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By LEE ROY LESCHPER JR.
Battalion Staff
For the first time, student organi
zations not officially recognized by
Texas A&M University can buy
space in A&M’s “Aggieland” year
book on an equal basis with recog
nized organizations.
A&M’s Student Publications
Board decided last night to allow
unrecognized organizations, made
up primarily of fraternities and
sororities, to buy space in the 1977
yearbook at the same rate charged
recognized organizations.
In the past, unrecognized organi
zations either were excluded from
the book or were charged a standard
advertising rate, twice the rate
charged recognized organizations.
When allowed to buy advertising
space, the unrecognized organiza
tions were placed in the index sec
tion of the book, away from other
student groups.
The board made the decision
after Board Chairman Bob Rogers
said the book would no longer carry
advertising. The advertising, he
said, would cost more to publish
than the revenue it would bring in.
Without advertising in the year
book, the board had to decide either
to exclude unrecognized organiza
tions entirely or put them on an
equal basis with recognized groups,
Rogers said.
University recognition is an offi
cial stamp-of-approval that the
A&M Student Organizations Board
grants to student groups which have
met certain criteria the organiza
tions board sets. Fraternities and
sororities have been the most nota
ble groups refused recognition.
Dr. Gary Halter, the publications
board member who recommended
that recognized and unrecognized
organizations be treated equally in
the book, said leaving the unrecog
nized groups out of the book
excluded many students who have
every right to be there.
“We’re penalizing some organiza
tions for not being recognized by
the University,” he said. “They’re a
part of student life. If we sell space
to some organizations, we should to
all. Whether a student is part of a
recognized or an unrecognized or
ganization, he still helps pay for the
book when he buys one.”
Student Publications Director
Gael L. Cooper said the fee that or
ganizations pay for space in the
yearbook covers about one-sixth of
the cost for that space.
Much of the revenue to cover
costs for the yearbook comes from
sales to members of the organiza
tions appearing in it. Cooper said.
Aggieland Editor Gary Baldasari
will decide exactly how and where
the unrecognized groups will ap
pear in the book, whether in a sub
division of the book’s organizations
section or as a separate section, Ro
gers said.
The board also decided to make
the 1977-78 A&M campus directory
a check-off item to be added to fees
for fall 1977. Students can decide
whether to buy the directory during
pre-registration for the fall 1977
semester.
The Battalion
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Vol. 70 No. 75
10 Pages
Tuesday, February 15, 1977
College Station, Texas
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By GLENNA WHITLEY
Idents will pay more for football tick-
T?xt fall, a Texas A&M athletic de
tent official said last week.
Southwest Conference (SWC)
J at a meeting of the National Col-
le Athletic Association (NCAA) in
Ji to increase the minimum ticket
Jof sideline seats (general admission)
J$7 to $8, said Wally Groff, assistant
’C. TIk lie director of business affairs. The
10. lair ticket price will increase from $8
said the SWC increased ticket
f because rising costs of travel, schol-
s, salaries and utilities.
Ident ticket prices had been
(tiled to increase from $2.75 to $3..50
before the Jan. 10-13 SWC meet-
jroff said.
at increase was planned as part of a
•year program to increase student
fees and reduce student service fees
to the athletic department. With the
price increase, student prices may
p to $4.
t|1975 the Student Senate and the Ath-
JCouncil agreed that students would
E a ticket and the athletic department
j receive $120,000 from student serv-
is.
1976 students paid $2.75 and
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The original plan was to go to half-price
tickets the third year, which was then
$3.50, and withdraw completely from stu
dent service fees, Groff said.
“Now we don’t know what it’s going to
be. Half-price now is $4,” he said.
Groff said A&M had a choice: cut part of
the $2.5 million athletic program or raise
ticket prices. The athletic department was
in favor of the increase as long as the con
ference was in favor of it, he said.
“We have pretty much met the
maximum income we can derive from
football without raising ticket prices,”
Groff said.
He said 90 per cent of athletic funds
come from football.
Approximately 20,000 students bought
season tickets last fall and Groff said sales
will probably increase this fall.
Groff predicted that only people with
season tickets wll be able to attend confer
ence games like Houston, Texas and Ar
kansas next fall.
“We’re one of the few athletic programs
in the country that has been in the black
the last few years. We are proud of that,”
he said.
Athletic department profits were
$52,195.66 in 1975-76. Groff estimated
that the department will net $47,000 this
academic year.
Profits go into the athletic reserve ac
count and are used to invest in capital
equipment.
The money will also be used if A&M has
a bad year in football.
“We had a 10 and 2 season and if we
don t have a winning season we will lose
money,” Groff said.
Eliminating student service fees for ath
letics could affect other sports events. He
said basketball could cost $1 a game and
baseball 50 cents per game based on the
current general admission prices.
