Weather i Continued partly cloudy and mild. NE winds 10-14 mph. High Friday 69; low 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. ^