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Page 8 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1975 INTRODUCTORY OFFER! April 21 - 25 ALL THE PIZZA, CAVATINI, SPAGHETTI, & SALAD YOU CAN EAT FOR Mon. - Fri. 11:00 - 2:00 Good both locations: 2610 S. Texas Bryan 822-5422 102 E. University College Station 846-2512 (P.S. We also accept their pizza coupons.) -Hut SG ‘gambling’ with user fee By MIKE BRUTON Sports Editor If you were playing seven-card stud and your opponent bets a mil lion dollars with three aces showing and you only have a pair of tens with one card left to be dealt, would you bet? Student Government would. And that’s exactly how they played their cards in handling the recent athletic user fee controversy. i.‘I*'• Sr' ^ LISTEN TO THE QUALITY SOUND OF CMW®®® $ l WITH SPECIALLY SELECTED SPEAKERS, TURNTABLES, & TAPE DECKS SOUND CENTER I 3806A OLD COLLEGE ROAD 846-3517 MON.-SAT. 1CLOO till 5:30 It takes a lot of nerve to bluff un der such circumstances, knowing that your opponent is clearly in the driver’s seat. The Texas A&M Ath letic Department is definitely in the driver’s seat and they aren’t obligat ed to agree to any proposal made by SG. They could pull out of student service fees altogether if they want ed to and charge everybody $7 per ticket without any options. The user fee proposal authored by former SG vice president of fi nance Curt Marsh asked for season passes for football games at a price of $10 with single foot ball tickets at $2.50. Wednes day morning the ( public was informed that the pack et would have season passes for $17.50 and $7 for students not tak ing the option. In response to price hike in the user fee proposal the student senate voted unanimously to boycott the Athletic Department’s decision. That’s like an angry bull running head on into a speeding locomotive. The Athletic Department stands only to gain. A boycott accomplishes nothing. Texas A&M has an excellent ath letic program going and they could easily sell the 10-12,000 tickets that the students would leave them for each game, and make more money. £LiJL/L5uJ EtLUZ HURRY! SALE ENDS TUESDAY, APRIL 29! HARNESS BOOTS, Limited Quantities Reg. $32.95 Dark Brown, Rugged Construction Sizes6 1 /2-13, _ _ . ^ _ B&D Widths $24.88 FAMOUS MAKER WESTERN SHIRTS, Select Grouping Reg. up to $16 Sizes 14-17 FAMOUS NAME BRAND JEANS, Select Grouping Reg. up to $15 Lee Button-Thru & Other Famous Brands Sizes 28-38 $5.88 When you think of jeans, think of . .. House Of JEHftS ; F"i AUSTIN: Highland Mall/Westgate Mall/Northcross Mall/Campus Store, 2100 Guadalupe/Downtown Store, 412 Congress. SAN ANTONIO: Southpark Mall/5115 Fredericksburg/4124 Blanco/834 S.W. Military/907 South W.W. White. CORPUS CHRIST): Padre Staples Mall. BRYAN: Manor East Mall. KILLEEN: Mid Town Mall. WACO: Westview Village. AND SOON, NEW STORES IN: Brownsville, San Antonio, New Braunfels, College Station, Alice and Corpus Christi. As a matter of fact, the old method of taking about $9 per semester from student services fees wasn’t that bad. A student had free admission toi football, basketball, baseball and track events for only $18 per year. And A&M’s Athletic Department was very good about alloting a rea sonable amount of tickets to stu dents last year considering the fact that they could sell them to a non student for $7. You won’t find ano ther university in the southwest that could equal their student tick et allocations for football games. SG is in no position to make de mands. And by doing so they pos sibly have made the ticket situation for students worse for next year. I would very much like to see lots of students at the games, because it’s all a part of university life. At present the user fee proposal has been halted and the boycott called off so that negotiation can continue between SG and the ath letic department with hopes of a compromise. All this could have been prevented had SG left well enough alone. An issue has been created where there was no issue. If we had stuck to the old system it would have cost only $8 more per year for free admission to all home athletic events. As it is thingscoui get much worse. If the AthleticDt partment chooses to exercise tk prerogative to pull out of stwk services it could be bad news Ion lot of students. I can see it now. Joe Colleji wants to take a date to the A&M-FI game. He’s having a hard timelM ing a ticket and he’s broke as usml He writes a $14 hot check andral es to the ticket office only to find! sold-out sign. He locates a neait; scalper and revises his hot chech read $30. Don’t laugh. Unless tin controversy is straightened ot! this could be you. Top meet of the year Tracksters to perform in tough