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Battalion
Vol. 70 No. 11
Friday, September 17, 1976
College Station, Texas
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Business Dept. 845-2611
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that he and his wife are getting tickets for run
ning a stop sign on their bikes. Officer W. C.
Hataway of the College Station police who is
sued the ticket Wednesday, says that the same
laws legislated for motor vehicles apply to bicy
cles also and that the police department tries to
enforce these rules. The fine is $ 10 for running a
stop sign on a bike.
tion in Texas. I have addressed again and
again the question of producing more
graduates in some fields than there are jobs
available; I have done this in the hope that
our leaders in education will do something
about it. I have also done it to help our
young people to know that they should
think twice about their college plans. They
need to know that a college education
doesn’t guarantee ajob. They need to know
that they had better be careful what field of
study they enter. They need to know that
vocational and technical training is an hon
orable goal and also may give them a better
(See BRISCOE, Page 8.)
Exchange
store gets
renovations
Plans are being made to renovate the old
Exchange Store on Ross Street to a new
Admissions and Records headquarters.
The plans will be presented to the Board
of Regents during a board meeting Sept 27,
Dr. Charles E. McCandless, director of
academic planning and services, said re
cently. He said the board will have to ap
prove the plans before any progress is
made in remodeling the 70-year-olct build
ing.
McCandless estimated cost of the reno
vation at $250,000. He added that the proj
ect would take approximately two years to
finish.
The move is planned to alleviate crowd
ing of both the admissions and the fiscal
offices in the Coke Building. If the plan is
approved, only fiscal operations will re
main in the Coke Building.
“The crowded Coke Building is usually
the first one visitors, former students, new
students and parents see when they come
to the Texas A&M campus. It just doesn’t
project the image we’d like to show,”
McCandless said.
He said the Exchange Store building
would not be expanded, but both floors
would be used. The second floor is now
used only for storage.
Until this semester, the building housed
a branch of the Texas A&M Bookstore and a
student lounge. It was also the pre
registration center and the adds and drops
center.
Chuck Cargill, manager of the Univer
sity Center Complex, said the store has
been in continous operation since 1907.
Until the Memorial Student Center Com
plex opened in 1973, the main Texas A&M
Bookstore was located in the Exchange
Store. He added that the second floor had
once been a dry cleaning shop.
Cargill, who received his Bachelor of
business administration degree from Texas
A&M in 1953, said, “A lot of people, like
me, who have been around here for a while
sort of hated to see the place close.”
TOP OF THE NEWS
Local
National
. THE RAILROAD COMMIS
SION h as scheduled December
hearings on the refusal of Bryan and
College Station to allow Lone Star
Gas Co. to raise gas rates. The cities
also rejected the company’s effort to
pass through its extra natural gas
costs, and Lone Star also is appealing
that to the commission. The Bryan
hearing is set in Austin for Dec. 13
and the College Station hearing for
Dec. 15.
Texas
THE TEXAS YOUTH COUN
CIL and Gov. Dolph Briscoe ap
proved yesterday a plan to spend al
most $5 million on treatment of
juvenile delinquents and pre
delinquents outside of traditional re
form schools.
NINETEEN CASES of St. Louis
encephalitis have been verified in
Harris County since the first con
firmed case was reported Aug. 13.
Ten suspected cases have also be re
ported, however there have been no
deaths connected with the illness.
Health officials in the Houston area
said that the 1976 outbreak appears
to be on the downswing.
THE DEATH PENALTY has
been assessed to Billy Georgq
Hughes in Baytown, convicted of
capital murder in the shooting death
of a Texas Department of Public
Safety officer. A seven-man, five-
woman jury deliberated about three
hours yesterday before convicting
Hughes. It then spent a little more
than an hour deciding the sentence.
JAMES DUNN, director of the
Christian Life Commission of the
Baptist General Convention of
Texas, said yesterday that he regret
ted saying that John Connally would
cost President Ford the vote of Texas
Baptists in November.
PRESIDENT GERALD FORD
is expected to sign the tax bill today
that continues some existing income
tax cuts and makes major revisions in
the nation’s tax laws. Congress ap
proved the bill Thursday.
A TRUCK CARRYING $57,500
in freshly minted pennies collided
with a cattle truck yesterday killing
two persons and an unknown
number of livestock and scattering
millions of pennies over the road,
officials said. No estimate was avail
able on how many of the 5.7 million
pennies were unrecovered by inves
tigators at the scene.
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
has voted to sanction women priests,
but there are strong indications that
many dioceses won’t accept them.
World
SECRETARY OF STATE Henry
A. Kissinger flies to Pretoria today
for a new round of talks with the
region’s leading white spokesman.
