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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1978)
n This sculpture is on display in the new Architec ture Building. It’s called “Take These Chains From My Heart, Baby, and Set My Dog Free,” ars being towed away by David Vogel and is one of several modernistic sculptures on display in the halls and gallery of the building. Each spring semester for the last four years, there have been more than 400 va cant spaces in the Dorm 12 area, Koldus said. As of last week, the number of va cancies was 447. I think the Corps leadership should be aware of policy change prior to the begin ning of this school year, so that they can make adequate provisions for housing (Corps) units in the fall, and accommodat ing a move prior to the Christmas holidays at the end of this semester. Koldus added that the housing office needs to have an adequate amount of time to notify those on the waiting lists that housing space is available on campus for the spring semester. Residence halls are self-supporting and operate on rental rates. Expenses are paid with the money that dormitories generate, said Ronald E. Sasse, assistant director of student affairs. When spaces are vacant, all dorm stu dents have to pay for that space through an increase in rental rates. “We want to keep prices as economical as we possibly can, and the way to do that is to occupy as many spaces as we possibly can,” Koldus said. When you talk about money in terms of empty spaces in the dorms, you have to consider several variables, said Jerry Mainord, resident area coordinator. “For one, you have to consider the in trinsic value of the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M University, Mainord said. “It is of tremendous importance and abso lutely necessary if we want to maintain the uniqueness of our system, he said. The Corps is a completely voluntary system, he said. Students can come and go as they please in the Corps. Therefore, the attrition rate is higher than in civilian dorms, Mainord said, and empty spaces can be filled more easily, Because of the unit housing process, about 75 vacancies are needed to give ample room for housing the Corps of Cadets by companies within each dormi tory, he said. Because the Corps is housed by units, consolidation of the Corps to use dorm space would interfere with the “unit integ rity, Koldus said. Mainord added that “it doesn’t just take 224 men in a dorm to move, it takes the entire Corps of Cadets to move. It takes about 1,500 men to move in the Corps of Cadets in order to empty one dormitory because you can’t move indi viduals and plug them into empty holes, he said. “The Corps has to move units and shift everybody in order to make room for those units. This is an often misunderstood fact about the Corps vacating a dormitory, he said. “These 400 vacancies occur every year, but they occur in civilian dorms too,’ Mainord said. There are 180 vacancies now in the men’s civilian dormitories. “If a change is made, it must be done in, light of a policy that the Corps will always have first priority on all residence hall spaces in the Dorm 12 area, Koldus said. Blood banks proposals to present students Apartments use wrecker services By DEBBIE GOLLA Parking illegally in fire lanes of apart ment complexes seems to be a major prob lem for both the residents and apartment managers. Some of the older complexes are bottle-necked, long and narrow, and entrances are easily blocked. This is the problem with Briarwood Apartments, 1201 Hwy. 30. “It is the manager’s responsibility to make sure that all entrances to the apart ment complex are open in the event of a fire, and after talking with the fire depart ment, we put in fire lanes, said Bill Sis son, manager of Briarwood. Several apartment complexes, including Briarwood, contract with various wrecker services to keep these entrances clear. The problem is not that cars are occasionally towed, but that residents to whom these ears belong have a hard time finding their cars. Terry Jones, a student of Texas A&tM University, illegally parked in a security guard’s slot last September. She said the battery in her car had died, and it was the nearest parking space in which to ease her car “I left a note on the car saying that I wouldn’t be able to move my car until the shops opened Monday, Jones said. “This was on a Friday. I came back Sunday af ternoon and the car was gone. Nobody seemed to know where it was. Jones said. D&H Towing and Wrecker Service con tracts with Briarwood Apts, to tow away illegally parked cars. The problem arises when D&H fails to report when they have towed a car. Jones called the police station and re ported the car as stolen. An officer called D&G and found that car had been towed. “The worst part was when I went to get my car, I saw that it had been wrecked. It had been