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Friday, May 4, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 arine commandant. Bush ead graduation festivities By DAINAH BULLARD Staff Writer About 150 graduating Minbers of Texas A&M’s iCbfps of Cadets will be com- I[ Bsioned into the armed ■ iVBes Saturday at 1:30 p.rn. VnG. Rollie White Coliseum. _ H^cn. Paul X. Kelly, Com- •Jpundant of the U.S. Marine 1 /B-ps, will commission the | | Hets. Kelly assumed the of- of commandant on July . . ~ 1, 1983 after 33 years of ac- flGumitive duty in the Marine ps. elly will give the oath of ffice to 37 cadets in Air ROTC, 90 cadets in ry ROTC and 23 cadets in y ROTC. Cadets entering I Air Force, Army and Ma le Corps will receive the rank ol second lieutenant. Cadets entering the Navy will receive the rank of ensign. The ceremony will begin with a speech by Texas A&M President Frank E. Vandiver. The Doherty award, a $3,300 award established by W.T. “Doc” Doherty, Class of ‘22, will be presented after Van diver’s speech. The award is presented twice each year af ter the December and May graduation ceremonies to an outstanding cadet. Kelly’s speech will follow the presen tation of the Doherty award. Col. Richard F. Johnson, head of the Department of Naval Science, said Kelly’s speech will probably concen trate on the responsibilities of leadership. “I haven’t seen the topic of his speech yet, but I’m sure he’ll stress leadership,” John son said. After taking the oath of of fice as a group, the cadets will be called forward and con gratulated individually by Kelly, Vandiver and the pro fessors of Naval Science, Aerospace Studies and Mili tary Science (Johnson, Col. Henry C. Hill and Col. Don ald L. Burton). Final Review, the last offi cial function of seniors in the Corps, will immediately fol low the commissioning cere mony. Kelly will be the re viewing officer. The commissioning cere mony will follow graduation ceremonies. About 3,300 stu dents will graduate Friday and Saturday. The ceremony for grad uate students and undergrad uates in the Colleges of Agri culture, Geosciences and Liberal Arts will be held at 2 p.m. Friday. San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros will be the speaker. The ceremony for under graduates in the Colleges of Architecture and Environ mental Design and Engi neering will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Gov. Mark White will be the speaker. The ceremony for under graduates in the Colleges of Business Administration, Ed ucation, Science and Veteri nary Medicine and students from Texas A&M at Galves ton will be held at 9 a.m. Sat urday. Vice President George Bush will be the speaker. Student demonstrations mar Pope’s Korean visit United Press International SEOUL, South Korea — Riot police fired tear gas Thursday to disperse a student demon stration near a seminary where Pope John Paul II was meeting with priests and seminarians. Reporters accompanying the papal entourage were affected by the tear gas fumes drifting from Sungkyunkwan Univer sity where police broke up about 1,000 demonstrating stu dents. The students were demand ing increased campus auton omy and protesting forced in duction of young dissidents into the armed forces. The protes ters were apparently not dem onstrating against the pope. But the sound of exploding tear gas shells could be heard at the seminary while the pope was inside, witnesses said. Plain clothes presidential security agents on the seminary grounds were observed coughing and sneezing. It was not immediately known if the pope noticed the tear gas or was aware of the demonstration. Spectators inside the semi nary compound told reporters the tear gas had come from Sungkyunkwan, a private uni versity founded by Confucians. orthgate committee results discussed By KARI FLUEGEL Stall' Writer es amor.; | he Northgate area has long Hn a topic of debate in Bryan nd College Station. “ turmn 8 In the past, problems with a countNonhgajg have been defined as >ted a ftliaicing, traffic (both car and on a pilfilestrian), maintenance and bning restrictions. a ^ Earlier this year the North- j ’ ;ate committee, headed by Dan itf usft rlcGilvray, made several reco- Bdalions to the College Sta- eitheraion City Council concerning paths oramprovements of the Northgate :ollisionoMP- 1 hiDil'This committee has proba- ily done