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Vol. 75 No. 189 USPS 045360 82 Pages In 6 Sections
College Station, Texas
Monday, August 30, 1982
ew commandant
opeful about Corps
by Denise Richter
Battalion StafT
/hen Donald Burton graduated
fibin the Agricultural and Mechanic-
college of Texas in 1957, the Corps
I Cadets was the largest student
■oup on campus. Each of the 7,200
stiulents attending the College was
ilrolled in the Corps.
I Now, 25 years later, U.S. Army
Ipl, Donald Burton has returned to
Texas A&M University to head the
2,: o()-member Corps of Cadets, still
k largest student group on campus,
htn now accounting for only about 7
Mi cent of the 35,000 students enrol-
B. Burton replaced Col. James R.
Whodall, who resigned in August.
■But, despite growth and changes at
:H? University, Burton said the Corps
rasn’t changed much since his days as
Kadet. And, if he has his way, it won’t
Mange much during his tenure as
commandant.
■ “I’m not going to introduce any
cmnges immediately,” Burton said.
T| is not the duty of the commandant
toldictate to the Corps; (his duty) is to
[in and administer. The seniors
command the Corps.”
And members of the Class of ’83
are prepared to accept their responsi
bility as leaders, Burton said.
“As a class in general, this year’s
senior class probably will do more for
the academics of the Corps than any
group in the last 10 years,” he said.
“These guys are smart.
“You always hear how the Corps
brings the University grade point
ratio down, but this group’s average
GPR is 2.4; the University average is
2.39. That sounds like splitting hairs,
but there’s no doubt in my mind that
those folks will go all out to make sure
they make the grade.
“I was in the Corps at the tail-end
of Korean War. We still had the draft
so lots of people (wanted) to start their
military obligation as an officer rather
than take a chance at getting drafted.
The guys that you have today who are
contracted and are going to the Army
or the Air Force are dedicated — their
grades show it.”
Academics are important to Bur
ton. He has high standards and said
he wants to pass those standards
along to the Corps.
And the newest members of the
Corps — members of the Class of’86
— are capable of meeting these stan
dards, Burton said.
“Virtually all of our new freshmen
were in the top fourth of their high
school class,” he said. “They’re enthu
siastic and show a great deal of matur
ity and commitment. Everything I’ve
seen so far is outstanding.”
Among the many goals he has set
for the Corps, Burton said that
growth — in both quality and quantity
— is the most important.
“We’re going to move for a larger
Corps,” he said. “But we have to re
tain. We can recruit all we want but we
also have to retain people.
“The University can’t grow much
more within the constraints of the
physical plant. But if we work on our
image, if we continue to have influ
ence and continue to offer something
that you can only get within the Corps
of Cadets, there’s no reason the Corps
can’t have unlimited growth.”
\ward-winning actress
ngrid Bergman dies
United Press International
ONDON—Three-time Academy
ard winning actress Ingrid Berg-
(an, 67, who captivated movie audi-
ces worldwide with her portrayal of
ong heroines, died Sunday, BBC
|dio reported.
Bergman, a Swedish immigrant
who became the most popular movie
actress in the world in only six years,
psas driven from the United States by
one of the great scandals of the mid-
BOth century — the discovery she was
having a child by Italian director
loberto Rossellini, while she was still
trried to her Swedish husband.
A decade later, as public mores
anged and her talent endured, she
returned in triumph.
“I’ve gone from saint to whore and
back to saint again, all in one life
time,” she said in 1980. The experi
ence left her with her feet on the
ground, she said, “because you never
know when people will change their
minds again.”
Bergman had bouts with breast
cancer in 1974 and 1978, undergoing
two mastectomies.
Bergman won Academy Awards
over a 30-year span, starting with the
best actress Oscar in 1944 for her por
trayal of a trusting wife being driven
mad by a conniving husband in “Gas
light.”
In 1956, in an “all-is-forgiven” ges
ture after the Rosselini scandal
waned, she won a second Oscar for
her hauntingly ambiguous portrayal
of a woman who might have been the
long-lost daughter of the last czar in
“Anastasia.”
