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Local THE BATTALION Page 3 FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1981 I Crowded housing expected for fall By BETH GIBSON Battalion Reporter Residents in the modular dorms on the Texas A&M University campus will again temporarily ex perience close-quarters, three-to- a-room living next fall, Dena Todd, coordinator of special ser vices in the Department of Stu dent Affairs, said Thursday. “We always oversign people,” Todd said. “In the beginning we have to put people in temporary quarters, based on a projected number of residents. Some people don’t show up and don’t tell us they’re not coming.” Todd said the Housing Office has always had to deal with over booked dorm students, putting them in study carrels or tempor ary housing. “Then the modular dorms came along with those big rooms, allow ing us to put three in a room,” she said. Todd said the third roommates will be moved to permanent spaces as soon as the Housing Office finds out who is coming and who is not. About 3,200 room asssignments were sent out Tuesday, Todd said. “If a student wants to reject a room assignment, we ask that he return a card (included in the assignment letter) within 15 days,” she said. “This will let us know initially who is coming and who is not.” But, she said, students have un til June I to turn down a room without losing their deposits. “We have to have those figures as soon as possible,” she said. “We can sign other people on if we know that we’re going to have a large number of people rejecting rooms.” The 3,200 students assigned rooms came from a waiting list of about 4,500 students, Todd said. Those on the waiting list who are not offered a room will be noti fied by letter, but their names will not be taken off the list, Todd said. As rooms become available up to the beginning of the semster, notices will be sent to these stu dents, she said. She said dorm spaces are awarded on a first-come-first- served basis as they become avail able after the semester begins. Todd said this waiting list does not include anyone entering the Corps of Cadets, which guaran tees housing for its members. Nor does the list include anyone awarded certain high-value scho larships, she said. President’s En dowed Scholars, Lechner Fellows and McFadden Scholars are all guaranteed rooms on campus. The approximately 500 new bed spaces to be available in the fall in Modular A, by the Commons, and Modular B, by Fowler-Keathley- Hughes, will add needed space for more residents, Todd said. But, she said, they will not help the on-campus dining situation. “The two new dorms will affect dining for off-campus students who are on the board plan,” she said. “They will be eating in Dun can for the most part. Things will be very restricted in Sbisa and the Commons for off-campus stu dents.” She said the dining halls will have no problems accommodating the number of on-campus stu dents. Explanation given for flags staying full-staff for Bradley New head yell leader Mike Thatcher was named head yell leader Thursday after noon after approval by Dr. John Koldus, vice president for student services. Thatcher, a junior agriculture major, was a junior yell leader this year. He is also a member of the Ross Volunteers. In his campaign for yell leader this year, Thatcher said a more unified student body and a more thorough understand ing of traditions would allow these traditions to remain an important part of the University without interfering with the changing times. Thatcher was recommended for the post by the Bonfire and || Yell Leader Committee. P.E. class ^offers A&M new venture jei or theupca the gift d )n can chan jrgical pr^ ation. ft” cedure c« By AUGUST SKOPIK Battalion Reporter Not all physical education clas ses are for aspiring basketball stars, tennis pros or prima baller inas. In Venture Dynamics I, a course being offered at Texas A&M University next fall, stu dents can learn how to rappel ' Id of trtl ^ wn a cf'ff or wa H will 1 a rope an d R " how to solve physical problems such as getting a group across an Moot gorge. Next fall there will also be Ven ture Dynamics II, an advanced class for those who have already taken Venture Dynamics I and nillion Affl® [odd like to learn more of the ' le skills. “Many of the students in this pass work with youth groups such as the YMCA, church groups and f-H, and this course helps them ident Ceil' hen working with those groups,” structor Camille Bunting said. T like the challenges presented n the opP* >: the class,” Mike Scott, a stu- ) lent in the class, said. “I’ve even lied to recruit some new mem- for it.” , There will be four sections of Venture Dynamics I in the fall, fith a limit of 24 students per sec- Bon. Venture Dynamics II will be atwo-hour class and will be taught ; is A&Mft l ues day s from 2:15 p.m.to 4:15 P m. It will be available only to udents who completed Venture amics I. By DENISE RICHTER Battalion Staff A University official says there was a reason for not complying with a student’s wishes to have flags on the Texas A&M Universi ty campus lowered to half-staff in respect for Gen. Omar Bradley, who died last week. Flags on campus are lowered when the president declares a na tional day of mourning, usually for the death of a former president, Ormond R. Simpson, assistant vice president of student services, said. Neither was the case following the five-star general’s death April 8. However, Hector Rivera, a junior business management ma jor from El Paso, wasn’t satisfied and for two days last week attemp ted to get University officials to lower the flags. He was unsuccessful. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington did, however, order flags on all active military installations to be lo wered to half-staff, Simpson said. But, Texas A&M was exempt from this directive because the Univer sity is not an active military instal lation, he said. Unless a day of mourning is de clared by the president or the gov ernor, the University president or his designated representative de- ^YVtlllIIII#####£ “THE LOWEST PRICES 0. IN TOWN ON WESTERN BOOTS!” BULL HIDE BOOTS $7095 CLOSED GOOD FRIDAY burthla lisease. i this w< . 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