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•edication ceremonies for Chi Omega sorority house will
be held Saturday. The house was completed late in August.
Twenty-seven members and a house mother are residents of
the house. Battalion photo by Lynn Blanco
By MERIT EDWARDS
Battalion Staff
Greek social organizations say
they are not pushing for recognition
by Texas A&M University, but they
would like to be acknowledged.
National social fraternities and
sororities are not recognized as
campus organizations by the Uni
versity administration, said Dr.
Carolyn Adair, director of student
activities.
“It’s been two years since a group
applied for recognition,” Adair said.
“Occasionally, individuals will come
in asking the reasons behind our
policy, but there have been no other
official applications.”
Adair said she shows students the
letter written by Dr. John Koldus,
vice president for student services,
denying recognition of Sigma Phi
Epsilon.
In the letter, Koldus said that
Texas A&M supports the premise
that its social character was de
veloped in the concept of together
ness — in that all students are Ag
gies and a social caste system would
detract from this concept.
Sigma Phi Epsilon president
Grover Ellisor said his organiza
tion’s application for official recogni
tion was mainly to get a feel of
where the administration stood.
“I can’t see now, though, where
recognition would help us that
much,” Ellisor said. “We re growing
and getting bigger at a rate we can
barely manage. We re doing fine ex
cept for maybe being able to adver
tise rush on campus.
“My concern if we were recog
nized would be the restraints and
regulations the university would put
on us.”
Ellisor said the administration is
negative toward Greeks, but its po
sition doesn’t affect his organization
much.
“We’d like to be acknowledged,”
he said. “We love A&M and are Ag
gies just like everyone else. We re
not like the Greek systems at other
schools.”
Ellisor said his group was
criticized a lot at first for trying to
undermine the system, but the at
titude is better now.
“If A&M ever does change its pol
icy toward Greeks, it will be a slow
and gradual change,” Ellisor said.
“When a larger percentage of the
students are involved then we ll re
ceive more attention, but we re all
right now.”
Becky Bridges, Alpha Delta Pi
president, agreed with Ellisor.
“We want to be acknowledged,
but we don’t want to be recognized
right now because that means our
funds would be regulated by A&M.”
Bridges said the acknowledge
ment they’re seeking is more of an
attitude than a policy change.
“We want the University to be
proud of us,” she said. “They can
acknowledge we exist as a student
organization. We are a group of stu
dents enrolled in A&M.”
Bridges said there are about 1,400
students involved in Greek clubs.
“I think most students don’t feel
Greeks are so bad anymore,” she
said. “We’re interested in telling
everyone that Greeks aren’t just a
party group. We place high priority
on grades and service projects.
Bridges said her big project for
the semester is trying to get Greek
pictures in the yearbook.
But what about students not in a
sorority or fraternity: do they agree
with university policy toward
Greeks?
“I’m glad they’re not recognized,”
Vicki Maddux, a sophomore in man
agement, said. “That’s one of the
reasons I came to A&M. I didn’t
want to go to a school where I wasn’t
accepted if I didn’t belong to a soror
ity. I think they would divide the
student body.”
Blake Guillory, a freshman in
mechanical engineering, disagreed.
“I don’t have anything against
Greeks. I think they should be rec
ognized. They’re a part of college
life, they allow you to get closer to
each other like a family-type atmo
sphere. I might like to join a frater
nity.”
Greek recognition would bring
unnecessary competition to campus,
said Bobby Page, a senior finance
major.
“It’s friendlier the way it is. I
think they ought to be left on their
own and the administration should
keep a neutral stance.”
Engineering prof
receives grant
A $20,000 grant in support of the
Halliburton Chair of Engineering
has been presented to Texas A&M
University.
The Halliburton Education grant
was made to Robert H. Page, dean
of the College of Engineering, by
officials of Brown and Root Inc. and
Welex of Houston.
The 1979-80 contribution is the
15th annual grant to Texas A&M by
the foundation.
Page said the funds will allow the
new Halliburton Chair Professor,
Dr. Stephen Riter of the Electrical
Engineering Department, to per
form studies in several areas. They
will include the effect of public pol
icy on technology, productivity
growth and energy development.
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chance in Jf§i'ties with Texas A&M Univer-
ct box. 'ty chapters have bought property
lowser wa t an area located on Athens Way in
3 times,ea ^ e g e Station.
box at least 'There is a growing trend for social
To prove ra te™ities and sororities to build
thereforeE-j? uses ' On April 22, 1976, the Col-
betteranitll 8 : !> tat * on City Council passed an
once it finance to allow fraternities and
lifferent d( P ror '^ es to bmld in designated
, was on ] ommercial and apartment zones.
Lit of 10 Omega’s house was
the valid P m P^ ete(d ’ n ^ ate August, after ap-
iroval by the College Station Plan-
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Ordinance 1019 requires “one
off-street parking space per 30
square feet of net floor space.”
James Calloway, community de
velopment planner, said the ordi
nance was designed to assure that
the construction of the house ob
served proper building codes for
“mercantile occupancy, and to as
sure proper parking spaces for each
house.
Alpha Phi sorority had difficulties
in meeting the requirements when
it bought property with an existing
brick house, said Kathryn Williams,
the sorority’s pledge trainer. Be
cause the construction plans called
for a 20-foot extension on each side
of the house, construction was de
layed, Williams said.
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extension, Calloway said a fire zone
needed to be marked off in the park
ing area and curbs needed to be
built.
Plans were finally approved Sept.
6, after three attempts. In the
meantime, the sorority is making its
headquarters in an apartment.
Since the house isn’t built, four
members live in the apartment and
other members live in apartments
or dorms on their own, Williams
said. The house, when it’s com
pleted, will house 28 to 34 mem
bers.
The Chi Omega house is already
completed and houses 27 members
and one house mother. Storm said.
The sorority plans to hold an official
dedication ceremony on Saturday.
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