“We have not established any prices for
the new baseball field. There will have to
be some adjustments,” Groff said. The
new baseball field is being built at the old
rodeo arena site on the west campus.
Scott Gregson, student government
vice-president for finance, said he favors
continuing to set aside student service fees
for athletics.
“I feel that this gives us more input in
the athletic program,” Gregson said. He
explained that it would also be cheaper for
those who attended many football and
basketball games.
“Without student services a coupon
book will cost $20, plus $12 for 12 basket
ball games. With student sevices the
coupon book will be $17.50 and basketball
games will be free.
The student service fee was $19 last
semester. This supported student pro
grams that could not pay for themselves,
such as Town Hall, Intramurals, Student
Government and MSC programs.
Gregson said $60,000-$80,000 would be
taken from student services for athletics if
tickets are $3.50 a game.
The amount taken out of each person’s
student service fee would be about $3.50
The Athletic Council Finance Commit
tee, made up of Groff, Student Body Pres
ident Fred McClure, and Accounting De
partment Chairman Dr. Larry Pointer
submitted a budget to the Student Fi
nance Committee last Friday. Informal
hearings on the budget will begin tomor
row.
After approval by the Finance Commit
tee, the budget will be considered by the
Student Senate. President Jack Williams
or Executive Vice-President for Academic
Affairs Clyde Freeman will be asked to
sign it and send it to the Board of Regents
for final approval.
“In order to continue the program, the
students are going to have to pay an equi
table share, and I think the students
agreed or they wouldn’t have gone to this
user fee program in the first place,” Groff
said.
A user fee is one that is paid by the
person that goes to the game.
Gregson said the feeling toward the
total user fee may have changed substan
tially in the Student Senate since the plan
was first introduced.
By KIM TYSON
|nes may be hard up north, but be-
ol measures taken by Texas A&M
ersity, students here will not be
Susly affected by an energy shortage,
perald Scott, control systems manager
e Physical Plant.
May, A&M will have installed a $1
in computerized system to help con-
ve the energy being used in many of
Buildings on campus, Scott said,
ft'ere hoping to reduce our energy
pnption by 10 per cent,” he ex-
led, saying that within three years,
fs savings will pay for the system,
ly monitoring the input to buildings,
:an identify those buildings which
d be using too much energy. Then we
take measures to correct them,” he
lie system will monitor air-
ennis courts
eady in spring
By MYRA KYLE
:xas A&M varsity tennis players and
ents enrolling in tennis classes next
g will be playing on new courts, ac-
ng to Richard Barker, men’s varsity
is coach.
ght varsity courts and 14 practice
ts for tennis classes have been under
[(ruction since Jan. 1 and are expected
5completed Jan. 1, 1978.
he new courts are being built because
pound below the tennis courts is shift-
causing the courts to crack and be-
e unlevel,” said Phil Haas Jr., ar
id for Texas A&M.
ie varsity courts will be concrete with
sphalt and color topping. The profes-
d topping is an acrylic which seals the
tsand makes them uniform,
e practice courts for the tennis
: will be the same except they will
have the layer of asphalt which the
ing courts have. The concrete courts
withstand wear and tear longer,” Haas
ands to seat approximately 600 people
he built on the south end of the courts
gwith coaches’ stands, shower, stor-
facilities and office space.
'e complex will also occupy one of the
unural fields east of the football prac-
field.
There will be lighting on the practice
ts, but not on the varsity courts,”
:er said, “Because right now we are
playing matches at night.
ie total cost of the tennis complex, in-
~ing the 14 new practice courts, is ex-
:ed to be $710,000. The cost of the var-
courts alone is projected at $22,000.
conditioning and heating and can be ad
justed to take the uses of the building and
the people who will occupy it into ac
count. A building not used for experi
ments could be shut down at 9 p.m. after
being cleaned.
The system covers 44 of approximately
100 campus buildings, Scott said, includ
ing the Memorial Student Center, Zachry
Engineering Center, Harrington Educa
tion Center and the Krueger-Dunn-
Mosher-Aston dorm complex.
A month ago A&M was curtailed 100
per cent on natural gas, Scott said, but few
people realized this.
“There was no interruption in any of our
services,” he said, adding that during
normal operation A&M depends totally on
natural gas for its power.
While Bryan and College Station closed
Three students fight to save fuel
Three Texas A&M University students
are fighting their own battle against the
energy crisis.
Mosher Hall residents Lynn Harper,
Linda Scott and Patty Mechelay have
placed signs in the dorm urging others to
turn down their thermostats to 65 degrees
and to turn off unused lights.
“We re trying to conserve energy by
turning off the lights in the study carrels
and encouraging everyone to turn off their
lights when they’re not using them,” said
Harper, a resident advisor.
She said that in her hometown Ocilla,
Ga., the weather is affecting the crops and
livestock, and there are children who
haven’t been in school because there isn’t
any gas.
