The Battalion
Vol. 70 No. 88
14 Pages
Wednesday, March 9, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
professors accused of slowing
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By DAVE TEWES
Battalion Staff
lollege professors on the College Sta-
City Council have retarded business
elopment and discouraged area land
ers with their land zoning policy, a re
businessman said Friday.
"They don’t have any idea of what is
ingon,” L.J. Kirkpatrick, a retired real
ate company owner, said. “They are
ning people out of College Station that
luld make it a city.”
After four months, the City Council has
;iven Kirpatrick a decision on the zon-
le requested for his land in southeast
illege Station.
Kirkpatrick requested a change from
igle-family residential (allows six units
r acre) to medium-density apartments
lows 30 units per acre).
His request has been delayed because
|e City Council is not sure it would be
[mpatible with the neighborhood, City
inner A1 Mayo said Saturday. A less
mse apartment zoning would probably
in better with the area, he added.
Richard Smith, owner and developer of
the Brentwood Housing addition being
built near Kirkpatrick’s land, agrees that
the request would not be feasible, Mayo
said.
“Richard Smith would rather the city
not allow a lot of apartments next to his
single-family housing, Mayo said. “It
would make them less saleable.”
L.J. Kirkpatricks son, Lewis Kirkpat
rick, said last weekend that he is dis
pleased with the City Council’s reasons for
the zoning delay.
“Most of the people on the City Council
are college professors that dream a lot,”
Lewis Kirkpatrick, owner of Kirkpatrick
Real Estate Co., said. “They have a Utopia
visualized. A Utopia does not exist except
in one’s mind.
The city government is always a conve
nient group to blame. City Councilman
Gary Halter said Saturday.
“Why didn’t Mr. (L.J.) Kirkpatrick pick
up a petition and run against me?” Halter
asked. “Then we would have had some
body that wasn’t Utopian and a college
professor, if he could have beat me.”
The fact that most of the City Council-
men are college professors is a reflection of
the city’s make-up. College Station Mayor
Lorence L. Bravenec said yesterday. Pro
fessors and their families are an over
whelming part of the population of the
city, he added.
Bravenec said the City Council wel
comes business development in College
Station. The city’s zoning policy is used to
protect the people’s interest, not to limit
business, he said.
“I think the way we have acted with re
spect to his (L.J. Kirkpatrick’s) land is to
protect the property values of the sur
rounding property. There is nothing Uto
pian about that,” Bravenec said.
Other City Councilmen interviewed
agree with Bravenec, saying their inten
tions were not to impede business inter
ests.
Frank Kahan, a member of the Bryan
planning and zoning committee, owns
land near Kirkpatrick’s as do three other
people. They want to build apartments.
Kahan said he was granted the proper
zoning to build apartments about three
months ago. He said the College Station
planning and zoning committee told him
last week that the land will probably be
rezoned again to a lower density rating.
“It is impossible to do anything in Col
lege Station,” Kahan said. “If they (City
Council) keep it up. I’ll just get out of Col
lege Station.”
Bravenec said Kahan is getting nothing
less than he requested from the City
Council.
“Kahan represented to the City Council
that his density would not be greater than
13 units per acre,” Bravenec said. “The
proposal is to classify his land as medium-
density apartments.”
Medium-density apartment zoning
would permit the development Kahan
originally proposed, Bravenec said.
Nuts about the weather
This squirrel seemed to be enjoying yesterday’s sunshine atop a wall
near the Reed-McDonald Building on the Texas A&M University cam
pus and did not appear too disturbed that a student wanted to take a
picture of its furry little body. Battalion photo by Molly McMillan
Carter lifts travel rules
ollege of medicine a reality
'he Texas A&M University College of
idicine is now a reality, with the first
ises to start this fall under a concept
twill enable students to earn M .D. de
es in a shorter period of time and more
inomically.
Formal college of medicine designation
s approved yesterday by the Coordinat-
Board, Texas College and University
item.
A&M’s medical program has been
' sc0 Cli med over the past five years in associa-
n with Baylor College of Medicine,
att and White Memorial Hospital and
Veterans Administration.
