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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 3, 1976
Lighting the blight
University officials are throwing some light on a very
controversial subject these days. Florescent bulbs are
now spotlighting The Million-Dollar Wall.
Last year, students loudly objected to the structure,
primarily because they hadn’t been consulted about its
construction.
The cost of installing the new floodlights was $36,190,
says Construction Manager Charles Brunt. That includes
light poles, conduits, insulation and labor. It does not
include day to day operating expenses.
It seems odd that after hearing such an outcry against
building the wall the University is taking such costly pains
to make it visible 24 hours a day.
Budgets have been cut for almost every department on
campus. Student service fees weren’t able to meet fund
ing requests and the Board of Regents has raised room and
board rates again.
With all this need for money on campus, the necessity
of compounding a million-dollar mistake with $36,000
worth of spotlighting is hard to rationalize.
— Roxie Hearn
Class of 1984
Was George Orwell being fictitious or just ahead of his
time when he wrote his famous novel 1984? Apparently,
the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets has not lost its copy.
Last week, members of various staff units in the Corps
conducted searches of nearly every cadet room. A great
deal of paraphenalia, mostly fireworks, was confiscated.
The fact that these searches were almost wholly without
the permission of the occupants and without the assis
tance of search warrants or legal authorities, makes this
“search and seizure” incident entirely illegal.
University Regulations say that no University official
has the right to search and/or seize personal property
without being accompanied by a law enforcement official
with a search warrant.
Joe M. Chandler, Cadet Colonel of the Corps, said the
searches were conducted to prevent injuries due to the
increased use of fireworks in the Corps area this year.
Indeed, this is a noble gesture but it does not make the
searches any less illegal. If our government wanted to end
murder, would their officials be justified in entering
homes to confiscate all weapons?
Fireworks are banned by the University but their con
fiscation by unauthorized persons is still illegal just as the
seizure of marijuana by a policeman would be if he en
tered a residence without a warrant.
All Chandler accomplished was to rankle the juveniles
possessing the contraband into getting more and louder
explosives. It may not be the result he had in mind but it is
the one that is taking place.
You should have been there Mr. Orwell. You would
have been proud.
— Paul McGrath
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Editor:
I would like to compliment the
Food Services Department for their
new facilities, but one would assume
that along with the renovation of half
of Sbisa, including new cooking
machinery, that the quality of food
would increase.
In fact, the hamburger machines
used here are currently in use by
BURGER CHEFs and BURGER
KINGs around the nation. But do
the hamburgers taste as good as
theirs do?
The other night, as has been fre
quent this semester, I have seen
hamburgers coming out blood-raw in
the center. This has been called to
the supervisors’ attention and the
only answer they have is to put the
raw meat in the microwave ovens.
When I signed up for board this
semester, I was under the impres
sion that the food served was to be
cooked and that I would not have to
cook it myself!
This has also happened with the
chicken. Last night, I took a piece of
raw fried chicken to a supervisor
whose only remark was “Take it out
of my sight before I get sick. ”
I would like to suggest that the
supervisors be an input for student
opinions along with their regular
duties. This “input” would not
necessarily have to go to Colonel
Dollar but the supervisors could di
rectly affect the quality of the food by
regulating the heat or the speed of
the conveyor on the hamburger
machines.
I am assuming the students would
rather wait a few minutes for quality
rather than quantity.
NAME WITH HELD BY RE
QUEST
Parking
Editor:
Yesterday when I walked to class I
saw a College Station policeman
moving through Skagg s parking lot
directing cars to move off the lot. I
understand that many cars have
been towed away with fines stuck on
them of about $30 to get them out of
the pound. If anyone has money to
throw away it isn’t us students!
There is and probably always will
be for at least a few years a parking
problem here at Texas A&M. The
main reason that is apparent to me is
our increasing enrollment that is ex
pected to climb even more next year.
Before next year arrives I think we
should cushion the problem by ad
ding additional space for parking.
What I’d suggest is buying or leasing
the deserted drive-in behind
Skagg’s. The space is wasted in the
daytime which could serve a useful
purpose. It would also relieve cus
tomers that have to walk 100 yards or
more to shop and of course it would
help us students from writing home
to get our cars out of the pound.
Bob Johnston, ’78
C ongratulations
Editor:
I would like to congratulate Coach
Shelby Metcalf and the Texas A&M
basketball squad for a great season
and a second straight conference
championship.
The true champion wins even
though everything seems to be
against him. Although this basketball
team was not predicted to be of
championship caliber, they are true
champions.
This is a team that, in the midst of
controversy and court cases, played
and won several crucial ballgames.
This is a team that showed great
endurance by playing and winning
three “high pressure’’ games in only
five days, near the end of the season.
This is a team that has received a
national ranking in both the A.P. and
the U.P.I. basketball polls, some
thing unusual for a Southwest Con
ference basketball team.
This is undoubtedly the best and
most exciting team I have seen in six
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Constitution
Editor:
I would like to inform the student
body of the possibilities which the
Special Constitutional Convention of
Student Government considered on
February 7 & 8 concerning rep
resentation in the Student Senate.
There were three: a strictly living-
area based presentation; a dual
college and living-area based rep
resentation; and a strictly college
based representation; each with ad
vantages and disadvantages.
First, the strictly living-area based
representation offered to on-campus
students the advantage of a readily
available senator to whom one could
express his ideas and viewpoints.
The Senator also could take polls of
his constituents and inform on the
actions of the Student Senate. This
advantage however, could not be av
ailable to off-campus students unless
the number of senators was greatly
increased.
Second, the dual system of college
and living-area representation of
fered the advantage of a better
chance for a student to contact his
senator through classes, in the dorm,
or apartment housing area. This
same advantage has its disadvantages
in that a student could theoretically
have his vote negated by his college
senator voting for an issue and his
living area senator voting against the
issue. Also there are problems with
the way the Senate reapportions it
self each year. The present Constitu
tion states “there shall be 40 college
senators and 30 living-area
senators ”. The college reapportion
ment is done on the percentage of
students enrolled in each college
during the fall semester. The major
problem with living area apportion
ment is, again, the percentage of
students that live on-campus versus
off-campus. As enrollment increases
and a greater proportion of students
live off-campus, fewer senators will
represent on-campus students. Thus
negating the advantage of easy acces
sibility.
Finally, the strictly college-based
representation offered the advantage
of relatively equal division of the
student body population. Under this
provision the number of college
senators would be increased from 40
to 50, to allow students easier access
to their senators. The problem of
ready availability of senators will still
exist, but the student can contact his
senator by phone, or in person as he
must do under the current situation.
Duane Thompson ’77
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