She won the best supporting ac
tress award in 1974 for playing a
mousy spinster in “Murder On the
Orient Express.”
But her best remembered per
formance was a role that never was
nominated for an Oscar. In 1942 she
played Use, the hauntingly beautiful
married woman who drove the cynic
al Rick, played by Humphrey Bogart,
to drink and to heroism in “Casab
lanca.”
All-University Night kicks
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by Joe Tindel Jr.
Battalion Staff
Thousands of new students at Texas A&M University
ill file into G. Rollie White Coliseum tonight at 7:30 to
feceive an introduction to Aggie spirit.
I T he event is All-University Night, an annual welcome
jo the new^students and a welcome-back to the old ones.
The event will feature head football coach Jackie Sherrill
nd the Texas A&M football team; the Aggie Band; Uni-
ersity President Frank E. Vandiver; Dr. John J. Koldus
|II, vice president for student services; Corps Comman-
ler Mike Holmes; Pat Pearson, student body president;
nd head yell leader Tom Joseph.
Joseph, the master of ceremonies for the program, will
velcome back each class and introduce Vandiver and
Mdus for short speeches.
Joseph said he will talk about traditions and spirit, tell
This experiences in three-a-day workouts with the foot-
" team and introduce Sherrill and the team’s starting
lineup.
Joseph said Sherrill has strongly supported Texas
/V&M traditions and AH-University Night.
And the event will introduce incoming freshmen to
one important tradition: yell practice.
Joseph said the program should last about 45 minutes,
and he expects at least as many students at the event as last
year, about 8,000 to 10,000. He said this year’s program
should be better than ever before.
“They’ll (new students) hear a lot of the songs and
they’ll hear all of the yells,” Joseph said.
“Especially this year I think it will be better because
we’re introducing Coach Sherrill and his new team and
leadership.”
Joseph described the program as “a cram course in
Aggie spirit,” since it gives freshman and new students a
taste of the University’s traditions.
“The freshman come in and I would Say about half of
them don’t know all the yells and probably three-quarters
of them don’t know many of the traditions, if any,” he
said.
He said the program is a great opportunity for those
freshman who missed Fish Camp and want to become
acquainted with the Aggie way.
Col. Donald Burton
staff photo by Diana Sultenfuss
Students in temporary
housing may move soon
by Rebeca Zimmermann
Battalion Staff
Conditions are cramped in some of
the dorms, but students who are in
temporary housing — living three to a
room or in study carrels — may be
reassigned to regular dorm rooms by
Friday.
“We have 368 women and 338 men
in temporary housing,” said James A.
Wallace, Texas A&M housing ser
vices supervisor.
Most of the temporarily housed
students are in the modular dorms,
the Commons area dorms, Spence,
Crocker and Moore Halls, he said. In
Mosher and Aston Halls, 52 men and
52 women temporarily are living in
study carrels.
A bed, a chest and hanging racks
are provided for students in tempor
ary quarters.
Temporary housing assignments
are based on the number of room
vacancies from the previous year. At
the beginning of a semester, some stu
dents cancel room reservations to
move into apartments; others decide
not to attend Texas A&M and don’t
show up. After 5 p.m. today students
become ‘no-shows’ and lose their re
served dorm spaces.
Wallace said the housing office ex
pects this year to be similar to past
years.
He also said students in temporary
housing have first priority in room
reassignments. Moves will begin
Wednesday at 8 a.m.
The reassignments will be in order
of a student’s originial date of applica
tion for dorm space.
Room and hall changes by students
who are not in temporary housing will
not be permitted until the second
week of fall classes. This will give the
housing office time to assign students
in temporary housing to regular
rooms.
Previously, room and hall changes
began during the first week of classes,
but this made it difficult for the hous
ing office to know exactly where a
student was living, Wallace said.
Also, extra time before room
changes may give students who be
lieve they are having roommate prob
lems time to adjust and work out the
problems.
Students who are not in temporary
housing and wish to change halls may
begin submitting requests to their
area housing office today, he said.
