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Campus
A record 25,247 students enrolled at Texas A&M Unviersity this
fall, a 17.6-per cent increase over last year, Registrar Robert A. Lacey
announced Wednesday.
The 3,784-student increase is the largest in Texas A&M’s 99-year
history, Lacey noted.
Registration includes 7,182 women, for a 32-per cent increase
over last fall.
Graduate enrollment totals 4,457 up 398 from last year.
•
Phi Eta Sigma membership certificates can be picked up in room
237-D, Zachry Engineering Center on Monday and Wednesday from
9 a.m. to 11a.m. and on Tuesday and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 1p.m.
and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
For further information, contact Patrick Rreen, Phi Eta Sigma
president, at 845-3078.
Students interested in joining the Bonfire Safety Committee
should register today for the Free University course F'irst Aid. Regist
ration is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m.
To be considered for the committee all students must be certified
by the Red Cross as a qualified First Aider.
For further information contact Committee Chairman Dan
Logan at 845-5395.
Registration for fall Free University classes will he held tonight in
the first floor corridor of the MSC from 7 to 9.
The Sting will he shown in the Rudder Theater tonight and
Friday and Saturday nights at 8. Cost is $1 per student. Tickets can he
purchased before show time at the Box Office, ground floor Rudder
Tower.
City
The Texas Highway Department reports a low hid was
submitted for installing traffic signals at Jersey Street and Wellborn
Road in College Station. The low bid of $27,497 was submitted
Wednesday by Blackburn Electric Service of Fort Worth.
Texas
Domestic oil and gas operations continue at 12-year high for
the third consecutive week.
Director of U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday the
nation’s energy outlook for next several years is one of shortage and of
increasing dependency on foreign supplies.
University of Texas students demonstrated and boycotted
classes Wednesday in protest of the naming of Dr. Lorene Rogers as
UT-Austin president.
A former Duval County school official testified Wednesday
that he signed checks and gave money to Judge O. P. Carrillo.
•
Two Texas lawmen were captured and charged with bank
robbery in Caddo Mills after mayor shot out their car tires.
The Texas Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Re
lations said Wednesday that two-thirds of its members have voted by
secret ballot to support the new constitution on Nov. 4.
When court recessed Wednesday, 16 persons had been
qualified as prospective jurors in the Hunt brothers trial.
National
Former Central Intelligence Agency Director Richard
Helms acknowledged that he never issued a written order to imple
ment a presidential directive requiring the agency to destroy its
stockpiles of poisons. See inside. Page 5.
A House committee Wednesday recommended lifting the
arms embargo against Turkey; after President Ford warned again that
its continuation would result in a closure of U.S. bases in that country.
•
Politicians in both parties agree that the election of Democ
ratic Senator John Durkin in New Hampshire spells “trouble” for
Washington incumbents in the budding 1976 campaign.
World
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger confirmed Wednesday
that the U.S. may give Israel a missile system capable of delivering
nuclear strikes upon Cairo and the Aswan Dam. Meanwhile, the
administration and Congress reached an agreement over the sale of
defense missiles to Jordan. See inside, Page 3.
Hurricane Eloise killed at least 25 people in Puerto Rico,
then hit the north coast of the Dominican Republic.
An English judge ordered doctors not to sterilize an 11-year-
old girl described as mentally backward, declaring it would deprive
her of the basic right of woman to reproduce. See inside, Page 5.
Two Juarez policemen were gunned down Wednesday by a
terrorist group police identified as the “23rd of September organiza
tion.”
•
A Denmark court ruled that a policeman can see from the way
a girl walks whether she is soliciting as a prostitute. See inside, Page
4.
The weather for Thursday and Friday is mostly cloudy mornings
becoming partly cloudy in the afternoons. No rain is expected today,
20 percent chance of showers expected tomorrow afternoon. The high
for both days is 87.
