Senate alters ticket system.. .again
By KARLA MOURITSEN
Campus Editor
Another effort was made last
night to smooth the wrinkles from
the new football ticket-distribution
system.
Spurred by the recommendations
of Marty Clayton, chairman of the
athletic ticket evaluation commit
tee, the senate restricted persons
picking up less than six tickets per
game from drawing randomly if
there are any tickets left over from
another person’s block.
“Under the present system, the
lines are being held up quite a bit,
Clayton said. “By the end of the
day, there may be 40 odd tickets
left.”
The adoption of the last night’s
resolution means that, should any
odd tickets be available at a ticket
window, the next person must ac
cept those tickets and is not allowed
to draw from the lottery.
The senate also considered two
other football ticket resolutions to
be voted upon at the next meeting.
The Group Tickets Resolution
states that any group not picking up
their tickets for one game will be
removed from the list of eligible
groups for the remainder of the year
unless they have previously notified
the athletic department of their in
tention not to attend that game as a
group.
The bill also states that those
groups who did not pick up their
tickets for the A&M - Illinois game
will be removed from the list unless
they contact the athletic depart
ment by Oct. 15.
The Date Ticket Resolution re
commends that, for the remaining
home football games, unsold
bleacher and track seats be reserved
for students. Included in this bill
will be a recommendation that those
students taking non-student dates
to home games be restricted to
either the track and bleacher seats.
Ticket policy changes
Marty Clayton addresses
the senate with proposed
changes in the current foot
ball ticket distribution sys
tem. The one change
adopted by the senate is de
signed to eliminate the prob
lem of odd tickets remaining
at the end of the day.
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College Station. Texas
or that those seats will be held for
underclassmen while those with
non-student dates will be required
to sit in the horseshoe in Kyle Field.
In other action, the senate ap
proved the appointment of David
Schwartz as graduate senator from
the College of Education, and Judy
Stearman as senator from Married
Student Housing. They also ap
proved Barbara Palmer as junior
senator from the College of Agricul
ture and Michael Gerst as graduate
senator from the College of Agricul
ture.
Scott Davison was named to the
graduate position on the Judicial
Board, and Sam Terry was placed in
the senior vacancy.
There are still vacancies for the
Corps junior seat and for a senator
from Married Student Housing.
Applications will be available in the
Student Government Office until
Oct. 3.
Voluntary student funding of the
Texas Student Association was ap
proved by the senate with the stipu
lation that there will be a check-off
system during registration for stu
dents to indicate their donation to
that organization.
“If we provide more revenue,
said Vice-President of External Af
fairs Jerri Ward, “we can increase
the programming of TSA. Hope
fully, our initiative will spur other
schools.”
In an effort to get students to vote
on Nov. 4 for the referendum for a
new state constitution, the senate
allocated $100 to advertise the
proposed changes.
“We want to tell the students
where to vote and when to vote and
how to vote, said Student Body
President Jeff Dunn, stressing that
all publicity would be non-partisan
and strictly informational.
Thursday, September 25,1975
Moore acted as informer Council
before assassination try
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Twenty-
four hours before Sara Moore fired a
gun at President Ford, she acted as
an informant by telling authorities
about the man who sold her the gun
used in the assassination attempt.
The Associated Press learned Wed
nesday.
Law enforcement sources here
said Mrs. Moore was both hinting to
police about her plans to kill the
President and feeding them infor
mation about possible violations of
federal firearms laws.
A federal source said the one
time member of the Women’s Army
Corps gave police information about
Mark Fernwood, a Danville, Calif,
weapons collector who admits sel
ling her the revolver used in the
assassination try and another gun
two weeks earlier.
The San Francisco Police De
partment referred Mrs. Moore to
the federal Bureau of Alcohol To
bacco and Firearms-ATF, where
she repeated the information about
Fernwood, according to the source.
The source declined to elaborate
on her information but said au
thorities were interested enough to
start an investigation.
An ATF spokesman in
Washington declined to comment
on the report, saying contact with
Mrs. Moore was part of a current
investigation. The ATF enforces
federal gun-control laws.
The FBI says it is investigating
Mrs. Moore’s purchase of the
weapons in connection with the as
sassination attempt.
Fernwood says he sold Mrs.
