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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1980
Texas A&M University senior
chemistry major Michael Smith
received the $100 Cosden Prize
for the outstanding research pap
er at the Second Annual Amer
ican Chemical Society Student
Affiliate Research Conference
sponsored by the Permian Basin
ACS section at the University of
Texas of the Permian Basin.
Smith’s paper was entitled
“Reactions of Tin Anionoids with
Primary Alkyl Halides” and dealt
with research conducted under
the direction of Dr. Martin E.
Newcomb, professor of che
mistry.
Campus Names
Kristine Novak, also a senior
chemistry major at Texas A&M,
presented a paper on “A New
Method for Azlactone Synth
esis,” co-authored by Dr.
Charles F. Hoyng, assistant pro
fessor of chemistry.
Novak is president and Smith
vice president of the Undergra
duate Chemistry Club at Texas
A&M.
David B. Cameron, a doctoral
degree candidate in industurial
engineering at Texas A&M Uni
versity, won a $1,000 second-
place award in the Hartford Loss
Prevention Awards Competition,
a nationwide workplace safety
contest.
Cameron received the award
for his suggestion for a method to
clean and control contaminated
air in industrial exhaust systems.
His entry was entitled “Direct
Recirculation Ventilation Loss
Control Through Effective En
gineering. ”
Cameron is a certified indust
rial hygienist and safety profes
sional.
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How-cost married student housing is gradually being torn
idown to relieve what University officials say are cosmetic
Iproblems and fire hazards. The buildings, moved from Foster
ousingraze to end in rent raise
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Air Force Base in Victoria 34 years ago, are scheduled to
disappear by September 1981.
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Battalion Staff
Bmck Hargis will face two prob-
is in September; the razing of his
|tment, and consequently the
pgofhis rent.
hrgis, an engineering student,
K with his wife, Carole and two
ghage children in a four-bedroom,
iath, two-kitchen apartment for
a month. The apartment is nor-
divided into two, renting for
a month. Besides the advan-
of low rent and plentiful space,
ipartment is located across from
Texas A&M University campus,
e problem is that people say the
ment is an eyesore, and Univer-
ifficials say it’s unsafe. Their
ment is one in about 100 apart-
jnts that are commonly referred
"the barracks” or Old College
catch fire yet; we’ve been real for
tunate.
K.W. Melson, maintenance fore
man for married student housing, is
bulldozing the buildings down him
self, and he thinks differently.
“They’re not dangerous,” he said,
“They’re hard to knock down. They
could be repaired and dressed up, it
would just take some money. It
contractors to tear the buildings
down in exchange for the wood, and
finally they took bids to see how
much it would cost the University to
hire someone else to demolish the
barracks.
“We had one contractor who came
in and tore two buildings down,”
Cargill said. “When he finished, he
said he didn’t want anything else to
“I’m sentimental because I hate to see old
things go, but in a few years this place will be
like a rat trap to throw hay in... Sometimes
you just have to shoot the horse. ”
irs. Hargis said it doesn’t bother
fiat some people think Old Col-
View looks like a slum because,
31,500, awl® don’t worry about keeping up
ng balance ftfj the Joneses.
25-cent Ir /If we could afford to live some-
20 cents, 4ere else, we would. But right now
ounts defeRave two children in braces and
iking prop I'husband is in school, so that’s
erty,vicepit lere all of our money goes.”
marketing It: Ihe Old College View apart-
c banking 18nts, located off of University
vice ourgK ive in the married student hous-
bearingtlieli Icomplex, were originally bar-
avetosuMs Its at Foster Air Force Base in
•s,” toria during World War II.
do not nece Ike barracks started out with 58
charges,® tdings, eight apartments to a
areas like 111 ding, but since 1969, they have
smaller bui dually been razed to make room
he said, soi# newer apartments,
ly service I ‘The original plan was for the har
ps to be temporary housing. They
ears ago IcicNp re-erected with the idea that
:e checking■ would be up for about three
ts told the® pts. But with the demand for hous-
ase their cic® they have remained for quite a
i could then F "just a few more years” — total-
naking aret I'M.
