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Vol. 70 No. 14
8 Pages
Thursday, September 23, 1976
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
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younger brother having just run away from home.
Buddy, portrayed by Bill Sly, is telling his older
brother that he had to move away from their par
ents to have fun. The two are appearing at Stage
Center in the Neil Simon play “Come Blow Your
Horn,” which runs through Oct. 2.
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By LEE ROY LESCHPER
athylm -(instruction plans and appropriations
y dominate discussion at the Texas
MUniversity Board of Regents meeting
;t Tuesday.
e Regents will consider approval of
6,500 in appropriations for construction
theA&M campus. Those appropriations
femade since the last Regents’ meeting
University President Jack K. Williams
lyW. C. Freeman, executive president
administration. Freeman has been act-
aspresident while Williams is recover-
frorn recent heart attacks.
Inder state law a university president
make construction appropriations in
aunts less than $100,000 when funds are
ided immediately for a construction
ject.
'rejects funded under those appropria-
is include: replacement and addition of
ter lines on campus, additional paving
irthe Fish Pond on Houston St., con-
ion of the third floor of Zachry En-
eering Center to office space, and allo-
jions for several smaller projects,
reeman, acting in President William’s
also allocated $57,000 for im-
ivements in Milner Hall, now being
iverted to office space.
The Regents are scheduled to consider
Katinganother $125,000 to Milner Hall
pay for moveable furniture Tuesday.
Other requested appropriations the Re
nts will consider include funds for design
planning work for improvements in
mean Dining Hall, replacement of the
esent Horse Barns and Arena, conver-
fflofthe Exchange Store Building, and
idification of Budder Tower’s second
lor for use as office space.
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Three long-time administrators of the
A&M System who retired Sept. 1 will be
honored during the meeting. A. R.
Luedecke, former System executive vice-
president, Tom D. Cherry, former A&M
vice-president for business affairs, and J. A.
Amis, former System attorney, will receive
Emeritus titles from the Regents.
The College of Business Administration
plans to request that the System rehire
Professor Emeritus Edward Packenham,
71, to teach one accounting course for the
fall semester because of an overload of ac
counting courses.
The Texas Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion is trying to rehire retired Dr.
Raymond Reiser, 70, as a special consultant
on research projects. Reiser, who retired
recently, is a nationally known expert in
lipid chemistry.
The Regents are also expected to ap
prove a resolution making Oct. 4, 1976
Centennial Day in commeration of the cen
tennial anniversary of Texas A&M. Classes
first opened at A&M Oct. 4, 1876.
The meeting is open to the public and
begins Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. in the Board
Room of the Regents’ Quarters.
By JAMIE AITKEN
Battalion City Editor
Governor Dolph Briscoe has urged the
completion of Limestone Dam, a facility 25
miles north of College Station, while en
vironmentalists continue to press for com
pensating lands for wildlife displaced by
reservoir waters.
In a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Briscoe said that “this impor
tant water resource development project
has the full approval of the state of Texas
(and) is urgently needed as an element of
the Brazos River Authority’s basin-wide
system of water conservation and water
supply lakes.”
The Corps of Engineers is responsible
for the issuance of the permit for construc
tion of the reservoir. Public comment on
the project has included statements by en
vironmental groups and the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, beside that of the gover
nor.
Don Dobel, stiiff biologist at the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service regional office in
Albuquerque, N.M., said yesterday that
recommendations have been made to the
Corps of Engineers by the Fish and
Wildlife Service that 15,000 acres of land
be set aside to compensate for habitat in
undated by the reservoir.
Dobel said that the recommendation was
made under the provisions of the Fish and
Wildlife Coordination Act, a federal law
stating that such compensation must at
least be considered before permits are is
sued.
“Our job is to make recommendations,
but it is up to the Corps of Engineers to
decide what measures are actually taken,”
Dobel said.
The cost of the wildlife acreage is esti
mated at $8 million.
The Limestone Dam project is under the
direction of the Brazos River Authority
(BRA), a state agency created to control.
conserve and develop the water resources
of the Brazos River Basin.
BRA spokesman Col. Walter Wells said
yesterday that the project was already ap
proximately 35 per cent complete. He ex
plained that the reservoir was started be
fore Congress gave the Corps of Engineers
jurisdiction over permits.
“We are preceding as rapidly as we can,’
Wells said. “We expect the project to be
completed in early 1978.”
“The Fish and.Wildlife Department
submitted a recommendation (to the Corps
of Engineers) that the permit be denied
unless 15,000 acres are purchased for
wildlife, and the land turned over to the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department,’
Wells said.
He contended that the BRA could not
purchase the land. “First,” he said, “our
operation is not funded by taxes, but by the
revenues we earn by making water avail
able. We also do not have the legal power
to buy land for that purpose. So even if it
could be shown to be in the public interest,
we haven’t the money or the legal power to
do it.”
Cornelius Van Bavel, spokesman for the
Brazos County Environmental Action
Council (EAC), said the EAC supports the
Fish and Wildlife recommendation, and
has entered statements to that effect with
the BRA and Corps of Engineers.
