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Cbe Battalion
Special
B ack-to-S chool
Edition
46 Pages in 4 Sections
Vol. 68 No. 133
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, August 27, 1975
Football tickets
Directors become ‘regents’
Designation for the Texas A&M University System gov-
eniing board will be regents rather than directors, effective Sep
tember 1.
Robert G. Cherry, assistant to TAMU President Jack K.
Williams and secretary for the board noted the “board of re
gents” designation was changed during the past session of the
Legislature to become effective 90 days after passage of the bill.
Along with the designation of regents, the title for the
board s top official changes from president to chairman.
Cherry noted the regents designation was felt to be more
appropriate for the governing board of an institution of higher
education and is in keeping with the designation of similar
groups throughout the nation.
MSC Open House planned
The Memorial Student Center lifts the curtain on 1975-76
programs Saturday for new students at Texas A&M.
MSC Open House is planned for 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Satur
day, announced Jane Logan, 26th MSC Council and Direc
torate president.
Dr. Jack K. Williams, TAMU president, and several ad
ministrators and faculty members will greet freshmen and new
students in Room 230 of the MSC.
The reception follows tours of the MSC and Rudder
Tower, conducted at 5-minute intervals starting at 6:30.
From the reception, students will go into the MSC Ball
room to view displays of the 17 MSC committees, church or
ganizations and university-recognized groups such as the
Singing Cadets.
Other activities follow the open house. Students, who
start fall classes Monday, will be hosted by the MSC Council
for an 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. sidewalk dance in front of G. Rollie
White Coliseum. “Southbound” of Austin will furnish music.
A midnight movie, “M-fc A'frS'fcH, follows in the Rudder
Auditorium. Admission to the latter will be $1 per person.
Air Force cadets honored
Air Force ROTC cadets from Texas A&M University
earned top honors in summer field training.
The cadets are led by James Patterson of Austin and Rich
ard Ingenloff of San Antonio, who were also named the out
standing cadets at training camps at Eglin AFB, Fla.
A&M had 85 cadets at Eglin, accounting for 36 per cent of
attendance. They won 50 percent of the awards.
Three A&M cadets won Vice Commandant awards as the
best in their respective training flights.
The trio includes Floyd L. Carpenter of Spring; James S.
Logan, Fairfax, Va., and Brian W. Miller, San Antonio.
Second political guest named
Political Forum has announced a second major speaker for
the fall series at Texas A&M University.
Conservative Howard Phillips, who dismantled the Office
of Economic Opportunity, speaks here on his political persua
sion Oct. 29. In July, 1974, he helped form a group calling for
impeachment of President Nixon.
Political Forum Chairman John Oeffinger calls the Phillips
program the “flip side” of Frank Mankiewicz, Oct. 15 speaker
on “Liberalism in Politics.”
The Memorial Student Center committee also will bring
other leading figures to TAMU for presentations on “A Look at
the American Political Process.”
Phillips, a 1962 Harvard graduate, singlehandedly exposed
radical left-wing manipulation of the multi-million dollar Fed
eral Legal Services program.
At age 23, Phillips was America s youngest big city pol
itical leader. It came about through his unanimous election as
chairman of the Republican Party in Boston.
He helped found Young Americans for Freedom, and has
had a major hand in many other programs for youth in govern
ment.
First seminar announced
The first seminar of the new academic year opens Friday
with the presentation of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Col
loquium.
The presentation will be made by Dr. Takashige Sugimoto
and Professor Haruo Higuchi at 3:30 p.m. in the Oceanography-
Meteorology Building.
Tidal currents of a bay of the Seto Inland Sea in Japan were
simulated with a hydraulic model and the results of the study
comprise the presentation.
Dr. Sugimoto is a lecturer of Geophysical Institute, Tohoku
University, Sendai, Japan, and Prof. Higuchi is from the De
partment of Ocean Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuya
ma, Japan.
Lost-and-found moves
The lost-and-found department of the campus is moving
from its traditional home at the University Police headquarters
to the main desk of the Memorial Student Center, according to
Police Chief O. L. Luther.
The MSC main desk will handle small lost-and-found
items such as books, wallets and identification cards. The UP
will continue to handle large lost-and-found items like bicycles
and footlockers.
