THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, November 3, lain
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Mess Hall Problem Is Waiter Shortage
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“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.
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In past years. 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.
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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!
Flip your cap, hiss and bubble,
fizz and gush!
Oh we can't think
Of any drink
That we would rather sit with!
Or (if we feel like loitering)
to hang out in the strit with!
Or sleep through English lit' with!
Roar! Soft drink! Roar!
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, SPRITE!
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