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Page 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1975 Noon Special 11-2 Chicken-Fried Steak 1803 Texas 822-2430 Zoning issue splits iRobison adviser 5 CS CityCouncilmen OPAS presents: Alicia de Larrocha Pianist March 28 8 p.m. Rudder Auditorium for tickets call MSC Box Office 845-2916 By STEVE GRAY Staff Writer Controversy erupted among Col lege Station City Councilmen Mon day night over the city’s zoning policies during their regular meet ing. The council split sides while con sidering requests for rezoning three tracts of land owned by E. Kelly Parker. The 69 acres of land is near the intersection of Southwest Park way and FM 2154. Parker asked the council to re zone the three tracts for apartment building purposes, general com mercial development and agricul tural purposes. The land was origi nally zoned for single-family resi dences. Each of the requests was granted by 4-3 margins. Mayor O. M. Holt cast the tie-breaking votes in favor of each request. Councilmen Larry Bravenec, Jim Gardner and Jim Dozier voted against the requests, claiming that Parker had not submitted any specific plans for developing the land. “I just don’t like rezoning re quests that don’t include concrete plans for development,” Bravenec said. “Developers should have something on paper that will show us what they are going to do.” Dozier agreed with Bravenec, saying the council was “just rezon ing property at the whim of the de veloper.” Councilmen Fred Brison, Homer Adams and Don Dale voted with TOWN HALL YOUNG ARTISTS SERIES presents The University of Texas Wind Ensemble lues., 1975 8:00 p.m. Rudder Theater TICKETS A&M Student with I. D. & Activity Card — A&M Student Date — General Public — Free $1.00 $2.50 ■ i'.if ■ TOWN HALL SEASON TICKETS HONORED “STEP INTO THE MSC CIRCLE” Se 1 Texas A&M University Town Hall presents The Texas A&M University Symphonic Band in an Open Air Concert Thurs., April 3, 1975 12:45 p.m. in the MSC Fountain Mall Area, Next to the Rudder Tower No Admission Charge “STEP INTO THE MSC CIRCLE" Holt for the rezoning ordinances. Dale said the city is facing a housing shortage unless more apartments are built. “I just think we should give de velopers a chance to invest in our community and provide enough places for people to live,” Dale said. He said apartment construction has declined locally in the past few years. But Dozier emphatically disag reed with Dale. “Are you saying that the drop in apartment construction is because we haven’t rezoned enough land?” he asked Dale. “No,” Dale replied, without elaborating. Paul Wahlberg, a representative for Parker, told the council rezoning one of the tracts for agricultural purposes would serve as a buffer zone between any apartments that might be built and single family re sidences. Wahlberg said he would probably later request the council to rezone that tract for apartment con struction. Holt, however, questioned the move to rezone the land to agricul tural open district. “Why rezone to agricultural open when you’re going to have to come back anyway to request zoning it for apartment purposes?” Holt asked Wahlberg. Wahlberg hesitated but told Holt that “the market will determine how the land will be used later.” “It appears that you saying the council would more easily consider rezoning from agricultural open dis trict to apartment construction pur poses rather than rezoning directly from single family residences to apartment building purposes, Holt said. “Let’s not hide the issue.” The council tabled a request from Bardin A. Nelson, 705 Dexter, to rezone two lots from duplex resi dential district to general commer cial district. The Planning and Zoning Com mission March 17 recommended that the request be denied because Bruce Fisher, pastor of the A&M Presbyterian Church, said the commercial use would increase traf fic in the area. The church operates a day school for small children. Fisher said at the P&Z meeting parking was already congested in the immediate area. The council said it would reconsider Nelson’s request at its next meeting. In other business the council ap pointed the 1975 Board of Equaliza tion. The three members are Ed Holdredge of 1118 Ashbum, H. E. Hampton of1004 Milner