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Page 6 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1976 Shop REDMOND TERRACE BARBER\STYLE SHOP A Full Service Regular Haircuts - to - Uniperms Call 846-8130 for Styling Appointments 8:00-5:30 - Tues.-Sat. 1408 Texas Ave., College Station No Mao departure; Over the wall China policy same “The Communist Chinese, unlike the Soviets, have never faced a prob lem of succession,” she continued. They may well use the Soviet exam ple as a guide and have less trouble with the transition.” America may at last know where it stands in diplomatic relations with China, now that Chairman Mao Tse-tung is dead, thinks an interna tionally recognized historian. Dr. Betty M. Unterberger of Texas A&M University believes the death of Mao should finally “let us know where we stand.” The distinguished professor and international author said there has been a prevailing uncertainty of American-Chinese relations since the aging Mao and former President Nixon normalized those relations earlier this decade. Mao Tse-tung’s death is the most unique event in Communist China’s history says Unterberger, but a radi cal departure from the chairman’s longtime policies should not be ex pected. She believes the historical tradi tion of struggles for dominance will prevent any better relations with the Soviet Union, which has seized more Chinese territory than any other na tion in history. Nor should observers expect a de parture from Maoist doctrine, as Mao has been steadily turning over the reins of power to hand-picked proteges in recent years, she said. However, what will happen now is anybody’s guess. From a Chinese historical viewpoint, said Unterberger, the people have not overthrown those in power while things were going rela tively smoothly. However, when crises occur — such as drought, famine or unsuc cessful warfare — the Chinese people have traditionally felt the right to rebel. “The Chinese are the most rebel lious people in history, but the least revolutionary,” she said. “They throw out the person and keep the system.” z nn Highway 6 X X X I I I I X T H j 11 . ^ runs both ways I I X X X I Editor’s note: Over the wall will be a regular weekly column in The Bat talion dealing with problems or ac tivities students on other campuses are involved in. The information will be compiled by LeAnn Roby from reports in other campus news papers. “But I don’t think we can antici pate they will follow the Soviet example or return to Soviet normal relations. Regardless of who is in control, both the Soviet Union and Communist China are Asian powers. And as long as they are, there will be conflict of interest,” Unterberger said. China won’t be happy until it is allowed to return to its historical dominance of Asia, she claimed. Unterberger said that Mao had been one of China’s earliest students of Marx, studying the doctrine while enrolled at the University of Peking. He had been a member of the Com munist Party since 1918. Mao led the Communist takeover of mainland China in 1949 and dominated the world’s most popul ous nation for nearly three decades. Western observers and journalists note that his recent demotion and firing of former Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping was a display of power. BEAT VIRGINIA TECH! wmmvm Levis J-j|~ . /: .. V'- U LEVI’S* For Guys n’ Gals and Boys TOP DRAWER CULPEPPER PLAZA qritere IS a difference!!! MCAT • CPAT • LSAT VAT • GRE DAT OCAT • SAT • NATIONAL MED. & DENT. BOARDS • ECFMG .FLEX Flexible Programs and Hours Over 38 years of experience and success. Voluminous home study materials. Programs that are constantly updated. Centers open days and weekends all year. Complete tape facilities for re view and use of supplementary materials. /)^ ^ 11300 N. CENTRAL EXPWY. SUITE 407 DALLAS, TEXAS 75231 (214) 750-0317 . dunx TEST PREPARATION SPECIALISTS SINCE 1938 In Bryan/College Station, Call 846-1322 Affiliated Centers in Major U. S. Cities By LeANN ROBY Battalion Staff It appears to be just simple human nature that always makes people think their problems are worse than the next guy’s. Those bright young figures roaming around our country’s college campuses are no exception, either. Students here on our own campus are continually guilty of this, too. More often than not, though, if you would just look around — possibly over the wall — you would find that other campuses have just as many problems as ours does. Right now, out of all the problems our fellow colleges and universities are having, the most controversial seems to be the shuttle bus issue at the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS (UT). On Wednesday, Sept. 1, 115 to 120 shuttle bus drivers went on strike for better working conditions and higher wages. The dispute arose over the Amal gamated Transit Union’s (ATU) de mand for a