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Page 2D THE BATTALION MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1978 Survival Tips for surviving the first few days By FLA VIA KRONE Battalion Campus Editor Beginning a new semester can be exhausting. Besides attending classes, numerous other details must be at tended to such as getting a tele phone, buying football tickets, or registering a bicycle. Trying to discover what to do, where to go, who to see and how much it will cost can wear down even the most stout-hearted stu dent. The following list may save some steps, time and money. registering or later at the ticket booth. In all cases, students must produce a fee slip and student I.D. to obtain a coupon book, King said. Pass fees also can be paid at registra tion. Athletic tickets Coupon books for home-game football tickets went on sale Aug. 21 at the ticket booth north of Kyle Field. All coupon books cost $20, Penny King of the office of assistant athletic director for business, said. Students can pay the $20 fee when If there are seats remaining after the student coupon sales, spouse coupon books will be sold beginning Wednesday for $40. In addition to a fee slip and student I.D., anyone purchasing spouse coupons must present proof of marriage. King said. A blank check showing the names of both husband and wife or any similar printed item is accept able proof of marriage. King said. Coupon books for dates go on sale Friday for $40, space permitting. For the first time, students also can buy season passes to basketball and baseball games. If these are purchased with the football coupon book the price is $5 for both season events. If purchased separately the passes cost $7.50 each, King said. Students can exchange coupons for home-game tickets according to the following schedule: fice of Student Financial Aid on the third floor of the YMCA Building anytime after last Monday, Robert Logan of the student financial aid of fice said. Monday before game - graduates and seniors. Tuesday before game - juniors. Wednesday before game - sophomores. Thursday before game - freshmen. Students receiving grant stipends or scholarship checks can pick them up in the Rudder Tower exhibition hall. Students must present a stu dent I.D. or Texas driver’s license to receive their money. Monday before game - graduates and seniors. Tuesday morning be fore game - juniors. Tuesday after noon before game - sophomores. Wednesday morning before game - freshmen. Transportation Financial Aid Students receiving Hinson- Hazelwood and national direct stu dent loans should report to the Of- Student parking stickers cost $36 for 12 months, $27 for 2 semesters and $15 for one semester. The fee can be paid at registration or at the campus police station at the corner of Jersey and Houston Streets. If paid at registration, the student needs to bring his fee slip to the police station to pick up a parking sticker. Shuttlebus passes are sold on a one-semester basis for $20. As with parking stickers, the fee may be paid at registration and the passes picked up at the police station. For the first time there will be no charge to register bicycles, a police department spokesman said. To reg ister a bike, a student must report to. the campus police station and fill out a card listing his name and address and the bicycle’s serial number. The police will keep the card on file for five years so a student need only register one time while at the Uni versity. The post office located in the MSG rents boxes at $4 for 3 months, $8 for 6 months, $12 for 9 months and $16 for one year plus a $1 key deposit. A post office spokesman said students should try to rent their boxes early as the lines during the first week of school are very long. Laundry Meal Plans Meal plans are not limited to on- campus residents, Tom Awbrey of the Food Services Office said. Any one can purchase any of the several meal plan options. Any student may purchase the laundry plan. For $59.50 per semes ter a student can get three shirts or blouses, three pair of pants or skirts, two sheets and pillow cases laun dered each week. Again, the fee can he paid at registration or at the Fis cal Office in the Coke Building. Students should present their fee slip or receipt to one of the laundry substations near the dormitories to fill out an eligibility card. AGGIE BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL <Q!S§> Lamp 1095 ■ ^ Reg. $24.95 PUT A LUX0 LAMP ON Model CS-4/M TWISTS-TURNS* RAISES •LOWERS ... TO PUT THE LIGHT JUST WHERE YOU WANT IT. DECORATOR COLORS: WHITE, YELLOW, RED, BROWN, AND GREEN. Up Your Life: The Lamp Lite puts the Light where you want it! ALL OTHER STUDY LAMPS 10 % o amn LAMPS REPAIRS SHADES ACCENTS 3900 Old College Road • 846-3329 (Just West of Triangle Bowl) Hrs. Tues.-Sat. 9:30-5:30 Radio /haek The Nationwide Supermarket of Sound!® BE SMART! 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The 7-day plan, which includes 20 meals a week at one of the dining commons on campus, costs $455 per semester plus tax, Awbrey said. The 5-day plan which includes 15 meals a week costs $407 per semester plus tax. If the laundry service is not adequate to meet a student’s needs, he can get a pro-rated refund before Friday of the fourth week in the semester. j The laundry substations also provide laundry and dry-cleaning on a cash and carry basis. The fee should be paid at registra tion, but may be paid later in the Coke Building Fiscal Office, Aw brey said. Students should take their fee slip or payment receipt to one of the food service teams that will staff the dining halls during the first week of school. A food service representative will then validate the student I. D. Students who do not want to buy a entire board plan can purchase a $50 coupon book that entitles the bearer to eat at any of the dining halls. Coupon books are on sale at the Food Services Office in the Sbisa dining hall, Awbrey said. Utilities Mail Boxes Students can rent post office boxes at any of three post offices near campus. The Northgate office on University Drive rents boxes for six and 12 months at $8 and $16 re spectively. The Redmond Terrace office at the corner of Jersey Street and Texas Avenue rents boxes for the same price