and Ernest Gregg of 706 Inlow. The board will hold its first meeting next Monday. The council voted to accept a de dication of land from Anthony J. Caporina, 751 Meadow Lane in Bryan, that will allow the city to connect two sections of Holik Drive east of Holleman Drive. The con nection involves .07 acres of land. Ken Robison has been named the new student legal adviser, replacing Bob Rutledge, who has become as sistant director of development. Robison graduated from Texas A&M in 1968 and attended South Texas College of Law in Houston. The 29-year-old native of Guy had previously worked at M. D. Anderson Hospital after graduating from A&M. He later entered milit ary service and was stationed at Fort Bliss and Fort Sam Houston as well as abroad. KEN ROBISON He and his wife Linda have two children, Tamara, 5, and Jarrett, 18 Request The council also set a policy con cerning street and sidewalk im provements by petition and assess ments. Streets will be paved if the city is petitioned by 51 per cent of the property owners on both sides of the streets. Property owners will be assessed $8 per linear foot for a 28-foot wide street, an increase of $4 under the old ordinance. Sidewalks will be constructed by the city after it is petitioned by at least 75 per cent of the property owners requesting construction. They will be assessed $2 per linear foot. (Continued from p. 1) ross the board on this basis is not tied to growth and is inadequate for a school that is growing rapidly, he said. Williams advocated a conting ency fund to be established and dis tributed as needed to expanding universities by an independent agency. He said the Coordinating Board, which handles small col leges’ allocations, is capable of the job without strengthening or dup licating agencies. TAMU is near its limit for indi vidual work, he said, because the faculty has increased 12 per cent while the individual work load has increased 30 per cent. After that limit is passed, the quality' of educa tion goes down, he said. The special items related to TAMU that the president men tioned included radiological safety. The university has two reactors, 126 radioactive laboratories and one of five cyclotrons operated by a U. S. university. The federal government sets the minimum safety require ments and TAMU is in a pinch since the work load cannot be reduced, he said. He also noted the importance of TAMU’s sea programs and said the university must match Federal funding. He explained the cooperative medicine program TAMU is trying to establish. It would produce an MD in six, not eight, years, and would be accomplished without building another free-standing medical school. Students would begin their medical studies at TAM U and finish at one of the med ical schools already established. There is need for the cooperative medicine program, he said, because the present medical schools are not producing doctors fast enough. Cooperative programs could be es tablished wherever there are qual ity hospitals and preclude the need for building additional medical schools. Williams said the program could pot harm anyone because if it should fail, students who were already en rolled in the program could get their degrees as planned. Behavioral training Ags chosen for leadership study Three A&M students have been selected to attend the 1975 South western Life Youth Leadership In stitute, scheduled March 21-23 in Dallas. Robert Paul Barbier, Gary Mon roe Brown, and Naomi Jane Logan . were nominated by school officials and will receive scholarships from Southwestern Life Insurance Com pany covering all expenses except transportation to and from Dallas. The students will study various aspects of human behavior to dis- Koldus to address buffet dinner meet cover the qualities of a successful leader. Industrial management and behavioral psychology' will provide a basis for the training. Barbier is vice president elect in charge of MSC programs, vice chairman of the Student Council on National Affairs, treasurer for the Opera and Performing Arts Society, and a pledge to Beta Alpha Psi na tional accounting honorary society. A Corps member, he is a junior ac counting student from Houston. Dr. John Koldus, vice president for student services, will speak tomorrow