starting wage of $4.50 per hour, which is $1-50 more than Transportation Enterprises, Inc. (TEI) is willing to offer. ATU also demanded cost of living adjustments every three months rather than semi-annually as they are now. Other factors in the dispute in clude demands concerning health insurance, a sick leave program and vacation pay, along with a policy al lowing ATU to negotiate for all shut tle bus drivers. Scott Keller, president and owner of TEI, said he would be cutting his own throat if he agreed to the wage increase. The union, on the other hand, claims TEI received a suffi cient increment in its three-year contract with the university to sub stantiate the wage increase. Al though Keller would not allow the company books to be audited, he said that the approximate $4 increase in the university contract was neces sary due to increasing costs of run ning the business. On the first day of the strike, only 16 buses were on the road during the morning rush period, a time when the normal load of 55 buses is filled. Waits on shuttle bus routes were re ported to be anywhere from 20 min utes to one hour longer than the normal 5- to 15 minute waits. Ac cording to the Daily Texan, the stu dent newspaper at UT, an average of 18,000 to 20,000 students, faculty and staff ride the buses daily. By Wednesday of this week, TEI had hired enough additional drivers to bring their service up to capacity. As of yet, however, no settlement has been reached between TEI and the union. Student Death TEXAS TECH officials are con ducting an investigation into the Football Weekend Sleeping Rooms at Aggie Hall 693-9891 i ✓ - m n / Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. Each Daily Special Only $1.49 Plus Tax. “Open Daily” Dining: 11 AM to 1:30 PM — 4:30 PM to 7 PM . UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT 50c BEER EVERY NIGHT :s . MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy Whipped Potatoes Your Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea TUESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Mexican Fiesta Dinner Two Cheese and Onion Enchiladas w/chili Mexican Rice Patio Style Pinto Beans Tostadas Coffee or Tea One Corn Bread and Butter WEDNESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Chicken Fried Beef Steak w/cream Gravy Whipped Potatoes and Choice of one other Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea AGGIE HALL (FORMERLY AGGIELAND INN) THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE Parmesan Cheese - Tossed Green Salad Choice of Salad Dressing - Hot Garlic Bread Tea or Coffee FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL BREADED FISH FILET w/TARTAR SAUCE Cole Slaw Hush Puppies Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SATURDAY NOON and EVENING SPECIAL “Yankee Pot Roast Texas Style” Tossed Salad Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee “Quality First” SUNDAY SPECIAL NOON and EVENING ROAST TURKEY DINNER Served with Cranberry Sauce Cornbread Dressing Roll or Corn Bread - Butter - Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And your choice of any One vegetable TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY TOWN HALL SERIES presents cAliity Q/tii t tj 'Dincli with Augie Meyers FRIDAY, SEPT. 10, 1976 8:00 P.M. G. ROLLIE WHITE COLISEUM TICKETS A&M Student Non A&M Student Date General -PuMtO^ GENERAL ADMISSION RESERVED] Free W/Ticket $4.50 $3.00 $4.50 All season tickets honored. Everyone must pick up a ticket Tickets and information available at M.S.C. Box Office, first floor ofRudder Tower. Open 9-4 Mon.-Fri. 845-2916. No cameras or recording equipment allowed. death of Samuel Mark Click, 20 years old and a Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike) sophomore. A Sante Fe freight train struck and killed Click on August 23, two miles east of Shallowater, Texas, about 2:30 a.m. Investigators are at tempting to determine whether or not hazing was involved in the inci dent. The Texas Education Code de fines hazing as “any willful act by one student alone or acting with others, directed against any other stu dent...done for the purpose of sub mitting the student to indignity or humiliation...or physical violence.” Active Pike members allegedly accompanied pledges to a pasture near the train tracks late Sunday. Pike initiates were counting railroad ties looking for a letter before the accident occurred. Police officers had ordered the group to leave the area shortly before the incident hap pened. Tech’s Pike President said the in cident did not involve hazing, inia- tion rites, or even fraternity ac tivities. If investigators find that Pike members have violated the Code of Student Affairs, they may bring charges which could result in proba tion, a reprimand or possibly sus pension according to the University Daily, Tech’s student newspaper. Housing