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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, November 3, lain CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Mess Hall Problem Is Waiter Shortage | Frida: /o<W £ 7 “I figure this is as near to being at the game as possible without being in Arkansas!” Communist Mortarmen Shell New U. S. Reinforcements By EDWIN Q. WHITE Associated Press Writer SAIGON (A 5 )—Communist mor tarmen shelled newly arrived U. S. reinforcements around Loc Ninh on Friday, carrying the now-epic battle near the Cam bodian frontier into its sixth day. The mortar shelling and small arms fire hit a freshly arrived battalion of the U.S. 25th Infan try Division even as the toll of Communist dead since Sunday in the fighting 72 miles north of Saigon reached a staggering 832, by American count. YMCA Plans Hootenanny A hootenanny and five talented girls from TWU will headline a YMCA meeting Monday night. Former Aggie Sweetheart Cheri Holland is in charge of the pre pared portion, which will feature songs and other entertainment by the Tessies. Everyone is invited to the hoot enanny, according to David How ard, YMCA Public Relations chairman. The program will begin at 6 p.m. on the second floor of the YMCA. • Initial reports from the field said the U.S. infantrymen suf fered six dead and 55 wounded. With the arrival at the in flamed sector of one reinforcing battalion of the 25th Division, the allied force defending Loc Ninh totalled about 5,000 men. These included four battalions of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, the 25th Division battalion, a bat talion of South Vietnamese reg ulars and two companies of Viet namese civilian irregulars with their Green Beret U.S. Special Forces advisers. Many of the Communists were killed by thunderous Allied artil lery barrages and repeated air strikes. Against the staggering enemy fosses, U. S. and South Vietna mese officers reported their own casualties as relatively light. The announced toll since Sunday was eight U. S. soldiers killed and 32 wounded, and 23 South Vietna mese killed and 74 wounded. In Thursday’s fighting, the Vietnamese and 1st Division po sitions came under ground at tacks in the six hours before dawn. The U. S. Command said the enemy failed to penetrate perimeter defenses of either force and broke contact at daybreak, dragging off their dead and leav ing blood trails. By BILL DINGER Battalion Special Writer “What? . . . Cafeteria style? Ole Army’s shot to hell” (for the 2,364th time.) Actually, “Ole Army” is not shot to hell — though this is one way to explain some of the changes that have occurred in Duncan Dining Hall since school started. One of the most controversial changes in Duncan recently has been the switch to a modified- cafeteria style service during the Corps’ new three-hour noon meal. But what influenced the switch to cafeteria-style ? HENRY WELLNITZ, who man ages the military half of Aggie- land’s food services, attributed the change to several factors. One was the shortage of waiters working in Duncan Dining Hall. This is not a shortage stemming from a lack of waiters on the payroll. There are enough wait ers to serve family-style two- thirds of the time. The problem comes in trying to pull together enough waiters to serve family style during the long, triple noon hour. This problem in turn, results from the university’s decision to introduce noon classes. All Duncan waiters are stu dents the other 22 hours in a day. Noon classes force some of them to work either the 11 a.m. or 1 p.m. “noon meals”. Thus, the dining hall has to operate at times with an incomplete staff of waiters. One solution enabling Duncan to switch back to all family-style might be to hire more waiters— enough to wait all three noon meals. THIS WOULD be impossible from two standpoints: (1) It would leave some waiters with nothing to do during the morn ing- and evening chows, and (2) Duncan ran into enough prob lems this year just finding- enough waiters to fill present needs. Another problem leading to the big switch to modified cafeteria- style has been Food Service’s hiring of new, inexperienced em ployes to prepare food and clean up after the troops. DORM THAT DAD DESIGNED CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. OP) A set of twins who are fresh men at the University of Corpus Christi may have the most unusual reason yet for selecting a college: their father designed the dormi tory they live in. The boys, John and James Tuck er, are sons of H. Arthur Tucker of Tulsa, Okla. He is chief archi tect of Tandy Industries Inc., the construction arm of GIT Educa tional Buildings Inc., which pro vided the university with a new, 144-bed dormitory for the start of the school year. They decided to enroll at UCC because of its busi ness courses, recreational advant ages and that dormitory that Dad designed. Civilian Council Attacks Communication Gap By BOB PALMER out College Station, one bundle Bonfire because of the Rice Corps Battalion Staff Writer being dropped at each apartment Trip coming in the middle of The Civilian Student Council complex. Bonfire work, covered reviving the Twelfth Man If the students do not get the Tom Osburn, who is in charge Bowl, bettering Communication in paper, they should see their man- of the civilians, started organiz- the civilian student body and ager, DuPont reported. If the ing the civilian “outfits” for Bon- laying plans for Bonfire Thurs- manager is not getting any copies fire work. day night. it should be reported to the Stu- In the Twelfth Man Bowl, the The communication problem dent Publications Office in the Corps plays the civilians at Kyle drew the most attention from basement of the YMCA. Field. In past years the game the members of the council. a CIVILIAN news letter was was played between Thanksgiving The Battalion was attacked for proposed as a possible solution and Christmas, but a suggestion both not carrying enough campus to getting more information be- was made to move the game to news and failure to get the papers f ore civilian students. Civilian Weekend, distributed once they are printed. The ]etter wou]d