others and to
gain access to them.
Ags this season, to play Cincinnati
who finished the regular season just
a step ahead of the Ags at 21-5.
In a season full of non-chokes the
Aggies finally made it pay off. The
cagers were hampered all year by
shouts of choke-choke from critics
after both the football and baseball
teams were downed by the Univer
sity of Texas in their respective last
games to end championship hopes.
But the roundballers came through
Saturday.
And head coach Shelby Metcalf
finally gave his tattered maroon suit
the washing it needed with a heal
thy trip to the showers followed by
Norman Reuther, Bob Gobin Char
lie Jenkins, David Heath, Stafford
Connor, Al Reyes and anybody else
who needed a shower. All the ex
penses for the honeymoon trip to G.
Rollie Falls were paid and arranged
for by the team following the net-
cutting ceremony.
It was then champagne and cake
for the victors.
It began as an Aggies show when
TVS shifted its wild card game from
previously announced Lubbock
where TCU and Tech were playing
to College Station so the public
could get another glimpse at the
league leaders.
And the Aggies did put on a show.
It certainly wasn’t a runaway but to
quote Metcalf, “This Texas team
wasn’t the same as the one that
played Tech on TV last week. ”
It brings up another old Metcalf
standard, “We don’t get any
gimme’s. Everybody is up when
they play A&M.”
The ’Homs jumped to the early
and only lead of the night on a short
jumpshot by Tyrone Johnson 40
seconds into the game. It wasn’t to
last long as Sonny Parker put in a
short jumper to tie it up 18 seconds
later. The Ags never lost their lead.
A&M jumped out to a ten point
lead at 14-4 on a John Thornton
baseline jumpshot five minutes into
the game.
But flPim there the Longhorns
fought back cutting the Aggie lead
to two twice.
A late first half surge put the Lon
ghorns temporarily on ice as Sonny
P hit three shots and Ray Roberts hit
three in the last six minutes to help
give A&M a 12 point lead at the half,
40-28.
The second half the Ags boosted
the lead to 15 on a 16-footer by
Barry Davis.
(See HOOP STERS,Pa ge 8)