hit in three places, Jones said. Jones filed a suit against D&H, as have other people that have had trouble with the towing service. One case involved a girl who had to pay $43 to have her car returned, but as other suits were being filed at this time, the money was returned to her. If a car is illegally parked, the individual complex does have the right to take action, said Officer Norton, of the College Station Police Department. “There is a definite communication break-down. We try to get the wrecker service to call in when they ve towed a car. They will call for a while, but then they slack off again, Officer Norton said. Fire Marshall Harry Dav is, of the Col lege Station Fire Department, agrees that there is a definite problem of communica tion. Neither the fire or police depart ments .will tow cars from privately owned property, although at times they will issue eitalions. Sisson explained that all a resident needs to do should his car be towed is call the leasing office. Officer Norton added that there have been problems with other wrecker serv ices, but that D&H posed the biggest problem. D&H spokesman refused to comment. One solution to the problem is offered by Tanglewood South Apartments, 411 Hwy. 30. The complex issues parking stickers to their residents, so that if a car is illegally parked, the resident is notified and asked to move the car. Only if a resi dent refusedWould the car be towed awav. By ANDY WILLIAMS Battalion Staff Two blood bank groups which hope to be allowed to hold drives on campus this spring outlined their policies before a stu dent committee in an open hearing Tues day night. Wadley Institutes of Molecular Medicine, an affiliate of the American As sociation of Blood Banks, (AABB) has held the exclusive right to hold drives on the Texas A&M campus since 1959. However, the American Red Cross hopes to share that privilege this spring. “We have not applied to replace the Wadley group on campus, said James Hannigan, chairman of the Brazos County chapter of the Red Cross said. “We merely want the ban against us to be lifted when they are not on campus. Hannigan was Dean of Students at A&M when the AABB received this right. Red Cross holds drives monthly. Wad ley 7 has one a semester. The Student Senate will vote on the issue March 8. “If you start going to the well too often, it starts to fall off,” Dr. Norwood Mill, medical director of Wadley, said in ex plaining his group s opposition to the Red Cross’s proposal. The Red Cross was a member of AABB until 1976 when the groups split in dis agreement over methods of replacing blood. AABB group hospitals require a pa tient to repay them for blood, either by replacing it with blood or by paying money for it. The Red Cross charges only the cost of processing the blood. However, Hill said that he wanted no one to think that if a patient could not repay he vvoidd not receive blood. Hill argued that Wadley was the more logical choice for Texas A&M because most Aggies who received blood in large city hospitals, which his group supplies, rather than in Brazos County hospitals. Hannigan said that since the Red Cross served the Brazos County hospitals that his group was a better decision. Hill said the Red Cross left AABB owing 60,()()() units (pints) of blood. Phyllis Swan- ton, administrator from the Red Cross s Central Texas Blood Bank, said that this was true but, she, added, the amount had since been repaid and charged that the AABB has failed to mark off earlier repay ments. Head of the committee William Altman refused to comment. Library remodeling to be ready by 1979 By PAIGE BEASLEY Battalion Staff The $12 million dollar construction and remodeling project of the Sterling C. Evans Library is due to be completed by September 1979. The new addition is scheduled to be completed in November 1978. “There will be quite a few changes, said Dr. Irene B. Hoadley, library direc tor. Until this fall, reference services were on three floors, now they are on two. “When we get into the new building, all reference services will be in one central area,’’ Hoadley said. “We will be establishing a multi-media unit in the new library that we do not have now,” she said. Hoadley said the multi-media room has several capabilities for audio and visual formats: television monitors, video tapes, records, slides, and films. No decisions have been made concerning the types and amount of equipment, because money is a problem, Hoadley said. The current periodical division was set up a year ago, she said. “This was done in anticipation of moving into a new building because the area we have now is not satisfactory at all,” Hoadley said. The reserve room will be enlarged, and it will be able to remain open 24 hours although the rest of the building closes, said Charles Smith, librarian and project coordinator. Other changes will include