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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1963)
ypor he 19«7 Diretu dents. ' a special funj former studeni die tape. or the operm ' of the assi is also set up lose who neeifi through :,000 was loas? ts for collegi STUDENTS 1 ■n $2,400,00014 and since it w o the associsti in who has ei miversity corns m association ais year there 'GO members c: the associate WITH ONE-HOUR LIMIT Feed 4,000 At A Sitting? No Problem For Sbisa Hall Thursday, August 22, 1963 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Page 3 Can you imagine seating 4,000 young men in a single building and feeding them a family-style dinner three times a day? Add to that the stipulation that at two of those meals the men have to be back in class in less than an hour and it seems like an almost impossible task. But the job is old stuff to the staff of Sbisa Dining Hall at A&M. And at the same time, across the campus, another staff is preparing to accomodate up to 3,000 more hungry Aggies. Duncan Dining Hall is newer, and its modern facilities are among the best. Sbisa Hall, built in 1912, also serves as a place where many im portant social events are held, in cluding all the class dances, the Military Ball and the Combat Ball. ABOUT 200 full-time employes and about 200 student waiters pre pare and serve the meals. Even with this cost of labor, food and equipment, it is among the least expensive boards of any university in the United States today, accord ing to dining hall officials. A student is charged $1.50 per A Full Mailbox After the new student has been at A&M a short while, he’ll realize—as does this smiling Aggie—that a mailbox full of letters is one of the finer things in life. I Students At Two Get Mail Localities The incoming freshman at A&M will soon find that one of the things he’ll think about most often is mail from home, sweethearts or friends. Mail for students is delivered at two places on the campus. One is the main College Station Post Office, completed less than a year ago. In addition to the renovated building, Houston St. in front of the post office has been rerouted to provide a drive and parking area. THE MAIN post office is loca ted at the corner of Houston and F.M. Highway No. 60, across from (the North Gate shopping area. The other post office is in the east end of the Memorial Student Center. Postmaster Ernest Gregg said that regular mail shipments come in three times a day. One arrives around 8 p.m. During the day a shipment arrives at 11:15 and other around 4:20. Gregg said let ters are boxed as soon as possible after shipments arive. AIR MAIL, he said, arrives four High Standards Met By A&M Curricula A&M’s curricula in many fields meet the requirements of some of the nation’s well-known accredit ing agencies. The university itself is accredit ed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the Association of Texas Colleges and Universities and the Texas Education Agency. The curricula in architecture are accredited by the National Archi tectural Accrediting Board, and the veterinary medicine degree pro- gram is accredited by the Ameri can Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education. Other agencies have accredited the engineering curricula, the chemistry program and. the jour- mdism program. times each day. A shipment comes in at 9 a.m., another at 11:29, one around 4 p.m. and a small shipment at 6 p.m. During the day mail leaves Col lege Station at 11:15 a.m., 4:15 p.m., 6 p.m. and all hours of the night, Gregg said. He emphasized that any letter deposited by 5 p.m. will be delivered in almost all of Texas the following day. The College Station Zip-Code prefix is 778. Gregg said the last two digits for post office box hold ers here is 41. Most incoming freshmen, then, will be served by the Zip-Code 77841. STUDENTS ENTERING A&M each fall must go by either of the post offices and fill out applica tions for boxes. This should be done as soon as the student is assigned a dormitory room. Those living in certain areas of the cam pus are required to have their box at the nearest post office. The university dobs have a spe cial delivery service; therefore, it is important that the student give his correct room number when fil ling out the application for a box. Immediate delivery is made in the special delivery department. Phone, Telegraph Service Available Because of the physical size of the university and the number of students served many communica tions and transportation facilities are available at A&M. In the Memorial Student Center telephone operators are on duty from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. to place long distance calls for students and ac cept payment for them. Pay phones are also located in many of the dormitories. Western Union maintains an of fice in the MSC. Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with messen ger service for telegram delivery to dorms as well as university de partments. TELEGRAPH officials said that many parents sending wires to students often give only the post office box number. The officials asked that the room number be also included to save time. Without this information, they explained, it is necessary to check with the Hous ing Office to locate telegram reci pients. After Western Union is closed the Housing Office, located in the YMCA, takes over telegraph duties as well as receiving incoming long distance phone calls. Messengers are on duty 24 hours each day to notify students of incoming calls. Students are notified only in case of emergencies after midnight. The Housing Office also main tains a complete locator file of students registered at A&M. This file serves visitors trying to locate students and furnishes necessary addresses in case of emergency. PASSENGER TRAINS do not operate out of either