Room change requests may be
made Thursday.
But, moves into different rooms
will not begin until Friday. Students
changing rooms have until Saturday
at 5 p.m. to move into their new room.
Hall changes and a second round of
room changes will begin Sept. 7. Stu
dents have until 5 p.m., Sept. 9, to
complete this move.
Wallace said after Sept. 9 students
cannot change where they live.
Students who remain in a room
with three people or in a study carrel
after Sept. 17 will receive a 25 percent
reduction in dorm room rent rates,
Wallace said.
He said the chances of staying in
overassigned rooms permanently are
greater for women.
Students shouldn’t be too upset if
they don’t live in the hall they first
chose, he said. About 65 percent of
the women who want dorm rooms re
quest modular dorms; 90 percent of
the men choose Aston, Dunn, Schu
macher or McTnnis.
In addition to the new policy on t he
time when a student may change
rooms, the housing office has made
some other policy changes.
Ron Sasse, associate director of
housing, said that at the end of the fall
semester, room keys will be collected
before students leave for the Christ
mas holiday.
This is an experimental policy, he
said, to aid security in the halls over
Christmas break. Security is com
promised when keys are not returned
by students who decide not to come
back to Texas A&M or are academic
ally blocked from returning to school
during the break between semesters.
A policy for building lofts in some
of the halls has been adopted to en
sure the safety of the lofts’ construc
tion. Students who build lofts must
get the hall’s head resident to inspect
and approve the structure.
Also, students applying for on-
campus housing for Fall 1983 may
submit applications no sooner than
Nov. 1. Previously, applications were
accepted up to 17 months before the
requested on-campus semester.
Deposits for room reservations are
now $200; deposits were formerly
$100.
Sasse said these new procedures
were made to help reduce the num
ber of no-show students.
Important Fall ’82
dates to remember
Delayed registration and drop-
add will continue through the first
week of classes.
In order to drop courses and
add new ones, students must first
see their major department advis
er and obtain a drop-add schedule
revision form signed by the
adviser.
These schedule revisions are to
be turned in at drop-add head
quarters in G. Rollie White Col
iseum. Students must have their
paid fee receipts and class sche
dules (the yellow copy) with them
in order to drop-add.
Revised schedules may be pick
ed up the following day at G. Rollie
White. Hours are 8 a.m. to noon
and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Other important dates:
•Sept. 3 — Last day for enroll
ing in the University for the fall
semester; last day to add new
courses; and last day for students
who registered during delayed re
gistration to pay fees at the Fiscal
Department.
•Sept. 10 — Deadline for ap
plying for December degrees.
•Sept. 14 — Last day for drop
ping courses with no record.
•Oct. 1 — Last day for drop
ping courses with no penalty (Q-
drop).
Texas A&M hot check charge
to rise to $20 on Wednesday
The penalties for writing a hot
check at Texas A&M University
will increase beginning
Wednesday.
Effective Wednesday, students
must pay $20 — a $5 increase over
the present charge — for any
check returned to the University
that is not the result of a banking
error.
There also will be a $40 penalty,
a $ 15 increase, for returned checks
not redeemed within 15 days.
Texas A&M controller Robert
Smith said suggestions for the poli
cy change were made during the
summer by a committee of two stu
dents, a faculty representative and
a member of the fiscal office.
“We wanted student input,”
Smith said. “It was very effective
and provided insight to the com
mittee.”
Last year, 5,700 bad checks
amounting to over $500,000 were
written to the University, Smith
said. About $102,000 of those
checks still remain unpaid.
When a check is returned to the
University unpaid by a bank, the
check writer’s name is placed on an
insufficient check list. If the check
is redeemed within 15 days, the
name is removed from the list. If
the check is not redeemed within
the grace period, the name will
stay on the list permanently.
If a person writes more than one
bad check to the University, his
name also will stay on the list per
manently.
“Bad checks are inevitable,”
Smith said. “What we hope to see is
a reduction in the rate of growth of
returned checks.”
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