The Battalion
Vol. 70 No. 77
6 Pages
Thursday, February 17, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
New housing policy
Fewer dorms given
to freshmen in fall
By KIM TYSON
Many Texas A&M University students
are confused about the new housing policy
giving freshmen priority in assignment to
dorm spaces next fall.
Dr. John Koldus, vice president for stu
dent services, said he’s had students and
parents complain to him about the new
policy, which states that 70 per cent of
next fall’s projected dormitory vacancies
will be assigned to incoming freshmen.
“My understanding is that the major
reaction is a misunderstanding of the 70
per cent figure, Koldus said. He ex
plained that the 70 per cent applies to va
cancies and not to total housing.
Koldus said the policy will give new
freshmen fewer places in dorms than this
year’s freshmen received.
Projecting 1,750 vacancies for next fall,
freshmen will get 1,225 rooms, which is 70
per cent of the available space. And the
1,225 represents less than 20 per cent of
the 6,310 civilian dormitory spaces, Kol
dus said. Students in the Corps are as
signed rooms directly.
Glenn Jennings, assistant director of
student affairs, said freshmen in dorms last
year represented about 29 per cent of on-
campus residents.
‘ If we didn’t have the 70 per cent pol
icy, we would have no freshmen on cam
pus,” Jennings explained. He said this was
because of the large number of up
perclassmen that would have been ahead
of freshmen on the waiting list.
“It’s a no-win decision,” Koldus said.
“Nobody ever plans to make anybody un
happy.”
“I thought of those needing to live on
campus in terms of adjustment and learn
ing to be close to the A&M traditions,” he
said. “It was more important for freshmen
to live on campus.”
Nobody can be assured that he will get
on campus, Koldus said.
“I basically think it’s a good plan,” said
Tommye Morehead, “but I hate to see
such a drastic measure at one time.”
Morehead is coordinator of Hassle-
Free, an information service for off-
campus students.
“Several students would like to get out
of their nine-month leases to get into a
dorm now, before this new policy goes
into effect,” Morehead added.
However, students that break their
apartment contracts or don’t pay for their
full lease may incur a lawsuit, she said.
Presently, there are 179 vacancies for
men and 27 for women in civilian dorms,
most without air-conditioning, Jennings
said. There are 439 vacancies in the corps
dorms, but these spaces are usually filled
in the fall, he added.
Koldus said no one is being removed
from the waiting list because of policy, but
fewer students from the list will get
rooms.
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Ruth Fry, founder and director of the C. G.
Educational Center in Houston, and first
peaker at SCONA 22 yesterday, discusses her
book “The Symbolic Profile” with Brian Parsley,
vice chairman of finance for SCONA. SCONA
will continue through Saturday.
nowing oneself is important
\ys analytical psychologist Fry
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By SUE MUTZEL
i petite woman, with her red hair
in a bun, looked more like a kindly
bother than the Director and Foun-
fthe C. G. Jung Educational Center
mston.
leading authority on analytical psy-
gy, Dr. Ruth Thacker Fry yesterday
: to about 350 people at SCONA 22.
| an never can help another person
than you can help yourself, ” she be-
The more you know about yourself,
lore you know about your friends and
h”
ysaid people tend to judge others by
I own standards. She explained that
s “Shadow” theory reflects this. The
low” is a part of one’s self, positive or
ive, that he doesn’t know, she said,
stance, when he meets someone and
If instant dislike, it is the “Shadow”
Is being projected.
e idea of projecting this shadow is
thing people can work on, Fry said,
can free themselves from the loss of
Candidates file
school board,
ity council election
Jour candidates for the A&M Consoli-
M School Board and one for the Col-
Station City Council filed for election
lerday.
fie filing opened yesterday and will
! March 2. City elections will be held
Jl2. Candidates for School Board Pos-
is 2,3,4 and 5 and City Council Places
and 5 will be on the ballot,
icumbent William Lancaster and a
lenger, former elementary school
her Elizabeth Naugle, have filed for
e5on the school board.
Iliott Bray, manager of data base sys-
i at Texas A&M University, filed for
e3, and Rodney Culver Hill, associate
essor of environmental design, will run
’lace 2.
nly City Council candidate has
W as of yesterday.
ity councilman Gary Halter will run
tl|nis Place 1 seat. Halter is a member of
s political science department.
energy they project in the shadow. “Once
you know you are like that, you can
change,” she said.
