WELCOME BACK AGGIES
The Battalion
Vol. 71 No. 189
82 Pages in 6 Sections
Monday, August 28, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
itudent employees get
ew pay raise Friday
By SCOTT PENDLETON
Battalion Stuff
e’sgood news and bad news for the student ern
es of Texas A&M.
t the good news: Friday the student employee
ale as a whole will he raised,
iw, the bad news: moving up the pay seale will be
difficult than in the past.
lent pay will no longer be based on the elassifiea-
f the employee or the length of employment. A
must be justified by an increase in the duties and
msibilities of the employee, an oflieial of the Stu-
iFinancial Aid Office said.
e Student Financial Aid Office, on the second
ofthe YMCA building, provides current informa-
m both on and off-campus jobs. It also processes
pplications of newly hired on-campus workers,
cause many students hunt jobs at the end of Au-
the financial aid office is especially busy right
During August and September 1977. the office
ftssed 846 new workers.
The university has about 2,600 jobs for students.
Over the course of a year, some 5,000 students will fill
those jobs. These students are divided into levels ac
cording to experience and skill.
Student workers 1, defined as those with little or no
previous experience or skill, have been making $2.30
to $2.83 an hour. Under the new pay scale, they will
make from $2.50 to $3.08 an hour, as stated in the
Policy and Procedures Manual of Texas A&M.
The pay for Student Workers II will increase from a
range of $2.40 tp $2.94 to a range of $2.60 to $3.19.
Student Workers III will make a minimum of $2.70
instead of $2.50, with a maximum possible pay of $3.31
instead of $3.06.
Student Workers IV will be paid from $2.80 to $3.42
instead of $2.60 to $3.17.
Student Technicians, the most skilled and experi
enced student workers, will receive $3.14 to $5.55,
instead of $2.94 to $5.20.
This new basic rate for student employees was de
termined last December by H. Ray Smith, director of
personnel and Howard Vestal, vice-president for busi
ness affairs. President Jarvis Miller approved the pay
increase.
The raise takes effect Friday, which is the beginning
of the state fiscal year, Smith said. All scheduled salary
increases are made as part of the annual operating
budget, which becomes effective on that date.
Another 3.4 percent pay increase is scheduled for
Friday for all state employees making less than $12,000
annually. All University employees in that pay range
who were working on Aug. 31 will receive at least a 3.4
percent raise, Smith said.
University employees that qualify for both raises,
Smith said, will receive only the one providing the
greater increase.
“Some will get larger increases (than scheduled) due
to promotions to positions of greater responsibility,”
Smith said.
Others will get larger increases in recognition of
meritorious job performance. Some student workers
will get higher than scheduled raises for the same rea
sons.
Mew charges revive Davis trial
District Attorney ‘sick of the name’
United Press Internutionul
ORT WORTH — No matter what the
tome of accusations T. Cullen Davis
Wit the murder of his divorce judge,
e new charges have revived prosecution
“rest in bringing the millionaire to trial
murder and attempted murder charges
Ing to August 1976. District Attorney
Ini Curry said.
■The fact is, all of this happened and we
tcei'ed all this new information and it
:es imperative that we try to get some
(ce, whether on this or the other mur-
, Curry said in an interview during
bond hearing for Davis scheduled to
me today.
iVeprobably will try this case (solicita
tion of murder) next, Curry said. "This
simply is a pretty good case, (but) had they
announced ready for trial the last time, we
would have tried the (murder) cases.
"I’m not going to allow them to be dis-
missed. We ll try them and lore if worst
comes to worst.
“Our theory on the remaining charges
has not been that there is a lack of interest.
We wanted to see the divorce and at least
one damage suit tried to see if anything
new could be developed in them.
Earlier this year Curry announced his
office was ready to try Davis on the charge
he shot and killed Stan Farr, Mrs. Davis’
companion after she and her husband
separated in 1974. But the defense asked
for a delay to study a legal doctrine known
as collateral estoppel, a form of double
jeopardy discouraging trial on related
charges if the same evidence and witnes
ses resulted in an initial acquittal.
Curry denied he rejected his staff’s
suggestions to drop the remaining
charges. He said it was his chief prose
cutor’s opinion that the legal doctrine did
not apply.
Curry said he could not explain wide
spread unfavorable reaction to Davis’
latest arrest.
“I don t know why other than it’s a trib
ute to such a magnificent propaganda job
done by the defense in this thing and I
don’t mean that facetiously," he said. "1
can’t conceive a thinking person thinking
the FBI, U.S. attorney, Texas Rangers and
us would enter afty conspiracy.”
Curry admitted to a frustration resulting
from Davis’ acquittal in Amarillo last year
on the first of the murder charges alleging
he killed his wife’s 12-year-old stepdaugh
ter. But he denied he was “out to get
Davis.
F emale-to-male
ratio increasing
By DOUG GRAHAM
Battalion Staff
The ratio of women to men in this year’s
freshman class has leveled off at about 2 to
1, but the overall ratio of women to men at
Texas A&M University is increasing.
Dean of Admissions and Records Edwin
Cooper said the school has accepted 4,900
men and 2,900 women as of Aug. 1. Of
those numbers, approximately 30 percent
will be no-shows, he said.
Cooper said he estimates the total
freshman class will be 5,200.
Approximately 62.8 percent will be men
and 37.2 will be women.
Cooper said this year’s freshman class
will raise the University’s overall ratio to
66 percent men and 34 percent women.
