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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APR. 15, 1976
APPLICATIONS FOR MEETING ROOMS
IN THE UNIVERSITY CENTER COMPLEX
FOR RECOGNIZED STUDENT ORGANI
ZATIONS, CLUBS, AND GOVERNING
BODIES WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR THE
1976 FALL SEMESTER (AUG. 30—DEC.
18) IN THE SCHEDULING OFFICE, 2nd
FLOOR, RUDDER TOWER BEGINNING
AT 8 A.M. MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1976. AP
PLICATION FORMS MAY BE OBTAINED
IN THE SCHEDULING OFFICE. RE
QUESTS WILL BE CONFIRMED BEFORE
THE END OF THE SPRING SEMESTER.
Early engineering buildings
show various design styles
Sun Theaters
333 University
The only movies in town.
846-9808
Special Midnight Shows Friday & Saturday $2.00 per person
No one under 17.
Escorted Ladles Free
ALL SEATS $3.
$1 off with this ad.
The Travel
Committee
of Texas A&M
presents
“We’ve Never Been
Licked”
Friday, April 16
8 p.m.
Rudder Tower Auditorium
Tickets $1.00
Can be bought at box office or at the door.
The engineering buildings on the
A&M campus are scattered all over,
both in location and in their architec
tural design styles.
Many of the early buildings,
which served as combination work
shops and classrooms, are still in use
today, having since been converted
to class and office spaces for other
departments.
The oldest surviving engineering
building, Bolton Hall, originally was
built in 1912 to house the electrical
engineering department. It made
history on Thanksgiving Day 1919
when student ham radio operators
broadcast a play-by-play of the
Texas-Texas A&M game from its
basement. It was the first broadcast
ever of a football game.
Fermier Hall, which now houses
Engineering Technology, was con
structed in 1919 as the Mechanical
Engineering Building. Its simple
design differs radically from the
other campus buildings of the time
which were richly adorned with clas
sical columns and cornices. Fer-
mier’s only adornment is a
Romanesque-style arched en
tranceway.
A couple years ago, Fermier was
completely renovated. The finished
product is a tribute to the sensitivity
of the architect; the new copper roof
ing and glass/aluminum windows
University
Apartments
Council
Spring Flea
Market
Sat., April 24, 9-4
Get those “tradables” to
gether and reserve a spot at
the Flea Market. Only $1.00.
Call Ron Epps
846-3933
For more information.
MONDAY, APRIL 19 8:00p.m.
RUDDER THEATER
$1.00
DISCUSSION
afterward
lead by
Dr. Harriet
Andreadis
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RECOMMENDED FOR
MATURE AUDIENCES
presented by the Arts Committee
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and doors blend nicely with the
building’s plain brick design.
Such re-use of old buildings is a far
better solution to space require
ments than the use of a wrecking ball
and the erection of a concrete box
replacement.
The Civil Engineering Building
originally was built in 1932 as A&M s
Veterinary Hospital. Its exterior is
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
TOWN HALL SERIES PRESENTS
JOURNEY
^ plus BABY
SATURDAY APRIL 17, 1976 8:00 P.M.
G. ROLLIE WHITE COLISEUM
TICKETS:
A&M STUDENTS
NON A&M
STUDENT/DATE
GENERAL PUBLIC
GENERAL
ADMISSION
FREE
RESERVED
4.50
3.00
4.00
4.50
6.50
TICKETS AND INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT MSC BOX
OFFICE, FIRST FLOOR RUDDER TOWER. OPEN 9-4,
MONDAY-FRIDAY. 845-2916. NO CAMERAS OR
EQUIPMENT WILL BE ALLOWED. (i
KANM WILL BE GIVING AWAY ALBUMS NIGHTLY.
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MANOR EAST 3 THEATRES
MANOR EAST MALL
Matinees — Thur. & Fri.
Happy Hr. in II & III Wed. Till 7:00 — Thurs. Till 3:00
No Happy Hr. — Wed. 7:15-9:15 — Thurs. 3:15-5:15 Also
It’s cash for keeps
in a hilarious run
for the money!
