THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, FEB, 5, 1976
Page 3
Judicial
proper
Authority proposes
of appliances
use
i Kyle
GALE KAUFFMAN
A sulxximmittee of the Residence
Judicial Authority voted last
t to allow the use of electric per-
( olators and popcorn poppers in
^ Ini' ersity dormitories.
'“™ 1 r proposal states that only water
be heated in the percolators and
popcorn poppers may only he
l for making popcorn,
he subcommittee was estab-
s|( d Jan. 29, to solve the problem
Itudents cooking in their dorm
. Ron Blatchley, Associate Di-
of Student Affairs, established
Bvolunteer committee to deter
mine what constitutes cooking and to
t a penalty for the violation of the
g-
luan interview yesterday, Charles
ell, Director of Student Affairs,
that a meeting was called on Jan.
to discuss the cooking problem.
Powell said that this meeting was to
remind Resident Advisors to “main
tain the regulations that should have
been enforced to begin with. ” To in
sure the maintenance of the regu
lations, the use of popcorn poppers
in dorm rooms was banned.
Powell gave four reasons for the
restrictions on dorm cooking: sanita
tion, grease, the increasing problem
of roaches and rats and a state regula
tion requiring vent hoods in multiple
dwellings where cooking is done.
Cooking also causes overloading of
electrical systems and creates fire
hazards, Powell said.
Powell said that he had received
no pressure from Food Services con
cerning the cooking problem. He
said that he did not know what reac
tions, if any, they had to the increas
ing number of students who were
cooking in their rooms instead of eat
ing in the University cafeterias.
Powell said that if the Residence
Hall Judicial Authority and the Resi
dence Hall Association could come
up with an alternative plan that
would be acceptable and that work
ed, it would be fine. If it doesn’t
work, “I’ll have to step back in and
say no popcorn,” he added.
Powell said, “This should never
have been allowed to begin. Some of
my people fell down on their jobs.
We re just trying to enforce the rules
that have been there all along.”
Chronic violators of the ruling may
be removed from the dorms, Powell
said. “Either obey the rules or you
don’t live in the halls—it’s just that
simple,” he added.
The subcommittee proposes that
intense advertising throughout the
dorms be conducted to inform all res
idents of the situation. They said it
should be made clear that electric
percolators are for heating water and
that popcorn poppers are for pop
ping corn.
The subcommittee determined
that penalties for violations will be
administered by the respective judi
cial boards. The confiscation of prop
erty for a specified time was the rec
ommended penalty. Repeated of
fenders may be referred to the Area
Coordinators.
Providing its acceptance by the
Residence Hall Association, the pro-|
posal should be submitted to Powell
Friday.
B-CS reps
over utility
The mayors and city managers of
College Station and Bryan will meet
tomorrow to discuss the continuing
utility rate controversy.
This will be the first in a series of
meetings between representatives of
the two cities to try to reach an
agreement on a new utility contract.
This was the only information re
leased by College Station officials fol
lowing a closed city council meeting
yesterday.
Several councilmen said strategy
was the focus of the hour-long meet
ing. They declined to make any fur
ther comment.
(College Station purchases about
25 per cent of Bryan’s electricity and
water.)
Internationals struggle with language
agle congestion
iscussed by panel
Texas slang is a problem
three recommendations to ease
(traffic congestion on Nagle Street
ed by construction were dis
lat the meeting of the Univer-
|Traffic Panel yesterday.
he recommendations proposed
the south section of Nagle be
e into a one way street from
rar to Lubbock. The north sec-
from Lamar to the library would
ain two way.
was also proposed that parking
estricted on part of Nagle north
imar. This would eliminate 10 to
indom parking spaces and allow
gh room for two lanes of traffic
agle by the construction area.
The third recommendation was for
a stop sign to be placed on Nagle at
the Lamar intersection to control
southbound traffic.
The Traffic Panel also discussed
the report of the Motor Vehicle Reg
ulations Subcommittee. The report
recommended changes be made in
the Texas A&M Motor Vehicle Regu
lations for next year.
These changes include the
abolishment of the perimeter park
ing option and the return of faculty
parking area 52 to golf course park
ing. These changes will be voted on
at the next meeting of the Traffic
Panel.
— Elaine Merrifield
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hades Feinberg, visiting Gen
ial professor, will speak at 4
i today in Evans Library 206.
■Jpwith People will perform at 8
m today in the Rudder Au-
niversiTOriunT.
Kepheid Variable will present the
Bie “Fantastic Voyage” at 8 p.m.
crowdsBu ’ n R u dder 601.
|e (] r J ACUI will hold a general session at
p.m. today in MSC 201.
