THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1979
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President requests Congress
double wilderness acreage
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Carter has asked Congress to add
15.4 million acres to the nation’s
wilderness system, almost doubling
the acreage preserved from roads or
settlement.
The president also has ordered
more than 36 million acres of un
trampled U.S. countryside opened
up for logging, oil, gas and mineral
exploration.
Carter said in a White House
statement that release of the lands
will help meet the nation’s “urgent
need for energy, wood products,
livestock forage, minerals” and will
provide for a “broad array of recre
ational opportunities.”
“While we plan to proceed with
other uses on these lands, this does
not automatically mean that all of
these areas will be intensively or
immediately developed,” said Assis
tant Agriculture Secretary M.
Rupert Cutler.
Wilderness areas, which must be
approved individually by Congress,
are intended to offer solitude, with
access only by foot, mule, horse or,
in Alaska, by dog sled.
About 9.9 million acres of wilder
ness would be in the lower 48 states
and about 5.5 million in Alaska.
Carter also asked Agriculture Sec
retary Bob Bergland to study
another 10.6 million acres of the land
with a view to energy exploration
and possibly logging.
Those areas include parts of the
Overthrust geological formation
running through Montana, Idaho,
Utah and Wyoming and are believed
rich in energy resources.
Another Agriculture Department
official said it could be 20 to 30 years
before activities begin on some
non-wilderness areas.
The lands involved are in 38 states
from coast to coast and Puerto Rico.
The largest chunks of wilderness
are proposed for Idaho with 2.2 mil
lion and Colorado with 2 million
acres. Almost 1 million acres have
been proposed in California and
about 700,000 in Wyoming.
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27 years of service. Throughout his career,
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Kerley tried to make life easier for the stu
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By PATTI SHOQUIST
Battalion Reporter
roughout a 27-year career at
Texas A&M University, Auston Ker
ley, retired associate professor of
educational psychology, has seen a
lot of changes.
Mi remember what A&M was like
during the Depression,” said Ker
ley, an Aggie graduate in 1939. He
retired from Texas A&M on Jan. 31,
although he still teaches senior level
educational psychology part-time.
Things were much simpler when I
began teaching at A&M in 1952,” he
said, the College of Education was
only a tiny department back then.”
Despite the rapid growth of the
University, Kerley centered his
career around making life at A&M
simpler for students.
In the early 1950s Kerley became
director of guidence, and for 10
years he headed a counseling pro
gram for freshmen.
The program was a basic college
division, like any other academic
college, and had its own dean. All
freshmen were enrolled in the pro
gram. : 'i- : ■■
“The purpose of the basic college
division was to supervise all
fresh men before they transferred to
a degree program,” Kerley said.
However, he said, “By 1960, those
of us who were a part of the basic
college felt that there were too
many entering freshmen to continue
such a program.” The basic college
program evolved into what is now
the Academic Counseling and Test
ing Center, which aids all students
selling help in academic matters.
[ Helping entering freshmen was
[aBodK-r of Kerley’s projects. He said
one of his most gratifying positions
was serving as director of the A&M
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For 20 years (1951-71) Texas
A&M conducted two six-week
summer sessions at the camp. Ker
ley said 250 students attended each
session and received credit for two
regular courses and one group guid
ance course.
“The benefits of such a program
were that students could really con
centrate on their studies, and they
got off to a good start in college,” he
said. However, the summer camp
program was not the only means of
exposing students to Texas A&M,
Kerley said. “Our University has a
long heritage of concern with enter
ing freshmen.” “When I entered
A&M as a freshman in 1934, I came
here a week early to take placement
tests and adjust to the campus.” He
said that it was very progressive for
a school to have such a program 45
years ago.
In the 1950s, Kerley coordinated
two-day summer conferences for
entering freshmen.
There are now 13 to 15 two-day
summer conferences for entering
freshmen each year. At each confer
ence students are given an opportu
nity to meet with their academic
deans to plan their programs, take
placement tests and see the campus.
A&M also brings 300 high school
counselors to the University each
summer to acquaint them with the
school’s offerings.
More than 4,000 parents come to
Texas A&M for summer conferences
as well. Kerley said the parent con
ference program has improved pub
lic relations and communications
between students, parents and the
school.
Kerley said the expanding guid
ance program has helped entering
freshmen adjust to college life with
ease. However, he said more work
should be done for transfer students
to make their transition to college
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