Che Battalion
Vol. 69 No. 11
Copyright © 1975, The Battalion
College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 18, 1975
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Consol
may sell
schools
Stall photo b> Deborah killgore
Environmental antenna
The strange looking apparatus in Hensel Texas Highway Department’s Mobile En-
Park is not really a pip sculpture. It is vironmental Lab in the park,
just part of the research apparatus at the
Hensel Park guards
get rent-free cabin
Two male freshmen will receive
free rent in exchange for taking care
of the grounds at Hensel Park, Col.
Logan Weston, Student Y Associa
tion coordinator, said Tuesday.
A building is being renovated on
the grounds for the students to live
in. The building, when finished,
will be named Cashion Cabin.
The cabin, originally, was three
small buildings located at the rail
road tracks. They were combined in
the form of a T, consisting of one
large room and a fireplace. Moved
several years ago from the tracks, it
has been used as a meeting place for
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, said
Weston.
“The inside is being paneled with
veneer paneling and plaster board
on the ceiling. The room has been
partitioned off to form a
kitchenette-living room area, one
large bedroom, one smaller bed
room and a bathroom. It is ideal for a
couple or two or three students, he
said.
“A patio will be built with a green
plastic roof and concrete floor. The
cabin will be furnished the same as
University Married Housing,” he
said.
A water line is now being laid, as
the cabin has no water or sewer
facilities. Kitchen appliances, such
as an electric range, and a window
air conditioner will be installed,
Weston said.
“A metal gate will be put across
the entranceway to the park. The
students will be responsible for con
trolling the traffic into the park.
Only those people who have re
served an area in the park through
the Student Yare allowed to use
park facilities. The students will be
responsible for seeing that all per
sons in the park are there legally,
and to see that any area used is left
in the condition it was found. This,
we hope, will minimize the van
dalism that occurs when unau
thorized persons are in the park,”
he said.
Weston said that the students
would be moving into the renovated
cabin by Thanksgiving. The occup
ants will he chosen from applica
tions, taken later in the semester by
a Hensel Park Committee. This
committee will be responsible for
policies relating to the park upkeep,
use of the park and contractual ag
reements with the occupants.
As the students will receive free
housing in exchange for caretaking
duties, the occupants will be
selected on a basis of financial need.
They will be chosen on an annual
basis, Weston said.
One of the students will he ex
pected to be on duty at all times, he
said.
“These renovations are a part of a
three-phase program at Hensel
Park,” Weston said. “Phase 1 in
volved the renovation of the cabin
itself. Phase 2 will be an improve
ment of the park grounds. Included
in this phase will be the addition of
five barbeque areas. Phase 3 in
cludes expanding park facilities
northward to increase the park to
three times its present size. The
land is already there, but it has not
been cultivated.
Also under construction at the
park is the recycling center, which
will be a drop off-pick up site for
materials such as paper, rags and
clothes. Students will be able to de
posit recyclable materials which will
then be picked up and used by
Twin-City Mission’s recycling prog
ram.
Drop-off locations will also be de
signated at various locations on
campus.
The center at Hensel Park is
sponsored by the Student Y, with
funds ($350) provided by Student
Government.
The recycling center is about
one-third completed, and when it is
finished it will consist of a roofed
patio surrounded by a cyclone
fence, Weston said.
By PAULA GEYER
Battalion Staff Writer
The A&M Consolidated School
District is trying to determine if
there is any local interest in buying
six pieces of property the district
may soon offer for sale.
A couple of weeks ago the school
district began soliciting offers from
local business, commercial and
community interests for the land
which totals slightly more than 50
acres.
The package of land also includes
four buildings. They are the Old
Middle School at 1300 Jersey St.,
the present Middle School at 200
Anderson St., the administrative of
fices at 100 Anderson St. and the
Lincoln Center at Holleman and
Eleanor Streets.
School Superintendent Fred A.
Hopson said Wednesday the school
district is trying to determine the
value of the property. He said the
district may sell the land to possibly
finance construction of new facilities
for expansion of the school district.