The VA has awarded A&M grants total
ing more than $17 million under
provisions of the Veterans Administration
Medical School Assistance and Health
Manpower Training Act of 1972. The act,
based on a bill co-authored by Rep. Olin
E. (Tiger) Teague of College Station, is
designed to help relieve the shortage of
physicians and allied health personnel
generally and particularly within the VA
system.
Coordinating Board officials had pre
viously designated A&M as the state in
stitution authorized to seek VA support
and subsequently approved the univer
sity’s proposal to offer the M.D. degree.
Provisional accreditation for the A&M
program was awarded in November by the
American Medical Association/Association
of American Medical Colleges Liaison
Committee on Medical Education.
A&M Dean of Medicine James A.
Knight said the provisional accreditation
includes authority to enroll 32 students in
the first class. If the program develops in
the desired manner, full accreditation
could be expected shortly before the first
class’ graduation.
In essence, the A&M program allows
students to complete their M.D. require
ments two years sooner than under tra
ditional medical programs because they
start their medical training while still an
undergraduate, Knight said.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Carter
today ordered all restrictions lifted on
travel by U.S. citizens to Cuba, Vietnam,
North Korea and Cambodia as of March
18.
Carter told a televised news conference
he has been “concerned about the prob
lem of American citizens traveling to
foreign countries” and disclosed that he
had ordered Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance to remove the restrictions.
The United States has no diplomatic re
lations with the four Communist coun
tries. Such relations are “a doubtful pros
pect” at this time, the President said. He
stressed the need for “necessary precau
tions” by U.S. travelers because they have
no protection from an American Embassy.
Carter said the travel decision was in
line with the Helsinki accords, which call
the right of free travel for everyone. The
President said he wanted “to be sure we
don’t violate these travel rights.”
The President said in response to
another question that he will stand by his
campaign pledge to withdraw U.S. troops
from South Korea, expressing belief that a
period of four to five years “is appropriate”
for that move.
He said the details of the troop removal
would have to be worked out carefully
with the South Korean government, with
Japan’s being fully informed of all de
velopments .
Carter was asked about a report he
made last week to the Justice Department
concerning his task force on terrorism and
violence. In the report he had indicated
there may be resumptions of civil distur
bances in the United States.
He said he is opposed to mass arrests.
“I would be opposed to preventive de
tention as a general policy and even as a
specific policy,” Carter said. An exception
would be if it were an extreme case, the
President said.
Carter opened the news conference by
announcing that he was sending Congress
a $1.5 billion program designed to cut un
employment among young Americans by
providing about 1 million permanent new
jobs and another 1 million summer jobs.
Carter said he was very concerned
about “the extraordinarily high unem
ployment rate among young people,”
especially those in minority groups, where
he said the rate ran a high as 40 per cent in
some areas.
He said he was proposing “a youth con
servation corps” to be administered by the
Departments of Agriculture and Interior
and “a community conservation corps in
our urban area,” with an emphasis on
training.
Together with existing programs, he
said his plan would produce “about a mil
lion jobs on a permanent basis plus
another million jobs during the summer.”
Carter also said a Middle East peace
settlement might include “substantial
withdrawl of Israeli control” over Arab
territories captured in the 1967 war. He
said a settlement might begin “with minor
adjustments of the 1967 borders.”
Carter said he will meet with leaders of
both sides before May.
College Station to seek permanent service
ds
Cities find ambulance service replacement
Bryan and College Station city officials
ve found replacement ambulance serv-
for Brazos County after Sherrill Ambu-
ice Service suddenly terminated opera-
ms Sunday morning.
Tom Brymer, Bryan assistant city man
ager, said yesterday the Bryan City Coun
cil Monday gave permission to Bill Thor-
nal, owner of Mid-Tex Ambulance Serv
ice, to operate ambulances in Bryan and
the northern part of Brazos County. Thor-
nal began operating yesterday.
The College Station Fire Department
has been providing ambulance service for
both cities since Sunday morning.
