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Sunday
Pancakes
$1.99
Mon. Tues. Wed.
Spaghetti
$1.99
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Shrimp
$4.99
Saturday
Special
Steak Dinnej
$4.99
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MSC
Cafeteria
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Each Daily Special Only $2.59 Plus Tax.
“Open Daily”
Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.-4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M.
MONDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
Salisbury Steak
with
Mushroom Gravy
Whipped Potatoes
Your Choice of
One Vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Coffee or Tea
TUESDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
Mexican Fiesta
Dinner
Two Cheese and
Onion Enchiladas
w/ Chili
Mexican Rice
Patio Style Pinto Beans
Tostadas
Coffee or Tea
One Corn Bread and Butter
WEDNESDAY
EVENING
SPECIAL
Chicken Fried Steak
w/ Cream Gravy
Whipped Potatoes and
Choice of one other
Vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread and Butter
Coffee or Tea
THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL '
Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner
SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE
Parmesan Cheese-Tossed Green Salad
Choice of Salad Dressing-Hot Garlic Bread
Tea or Coffee
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FRIDAY EVENING
SATURDAY
SUNDAY SPECIAL
SPECIAL
NOON and EVENING
NOON and EVENING
Fried Catfish
Filet w/Tarta
Sauce
Cole Slaw
Hush Puppies
Choice of One
Vegetable
Tea or Coffee
SPECIAL
Yankee Pot Roast
Texas Style
(Tossed Salad)
Mashed
Potatoes
w/ Gravy
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Tea or Coffee
Roast Turkey Dinner
Served with
Cranberry Sauce
Cornbread Dressing
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Coffee or Tea
Giblet Gravy
And Your Choice of any
One Vegetable
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Tuition
Smith speaks out against proposed increases
By MARY ANN HARVEY
Reporter
In a speech Wednesday night.
State Representative Richard Smith
said budget cuts in higher education
would be “unreasonable and irre
sponsible.”
The Memorial Student Center Po
litical Forum invited Smith to speak
to students on the subject of budget
cuts and the potential effects they
will have on college students.
Smith said the proposed budget
cuts would be counterproductive be
cause higher education is so impor
tant to this country’s future.
“I do not support a tuition in
crease,” Smith said. “I don’t think
that’s the way to balance the bud
get.”
Smith said the problem is that the
state of Texas, in the last 10 years,
spent money in a manner that was
imprudent and added that it could
have been avoided.
The budget has tripled from $6.7
billion to $20.5 billion within the last
10 years, said Smith. Although the
population growth has only in-
Richard Smith
creased by 30 percent, inflation has
grown 108 percent, he said.
Smith said part of this excessive
spending is a result of the 1973 en
ergy crisis when oil prices rose from
$3 to $4 per barrel to approximately
$30 a barrel.
Rather than being prudent with
this surplus of money, the state ini
tiated programs according to the
money available to spend, Smith
said. He said money should have
been put aside for an unexpected
drop in revenues.
The drop came when oil prices
were reduced which, in turn, af
fected the state’s revenues, he said.
Smith said he is not in full
agreement with either of the two
proposals under consideration by
the House Higher Education Com-
.piittee for raising tuition.
Smith said he’s against indexing as
called for in the Thompson plan,
which he said would take the respon
sibility for tuition increases away
from Legislature. The Thompson
plan calls for a tuition increase for
resident students from $4 to $15 per
semester hour spread over two
years. After that, students would be
required to pay 15 percent of the to
tal cost of tuition.
The other proposal, the Delco
lan, would raise resident tuition to
20 over six years.
Increasing
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chairman for administration of MSC
Black Awareness, says some minori
ties are unsure about attending
Texas A&M because there are so few
minority students on campus.
“Concern is evident in the fact
that recruiters are now presenting
black life on campus and making it a
point to emphasize that black stu
dents are there,” Bisor says.
Jose Acosta, chairman of MSC
Committee for the Awareness of
Mexican-American Culture, says mi
norities experience culture shock
when they first come to campus and
a few are hesitant about attending
Texas A&M.
“That’s where organizations like
CAMAC try to help out,” he says.
“We try to acquaint them with other
students and ease the transition.”
Taylor says minorities are gener
ally attracted to Texas A&M for the
same reason as whites: they are se
rious about their education.
Also, each year 25 percent of the
black students and about 10 percent
of the hispanic students are offered
a President’s Achievement Award, a
minority scholarship. These are
baSed on PSAT and SAT results and
high school counselor nominations.
They provide $2,000 a year and are
renewable if the student maintains
certain grade requirements.
Bisor says the scholarships now
give minority students a choice be
tween schools. Previously, he says,
the University of Texas’ minority
scholarship offers '‘blew A&M off
the map.”
Taylor says the scholarship win
ners’ progress is monitored closely
by the Office of School Relations.
Scholarship students have a reten
tion rate of about 80 percent com
pared to the University average re
tention rate of about 70 percent, he
says.
Also, about one-sixth of the black
students are on an athletic schol
arship. Taylor says that in 1979, over
half were on athletic scholarships.
Athletes who pursue a profes
sional sports career and drop out of
school help lower the retention rate,
he says.
“If we could eliminate that partic
ular area, the retention would be
fairly high,” he says. “But retention
in the athletic area has increased
ready since Jackie Sherrill has been
ere.”
Current and former students and
high school counselors are valuable
sources of minority recruitment,
Taylor says.
Bisor says using current students
to recruit is a fairly new, and very
good, idea.
“They’re now realizing they can
put the student body to work,” he
says.
The Office of School Relations
staff also attempts to visit high
schools, especially those in heavily
populated areas or that have high
concentrations of minorities. The
staff tries to make the student aware
of educational opportunities at
Texas A&M. Then, if the student is
interested and willing, the staff will
visit the student’s home to talk to his
parents.
The student is also encouraged to
visit the campus. Taylor says if the
staffs time permits, they will bring
the student here if he is not able to
come on his own. For example, Tay
lor says the office has previously
hired chartered buses to bring
groups of students to the campus.
Often, the staff will revisit the stu
dent, he says.
“We want the student to be fully
aware of Texas A&M University,”
Taylor says. “That’s why we feel it’s
important to visit the campus and
see what type of situation they’ll be
involved in.”
All the catfish
you can eat
for $5.95
Come by Padre Cafe on Catfish nights and get all
the Mississippi Delta Catfish filets, french fries,
cole slaw, and homemade rolls and tartar sauce
you can eat for just $5.95.
If you like fresh catfish, you’re going to love
Padre Cafe.
Catfish Nights-$5.95
Wednesday and Thursday
5 p.m. ’til close
Dominik Drive
College Station-BY-THE-SEA