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'drainageplfc ’ lth >n Harris anysome extrjJ )n in other cclu 0ne of th73 not have that jj f the world has,] iv that if we ( uldn t have f ith that.’ The Battalion Vol. 73 No. 146 22 Pages in 2 Sections Thursday, April 24, 1980 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 Athletic admissions follow SWC trend Conference grade regulations used instead of the University's By TIM SAGER Battalion Staff University, like most other dj Conference schools, regularly Ejolarship athletes who fail to meet Verity’s published admissions re- ^Collegiate Athletic Association tons require that all student athletes *tted in accordance with the regu- • hed entrance requirements of the i/same t j m e, Texas A&M turns Aer 1,000 other applicants each fall lure to meet those same standards, f University of Texas, the University of Houston, Baylor, and Southern Method ist University also use special admissions policies for athletes. Texas Tech, Arkansas, Rice, and Texas Christian University are the only SWC schools with uniform admis sion requirements for all students. “The admissions office makes all admis sions decisions,” said Marvin Tate, A&M’s athletic director. “We don’t put any press ure on them, I can tell you that.” But Edwin H. Cooper, dean of admis sions for the University, said Tate and the Athletic Department contribute to the admissions process of athletes directly. “The Athletic Department provides us with a list of people they are offering scho larships to, and we use Southwest Confer ence standards for their admissions,” Cooper said. “We have to do this in order to remain competitive with other schools.” Admissions officials at the University of Texas, the University of Houston, South ern Methodist University, and Baylor all echoed Cooper’s statement: rather than fol lowing normal admissions requirements for athletes, they employ the SWC minimum requirements. All the SWC requires is that a student graduate from an accredited high school with a 2.0 grade point average. Rice and TCU both consider athletic ability when admitting students, but neither school has well-defined admissson requirements. “I follow the rules and regulations of the NCAA and the SWC, just like any other school in the country," said Tate when asked if SWC and NCAA eligibility re quirements took precedence over A&M’s rules and regulations. Last fall 1,327 applicants were denied admission to A&M for failing to meet the minimum Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores, or because they lacked certain re quired high school courses, said Dr. Billy Lay, director of admissions and records. A regular applicant to Texas A&M Uni versity must score at least 1,000 on the SAT 09 >9 IS Hi Jl - „ uthem Pacific conductor Mike Gummelt stands on the steps of the Southern Pacific caboose which derailed near the Texas A&M University campus Staff photos by Lee Roy Lesehper Jr. Caboose derails near Kyle Field By DEBBIE NELSON . „ , City Staff A southern Pacific railroad caboose ^*jled on the tracks across from Kyle Wednesday morning, halting rail 'on the line until early afternoon. Conductor Mike Grommelt said the ®*knt occurred during the execution n 311 easy railroad move.” Only an en- |p* and caboose were involved in the attempt at a running drop — switching the caboose to the opposite end of the engine. A crane truck was sent from Houston to put the car back on the track. In the move, crewmen were sup posed to run the engine down the main line, pull the pin connecting the cars and swatch the caboose to a side track. The engine could then pull ahead and drop in behind the caboose so the train could switch directions and still have the engine before the caboose. After the engine had passed the switch point and the car connecting-pin was pulled, the switch to the side track wouldn’t work. Grommelt said there was time to put the switch back to the main track, but this was not done and the caboose derailed. Grommelt stressed that “human error,” not faulty switches or rails, caused the derailment. He also said he assumed full responsibility for the inci dent. Grommelt, who was in the caboose at the time of the derailment, said in the eight years he has worked on the rail road, he has never seen a similar acci dent. Five crewmen, including a conduc tor, engineer, two brakemen and a fire man, were on the train. No one was injured. Grommelt said several of the crew members may lose their jobs because of the incident. re-registration problems arise ^ornately 2,500 Texas A&M Uni students who submitted pre- ^iJtwn. materials to t ^ ie registrar * n the B®Euiibit Hall on Friday, April 18, '• B. asked to return to complete an ^1 form to insure their registration 5 ®I1 semester. ■•etion was necessitated when pre- * ,M,0n materials submitted Friday were misplaced. Only those students who turned in their packets on Friday are affected, said Registrar R.A. Lacey. “It was an unfortunate circumstance for which we are very sorry, ” Lacey explained, “but in transferring the material from the exhibit hall to our office, the pre- registration records for that day were lost. We are making every effort to be certain that those students who pre-registered on Friday will have their records completed before they leave for the summer." Lacey emphasized that if this is done, the students should expect to receive their fee invoices on or about July 10 as previously announced in the 1980 Fall Class Schedule. Those students affected are asked to come by special tables at the Rudder Ex hibit Hall between Monday, April 28, and Friday, May 9. from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., to complete the paper work which will assure they are registered for the proper courses and classes. Lacey said the form will take only a few minutes to complete and stressed that all of the students whose records were lost will have the same scheduling opportunity as they had originally. elp sought for farmers’ plight « . Violrt ’"TVs• e «»rtrtnnnitt n«rvair in rural ran