“Did you know,” she asked, “every man
has a feminine side, or anima, and every
female a masculine side, or animus?”
There are four people in every mar
riage: Man and wife and their anima and
animus, Fry said.
Man’s anima makes him passive, and he
loses confidence.“When a woman’s
animus takes over she becomes bitchy.”
When a man and woman find out about
that side of them, they have discovered a
lot about themselves, she said.
“After you study psychology awhile you
feel you are peeping into keyholes,” said
Fry. You see things from a different di
mension.”
Fry graduated from California State
University in 1950 with a degree in psy
chology. She has completed semesters at
Harvard, Yale, and the C. G. Jung Insti
tute of Analytical Psychology in Zurich,
Switzerland.
“I don’t think psychology is just to be
learned, she said, “I think it should be
lived.”
By DAVE TEWES
As many as 50 unused parking spaces
exist during peak hours of the day in a staff
and faculty lot, according to a University
Police Department survey.
“A University Police Department sur
vey showed 20 to 50 empty spaces in Lot 7
during the day,” said Howard S. Perry,
associate vice president for student servic
es. The survey was made during the third
week of this semester.
Lane Stephenson, zone administrator
for Lot 7, disagrees with the survey. He
says Lot 7 is full during peak hours.
Lot 7, between Reed McDonald and
the cyclotron, was surveyed Jan. 31
through Feb. 4 from 9 a. m. to 10 a. m. and
2 p.m. to 3 p.m.. Perry said.
“The surveys are about as accurate as
you can get,” Sgt. A.W. Onstott, Univer
sity Police, said. “They are taken during
the peak hours.”
Chief O. L. Luther today said that re
served and visitors’ spaces were not
counted in the survey.
The number of unused spaces is deter
mined by counting the number of empty
spaces as well as unauthorized vehicles in
a lot at peak periods.
The number of unauthorized vehicles in
Lot 7 during the survey ranged from 12 to
17, Perry said.
Stephenson, Lot 7 administrator, said,
“I don’t care what the University Police
say, and I’ve told them that. There are not
any empty spaces out there at peak
periods. He said if the survey showed 50
empty spaces, then it wasn’t taken during
peak periods.
“If you go out during peak periods, all
the spaces in Lot 7 are full,” Stephenson
said. “Peak periods are mid-mornings and
right after lunch on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.” He said he doesn’t consider
Tuesday and Thursday peak days.
There was a problem of empty spaces in
Lot 7 last fall, but it has been eliminated,
Stephenson said. “In the fall, I pointed out
to Howard Perry that this lot wasn’t
utilized to the fullest extent,” he said.
The boundaries weren’t changed, so
Stephenson said he added about 80 more
staff permits to the lot. “I have no say as to
where the border is set. That is up to
Howard Perry.”
Stephenson said he wouldn’t be respon
sible for complaints if the boundaries in
Lot 7 were changed.
“If Mr. Perry or anybody else wants to
remove the barriers, that’s their decision,”
Stephenson said. “I’m going to refer all
the complaints to Mr. Perry.”
There was a list of about 15 to 20 people
waiting to be assigned to Lot 7 before this
week. The lot was full and no more per
mits could be assigned to it, Stephenson
said. As a zone administrator, Stephenson
assigns the number of parking permits for
his lot.
Most on the list have been assigned to
another lot, which University Police said
could handle the extra permits. The re
maining persons were satisfied with the
random parking they had, Stephenson
said.
College Station, A&M
plan Northgate lighting
Streetlights may soon help people find
their way around the Northgate area at
night.
College Station City Manager North
Bardell said he received a letter two
months ago from the office of Texas A&M
University president. Jack K. Williams,
concerning the lack of streetlights at
Employment is Placement Office’s job
Finding suitable employment
after one graduates can often turn
into a full-time job itself.
But job-hunting does not pay
your bills.
It is the livelihood though of per
sons working at the Career Planning
and Placement Office on the 10th
floor of the J. Earl Rudder Confer
ence Tower.
Director Louis J. Van Pelt says
that he and his staff work to fulfill
Texas A&M University’s attitude
that it has a definite responsibility
for* the proper professional place
ment of its graduates.
