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Continued partly cloudy
and mild. NE winds 10-14
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tonight 45; high tomorrow
74.
Che Battalion
A question and answer broadcast
which will allow students to call in
questions to Jeff Dunn and Tom
yValker, run-off candidates for stu
dent body president, will be pre
sented by Student Radio, 107.5
FM, Sunday night. 693-2434.
Friday, April 11, 1975
College Station, Texas
Vol. 68 No. 103
Photo by Ken Stroebel
Tower falls to progress
As a result of a plan to modernize the A&M campus, destruction
of the old water tower began shortly after the completion of the
new tower.
Rates going up?
The “effects of inflation” have
prompted the General Telephone
Company of the Southwest to ask for
increased revenues, from College
Station and Bryan.
B. A. Erwin, division manager,
said Tuesday, the applications will
be presented to the College Station
City Council April 28 and to the
Bryan City Council April 23. The
councils must approve the requests
before the rates become effective.
“We would not be realistic,”
Erwin said, “if we did not request
increased rates when earnings go
below an acceptable level. The re
quested revenues would raise the
rate of return on invested capital on
telephone rates from 5.43 per cent
to 8.4 per cent.
College Station City Manager
North Bardell said he had not ex
pected the request for a rate in
crease. He said the increase would
probably be opposed by a majority
of the people of College Station.
The last increase in local tele
phone service rates was in June,
1973. Erwin said the company has
implemented all practical measures
to reduce operating costs and
streamline the operations.
“Telephone companies do not
have the freedom to raise prices as
costs rise but must first suffer a de
terioration in earnings before they
ask for rate increases,” Erwin said.
“Good earnings and good service
are inseparable,” Erwin said. “No
business can succeed in meeting the
expanding needs of its customers
without good earnings to finance its
ability to meet those expanded
needs. We re no exception.”
Fund drive short
of $30,000 target
For the second year in a row, the
local United Fund (UF) drive has
fallen short of its goal.
This year’s goal was $30,000, of
which 92 per cent or $27,600 was
raised.
Mike Calliham, acting president
of College Station UF drive, said
Wednesday there seems to be a lack
of interest and enthusiasm.
“The UF had more publicity than
ever before,” Calliham said. “We
even sent out pledge cards twice to
possible local beneficiaries.”
The donations to local charity
groups will receive 92 per cent of
their original requests. Those that
will receive funds are the American
Red Cross, $1,288; Salvation Army,
$920; College Station Recreation
Council, $5,520; Boys club, $828;
Bluebonnet Girl Scout Council,
$2,760; Brazos Valley Rehabilita
tion Center, $3,220; Central Brazos
Valley Mental Health Center, $920;
Brazos County Community Coun
cil, $828; Junior Museum of Natural
History, $1,380; Brushy Day Care
Center, $552; Community House,
Inc. $5,520; Boy Scouts of America,
$2,392; and Retired Senior Volun
teer Program, $1,472.
The Bryan UF has already ex
ceeded their goal of $131,690. As of
April 9, the Bryan UF has raised
$133,782.
5 attend D. C. conference
Three Student Government rep
resentatives and two Battalion staf
fers will be in Washington, D.C.
attending the National Student
Lobby’s (NSL) annual conference
which begins today and continues
through Tuesday.
As a part of conference activities,
the three from Student Govern
ment will be lobbying for NSL is
sues by meeting with Texas Con
gressmen and Senators.
The Lobby will be pressuring
Congress to allocate full funding of
student financial aid programs. The
Lobby will also seek changes in aid
programs, such as the Basic Educa
tional Opportunity Grant, to make
those programs available to more
studefnts.
Contending that academic collec
tive bargaining means higher costs
and less services for students, NSL
will be pushing for official student
input into faculty-administration
negotiations.
Other issues to be pressed by
NSL this year include reinstating
discount air fares for students, sup
porting the Equal Rights Amend
ment, the elimination of work per
mits for foreign students, discon
tinuing the sub-minimum wage for
students doing parttime work and
instituting a post card voter registra
tion program.
The Lobby has taken a host of
stands regarding energy use in a
crisis. NSL wants colleges put in the
same energy allocation category as
businesses, gasoline prices control
led, and consideration of a gas allo
cation program for the disadvan
taged similar to the food stamp
program. Should campus budget
squeezes be forced by higher
energy costs, the Lobby would like
unemployment compensation given
to students who lose work-study
jobs.
Student Government external af
fairs chairman John Nash and his
newly-elected replacement for next
year, Jerri Ward, will attend the
conference with SC president Steve
Eberhard.