South African Prime Minister John
Vorster. Kissinger hopes to obtain
from Vorster a commitment to
negotiate with the South-West Af
rica People’s Organization, a black
nationalist group Vorster has refused
to recognize as a party to talks lead
ing to independence for the South
African territory, also called
Namibia.
COMMUNIST VIETNAM may
soon qualify for indirect financial aid
from the United States and other de
veloped nations by joining the
International Monetary Fund and
the World Bank, U.S. officials said
yesterday.
Energy price deregulation
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By PEGGY EMERSON
A suit contesting the results of the foot-
- ill ticket referendum held last spring has
ien filed against the Texas A&M Student
ivernment election commission.
Cited was Susan Price, chairman of that
mmission. The case was filed last April
students Steve Ingram and Dave
ihnson. A hearing date has not been set.
Student government held the referen-
um to determine the method students
wld use to obtain home football game
tkets. Students had a choice between first
Mne, first serve or random allocation.
The election commission’s announced
Suits of the referendum showed 2,488
oters preferred random allocation and
294 voters wanted the first come, first
erve method.
Ingram said, “We filed the case after
fag with people who counted or were
ivolved in counting the votes. The initial
ote count was different from the an-
ouncedvote count. People said what was
nnounced was 400 votes off from the initial
ount.”
Ingrain, who served in student govern-
n »entlast year, believes voters favored the
irstcome first serve method of obtaining
icltets. “We aren’t exactly sure what hap-
ened between the closing of the polls and
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the announcing of the results, two weeks
later, Ingram said. “Ballots were kept in an
unlocked box in the student government
office.”
Ingram said, “Funny thing about this
situation, assuming they (the election
commission) knew what the first count was,
and they knew what the second count was,
why didn’t they make a third count?”
Ingram and Johnson feel there is a lack of
communication between the judicial board
and student government. They filed their
case in April and have not had a hearing.
Price, chairman of the election commis
sion for 1975-76, presently holds the office
of executive director of student govern
ment.
She said, “My duties as election commis
sion chairman were to run the elections,
make candidates follow the rules, tally
votes, and announce election results.”
“I made the official counting of the bal
lots approximatley four days after the elec
tion, Price said. “The ballots were sepa
rated into a pile for random allocation and a
pile for first come, first serve. Executive
aides and upper class senators put them
into smaller counted stacks. This is where
Steve got his first counting. The official
counting was done by three members of
the election commission and myself.”
Fred McClure, 1976-77 student gov
ernment president said, “The results of any
election are not valid or official until the
election commission announces the results
and signs the tally sheet.”
Wesley Harris, chairman of the student
body judicial board said, “Ingram and
Johnson filed the case last year. At that
time the judicial board had not been ap
pointed and there was no one to hear the
case. Judicial board appointments were
made just last week.”
Harris said, “I expected Ingram to give
me a call if he wanted to pursue the case.
Now, that I know he wants a hearing, we
will have a hearing. There is not much
formality.”
Shuttle bus
service grows
Three shuttle bus routes have been re
used and one bus has been added to the
Texas A&M shuttle bus service because of
overcrowded conditions in past weeks.
EdBloser, local manager of Transporta
tion Enterprises, Inc., yesterday said that
ingested conditions occur because “any
one who comes in new has to go off campus
onless they are in the corps.Last year we
carried 5,000 people. This year we carry
6,300.”
Bloser said buses are scheduled to run 10
to 15 minutes apart between stops. He
explained that early morning and afternoon
traffic sometimes causes delays in service,
service.
Bus drivers say they are still having to
lass up students because their buses are
loaded. Revised schedules are expected to
irovide backup buses within minutes in
these situations.
—Peggy Emerson
Dorm closet doors
costly to replace
Regulation of energy prices is a problem,
not a solution, contended Speaker of the
Texas House of Representatives Bill
Clayton, a featured speaker at Texas A&M
University’s energy conference.
“Deregulation would encourage de
velopment of our remaining resources,” he
said. “In North Texas alone, the unregu
lated market has caused a 300 per cent
increase in drilling activity and has brought
about a 1,500 per cent increase in gas de
liveries.”
“As a result of deregulation, large busi
nesses and industries would find it profita
ble to use other sources of energy,”
Clayton explained. “Without this impetus,
it could take 60 years or more to switch
from natural gas to another source of
energy.”
“To replace last year’s 15 per cent
shortfall of 2.8 trillion cubic feet of in
terstate gas, consumers paid $3 billion for
alternate fuels,” he pointed out. “Eighty-
five per cent of the gas that was delivered to
them cost only $3 billion. This year’s pro
jection of a shortage of a 3.62 trillion cubic
feet could have reverberations throughout
the economy.”
Clayton said that unless America adopts
an energy based on self-preservation,
sound economics and profits associated
with the free enterprise system, the coun
try will force itself to the brink of economic
and political disaster.
