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.
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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’
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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.