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CADET SLOUCH
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1973
by Jim Earle
Lease Line—
Claims Court Procedures Examined
“I thought I’d try a system that we’ve never experi
mented with to help with finals — studying!”
By BARB SEARS
Question: What is the best way
to present a case against a land
lord in the Small Claims Court?
Answer: Save all pertinent
written material such as leases,
receipts, advertisements, furni
ture checklist, etc., and present
them as evidence. If possible, take
witnesses or other people who
have also had trouble with the
same landlord and have them
testify in support of your case.
Consult the Fair Housing Com
mission for names of other people
with similar problems at the
apartment. The FHC keeps re
cords of the disposition of such
cases and because it handles so
many cases, may be able to refer
you to someone else with a par
allel problem, and you may be able
to help each other out when you
go to court.
Question: When I graduated, I
left A&M and moved to New York.
I still haven’t received the refund
on my apartment security deposit,
although I have written both the
owner and the manager a number
of times. Can I file suit even
though I live in New York?
Answer: You can designate an
agent to file suit or to file a
claim for you. Any member of the
FHC would be happy to assist
you. However, if your claim is
contested then it would require,
your presence.
Question: When I moved out of
my apartment in October, the
Bait Commentary
Town Hall Help
An innovative idea for expanding Town Hall’s ability to please
the maximum number of people with more numerous, high quality
concerts has been suggested. Investigation and student opinion on the
idea is definitely necessary and the plan for scheduling concerts is
workable.
With people complaining about the poor quality of concerts this
year, the Town Hall Committee should look into the prospect of
hosting better quality (higher priced) groups with the aid of selling
some tickets in bigger cities such as Austin, Houston, San Antonio and
Dallas.
Although ticket prices would be higher than they normally are,
those here that could afford the concerts could go if they desired to, in
addition to those from out of town, who would pay and drive more to
get better seats at concerts.
Concerts in the round could be developed in G. Rollie White,
with bands and groups placed more in the center of the gym. Seats
could then be placed where bands now play from. Overall accoustics
could be enhanced considerably. Certainly, sound and sight could get
no worse than they are now.
One hangup to this plan is that some groups will not play in the
round, but would rather have the security of a back wall to run to. This
is frequently a stipulation made in the contract, even before offers are
made.
Town Hall workers have said that this would be a possible plan,
putting on more spring semester concerts and that the ideas could work
here. They also suggest a need for open air concerts, perhaps at the
Rudder Fountain area. These would most likely be concerts priced
below $1,000, and artists might be many of the small-time folk-rock
singers.
Interest in these concert ideas must be expressed by students in
order for committee workers to seriously consider them. If you have
any thoughts on the subject, your ideas are welcome at the Student
Programs Office in the Memorial Student Center.
The End
This is the last issue of the Battalion before final exam week and
will probably the be the last well-read issue by those attending and
working at TAMU. Before students and faculty return to face the big
trials that will face them scholastically and extra-curricularly, we hope
that each individual will stop and think about the future of A&M and at
least to make a New Year’s wish for our school.
This request may be slightly less than ordinary, but we think it
could have a profound effect on the futures of students and faculty
here.
With the energy crisis about to engulf the University whether it
likes it or not, arguments about the value of heated rivalries between
SWC schools and academic values in general, certainly there is enough
food for thought. If each person here were to decide that he was going
to help right things that are wrong instead of taking pride in stirring up
trouble, it might rub off to other people.
There ARE many things that are wrong at TAMU, but only
people can change these things. If everyone is as interested as we are in
creating the best possible place to obtain an education, we’ll see some
action in place of thoughts and words. Marked improvements have been
made in life thus far in the semester. More can be made.
Please, though, have a good and safe Christmas vacation and a
more than prosperous year in 1974. The state of the world may depend
on it.
Cbe Battalion
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EDITOR -
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. MIKE RICE
Rod Speer
... Greg Moses
T. C. Gallucci
Kevin Coffey
.. Ted Boriskie
manager promised me all of my
deposit back although I lived there
only a month because.. I found
someone to replace me. There is a
new manager now, and.. I still
haven’t gotten my deposit back.
In fact, the new manager claims
that I broke the lease by moving
out early and therefore do not de
serve a deposit refund. Is the new
manager right in withholding my
deposit?