This year, enrollment in the
school district has jumped from
2,763 students in 1974 to 2,988, an
8.1 per cent increase. Most of the
increase was in the second grades of
the district’s two elementary
schools.
“If there is enough interest shown
in the property,” Hopson said, “we
will put the land and buildings up
for bid.”
If there is not enough interest
shown in the property, the school
district may be forced to hold a $4
million bond election in the near
future to finance new school build
ings and classroom construction.
The school board will meet Wed
nesday to determine if such a bond
election will be necessary. Parties
interested in the property must
notify the school district in writing
by Saturday.
Hopson said the plan now is to
determine if the district would be
better off selling the property and
and relocating the school building
sites, depending on the present
value of the land and buildings in
question.
The school district s long range
building and planning committee
met Sept. 9 and determined that an
additional 47 classrooms would he
needed to meet the district’s expan
sion needs by 1980.
Hopson said the district’s enroll
ment could total more than 3,600
students by that time, an increase of
nearly 600 students from this year’s
enrollment.
Start’ photo hv Glen Johnson
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School sales possible
The Old Middle School building is just one The school district is considering selling
of three buildings the A&M Consolidated the buildings to help pay for construction
School District may soon offer for sale. of new ones.
School board holds
expulsion hearing for
A&M Consol student
By PAULA GEYER
Battalion Staff Writer
The A&M Consolidated School
Board was still undecided about the
expulsion of A&M Consolidated
Sizzling Summer Returns
Staff photo by Jack Holn
The south Texas area got an unusual
break from the normal summer heat over
the last few days when a cool front moved
through. The relief was not for long, how
ever, as temperatures yesterday soared
into the 90 s.
Middle School student Jerry Thayer
at 11 Wednesday night.
Thayer, 13, was expelled by
Superintendent Fred A. Hopson on
Sept. 4 for disturbing classes, fight
ing and leaving the campus without
school approval.
Thayer’s expulsion will he effec
tive until Nov. 14, unless the school
board decides otherwise.
Thayer’s parents requested the
public hearing before the school
board concerning the youth’s expul
sion .
Hopson and Middle School Prin
cipal Jim Ross said they believed
Thayer to be the aggressor in three
separate fights on Sept. 2.
Don Thayer, Jerry’s father, said
he did not consider his son to be a
bully.
Jerry Thayer claimed the other
boys involved in the fights had in
sulted his mother.
The other hoys involved in the
fights claimed they had said nothing
to induce Thayer to hit them.
Richard Parsons, one of the stu
dents, said Thayer had chased him
and his brother home one afternoon
from school, prior to the fight.
Thayer approached Parsons at the
bicycle rack before school on Sept. 2
and hit him, Parsons said. He said
he did not hit Thayer back.
Mike Freeman, another student,
siad Thayer approached him in the
lunch line of the cafeteria Sept. 2
and accused him of insulting
Thayer’s mother.
Freeman said Thayer then hit
him with his belt buckle twice and
then punched him in the face with
his fist.
None of the three boys allegedly
struck by Thayer knew each other
before the incident.
The fights with Thayer were re
ported to the school office sepa
rately by each hoy.
Hopson said this was not the first
time Thayer has been suspended for
fighting.
In the two years Thayer has been
in the school he has been in the
office for numerous fights and dis
turbances, Hopson said.
Duncan Cbvington, a Middle
School math teacher, said during his
class on Sept. 2, Thayer refused to
take a math quiz taken by the other
students. Thayer removed his belt
and wore it around his neck during
class, Covington said. „
“I asked him to put it back around
his waist,” Covington said, “He
complied but later in class he wrap
ped it around his fist.”
Thayer’s father said he did not
think it was fair to expell his son
while the other boys involved in the
fights were allowed to attend
school.
“I think my son is being denied an
education,” he said. “The boy has a
right to defend himself.
Hopson said the policy of the
schools was to deal with discipline
problems on the campuses if it was
possible.
He said if Thayer would seek out
side counseling and show progress
towards eliminating the problem he
could return to school before
Nov. 14.