the most thorough job 1 1111 n| committee has set out to do Northgate.” said A1 Mayo, di- der of eclor of city planning. He said the ail he committee came up with a ig a pani no,e viable long-range solution jrld affr 1 ' r fi?j an y conim id ee or organi- ' ation before. (( m " iWe’ve gotten further on this i which «j ecl than anyone has ever ayers ohotten before,” he said, than all 1 Since the recommendations d armif: verc ' made, Mayo and his staff Save begun to implement some , if the suggestions, v s No. : One of the steps to be taken anothei vill | je a rezoning of the area to ;d at, diitfrosen the current restrictions, les southfflt’s (die rezoning) trying to die ‘ n die freedom and lati- ode for building and rebuild- 1 ' 1 ng while at the same time have bme control,” Mayo said. ior Herr" rezoning will allow mer- the daffflnts to build to their property ijjbs and will not require mini- l )(l lot sizes. It will also reduce • ^pricing requirements by aboul nieS . Inercent for commercial us- ie city <h rs r on a Now, retail, office and similar isolatingisuiblishments are required to d behin^upply one parking space for »nt fourl||T 300 square feet. With the , rLj.^iew rezoning, they will be re- Jllired to have one for every es that Kg) squalre feet, iditions | e city’s lid son^ ige to dj his town | preside 11 ! r were 1 Only $225 a Month for Brownstone’s Two Bedroom Two Bath Apartments for Summer! Restaurants, night clubs and similar businesses will have their one-space-for-every- three-seats minimum reduced to one space for every four seats. The rezoning also would limit the number of high traffic generators such as restaurants and bars. Otherwise there will be no zone restrictions in the area. “There is a need for control but also a need for latitude,” Mayo said. Each project will be open to public hearings and will be ap proved by its own merits. Mayo said he wants to make it easier for developing and rede veloping while retaining the character of the area. “We want to retain what we’ve got and build on it,” he said. The final rezoning plan will ready for city council approval during the first to the middle part of the summer, Mayo said. Parking, car and pedestrian traffic also are problems in the Northgate area that the com mittee made suggestions about. After a survey of Northgate patrons, Mayo said that, con trary to the belief of the mer chants, the majority of the traf fic is not pedestrian. About 60 percent of the patrons get to the area by car. One suggested option to con trolling the traffic is limiting parking to one hour. This would discourage students and university employees who don’t want to buy parking permits from parking in the area. “We can’t allow them to ruin the area commercially,” Mayo said. Another plan will turn Pat ricia Street, the street which runs behind the Dixie Chicken and Loupots Book Store, into a plaza. This, however, will be the most difficult part of the plan to implement because of the money that would be expended, Mayo said. “Most of the merchants and landowners are very positive about it,” he said. “I think they all realize that they have a unique area in Bryan and Col lege Station. If they are not in volved, it’s not going to work.” Mayo could not name an ex pected completion date, but did say that he felt that in five years a marked difference could be seen. The funds for the project would come from federal grants and funds, he said. Suggestions that were made by the committee which were then deleted from the plan were establishing a bicycle path system within Northgate, instal ling a “scrambler” traffic signal at the intersection of College Main and University which MEW LOOK THE SHAPE OF THINGS $8.00 Hair Cuts for Guys & Girls qJAJ-v/v/ on iy (includes shampoo & blow dry) Haircut and Style fT50 Perms included 846-7614 10% Discount with A&M I.D. Located between Luby's & Rebels only Id peatfj rnayo rl ' and it ” m the 11 ingtr4 a senior ■olumm 5 on th e e the erits •FREE Cable &HBO •Chartered Shuttle Bus Service for Summer Pool • Volleyball Badminton Basketball ■ Cash Contests Professional On-site Management Small Pets Welcome Hours: 9 am-6 pm Mon-Sat; 1 pm-6 pm Sun es? don' 1 „y 24-Hour Emergency Maintenance Washer/Dryer Connections Professionally managed by Metro Properties Management, Inc. 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