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By DON MIDDLETON
Staff Writer
Last Wednesday night the Stu
dent Senate approved a resolution
sponsoring research into the feasi
bility of a food co-op at A&M.
The bill, introduced by Law-
Puryear senator Raj Kent, provides
for a market survey and location of a
site and wholesale sources of food,
the results of which will be pre
sented to the Senate for further ac
tion.
If the Senate finds the venture
favorable, it will provide the initial
capital for implementation of the
plan, presumably from refrigerator
rental profits, Kent said.
Kent cited a similar plan which
the University of Houston under
took last December. Membership
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dren have the habit of thinking;
one of the aims of education
is to cure them of this habit.”
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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, April 9, 1975
in their co-op grew to 1,500 mem
bers by February. Originally a stu
dent government project, the
Houston co-op is now student
owned and operated off-campus,
going by the name Houston Food
Co-op and General Store.
Although details of an A&M co-op
have yet to be worked out, the basic
plan consists of membership open to
students and faculty for approxi
mately $2 per semester. The mark
up for working members, those who
contribute about two hours a week
to the co-op, would be 10 percent,
with a slightly higher mark-up for
non-working members. The Hous
ton co-op estimates a 25-30 percent
savings on the average food bill
using this system.
The co-op would stock only basic
food items at first, expanding its in
ventory as membership and interest
grows, Kent says.
Kent estimated the initial in
vestment at $2,500. This includes
rent, shelves and cold storage
facilities.
Following the example of the
Houston plan approximately 2 , /2
percent of the first six month’s pro
fits would be devoted to rent and
utilities. After that, about $300 per
month would be spent on operating
costs.
Other profits would be rebated to
the co-op member, either on the
basis of percentages of sales slips or
by even division of surplus, said
Kent.
Kent stressed that Student Gov
ernment would retain control of the
co-op only as long as was necessary.
After the members demonstrated
the desire and ability, they would
take over full control of the facilities
and services.
He also added that SG had been
in touch with a similar co-op at the
University of Texas, and that they
seemed willing to help in several
ways, including sharing sources of
wholesale food.
Run-off next week
for Walker, Dunn
By JLM CRAWLEY
Staff Writer
A run-off between Jeff Dunn,
junior, and Tom Walker, senior,
will be held next Tuesday April 15 as
a result of Tuesday s Student Gov
ernment (SG) elections.
Dunn got 1,934 votes, Walker
1,607 and Doc Shroff received 715
votes.
Due to a preliminary failure in
the computer a small number of
cards were “chewed up” and not
See list of candidate votes, p. 5
counted. Sam Walser, SG Judicial
Board chairman, said that the cards
were randomly mixed and everyone
was equally hurt.
“1 was disappointed with the
turnout, 1 think it shows that there
Anyone wishing to contribute
to the Vietnamese Refugee Re
lief Fund may do so by sending
contributions to:
The Vietnamese Refugee
Relief Fund
c/o The Battalion
Room 216 Reed McDonald
Building
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843
The money will be given to
the Red Cross to aid in the pur
chase of food as well as the relo
cation of Vietnamese refugees.
is a need for an improvement in
Student Government,” said presi
dential hopeful Dunn.
Another run-off will be held in
the vice president of rules and regu
lations race. The run-off will be be
tween Mary Ellen Martin, sopho
more, and Duane Thompson,
sophomore.
Thompson received 1,984 votes,
Martin 1,290 and Karla Mouritsen
got 1,005 votes.
“I have a slight lead, but it could
go either way,” said Thompson.
I “Tm really glad so many people
turned out to vote in the election,”
said Martin.
The only other contested Execu
tive Committee race resulted in the
election of Bill Flores, junior, over
graduate student Joe Marcello as
vice president of finance. Flores re
ceived 2,298 votes compared to
Marcello’s 1,804.
Running unopposed were Raj
Kent, for vice president of academic
affairs; Jerri Ward, vice president of
external affairs and Troie Pruett,
vice president of student services.
The senior Yell Leaders for next
year are Chuck Hinton, Steve
Bohlmann and Jim Bob Mickler, ac
cording to the vote totals in the
eight man race.
Joe D. Mickler and Rob Tucker
were elected as junior Yell Leaders
in the campus-wide election.
The Residence Hall Association
(RHA) elections resulted in the
placement of three new officers in
the organization. George Lippe was
elected president over Larry
Walker. The vice president position
was won by Kim Schaefer. Her op
ponent was Nolen Mears. Patti Laf-
ferty ran unopposed for RHA sec
retary.
Senior class president for the
1976 class is Phillip Bohlmann.
Bohlmann ran unopposed. Also
running unopposed, for class vice
president was Charlie Snyder. Mike
Havel defeated Diane Watkins for
the position of class treasurer.
Run-offs for senior class social
secretary will be held next week be
tween Melanie Taylor and Jenni
Guido. A run-off between Hank
Maddux and Cindy Wallace for his
torian will be at the same time.
Four run-offs highlight the junior
class races. Candidates Kelly De-
Witt and Terry Schul were thrown
into another confrontation for pres
ident.
