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Serving the Texas A&M University community
Vol. 75 No. 61
16 Pages
Wednesday, November 25, 1981
College Station, Texas
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Football battle to stir
emotions Thursday
Regents measure delays
added engineering labs
By DENISE RICHTER
Battalion Statt
Additional academic laboratories for
the College of Engineering will be de
layed 12 to 14 months as a result of a
measure approved by the Texas A&\1
System Board of Regents Tuesday.
tive grade point ratio of 2.25 will be
required for enrollment in junior-level
geology courses. A minimum GPR of
2.25 overall and 2.25 in all geology
courses will be required for enrollment
in senior-level geology courses.
This plan will take effect when stu
dents entering the University in the fall
of 1982 or thereafter are ready to enroll
in junior-level courses, Texas A&M
President Frank E. Vandiver said.
The regents also approved the crea
tion of up to 12, $30,Q00-a-year, “alum
ni professorships. The professorships,
However, the Board voted Tuesday
to complete the Engineering Laborato
ry Center according to its original plans
and to use space in the Engineering
and Physics Building for laboratories.
If laboratories.
The cost of the 141,000-square-foot
Engineering and Physics Laboratory, to
be located on the south side of the Cyc
lotron, is an estimated .$17.5 million.
The building is scheduled for comple
tion in the fall of 1983.
See related story page 6
funded by the Texas A&M Develop
ment Foundation and the Association of
Former Students, will be given to out
standing faculty members to supple
ment their salaries and research activi
ties.
Using space in the new building in
stead of converting space in a building
already under construction will cause a
delay of 12 to 14 months. System Chan
cellor Frank VV.R. Hubert said.
“The advantages of moving in this di
rection far outweigh the disadvantages
of time lost,’ he said.
Granting the title of “System profes
sor” to faculty members participating in
a faculty exchange program between
Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M
University also was approved by the re
gents.
Contracts approved by the regents
include a $1.7 million contract to the
Belco Construction Co. of Temple for
the construction of the Animal Science
Pavilion and a $133,600 contract to the
J.W. Cox Construction Co. of Alta
Loma for the relocation of the dis
hwashing area in the Memorial Student
Center.
The regents also approved:
a $1.5 million 1982 summer resi
dence hall renovation plan
a $212,000 appropriation to supple
ment $1.4 million already set aside for
the purchase of 32 buses. The Universi
ty plans to operate its own shuttle bus
service starting next fall when the pre
sent contract with Transportation En
terprises, Inc. expires.
a $142,000 appropriation for the de
tailed design of the Food Service Com
missary, to be located on the east side of
Agronomy Road
a $60,000 appropriation for the de
tailed design of an expansion of the Uni
versity’s electrical capabilities. Wesley
E. Peel, vice chancellor for facilities
planning and construction, said the ex
pansion will provide a back-up source of
power and will fulfill Texas A&M s elec
tricity needs through the year 2000.
a $50,000 appropriation for the de
tailed design of the Transportat ion Cen
ter expansion. The proposed $1.3 mil
lion building would provide service and
maintenance areas, parking space for 34
buses and space for future expansion.
a $35,000 appropriation for the first
part of the Systems Building renovation
a $25,000 appropriation for the pre
liminary design of the Biological Con
trol Facility. Estimated cost of the facil
ity, to be located behind the Entomolo
gy Building on the west campus, is $1.7
million.
By LAURA J. LARSON
Battalion Reporter
A chance to “beat the hell out of t.u.”
stirs emotion at Texas A&M like nothing
else. Aggies live for the annual football
battle against the University of Texas.
Likewise, people in Austin are will
ing to discuss at great length the fact
they hold natural superiority in numer
ous areas.
In fant. Longhorn fans have been
known to call their school “The Univer
sity,” hence in Aggieland it became
“t.u.”
Each side would like to believe this
rivalry is unsurpassed among Amer
icans, for at times the passion seems
more intense than that which separates
Republicans from Democrats, Hatfields
from McCovs or the Mafia from the
FBI.
And its history may be just as old. The
rivalry is based on what was at one time
a difference in the schools’ philosophies
— with UT representing urban Texas,
and Texas A&M representing rural
Texas — at a time when the state was
much more clearly divided along those
lines.
Through the years the real differ
ences faded, yet the rivalry sustains it
self year after year with unmatched
fever.
It all began in 1894 when the UT
football team needed a practice game
before its first interstate match with
Tulane. UT sent W.O. Stephens, one of
its players, to College Station to orga
nize a team at the Texas Agricultural
and Mechanical College — a team that
could he brought hack to Austin for
slaughter.