Answer: The old manager, act
ing as the agent of the owner,
promised you your deposit back,
and therefore, you should receive
it. There is no reason for them to
keep your security deposit, since
there was no loss to the apart
ment complex because you found
someone to take your place. You
could easily win this case in the
Small Claims Court if you had
either a witness to the old mana
ger’s statement or the old mana
ger himself to testify.
Question: We moved out of our
apartment on Oct. 29, and on Nov.
29, we still had not received our
deposit back. Since the 30 days
had passed we sent the manager a
registered letter and three days
later received our deposit back:
the check was predated Nov. 29,
but the date on the envelope was
December 1. Obviously, the man
ager realized that they would owd
us $100 plus 3 times the deposit,
and so called the owner to have
the refund made. I want to htij
if I can win if I sue them forthii)
amount.
Answer: You probably c«';|
win, for there was no real d
age done you, except that you
ceived your refund slightly!
Since this new law is relatmljl
untested, it is difficult to saykI
it would be interpreted. Teduii
cally it sets a cut-off limit of!i|
days, but in application, a fcl
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Editor:
In your illustration issue of
December 7 I read an article en
titled “Study Shows Biker Viola
tions”. I wish to direct a question
and contents of this letter toward
the two civic minded coeds to
whom your newspaper referred.
How do you expect a bicycle
and rider to come to a full stop
at a stop sign when the rider risks
mutilation by the car behind him
or being compressed into the air
space between the concrete curb
and a fender attached to several
tons of Detroit iron,
You must recognize the differ
ence between being rear ended or
run off the road in a car and on a
bicycle. In a car you have some
protection, on a bicycle you have
none.
On a ten-speed bike it is so
easy to roll up to a stop sign in
fourth or fifth gear and stop
without first remembering to pull
the chain up. Few people know
what a clutch is any more, but
there isn’t one on a ten-speed. You
must be moving fairly fast to
change gears. You’re stuck with
starting off in a gear that is
worse than most fixer speed bi
cycles. You hang in the intersec
tion, grind gears if you choose
to do so, and wobble. This is
dangerous.
There are always the classic
fools who never even stop. They
merely slow down and drive past
the stop sign as if it were a small
billboard for Lovera Cigars. A
law-abiding student who does not
have eyes or radar in the back
of his head, standing at a stop
sign on his bike can be easily flat
tened with such fools about.
Enough has been said of bi
cycles. I, on my bike, am no less
worthy than some character be
hind the wheel. Yet I have never
heard of a driver being cited for
clipping a bike’s right of way, or
for trying to rub dirt on his door
off on a bikers trouser leg.
The next time I see a car go
ing twenty miles per hour on this
campus I will either faint or paste
on it a gold star ....
John F. Hubbell
enough to touch — but don’t!
SEE! . . . The largest paint
chip in the world!
SEE! . . . The annual parade
of cockroaches!
SEE! . . . The greatest paint
chip mozaic in the free world!
SEE! . . . The immortal space
traveler in 422 . . . but don’t let
him see you!
SEE! . . . Keathley Hall, blinds
or no blinds!
SEE! . . . Scotch tape strong
enough to rip concrete from the
walls!
. Heaters that spit
ters like the one by Moses Hil
the paper? They are «».
irrelevant! Answer m
Lloyd's AM
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pletely
that.
I'aul Eakin
Moses 420
Air conditioners that
Chain saw fight with
SEE!
fire!
SEE!
spit ice!
SEE!
no winners!
SEE! . . . Revised frisbee games
using buzz saw blades!
TIPTOE! . . . Through lush
mushroom gardens, watered daily
with six shower nozzles!
TIPTOE! . . . Over lushes in
the hall!
We print them to show tlx|
world we’ll print almost
turned in to “Listen Up" and til
show that college students w
and aren’t some things whkl
some people think they are ini
aren’t. Irrelevance is frequent]; |
all many minds are cluttered will
—Ed.
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Editor:
Vacation in adventurous
floor Moses next semester!
SEE! . . . Wild creatures close
Gary Kotara
Moses 422
4th
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Editor:
Why the heck do you allow let-
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letter commenting on the remarks
made by “old army” Robert I.
Dally ’77 in Tuesday’s Battalk,
telling him that some of us an
here for things other than ‘'mi’
turation in old army traditions,"
possibly even an education. But,
everytime I try to read his letter,
I can’t stop laughing long enongl
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