“I advocate leaving the free enterprise
system to its own devices as much as possi
ble, and free enterprise will take care of the
problem,” he added.
Arthur H. Barbeck, chief engineer of the
Texas Railroad Commission, said that it is
currently the commission’s objective to
proceed further “in our regulation to pro
tect the general public from catastrophies
. . . and continue our environmental pro
tection procedures in a reasonable and
responsible manner.”
In 1978 the commission will save the
state over 50 million barrels of oil, 238 trill
ion cubic feet of gas and 144 million
kilowatt hours with a dollar value of
$558,637,000, Barbeck said. Savings in
1979 would increase to $656,828,000 he
said, with methods such as prevention of oil
spills, controlling gas flaring and rates of
production, increasing secondary recovery
production and energy savings by keeping
wells flowing.
Perhaps some of the most illuminating
statements during the conference came
from a question-and-answer period at the
end of the conference.
Universities should try to remedy the
fact that they have “raised a nation of eco
nomic illiterates,” Barbeck said. “We
found that only one out of five high school
graduates has taken a course explaining our
free enterprise system and only one out of
nine at the college level. Russian school
children know more about our economic
system than our own.”
In response to a question about the use of
coal, Dr. William Fulkerson, director of
the energy division of Oak Ridge National
Laboratories, said “if increased coal is to
prove socially acceptable, environmental
disadvantages of the fuel must be avoided.
“Fundamental questions about potential
effects of coal residuals must be answered,”
he added. “We ll have to take into consid
eration CO2 emission effects on the global
weather pattern.”
He said that if the models they have
prepared are correct, the earth’s tempera
ture could be raised anywhere from .8 to 11
degrees Centigrade during the next 100
years.
“If those models are all right, we don’t
have that much time, maybe 10 years, to
decide our energy policy,” Fulkerson con
cluded.
By MICHAEL GIBSON
At least one student at Texas A&M Uni
versity is upset over a new policy preclud
ing the replacement of closet doors at Uni
versity expense in campus dormitories.
When Cindy Sparks, a junior psychology
major, returned to school this fall, she dis
covered the closet doors in her Keathley
dorm room were gone. She had been living
in the same room for the past three semes
ters. She and her new roommate, Lisa
Kratz, a senior psychology major, tried to
have the doors replaced.
“At first I thought they were going to do
something,” Sparks said Wednesday. She
said that the doors were broken during the
summer, and she didn’t know why they
would be held responsible.
Beginning with the head resident of
Keathley Hall, the two women entered the
world of bureaucracy in an attempt to get
new doors. Eventually they were told the
doors couldn’t be replaced by the Univer
sity because of a policy set up to save
money.
E.C. Oates, director of maintenance and
safety for the University, told the Battalion
Thursday, “It’s just a doggone conservation
measure.”
The doors are being removed without
replacement as they wear out, he said, be
cause replacement would be too expen
sive.
“It’s to try to keep the cost of these dorms
as low as possible,” he explained. “They’re
pretty damn high right now.”
Oates said the same policy is in effect for
all the dorms. Although the school won’t
replace the doors, students are welcome to
hang curtains at their own expense, he
said.
Parking problems
All Texas A&M University stu
dents should move their vehicles out
of parking lots 48, 56, 60, 61, and 62
by 10 a.m. on hometown game days.
University Police Chief O. L.
Luther warns.
Students need to move their vehi
cles from those areas so that visitors
will have a place to park, Luther
said. “I suggest that Lot 50, (East of
Zachry), is a good place for students
to park their vehicles during this
.time.”
Williams gives speech
at centennial assembly
By Gail Johnson
“The very triumphs of medicine have
caused physicians to lose sight of its roots, ”
Dr. L. Pearce Williams, guest speaker at a
Centennial Academic Assembly, said yes
terday afternoon at Rudder Theater.
Williams discussed the medical profes
sion and its origins and emphasized where
he feels it has gone wrong. He discussed
the problems and responsibilities caused
by rapid advances in medical treatment
and technology.
Williams is a John Stambaugh Professor
of the history of science at Cornell Univer
sity in Ithaca, New York. He is a naval
veteran of World War II, and taught at Yale
and the University of Delaware before re
turning to teach Cornell University.
Williams received his Ph. D. at Cornell.
Williams emphasized the responsibility
of the modern physician to educate the
public about medicine and death. He said
that Americans tend to ignore death be
cause of the increase in technology and the
virtual elimination of all major plagues.
Williams spoke about the lack of public
knowledge in the fields of medicine. He
complained that the medical profession
hides itself from people with other occupa
tions.
Latin soul
Battalion photo by Chris Svatek
This is the name of the mariachi group, “Alma
Latina,” from Houston. The band played yes
terday at the MSC plaza and student lounge.
The entertainment was presented by the Com
mittee for Awareness of Mexican American Cul
ture.