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.
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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.
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Look what you can buy
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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,
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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."
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