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Page 2B THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1979 Foundation gives $500,000 Texas A&M University has received one of the largest gifts in its 103-year history, $500,000 from the J.W. Van Dyke Scholarhip Foundation head quartered in Philadelphia. Dr. Jarvis Miller, Texas A&M president, said the gift will be used to endow a J. W. Van Dyke Memorial Scholarship Fund in memory of the co-founder of what is now theAtlantic Richfield Company. “This is a tremendous gift that will allow us to expand significantly our scholarship program and serve many more deserving young people from throughout the state and nation,’’ Miller said. “We are deeply inde bted to the trustees of the J.W. Van Dyke Scholarship Foundation for this support and for their confidence and interest in our university.” Robert L. Walker, Texas A&M vice president for development, said the only stipulation connected with the gift is that the University is re quested to give preferential con sideration to children of employees of Atlantic Richfield and certain de signated subsidiaries. No bars here Student interest low on campus alcohol 73 Nc 14 Pages A&M RINGCREST DOUBLE PENSET - A&M RINGCREST BOOKENDS Bronze Ringcrest Products FOR THE CLASS OF ’79 Solid Brass Belt Buckle with “79“ Ringcrest is available from OMC Industries (formerly OrnaMetal Castings), West Loop 2818 at Carson Street. Also avail able for class of ’80, ’81, ’82, and 83. We also have handcrafted A&M Ringcrest products such as Paper weights, Pen Sets, Double Pen Sets, Doorknockers, Executive Desk Nameplates, Bookends and bronze castings of Insignia as well as other specialty items. OMC will be open Saturday, December 15th from 9:00AM till 3:00PM. Regular business hours are 8:00AM till 5:00PM Monday thru Friday. Metal Photo Diplomas You can have a METAL DIPLOMA copy of your original made by OMC Industries. If you bring your original diploma by OMC on Saturday, December 15th between 9:00AM and 3:00PM we will make a negative of it and return it to you in minutes. A beautiful framed bronze or silver colored reproduction of your diploma will be mailed to you shortly. METAL DIPLOMAS are available in two colors; bronze or silver and in various sizes for as little as S45.33 plus tax and postage. OMC will be open Saturday December 15 th from 9:00AM till 3:00PM. Regular business hours are 8:00AM till 5:00PM weekdays. (Formerly OrnaMetal Castings, Inc.) WEST LOOP 2818 at CARSON STREET, BRYAN, TX (713) 779-1400 Visit our Aggie Gift Gallery WEST LOOP 2818 at CARSON STREET, BRYAN, TEXAS By SCOTT K. MEYER Battalion Reporter The University of Texas, the Uni versity of Houston and Rice Univer sity all have something that Texas A&M University does not have — a bar on campus. In an informal survey, most stu dents said that there could not be a bar on campus because state law pro hibited the sale of alcoholic bever ages at a state supported school. John J. Koldus, the Vice President of Student Affairs at A&M, said that this is not true. “The board ofregents has the final decision,” he said. Koldus said that as the vice presi dent in charge of student affairs, he is responsible for student life on cam pus. He makes recommendations to Texas A&M President Jarvis E. Mil ler, who could bring an issue before the regents, he said. Koldus is not in favor of a campus bar. “We feel that the campus is sur rounded by facilities of this type, so we are not denying access to alcohol. Any student who is of legal age can go to one of the local bars,” he said. Koldus also pointed out that there was recently a story in The Battalion about alcoholism. He said it would be inappropriate for an educational institution to promote things which “We feel that the campus is sur rounded by facilities of this type, so we are not denying, access to alcohol. Any student who is of legal age can go to one of the local bars,” said John J. Koldus, vice president for student affairs. would be detrimental to a students health. Koldus said that students go to bars for the atmosphere, and it would be impossible to duplicate that atmosphere on campus. “You can’t have a bar without hav ing all the problems that go along with one, such as fights and other disorderly conduct.” He said the ^iiHiiimiiMimtiiiiiMimiinmiHMiiitimiNiiiiimiiiiiiiiMiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiHmiiiiiimiiniiimniiiiNniiiimMiiiiimmiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiii^ University Book Stores NORTHGATE 409 UNIVERSITY DR. CULPEPPER PLAZA NEXT TO 3C-BBQ We Buy All Books! Bring your out-of-date books, with your new books & we’ll make you an offer on all your books (including paperbooks). Cold Cash 20% More Trade! IgiiitniimmimiiiiMiiimiiimimmiiiiiiniNiiiimiimmimiiimimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMimiiiiiiiiimiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiin! ii nr* University Book Stores NORTHGATE 409 UNIVERSITY DR. CULPEPPER PLAZA ■I *51 •♦ua uni venal I T un. NEXT TO 3C-BBQ Open ’til 8 p.m. through Finals Texas A&M Bookstore New Selection has just been put out! New titles daily— now 50% OFF FOR YOUR GIFT GIVING PLEASURE! Also great for those building a library of their own SALE ENDS DEC. 21, 1979 SA VE 50% on Childrens books LOCATED IN THE MSC r<3S?