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etc. Hotel (continued from page 1) Student Body President Ken Johnson and some senators. The resolution objects to the “undue advantage” a campus hotel might have over compet ing hotels, to the traffic conges tion it might create and to the damage a hotel might cause to the beauty of the campus. Holubec’s resolution also stated: “A commercial venture, such as this, would invite other businesses to petition the Uni versity for space on campus.” Holubec said: “I think it’s a shame they’re even considering commercializing the campus.” But Johnson objected to the resolution. “1 think the timing is wrong,” he said. “We’re jumping the gun; we’re assuming far too much with this resolution." And Bond said approval of this one proposal would not necessarily mean a spate of de velopment on the University side of Texas Avenue. “There is no reason to be lieve, if the board turns out to have the legal authority to approve leasing University land, that it will ever use it," Bond said. “Certainly approval of the hotel doesn't set up any kind of open-door proposition.” Whatever the merits of the issue, the hotel’s fate will ulti mately be decided by the Board of Regents and its study commit tee. The committee will study the legality and desirability of the proposal and will propose terms for a lease if it decides the idea is in the best interests of the University. Bond said the committee’s re port should be ready sometime in June. The study committee is emp owered to study only the hotel proposal, but Bright said he had received inquiries from other developers for leases of Univer sity land; the developers, he said, are interested in building a bank or a supermarket on campus. Bright said, however, that those proposals would not be considerea at this time. And approval of a hotel on campus would not necessarily mean a Hilton hotel would be built. Bright said if the regents approve the hotel proposal, they will open competitive bidding on it. Bond said the regents are not compelled by law to open bid ding. Whether the hotel will be built on campus, and who will build it, are questions the re gents will decide sometime this year. But the idea of a campus hotel is not a new one. Eric Hilton Jr., senior vice president of Hilton Hotels Corp., said: “I was close to Gen eral (Earl) Rudder (former Texas A&M president) and we discussed the idea back in the ’60s. At the time, we were talking about building a hotel and a hotel school here. “It fell through, though, when we decided a hotel school outfit to be located closer to a ma)or metropolitan area. “However, ever since, I’ve been interested in building a hotel on the campus.” » And although he said he would not build a hotel in the area if his request for University land is turned down, he did not rule out trying again some time later. He added that the University Hilton would not be unique in its location on state land. Chicago girls arrested for private crime wave Ken’s Automotive 421 S. 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