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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, FEB. 10, 1976
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Free tickets given to legislators
By T. C. GALLUCCI
and
paul McGrath
ptdoes the University of'Texas
that we don’t have? Com-
tary tickets worth $50,143.
t does Texas Tech have that
t have? Complimentary tic-
orth approximately $37,800.
What does the University of Hous
ton have that we don’t have? They
don’t want to say.
Major universities across the
country have made it a practice for
years to promote good public rela
tions. Giving away free tickets is one
way to do it. Several Southwest Con
ference schools have been giving
away thousands of dollars every sea-
"indy Nelson gives
f.S. another bronze
Associated Press
SBRUCK — Urban Hettich
st Germany won the silver
and Konrad Winkler of East
ny finally took the bronze in
skiing after some confusion
|he third-place standing.
iV|nkler originally had been
[ed the bronze, but then Fin-
Rauno Mittenen was moved
third. Officials later reversed
lelves and gave the bronze back
jnkler.
W 1 Nordic combines a 70-meter
ju np — which Welding won
b d a 15-kilometer 9.3-
elki racing — which Hettich won
n 48:01.55.
Galanes of Brattlehoro, Vt.,
jhe top U.S. finisher in the
n field, placing 17th. Mike
:ka of Bend, Ore., was 28th
Walter Malmquist of Post Mills,
29th.
[Sunday, Cindy Nelson of Lut-
|Minn., gave the United States
. second hronze with her surprising
011 " jsli in the women’s downhill,
heldoif
53 vict< I’ 111 happy with the bronze
said the 20-year-old
[evil after finishing behind Rosi
aier of West Germany, and
as Brigitte Totschnig. “But I
:o get a silver or a gold before I
Innsbruck.”
iss Nelson could win medals in
[the slalom on Wednesday and
|iant slalom Friday, she could
^ aeonly the second American to
iree medals. Sheila Young, the
scores b tonal speed skater from De-
3 detern took her third medal Saturday
a third in the 1,000 meters,
jnioratl e surprising performance by
■the to® I Nelson and the strong dial
er par by the young Philip Mahre
and Tew g° a l on g wa y * n boosting the
’ States to its best total medal
since the 1932 Winter Olym-
d
pics in Lake Placid, N.Y. That year,
the Americans won six gold medals,
finishing with 12 — double their
count so far in these Games.
The Russians won two more golds
on Sunday as double gold medal
winner Tatiana Averina won the
3,000-meter speed skating race and
Nikolai Sajukov won the 15-
Idlometer cross-country event.
The only chance for the Americans
to increase their medal count today
comes this evening when Colleen
O’Connor and Jim Millns, both of
Colorado Springs, Colo., pair in the
finals of the ice dancing competition.
They enter the freestyle windup of
the event in third place. The frees
tyle is considered the best portion of
their program, and they appeared
sure of at least the bronze with a shot
at the silver.
The Russian pair of Ludmila
Pakhomova and Aleksandr Gorshkov
has an apparent hold on the gold
medal, but the second-place Soviet
pair, Irina Moiseeva and Andrey
Minenkov, are vulnerable.
Miss Mittermaier’s winning time
in the downhill was 1:46.16. Miss
Totschnig was second in 1:46.68 and
Miss Nelson clocked 1:47.50. Susie
Patterson of Sun Valley, Idaho,
finished 14th and Leslie Smath of
Killington, Vt., was 26th in a field of
39.
The U.S. ice hockey team, ap
peared destined to a tough fight with
Finland for the bronze medal, ab
sorbed its second loss in two days
Sunday, falling 5-0 to the powerful
Czechs. They lost 6-2 to the favored
Russians on Saturday. However, the
American skaters looked surpris
ingly strong, despite periodic lapses,
in both contests and battled the
Czechs, expected to win the silver,
to a near standstill in the first two
periods, after which they trailed 2-0.
son in free football tickets, in the
form of both season and individual
game passes.
Complimentary tickets to A&M
football games were distributed up
until two years ago. At that time the
state legislature passed an ethics bill
saying that gifts were not to be made
to legislators, said System President
Jack K. Williams.
“We interpreted free tickets as not
money, but as having money value,
so we discontinued it.”