The fire department will continue to
provide service for College Station and
southern Brazos County until the College
Helicopters land on Duncan intramural field
A two-day orientation began yesterday for fresh
men Army cadets. Three choppers are being
used to acquaint the corpsmen with Army avia
tion. A Cobra Gunship (AH1G), a Medical Evac
uation troop carrier (UH1H) and a Scout Ship
(OH58) are the types being used to fly the cadets
over the Bryan-College Station area.
Battalion photo by Steve Reis
Station City Council decides on Thursday
night whether to turn the ambulances
over to a private company or let the fire
department operate them.
Bill Schaer, a member of the fire de
partment, is trained as an emergency
medical technician (EMT) and will head
the ambulance operation.
“We’ve had no problems so far,” he
said. “The men have been really eager
about the operation. They’re really taking
pride in it.”
Schaer said the department might add
personnel in order to cope with the extra
work load.
The department has three EMTs, he
said and at least one EMT will go with
each ambulance.
Shaer said he hopes to soon start train
ing classes that will enable all firemen to
be classified as EMTs. An EMT has to
have 80 hours of classroom and 40 hours of
hospital emergency duty prior to testing.
Ambulance service costs $40 for a call in
College Station and southern Brazos
County, with no charge if the ambulance
isn’t needed, Schaer said.
Thornal said the base charge for an am
bulance call inside Bryan is $30, plus a
minimum of $5 for bandages and oxygen.
More is charged for calls outside Bryan.
Thornal said he has been making trans
fer calls with his three ambulances.He
said he employs eight EMTs.
The transition came after Ed Sherrill,
owner of Sherrill Ambulance Co., told
Bryan and College Station city managers
March 1 that he did not plan to renew his
insurance, thus going out of business.
Originally, Sherrill said he would stop
service March 8. However, at 7 a.m Sun
day, he parked the two ambulances in
front of the police station.
West campus provides
needed parking spaces
By ANN RICHMOND
Students looking for a place to
park on campus might try the park
ing lots on the west side across
Wellborn Road.
Howard Perry, assistant vice
president of student services, said
on the average, between 300 and
350 parking spaces are vacant in
these lots each day. Looking at data
collected in February, Perry said
some days as many as 450 spaces
were vacant.
Parking on the A&M campus “is
in pretty good shape overall, but we
don’t have the spaces at the most
desirable place,” Perry said. Stu
dents will park closer to campus and
risk getting a ticket rather than park
further away where spaces are avail
able.
Presently, there are a total of
10,272 parking spaces on campus for
staff, faculty, students and Univer
sity employes, said Police Chief
O.L. Luther of the University
Police. A total of 17,635 vehicles are
registered for campus parking.
These figures alone are not an accu
rate reflection of the relationship
between the parking demand and
available parking spaces, said
Luther.
Of the 17,635 vehicles registered,
7,619 are for day students. Luther
estimated only half of these vehicles
would be on campus at any given
time. In addition, some permit hol
ders have night permits only, and a
large number of individuals have
duplicate permits.
A student, faculty, or staff
member may have two or more ve
hicles registered but will have only
one vehicle on campus at a given
time.
Luther said the large number of
day students has brought the most
pressure to relieve limited parking
on campus.
To bring further relief, the Uni
versity is adding an additional 1000
parking spaces by extending the
existing parking lots on the west
side of campus, said Perry.
Money for the construction and
maintenance of parking facilities on
the A&M campus comes from vehi
cle registration fees and parking
tickets. Perry said.
Texas A&M has $520,000 in its
reserve account from the registra
tion fees and parking tickets left
over from previous years. This
money plus the $670,000 the Uni
versity expects to receive from the
fees and tickets from September to
August is expected to pay for the
construction costs. Perry said.
Next year there will be no money
for any new construction of parking
facilities. Perry said. The reserves
from previous years will have been
spent. Future construction will
have to wait until enough money is
accumulated from vehicle registra
tion fees and parking tickets.
CSA... Off-Campus Student Association recognized
By KIM TYSON
An organization to unify and represent
ie 20,000 off-campus students at Texas
University is now a reality.