1 S.W. Landscape Architecture
.Jorkshop will be held at 7 p.m.
rffy in Rudder 301.
t :f J 0Ut h Texas Tri-County HTC will
L „.„, neet today at 7 p.m. in Rudder 504.
|C0NA will meet at 7 p. m. today
Rudder 510.
rts and Crafts — Sand Ter-
ums “A” will meet at 7 p.m.
ay in MSC 139.
0PA will meet today at 7 p.m. in
.'"'judder 607.
111 , ^Sailing Club will meet today at
':30 in Rudder 302.
], 1 Mexican Student Association will
10 ’"^eet today at 7:30 in Rudder 308.
p 1 English Society will meet today at
er f ap p.m. in Rudder 501.
s 0 ( Radio Committee will meet today
v . anta ®:30 p.m. in L&M MSC 216.
^CONA Host and Hostesses
immittee will meet today at 8 p. m.
jhe MSC Conference Room,
lidland HTC will meet today at 8
in Rudder 502.
bilene and Area HTC will meet
lay at 7:15 p.m. in the Board of
Regents Courtyard of the MSC. Ag-
gieland picture will be taken.
Orange County HTC will meet
today at 7:30 p.m. in the Board of
Regents Courtyard of the MSC. Ag-
gieland picture will be taken.
TAMU Horesman’s Association
will meet today at 7 p.m. in AI Build
ing 215.
Laredo HTC will meet today at 6
p.m. in the MSC Student Pro
grams, Council Conference Room
216T.
B-CS Knife and Fork Club will
meet for dinner today at 7:30 p. m. at
Ramada Inn. Dr. No-Yong Park will
be guest lecturer.
Having to learn Texas slang is one
of the biggest problems a student
from another country faces at Texas
A&M, say several students from
Venezuela and Spain.
During an interview Monday, the
“international students,” a term
which they prefer to “foreign stu
dents, ” spoke on a wide range of top
ics, ranging from communications to
how the average Spaniard prefers his
chicken cooked.
Most foreign students already
have some background in technical
English when they arrive here and
are able to understand lectures and
classes fairly easily. They are, how
ever, often at a loss as to what their
fellow students from the United
States are saying.
The informal language that we
speak often bears little or no re
semblance to the precise English
that the student learned back home.
The result is often isolation from
North Americans.
Rafael Acosta, a graduate student
studying Range Science and the
President of the Venezuelan Student
Association, said that poor com
munication is primarily responsible
for the lack of understanding be
tween the various nationalities at
A&M.
Acosta said that when he and his
wife, who is studying Agriculture
Economics, came to College Station
they faced a tremendous culture bar
rier. After learning colloquial En
glish and figuring out peculiar
“gringo” customs, they fared much
bettep. They are happy here, he said.
Pedro Sanabria came to A&M to
study computer science. He is from
Madrid, which has a population of
3,000,000, and College Station is
quite a change for him.
He said he doesn’t understand the
way Texans have fun.
“Parties here are to get drunk,
while they shovdd be to enjoy
people,” he said. In Spain, he and his
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friends would get together and
dance, but to do that in the apart
ments here results in neighbors
complaining and police dropping by
to warn them of the noise.
“North Americans need to de
velop another, more critical mental
ity,” Acosta said. When he first came
here, he lived in the dorms and he
said that people he met there trusted
the system too much.
To improve the system, Acosta
said people must learn to criticize.
This is a static and conservative
community and many residents want
to preserve the status quo, he said.
Criticism of the system is often con
strued as denunciation of the system.
Acosta said that in his opinion,
criticism tends to improve things and
therefore is a way of showing love for
one’s country.
One of Acosta s criticisms was di
rected at American journalism.
“Fifty per cent of the stuffin North
American newspapers is garbage,”-
he said. “The papers do not give
enough coverage to international af
fairs.” Acosta said that he has sub
scribed to a Houston newspaper for
several years, and in that time has
only seen two stories on Venezuela.
Before they came to the United
States, the internationals were pre
pared for a Texas which doesn’t exist.
They expected to see Texas as it is
presented in the movies. The trees
and grass confused them. Texas,
they thought, was a big cacti-covered
desert studded with oil wells and
populated by cowboys on horseback.
They said they prefer the real thing.
— Richard Chamberlain
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College Station rejected Bryan’s
contract offer last week and gave
Bryan officials until February 12 to
come up with a new contract offer.
Bryan has asked for 30 days in
which to negotiate a new contract.
College Station officials have
threatened to go to another power
source (Gulf States Utilities) if Bryan
does not come up with competitive
rates and terms.
The Gulf States rates are 40 per
cent lower than the proposed Bryan
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Book by
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