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Page 10 THE BATTALION I'auv i i m TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1977 ^ ^ ^ Having ticket doesn t guarantee parkin; By PAT EDMONDSON While merely obtaining a ticket to Texas A&M football games is a perilous chore, securing an adequate parking space is a di lemma. Parking is a continuing peiplexity at Aggieland and other universities. Automobiles, campers, trailers and mobile homes flood the campus on game day, decreasing the available spaces on streets and in parking lots. Fair, but improving is how Wally Groff terms the parking enigma at A&M. “Generally,” he said, “we re (Texas A&M) in better shape than half our competitors in the South west Conference. ” As A&M Assistant Athletic Direc tor for Business Affairs, Groff coor dinates parking at all school athletic events. His duties include issuing permits for space in nine parking lots that surround Kyle Field. Priority is given to University of ficials, Athletic Council and Athletic- staff, Aggie Club members, hand icapped persons, family of team members and the press. A. limited number of maintenance men, plumbers, electricians and conces sion employees park inside the stadium. Groff estimates the number of au tomobiles within a haif mile radius of the stadium on game day to be 15,000. “Every student and faculty lot on campus is full,” he said. “That in cludes a large group of cars which park on the drill field behind Dun can Dining Hall. There are no plans for future lot construction, although additional parking will be provided for upon completion of the new baseball diamond. The new diamond will be located south of lots “B and “E across Jersey St. In an effort to increase parking capacity this year, Groff has taken advantage of existing space on cam pus. “Were parking on the old baseball field (Kyle Field) for foot ball games now,” he said. “We feel like we’ve got a situation where we will pave the area for next year.” Currently, the field will hold ap proximately 450 cars. If paved, it will increase the capacity for 150 au tomobiles, Groff said. The lot will be used for day stu dent parking during the school term. “We couldn’t justify building a parking lot for five ballgames,” he said. “The campus police are tickled to death about the possiblity of another lot for the students.” South of Kyle Field lies an area designated as lot “RV. ” It is the as troturf practice field, an innovation of former head football coach Gene Stallings and his staff. The football team no longer uses the facility. The turf is worn and deteriorated. WE WILL SCARE THE YELL OUT OF YOU! BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION JAYCEES OCTOBER 27 - i OPENS 6:30 PM NITELY OLD HAUNTED HOUSE ACROSS FROM PELICAN " WHARF ON TEXAS AVE. OCTOBER SIDEWALK SALE Wed.-Thurs.-Fri.-Sat. Oct. 26-29 emreener It would not be feasible to lift the worn astroturf, and Groff is using the area to park campers, trailers and mobile homes. “P.E. (Physical Education) would love to have it for intramurals,” he said. “But they don’t have $200,(X)0 to replace it. “We badly needed space for cam pers,” Groff said. “We used it for the Kansas game, although a lot of people were unaware of it. We hope to fill it for the rest of the home games.” There is space on the field for 80 campers. Until lot “RV” was created, camper space was limited to one row in lot “D” adjacent to G. Rollie White Coliseum. “Lot “RV” is basically for those people with the priviledege of a re served parking spot,” Groff said. “We send the others to lot “D”. Un fortunately,” he added, “it is usually filled by Friday afternoon.” Groff cited the University of Texas and Arkansas as schools with extensive parking problems. Park ing at Rice University, Baylor Uni versity and Texas Christian Univer sity was described as adequate. Top rodeo stars add to winnings United Press International DENVER — Paul Tierney and Danny Torricellas picked up more than $2,400 apiece at two of three rodeos during the weekend, accord ing to the Professional Rodeo Cow boys Association. Tierney, 25, of Rapid City, S.D., made a clean sweep in calf roping by wining the first and second go- rounds and the average at Billings, Mont., for $1,294. He also picked up $580 in steer wrestling at Billings, then finished with a go-round win in the same event at Portland, Ore., for a total of $2,488. Twelfth-ranked bull rider Barney Brehmer of Peterson, Iowa broke his arm during the Billings rodeo when he was bucked off a bull. 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