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THE BATTALION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1976 Page 3 iiniatwej so our f /hat (Ik [ /ductile | Sawyer m pause I mt sliar- treasure adplaee Post iptto iam Aggie Hall offers rooms to sports fans Those students still sleeping in parking lots and bathing in fountains may be interested in finding a legitimate dorm room located near theTexasA&M campus. Aceie Hall, formerly the Aggieland Inn, stillnas, vacant rooms. Thel75—room hotel is less than half full said Gary Heiner, manager oftheprivately owned dorm. He ex pressed hope that the 350 possible accommodations will be filled by the beginning of the spring semester in January. Aggie Hall is owned by Mrs. Wilma J. Anderson of Bryan—College Station, and Thomas Novak of Dallas. Heiner said he believes the coed dorm is not full, as was predicted for this semester because it opened at a bad time. He said the closing of con tracts and more agreements for the conversion from hotel to dorm pushed leasing dates back from four tosix weeks. Heiner speculated that many of the students had already signed apartment leases or Univer sity housing agreements by late spring when leases were first offered for Aggie Hall rooms. Other plan changes since last spring include continuing hotel serv ice, an optional board plan, room op tions, and a limited maid service. Since the dorm is not full, Heiner said, rooms are being rented on a limited service basis for football weekends only. Limited service ‘Rally’ didnt happen These four girls are studying in what appears to be any dorm room that one may find on any campus, but the room is actually a converted hotel- means no television, no phone, and no maid service. Linens are pro vided but the beds must be made by the occupants. The price is $42.40 for two nights for a room with two double beds. Heiner stressed that as many people as possible can sleep in each room. Aggie Hall now offers residents an optional board plan, since no cook ing is allowed in the rooms. Family style meals are offered on a five day a week basis, with breakfast and an evening meal served. Both dorm res idents and non-residents may pur chase the board plan for $400 per semester. Rooms at the new dormitory range from $600 per semester for two double beds and double occu pancy to $580 for two twin beds. Heiner said a few students have opted for more quiet and privacy and are paying $1200 a semester for a private room. The rooms haven’t been changed much from their former hotel days. Additional closet space is planned, but not completed. All televisions have been removed from the rooms and are being sold to the public along with extra lamps and chairs. Aggie Hall provides cable for televisions and stereos but occupants must pur chase their own phones. All of the rooms offer piped-in music. Maids vacuum the carpet once a week, but do not clean the bathrooms. _ Rooms at Aggie Hall are coed on a room to room basis, with only the first two floors occupied. Heiner said the coed aspect of the dorm has caused no problems. He explained that skeptical parents feel better when they realize a male is just a door away in case any woman feels endangered. A security guard is on duty at night and a student resident advisor lives in the dorm. Heiner said the spirit and morale of the new dorm are superb. “This has worked twice as good as any hall I’ve ever managed before,” he said. Heiner has managed dorms at Brigham Young University, the University of Wisconsin, and Mem phis State University. Heiner attributes much of the dorm’s success to the excellent rela tions between men and women liv ing there. Sixty per cent of the dorm residents are men. The residents gather for private yell practices, par ties and meetings. They went en masse to the Texas A&M yell prac tice Monday night. Many of them have purchased T-shirts sporting J the dorm’s new emblem, the Loony Tune crow, and printed with the dorm’s new slogan, “Aggie Hall— Crow Eds”. Stock market is ‘dull’ By JOHN CUNNIFF j Associated Press NEW YORK — Perhaps it is un fair, but it’s amusing and informa tive, a lesson to be appreciated, when you contrast the excited, lively > stock market forecasts of a few months ago with the deadly dull market that ensued. The summer rally, the promises of a market rising on an ever- strengthening economy, the return of investor confidence and all the other ingredients of those forecasts now look as weary and seedy as the lawns that were planted at the same time. It wasn’t an exciting summer at all, and at least one large firm concedes this. Argus Research Corp. observes that “the past six months have been a boring period....’’ Most analysts, however, have their sights, astigmatic as they might be, set on the future, and they see nothing but excitement ahead. Re sted and eager for action, they feel the whole country feels the same way. Applications for Resi dence Hall Association assistants are being ac cepted until September 13th in the Student Pro grams Office Room 216 MSC. Business analysis The presidential election will be a spur to activity, they say. The mar ket has established a base and now is ready to move—upward, of course. We’re getting inflation under con trol. Personal income will rise. Con fidence has returned. Yes sir, the very same observa tions revealed by a quick survey of the summer’s forecasts prior to their being dumped. Why, nothing has changed in those letters, nothing at all, except they seem more excited. Will the market ascend on their outpouring of air and ink? Or will it continue to squirm about in the upper 900s of the Dow Jones indus trial average? Nobody knows for cer tain, and only a few have a very good idea, and they usually keep their own counsel. Some institutional investors, for instance, have a fairly good idea of what the price of particular stocks is likely to be because they do so much of the trading in those stocks. A study made for the House Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing, for example, maintains that in 1975 the trust and investment division of Morgan Guaranty Trusf bought 31 per cent of all Interna tional Nickel shares traded. Prof. Roy A. Schotland of Georgetown University Law School, who wrote the paper said this wasn’t usual. Morgan’s net purchases of Kaiser Aluminum amounted to 38.5 per cent of all trading, and 28.6 per cent of trading in Manufacturers Hanover. Nothing wrong about this, says Schotland, but he does suggest we must reflect on the impact that one firm can have on pricing. Morgan’s integrity, however, is unsurpassed, he declares. 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