Mechelay, a sophomore, said they’ve
had a good response overall, but they had
difficulty getting some people to cooper
ate.
“It’s hard to stir people up because it’s
old news,” Mechelay explained.
Harper said she hopes A&M will pursue
its own energy campaign but admitted she
has doubts.
“After seeing a picture of a bumper
sticker in The Battalion, ‘Drive 90, Freeze
a Yankee,’ I think people are kind of
isolationists. They might not want the gas
to go out of Texas,” she explained.
She added, “I just know if it were a re
verse situation I would want them to con
serve energy for me, so that I could be
warm.”
— Kim Tyson
their schools, A&M turned to its own fuel
supply to cover the imbalance.
“We just switched to oil but they
(Bryan-College Station) didn’t have the
facilities to do this,” he said.
In 1973, after undergoing months of
75-100 per cent cutbacks, A&M added a 2
million gallon tank reserve in fuel oil.
Scott explained that previously the Uni
versity was forced to rely on outside fuel
sources when cut back. A&M now has the
capacity to survive from two to three
months of complete curtailment. How
ever, he added that a total cutoff rarely
occurs except for a few hours.
Scott said A&M also has adapted some
of its buildings to conserve energy.
To help reduce energy waste, foam was
used to insulate the roofs of older build
ings. The white spray foam, placed on the
roofs of Sbisa, Duncan Hall and some of
the Corps dorms, improves the roofs’ in
sulating efficiency.
Lighting has also been adjusted to re
duce wasted energy.
“Where we can, we have removed fix
tures in the area without affecting the
overall lighting levels,” Scott said.
Office buildings with excessive lighting
had bulbs removed and sockets coded to
keep them from being replaced.
The University hopes to use the energy
only in the places that need it, Scott said.
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Race is run, music's sung in ‘Falables'
Horace Hare (Steve Kersh) wakes up to find that he has lost the race
to Thaddius T. Tortoise. Horace, in the Aggie Players’ rock musical
“Aesop’s Falables,” took a nap because he was so far ahead of the tort
oise. The Sheep Sisters, mistaking Horace for a wolf, locked him in a
prop box. This and other Falables are acted out by the Aggie Players
at the Rudder Center Forum. Feb. 14-19. Tickets are on sale at the
Rudder Center Box Office. Photo by Bernard Gor
SC ON A panel ends months
of work for 22nd conference
A piece of cake
Gavin Parrish eats a piece of cake as brother Marc watches. Marc and
Gavin were attending Teacher Appreciation night at College Hills
Elementary last night with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Parrish.
Marc is a first grader at College Hills. Battalion photo by Trade Nordheim
By MARY HARDIN
The 22nd Student Conference on Na
tional Affairs (SCONA) begins tomorrow at
Texas A&M University.
For the delegates from all over the
United States, Canada and Mexico, it will
be the beginning of four days of debate
and discussion.
For the 62 A&M students on the
SCONA committee, it will be the end of
10 months of planning and hard work.
Planning for the conference began in
March 1976, when the members started
organizing a new topic.
“Our topic, ‘The Expression of Indi
viduality in American Society,’ was chosen
in late April,” Van Steed, chairman of
SCONA, said. “This began the basic plan
ning operational activities for SCONA 22.”
SCONA members raise the entire
amount of money needed to operate the
conference. This year they have raised
more than $27,000 from old and new
sponsors.
The major step in financing the confer
ence is the summer fund drive in the
major cities around Texas.
“The summer fund drive gives SCONA
members the opportunity to meet with
top executives of major corporations and
foundations,” Steed explained. They also
gain valuable experience and insight into
the business world.”
Steed said the fund drive is a good indi
cation of a student’s dedication to
SCONA.
Students who attend summer school at
A&M correspond with prospective speak
ers and continue research on the confer
ence topic.
With the opening of classes in the fall,
planning of details begins. It involves ev
erything from planning menus to inviting
speakers and delegates.
The committee system of SCONA keeps
the work evenly divided. Four major
committees, each with a chairman and
vice-chairman, cover operations, plan
ning, finance and communications. Each
committee has specific duties and respon
sibilities assigned to make the conference
run smoothly.
Arranging accommodations and trans
portation for delegates and speakers.
planning meals, advertising and many
other tasks are important to the organiza
tion of the conference.
Although the work is hard and time con
suming, the members of SCONA feel the
rewards are worth it, Steed said.
“The members of SCONA take much
pride in presenting the conference in the
educational advancement of the people of
Texas and the United States,” he said.
Weather
Mostly cloudy and mild today,
with a high in the upper 50s ex
pected this afternoon. The low this
morning was in the mid-40s and the
low tomorrow morning should be in
the mid-30s. Partly cloudy skies
and mild temperatures tomorrow
with a high in the low 60s.