a centralized copy room, on each floor, typing rooms, carpeting throughout most of the building, phones, and administrative offices. Smith said. “Most of the other changes that we had anticipated we’ve moved to in this building,” Hoadley said. Shelving space and seating capacity will be doubled. The reason for constant moving in the existing library is because of a lack of shelve space, and most are overloaded, Smith said. “Shelves should be two-thirds full ” he said. Instead of constantly shifting, this leaves room for additional material of the same subject matter, he said. The seating capacity of the library is little under 2,000 but with the new addi tion, it will increase to 4,470 to include general seating, carrels, and conference rooms. The first floor will contain the reference division, circulation division, reserve room, current periodicals, acquisition division, processing division, resource de velopment, bibliography collection and the copy center. The second floor will house the administrative offices, a map room, a multi- media room, special collections, microtexts, documents, and conference area. Floors three through six will consist mainly of study carrels and stacks. When the new addition is completed, everything will be moved in that build ing, and the existing building will be closed for repairs. Ice and snow dozens killed cause havoc in Texas, in New England blizzard United Press International Freezing rain, sleet and snow brought by the latest winter storm continued to torment Texans today, forcing the closing of schools and businesses, almost stifling motorists in Dallas and Fort Worth and stranding hundreds of travelers on an in terstate highway. The National Weather Service reported icy conditions from the Panhandle to as far south as Austin in Central Texas and Houston in southeast Texas. During the night, the Department of Public Safety halted traffic between Hillsboro and Waco on Interstate 35. Several hundred motorists were reported stranded. Texas Department of Highways’ crews sanded the interstate during the night in an effort to resume normal traffic early to day. Light snow fell through the night in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, adding to Tues day’s three-inch accumulation. Schools were closed today in Dallas, where the temperature dipped to 23 de grees this morning. Police said most city roads and streets were iced over, making it difficult for motorists to get to work. H owever, the NWS said little im provement in road conditions was ex pected today because temperatures were expected to rise only into the low 30s. Houston received freezing rain throughout the night, making roads slick. Construction workers are ahead of schedule, and plan to complete the new addition of the Sterling C. Evans Library by November, Now, they are working on the main structure of the six-floor building. Biittaliun photo by Ken Herrera Foggy conditions had limited visibility to one-half mile. Schools were not closed in Houston to day, but a police spokesman said atten dance was expected to be low. A small power failure in the city late Tuesday was attributed to the weather, said police. U.S. 69 was almost completely iced over near Jacksonville, 50 miles south of Tyler, said the DPS. Officials said trucks were having problems traveling on hills, bridges and overpasses. The DPS said a jack knifed truck had blocked traffic for five miles early today. The DPS said many roads and highways in the Panhandle were icy and slick today. Schools in Amarillo also were expected to be closed. A 20-car pileup ocurred on Interstate 40 in Groom Tuesday, stopping taffic for three hours. The only reported death occurred early Tuesday in Tulia when a car driven by Fara Lynn Moore, 16, of Tulia slid undtti the rear end of a disabled school bus, kill ing her. Meanwhile, the worst blizzard on rec ord in many areas of New England killed dozens of people and virtually shut down the nation s most populous region. More than 1,000 federal troops ordered into the area by President Carter were delayed be cause no airports were open. The brunt of the storm passed Tuesday and the massive dig-out began in earnest. Officials in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island hoped to clear runway$ by morning to land the planes earning troops and equipment. States of emergency were invoked in those three states and in New Hampshire and Maine, where record tides combined with blizzard to destroy or damage more than 400 coastal homes. Damage was es timated in the millions of dollars. At least 38 people — some stranded along roadsides, buried in huge drifts and asphyxiated by exhaust fumes — died in the Northeast and other areas of the nation hit by bitter weather Monday and Tues day. That brought to at least 225 the number killed bv the winter of 1978. inSNVS — ClOOMNiX — hbLDi