“The lake will diminish the wildlife and
public recreation along the (now existent)
river,” Van Bavel said. “Some improve
ments may take place, but part of this will
be taken away.”
“If these things are taken away,” he said,
“then some sort of mitigation should be
made to the public.”
The various groups involved disagree as
to who should pay for the compensation.
The BRA contends that the costs should be
borne by wildlife agencies. The EAC, on
the other hand, claims that the $8 million
would be but “a drop in the bucket” to
Texas Utilities, the purchaser of the Limes
tone Reservoir water.
Both sides in the issue do agree that
Limestone is a crucial test case which will
set the precedent for reservoir projects in
the future.
Robert Moak of the Corps of Engineers
operations division, said yesterday that the
recommendations of the governor. Fish
and Wildlife Service and EAC will be filed
with all other suggestions, and will be
evaluated in the next two or three weeks.
Then, he said, a final statement will be sent
to Washington, D.C. where the Council on
Environmental Quality will consider all
proposals.
Moak said that he did not expect any
action on the matter for three to five
months.
“This study will undergo all the adminis
trative procedures,” Moak said. “We re not
going to take any shortcuts.”
Two positions
available on
Student Senate
Positions are open for one under
graduate off-campus senator and for
one education graduate senator on
the Texas A&M Student Senate.
Senate President Fred McClure
said applications will be taken from
September 27 to October 1 in room
216-C (the Student Government of
fice) of the Memorial Student Cen
ter. Applicants can sign up for inter
views at that time.
Cities: a commodity
says Cornell prof
Hart Hall forms escort service
for night-conscious A&M women
Present day American cities are no
longer thought of as artifacts as they were
50 years ago, a Cornell University profes
sor said yesterday at Texas A&M Univer
sity.
“Today the cities are not thought of as a
community resource but rather as a com
modity resource for rich speculators,” said
John W. Reps, Chairman of the City and
Regional Planning Department at Cornell
University.
“This trend of thought began after World
War II ended, and today’s generation does
not want to disperse the public domain of
land anymore than it already is,” Reps said.
Reps presented a detailed slide show in
which he explained the colonial period of
urban development. He said that when
America’s first cities were being built, the
designers planned the city designs for pub
lic use.
“Almost all the cities and towns in
America were planned settlements, and
they were planned for and by the persons
who would be living and working there,”
he said.
“But now, city planning has come to look
like a cosmetic-type of planning where our
sights for the people have been limited,
Reps said.
“In colonial times, buildings were never
conceived at the same time as the town
lay-out plan was. It was a primitive kind of
planning,” Reps said.
Many states began constructing cities as
public centers but most of the larger cities
were built to be capitols of the various
states, he said.
He said many cities grew because of the
presence of the railroads and that this
helped prosper the towns and cities. “Once
the cities were formed and had their basic
central pattern, they began to consolidate
their position in the regional province.
Reps said.’
— Jim Northcutt
By JAN BAILEY
A group of 50 Hart Hall male students,
alarmed about rumors of rape on campus,
have established an escort service to pro
tect females after dark.
Campus Police Chief O. L. Luther had
no comment on the escort service, but said
the rape rumor “just isn’t true.”
Luther said Tuesday he did not know
how the rape rumors had been started. He
said only one rape was reported to his de
partment during the 1975-1976 school
year. This case did not stand in court be
cause of insufficient evidence.
“I should think, and hope, that any (rape
attempt) would be reported. But I don’t see
any basis for these rumors about a great
number of rapes being committed,’’
Luther said.
Luther said that officers patrolled the
campus on a 24-hour basis. He said any
female who had to park her car across the
tracks at night could be escorted back to
her dorm in a police vehicle. Luther said
women should look for a patrol car on these
parking lots and ask for an escort.
Since the Hart Escort Service began
operating Monday night on a trial basis,
only residents of Krueger Hall have been
using the service. About 50 Hart Hall resi
dents have volunteered to work as escorts
during a three-week period. They are
available from 6:30 p.m. to 7 a.m., Sunday
through Thursday.
Bill Boyd, one of the six coordinators of
the group, said the main aim of the service
was to help prevent rape attempts at Texas
A&M. He said the men started the group
because they were hearing about an in
creasing number of rapes and wanted to
help stop them.
Another coordinator, Donnie Scott, said
he devised the escort plan this summer
after a friend was raped in Houston. He
said sources he could not disclose told him
the rapidly increasing number of rape cases
had become a real problem on this campus.
Scott said the same sources told him the
campus police were having difficulty pa
trolling the parking lots because they had
to escort women back to their dorms.
One of the volunteer escorts said he was
very sincere about the importance of
women using the service. But when this
reporter tried to interview him about the
service, he asked her for a date.
Brad Treadwell, another coordinator,,
stressed that the first three weeks of the
service will serve as a trial period. After the
end of the trial period, the service will
continue and expand only as it is accepted
Student Senate kills r^TOP OF THE NEWS
‘no confidence’ bill
Photo by Denise Edmonds
Agony . . . despair
This African sculpture will be displayed through Oct. 9 with other art
from Africa in the Rudder Exhibit Hall. The display. Art of Black
Africa-Cultural and Contemporary, is owned by Rex Gray, class of’41,
and is co-sponsored by the MSC directorate. Arts Committee and the
Black Awareness Committee.