The Placement Office has three
major divisions: on-campus re
cruitment, educational placement,
and alumni placement. Each has
the same type of available service,
but some specialization is required
for the individual sections.
The alumni, who has had some
Weather
[Partly cloudy and warm today
&nd tomorrow. Temperatures
Oday and tomorrow are expected
I to reach the mid-70s with a low both
] toghts in the mid-40s. The low this
toorning was in the mid-40s.
southeasterly winds present today
Ml 10-14 knots. No precipitation in
fight.
The Placement Office library utilizes tape
cassettes, movies, reference books and free
brochures from prospective employers to in
form A&M students about career planning
and current job opportunities. Rocky Cates
(far right), a senior computer science major.
uses the library to prepare for an interview
that has been arranged by the office. Cates
said that he was pleased with the efficiency of
the Placement Office, but did not praise its
service. “I’ll love it though, if I get a job,” he
said.
job experience, will not be looking
for the same type of employment
that is usually available to the
graduate, says Associate Director J.
Malon Southerland. And although
the graduate wants to find an equiv
alent position to that which an ex
perienced alumni may find, he usu
ally does not, Southerland says.
Whether an undergraduate or
alumni, Southerland says the
Placement Office tries to find work
for them all and that records show
the service has many satisfied em
ployers with A&M graduates. He
says that it is usually easy to employ
the fine students that come from
A&M.
“An important thing to realize in
job recruiting is that there are lots
of reasons a company will send a
representative to A&M to find an
employe, but there is only one rea
son that company sends a recruiter
back — it’s the quality of the
graduate they’ve hired,” Souther
land says. “They’re coming back for
three more.”
The placement service is open to
all students and also incorporates a
career planning counseling service
that Southerland says is very impor
tant for today’s students to take ad
vantage of.
Before a student or alumni can
use the service, he must complete a
registration and resume form and
submit it to the office. The proce
dure and information that will help
A&M students find a job, either be
fore or after graduation, can be
found in the “Placement Manual.”
This free booklet is available in the
Placement Office.
“There are no fees involved,’’says
Southerland. “So there is no reason
for any student to pass up the op
portunity this office provides.”
The Career Planning and Place
ment Office is open Monday
through Friday from 8 a.m. until 5
p.m.
Northgate. The letter was one of a list of
items that prompted a meeting between
city and University planning committees.
Bardell said the city is planning to in
stall more streetlights. The cost will be
covered by one of two alternatives, he
said.
“We’ll either use revenue-sharing
money.. . .(or) well delay it until
summer and put it on our new regular
budget.” The lighting would extend from
College Avenue to Wellborn Road.
City Councilman Gary Halter said yes
terday he was one of the people who
suggested using federal revenue money to
install lights.
“I had it in mind to use the money as a
broader street lighting program, he said.
“There are many areas in the city that
could use street lighting, including my
street. There are sections where it is so
dark at night, I have to feel my way out to
the street.
“The immediate Northgate area is the
most critical area,” Halter said. “It’s a
danger to pedestrians.”
Bardell said city engineers are working
on the cost estimate of the lights. The
lights will be similar in design to those at
the corner of Nagle Street and University
Drive.
Representative
opposes regent
selection again
AUSTIN — A legislator who often has
opposed abortion bills has announced his
opposition to Gov. Dolph Briscoe’s selec
tion for the Texas A&M Board of Regents
because he says the nominee is part owner
of an abortion clinic.
Sen. Walter Mengden, R-Houston, said
yesterday he opposed the appointment of
Dr. John B. Coleman of Houston because
Coleman owned part of the Cullen Wo
men’s Center.
Mengden said Coleman personally per
formed abortions, including late term
abortions.
“It would be hard to think of someone
more undesirable to be a university board
regent that an abortionist,” Mengden said.
“I will do everything in my power to
work against Coleman’s confirmation.”
Coleman earlier was criticized by Sen.
William Moore, D-Bryan. Moore
suggested the appointment was the result
of a deal to win the support of blacks for
the re-election of Briscoe’s friend, Calvin
Guest, as state Democratic party chair
man.
The Senate Nominations Committee
has deferred action on Coleman’s
pointment at Moore’s request.