WALT DISNEY
PRODUCTIONS’
NO DEPOSIT
NO RETURN
DavM dlVEII, Darren liraWMI, Don KII0TTS,
Horadial DERDDRDI, and Barbara FEUDOD
Co sij'nna JOHN CHARLIE MARTIN KIM BRAD
WILLIAMS SMITH RICHARDS SAVAGE Saeenplay by Artlm ALSBERG and Don NELSON
Story by Joe McEVEETY • Co Produced by Joe McEVEETY • Produced by Ron MILLER • Directed by Norman T0KAR
© 1975 Walt Disney Productions
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Wed. — 6:20-7:55-9:30
Thurs. 2:30-4:05
Against a Crooked Sky’
Wed.: 6:15-8:00-9:45
Thurs.: 2:45-4:30
‘Mackintosh & T.J.’ (PG)
Skyway Twin
822-3300
Campus
tus 846-6512
COLLEGE STATION
Call tor Times
West Screen at Dusk
‘Zebra Force’
Plus (R)
‘Fearless Fighters’
WMWa
East Screen at Dusk
‘Dog Day Afternoon’
Plus (R)
Pelham 1-2-3’
replete with animal heads and fig
ures of cast stone.
Also in 1932, College Architect F.
E. Giesecke designed the Geosci
ences Building. Until recently, a
phallic-shaped tower clumsily sat
atop the 4-story stone building. The
tower was torn down in 1972 and our
new sky-blue water tower serves as
the same reference.
The monstrous tower, whose de
sign is duplicated in two smaller
tower-details over the building’s en
try, was actually a water tank. It was
placed there to equalize pressure in
the hot water lines of the campus
heating system.
The modern-age came to A&M in
1952 and 1960 when the Engineer
ing Building and the Petroleum En
gineering Building, respectively,
were constructed.
Both are fairly plain structures
with a touch of decoration at their
entrances. The disturbing feature of
the Petroleum building is the blue
GEOSCIENCES HAS DETAILS
OF OIL DERRICKS AND FOSSILS
porcelain enamel panels on its ex
terior, which are disharmonious
with the surrounding brick and
stone-clad buildings. A master land
scape plan submitted last year rec
ommended that the porcelain panels
be removed.
And finally, all this preparation
and education of engineering stu
dents for the past century has led to
Photos By
Jim Hendrickson
the most colossal structure of them
all, the Zachry Engineering Center.
Its pure expanse is to be expected
since it houses most of the depart
ments of the College of
Engineering—one of the largest in
the nation. However, its design is
unwarranted.
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The tomb-like central lobby is
needlessly monolithic in scale, an
unbridled memorial to its creator.
Human scale is forgotten in favor of
massive stone forms and cold spaces
below stairways.
While one would think that an en
gineering building would express
structure through its design, Zachiy
instead displays the bland, unper
sonal prefabricated design of a fac
tory building. Its exterior is covered
with a concrete-rock mix, the frost
ing on a three-story birthday cake.
— Jim Peters
DETAIL OF COLUI
AT FERMIER HAH
obc) INTERSTATE
415
UNIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER 846-6714 & 846-1151
STARTS
FRIDAY
7 :05
9:40
THE FILM OF 1976!!
At times it looked like it might
BOX-
OFFICE
OPENS
6:15
cost them their jobs, their reputations
and maybe even their lives.
REDFORD/HOFFMAN
SORRY
NO
PASSES
ALL THE PRESDENTS MDf
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&
SUN .
2:00
4:30
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TICKETS
ADULT
$2.50|
CHILD
$1.50|
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MONDAY |
AT
7 :45
ONLY!
BOX-
OFFICE]
OPEN
7 :15
ROBERT REDFOBD/DUSTIN HOFFMAN ALL THE PRESIDEnTSMI
Starring JACK WARDEN Special appearance by MARTIN BALSAM.
HAL HOLBROOK and JASON ROBARDS as Ben Bradlee
Screenplay by WILLIAM GOLDMAN • Music by DAVID SHIRE
Based on the book by CARL BERNSTEIN and BOB WOODWARD
Produced by WALTER COBLENZ • Directed by ALAN J PAKULA
A Wildwood Enterprises Production • A Robert Bedford - Alan J. Pakula Fim
TECHNICOIOP*
CINEMA
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DAILY AT 8:00
ONE SHOW ONLY!
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