The teams produced the state’s first
intercollegiate football game in sub
urban Austin’s Hyde Park. A playing
area was roped off and one dollar was
charged for admission.
A&MC fumbled the opening kickoff
and UT scored in two plays. UT even
tually chalked up 38 points to A&MC’s
0.
It was not until 1902 that A&MC fin-
Th anksgi ving
extension
possible
Texas A&M students will have an
extended Thanksgiving vacation if the
Aggies defeat the University of Texas
Longhorns Thursday on Kyle Field.
Students may he he excused from
classes Monday “when our team is vic
torious on Thanksgiving Day,” Presi
dent Frank E. Vandiver said.
But, “It is, of course, not possible to
relieve the faculty and staff of their
obligations (on Monday), so campus
offices will be open on Nov. 30,” he
said.
Similarly, The Battalion will he
published Monday, regardless of the
outcome of the game.
In 1979, former University Presi
dent Jarvis Miller dismissed classes
the Monday after Texas A&M defe
ated UT 13-7; however, classes were
held last year despite a 24-14 victory
over UT.
Kick-off for the Texas A&M-UT
game is scheduled for 2 p.m. The
game will not he televised.
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ally avenged its defeat. In that year,
A&MC defeated UT 11-0. In 87 games
since the first in 1894, the record stands
with 60 UT victories, 22 A&M victories
and five ties.
From the early 1900s until 1976 the
game was played on Thanksgiving Day.
Consequently, four generations of
Aggies and Longhorns have grown up
eating fried chicken or tuna fish on
Thanksgiving Day in parking lots in Col
lege Station and Austin.
The game was moved to the Saturday
after Thanksgiving in 1976 to facilitate
the University of Houston’s entry into
the Southwest Conference. But, thi:
year the game will be moved back tt
Thanksgiving Day.
Mascots began to play an importan
role in the rivalry with the branding o
Bevo, the Longhorn mascot, in 1917.
Students at UT planned to bring a live]
longhorn steer, branded with their 21-
winning score from the 1916 game,
the Thanksgiving Day battle in 1917
But after those plans leaked to College
Station, three cadets found their way
into the steer’s stall in Austin the wee!
before the game and branded him with
13-0, the result of the 1915 fight which
the Aggies won.
Upon finding the brand, the animal’
handlers altered the characters to re
semble the letters BEVO. Thus, Bevo
and the desire to “saw varsity’s hornsj
off were christened.
The beast made his social debut at the
game as scheduled. He was served as
steak at an A&M-UT get together in
1921, and his head was mounted on aj
wall of UT’s athletic office.
It was not until 1931 that Reveille
debuted as the official Texas A&M mas
cot by leading the famous Aggie band
onto the field at the UT game.
The stray puppy was picked up by a
carload of cadets on a highway near
Navasota. The cadets took her back to
campus and, against regulations, let her
sleep in the dormitory. When reveille
sounded the next morning, the dog let
out a howl of dissapproval and was
known ever more as Reveille.
The Aggie bonfire is another tradi
tional aspect of the UT rivalry. The
annual bonfire, which signifies Texas
A&M’s burning desire to “heat the hell
out of the other university, began in
1909 when two cadets lit a trash pile as a
prank.
Since then, the bonfire has burned
every year, with the exception of 1963
when President John F. Kennedy was
assassinated. That was considered the
greatest sacrifice the University could;
make in his honor.
Brezhnev favors ‘compromise
United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev convinced
West Germany before his return to
Moscow today that he seeks substantial
reductions in nuclear missiles in
Europe at next week’s Geneva talks
with the United States.
“We never wanted to he stronger
than anyone else and we do not have
that aim now, Soviet government
spokesman Leonid Zamyatin quoted
Brezhnev as telling West German
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt during
talks Tuesday.
“We have no thought of attacking
anyone. ” Zamyatin made a new offer to
reduce any nuclear weapons system if
the cut was matched by the United
States “We have no weapon we do not
want to part with, if this were mutual.
In Washington, the State Depart
ment said Brezhnev’s offer Monday to
reduce “by hundreds rather than
dozens” the number of Soviet missiles
targeted on Western Europe contains
nothing that is significantly new.
“At the same time, we would hope
that President Brezhnev’s willingness
to consider reductions is a sign that the
Soviets are beginning to see the advan
tages of pursuing genuine arms reduc
tions in this area,” a statement said.
Schmidt said he emerged from the
talks convinced Moscow wants to agree
on substantial reductions in medium-
range nuclear weapons in Europe at the
Geneva negotiations starting Monday.
