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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1979)
egents postpone new dorm decision __ By LOUIE ARTHUR (ft and MERIL EDWARDS ftiH Battalion Staff Alflcr a heated debate, a committee of IHexas A&M University System Board ■flgents decided to defer a decision on JiBormitories for Texas A&M University JBMarch, when further information will available for consideration. Bo vard Vestal, University vice presi- for business affairs, who serves as ^■ing committee chairman, presented a ^^Rility study to the regents Thursday conclusion that it would not be ■omically advisable for the University /■fefo construction on any new dormi tories. Vestal’s findings were based on research into the construction of two types of dormi tories — a duplicate of the Krueger-Dunn- Aston-Mosher complex, and another simi lar to the dorm now under construction. After Vestal’s presentation. Board mem ber Royce E. Wisenbaker disputed the findings of the study. “You took a problem, found an answer, and then set out to prove it,” he charged. “That’s not the only two ways to build a dorm.” Several Texas A&M student leaders were present to support the student sen ate’s opposition to the building of a new dormitory. After the meeting. Student Body President Ronnie Kapavik explained the students’ views. Kapavik said it was not the dorm itself they objected to, but they did not want all dorm residents to share the cost through increased room fees. In other action, the regents heard a pre sentation of plans to expand present park ing facilities at Kyle Field. The new lighted lots would bring the total number of avail able spaces adjacent to the stadium to 808, an addition of 534. Included in the plans is a new practice field for the football team. A grass practice field would lessen the number of workout injuries, Director of Planning Charles E. McCandless said. The total cost of the pro ject is about $600,000. The regents also discussed plans for the new Meat Science and Technology Center, designed to teach students the whole butchering cycle from live animal to pack aged, saleable product. In the Academic Campuses committee meeting, Chancellor Frank W.R. Hubert requested $30,000 for a study of the marine programs at Moody College in Galveston. “The study would be an effort to clarify the role of marine sciences and maritime technology,” Hubert said. “It’s time we address this relationship between Texas A&M University and Moody College. We need to sharpen up the relationship and have an overall commitment rather than a sporadic one.” Hubert said the money would be used to conduct an extensive study of established marine programs in view of finding the voids at Moody College. “The study will evaluate Moody’s pre sent capabilities and see what is needed to fill the gaps, he said. “The research will show what is the best organizational arrangement to support a fine marine program. ” Hubert suggested Vice Chancellor Dr. John C. Calhoun to head the research if the study is authorized. Joe H. Reynolds, chairman of the acade mic campuses committee, said he was pleased with Hubert’s request. “It’s time we worked at making Moody College a first class institution,” Reynolds said. “I don’t like mediocrity.” Texas A&M President Jarvis Miller also welcomed the study. He said it is overdue and necessary to integrate the parts of the Texas A&M system. In other business. Miller asked the com mittee to consider creating a century coun cil. The council would look ahead to Texas A&M’s future in the last 20 years of this century, Miller explained. “We need a renewed understanding of our resources and opportunities,” he said. “We need outlined projections. Also, we need to involve people outside the Univer sity.” Miller mentioned that Texas Gov. Wil liam P. Clements is kicking off a similar long range program called Texas 2000. He said the goals of Texas 2000 are non political and geared to benefit the state as a whole. • • • iatu relay Substitutions in UT song 6 out of taste’ By MARCY BOYCE Battalion Reporter As Texas Aggies sing Goodbye to Texas University” at Saturday’s game. University of Texas Longhorn fans may be saying goodbye to their fight song. If fans continue to make word substitu tions in the song that UT Athletic Director Darrell Royal and other athletic depart ment officials have refused to condone, Royal said he will request that the Lon ghorn Band not play the fight song at games. The statement was made in an in terview with The Daily Texan campus newspaper, said Dennis Roberson, associ ate sports editor at the Texan. “Hopefully it won’t come to that,” said Bill Little, UT assistant athletic director. Little said the problem began about three years ago when baseball fans started replacing “Hail, hail the gang’s all here,” with “Give ’em hell. Give ’em hell. Make ’em eat shit.” “We didn’t mind the ‘give ’em hell’ part,” he said, “because ‘hail, hail, the gang’s all here’ is out of date.” He noted that certain language is acceptable today that wasn’t years ago. For example. Little said, the original Aggie War Hymn did not contain “sounds like hell.” But, Little said, “We felt the last part was a little out of taste.” Instead, he said, the athletic department is asking the fans to say, “Go Horns. Go.” When the problem persisted into last spring, an announcement discouraging the profanity was made at a basketball game. In addition, Roberson said The Daily Texan published a column discouraging the con duct. Although the problem has abated some, Roberson said that during this year’s Texas- TCU football game Royal had an announce ment made asking students to “refrain from using language which might degenerate the fight song.” Royal was out of town and could not be contacted. “Fans have gotten a lot better since it has been brought to their attention,” Little said. A&M and UT meet to head off ‘fiascos’ ' Sen. Bill Moore speaks with one of the one hundred people who attended the Brazos County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center’s