RA’s begin 3-day retreat
Residence hall advisors begin a three-day retreat Wed
nesday at Texas A&M University in preparation for the Sept.
1 start of the 1975-76 school year.
About 140 students will participate. They will work in all
campus residence halls except the Corps of Cadets housing,
Dorms 1 through 9 and 11.
The retreat amounts to “on the job” training, with a Wed
nesday evening barbecue at the Knights of Columbus Hall to
break the routine. Sessions on various aspects of hall operation
will be under Dr. Charles Powell, student affairs director, and
Ron Blatchley, associate director.
Topics to be covered include intramurals, discipline,
campus security, parking and alcohol-drugs. Assignments will
be made at the final session.
Rifle team tryouts open
Rifle team tryouts will be held in mid-September. It is
open to all undergraduate students at A&M.
Persons who wish to try out for the team must contact S.
Sgt. Best in the Indoor Rifle Range in the basement of the Annex
to the Military Science Department (the Trigon) no later than
Thursday, Sept. 11 at 5:00 p.m.
Distribution system altered
By KARLA MOURITSEN
Campus Editor
A misunderstanding early this
week between the Athletic De
partment and Student Government
resulted in the alteration of the dis
tribution system for football tickets.
In an effort to follow the
guidelines set by the Student Se
nate last March, the Athletic De
partment implemented a random
selection system for football tickets.
This system had the seniority sys
tem incorporated into it, allowing
for seniors to pick up their tickets on
Monday, juniors on Tuesday,
sophomores on Wednesday, and
freshmen on Thursday. Friday was
designated the day for all students
who did not buy the “season ticket”
coupon book to pick up their tickets,
and for “groups” to obtain their tic
kets.
Here was where the misun
derstanding occurred:
According to Jeff Dunn, Student
Government President, “groups”
should be able to pick up their tic
kets on the same day as the classifi
cation of the majority of the season
20,700
registered
Enrollment figures for the fall
semester stood at 20,700 students at
5:00 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.
Donald Carter, Associate Regis
trar, said that the registration total
“won’t be far off the prediction of
24,000 when registration closes.”
The final figures will not be avail
able until 12 class days have ended,
when registration officially ends. A
breakdown of the student popula
tion by sex and classification will not
be ready until that time.
coupon holders. For example, a
group composed of a majority of
senior season coupons would be
able to pick up its tickets on the
same day as individual seniors
would.
In a meeting Monday between
Dunn, Graduate Student Council
President Joe Marcello, and Athle
tic Business Manager Wally Groff, a
compromise was reached in which
Student Government took the re
sponsibility of registering groups for
football tickets, with the Athletic
Department to handle the actual
distribution.
The complete distribution pro
cess for football tickets for the fall of
1975 is as follows:
Students desiring to attend the
Aggies’ home football games need to
purchase a “season ticket” coupon
book from the Athletic Depart
ment. Most students will do this by
indicating when they register for
classes for the fall that they want the
season pass. The cost of the pass is
$10 in addition to the regular $19.80
Student Service Fee. The pass, or
coupon book, covers the five home
football games.
The pass may be picked up at G.
Rollie White Coliseum upon pre
sentation of the student’s fee slip
and activity card. Students who did
not choose the season pass option
when they registered for classes
may pay their $10.00 at the Col
iseum and obtain the coupon book.
The ‘ season tickets” will be availa
ble for students’ purchase in the
Coliseum daily from 8 to 5 until
Sept. 26.
In order to obtain the coupon
book, each student must show an
activity card and fee slip.
The season coupon book guaran
tees the holder one seat at an A&M
home football game. It does not
guarantee the availability of guest or
date tickets.
Students holding the season tic
ket passes will pick up their actual
tickets for the football games during
the week prior to the game itself.
The student will do this by present
ing his coupon book at one of the box
offices in G. Rollie White Coliseum
and exchanging one coupon for one
ticket.
(See FOOTBALL, page 3)
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By JERRY NEEDHAM
City Editor
County Commissioner Bill Cool
ey announced this morning that
“Brazos County is considering pur
chasing some property in College
Station on which to build a court
house annex.”
