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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1979
S tudents
‘restore
in
city
architecture workshop
block
By BONNIE HELWIG
Battalion Reporter
A city block of crumbling build
ings in Ft. Collins, Colo., was re
stored and redesigned on paper by
170 landscape architecture students
on the Texas A&M University cam
pus Saturday.
The students were participating
in Landscape Architecture Work
shop 79 in Rudder Tower.
Representing six universities
from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma,
and Louisiana, 170 students and 12
professionals from the landscape ar
chitecture field were involved in
seminars and special landscape de
sign problems during the three-day
workshop.
The problem given to the stu
dents was an actual situation sub
mitted by Charlie Kapp of Ft. Col
lins, Colo., one of the professionals
attending the workshop, said
Reagan Tower, chairman of the
event.
The students were given a
three-hour work period to come up
with an economical and attractive
restoration design as a climax to the
Saturday afternoon session, she
said.
The students also heard Jot Car
penter, president of the American
Society of Landscape Architects;
Donald Meining, professor of geog
raphy at Syracuse University; and
Earl Broussard, professor of land
scape architecture at Louisianna
State University, as the main speak
ers.
Carpenter’s talk was on “The De
velopment of the Landscape Ar
chitecture, Student and Profes
sional,’ and Broussard spoke on
“The Evolution of the American
Landscape.”
Meining presented a paper to be
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published entitled “Reading the
Landscape — An appreciation of
W.G. Hoskins and J.B. Jackson.”
The students participated in
seminars on landscape architecture
Friday afternoon, but Tower said
the favorite speech was given by
Rodney Hill, professor of environ
mental design at Texas A&M. His
demonstration featured “center
ing,” a type of relaxation and aware
ness exercise to help students grasp
their potential.
During the Saturday morning
session, Stafanie Kawecki, a sopho
more from Magnolia, was awarded a
$300 grant from the Texas chapter of
the American Society of Landscape
Architects for her achievements at
Texas A&M.
The workshop gives students an
opportunity to work alongside pro
fessionals, which they never have a
chance to do in a normal classroom
situation, said Mike Cunningham, a
Texas A&M graduate student in
landscape architecture.
‘Real 9 wife
protests
marriage
These chuck holes at Holleman and Welsh
streets are just a few in College Station that
are badly in need of repair. Federal govern
ment funds will repair streets in low income
areas of College Station.
Battalion photo by Kayce Clast
United Press International
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A 17-
year-old girl has filed suit for an
nulment of her four-month-old mar
riage because her 19-year-old hus
band turned out to be a woman.
A Chancery Court suit filed last
week charges that she was deceived
and asks the marriage be voided be
cause “the parties have entered into
a homosexual marriage, such a mar
riage being immoral” under Ten
nessee law.
A Memphis minister who coun
seled the couple before marrying
them in an elaborate church cere
mony last year said the discovery
came as a complete shock to the girl,
church members and himself.
“I’m a certified sex therapist,”
said the minister, who asked that his
name be withheld. “I’m not that eas
ily fooled.” But he said the groom
looked and acted like a man.
It was not until after the couple
left for a new home in Atlanta that
the minister began to hear rumors
about the groom.
Later, the girl said her “husband’
told her that he was deformed be
cause of a football injury and refused
to undress in front of her, the minis
ter said.
Nature, HUD funds allow
CS street repairs, paving
By REGINA MOEHLMAN
Battalion Reporter
With the cooperation of Mother
Nature and the federal government,
several streets in College Station
will be repaved and repaired.
Since 1975 the city of College Sta
tion has been in the federally
funded Community Development
Program. Cities that qualify receive
money to pave and repair streets
and public facilities in low income
areas.
Streets now under repair are Pre
ston, Columbus, Pierce, Avenue B
and portions of Churchill and Geor
gia. However, Mother Nature has
interfered with the work.
“There’s nothing we can do about
it,” said Elrey Ash, College Station
city engineer. Ash said the contrac
tor in charge of repairing the streets
began working and then had to pull
back because of rainy, cold
weather.” Work can resume soon,
he said.
Besides the rough weather, plan
ners have had to wrestle with the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), which chan
nels the federal funds.
Jim Callaway, community de
velopment planner for College Sta
tion, said the city did not receive
any federal funds in 1978 because it
could not show enough improve
ments. Also, College Station and
HUD could not reach an agreement
on which housing assistance plan
would be best for the community.
“I think all of this will be working
out now,” Callaway said.
In 1977 the city received
$275,000, Callaway said. The rest of
the money can go to help pay ad
ministration cost.
“It takes a lot of administration ef
fort,” Callaway said. “There’s a lot of
paper work involved.”
To qualify, the majority of
families in a neighborhood must
have less than average area income,
based on the 1970 census. Callaway
said that about $8,000 is a low family
income.
Four areas have been identified
as low income and are eligible for
funds, Callaway said. They
fairly old and small with obvi
street problems, he said.
“These were not in the city #
nally. We re trying to go bacl;
correct.
Without the Community
velopment program, city stn
would be paved and repaired
placing a lien against the reside
property under the Texas Streel
sessment Program.
“Then they (the residents) cai:
release their property tilitispiit
Callaway said. “I doubt the peo|
in these areas could pay the tare
Calllaway said he hopes tliei|
eral program can be expanded
pay for street repairs in otherara
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