Drake Relays By PAUL McGRATH Managing Editor “It’s a great track meet. The top track meet of the year, ” said Charles Thomas, Head Coach of the Texas A&M cindermen. He was referring to the Drake Re lays sponsored by that university in Des Moines, Iowa. “Every event is like a big tournament,’’ Thomas said. He compared it to the NIT basketball tournament for the type of competition present. Thomas said many schools just send one relay team or individual to compete. A&M will send a 14 man squad northward to compete in seven in dividual and four relay events. Gerald D’Ambrosio, Doug Brodhead, Robert Harris and Ray Brooks comprise the 440-yard quar tet. The 880-yard relay has D’Ambrosio, Brodhead, Brooks and Chuck Butler and the mile relay en ters Sam Dierschke, Butler, D’Ambrosio and Brodhead. Shifton Baker will run in both the 120- and 440-yard hurdles. Bill Newton will throw the javelin and Brad Blair competes in the pole vault. Lynn Byrd and Tommy Owens will leap in the high and long jumps respectively. Richard Adams will run the 26-mile Federation marathon. The rest of the Aggies will go to a pickup meet in Austin with several other Southwest Conference squads not going to Drake. The travel squad had some dif ficulties in obtaining transportation to the Relays. The original char tered plane was to have four teams For Battalion Classified Call 845-2226 but Braniff sued the company be cause of a regulations stating that only two teams may be carried on the same plane. Thomas was able to get another flight but had to cut his travel squad from 24 to 14. ★★★ TRACK CINDERS Recruiting is going pretty well for assistant coach Ted Nelson. He has signed another South African by the name of Tony Wheeler and a Virgi nian named Walter Jachimowicz (no kidding folks). Wheeler has run a 1.48.6 half mile and a 47.3 quarter. Jachimowicz is the state champion in the mile and half mile. The Ag gies have also got their eyes on Crt gory Clark (a 48.0 quarter miler),i sprinter named Randy Baker Ims Houston Westchester, Steve Sin from Corpus Christi who runsaSi century and a 21.3 in the 220ai>l Ronnie Keys a high jumper who bn cleared 6-10. Former Aggie squadder, now! Ranger Juco, Craig MacPhil, wail! to return to Aggieland. However his grades may pose a problem, ★★★ The coaches’ secretaries haveur amimously selected Coach Neb as having the sexiest hairofalloftk coaches. The Batt is now open toi response from his wife. NCAA considering football playoff KANSAS CITY (AP) — The Na tional Collegiate Athletic Associa tion launched its special meeting on economy Thursday and heard a re commendation for the establish ment of a national college football championship playoff tournament as a possible fund-raising tool. The suggestion was presented to the opening session of this emergency meeting by Carl Mad dox, athletic director of Louisiana State University and a member of the NCAA Steering Committee. Maddox had received the idea in a letter from Earle Edwards, a former football coach at Penn State, Michigan State and North Caroling State, and former president of the American Football Coaches Associ ation. In his letter, Edwards suggested that a national championship tour nament could raise up to some $15 million in gross revenue, providing payments of as much as $50,000 or more to each football-playing school in Division 1 of the NCAA. He suggested that eight teams be invited to participate with four quarter-final games to be played the first weekend in December, two semifinal games to be played bet ween Dec. 20 and Dec. 23 andi final game in January, not earliei than Jan. 8. Maddox said he thought theidei had merit. "It is the first timeasuf gestion has been made for a tom nament that would not interfere with bowl structures. The bowls,ol course, are very important to us But Darrell Royal, football coacl at the University of Texas and cur rently president of the American Football Coaches Association, did not consider the idea a work “For one thing, it would hitrigll in the middle of our exam schedule,” said Royal. “We musl recognize our obligation to the stu dent side of the student-athlete First and foremost we have an academic obligation to the student “A tournament would raise money and would generate a lotd excitement and he good for college football," Royal continued, “butre ally, how much football can you play? I think 11 games and them bowl stretches it pretty good right Cafeteria MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy Whipped Potatoes Your Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Com Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea New and Better Than Ever. 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