Battalion editor Greg Moses and
city editor Rod Speer will be at the
scene to report A&M’s role in lobby-
Photo by Tom Kayser
Bit by bit the tower is taken apart. The hole in the bottom allows workers to lower the sheet metal.
UT budget being shuffled
AUSTIN (AP) — The chairman of
the House Higher Education
Committee announced Thursday a
reshuffling in priorities for Univer
sity of Texas spending and im
mediately ran into opposition from
the chairman of the school’s board of
regents.
Rep. Fred Head, D-Athens, said
his committee reduced the budget
recommendations of the Legislative
Budget Board for higher education
by $64.7 million, then proposed re
storing $52.7 million for purposes
not recommended by the LBB.
Head’s figures would make $28.5
million available for general re
venue expenditures by requiring
the University of Texas and Texas
A&M to spend money from their
Available University Fund on
utilities for the next two years.
Texas’ $19 million share would
otherwise go into a land acquisition
reserve and A&M’s share would be
in a construction reserve account.
Allan Shivers, chairman of the
board of regents, said Head’s sug
gestion concerning the $19 million
“results from a gross misunders
tanding of a statistical tabulation in
the university’s request for legisla
tive appropriations.”
He added that if the recommen
dations are enacted, “the board of
regents will have only enough Av
ailable Fund money to service out
standing Prominent University
Fund bonds and will not have any
significant amount with which to
supplement general revenue tax
funds in the UT-Austin operating
budget.”
He said the recommendations
will have “disastrous effects on fa
culty salaries, graduate programs,
and research projects at UT-
Austin.”
ing activities, along with writing D.C. in the past year as a member of
other stories from the Capitol. NSL’s Board of Directors, will be
A&M’s Carol Moore, who has unable to make this trip due to time
made several trips to Washington, conflicts and lack of funds.
Senate, GSC
Elections set
Elections for senators and grad
uate student council will be held
April 15 from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Polling places will be the married
student housing office, the old Ex
change Store, Krueger-Dunn
Commons, the Corps Guard room,
Fowler lounge and the MSC. Paper
ballots will be used to cut lines and
time. Graduate students and
seniors will be able to vote.
In the College of Architecture
two senators at-large will hold of
fice. Candidates are Doug Gates,
Randy Hohlaus, Tom Kollaja, An
drew Need, Ken Bush, and Mark
Bouzard.
Three senators at-large will be
elected in the College of Business.
The candidates are Scott Gregson,
Brett Hamilton, Clare Kelly, John
Lynch, Hal Brunson, Larry Marble,
Jeff Herta, Donnie Payne, Ed
Bloom, J. Marcus Hill, Richard W.
Turrentine, David Binder, James
Mensay, Odis Styers, Jane Terrazas
and Vincent Wilteg.
In the College of Education, one
graduate senator, one senior
senator, one junior senator, and one
sophomore senator will be elected.
The candidate for graduate senator
is Sandy Hood. For senior senator
the candidate is Phil Newton. The
junior senator candidate is Hayne
Condrey. At press time no one had
applied for the sophomore senator
position.
In the College of Engineering,
two graduate senators will be
elected to office. Brent Cochran is
presently the only candidate.
Michael Bodman, James D. Zum-
walt, James R. Cleveland, John D.
Middleton, W. Laird Ellis Jr. and
Dennis A. Nesloney are candidates
for the two senior senator offices.
Two offices will be held by junior
senators. The candidates are Carol
Fox, Robert Harvey, Fred Dup-
riest. Bill Dean, Robert E. Spiller,
Gene Cammack, Henry S. Franke,
Stephen Norwood, Dale Embry,
Mark A. Edmund, Stephen H.
Jimmerson, Thomas Sanders, Bill
Whitehead, George Medley and
Matt Willis.
For the two sophomore senator
positions the candidates are Paula
Chapman, Pamela Erving, Steven
R. Cook, Tommy Yantis, Samuel R.
King, Jim Stafford, Robert Cook,
Kirby Bozeman, Steve Bender and
Steve Rose.
The College of Geosciences will
have one senator at-large. The can
didates are Glen Pankonien, Ber-
verly Bailey, Beverly Yendrey,
David Cook, Mike Bergsma and
David McCabe.
Three senators at-large will rep
resent the College of Veterinary
Medicine. Presently, the only can
didate is Quin Skains.
The College of Liberal Arts will
have four senators. James Powell is
the only candidate for the graduate
position. Dewey R. Bolton, Steve
Reis, Rick Freeman, Karen
Mayfield, and Gary Warrick are
candidates for the senior office.
Candidates for the junior office are
Melissa Miller and Clayton Young.
