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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.
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itp cost of S13.95 per day with 50 m iles
and a 10 cent charge for each mile more
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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.
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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
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CONSUMER CHECK compares
College Station’s grocery stores.
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AGS DEFEAT UT and take the
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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’