That ratio is lower than the national av
erage, Cooper said. For example, he said,
Southwest Texas State University in San
Marcos has a ratio of six women per four
men.
There are two causes for the lower-
than-average ratio, he said. One is that
women did not attend Texas A&M until
recently, the school was an all-male uni
versity until 1971 when it became co
educational. The other reason is that Texas
A&M has a science-oriented curriculum.
Cooper said.
Women tend to go into education or lib
eral arts, he said.
The Class of ’53 graduate said he feels
the addition of women to the campus has
been good for Texas A&M.
“It is a plus factor to have women here,”
Cooper said, “and we have a happy and
wholesome student body.”
Postal talks collapse;
court order sought
Battalion photo by Pat O’Malley
Back in town
Thousands of Texas A&M University students returned to Aggieland
over the weekend to find plenty of long lines waiting. This cadet (top)
used a briefcase to shield his newly-shaved head from the sun Saturday
morning while waiting to pick up his student ID card. But at least a few
Aggies (bottom) were eager to display their determination to return for
the fall.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Talks aimed at av
erting a nationwide postal strike have col
lapsed and the Postal Service may try
again for a court order banning walkouts
that could occur today.
Talks between the quasi-governmental
U.S. Postal Service and the two largest
postal unions broke off early Saturday,
with federal mediator Wayne Horvits say
ing he was trying to persuade the man
agement representatives “to get into dis
cussions.”
A spokesman for the Postal Service,
which wants the dispute submitted to
binding arbitration, said, “We are not
meeting with the (mediators) nor the
unions.”
He said no new sessions were scheduled
despite the mounting threat of strikes that
could throw the postal system into chaos.
He did say that a spur-of-the-moment de
cision to meet again was “a possibility.”
Postal strikes are illegal and, in the
event one should occur this week, federal
troops would be pressed into service to
deliver the mail.
Troops performed that service briefly in
1970 and when 200,000 postal workers
struck, mostly in East Coast cities.
The two sides had been called together
by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service.
The service went to court Friday seek
ing a temporary injunction against a strike,
but federal judge John Pratt said he would
not issue one yet.
The 280,000-member American Postal
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
Sign of the times
University traffic officials are using street signs like this as a lighter
approach to controlling campus traffic this fall. Eugene Ray, director of
grounds maintenance, conceived the idea for the signs, which officials
say they hope will receive more attention than more conventional “No
Parking” signs. The new signs were installed along Ross Street last week.
Surplus leaves men
without dorm rooms
By ANDY WILLIAMS
Battalion Staff
The Corps of Cadets may share its dor
mitory space with Texas A&M University
civilians this hill if other housing can’t be
found for the non-regs.
Faced with an overflow of 350 men in
dormitories, the University Housing Of
fice has assigned students to various types
of temporary quarters including dormitory
lounges and study areas.
Dr. John J. Koldus III, vice president
for student services, says that the over
assignment was planned with the expecta
tion that students would cancel their room
reservations.
“We’ve got fewer people who canceled
than usual, and also, we scheduled more
men for the same space than we usually
do,” said Ron Sasse, assistant director of
student affairs. “It’s kind of like playing
the stock market. Last year we used about
the same system and came up with va
cancies. ”
Koldus said he expects enough space to
be available at 5 p.m. Monday, “when
we ll claim our no-shows.”
Otherwise, “We have a number of
rooms in the Corps area in which we’ll
probably do some consolidation, if we
need to. The Commandant’s office has
graciously provided these,” Koldus said.
No overcrowding has occurred in dorms
used by the Corps or by women.
Sasse said Thursday he was uncertain of
the exact number of men who would room
in the temporary quarters because the
cancellation process was continuing.
Workers Union and the 180,000-member
National Association of Letter Carriers
have rejected a hard-fought wage contract
settlement proposal that would provide a
19.5 percent wage and cost-of-living in
crease over three years.
The unions are demanding that the
Postal Service reopen negotiations on the
contract.
Speaker
wants end
to tenure
United Press International
AUSTIN — Speaker Bill Clayton is
drafting a proposal abolishing tenure for
faculty members at state universities. But
a member of the speaker’s staff says that
does not mean Clayton will push the pro
posal when the Legislature convenes in
January.
The plan would replace tenure with a
10-year renewable contract for college and
university faculty members, but would not
affect professors who already have tenure.
The State College Coordinating Board
has been working for three years on a revi
sion of its policy regarding tenure,
academic freedom and responsibility and
is scheduled to present the proposed new
policy at its October meeting.
BACK-TO-SCHOOL EDITION
Welcome to Texas A&M University. For those of you returning for another year
and especially for freshmen, The Battalion attempts to give you a taste of what
Texas A&M will he like this fall. A few things have changed, but for the most part
A&M remains as it always has been. This Back-To-School Edition consists of 82
pages in six sections, the largest in the history of The Battalion.
General News Section A
Texas A&M Family Tree
Stress Test ^A
The City
Bryan’s History . .
Housing Situation
Section B
IB
3B
The Campus Section C
Hyperbaric Lab . 1C
Construction 2C
Financial Aid 5C
Counseling 8C
Meteorology Department 10C
Campus Lif e . ..
The Corps
Survival
Parking
MSC
Service Agencies
The Sports Section E
Aggie Football IE
The Opponents 3-5E
Kyle Field 6E
Women’s Athletics 8E
Basketball 9E
Entertainment Section F
Northgate IF
Lake Somerville 2F
Exotic Wildlife 4F
Where To Eat 5F
Aggie Cinema 6F