Moore the guns — a .44-caliber re
volver two weeks ago and a .38-
caliber revolver Monday — because
she was a “friend of a friend whom
he declined to identify.
The middle-aged mother with
radical connections had been picked
up by two San Francisco police of
ficers and charged with a mis
demeanor violation of carrying a
concealed weapon Sunday after
noon.
But the police say they released
her after being told by federal au
thorities that they would handle the
Weather
Today’s weather is fair and
mild with north-
northeasterly winds 7-10
mph. Continued fair and
mild Friday. The high both
days is 85; the low tonight
will be 55.
Campus
A BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN traffic
survey will be taken September 30 between 7
a.m. and 6 p.m.
Volunteers are needed to work one or two-
hour shifts at the nine entrances to the main
campus and the underpass on University Drive.
The survey is set to reinforce that taken by the
League of Women Voters, who are planning to
apply it to planning for pedestrian and bicycle
pathways.
Those interested in volunteering should call
845-6673 or 846-2567.
THE BASEMENT COFFEEHOUSE will
present a special outdoor concert on Friday af
ternoon at the pond in the Rudder Center. The
music will last from 12 noon to 2 p.m. Friday
night performers include Tim Hlavinka,
Thomas Shields and the Richards-Dewlong
team. On Saturday night featured performers
are Luis Jaurique, Paula Lozano-Canning, Gary
Hunt and Butch and Crew. The cover charge is
fifty cents.
The popular group “Morning will be coming
soon. Details will be provided in this space.
Anyone interested in auditioning shoidd contact
Skip Bruner at 845-2588.
City
THE COLLEGE STATION CITY COUN
CIL will meet tonight at 7 at City Hall, 1101 S.
Texas Ave. On the agenda for the meeting is the
consideration of recommendations by the safety
committee for sidewalks near the elementary
schools, establishing and implementing park
land requirements and an Ambulance commit
tee report.
THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT ruled that
businesses cannot hide behind “corporate fic
tions’ to dodge responsibility for abuse of con
sumers. See inside, page 5
•
A COMMUNITY COLLEGE CLASS IN
DALLAS on how to handicap race horses has
ired local Baptists to the point that no one is
taking bets on the course making it down the
backstretch. See inside. Page 4
•
THE DALLAS COUNTY ASSISTANT
DISTRICT ATTORNEY believes prosecutors
should look for jurors who are hypocritical,
biased and red-necks. See inside. Page 3
National
THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY regularly opened and read the mail of
prominent Americans and once intercepted a
letter to Richard M. Nixon, said the chairman of
the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednes
day. See inside, Page 6
•
CONTRARY TO PRESIDENT FORD S
PREDICTION of a GOP comeback next year, a
House Republican panel warns already out
numbered colleagues that they could lose
another 25 seats in the chamber.
See inside, Page 3
AFL-CIO PRESIDENT GEORGE MEANY
urged Wednesday the enactment of a $21 billion
jobs program which, he says, could cut un
employment to four or five per cent by the 1976
election. § ee j ns jde, Page 6
Texas
World
MILLIONAIRE SPORTSMAN LAMAR
HUNT testified Wednesday that a theft-riddled
subsidiary of the Hunt Oil Co. was “like a cancer
within our operation” and threatened to destroy
the vast Hunt financial empire.
A SAUDI ARABIAN ATTEMPT to hold
down the rise of oil prices in return for U. S.
political and economic concessions to the Third
World ran into stiff opposition from other mem
bers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries Wednesday.
matter. The Secret Service did in
terview her later Sunday night.
Now Mrs. Moore is in federal cus
tody, charged with trying to kill the
President. She will be taken to San
Diego on Friday for a psychiatric
examination.
Mrs. Moore will spend about two
months in a light, cheerful room at
the San Diego Metropolitan Cor
rectional Center, opened Dec. 2 by
theU.S. Bureau of Prisons. It is one
of the three federal facilities in the
nation designed specifically for
psychiatric workups on prisoners
before trial or sentencing.
The warden at the facility said
Wednesday there are no special
plans to house Mrs. Moore, or to
beef up security.
Warden J. D. Williams said,
“She’ll be treated like all the
others. ”
There are no bars in the 22-story
downtown building, which cost $13
million. The residents are given
private rooms with piped-in music,
a dressing table, a reading lamp and
a private toilet.