Stephanie Forrest and Joan Mar
shall are candidates for the sopho
more office.
The College of Sciences will have
six senators. Presently, there are no
candidates for the graduate senator
position. Diane Watkins is the only
candidate for the senior senator of
fice. Candidates for the junior
senator position are Jerry Krenek,
Tom O’Connor, Steve Burch and
See SENATE, p. 4
Photo by Kevin Fotorny
Worker severs main water passage from tower to ground.
Old buildings
may not be
remembered
V.
By DON MIDDLETON
Staff Writer
Traditions die hard at A&M. Cus
toms and attitudes live from year to
year, class to class, perpetuated by
some unseen force. Words, phrases
and songs sound the same today as
they did decades ago. Old sayings
never die — old buildings do.
In the past 99 years, buildings
have come and gone. Several are
commemorated by markers or pla
ques, but most are forgotten. Old
Main and Gathright Hall are well-
known to many, but who remem
bers Pfeuffer, Austin, Ross or
Mitchell Hall?
Pfeuffer Hall was the first build
ing used exclusively as a dormitory.
Built in 1887, it was razed in 1954.
Austin Hall, built a year later than
Pfeuffer, was also razed a year after
its counterpart. The only building to
be named to Lawrence Sullivan
Ross was built in 1891 and torn
down in 1955. The University
Health Center stands where Mitch
ell Hall stood from 1912 until 1972.
In 1899 the University built the
Assembly Hall. It was used at dif
ferent times throughout its life as a
chapel, mess hall, armory, meeting
hall and warehouse. In 1929 Hart
Hall replaced it.
1891 saw a brand new home built
for the President, Lawrence S.
Ross. The sprawling frame structure
burned in 1963. That same year the
Agriculture and Horticulture Build
ing, built in 1900, was razed.
Fifty years before a commercial
developer capitalized on the name,
the directors of the college dedi
cated the Aggieland Inn. The plush
hotel was built to accommodate vis
iting dignitaries and guests. Today,
automobiles and pedestrians criss
cross the asphalt parking lot adja
cent to Walton Hall where it served
patrons until it was condemned in
1955. The Aggieland Inn, Sr., came
down in 1966.
It is possible that the passing of
some of these giants of the past went
unnoticed. But is it possible that the
demise of Guion Hall failed to jog
the memory of every former student
since 1918?
“Guion Hall was a very wonderful
building for its day. It was a magnifi
cent edifice,” says General A. R.
Luedecke, executive vice president
for Physical Plants and Grounds.
Why then, was it destroyed?
“It wasn’t made to accommodate
modem technology such as sound
systems. The structure was such
that it could not adapt to change, ”
Luedecke said.
He explained that the decision to
tear down Guion Hall was made
after careful consideration of the
need for a suitable location for the
proposed Rudder Theater Center.
He argued that it was the only logi
cal site for the complex, with its pro
ximity to the existing Memorial
Student Center.
Emphatic that the decision was
not one of economics, Luedecke
added that “it cost more money to
take it down in 1971 than it did to
build it in 1918.”
Which one will be next to join his
comrades in some dusty volume in
the University archives? According
to Luedecke the Old State Chemist
Building, originally named the Ex
periment Station Building when it
was built in 1909, should be one of
the first to go. The 66 year old struc
ture is beginning to show the signs
of old age.
But then, so are Legett and
Milner Halls, both erected in 1911.
And so is Goodwin Hall, built 1908,
and Bizzell Hall, 1918. Perhaps no
building is safe.
Luedecke, himself a two-year re
sident of Foster Hall which was
razed in 1951, cited several projects
that will be initiated in the near fu
ture. They include a new architec
ture building, classroom and lab
building, addition to the present
library and conversion of one of the
old dormitories to a faculty office
building. Some buildings will be
lost.
N
The Victorian giants of the past
are slowly being overshadowed or
replaced by the concrete monoliths
of the future. Gone are the days of
columns and cornices, and of bal
conies and balustrades. Here in
stead are the days of glass and brick .
towers stretching skyward.
Stallion heads with wide eyes and
flaring nostrils, rams with lowered
horns, and the faces of winged Mer
cury or Miss Liberty give way to
bare walls and glass doors. Wide,
curving staircases with polished
brass bannisters bow to elevators
and doors marked “Stairs.”
And yet, prehistoric trilobites
still romp in bas-relief seas and gar
goyles still perch beneath the eaves
and leer at passersby. Maybe they
know something we don’t know.
- ★★★
The history of the A&M campus is
ronicled by Enrest Langford, ar
chivist, in his book Here We’ll
Build the Campus on deposit at the
University Archives.
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