Southwest Conference regula
tions specifically permit the schools
to provide football players with two
tickets each. The colleges are given
the options as to which players re
ceive the tickets. Baylor, TCU and
SMU provide tickets for every
member of the team, while UH
opted to give tickets only to those
players who suit up.
A&M also provides tickets only to
those players who suit up. Figuring
six home games each season, this is
$4,200 a year worth of tickets.
A&M Assistant Athletic Director
Wally Groff said approximately 500
tickets a game were being distri
buted in the past. With three to five
home games a year, it came to an
average of $17,500 worth of com
plimentary tickets.
“It took a lot of courage for Dr.
Williams to make the decision to dis
continue that policy,” said Groff.
“Our policy is not to give away
complimentary tickets,” said Roger
Miller, assistant to the president.
“We do, however, try to make avail
able tickets for purchase, if possi
ble.”
Although some seemed to be dis
content the first year, said Miller,
now they seem to understand.
Texas Tech does not distribute tic
kets to legislators, said John Conley,
assistant athletic director.at Tech.
During the 1975 football season,
however, approximately 900 $7 tic
kets were given away at each of six
home games. These tickets, said
Conley, were divided between
former lettermen, the news media,
the Athletic Council, the athletic
staff and administrative officials.
Recently, however, in a copyrigh
ted story to The Daily Texan, the
Tech official was quoted as saying,
“Texas Tech has never given free tic
kets to anyone. I think that’s illegal. I
think they ruled that out last year. ”
According to the University of Ar
kansas Athletic Business Office,
I, 666 $7 tickets were distributed for
the school’s homecoming football
game. These tickets went to the
news media, college deans, the
Board of Trustees, athletic staff,
former lettermen, the governor and
state officials.
Although the number of tickets
given for the homecoming game is
higher, figures for other home games
are comparable, said the Arkansas
ticket manager.
Among those season and game
complimentary tickets from The
University of Texas were seven
Texas Supreme Court judges.
Senator Charles Schnabel, six mem
bers of the Legislative Budget
Board, Attorney General John Hill,
three members of the State Auditor’s
Office, State Treasurer Jesse James
and three former governors.
Also receiving tickets were U.S.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, U.S. District
Judge Jack Roberts and U.S. Rep.
J. J. Pickle.
Tickets to Texas home football
games were given to 30 senators and
140 representatives. Two recipients
of season tickets were Rep. Bill Pre-
snal (Bryan) and Sen. William T.
Moore (Bryan). Presnal graduated
from A&M in 1953, Moore in 1950.
Except to say that A&M has, and
always will receive their 35 com
plimentary tickets, The University of
Houston refused to comment on
their policy of distribution.
“We are very busy right now. We
don’t know what our policy is yet.
We are in the process of reorganizing
our policies and staff. We have a
great deal to do here. We have the
same rules and regulations as every
other school. I don’t want to be giv
ing out any information of this kind.
We’ve just joined the Southwest
Conference, you know,” said Ned
Thompson, UH athletic business
manager.
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GLOBAL POWER IN
TRANSITION
An Intensive Four Day Analysis of World Power Politics’
Wednesday 11 February 1976
Friday 13 February 1976
2:15-3:30 p.m.
Theatre
University Center
Mr. Rex B. Grey, Former Chairman, ITT
Africa and Middle East
“The Global Corporation as a World
Power”
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Thursday 12 February 1976
10:45-12:00 noon Mr. Iqbal Akhund, Pakistani Ambassador
Theatre to the United Nations
University Center “The Increasing Global Influence o! the
Third World”
Mr. William E. Schaufele, Jr., Assistant
Secretary for African Affairs, Dept, of
State
“The Increasing Strength of the Third
World — The United States’ Response”
10:45-12:00 noon
Theatre
University Center
4:45-5:45 p.m.
Theatre
University Center
Admiral Noel Gayler, Commander in
Chief, United States Pacific Fleet
“The Post-Vietnam Status of the United
States as a World Power”
Dr. Kenneth Frick, Administrator, Agri
cultural Conservation and Stabilization
Service
“United States Agripower in World
Politics”
8:00-9:00 p.m.
Theatre
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Saturday 14 February 1976
11:00-12:15 p.m.
Old Ballroom
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Dr. Charles Burton Marshall, Professorof
International Politics, The School of
Advanced International Studies, The
Johns Hopkins University
“U.S. Power in Transition”