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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1976)
I l§ srvices,# have nolj !re is spaj *• Granltj convenitj are in he two lot and tlielj rking the Univ e , ig its feet must join n about from canj and progress 8 ne ret* ary is,vicepres iarle 1 )ver the wall THE BATTALION Page 3 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1976 NTSU complex violates safety codes By LE ANN ROBY Battalion Staff It seems like students are always nding fault with something their Iministration is doing—sometimes -arranted, sometimes not. I re- lember when our student body voi- ed its negative opinion regarding exorbitant cost of A&M's Memo- alStudent Center. But the Admin- itration just grinned and bore it irough all of the ruckus and and entahead and spent $28 million on le complex anyway. (It was after listhat someone told me he thinks ere all out to get the “Watergate if the week.”) The students at NORTH TEXAS TATE UNIVERSITY have a gripe tout their University Union, but it wedn| ’sofa rather different nature. Dr. vill meet] lorothy Pijan, director of the Uni- ersity Union, gladly announced a iwweeks ago that the campus now as a beautiful facility with which to raw the thousands of students and — E4 andreds of faculty members closer jgether. And, I imagine, that with :s indoor trees, babbling brook, istefully furnished lounges, ightly lit pinball machines and upposedly delicious food, the i-million dollar structure is little wrt of magnificent. However, we have a slight prob- here. Alvin Evans, Denton’s assistant re marshal, has claimed in black- nd-white that the university vio- tedat least seven different building id safety codes including the Uni- irm Building Code, the Fire Safety fldeand the National Fire Protec- Association Code. Evans inspected the building just rtortoits opening at the request of le university and called it very un- the event of fire with “no fetyfeatures, misleading corridors ndnot enough exit signs, as well as amarked fire extingu ishers. Evans was most upset with the ck of a sprinkler system in the nion. James A. Nash, manager of i dealt Bcilities, construction and mainte- ance, (who says the union adheres pall ofthe Codes), said that a sprink- [rsystem would have cost as much 000 which would have forced peuniversity to cancel some part of the cOmplex in order to stay within the budget. So, they scratched the sprinkler system off their list and broke two codes with one stroke. “A student can use something like a music lounge, but he can’t use a sprinkler,’ Nash rationalized. I would like to see a student’s list of priorities if he were on a burning fourth floor where, according to Evans a fire would be hardest to fight. I know if it were me, I would much rather have the sprinkler sys tem. FREE FOOTBALL TICKETS Last year the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS (UT) gave away $23,000 worth of Longhorn football tickets to state officials including 29 members of the Texas Senate and 98 state rep resentatives, according to the Daily Texan, UT’s student newspaper. Each member is allowed to re quest up to two passes for each home game. The politicians receive seats be tween the 30- and 40-yard lines on the second deck of Memorial Stadium. The distribution of free season passes to state legislators and other officials has been a long standing tra- NEARLY NEW THRIFT SHOP 711 S. Main Wednesday thru Saturday 10,00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Quality clothes at bargain prices. 779-1731 Lottye Sosolik Mary Jane Mistovich PEPE LOPEZ TEQUILA The Spirit of Mexico. Available in White and Gold. Rape Lopez Tequila—80 Proof—Brown Forman Distillers Import Co . 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CAMPUS SOLICITATION SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY students comprise a captive market which the university is trying to protect from unethical businesses, according to James Caswell, assistant vice president for student affairs. Off-campus, non-student spon sored companies must go through the office of the dean of students for permission to solicit on campus. After gaining approval from the dean, the company is then able to hang posters and advertise on bulle tin boards. Recently, Mustang Rental Co. rent ed refrigerators to on-campus stu dents without going through the university first. The company then complained that staff members of some residence halls tried to keep them from deliv ering refrigerators to students who had already signed contracts. Cas well wrote the incidents off as the actions of new staffers eager to do their job right. “When we told them Mustang could not ’distribute’,” Caswell said, “the staff members thought we meant merchandise. We didn’t mean that they couldn’t deliver the refrigerators. All we asked was that Mustang go to the dean of students office and get their signs approved.” Caswell argued that the rules are not meant to restrict free enterprise, but are intended to protect the stu dent’s privacy and to keep com panies from taking advantage of them. COSTLY CARTS The Daily Conger, the student newspaper at the UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, reported that the aver age cost of the 70 Cushman scooters which dart around their campus var ies from $2,000 to $2,500. Three of the scooters are battery operated while the rest run on gasoline. Some of our campus departments use Cushmans, including the Uni versity Police Department. It makes me wonder if that’s where some of the money collected from parking tickets goes, while the parking space problem goes unsolved. STEAKS & SEAFOOD DINE WITH US— TRY OUR FINE SEAFOOD Broiled Flounder, Shrimp, Oysters 317 College Avenue 846-8741 NEED EXTRA CASH? 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