The Off-Campus Students Association
)CSA) was approved Wednesday by the
tudent Organizations Board.
h The association announced that filing for
ft? seight executive offices opens March 22.
he election will be conducted when the
Jtudent Government, yell leader, Resi-
!|Sj ence Hall Association (R HA) and class of-
Cer elections are held April 6 and 7.
The association will serve close to 20,000
ff-campus students at A&M as a counter-
brt to the Residence Hall Association that
erves students in dorms on campus, said
laren Switzer, OCSA sponsor and student
levelopment coordinator at A&M.
■I*? Switzer said that all part-time and full
er* ime students residing off campus will au-
jiijOl omatically become members of the stu
dent organization.
Under its constitution, the association
will provide services to off-campus stu
dents in four areas. It will serve as the
general representative body for off-campus
students to A&M and the community and
act as an intermediary agent. It will also
educate off-campus students concerning
their rights and responsibilities, such as in
contracts or leases, and will offer pro
grammed activities comparable to those
currently provided in dorms on campus.
The organization will be composed of an
executive branch and a legislative branch.
The executive branch will consist mainly
of a president; executive vice president;
four lower vice presidents in charge of pro
gramming, university relations, tenant re
lations and information; a secretary and a
treasurer. The executive branch will be
elected during the spring elections.
The legislative branch will have elected
representatives from zones, said Joseph
Flores, co-chairman of the association’s
constitution committee. These zones are
geographically arranged divisions of the
city with representation according to stu
dent population within the zone, similar to
the House representation in Congress,
Flores said. The legislative branch will be
elected when the freshman class elections
are held in the fall.
Switzer said there is a difference be
tween the OCSA and Hassle-Free, which
now serves off-campus students as an in
formation service.
“ Hassle-Free is not a governing system,”
Switzer said. She said that Hassle-Free
representatives are volunteers from vari
ous apartment units.
“It in no way binds together students,”
Switzer said. “It’s purpose is to be a two-
way liaison service.”
Switzer added that Hassle-Free will not
be dissolved because of the new organiza
tion, but will work within it.
Cheryl Pence, co-chairman with Flores,
said that the large nujnber of students in
volved would also help the organization.
“There are problems off campus and
people know that. When there are that
many people and that many problems,
they’ve got to have people to turn to,”
Pence explained.
Pence and Flores said that the organiza
tion will have to overcome many problems
for it to succeed.
“It’s going to be a question of not only
going out there and proving it’s (OSCA)
here, but that it can do something to help
them,” Flores explained.
Fred McClure, student body president,
expressed other concerns.
“I can see a very definite need and use
for an off-campus organization as far as a
direct link to administration is concerned,”
McClure said. McClure added that Stu
dent Government assisted the OCSA by
surveying other schools with various types
of off-campus organizations for them to
study.
The Student Government Election
Commission has also added three new elec
tion voting areas near shuttle bus stops to
strengthen off-campus voting. Pence said.
“I feel there are so many people off-
campus you’ve got to have a way to reach
them,” David George, president of RHA,
said. He said he hopes the two organiza
tions will be able to work together.
Pence said that much of the success of
the OCSA hinges on the executive leaders
that are chosen this spring.
“A lot of it depends on the quality of
these people,” Flores said.
“The constitution is written loosely
enough so that the first executive board will
not feel restricted,” Pence added. The con
stitution was written by a 15 member com
mittee and ratified last Thursday.
“We don’t know if the OC SA is feasible
right now. We know a lot of the areas in
which the students are concerned, but
exactly what this organization can do to try
to remedy them is something we don’t
know. I just think with this many people
concerned it’s worth a try,” Flores said.
“Off-campus students are important
enough that they ought to have an organi
zation of their own,” he added.
Weather
Partly cloudy today, tonigftt and
tomorrow, turning mostly cloudy
toward tbe late night and early
morning. Temperatures continue
to be mid. High today in the mid*
70s. Low tonight in the mid-50s.
High tomorrow jh the upper 70s.
Precipitation probability 20 per
cent tomorrow.