College Sta tion or Bryan. The main bus termi nal is in Bryan, at the corner of Texas Ave. and Dodge. A flag stop is located at the East Gate in Col lege Station. Passengers for A&M may leave buses at the East Gate stop and certain departures during the day may be made from there. One airline serves the Bryan-Col- lege Station area. Flights leave Easterwood Field, the university- r PARDNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done At CAMPUS CLEANERS WHY WE CARRY -romper There’s more than fabric superiority in Gant. In addi tion, “needled-into the ways and woof of every Gant shirt” — there’s flair-fit-show — three vital inher- ents that make all the difference when a man wears a Gant. We chose Gant because they take shirt making seri ously. They’re hard to please (like we are) when it comes to fit of collar, its roll, its profile—how much it shows above the suit collar. They’re fastidious about the way the body of the shirt drapes and folds. All must integrate to achieve that viable ingredient which gives comfort and aplomb. In substance, Gant shirts are keyed to the discerning tastes of well groomed men who appreciate quality. These men are our customers. owned airport, four times daily. De partures for Houston are at 8:50 a.m. (arrival 9:30) and 4:17 p.m. (arrival 4:59). Planes leave for Dallas at 11:06 a.m. (arrival 12:48) and 6:11 p.m. (arrival 7:55.) Publications Serve Aggies, Parents, Professional Men A&M student publications serve not only Aggies but former stu dents, parents and professional men across the state and nation. Under the direction of James L. Lindsey, student writers and edi tors put together a yearbook, a newspaper, and four magazines. The Aggieland is the official yearbook for A&M University. It is printed during the summer and distributed to students when they return in September. The A&M Review is the maga zine of the College of Arts and Sciences. It features humor, poe try, fiction and non-fiction by stu dent writers and professors. The Southwestern Veterinarian provides news and technical arti cles for practicing vetex-inarians and students alike. The A&M Agi’iculturist and A&M Engineer feature news and feature articles for all interested in the fields of agriculture and engineering. day for three meals. This is usually paid at registration time for each semester. The money buys the food, pays the labor, and covers other expenses of the dining halls. Aside from the student board fee, the dining halls receive no federal or state aid, and are self-support ing. During the regular semesters, meals are served family-style with the tables ah-eady set and waiting when the students arrive for meals. Waiters fill the food containers until the hungry Aggies at each table have their fill. VISITORS TO the campus will find a hot meal waiting them too, and usually for less than a dollar. During the summer, with fewer students on the campus, the meals are served cafeteria-style in Sbisa, and have prices set on each food item. The basement of Sbisa is being renovated this summer Tor use as a cafeteria this fall. The work in cludes dropping the ceiling, put ting in a new floor and installing air conditioning . The cafeteria equipment normally used during the summer will be moved to the basement area. Dean of Students James P. Han- nigan said the new facility is being provided mainly for civilian stu dents, at the suggestion of campus student groups. IN ADDITION to this new cafe teria service, Sbisa Hall has been alloted the task of providing food for students who’ll be living at the Research and Development Annex on the other side of Bryan. A&M Food Service Director Frank Nu gent said that cafeteria-style serv ice will be provided in an old din ing room of the former Bryan Air Force Base. “The food will be prepared in the Sbisa Hall kitchen, transported in special food containers and served out there,” Nugent said. The annex dining facilities will be equipped to serve 250 to 300 persons. Students eating in both dining halls are treated to turkey dinners three times each year. On Thanks giving, Christmas and Easter tur key, yams, gravy, peas, rolls, cran- beiries and other dishes garnish the table. Many visitors and members of the faculty and staff attend the 1 holiday meals. Preparing A Holiday Meal Dining- hall workers ready the small army of turkeys needed in preparing a holiday meal for thousands of hun- gary-Aggies and guests. Such meals come at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. University Hospital Provides Health Services For Students The A&M University Hospital, which provides all the health serv ices for students, is one of the best equipped college hospitals in the Southwest. Facilities available include physi cal thex-apy, state approved labor atory and . a X-ray department. These are only part of the vari ous services provided for the Ag gie who pays his health fee at re gistration time. Students desiring immunization, desensitization injections, or cer tain other special treatments, will not be charged for the seiwice, but will be requix*ed to supply the medication needed. The medical staff, under the di rection of Dr. C. R. Lyons, includes specialists in the field of medicine; surgery; eye, ear, nose and thx-oat; and mental hygiene. The hospital also has a staff of registered nurses on duty at all times when the college is in session. ★ ★ ★ Patients Get Free Writing Materials Students who are patients in A&M’s campus hospital next school year will write to re latives and friends on special stationery. The Association of Former Students again will furnish free letter stationery and envelopes to second-floor bed patients at the hospital. The stationery, designed by Joe Russell, artist-typographer with the A&M Press, is imprint ed with a maroon-ink letterhead. 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