and time period plus a $1 deposit for a mailbox key. On-campus students can sign-up for a telephone at the General Tele phone booth located on the first floor of the MSC. GTE representa tive Eleanor Grays said on-campus students do not have to put down a deposit nor are they charged a fee to have a phone connected. Off-campus students needing a telephone should go by the GTE Phone Mart in the Culpepper Plaza or the Aggieland Inn, Grays said. If a student picks up a phone from one of these locations there is a connec tion fee of $25; if a GTE servicer brings a phone to the student’s resi dence the charge is $30; and if the student already has a phone in his residence the connection fee is $20, Grays said. In addition to the connection fee, students who have not had GTE service in the past must pay a secu rity deposit. The amount of the deposit varies and is based on the amount of long-distance calls the student makes each month plus the monthly service charge on the phone. ' If a student tells us he makes! of long-distance calls each montli double that figure and monthly charge to get the dept amount,” Grays said. “Deposits run anywhere between $200. ” A student can get the depo waived by having someone will good credit rating with GTE sip contract of guarantee, Grays said Besides a telephone, off-camp students also need to hookupi tricity and turn on the gas in tk apartments and houses. Lone Star Gas services Bryan-Gollege Station area an office representative said new tomers must come intotheofli 201 E. 27th St. in Bryan to apply service. There is a $20 deposit new customers which is rehndi! with 6 percent interest after y<* ar - f Students who already have count with Lone Star Gash changing their place of resida can handle the transaction over phone. There is no additional! sit for transferring customen there is $5 connect charge. A Lone Star Gas represent said the number of students questing service at thebeginni| 'L' the semester probably wouldi ^ connection of gas service for o« two weeks after service ii quested. Students living in Bryan need electricity turned on must to the Bryan Utilities office at 31 Washington St. to signasenitt der. Jim Fagan of the Bryan Ir.iJ office said that a utility deposits quired for new customers and with the location of the resida "Utility deposits usually ava about $50 to $120, Fagan said Students who already haven count with Bryan Utilities but change their place of residents transfer the deposit. However, must go to the office to sign serv ice order, Fagan said. In Gollege Station, studentsi go to the city hall to havetheird trieity turned on. Deposit ford tricitv is $60 and the waterdepsi $10 Students who already haveu count in Gollege Station bu.dghoj change their place ofresidenm transfer the deposit, but tlreys go into the office to sign a news’ ronl ice ord Government says label not helping consumers Th re f ops e r jeer Ju- rst hi: Iter He ashe Thi Bn lann hi »thf he i mpo ?onsi Bi tlasl United Press International WASHINGTON — Government experts have decided the labels on most foods on store shelves are not really helping American consumers become shrewder shoppers or wiser eaters. As a result, the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission and the Agriculture Department will hold hearings across the country later this year to ask consumers what they want on labels. The hearings could lead to a major revision of labeling laws and new attempts to disclose nutrition information in a meaningful way in advertising. Tim Hammonds, a researcher for the Food Marketing Institute, an industry group, reported recently on a survey that shows some of the problems. Among other things, the poll disclosed: — While interest in nutrition is high, most people don’t want to bother to become experts on the subject. — Only 25 percent of the popula tion pays a lot of attention to nutri tion and ingredient information cur rently on labels. The remaining 75 percent use the data only some of the time, or not at all. — Efforts to use graphics, colors, charts and so on to simplify the in formation don’t work. — People definitely appear to want disclosure of ingredients by percentage of the total product, as consumer groups have been urging for years. — Consumers don’t want their lick this o "fun foods” taken away by any finagling with the Hammonds also says theanw ™ of information now on probably adequate but needs to! reorganized. He also says cons# no ers do not want labels editorialize about what’s good says they would rather make! their own minds. RE The FDA, USD A and FTC l# ings began last week and# starte scheduled Sept. 18-19 in Li| to dr Rock, Ark.; Sept. 27-28inWashto next ton, D.C.; Oct. 12-13 in San Ftf West cisco; and Oct. 25-26 in Boston FDA officials say a special el displa will be made to get consumer $ the N ion through publicity and diK contact with various groups. Nutritional habits of children often better than their parents United Press International CHICAGO — A physician says children often refuse to finish their dinner for a good reason — they have better nutritional habits than their parents. “Children will eat a relatively hearty breakfast and lunch, but to get them to clean their plates after a large dinner is difficult,” Dr. Mur ray Favus of Michael Reese Hospital says. People should eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper, Favus told a recent health workshop sponsored by the hospital’s Medical Research Insti tute Council. Favus, of the hospital’s Depart ment of Endocrinology and Metabolism, advised dieters to watch the eating habits of small children before they become con ditioned to believe that dinner is the main meal of the day. 1 He recommended that the largest meal of the day be eaten in the morning or afternoon, before the most physical activity is expected. Favus compared the body to a 5 million-year-old machine trying to function in the 20th century. He said that while people in general are much healthier, their environment and lifestyle have changed, causing a reduction in the normal amouto physical activity. Those who work eight hours a# behind a desk must go out oft! way to find activities that bum calories, he said. 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