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Vol. 73 No. 28
16 Pages
Wednesday, October 10, 1979
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
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Sea school name change
forbidden by state office
By ANGIE JONES
Battalion Reporter
State Attorney General Mark White has
ruled the Texas A&M University Board of
Regents cannot change the name of
Moody College to Texas A&M University
at Galveston.
Bob Heath, chairman of the Opinions
Committee, explained that the Moody
College name was established by statute
and could only be changed by the Texas
Legislature.
The Opinions Committee gives legal
opinions to questions posed by state offi
cials. In this case, the Attorney General
asked for an opinion in response to a query
by the Coordinating Board of Texas Col
leges and Universities about the authority
of the Board of Regents to change the
name of Moody College.
“It (the opinion) did not specifically
mention Texas A&M University, but it
was one of the institutions affected,”
Heath said. .
Dexey Luchoni, Moody College direc
tor of operations, said that although the
institution is now going by the new name
and has changed the letterheads on corre
spondence with other institutions, the at
torney general’s opinion really won’t affect
them. An interpretation of the opinion
must first be made by the Board of Re
gents, he said. The regents have not met
yet to discuss the attorney general’s opin
ion.
The Moody College name change, along
with eligiblity of the institution to receive
construction support from the Permanent
University Fund, were included in Senate
Joint Resolution 7, sponsored by Sen.
A.R. “Babe” Schwartz during the summer
legislative session. After passage by the
Senate, SJR-7 was modified in the House
of Representatives and did not come back
up for a vote.
Then it was thought the Board of Re
gents could authorize the name change as
part of an administrative reorganization at
the Moody campus.
“I included the name Texas A&M Uni
versity at Galveston because there is no
unit in the University of Texas System that
is named ‘blank college,’ Schwartz said.
“In the first place, it is a denial of the uni
versity status of those graduates.”
Schwartz emphasized that students of
Moody College receive their degrees from
Texas A&M University and should be
entitled to the same status as any other
Texas A&M graduate.
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Student Services to sponsor
program on alcohol abuse
Follow the bouncing cowboy
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Convict cowboy Weldon Byrd somersaults off a hind Bars.” The prison rodeo, held every weekend
bucking bull during the first performance of the in October, will be featured in the Focus section of
Texas Prison Rodeo last weekend. Byrd was all- Thursday’s Battalion,
round champion of last year’s “Wildest Rodeo Be-
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
By CAROL HANCOCK
Battalion Reporter
A program to curb alcohol abuse by stu
dents is in the making at Texas A&M Uni
versity.
Through residence halls and off-campus
groups, Student Services administrators
hope to educate students on alcohol and its
effects. The program is part of a statewide
“rlutnher of hot checks on the increase
By FLOYD WILTZ
338(1 Battalion Reporter
"There are 173 students at Texas A&M
—diversity who are living on borrowed
N^s^y.lltne. or more accurately, borrowed
f|^»ney. And their time, like their money,
almost run out.
ifI|ilRobe rt Smith, assistant director of Texas
PlpitM University’s fiscal department, said
a list of 173 students who paid their
iMB tionwith C '1 1CC ^ S and have not made
^pl^pood on them. Unless the tuition is paid
Smith warned, these students could
themselves dropped from the Univer-
rolls by the end of October,
number of hot checks written in
SIw ’ fazosCounty and at Texas A&M is on the
l|K|||Herease. The tuition checks represent
||||||| only about 2 or 3 percent of the total
||lli®[ n iimber of hot checks received by Texas
Smith said. A query to local mer-
S^Siiil'onts showed that the number of hot
they receive each month went up
in September, when students returned to
town.
During the 1977-78 fiscal year there
were 5,440 bad checks returned to Texas
A&M. During 1978-79 fiscal year, 6,281
hot checks were returned, reflecting an
increase of 15 percent.
When the University receives a re
turned check a written notice is sent to the
student advising him to pay the debt
within 15 days. If the check is not paid
within that time, another notice is sent to
the student. Smith said about 50 percent
of the students pay the bad check — plus a
$15 penalty — after receiving the first
notice, and another 25 percent pay after
the second notice. Smith said.
A Texas A&M student or employee is
put on the University’s permanent bad
check list after two hot checks are re
ceived. This prevents the student or em
ployee from using any of the University’s
check cashing facilities. In the case of Uni
versity employees. Smith added, Texas
A&M may hold their paychecks until the
amount is paid. This information is not
lbiwarded to the Brazos Comity business
community.
“A lot of these people know the money
is not in the bank when they write the
check,” Smith said.
Patti Swanson, who handles hot checks
for Gibson’s Discount Center, said the
store received approximately 45 hot
checks in September.
“We have to be very cautious toward
the end of the semester,’’ she said. “Stu
dents are leaving and they clean out their
accounts and clean us out.’’
Gibson’s requires students to present a
driver’s license Texas A&M identification
card to cash local checks.
Ken Broach of Broach Oil said his com
pany could consider refusing to accept
checks if the number of bad checks his
service stations receive continues to in
crease.
Terry Morris, manager of the Kroger
Family Center in Biyan, had noticed an
increase in returned checks since the be
ginning of school this fall. The annual
amount of hot checks totals in the
thousands of dollars, Morris said.
Students will usually pay their bad
checks after being notified, several busi
nessmen said. They noted that students
comprised about 20 to 30 percent of the
hot check writers in their businesses.
When a deliquent check is not paid after
written notices have been sent, most busi
nesses will turn the matter over to the
county attorney’s office. The county attor
ney’s office publishes and distributes a list
of the names weekly. In addition, County
Attorney John Barron Jr. said he will pros
ecute passers of bad checks.
program recently launched by the United
States Brewers Association.