at a meeting of the Brazos County A&M Club. The buffet dinner meeting will be at Wyatt’s Cafeteria begin ning at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Koldus and his wife, members of the Brazos A&M Club, are in their second year at TAMU. Brown, also a junior accounting major, is vice president-elect of MSC finance and Student Confer ence on National Affairs vice president-elect for finance. He has also been Summer Directorate treasurer, a delegate and treasurer for two annual leadership confer ences, and a delegate to the Ameri can College Union. His member ships include Phi Eta Sigma, Beta Alpha Psi, and National Honor Society/Business and Management. He is from Plano, Texas. Logan is president-elect of the MSC, vice president of MSC prog rams and on the Ideas Committee of the College of Agriculture. She is a member of both Gamma Delta Sigma agriculture honorary society and Cap and Gown senior honor society. Majoring in floriculture, she is from Buchanan Dam, Texas. Ag new state RHA head ^upfnamba m Eddie Dominguez ’66 Joe Arciniega 74 Greg Price Nolen Mears, president of Puryear Hall, was elected Texas Re sident Hall Association (TRHA) president at the TRHA Convention March 13-16. Mears was last year’s treasurer. The TRHA convention next year will be held at A&M. A&M was the first school to make a bid for the convention. After A&M’s presenta tion on its facilities, Mears said the TRHA president “made a motion to give it to A&M.” The motion passed unanimously. As a result of the convention, Mears said next year’s RHA will be active all year round and not just during Casino. It will concentrate on getting policy changes for dorms like donn improvements and later visitation hours. Friday and Saturday of the con vention, workshops were held. “They (the workshops) were pretty good, but too short. In our 1 convention, they will be longer,” 1 Mears said. “More time is needed to One hundred and fifty people at tended from 14 schools. A&M had 22 delegates. IlM— (SMI Bail TODAY CEPHEID VARIABLESmeet in rm. L of the MSC Student Programs Office at 7:30 p.m. to finalize gieCon VI plans. GREAT ISSU ES will present Louis Rukeyser at 8 p in. in room 601 of’ the Rudder Tower. AggieCon VI plans. TROPICAL STUDIES PROGRAM presents Dr. T C. Cartwright speakingon Problems in the Sahel at 7:30 p.m. in Rudder Tower rm. 510. AGGIE BASS CLUB in Rudder Tower rm. 308 at 7:30 WEDNESDAY CONTINUING EDUCATION WORKSHOP will he presented at 3 p.m. in the Rudder Tower. WHEELMEN will start a short hike ride from the MSC fountain at 5:30 p.m. t It you want the real (thing, not frozen or p.m. AICLE at 7:30 p.m. in Zachry rm. 103 Mr. Muela of El Paso Natural Gas will speak on air pollution from coal gasification, AGGIE CINEMA meeting will he in the conference room of the MSC at 7 p.m. NURSING SOCIETY will meet in room 504 of the Rudder Tower at 7 p.m. Ann Hazen will speak on the Planned Parenthood program and the role ol the nurse practitioner. THURSDAY HORSEMAN’S ASSOCIATION meets at 7:30 p.m. in rm. 215 of the AI bldg. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING STUDENT WIVES CLUB meets in the Blue Flame Room of Lone Star Gas Co. at 201 E. 27th St. at 7:30 p.m. AGRICULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS CLUB at 7:15 p.m. in the lobby of Rudder Tower for Aggie- land picture. Dallas location: ’3071 Northwest Hwy. 352-8570 | canned ... We call It “Mexican Food I Supreme.” of TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Applications for membership and officer positions are available in the Student Programs Office, Room 216, MSC, and will be accepted until 5:00 PM Friday, April 4. After completing the forms please schedule an interview with the Student Programs Office secretaries. To answer questions, call either the Student Programs Office at 845-1515 or Cindy Murray at 846-5102. X O Claude kTpnTs • MIME THEATRE “BRAVOS AND LAUGHTER FILLED THE HOUSE ALL EVENING.” — New York Times OPAS SPECIAL ATTRACTION April 1, 1975, 8 p.m. Rudder Center Auditorium Tickets & Information, MSC Box Office 845-2916 Seminar by Claude Kipnis Sat., March 29, 8 p.m. Rudder Center Theatre Free Admission Sponsored by Town Hall — OPAS, TAMU \MU i leant Jtlie ses- I de file nnd ses- fer- ■ use ito. ins -