open house and information fair at Brazos Center Thurs day afternoon. See page 3 for a related story. Battalion photo by Lynn Blanco. By KENT DUNLAP Battalion Reporter A meeting between representatives of Texas A&M and the University of Texas should prevent a fiasco similar to the one that resulted two years ago after a UT ser vice organization tried to bring the Texas state flag onto Kyle Field before the foot ball game. Six representatives from UT and 10 from Texas A&M attended the meeting here Nov. 20. Angry words were exchanged during the previous game as Aggies tried to prevent the UT students from bringing the flag onto the field. “We invited representatives to Texas A&M for dinner and a meeting to discuss pre-game and halftime activities,” said Ron Blatchley, director of student affairs. Blatchley said UT sent representatives from the dean of students’ staff, the campus police, the athletic department staff and the APO flag staff, along with the band director and the head cheerleader. “We discussed the rules and regulations that the students are expected to abide by, and what we plan to do during pre-game and halftime ceremonies,” Blatchley said. “They were very gracious. They recog nized Texas A&M as the host school, and asked us specifically what we would and would not allow.” The representative of the APO flag staff asked for permission to bring the giant flag, but since there is a Texas flag in Kyle Field, University officials refused. “They graciously accepted the refusal,” Blatchley said. Blatchley said the incident two years ago was due to lack of communication. The athletic department had given UT permission to bring the flag but had not notified student leaders of the move. Once the flag came on the field, the trouble began. The flag was unfurled, and sabre-bearing senior members of the Corps of Cadets, who were already on the field acting as an honor guard for the national anthem, remained on the field to attempt to block the Texas students from bringing the flag onto the field. Words were exchanged and the flag was unfurled on the field — but not without a scuffle. “The whole thing was poorly handled by both schools,” Blatchley said. The purpose of the meeting was to pre vent similar happenings, Blatchley said, and it was very successful. “We had a great time,” Blatchley said. “Everything was very friendly and we got a lot done. “We should have been doing this many years ago, and we will definitely continue to do it in the future.” ^rea mental health center hosts open house By NANCY ANDERSEN Battalion Staff Balancing a checkbook, washing clothes lI >d cooking are chores most people take for tinted, but to the mentally retarded these skills which must be painstakingly •prned. Teaching these skills and providing jKny other services has been the purpose ^fthe Brazos Valley Mental Health-Mental Retardation Center since its beginning in m. MH-MR held an open house and ^formation fair Thursday afternoon at the “razos Center to show the public its wide range of services. 1 One of these is Family Tree, a halfway | *>use for slightly retarded male adults, j Jere the men learn the skills which dire- ! 4or Dewey Overholser called necessary to live independently. Family Tree can house eight men. Be sides learning these practical skills, the men are encouraged to find a job. They are also encouraged to save their money; in order to move out a resident must have $500 in a savings account and a steady job, he said. The house is only meant to be a tempor ary arrangement until the men can live on their own, Overholser said. Most of the men have found work at the Dilly Shaw workshops. This is a MH-MR- sponsored program with locations in Bryan and Heame which provide vocational training to retarded adults. Director Ken Zantow said he has 45 employees who work on local contracts. These include making ivindow locks, storm windows and folding newspapers for the Bryan)College Station Press. Employees are payed on a per-unit basis and only a few can earn minimum wage, Zantow said. For example, to earn $3 per hour, an employee must make 400 locks an hour. The average wage is 80 cents per hour, he said. When an employee is skilled enough, he is encouraged to find a job outside the See related story, page 3. workshop. Zentow said he tries to help employees find these jobs, but a few have been able to find them on their own. Another MH-MR program is Family Re source Services. This program provides in fant stimulation-parent training for de- velopmentally disabled, developmentally delayed and high risk infants from birth to 3 years old. The phone number is 779-2000. Caseworkers can review the child’s back ground and arrange a psychological evalua tion to see if the child can benefit from the infant stimulation program. For adults, MH-MR offers a 24-hour cri sis hotline and counsefing for drug and alcohol abuse. The hotline is staffed by volunteers who take a 16-hour training program before manning the phones. Half of the training involves reading and staff lectures; the other involves on-the-job training by observing staffers answering the phones. The hotline number is 779-2000. Ticket info ... The concert The game About 4,000 general admission tick ets are still available for the Pure Prairie League concert. Town Hall Chairman Michelle Scudder said Thursday afternoon. The band, named after a temper ance union in Dodge City, Kansas, was named the best new country-rock band of 1978 by Billboard magazine. Ticket prices are $3.50, $4.25 and $4.75. The concert will begin at 9 p.m., after the Aggie Bonfire. Tickets to the Texas A&M- University of Texas football game sold out early Thursday morning. Euleta Miller, athletic department spokeswoman, said the department started refunding money to students as soon as tickets ran out. Tickets for a closed-circuit TV broadcast of the game in G. Rollie White Coliseum also went on sale af ter the stadium tickets were gone. Refunds and tickets for the broad cast are available from 8 a.m. to 4 p. m. today.