Susan Fontaine will oppose
Gerard Pelletier for the position of
class vice president in next week’s
MSC PR director
named Batt editor
replay.
The treasurer election run-offs
will include Charlie Briggs and
Mike Cox. The social secretary re
match will place Leslie Clarke and
John Riddles in competition next
week.
Three of the four sophomore class
elections will be carried over into
run-offs next Tuesday.
Two Corps of Cadet members
will battle over the presidency of
the class. The candidates are Ken
Donnelly and Mark Sicilio. Sicilio is
the current freshman class presi
dent. Donnelly is head of the Fish
Drill Team.
Cyndi Davis and Marty Hutchi
son were placed in a run-off for the
position of class vice president. The
treasurer race will be continued
when Joan Marshall opposes Russell
Stanfield. Troby Hoffacker ran un
opposed for social secretary.
Today.
Final installment of
the board payment for
this semester is due to
morrow.
A charge of $1 will be
assessed for each day
that it is late. Payment
may be made in the
Coke Building or at the
annex in the University
Center.
Inside
Alcoholism p. 4
Rock Notes p. 4
Chamber of Commerce p. 7
Weather
Continued partly cloudy and
mild today and tomorrow.
High Wednesday 76; low to
night 55; high Thursday 79.
Portable poll booths aid voters
Photo by Jack Holm
Aggie students showed for a below-average
turnout in the student government and yell
leader elections Tuesday. The voters pic
tured here cast their votes
ballots.
on punch-card
County court-at-law bill
awaits governor’s action
A bill establishing a county
court-at-law for Brazos County pas
sed the Texas House of Representa
tives Tuesday ancf now awaits the
governor’s signature before becom
ing law.
The new court will take over the
civil and criminal jurisdiction of the
current County Court, headed by
County Judge Bill Vance. The
county judge will lose authority
over the county’s civil and criminal
court proceedings but will remain
the head county administrator,
presiding over the Commissioners
Court.
State Senator Bill Moore of
Bryan, who sponsored the bill in the
Senate, and State Rep. Bill Presnal,
House sponsor of the bill, have both
said growth in the county has
created a demand for the new court.
James Breedlove, senior jour
nalism major and past MSC public
relations director, was appointed
editor of The Battalion and Gary
Baldasari, senior E.D. major, was
appointed Aggieland editor for next
year, in a Publications Board meet
ing, Tuesday. The appointments are
subject to approval by President
Jack Williams.
Applying for the Batt editor post
was Breedlove, current Managing
Editor LaTonya Perrin, current As
sistant Editor Will Anderson and
Sherri La Buda.
The vote was three each for Per
rin and Breedlove. Dr. Gary Hal
ter, Roger Miller, and Dr. John
Hanna voted for Breedlove. John
Nash, Don Hegi and Dr. Clinton
Phillips voted for Perrin. The
seventh member of the Board,
Steve Eberhard, abstained. The tie
breaking vote was cast in
Breedlove’s favor by Board Chair
man Bob Rogers of the journalism
department.
James Breedlove
Gary Baldasari
Breedlove was PR chairman for
the MSC from September 1974
until last Friday. He was out of town
Tuesday night and thus unavailable
for comments on his plans for run
ning The Battalion.
Baldasari received six votes for
Aggieland editor. The only dissent
ing vote was cast by John Nash who
voted in favor of Billy Slingerland.
Baldasari says he would like to see
the students represented in a more
“mature” fashion.
Baldasari also plans to have six
photographers instead of the 20 the
Aggieland has this year. The staff
will be expected to be more in
volved with the yearbook, he says.
Houston news comes to TAMU
Photo by Alan Killingsworth
In an interview with Nguyen-Q-Chau and Nguyen-
Dziem (R), from South Viet Nam, Teel Saloun of
Eye Witness News in Houston asks the distressed
students questions for a follow-up story.
Judge Vance, the county commis
sioner, and County Attorney Ro
land Searcy have said the civil and
criminal caseload in the county is
not great enough to warrant the ex
pense of creating a county court-at-
law.
The commissioners estimated the
cost of the new court to be $75,000
in the first year and $60,000 in sub
sequent years.
The bill will become law unless
vetoed by Gov. Dolph Briscoe
within 10 days.
School
officers
elected
Nancy Donaldson was elected as
the first woman president of the
A&M Consolidated School Board
Monday night.
Other officers elected in the spe
cial meeting were Dr. O. C. Cooper
as vice president, Lambert Wilkes
as secretary and Frances Baumbach
as assistant secretary.
Joe Natowitz and Bruce Robeck,
vvho were elected to the board in
Saturday’s election, were adminis
tered their oaths of office.
Supt. Fred Hopson told the
Board the district’s budget for next
year must be adopted and the tax
rate set by Aug. 20. Before the
budget can be adopted, state law
requires at least one public hearing
to be held. The board agreed one
public hearing would be sufficient
to get the community’s opinions.
Each member of the board also
agreed to attend a workshop on the
A&M campus designed for school
board members. The workshop
starts April 28.
According to the board’s regula
tions, the president presides at all
board meetings, enforces board
rules, signs all contracts authorized
by the board and countersigns all
warrants drawn on the school fund
and authorized by the board.