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) r * y r he subsidizer <E BATTALION 3AY, MAT 4. 1f7» P«fl« 3 Football pays By DOUG GRAHAM _ „ _ Battalion Staff ror all the exposure Texas A&M University gets out of Kyle Fjeld, te stadium would be a bargain at n V Price; however, since the school got it free, it might be the teal of the century. -It isn t that Kyle Field was built for free, it is just that Texas A&M »ever had to pay for it; the Ath- etic Department did. Other sports tcilities on campus that were built 'ithout state funds include Wof ford Cain Hall, and C.E. "Pat” Olsen Field The athletic budget shows not >nly the vast amount of money landled by that department, but who earns it, and on what it , is pent. Wally Groff, assistant director >r business affairs in the athletic lepartment, said they were paid >r through alumni donations and arnings of the Athletic Depart ment's teams, he said. And the one team that carries he rest is the football team. From 977-78 the football team earned 2,039,000. That * included 170,000 for the Bluebonnet Bowl, elevision rights and conference urplus chipped in another 400,000, while the seven women's ports and the other six men’s ports contributed $90,000. The Aggie Club is second to the ootball team as a source of income □r sports programs. It is not to be confused with Alumni Association. The Aggie Club raised $755,000 i-om 1977-78. The Athletic Department’s com bined income, including miscel- aneous items was $3,479,000. Expenses, including supplies, cholarships and wages, totaled 13,017,000. Net profit, after sub- racting over $300,000 for Cain 4all and Kyle Field osts, was $128,880. , Projected net profit for this year s $30,876, Groff said, but income irom the Hall of Fame Bowl is not yet, nor .are the receipts from he NIT basketball tournament. Groff, who is «ow working on next year’s budget, said he takes success into account when estimat ing team income. "1 feel safe to predict well be on television twice,” he said. “But we never budget for bowls. Nothing past the conference is put in the budget. We do just enough to get us through the state competition. ’’ Other sports, as of March 31, 1979, earned anywhere from no thing, in golf, to over $123,000 for basketball. Total income from the women’s program was $2,906. - Golfs budget is $42,000, and women’s sports is $424,305. "This year basketball earned over 50 percent of its keep because of the NIT,” he said, which was more than usual. "Baseball only makes about 5 percent,” he said. A high cost for the department, Groff said, is interest payments on bonds sold to finance construction. He said around $500,000 will be paid each year. However, the Athletic Depart ment found ways to share the bur den of building Olsen Field and Kyle Field’s third deck. A portion of the baseball field’s construction funds came from money Texas AficM earned from handling its in vestments. Money made through handling investments can be used at the University’s discretion even though the money used in the investments is actually state money. To help cover the $22 million bill for the third deck expansion of Kyle Field some physical educa tion facilities were included, be cause of state requirements that state money go to buildings used for teaching and not simply for ath letics. Groff said his department is pay ing $9 million and the school is covering the rest. To help cover costs, some of the student service fees are going to reserve student spaces on the west deck. Rain is slowing things down and raising costs, he said. "I was just with the superinten dent on the project and they were cussing the weather. They’re in dire need of some sunshine.” Jury investigates Houston kickbacks questions about • $6,000 l° an P 1 ”* chasing agent Jack Key * rran ^|i lnl . cover January Las Vegas gM* ® losses by the mayor and some friends. , .j Cowart told investigators he paia Key $4,000 and was to have given him $2,000 more. .—, * - - McConn said his loan had no- Mayor Jim McConn said of thing to do with the money taken the expanded investigation. “But it from Cowart and that the mayor s office is free of illegality. McConn also said he did not know who fa- nanced the loan but that he will repay it when he learns the name. Uafcad Ptm* International HOUSTON — A federal grand jury investigating alleged kickbacks paid the city purchasing agent by a tire repair firm has expanded its inquiry to other reports of illegal payoffs and subpoenaed all city contracts. ’Overall, it’s certainly not good would appear to be some vindica tion of my involvement.” McConn appeared before the grand jury Monday to answer - u March winds, still here Battalion i Jana Harris Results of prevalent local winds could be :en in front of the Harrington Education Center Complex Thursday. These bicycles - were blown over by early May gusts. Aide first to prove Solon s secret fund Evangelist talks to A&M crowd By SALLY DREYFUS Battalion Reporter 1 There’s no such thing as luck in the world, a national campus lec turer said Thursday night at Texas A&M University. "A heathen thinks, there’s luck, Jim McCotter said, “but, the Bible says everything that happens has a plan.” McCotter, sponsored by the Or ganization for Advancement of .■Spiritual Involvement Among Stu- xlents (OASIS), spoke to a packed audience in Rudder Tower. He 'also has been speaking every day 'since Tuesday in front of the Haf- 'rington Education Center during 'class breaks. ’ All things work together for the Ilove of God, McCotter said. • “Gdd is working for good.” . “God wants us to be a sharer • and a doer in working with him. tThe one who controls the galaxy ! longs with you to get with him and 'work with him,” he said. • "If you’re ready to embrace what - God shows you, he will show you. ! If you’re not ready, he won’t.” • The Lord doesn't like lukewarm Christians, he said. The Lord • wishes you would be either hot or cold and he would wonder why you weren’t hot. People are afraid to turn their lives over to God, he said. They’re afraid he’ll take everything away that you have and send you some where awful. "Christians don t need social se curity if they obey the word of God," he said. "There’s nothing one Christian wouldn t do for another Christian if they love God," he said. McCotter will speak again Sun day at 10 a.m. in Room 601 Rud der. United Press International WASHINGTON — Sen, Her man Talmadge's financial secretary said Thursday it was Daniel Min chew who first provided evidence of the existence of a secret Wash ington bank account Talmadge later used as the basis of his charge that Minchew embezzled $39,000. Mrs. Allyne Tisdale made the statement on the (rank account to the Senate^ Ethics Committee while being questioned by Special Counsel Carl Eardley about a memo written to her by Minchew on June 14 of last year. Minchew, Talmadge’s former aide and chief accuser, maintains most of the $30,000 in the account went to Talmadge, D-Ga., and his fainil)^ Talmadge, who has denied he knew about the account in his name until it became controversial, is facing five charges including false Senate expense filings and conversion of campaign contribu tions to his personal use. He could be censured or expelled from the*' Senate if found guilty. Minchew wrote the June 14 memo to Tisdale after a strategy, session between Talmadge and his confidants to decide what to do about news stories claiming the senator had received bogus ex pense money. The Minchew memo told Tisdale to check Senate records for 1973- 74 — the years two Senate ex pense reimbursement checks total ing $13,000 were deposited in the secret account. “They' should be different from deposits (for expenses in the senators Georgia office account'. [VILLA MARIA ONE HOUR CLEANERS! 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She admitted to Eardley that “had 1 inquired I would have learned aixmt the actual expense reimbursement from the Senate in 1973 of one expense check for $10,000 — *a check that sub sequently ended up in the secret Washington bank account that was used to “launder" some $39,000 in expense checks and campaign con tributions. Tisdale said she didn’t think much about Minchew’s note until later in the day on June 14, 1978, when Talmadge called her into his office and showed her a memo Minchew had written to Talmadge and delivered to the senator at a $ a.m. meeting in Talmadge’s Wash! ington apartment. In that memo, dated June 13j Minchew told Talmadge. “In sit ting in your office this morning, f l>egan to resent very much your failure to lie totally candid about your instructions to me regarding the special account." 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