“It is clear the Soviet side has recog
nized the necessity of compromise, ’
Schmidt said.
But U.S.-Sovet differences emerged
on the missiles issue during the direct
days before Brezhnev’s return to Mos
cow today. In making his offer, Brezh
nev rejected the proposal Reagan made)
last week to reduce medium-range mis-'
siles to zero.
Brezhnev did not say if his offer,
voiced at a dinner Monday, meant dis
mantling the missiles or merely moving
them behind the Ural Mountains —
where they could hit most of Western
Europe.
The regents also approved a plan de
signed to limit enrollment in the De
partment of Geology.
Under this plan, a minimum cumula-
Space shuttle
commander
to present flag
Astronaut John W. Young, comman
der of the Space Shuttle Columbia on its
first orbital flight, will visit Texas A&M
University Thursday to make a special
presentation in memory of Congress
man Olin E. ‘Tiger’ Teague.
Young will present the University a
miniature U. S. flag — now mounted on a
plaque — that was taken up in the shut
tle in memory of Congressman Teague.
The ceremony is set for 9:30 a.m. in
Rudder Theater.
Congressman Teague, who died Jan.
23, 1981, was a member of the Class of
32 and recipient of the University’s
Distinguished Alumnus Award. He was
a strong supporter of NASA programs
during his congressional career and
served 19 years - including five as chair
man - on the House Committee on Sci
ence and Technology.
Young is chief of the astronaut office
at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in
Houston. He participated in several
other manned flights before the space
shuttle mission, including the first man
ned Gemini flight and Apollo XVI.
ng
Other speakers at the cermony will
he Aaron Cohen, a Texas A&M gradu
ate who is manager of the Space Shuttle
Orbiter Project Office at the Johnson
Space Center, Texas A&M President
Frank E. Vandiver, Texas A&M Uni
versity Systems Board of Regents
Chairman H.R. Bright and Mrs. Olin
Teague, widow of the congressman.
Bonfire to emblazon
A&M sky at 7:30 tonight
Touch of the master s hand
Photo by Jill Neathcry
Placing diamonds in Aggie rings is big
business for local jewelry stores. Dean Wile, of
the Diamond Room, said men usually buy
diamonds that are a fifth of a carat, and women
buy diamonds that are eight-tenths of a carat.
He said it takes two to three days to finish
setting the ring. Wile said the store usually
places 20 or 30 diamonds in rings each month.
By DANIEL PUCKETT
Battalion Staff
Bonfire devotees will see their end
less hours of hard work go up in flames
tonight at 7:30.
This year’s bonfire is 60 feet tall, head
civilian Mike Thomas said. It will he
soaked with about 500 gallons of con
taminated diesel fuel obtained from the
Firemen s Training School. Redpots
use this much fuel because of the large
amount of green wood in the stack.
Bonfire ceremony begins at 7:15
p.m., when 10 to 12 torches will be
ignited from a torch which bonfire sup
porters carried from Austin to the stack.
The redpots and the five yell leaders,
each carrying a torch, will circle the
stack once, accompanied by their girl
friends and the band, Head Yell Leader
Mike Thatcher said.
After the first circle, the girlfriends
and the band will be left behind, and
torchbearers will circle the stack again.
On the third pass they will space them
selves around the stack. And at 7:30
p.m. thev will toss their torches onto
SI th ‘ diesel fuel-soaked stack.
* Immediately after the bonfire is lit,
yell practice will begin with four yell
leaders around the base of the stack and
Thatcher on a scaffold with Head Coach
Tom Wilson, University President
Frank Vandiver and members of the
football team.
Instead of the “grode stories, which
chronicle the lives of Rock and Rockel-
le, and which are normally told at yell
practices, Vandiver will make a short
speech, Thatcher said.
A speech from Wilson will follow
Vandiver’s.
After the “Aggie War Hymn" and a
few more yells, Thatcher will read “The
Last Corps Trip, a poem which has
been read at bonfires since 1950, he
said.
The bonfire will end with the singing
of “The Spirit of Aggieland” and a few
more yells. Thatcher estimates the en
tire ceremony will last about an hour.
University police expect from 35,000
to 40,000 spectators at tonight’s blaze,
said Thomas Parsons, University dire
ctor of security and traffic. While last
year’s ceremony drew about 25,(KK)
people, better weather this year should
bring a larger crowd, he said.
He added that traffic around Duncan
Field, the bonfire site, comes to a stand
still near torching time, so spectators
should plan on arriving early.
“People ought to come early, get a
legitimate parking place and try not to
block fire lanes, he said.
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