%<SR University already has enough to do without adding new problems. Koldus said if students demanded a bar, the request would be taken seriously. “We try to be receptive to student interests and concerns, primarily through the student senate, ” he said. Koldus said that the matter has been discussed from time to time in the senate, but that there has never been a real push for a campus bar. Becky Haynes, the student Gov ernment Recording Secretary, said the issue of campus bars hasn’t come up this year. The situation is different at the University of Texas. Barry Phillips, the assistant director of the Student Union at UT, said that the license for the Texas Tavern was originally granted in 1974. The license was granted for a small tavern in a temporary student union on the east side of campus, he said, which would cause us to have second thoughts on it,” Phillips said. There are currently three bars on the UT campus. They are the Texas Tavern, the Cactus Cafe, and the Tea-House Lounge. Beer is also sold at the University’s satellite food operations and through the catering service. Phillips said the University liquor sales amount to about $450 to $500 thousand dollars a year. “It is very good to us financially,” he said. Phillips said that while they “occa sional ly get people who over indulge,’ they have had very few problems with fights. He said they don t get the variety of clientele that the area bars get, which could ex plain why those problems have not come up. The campus bars, whichu competitive prices, havi boon to student program, beer sales have helped the service get business they.. would not get, Phillips saii The University ofTexasU pus bars because the. wanted them, and because^ dent government pushed («; he said. Having a student bodvj wants a campus liar and af|_ government which will DUiMTF.HRAN may not be enough to f'ets^Widnesday bar though. offered to According to a UniversittM 0 meini in reporter, the issue was venlKsis. but a Texas Tech two years ago. E r t as “tota The church and the publiBlhere wa very firmly against the ideaiMwever, or and the regents voted the pms made by down 7-1, the reporter said mtermedian ■The eontr Wy move s Ur New study reports eye disorder made Emily Dickinson a reclm United Press International HARTFORD, Conn. — Scholars have maintained mental illness made poet Emily Dickinson a recluse, but a new report says her behavior was caused by a painful eye disorder she feared would blind her. Dr. Martin Wand, a Hartford Hospital ophthalmologist, Monday said photographs of Miss Dickinson and her correspondence convinced him she had an extreme case of ex- otropia — the medical term for wal leyed. M iss Dickinson’s eyes, were turned outward, instead of being aligned straight ahead, he said. Wand and Richard B. Sewall, a professor emeritus at Yale Universi ty and author of a two-volume biog raphy of Dickinson, assembled medical and literary evidence for the diagnosis and published their find ings in the literary journal, New En gland Quarterly. “When we don’t know something it s easy to say that a person’s crazy,” said Wand. “But with Emily we cer tainly have enough concrete evi dence to suggest an organic basis for her behavior.” Wand said he has examined pic tures of Dickinson’s sister and mother and both appear to have had the same disorder. Exotropia is an inherited disease that is twice as common in women as men, he said. Wand said the disorder would ex plain much of Dickinson’s anti-social behavior from the 1860s until her death in 1886 and why in her later years she “secluded herself in a dark room.” From the time she was a young woman, Dickinson was a recluse in her Amherst, Mass., home. Dickinson read and wrote furious ly, but her handwriting became > claimed (ion of th [nerican he ptivity, w fen if they But Khon :d States c hre progressively larger and spin '‘ m in a an Sewall said. Sometimes a lineij 16 cnin< -’ s go off the page, as ifsheweren in the dark. She complaind glare from sunlight on snow® ^ lights in her home hurt her In 1862, she wrote of her since September. Three years later, she wrote friend that she had been be* “calamity • a woe, theonlyllr ever made me tremble. 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