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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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