The announcement was made at a
press conference held at the Com
missioners Court in Bryan.
Cooley cited two reasons for the
proposed annex. He said a popula
tion shift in the county htfe been
to the south and the current court-
(See COUNTY, page 6)
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Registration blues
As usual, the lines were long at the registration center as students
struggled to get their paperwork into the maw of the univer
sity’s computers.
Water found potable
in new CS well
50,000 tickets and...
1,001 traffic rules
By KARLA MOURITSEN
Campus Editor
Some 50,000 parking tickets were
handed out last year and with the
increase in student population this
year, prospects for a similar increase
in tickets seems likely.
The typical impoverished A&M
students, in an attempt to save their
dollars for more productive pur
suits, might obtain a copy of the new
University Motor Vehicle Regula
tions and peruse them at great
length.
For those who would rather
spend their time throwing frisbees,
attending yell practices and chasing
members of the opposite sex, here is
a shortened version of “1,001 Traffic
Rules to Guide Your Life and Park
ing Habits.”
Students must register all vehi
cles operated on campus within 48
hours after arrival on the campus.
Even a student who lives off campus
and only drives through the campus
once each semester without stop
ping must have his vehicle regis
tered. There is no way out of this —
your car must be registered if you
intend to ever drive it on the cam
pus.
A current TAMU parking permit
must be firmly attached to the in
side of the rear glass on the driver’s
side, plainly visible from the outside
of the car. Otherwise, there will be a
small yellow ticket attached under
the front windshielf wiper blade on
the driver’s side plainly visible from
the outside of the car.
During normal business hours,
which are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, each vehicle with
an overlay number on the permit
must be parked in the area for which
that overlay applies. Most student
stickers do not have any numeral
overlay, but are simply coded by
color. Match the color of your per
mit with the sign in the parking lot,
and you’re probably in the right lot.
By the way, day students have
blue stickers, dorm students with 60
credit hours or more have red stic
kers, and dorm students with under
60 hours have green stickers. Yel
low stickers are for staff members.
Purple signs indicate where random
staff and visitors may park. If you
park in a lot with a yellow or purple
sign, you take you life in your hands.
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER park
in a space marked “Visitors.” Stu-
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North Gate party
set for Saturday
Final preparations hav£
been made for the North
Gate Back-To-School party
to be held this Saturday. The
festivities will begin at 8
p.m. following the MSC
Open House. Several blocks
in the North Gate area will
be roped off for dancing to
the music of the J. Gosney
Thornton Band. Stores will
be open until the party's
end. Outside booths for din
ing will be provided by the
Dixie Chicken, which will
also be serving "Sugar Bear"
Rankin's Collegiate
contest-winning chili at a
nominal cost.
Registration for free
prizes worth over $550 con
tinues this week until Fri
day. The prizes will be given
away by individual mer
chants between songs. Jim
Berry, president of the
North Gate Merchants As
sociation, emphasised that
anybody may register for
the free prizes and that you
do not have to be present to
collect your prize. Separate
entry boxes can be found in
each of the thirty-two par
ticipating merchants. In
cluded among the prizes to
be given away are record al
bums, hair-styles, color-
photo portraits, clothing
and jewelry.
dents may use spaces marked “30
minutes” or “One Hour” as long as
they do not exceed these limits.
There are numerous regulations
regarding not backing into parking
spaces, parallel parking no farther
than 18 inches from the curb, and
not parking “inside the dormitory
areas,” but those are quite involved
and fall under the “perusal” categ
ory.
Motorcycles can only be parked
in areas specifically designated for
their use. These areas are clearly
marked on the map provided by the
police.
If there is a golden rule of parking
at TAMU, it is to never park your
car in a numbered reserved parking
space. To do so will insure you of
two things: one, you will make an
enemy for life of the person who has
shelled out the $72 to purchase the
privilege of parking there, and two,
you will be forever blacklisted as a
Communist, Atheist, Hedonist, and
Vegetarian in the annals of K. K. his
tory. Also, your auto may be im
mobilized by a big clamp.
