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Battalion/Page 3 April 14, 1982 Campus grass gets help Signs deter path walkers by Randy Lemmon Battalion Reporter The signs around campus blocking your favorite shortcut to class pleading “please!” are part of Save the Grass Week, sponsored by the Tau Kappa Junior Honor Society. Sharon Pickard, service com mittee chairman, says the society is working to prevent the con tinuing formation of trails across campus lawns and through ivy beds. “We are distributing fliers, posting a banner in the MSC, and putting signs on the ‘cattle trails’ begging people to please think before walking on the trails,” Pickard said. “It’s just pure laziness that causes these cattle trails. People just cut across gardens, ivy beds and grass, w'hen they could easi ly use the sidew'alk.” Some of the trails are so worn that sidewalks could replace them, Pickard said, so the group is working with the Physical Plant planning to build side walks over these paths. Since all Corps members ex cept seniors are prohibited from walking on campus grass, they are possibly more aware of others walking across grassy areas. The problem of the trails was therefore more noticeable to Cadet Bob Sahm, originator of the plan. “This week is a perfect week to carry out this project since Pa rents’ Weekend is coming,” Pickard said. “Maybe this will show the parents that we do have great respect for our cam pus landscape.” Pickard said such other ways as digging up the trails have been discussed to bring atten tion to the problem. This might make people more hesitant to walk on the trails, she said. Officials plan research park; may be ready in three years To keep students on the right track, Tau Kappa Junior Honor Society planted “please” to motivate students to go around rather over ground cover. The signs part of Save the Grass Week. 10 SIM. SRSIIf ^Traditions Council hopes to hear ‘howdy’ this week Betty Ann Reid Battalion Reporter ■ If you’ve noticed more people than usual saying how to you this week, there's a good reason why. It’s Howdy Week, b Each fall and spring the Tra ditions Council sets aside a week to promote the use of the word howdy when greeting fellow ggies. “The main purpose is to get udents to keep saying howdy and to keep the atmosphere at Texas A&M friendly,” Christy Jackson, howdy week chairman, id. Howdy Week is held in the ill to unify the student body af- r the summer and to fire up Indents for the football games, jackson said. The spring Howdy Week :omes at a bad time when stu dents are worried about term fwpers and finals, she said. “It’s a lot more beneficial Ihen the fall Howdy Week be cause it comes at a time when students need it,” Jackson said. Howdy Week is a time when students can relax for a while and do something fun. i ich of cadets not alter vow oid killing sow .And (inallv, Grt ;iw a lethal weal .< lets again inailj know howto® i i ig defeat, lilt sgestions arerffS t that have gs" than I. i st exercise c eh other as d howdvsJW licit are debaii n would never dves on being! 1 re f riendly (i.e lotlier in it ions wil ggie Spirit will av. Of course i new problem to the editor Thomas M. Briclonof, THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY Look what you can buy for T-shirts have been on sale in the Memorial Student Center all w’eek, and today five mystery people will each give away a howdy t-shirt. If a certain number of Aggies have said howdy to them before you do, when you say howdy you win the t-shirt. A howdy dance will be held at the Texas Hall of Fame Thurs day night and anyone wearing a howdy t-shirt will be admitted for one dollar. A banner also was put up in the MSC main hallway so stu dents can write who they’d like to say howdy to. Jackson said she has enjoyed watching the students stop and look at the banner. “They come rushing in look ing worried and then they stop to read and start laughing,” he said. The purpose of Howdy Week is to make students more aware of saying howdy throughout the year, Jackson said. Having Howdy Week sche duled for the week before Pa rents Weekend has worked out well, Jackson said. “It’s great for the parents to see the friendly attitude at such a large university,” she said. by Jennifer Carr Battalion Staff A Texas A&M University- owned, research-oriented in dustrial park could become a reality within three years, the di rector of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station says. Dr. W.R. Porter, also a mem ber of the College Station In dustrial Development Founda tion board of directors, said the first physical results may be seen in one year, and industries could begin operations in the park within three years. The location and size of the park is undecided. Porter said, but a committee has been set up by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents to study the project. “It is our plan to (build the park),” said Porter, who is vice- chairman of the committee, “and it is the committee’s re sponsibility to look at the alter natives in order to accomplish it. We believe it’s a good idea — now we’d like to see what our Genuine leather uppers and insoles. Compare to 830.00. Ladies Sizes 5-10. SHOE FIT COMPANY Redmond Terrace in College Station • 693-8269 options are.” The idea of a University- owned industrial park has been around for years. Porter said, but only in the past 18 months have University officials begun considering how to proceed. “We can sit back and just see what impact (industry growth) would have, or we can try to organize ourselves to control it,” he said. “If we waited, things would happen that we wouldn’t have an opportunity to have some input into.” Despite some surprise from city officials concerning the park proposal, most agree a Universi ty-owned industrial research park would be advantageous to the community. Porter and Foundation Presi dent Dennis Goehring say com petition between the Gollege Station industrial park, two miles south of Gollege Station on Highway 6, and a University- owned park would be minimal. The Gollege Station park stres ses industrial manufacturing, and the University park will focus on high-technology re search. The primary advantage of the University-owned park, Porter said, would be the pool of man power resources available to the University and to the industries in the park. “If a major industry has a re search arm in our research park, those minds and the talent that works with that industry are going to be available to us,” he said. “It works both ways. That’s what’s going to bring them here — they want to tap our manpow er resource." SPECIAL SHOWING by Caroline Large Stock Tues. April 13 Weds. April 14 Thurs. April 15 Wide Selection 1 P.M.-8 P.M. 10 A.M.-8 P.M. 10 A.M.-8 P.M. Holiday Inn of College Station 1503 S. Texas Ave. — Suite 100 693-1736 — Ext. 100 Y’ALL COME Introducing Shellenberger’s 520 University Drive East To introduce you to our new location this coupon will entitle you to 10% OFF any purchase. Featuring the largest selection of Polo Between Dallas & Houston and this area’s exclusive line of Polo for men. 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