Students at A&M have coped with a serious housing problem for years now. There are just too few dorm rooms available for the amount of students we have. But at least our administrators have never made the serious mistake that BAYLOB S ad ministrators made this year regard ing fall dorm room assignments. About 100 freshmen, 90 women and 10 men, had to set up house keeping in study halls and dorm basements because officials at the of fice of Student Affairs promised rooms to 237 students beyond capac ity. They figured that a certain per cent of the students who were as signed rooms wouldn’t show up in August for one reason or another— homesickness, emergencies, trans fers to other universities, and marriage—and after last November’s cut off date, they began a waiting list to fill these vacancies. Much to their dismay, there was merely a trickle of cancellations. Needless to say, the administrators misfigured. What a way to start a college career. Actually, temporary dorm room assignments and overcrowded con ditions seem to be the trend this year. TEXAS TECH is also ex periencing housing problems as 145 women were temporarily assigned rooms in one of the older dorms on campus, which is being slightly re modeled to better accomodate the students. Unlike Baylor, however, Tech at least has somewhere to put their overflow of students. Also, 28 women and 20 men have been temporarily assigned to rooms in various dorms on campus usually reserved for staff members, some students are living with resident as- eith ed lenly kM nan. sistants and non-handicapped dents are living in rooms resa r j un for the handicapped. kita b pipn ficials. Tech administratorsaie ing for cancellations. NORTH TEXAS STATE VERSITY had to reopenoneoti dorms and put beds in activity ij |j“ on to try and solve their housingp L sa o lems. This fall’s 3,016 dorm requests can be attributed I shortage of apartments and l* “ r ’ re in Denton and to the com prices for on-campus rooms, ing to Jim Peterson, assi: ing director. EAST TEXAS STATE Ul sistanti yBe dbe SITY in Commerce Texas, la ^ sc the h ince man start ist T< the opposite problem. Off(si| apartments are packed wlilt number of students living oncan| is down. A check with local ment managers revealed only vacancy in off-campus apart* University dorms and apart* , j n t ( held 2,016 students as ofSepl.1 compared to 2,096 at thesamt last year. Parking Coupled with too many wanting dorm rooms, NOP TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITI has too many students wanting ;er ir 60 ya 5. re fn to be en o aths i street parking permits. Morel n tea 1,500 decals for the 500 to oil the-street parking spaces were to registering students. As a res !witl the red decals for on-street pail are no longeF available to stndal ilydu her t Ofk ther However, there are still parking spaces available atll football field, and shuttle buses from there to campus every se sess r minutes. Film Controversy At UT this summer, allegaS ^ were made that various groups T campus were pocketing theirpn ^ from films they show and also counterfeit films. Beginning this fall, because! policy instituted by Universityl ident Lorene Rogers, studenl ganizations other than theli Union, Student Government partmental groups are bannedli showing films for a profit. An independent commil created by the Student Governs has recommended that studenti ganizations still be allowed toil films for a profit, but offered s ' ^ possible guidelines for proflteerii The recommendation unaniiw passed the student senate awaiting action by the administ tion. On The Lighter On the lighter side o! to® v TEXAS TECH begins this fall wfelmoil new president. Dr. Cecil Abb been inaugurated as Tech’s ail 63r-oh president replacing Grover Mua sddlin who occupied the office for llej Kingn 10 years. Also at Tech, the Universi Police Department has comf with a revolutionary way to rat revioi hi those offenders on bicycles. If bicyclists must now beware ofi flap a policeman on two wheels—bicy that is—who rides around enforcii the school’s bicycle regulations >>;« »;« »:»-< >>;< »;« »;< >-»:« »>;< »:<»:« >«:• M M M NOW COMES MILLER TIME n m For your party needs, Miller Kegs, Lite, Lowen- brau half barrels, and Miller Munchner (dark), Miller Ponies too. See your college rep. Bruce Wayne or call 822-3623 and reserve yours now for your party needs. We appreciate it. §. BRAZOS BEVERAGES 505 Hwy. 2818 t i Industrial Park § 822-3623 misia er ci was VVa mg a Hard right onfide into s spr er ( Shi one addit g witl lem c ted. 1 entei lentia lame a fine ut Fat ice al may r icking KING ELMi card < ota ki ne of Ther or D: authentic CHINESE FOOD LUNCH SPECIALS $1.95 and up Served Every Fri., Sal. & Sunday DINNER: Tuesday thru Sunday Closed Mondays HONG KONG RESTAURANT 3805 S. TEXAS AVE. Between Burger King and 7 Eleven Store 846-8345