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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1976
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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
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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.
Still, you can’t help but recognize
the rather puny character of the ef
forts made by many of the regular
market commentators if the institu
tions aren’t listening to them. And
they probably aren’t.
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