The Battalion
Vol. 70 No. 81
8 Pages
Thursday, February 24, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
i&M still on black list
years after censure
By RENE OGLETREE
ter nine years, Texas A&M University
ains on the American Association of
versity Professors (AAUP) black list
ause A&M’s Board of Regents refuses to
iew the 1965 firing of a professor.
UtM was placed on the AAUP censure
in 1968 when the Regents ignored an
UP request to review the firing of Dr.
m W. Gibbs.
s the largest national association of col-
teachers and research scholars, the
UP censures colleges that it says violate
lemic freedom and tenure.
abbs, a full-time professor of the Col-
: of Veterinary Medicine for 16 years,
fired Aug. 31, 1965. He was given oral
ice in May of that year.
)r. John H. Milliff, head of the college,
irred to Gibbs’ “marital difficulties” but
le no reference to professional incom-
ence as grounds for dismissal, an AAUP
letin stated.
Gibbs was refused a hearing before the
Regents. AAUP requirements were not
met since the meeting was closed to Gibbs
and his attorney.
AAUP guidelines state “...the Board of
Directors will review all cases....” A&M’s
Faculty and Staff Handbook states “If the
Board of Regents chooses to review the
case....”
The difference between the two state
ments seems to be keeping A&M on the
censure list, said Dr. Manuel M. Daven
port, A&M philosophy professor. He
served as the local AAUP Chapter presi
dent in 1968 and 1969.
A university is adversely affected by
being on the AAUP censure list, Daven
port said. He explained that some profes
sors will not teach at a university while it is
on a censure list.
Also, some professional and honor
societies will not allow chapters on cen
sured campuses, he added.
In a letter to President Jack K. Williams
earlier this year, the AAUP informed the
university it still had not met requirements
to be removed from the censure list, said
Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., vice president
for academic affairs.
No reasons were given in the letter for
A&M’s remaining on the list.
The Regents feel they have dealt with
the case to the best of their ability, Calhoun
said.
“There is no evidence that a censure list
ing has been detrimental to hiring new pro
fessors, he said.
The AAUP is only a mild form of the
Better Business Bureau, Calhoun said. It
informs job applicants of a college’s reputa
tion, he said.
“There are no obligations to adhere to
AAUP guidelines,” Calhoun said. “The
tenure and academic freedom policies here
are in accordance with guidelines made by
the College Coordinating Board in Texas in
conformance with the AAUP.’
Ousting winds
vm “ cause problems
for students
Students oppose renovation
egents receive petition
Westerly winds reached 43
m.p.h. yesterday, blowing dust and
reducing visibility around the Texas
A&M campus.
The dust should diminish today,
however some may still remain in
the lower atmosphere, according to
the University Weather Service.
Winds will be light and variable to
day.
There is no sign of rain in the
forecast today or tomorrow, but
there is a slight chance of some pre
cipitation this weekend. Cloudiness
will be increasing tonight, and skies
will be mostly cloudy tomorrow and
Saturday.
The high temperature today is
expected to be in the upper 70s,
while the low tonight will drop to
the low 50s.
Tomorrow’s high should reach
the low 80s.
By MYRA KYLE
petition has been presented to the
rd of Regents protesting the proposed
ivation of Legett Hall into office space,
he petition was presented to the board
iteve Mayer, a resident of Legett Hall,
hearing of the proposed renovation.
he petition signed by 127 Legett resi
ts stated that more than 100 of them
ildhave to move off-campus. There are
;hly 150 persons in Legett, whereas
re are only about 20 vacant non-
onditioned rooms available in other
as at this time.
he petition also stated that Legett Hall
ild not require a large amount of money
erepaired and that dorm rent could be
Jto pay for repairs even after resident
isor and janitorial fees have been paid,
he Regents appropriated $10,000 to
ly the costs of three possible alterna-
sfor the future of Legett Hall.
he possible alternatives are to convert
K ett into office space, renovate it into
ptable facilities or raze it, according to
Freeman, executive vice president
idministration. The study is expected to
from six to eight months.
6was informed that the reason for reno
vation is because the university is growing
at such a fast rate that it needs more office
and classroom space,” said Warren Faulk
ner, coordinator for the north area com
munity.