..fit’s always been viewed as tem-
V i^y fusing, so the state hasn’t
: costs °i|* fey t 0 Jo a w hole lot to fix them
llU ! || James Vickery, a tenant, said,
orners too'» ou a ] lome) y 0U wou ld have
vmgs ara»B) 0 f e( j anc j f lxec J the plumbing
J maybe even remodeled it after
1 of those years,
today $60li they’ve had a really good deal for
i checking* "I 011 ?. a nd now it’s time to tear
srhapsPl^down.”
according t Fourteen of the barracks remain
r vice presif wding today, with two buildings
Beduled to be demolished in
pvember. Ken Nicolas, manager of
P married student housing apart-
tents, said when the last family in a
Iding moves out, they will raze
“ng.
me barracks are no longer avail-
f for rent to new tenants, and by
t. 1, 1981, all of the remaining
ants will be out.
licolas said the reason for de-
ishing the buildings is because
re a hazard to health and safety,
ley’re a tinderbox,” he said,
lose buildings are built out of pine
1 they have dry rot and termites,
amazing we haven’t had any
igher-;
nts.
would be hard to get them in number
one shape, but an individual could
come in and do it and make it a nice
place to live in.
“In my opinion they’re not a fire
hazard; the University just doesn’t
think they look nice. That’s the
whole thing.
Chuck Cargill, director of busi
ness services, said: “The demolition
of the old buildings and the planning
for new ones is of no relation. We
spend more money maintaining
those buildings than all of the others
put together. The sinks, showers and
stoves are rusted out.
“Let me put it this way, I wouldn’t
want one of my children living there.
It’s like an old car, you can drive it
only so long and finally one day it has
to go to the junk yard.”
Which is exactly where these bar
racks go after they’re torn down.
“When they wreck them, it’s a
pitiful sight,” one tenant who is in
renewable resources said. “I’m
seeing a lot of good lumber going to
waste. There are 32-foot ceiling raf
ters that are hard to buy these days.”
Cargill said the University tried
just about every alternative before
deciding to bulldoze the buildings
and haul off the debris themselves.
He said they first tried unsucccess-
fully to get contractors to pay them
for the wood, then they tried to get
do with it. It cost him more to tear
them down than he got out of it in
wood.
The barracks certainly are not the
housing answer for everyone, but for
many they are a way to financially be
able to attend school with a family.
David Rubio brought his family of
five with him from Mexico to College
Station so that he could get his docto
rate in agronomy.
“I was looking for three things in
an apartment when I came here,” he
said. “To be close to the University
so I could walk or ride my bike, to be
cheap and nice, and to be around an
environment where my kids can play
safely. Except for the looking of
these barracks, I find everything.”
Nicolas said residents of Old Col
lege View were given notice last Sep
tember that they would have to be
out by this September. He said if
they had filled out applications for
married student housing when they
first found out, they should be able to
obtain married student housing by
the time their buildings are razed.
Besides, Nicolas said, there are all
kinds of accomodations for married
students out in the community.
“Off-campus housing is priced at a
level where they expect three or four
students to share the rent,” David
Boisenko, another tenate, said. “The
typical family that’s going to school
just can’t afford $300 or $400 a
month.”
Nicolas said: “We build for young
married students, not for students
with kids. If they want to come to
school with their families, they can
lease or buy a three or four bedroom
house.
“This isn’t a giveaway product.
Imagine what taxes would be like if
the state of Texas paid for people’s
education.
Hargis said he thinks the Universi
ty should replace the barracks with
some sensible two and three bed
room apartments. A little more up-
to-date with some insulation and
maybe some central air, he added.
“I’d be all for them replacing these
if they’d only replace them with
something halfway cheap,” Lynn
Boisenko said.
Cargill said he felt that it would be
two or three years before the Univer
sity built more apartments. He said
funding was the major problem, and
they had to build them as they could
afford to.
“After the buildings are down, we
do plan on grading it and getting out
all of the rubble to make it suitable
for a playground,” Cargill said.
“We’re getting estimates for tree
planting now.”
Vickery summed up the feeling of
many of the tenants and University
officials saying: “I’m sentimental be
cause I hate to see old things go, but
in a few years this place will be like a
rat trap to throw hay in ... Some
times you just have to shoot the
horse. ”
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