Monica Christen, assistant area coor
dinator, said the program will take a teach
ing approach, not a prohibiting one.
“We want to stress that alcohol isn’t bad
but can damage the human body if it is
abused’ she said.
The extent .of the program depends on
funds available, Christen said. She and
Dr. Maurice Dennis,, an assistant indus
trial education professor, currently are
working to obtain a grant from the Na
tional Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Al
coholism (NIAAA).
Christen said if they get the grant, the
alcohol program could include films,
speakers, workshops, posters, and pam
phlets. If the grant is denied, the program
will be more limited, she said.
Information is being compiled from
other universities that have alcohol pro
grams, Christen said. The Texas A&M
program will be set up with this informa
tion and results of a Texas A&M survey in
. mind, she said.
The grant proposal has to be turned in
to the NIAAA by Nov. 1, Christen said.
She said she hopes to have more definite
plans for the program by January.
The statewide program is part of a na
tional program to broaden alcohol aware
ness by the Association. The need for a
program in colleges was shown in a Florida
survey. The survey of nearly 300 colleges
nationwide showed 81 percent of the stu
dents drink alcoholic beverages, the
majority of whom drink moderately.
Fraternity houses were shown to have the
highest level of alcohol consumption.
Jess Yaryan, an Association consultant to
Texas colleges, said many Texas schools
either have or are interested in an alcohol
program.
The Association will publish a quarterly
paper to keep colleges informed and to
give them new ideas, Yaryan said. The in
teraction between schools is important to
the Association’s national goal, he said.
Standing room only for Saturday’s game
By MERIL EDWARDS
Battalion Staff
I Even an Aggie win against University of
Houston may not be enough to appease
some of the more unfortunate fans stand
ing on the track or watching the action on
cjosed-circuit TV in G. Rollie White Col-
iseum.
Wally Groff, assistant athletic director
for business affairs, said 64,000 tickets
nave been sold for the A&M-Houston
football game. The stadium capacity is
ply 57,000, so that leaves 7,000 ticket
lolders with no place to sit.
“We ll probably run out of seats in the
stands sometime Wednesday,” Groff said.
“Then we ll start selling standing space on
the track. We re planning to sell tickets to
3,000 students to watch the game from the
track.”
Groff said three areas will be roped off
for standing room. Both sides of the field
from the bleachers at the south end to the
30 yard line will be designated for standing
students. The third area will begin at the
northeast end of the field and extend from
the horseshoe to the 40 yard line.
While tickets for track space last, Groff
said students have three options: stand on
the track, watch the game on closed-
circuit TV in G. Rollie White Coliseum or
receive a refund of $4.25 for their ticket.
“I’m sorry students have to bear the
brunt of the stadium not being ready,”
Groff said. “I hope that they can look
ahead to the future bright spots of good
seats.”
One bright spot for Saturday’s game is
that there will be temporary concession
trailers on all three levels, Groff said.
For students with seats in Kyle Field,
EAST
TEMPORARY GATE
For Use by East Side Ticket Holders
ONLY
^West Side Ticket Holders
Enter NORTH End
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RAMP 4
To: All Levels
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^Lower Level
Gate 1 ► and
TEMPORARY FENCE
Not Accessible to Public
^NO ENTRANCE
RAMP 2
To: Middle Level
Upper Level
^West Side Ticket Holders
Enter NORTH End
\ Elevators
\ ^ Access to Elevators
\ \ ONLY
WEST \
NO ENTRANCE
the first question is how to get to those
seats.
Groff said almost all students will be sit
ting on the east side. He said all east side
ticket holders must enter the temporary
gates at the southeast corner of Kyle Field
to reach their seats.
Fans on the west side, in the horseshoe,
in the bleachers and on the track will enter
at the north end of the stadium through
gates one, two, three and seven. “About
80 percent of the crowd will use the north
end,” Groff said (see diagram).
The next issue is safety. The University
safety men, the campus police and H.B.
Zachry Construction Co. are all working to
make a potentially dangerous Kyle Field
safe for the day.
“All the equipment will be blocked off,”
Groff said. “Temporary fences and bar
ricades will be constructed. Nothing will,
be left dangerous. Zachry Co. is very
safety conscious. We ll all be taking every
possible precaution.
“Beside every barricade or dangerous
area, an officer will be stationed just in
case someone does try to go through the
off-limits areas.”
University Police Chief Russ McDonald
said 20 or 30 additional men will be com
ing in from Bryan to help out with stadium
security.
“Well station the officers throughout
the crowd to prevent injuries and acci
dents,” McDonald said. “Our main con
cern will be to protect the kids running
around on the west side.”
And finally, where is there room to
park?
Groff said about 800 parking spaces have
been lost due to the stadium expansion.
“It’s going to be tough finding a place,” he
said. “Students should park on the outer
parts of campus. Guests won’t have any
idea where to park.”
Looking ahead to the three remaining
home games, Groff was more optimistic.
He said 4,500 more seats will be available
for the SMU game Nov. 3 and additional
seats will be added in time for the Arkan
sas game Nov. 17.
“The entire stadium, 71,600 seats, has
been sold out for the Texas game Dec. 1,”
Groff said. “So we sure hope Kyle Field
will be ready by then.”
Battalion photo by Lynn Blanco
Aggie Blood Drive
Joel Malone, a junior civil engineering major, was the first donor in the
Aggie Blood Drive. Blood can be donated from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the
second floor of the Memorial Student Center today and Thursday.