The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 08, 1978, Image 1

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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.
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