Faulkner said he is under the impression ,
that the enrollment of Texas A&M Univer
sity should decrease sometime in the near
future, so less dorm space will be needed.
“It will cost the state over $1 million to
renovate Legett into academic facilities,
whereas only $300,000 would be needed to
put Legett in acceptable dorm facilities,
which will be paid through bonds and dorm
rent,” said Scott Gregson, vice president of
finance to student government.
“Theoretically the students own the
dorms because the construction and reno
vation is paid through the bonds and rent,”
Gregson said.
There are 8,409 bed spaces on campus,
Gregson said. He explained that if all these
spaces were filled, it would cost students
living in dorms an extra $1.75 per semester
for the next 25 years to have Legett im
proved for continued dormitory use.
Gregson said that inflation over the years
would not affect the price because when
the bonds are sold, they are sold at a fixed
price.
Legett residents have expressed a vari
ety of opinions on the dormitory’s renova
tion.
“Legett offers the civilian student an old
army style of life,” said Gary Anderson,
head resident advisor.
“It’s neat on football weekends to have
former students come by your room and
reminisce about their life in Legett. It is
one of the few small dorms left on campus
and if they renovate it, A&M would loose
part of its spirit.
Junior Paul Norris said, “Seventy per
cent of the students in Legett were once
residents of Milner Hall, which was reno
vated. They moved us out of there and now
they might move us out of Legett. I wonder
where it will be next.
“I can see both sides of the issue,” com
mented junior Brian Terry. “The Board of
Regents sees this as a business and the guys
in the dorm feel they are being slighted if
they are forced to move.”
Sophomore Dale Gadbois felt they
Should tear it down. “My parents want me
to live on campus. If they tear down Legett
I’ll get to move off.”
Victor sells boots, gives Aggies advice
Battalion photo by Paula Geyer
Senior Roger Tonne listens to Victor Caudillo, owner of Victor’s of
College Station, diagnose his boots’ problems. Victor’s, which has been
serving Aggies for over 10 years, is located at 201 College Main.
By LEE ROY LESCHPER
The shoe shop in the small yellow brick
building is almost lost behind its windows
blinded with maroon and white signs:
“Welcome Back Aggies,” “1 Hour Serv
ice,” “SHOE REPAIR SERVICE”.
Inside, shoe boxes fill the wall to the left.
A worn shoe-shine stand and a ten-cent
Coke machine stand side by side against
the right wall. Straight ahead, a wall is
covered with military brass and ribbon be
hind a long counter buried in boxes, boots
and leather. Black machinery, waiting to
rejuvenate tired boots, peers through a
door in the wall.
A signpost stands outside, but no sign
hangs on its empty brackets. It will proba
bly stay that way, because customers don’t
need a sign to tell them the little shop at
201 College Main is Victor’s.
Victor is Victor Caudillo Jr., although
you will wait a long time to hear anybody
call him anything but Victor. He’ll proba
bly know their name, too, if they know his.
He seldom stands still behind his
counter. He jokes with his customers or
haggles over prices for a moment, then
scurries to the back room where he and an
apprentice repair boots, sometimes work
ing on several pairs at the same time. Then
he’s back to the counter, all the time carry
ing on a running conversation with any
body and everybody in the shop.
“Victor, you promised me my senior
boots’d be here today,” a junior cadet says.
Victor glances at a wall clock showing
3:30 p.m.
“Si, sehor, by FIVE o’clock,” he answers
with a heavier accent and grinning slightly.
“Well Victor, that money’s just drawing
interest for me at the bank. Just think, it
could be making that money for you.
“Senor, you are maybe a little bit
Jewish?”
Two more out-of-uniform cadets ease up
to the counter.
“How much are your senior boots? one
asks, almost fearfully.
“Today, $198.95,” comes the reply, then
the sales pitch, “tomorrow, they go up to
$252.”
As each customer leaves, Victor says,
“Gracias, sehor. Come back. I need some
more of your money.”
An overly direct way to do business?
Maybe, but that’s Victor’s way. The way
he s done business since he came to Col
lege Station 10 years ago to start his career
for the third time.