The Texas A&M Student Senate
narrowly defeated last night a resolu
tion which would have allowed stu
dents to vote “no confidence” in
Student Government elections.
The bill, introduced by Stan Stan
field, vice president for academic af
fairs was defeated 33-30 with one
abstention.
Vice President for Finance Scott
Gregson strongly opposed the bill.
“This proposal has no place in our
election process, on a campus level,
a local level, or a national level,’’ he
said.
Stanfield, on the other hand, said,
“No voter should be denied the right
for participation in an election due to
his lack of confidence in the candi
dates.”
Under the defeated resolution,
“no confidence” voting would have
appeared on the ballot of Student
Government elections for president
and vice presidents. If the voter did
not approve of any of the candidates
on the ballot, he would have been
able to vote “no confidence.
If a majority of the votes for a posi
tion were cast as “no confidence,” a
second election would be held
within two weeks of the first elec
tion.
The filling for that position would
reopen for the second ballot, and the
“no confidence” selection would not
be on that ballot
The senators were divided almost
in half on the issue. The senators
debated at some length the resolu
tion that would have changed the
voting prodeedure used in the past.
“A negative vote like ‘no confi
dence,’ does not do anything to aid
the image of Student Govermnent,”
Gregson said. “A&M is a unique in
stitution because we have resisted
useless change. This is a useless
change. Lets keep A&M unique.”
Stanfield said, “The use of confi
dence voting encompasses the basic
rationale of being wise enough to
choose representative leadership.
The logical end to the transferal of
that rationale is that an individual
who is given the responsibility to
choose his leaders should be given
the chance to reject leadership
which he deems undesirable.”
According to a poll taken by the
canvcassing committe of the senate,
students on campus are in favor of
the resolution. The poll of 229 per
sons resulted in 78.1 per cent agree
ing that there should be a method to
demonstrate ‘no confidence,’ with
17.0 per cent disagreeing. The re
maining 4.8 per cent said, “maybe.”
—Bobby Johnston
Campus
HERMANN PARK in Houston
will be the site for midnight yell
practice for the Texas A&M-
University of Houston football
game. Head yell leader Joe D. Mick-
ler said the yell practice will begin at
midnight at Miller Theater. Neither
Texas A&M nor the City of Houston
officially supports this gathering.
Local yell practice will be held to
night at 7:15 p.m. at Kyle Field.
the Diamond Shamrock Corp. near
the San Jacinto Battleground in
Houston.
National
Texas
DEMOCRATIC presidential
candidate Jimmy Carter will cam
paign in Houston and Dallas tomor
row and the co-chairman of his cam
paign says that his comments in the
Playboy Magazine interview might
actually help him in the state.
TWENTY-NINE RAILROADS
across the state have asked for a 5 per
cent general increase in intrastate
freight charges. James Simpson of
Dallas, representing the railroads,
said the requested increases are
made necessary by increased operat
ing costs, which have not been cov
ered by previous increases. The rail
road commission in Austin set a pub
lic hearing for Nov. 15.
A TEXAS Air Control Board hear
ing examiner has approved construc
tion of a major vinyl chloride plant by
THE VIKING 2 discovery of fro
zen water at the north pole of Mars
raises the possibility that some form
of life may be locked beneath the icy
surface, scientists say.
THE HOUSE ETHICS Commit
tee yesterday abandoned attempts in
Washington to punish television re
porter Daniel Schorr for refusing to
hand over his copy of a secret intelli
gence report or to say where he got
the report. The five-month investi
gation cost $150,000.
THE MISSOURI Pacific Rail
road, on whose tracks an Amtrak de
railment occurred Monday, has re
fused to the allow Federal Railroad
Administration to inspect its tracks.
World
LEBANON CHANGED Chris
tian presidents today, but the civil
war that has ravaged the Moslem-
Christian nation for months blazed
away without letup. President
Sulieman Franjieh handed over his
constitutional authority to
President-elect Elias Sarkis. Lead
ers of the right-wing Christian
militias pledged their support to
Sarkis.
and used. He said if Krueger residents
used the escort service. Hart Hall would
consider expanding to other women’s dor
mitories.
By Tuesday only two calls concerning
the service had come through the coor
dinating center. One was a thank-you for
the service; the other, a prank call. Several
volunteers stressed the importance of sin
cere calls.
If a Krueger resident feels she needs an
escort during the darker evening hours,
she should call one of the coordinators of
the service. He will assign a Hart volunteer
to escort her back to her dorm. The coor
dinators requested calls be made in ad
vance of the time they are needed, so the
volunteers can arrange to be there at the
proper time. The woman will be asked her
name, phone number and room number
for verification. The Hart escorts will wear
identification badges.
Several of the volunteers said women
from other dorms should call if they feel
they need an escort. They also added that
the service could be extended to the
weekends if the women wanted the protec
tion.
Telephone numbers for requesting an
escort are 845-4997,845-4097 and 845-
2388.