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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1973
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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.
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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.”
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PASSING OF THE TORCH by Walton residents Sam
Morrison to Delroy Collins began the last leg of the annual
bonfire marathon run from Austin. Beginning at 4:30 a. m.
Monday, the 20-man team left the Austin city limits with a
lit torch as the winds continued, the torch went out but the
holder was run the total 92 miles in about 11 hours. (Photo
by Kathy Curtis)
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