He now must divide time between his
two boot stores and plans for the restaurant
he hopes to open this year. In his office
behind the new boot store he opened last
year on Texas Avenue in Bryan, Victor
seems more a 42-year-old businessman
than 42-year-old shoe repairman.
Sitting gingerly on a well-worn and rick
ety wooden chair bearing the mark of the
A&M C Dining Hall, surrounded by a
paper-covered desk and shelves of boots
and western clothes, he describes his be
ginnings.
He started working in the Mexican oil
fields at 14. His father had fled Mexico
fearing for his life after supporting the los
ing candidate in a Mexican presidential
election. He left Victor to support the 11
members of his family.
Victor worked on an oil derrick — one of
the dirtiest, filthiest jobs in the world” —
until 1955, when Mexico’s national oil
company cut back its work force and left
him jobless.
Looking for a new future, he immigrated
to the United States in 1956, settling in
Houston. After short stints painting cars
and doing car body work, he turned to
repairing shoes.
“The boot business was in my family in
Mexico three generations,” he says. “But I
never wanted to go into it.
“In Houston I saw a need for shoe re
pairmen and the pay was good. In a few
months I had my own business, without
speaking ANY English.”
That was a handicap, but he had help.
“Customers, both anglos and chicanos,
would come in and teach me some English
words,” he recalls, speaking deliberately in
the language that sometimes still gives him
trouble.
In nine years Victor did well in Houston.
He married, fathered two sons and for a
time owned three shoe stores and a res
taurant. But business soured and he went
broke.
That was in January 1967, when he left
Houston and came to College Station to
repair shoes at Holik’s Shoe Store at
Northgate.
Eight months later he opened his first
shop here, at 110 College Main-a 7-foot by
21-foot space next door to Holik’s.
Eleven thousand students attended
(See VICTOR, Page 5.)
Carter says CIA actions legal,
Hussein payoff talk partly true
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Carter
says he hasn t found anything illegal or
improper in current CIA operations but
acknowledges “some degree of accuracy”
in widespread reports of payoffs to King
Hussein and other world leaders.
At a news conference yesterday, Carter
displayed anger about news leaks he said
could be “extremely damaging” to the po
tential security of the country.
He specifically expressed concern about
the number of people in the executive
branch and Congress who have access to
CIA information, and said he wants to re
duce that number.
Carter’s schedule today included a
meeting with U.S. Chamber of Commerce
officials and visiting the Transportation
and State Departments to get acquainted
with the workers.
At his televised and broadcast new's con
ference, the President said a $5 billion to
$7 billion slash in the defense budget is a
goal “that will be reached, but he could
not say when.
Carter indicated the controversial B1
bomber may be a bargaining chip on arms
control . “If we can have a general lessen
ing of tension, a demonstrated commit
ment on the Soviet Unions part toward
disarmament, it would certainly make it
less likely that we would go ahead with the
Bl,” he said.
Asked about allegations that Hussein
and other foreign leaders received mil
lions of dollars in CIA payments over the
past 20 years. Carter said:
“I have adopted a policy ... of not
commenting directly on any specific CIA
activity, but I can tell you that I have
begun a complete analysis, which will be
completed within the next week, of all ac
tivities by the CIA.”
T have received substantial reports al
ready ... I have not found anything il
legal or improper,” he added, saying that
if he discovered improprieties he would
take immediate action and inform the
American people.
Carter again was asked about his policy
of going public on the human rights ques
tion, and said “I will continue to do so.
He reserved his harshest criticism for
Uganda where he said “the actions there
have disgusted the entire civilized world
On other issues. Carter said:
V He will unveil his comprehensive
energy package at a joint session of Con
gress April 20, and will send his proposal
for creation of a new energy department to
Congress early next week.
V He supports public financing of
Congressional elections, elimination of the
electoral college and simplifying registra
tion procedures so everyone can vote.
V Improvement of relations with Cuba
awaits “some tangible evidence” that
Cuba is willing to restore rights to political
prisoners and change its attitude “toward
overseas adventures such as the one in
Angola.”
V He supports deregulation of natural
gas for a limited four to five years, but
would leave existing contracts in effect.