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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1973)
Page '6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1973 (S) HARRY DISHMAN Sales & Service 603 Texas Ave. C.S. across from campus — 846-3316 ROTARY COMMUNITY SERIES (In Cooperation with Texas A&M University Town Hall) presents THE NATIONAL PLAYERS Boarders Offer Living Solution in By MIKE KOLAR NOW IS THE TIME of the semester when many students realize the problems with their current housing facilities and be gin to look into a new type of living for the spring. Many find off-campus living unappealing or impractical and dormitory living has its drawbacks. Twenty-two A&M students have found a new type of living which seems to be synonymous with the THE COMEDY OF ERRORS By William Shakespeare BRYAN CIVIC AUDITORIUM Tuesday, December 4, 1973 8:00 p. m. Sly, Honest Hit and Run Rotary Season Tickets Honored Students & Dates $2.00 each Patrons $4.00 each TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Rudder Center Box Office 9 a. m. - 4 p. m. —Mon. - Fri. Call 845-2916 for Information DURBAN, South Africa (A*) —The Berea Rotary Club news letter said a note was left under an auto windshield that read: “I have just run into your car. People have seen me and are watching me write this. They think I am leaving my name and address. They are wrong.” old traditions of college housing. Boarding houses, that is houses operated by someone who provides room and board to people, seem to be re-appearing. W. B. Lancaster a Fiscal De partment employe, owns and op erates one for the 22 TAMU stu dents at 303 Dexter Drive. His boarding house is comprised of four houses on Dexter and is run by his wife, children and him self. THE 19 GIRLS AND THREE BOYS at the boarding house have all their services provided by the Lancasters. They pay just one payment which covers the entire semester. Images of a boarding house may range from one with a fra ternity type atmosphere to one in which the owner keeps the stu dents in chains at night. Bobby Jones, a senior from Marietta, tells why this really isn’t the case at the Lancasters.” “We’re like part of the family, but not really. The Lancasters don’t tell us what to do but we do have some rules they have set up. The rules aren’t really strict and the Lancasters don’t force anything upon us. Mostly, we just go by the respect that we’ve gained for them,” Jones said. MR. AND MRS. LANCASTER are known as “Ma and Pa” to the students who live there and the students who know them well. They have three children: Nancy, a senior at A&M Consolidated; Boofie, an eighth grader there; and Laura, an A&M junior ma joring in psychology. Mrs. Lancaster uses her de gree in psychology to good advan tage with the students living there. She counsels and helps her boarders. AGGIE MUMS! Call 823-5792 There are, however, certain drawbacks to living there. Ted Smith, a senior in petroleum en gineering, tells of his particular problem. “It’s bad here because of the girls. Every time someone has a flat or engine trouble with their car, it’s always us guys who have to fix it,” he said. “In some oth er things, they’re kind of dumb. Take football tickets for exam ple. They can’t even see how they work.” TED SMITH’S PROBLEM may be unique for a male student at A&M, but the girls living at the Lancasters also have some un usual problems. PTs, or peeping toms, are not an uncommon sight there. Girls living in the houses in back of the Lancaster home have had many of these night visitors. There haven’t been as many this semester and Smith offered a possible reason. “There aren’t any nice looking girls liv ing there any more.” Ted, of course, is wrong. He’s still trying to get even for all the flat tires. “THE FOOD IS JUST GREAT,” Jones said. “We can go into the kitchen anytime for a snack. We have all our utilities paid for, and really nothing to worry about for the whole semes ter.” I AWN LOAtj n • "I" Money Quick flnoVi rv.. . 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