not be used as THE CIVILIAN Ball would be “We pick up the Batt, read a substitute for The Battalion ^ ned to ^ re . st + ? f the student Peanuts, Cadet Slouch and in the but would supplement information ^y, according to the suggestion. trash can it goes,” charged one t icular to the civilians not 1 he A11 - Um versity dance this member paiticulai to the civilians, not Saturday cost $860.40 and “I HAVE TO send my little * brought in $818.25. Council presi- brother from the apartment to ^ count ‘ d decided to refer the dent Griff Venator estimated the the campus every time I want to P roblem to the dorm councils am dance attendance at more than see a Batt,” Lawrence C. Schil- wou _ act nex ime - 1,800 people. hab, day student representative, Civilians can leally make a The council also approved a complained. name for themselves this year,” resolution at the request of George L. Dupont, council Neal Adams, head yell leader and Clarence Daugherty, Corps chap- treasurer who investigated the Bonfiie chaiiman, told the gioup. lain, to recommend to the Execu- problem, told the group that The ADAMS EXPLAINED the new tive Committee that Religious Battalion is distributed through- role for the civilians in the ’67 Emphasis Week be renewed. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion S&.TlSS S* 1°.', are those of the student writers only. 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Food Services has hired nothing but male, non student help in the mess hall. “Last year was our first year hiring female help in the mess hall,” Wellnitz reported. “This year we have roughly 52 per cent female help in the kitchen.” “We are up to strength in one r e s p e c t,” he said, “we have enough employes. The majority of them are just inexperienced.” EVEN THE modified cafeteria style system is not immune to problems. There are two meal lines in each side of Duncan Dining Hall, one for each of two kitchen doors, to keep the flow of food constant. Seniors and sophomores eat in the east wing, while juniors and freshmen eat in the west wing. Freshmen, because they usually are the largest class group during the middle noon meal (12 to 1), usually take the longest time to get served under the new system. IF THE FRESHMAN line is still fairly long after the junior line has finished, the fish line may be broken up into two lines to speed up the serving. Wellnitz explained that while cadets having complaints about the food or the service are urged to voice their problems to the student menu board members (Corps Staff members and C.O.s) the head waiters, or to himself, very few complaints have been voiced by the students. He emphasized that any cadet has a legitimate gripe, to say something- so the problem can be acted upon. Though waiter absences during three-hour noon meals and even free weekends is a problem, no less a problem to be contended with is determining how many students will eat at these times, and consequently, how much food to prepai-e. THE TWO stewards in charge of the waiters for Duncan Dining Hall are Burton R. Suehs and Philip H. Wichern. Either can be seen walking around the dining haU during meals, making; sure the waiters do what they're sup posed to do. Among other things, it’s their duty to forecast how many peo ple, including dates and other guests, will eat in Duncan during a home game or other special event. “To do this,” Wellnitz elabor ated, “they pull out the records for the same occasion for the last two or three years, and then take into consideration other fac tors such as required drill prac tices and weather conditions to arrive at a fairly close figure of how many will eat. They decide how many stu dents will eat, then they plan on preparing just a little more food than should be necessary,” he de clared. “For the Florida State weekend, they came to within eight people of the actual num ber that came in.” TWO SUBJECTS open to fre quent comment in the dining hall seem to be the practice of serving seconds with certain dishes, and the condition of the coffee in the morning. According to Wellnitz, there are 40 different meat dishes on the menu in Duncan Dining Hall. Of these, Duncan selves seconds with 27. These figures are basically the same as last year, though small changes can be and are made. Changes occur when the mess hall acts on the recommenda tion of the students’ menu board to discontinue a certain dish or to have another more often. SUCH WAS the case recently, when the Food Services Depart ment acted on the recommenda tion by the students to drop Pol ish Sausages from the menu. And now, what about the cof fee situation ? Until now, Duncan has been blessed with large, antiquated coffee urns in which coffe was made in large quantities, almost entirely on human judgement. Food Services is installing new, automatic coffee urns in Duncan which Wellnitz says will greatly increase the speed of serving breakfast coffee. The urns, costing f/p,] a new style which brews colli much faster than the old could, and should insure enoiij coffee for morning shows. In Presenting The Drinking Song for Sprite: "ROAR, SOFT-DRINK, ROAR!" (To the tune of "Barbara Fritchie") Traditionally, a lusty, rousing fight song is de rigeur for every worthy cause and institution. But we wrote a song for Sprite anyway. We'd like you to sing it while drinking Sprite, though this may cause some choking and coughing. So what? It's all in good, clean fun. And speaking of good, clean things, what about the taste of Sprite? It's good. It's clean. However, good clean things may not exactly be your idea of jollies. In that case, remember that Sprite is also very refreshing. "Tart and tingling," in fact. And very collegiate. And maybe we'd better quit while we're ahead. So here it is. The Drinking Song For Sprite. And if you can get a group together to sing it--we'd be very surprised. Roar, soft drink, roar! You're the loudest soft drink we ever sawr! So tart and tingling, they couldn't keep you quiet: The perfect drink, guy, To sit and think by, Or to bring instant refreshment To any campus riot! Ooooooh-- Roar, soft drink, roar! 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