THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1977
Incorrect address may causcD
suspension from University
By COLIN CROMBIE
Students can be dropped from
Texas A&M University if they do
not keep a correct local mailing ad
dress on file at the registrar’s office,
said Clark Diebel, controller of ac
counts at the Texas A&M Fiscal
Department.
For example, suppose a student
pays for the next semester with a hot
check. This error isn’t immediately
detected and the student receives a
class schedule and fee receipt.
Then before the spring semester
starts the student moves and fails to
notify the registrar s office of a
change of address. So one day dur
ing the spring semester the univer-
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ENTRIES CLOSE:
Tuesday, December 6, 1977
5:00 P.M. DeWare Fieldhouse
PLAY BEGINS:
January 17, 1978
Corps, Fish, Men’s and Women’s
Dorms and Independent, and
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Round Robin League Play in Classes AB and
BC, with all teams qualifying for single elimi
nation playoffs in Classes A, B, and C.
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Tuesday, January 24
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Tuesday, January 31
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Tuesday, January 31
5:00 pm
sity threatens to drop the student
from school because he can’t be con
tacted for the financial matter to be
straightened out.
This is the most serious conse
quence of not keeping a correct local
mailing address on file at the regis
trar’s office, Diebel said.
“We do all we can to contact the
student,” he said. “Dropping is the
last thing in the world we want to
do. The students are here to get an
education.” (A student can also be
dropped because of an academic or
disciplinary situation.)
Wrong addresses are the cause of
other problems. For example, stu
dents will not receive their grade
reports or notice of a refund for
dropping a class.
Robert A. Lacey, Texas A&M reg
istrar, said about 10 percent of mail
sent out to students is not delivered
and is returned. This means that
with 20,000 students pre
registering, about 2000 will not re
ceive their fee slips.
Some mail is not returned or re
plied to. And some never leaves the
registrar’s office. Lacey picked up
one student’s midterm grade report
that lay on his desk. The address
below the name was simply “Tx. ”
The address problem is significant
and the registrar’s office will cam
paign this semester to make stu
dents aware of it.
Efforts to contact students who
may face being dropped from the
university start with letters and
telephone calls. When these fail, ef
forts are then made through the
dean of the students’ department
and through faculty.
Some 15 to 20 students are
threatened with being dropped
every semester, Diebel said.
The students go to the Coke
building, where the fiscal depart
ment and the registrar’s office are
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located, correct their mailing
dress and see what the problem
“The main thing is at least
come in and talk with us.
nore us,” Diebel said. A delai
payment may be allowed,
pends on the student’s situate
and a visit must be madetothefisj
department, he added.
The other matters concern recta,
ing schedules, refunds or addit
fees when a student drops or
courses, midterm and final
and other fees for which
department is an intermediary,
example is the physical plant cliaij
ing a student for breaking a windot
To try and remedy thew
dress situation the registrar’s dj
sent out postage-paid address caii
for this semester s pre
It was the first time that
been done but Diebel said
there has been little improvem
in the situation.
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expensive cars is nothing new, but
gluing more than $3,000 in U.S.
currency to the body of a truck may
be.
“We wanted something that
would draw people, and money
draws people,” said Bob Gray,
coordinator of Ray Earner Shows.
“Ray is an avid coin collector, and
also has been building and showing
exotic cars for the last 25 years. So
we figured why not combine the
two?”
The result is the “Mint Machine,”
a replica of a 1919 truck cab with
coins and bills covering its outside
surface. Pennies cover nearly the
entire truck, with quarters, nickels,
half dollars, silver dollars and bills of
various denominations used as dec
orative trim. The rear step has $203
in bills, including a single $100 bill.
“It’s a piggy bank on wheels,”
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served a bit.”
The truck, completed two weeks
ago, was built in Raytown, Mos.,
home of both Earner and Gray.
Gray said the creation was built over
a four-month period by Earner and
two other men.
The money on the truck was
taken daily from the same bank ac
count to keep track of the amount
used.
The exact face value of the money
has not been revealed because a
contest will be conducted late in
February when the Earner auto,
truck and cycle show tours Kansas
City. The winner will be asked to
guess the face value of the money.
“I’ll tell you there’s in excess of
$3,000 on that car,” Gray said. “The
rear step alone has $500 on it, count
ing the silver. The wooden platfon
on which the car sits has $600wort
of pennies.”
Much of the silver is froi
Earner’s collection of old silver di
lars, Indian head nickels and otle
rare silver coins.
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gluing the money onto plywood
then pouring clear fiberglass resist
seal the money in.
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an oval glass window with Abrak
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upholstery and carpeting is “
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sides.
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fuel-injected Corvette engine as
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