“She gave federal firearms agents
a bit of information within the last
two or three days,” The Associated
Press learned from one law en
forcement source the day after the
assassination attempt. “And as a re
sult, there is an open investigation
based on what she said.
“It just so happened that the
shooting occurred at this time, ” the
source said.
Mrs. Moore, an informant for the
FBI, local police and the federal
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms (ATF), gave her most re
cent information on federal gun con
trol violations, the source said.
W. H. McConnell, assistant to
the director of the ATF, said in
Washington:
“Contact with Mrs. Moore is in
connection with an open investiga
tion and we decline to discuss any
thing.”
The 45-year-old Mrs. Moore, a
divorcee with a 9-year-old son, had
lived on the fringe of the Bay Area
radical world while slipping infor
mation to the FBI, ATF and San
Francisco Police. (See “Moore,” page 6)
reviews
cut-off
The Texas A&M University
Academic Council was scheduled to
meet today at 2 p.m. to consider a
proposal for a new cut-off date on
the admission of undergraduates
and proposals for admission of
foreign students.
The 131 member council will also
consider several changes in existing
curriculum and discuss the addition
of several new courses.
Also oil the agenda is a proposal to
withdraw any graduate courses that
have not been taught in five years
and a revised degree program for a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater
Arts.
A&M Press reception
Jim Bones autographs a
copy of “Texas Heartland”.
The book contains nature
photographs by Mr.
Bones. John Graves, au
thor of the text, is in the
foreground.
Slafl plioto !>> Daxul McCarroll
New electronic gates
protect reserved lots
By VICKIE D. ASHWILL
Battalion Staff Writer
Controlled parking may be in the
future for Texas A&M University.
Whether it will be may depend
upon the success of the electronic
gates that were installed on lots 34
and 13 several days ago.
Lot 34, located behind the
Creamery and the Plant Sciences
Building, boasts two of the bright
orange devises which have been in
operation since last Friday.
Robert Melcher, administrative
officer in Student Services, said
Wednesday no one has complained
about the gate so far but there had
been some questions and com
plaints while the system was being
installed.
“Those complaints centered on
being unable to drop someone off
next to a building,” Melcher said.
“But the gates do help protect the
integrity of reserved parking for the
staff.”
Two types of gates are being
tested. Those on lot 34 are operated
by a computer logic unit and lot 13
requires a magnetic card.
The logic units are actually
keyboard controls operated by feed
ing the correct number code into
the unit. Two such units are operat
ing on lot 34 with one free exit.
Lot 13, behind the chemistry
building and the old engineering
center, has one entrance unit re
quiring a special magnetic card for
entrance. The cards have not yet
arrived, detaining the operation of
these gates for another two weeks.
The exit gate on lot 13 is tripped by
an underground detector loop.
Each of the gates lower once a car
has passed over similar detector
loops behind each gate.
Total cost for all four units was
$7,186. They control vehicle entr
ance to 113 spaces on lot 34 and 75
spaces on lot 13. Each space costs a
faculty/staff member $48 per year.
Reserved spaces on lot 13 cost $72
per year.
Melcher said motorcycles cannot
trip the detectors to open the lot 13
exit gate.
“But there’s room for motorcycles
to go by each gate in order to reach
motorcycle parking,” Melcher said.
“The space is also wide enough for
lawn mowers and three wheeled
service vehicles to move through.”
Gates were installed on two types
of lots to see what would happen,
Melcher said. Lot 34 has various
types of users, including service de
partments and business interests.
Department heads have the au
thority to disclose the logic unit
code for delivery purposes, he said.
“We haven’t had any experience
with people disclosing the code to
unauthorized persons so far,”
Melcher said. “The people using
the lot want to keep their parking
spaces for themselves.”
Morris Maddox, assistant chief of
university police, Wednesday said
he was surprised that the system
was working so well on lot 34.
“We thought it would hamper
traffic, Maddox said, “but there
have been no problems. It worked a
lot better than I thought it would.
Maddox said the only complaint
he has had was on the first day of
operation when one driver did not
have the code to get into the lot.
The gates are open for general use
from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. each day.
Parking gates installed
A code number must be used to open the new gates at lots on campus. The gates were
the entrances of several of the more crowded parking illegal parking.