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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1976)
) 1 1 / approves car ental contract iast night, the Student Senate a proved f rantal contract, heard the first reading mles and regulations changes and cl a new legislative program. [car rental contract will provide 45 itp cost of S13.95 per day with 50 m iles and a 10 cent charge for each mile more i that distance. hejagreement will go into effect when it ipmvedby John Koldus, vice president talient Services. e rules and regulations changes in- ihanges in academic and student life lalions. Ih extension of the “Q drop per period, iplng a class without record; pass-fail ■cheduling in relation to academic grtss; and retaking of courses to im- Ive a grade were proposed in the f iefnic regulations. jhe changes in regulations dealing with lent life include conduct on campus and ishment for misconduct, permission for aied students to keep pets in University sing, and new rules under which uni- jiity organizations will be recognized. Bent Body President Jeff Dunn listed ^projects that the student government cufive committee plans to initiate b h the new legislative program. B esjsor evaluations, organization of an college, redefinition of honors nates and greater counseling in flehiics were proposed by Raj Kent, lent vice president of academic afhtirs. Duane Thompson, student vice presi dent of rules and regulations, proposed a two-part amending process of the Univer sity rules and regulations handbook. Jerri Ward, student vice president of ex ternal affairs, proposed more student in volvement in city elections by encouraging student voter registration. She also rec ommended a student purchase program, attendance at the National Student Lobby convention, initial involvement in found ing a land-grant institution congress and commitment to Texas Student Association activities. A student health insurance plan, dis count movie tickets, a car care center, a day care center, student radio and a standardized campus map were proposed by Troie Pruett, student vice president of student services. ★ ★★ There are vacancies in the Student Se nate and in a number of committees. Applicants are needed for graduate seats in engineering, agriculture, off-campus representative, and liberal arts. Under graduate vacancies include senior science and off-campus representatives. The following committees also have vac ancies; the traffic appeals panel, the con cessions committee, the placement advi sory committee and the radio board. Applications for these vacancies can be made at the Student Government Office. Photo exhibit Douglas Winship Currently on display in the MSC Gallery is a collection of prints by Richard Eggmeyer. Eggmeyer is a former Environ mental Design student at A&M. The Exhibit will continue until Feb. 15. Aggieland Inn files for financial reorganization By STEVE GRAY Contributing Editor The Aggieland Inn at 1502 Texas Ave. S. in College Station has filed for reorganiza tion under Chapter 11 of the f ederal bank ruptcy laws. The hotel’s owners, Charles Arnold and Adolph Reinhardt of Arlington, filed a peti tion with Bankruptcy Court Judge John Ford in Dallas on Jan. 5 in an attempt to reorganize the hotel’s finances. The hotel is part ofTransAmerica Hospi tality Corp., an Arlington-based holding company that operates a chain of about 25 hotels in Texas. Reinhardt is chairman of the board ofTransAmerica. The Aggieland Inn began business in June 1974. Jay W. Un germ an, an attorney with Un- german, Hill, Ungerman, Angrist, Dol- ginoflf and Teofan, a Dallas-based law firm representing TransAmerica, said the hotel has no intentions of closing. “The Aggieland Inn. is just one of a number of properties that was being man aged by TransAmerica Hospitality which had to file for Chapter 11 due to inability to pay debts as they occurred,’’ Ungerman said. He emphasized that the hotel was not going bankrupt. “They don’t plan to close it down. Actu ally they filed for the purposes of keeping it open, if we didn’t file, we d close it down. Ungerman told The Battalion he be lieved that “the outlook for the hotel is good, but unfortunately the Aggieland (Inn) has been involved with other hotels that aren’t in as good an operating condition as the Aggieland. “In fact, we have already received a number of offers to buy the Aggieland Inn, he said. Ungerman did not specify who the prospective buyers were. Ungerman said the original petition did not specify the amount of indebtedness of the hotel. Normally, a firm or company filing under Chapter 11 has ten days in 1974. The spokesman said the city will attempt to collect a five per cent penalty on each quarter’s earnings oflast year in addition to the delinquent taxes. The restaurant that is sub-leased by the Aggieland Inn, Chi Chi’s Smorgasbord, has been closed since late December. The es tablishment is part of an entire chain, Chi. Chi's of Texas, which was shut down by State Comptroller Bob Bullock in De cember for failure to pay $40,800 in delin quent state sales taxes between October 1974 and June 1975. The chain operates nine restaurants in eight cities throughout Texas. Tom Hibner, an attorney with the legal services division of the state comptroller’s office, says the office is in the process of determining the disposition of equipment owned by the chain. The equipment seized by the state will probably be sold to pay off the delinquent tax debt, he said. which to file a schedule of creditors with the court but Judge Ford last week granted a request for a 30-day extension to allow attorneys to sort out and compile a list of creditors and outstanding debts. Ungerman said some of the debts in clude land payments and utility hills. Col lege Station City Manager North Bardell said the city has worked out an agreement with the Aggieland Inn to pay its outstand ing utility bills. Bardell, however, said he could not disclose the amount. A spokesman in the city’s tax assessor- collector’s office said the Aggieland Inn was delinquent in paying its hotel-motel taxes for all ofT975. The six per cent tax is levied on the income received by area hotels and motels during each yearly quarter. The money is placed in a separate city fund to he Used for tourist promotion. The spokesman said the last tax payment made by the hotel was in March for $3,431, which covered the quarter ending Dec. 31, Academic panel hears appeals There is still another chance for students who feel a grade or suspension was issued to them unfairly. The University Academic Appeals Panel consists of four faculty members and five students who have the authority to change a grade or readmit a student to school. Dr. W.P. Fife, head of the Academic Appeals Panel, said the purpose of the panel is to give students who feel that an academic error was made a chance to pre sent their cases to a committee of students and faculty and have the matter considered for corrective procedure. Over 30 students approached Fife the first week of school wanting to he readmitted or wanting a grade changed. Fife counseled the students extensively and pointed out to them the many pros and cons in each situation. After being coun seled, only nine of the 30 appeared before the panel. Of these nine, five got the appeal they wanted. Fife said, “Many of the students come to me with an attitude of What have I got to lose?’ However, Fife said it is up to a student to prove to the panel that his reason for want ing an appeal is justified. For example, one student readmitted to school this semester had a medical excuse from his doctor saying that the student had been unable to perform his best academi cally last semester. The doctor said these conditions no longer existed. “The committee, Fife said, “looks at what causes the student to do poorly and then determines if the causes still exist. He added, “If the causes are gone, and the student has done well previous semes ters, and the committee feels that the stu dent can do the work, then he will he readmitted. In appealing a grade, the student has to prove that he did not get the grade he deserved. The professor issuing the grade is also given a chance to present his point of view. In analyzing the many students who come to Fife wanting an appeal, he said many of them are not ready for college. “Many coming before the panel have not learned to discipline themselves, he said. Students appealing what they consider an academic error are protected by the Right of Privacy Act. No one other than the committee members is allowed at the trial without the consent of the student appeal ing. This includes parents as well. But Fife stressed that the appeal panel is designed to give relief to those who deserve, it and that any student feeling he has a legitimate appeal should contact him in the Biology Department. — Debbie Killough Index FEE ALLOCATION committee makes major cuts. Page 3 CONSUMER CHECK compares College Station’s grocery stores. Page 4 AGS DEFEAT UT and take the ^ SWC lead. Page 6 THE FORECAST for Thursdayand Friday is con tinued fair and mild with vari able winds at 5 mph. The ex pected high for today is 67; to night’s low 44; Friday’s high 69. David McCarroll More glass Workers labored Wednesday to install this plate glass window in the south side of the Rudder Theatre Complex. The glass, shipped from Houston, cost about $300, not counting the installation cost. From prostitution to babysitting College students seek exotic jobs Associated Press Some college students are working at ev erything from prostitution to selling term papers as the recession makes straight jobs harder to find and school bills more difficult to pay. The economy has reduced the number of traditional, part-and full-time jobs for stu dents working their way through college. These jobs — often school sponsored and usually low-paying anyhow— include such tasks as clerical work, waiting on tables, babysitting, tutoring and interning in a pro fession . Now a small number of collegians, un able to find such jobs or eager for easier, better-paying work, are turning to such things as striptease dancing, drug selling and starring in blue movies. And, regard less of the morality or legality involved, a random survey shows the response from these students is the same: “I need the money. T need the money.’ Marc, who asked that his identity not be revealed, is an economics major at a Mid western college. He said he made over $5,000 last year by procuring prostitutes for businessmen and tourists. He said he did not use women from the campus, but re cruited them from surrounding towns and cities. “I wasn’t really a pimp because I only took a percentage from the girls, he said. “Sometimes the customers would give me pretty nice tips for providing the telephone numbers. “It was easy work, and I didn’t have to spend too much time at it. Every dime went to school. There are now about 6.9 million full-time and 4.2 million part-time students in the United States, according to Dr. Vance Grant of the National Center for Educa tional Statistics. The most recent figures on the number of students who must work in order to pay for their education are from a 1973 study conducted by the Bureau of Census. This study showed that 40 per cent of 6.1 million full-time students worked that year. Another 43 per cent paid for their educa tion from personal savings, presumably earned over the summer and other nonschool months, Larry Suter, chief of the educational statistics branch of the Bureau, said. These percentages are expected to have increased since 1973, Grant said, but fig ures are not yet available. This means there is more and more com petition for fewer and fewer jobs, college officials and social scientists say. The nation’s current fiscal crisis has also put more parents in a position where they can no longer afford to support their chil dren’s college careers. Students have turned from traditional jobs. “Students no longer can count on the summer jobs they used to be able to get, and they are not getting as much money at the more traditional ones during the school year, ” said Dr. Charles E. Oxnard, dean at the University of Chicago. So some students have turned elsewhere, performing tasks that are easy and ones for which they have ready talents, said Marvin Bressler, a Princeton Univer sity sociologist. Tf you have to survive . . .' These talents are varied: — In New Haven, Conn., a male graduate student at Yale University earns money as a night club bouncer. — A Princeton University coed earned money at that Ivy League school by writing pornographic books. — In California, a male journalism major stars in pornographic movies. He says it’s an easy way to earn money. The Pulitzer prize-winning architecture critic of The New York Times, speaking at Rice University last night, told her audi ence that she did not experience culture shock on her first visit to Houston. Ada Louise Huxtable called the Space City “the scattered city, the mobile city. ” It is an example of a place where “real estate is destiny, she said. She rhetorically asked the overflow crowd, “How could man create a city out of a plain?” The Houston metropolis was created by “laissez-faire business practices that have —- A former Harvard Law School student went through six years of college with over $6,000 he made by allegedly using aliases to obtain student loans from the federal government. He was arrested recently on charges of fraud. Over 700 students were arrested last year for selling, smuggling and manufactur ing drugs, according to the federal Drug Enforcement Agency. College educators and social scientists say the students who choose illicit and un ethical avocation show no guilt or remorse. Instead they justify their actions by saying they want a college education at any cost. left the city a captive of time, shaped by the values of the people who give it birth,” Huxtable said. Cities which have grown up in the 20th century, such as Houston and Los Angeles, are unlike New York and other older cities because “the new world has come on the freeway.” A loss of human scale and perspective accompanies such develop ment, the noted critic and author said. “Excellence has become unaffordable, Huxtable commented. Houston labeled ^scattered city’