The student has hope of salvation
in two areas. One is that, should it
be necessary to park your car in an
unauthorized area in order to load
or unload a heavy object, you can
(See PARKING, page 7)
The search for an alternate water
source for College Station has been
successful.
City Manager North Bardell said
yesterday that analysis of samples
from the exploration water well has
revealed potable water in the
Queen City sand formation.
Bardell said the Queen City for
mation at that point is estimated to
have a capability of producing
390,000 to 610,000 gallons of water a
day.
This amount is expected to fulfill
Whalen Corp s contract require-^
ments with the city of 400,000 gal
lons a day.
The contract between the Wha
len Corp of Dallas and the city was
Expansion
proposed
Superintendent Fred Hopson
presented a $7.2 million com
prehensive five-year building prog
ram to the A&M Consolidated
School Board Monday night.
The plans, drawn up by architect
Dede Matthews and Associates, call
for additions to the administration
building and to the four existing
schools in the district and mention
the possibility of building a new
elementary school.
A booklet outlining the proposed
expansion stated, “In order to meet
the needs as scheduled . . . it is crit
ical that a bond election be called in
October 1975.”
A joint meeting of the Board’s
long-range planning committee and
the building committee has been
scheduled for Sept. 8 to delve
further into the matter.
signed July 2, 1975 and calls for
Whalen to deliver the water for a
period of ten years.
The Whalen contract marked the
first step in the development of the
city’s own water supply and occur
red during a time when the city was
experiencing difficulties with Bryan
in negotiating a fair price for water
and other utilities. The contract is in
line with the College Station Com
prehensive Development Guide
which calls for the initiation of
“specific steps toward the develop
ment of an independent water
source. ”
The contracted price of the water
is 30.5 cents per 1,000 gallons, with
the city paying the electrical and
pumping costs of 4.5 cents per 1,000
gallons.
The 35 cent total per 1,000 gal
lons is 3.5 cents less than the price
currently paid by the city to Bryan
for 1,000 gallons of water.
The data further reveal that the
water contains no sulfur and con
tains 1,600 parts of dissolved solids
per million parts of water.
According to Texas Health De
partment standards, the total dis
solved solids limit for potable water
is 2,000 parts per million.
Bardell said production of the
well should begin within 120 days.
The Queen City sand formation is
the middle one of three local sand
formations. Above it lies the Sparta
sand and below it, the Simsboro
sand.
Analysis of water from the
Simsboro sands reveals it is unsuit
able for drinking, said Bardell. It
contains 6,000 parts of dissolved sol
ids per million parts of water and has
a high salt content.
Samples from the Sparta forma-
(See WATER, page 7)
A&M coach injured
Texas A&M defensive line coach
Paul Register suffered a severe knee
PAUL REGISTER
Injured in pileup
injury Tuesday during the afternoon
half of the Aggies two-a-day football
workouts.
Register was injured when he
was caught in a pileup during one of
the defensive drills.
Early wire reports stated that a
decision would be made today on
whether or not to operate but late
last night Aggie trainer Billy Pickard
told the Battalion that an operation
would not be needed.
“It is really a freak accident, ” Pic
kard said. “One of the ligaments at
tached to his knee and lower leg
broke loose. The ligament itself
didn’t tear but just broke off, with a
little piece of bone, from the leg.”
“That was the first time I’ve ever
seen anything like it,” Pickard said.
“Dr. McQuaide (Team doctor) said
that he even hadn't seen but one or
two of them.”
“We are going to put a cast on it
today at noon and he will be in it
from four to six weeks, ” Pickard ad
ded. “We waited to put on the cast
because we needed to check the
swelling.”
While the injury is serious Pic
kard feels that it is better than if the
ligament had been torn. “I think the
recovery will take less time this
way. He’s lucky it didn’t tear.”
Register joined the A&M staff in
January of 1972 after a 16-year high
school coaching stint. He began his
coaching career as an assistant at
Galveston Ball in 1956. From
1957-64 he was an assistant at
Spring Branch. In 1965 he was
named head coach at Spring Branch
and had a 41-10-2 five year record.
Register posted a two year record
of 15-5 at Hurst Bell before joining
the A&M staff in 72 as head
freshman coach. In 1973 he moved
over to defensive line coach.