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THE BATTALION Page 5
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1979
by CATHY TERRELL
Battalion Reporter
In the midst of the hustle of the
Texas A&M University campus
there is a place to get away from it
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Except for the turning of
magazine pages, it is quiet in the
library; students attached to head-
lones are off in their own musical
worlds with nodding heads and tap
ping feet.
An average of 900 students a day
seek the peace of the browsing li
brary, said Rosa Lee Mosley, library
supervisor.
The library offers a wide selection
pf music, along with newspapers
major cities in Texas, current
magazines, several board games and
liano and television rooms.
The music seems to be the most
lopular feature, however, with
people checking out headsets
according to one weekly report.
“We have about 1,000 records of
r hich the classical records are the
most popular,” Mosley said.
The library is on the mailing list of
x major record companies and
Sometimes receives promotional al
ms or 45s from them.
“We buy often enough to keep
our contemporary music collection
up-to-date, Mosley said.
The contemporary collection is
made up only of soft easy-listening
rock, Mosley explained, and said
that students may be disappointed if
they came looking for hard rock.
Mosley buys the albums with the
money collected from the photo
copying machine across from the
front desk of the library. Money col
lected during the second week of
February amounted to $799.15.
Students need their ID cards to
check out the headsets. A cross-file
with a list of the library’s music is
kept. After finding what he wishes
to listen to the student may request
it.
The library has 63 headset sta
tions with nine channels for music.
The system for playing music has
four cassette players, an 8-track
player, two turn-tables and two
stereo receivers.
MSC director J. Wayne Stark an
nounced the donation of the “Basic
Library of the World’s Greatest
Music, a 24-volume collection of
classical music from Dr. and Mrs.
Jack K. Williams, and several al
bums from Dr. and Mrs. Claude
MSC
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SPENCER
TRACY
FESTIVAL
featuring
Adam’s Rib
and
Inherit The
Wind
Rated G
Wednesday
February 2
Theater
Rib - 8 p.m.
Wind - 10 p.m.
Texas A&M University Browsing Library on
the second floor of the Memorial Student
Center is quite crowded in mid-afternoon.
Students come to study, snooze, browse
through newspapers or magazines, or just lis
ten tO music. Battalion photo by Jeanne Graham
Goswick.
Other tax-deductible contribu
tions include 22 magazine subscrip
tions for two years, 10 given, by R.
Rush and Co. and 12 given by
McDonald’s.
A collection of 600 science fiction
books was given by Mrs. Richard
Miller, of Conroe, in memory of her
son, Ricky, who considered the
browsing library his favorite place
when he attended Texas A&M.
Browsing library hours are daily
from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. and 10
a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends.
Students protest
complex says it’s
(Continued from page 1.)
concerning possible theft.
Cunnigham called police to report the
incident and they told him where he could
find his car. He said that his car was taken
to a lot near downtown Bryan that was “a
mudhole with a fence around it.
“Well of course it’s going to be muddy,”
Hardee said. “I mean, hell, it’s been rain
ing for a whole month.”
Cunningham complained that he was
unable to pick up his car until 10 p.m.
because no one was at the lot to release it
to him.
Due to the small size of his staff, Hardee
said, he is unable to staff the lot until dark.
D&H presently operates one wrecker
with a full-time driver, Hardee said, and
he occassionally drives the truck himself.
When he was finally able to pick vip his
car, Cunningham said, he was unable to
pay the fee with a check.
Hardee said he doesn’t like to take
checks for wrecking fees because they are
often worthless.
When Hardee went to the bank to cash
one check, he was informed by the teller
that not only were there insufficient funds
in the account to cover the check, but the
bank had been asked to stop payment on
it.
County Attorney John M. Barron Jr.
towing of cars;
within its rights
said stopping payment on the check is a
legal and civil matter. Unless the tenants
give the money to him voluntarily, Har
dee’s only recourse is to file a civil suit
against the owner of the car.
Scandia is owned by Metro Properties,
which also owns Taos, Sevilla, Aurora
Gardens, Sundance and Sausalito apart
ments. D&H Towing Company is only
used at Scandia, Sevilla and Aurora, Casey
said.
The wreckers are not needed at all at
Taos, she explained, because there are no
unauthorized parking areas there.
At Sevilla, D&H patrols the areas near
the dumpsters. Casey said garbage trucks
were unable to pick up the garbage be
cause residents and guests were parking in
front of the dumpsters.
Cars at Aurora Gardens are towed away
when they park on the grass.
Scandia does not have a written contract
with D&H, Casey said, adding that it is
just an agreement giving the towing com
pany permission to move cars parked in
unauthorized areas.
Hardee sees his high rate for towing as a
deterrent against parking violaters. (Most
wreckers in town charge between $15 and
$35.)
T’ve been thinking of going up to $75,”
he said.
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