losing on weekends may save $100,000
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By TERRY DURAN
Campus Reporter
Closing Duncan Dining Hall on
year, veekends may save the Texas A&M Uni-
yarifersity Food Services Department over
1100,000 this semester.
vasal Lloyd H. Smith, assistant director of
ood services, said seven-day hoard plan
Students who normally eat at Duncan will
I, \f f eat at the Commons cafeteria on weekends
is semester.
If you can do it all in one spot, of course
stinj ft’s going to cost less,” Smith said. He said
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savings in labor and utilities may amount to
as much as $115,000.
This is the second time Duncan has been
closed on weekends. The dining hall was
closed on weekends last spring but
reopened in the fall for business as usual.
Duncan stays open weekends in the fall
because more Duncan boarders are on
campus then due to football season.
“We’re looking for everything we can
find to save money,” Smith said. He said
costs rose 16 percent from September 1978
to September 1979, but the board plan
price only went up 5 percent.
Last fall, 4,865 students paid $448.35
each for the five-day board plan; 3,928
seven-day boarders paid $501.90 each.
The department is also trying to save by
minimizing plate waste — the amount of
edible food left when a student puts up his
trav.
The department does this by randomly
checking plates in the dining halls two or
three times within a five-week menu cycle.
After weighing the edible portion left, they
compare the waste with the number of peo
ple fed that day and the amount of food
prepared.
This technique particularly helps in
Duncan, where the Corps of Cadets eats
breakfast and supper “family style” on
weekdays.
“Family style” means food is brought to
the eight-seat tables in large servings and
everyone helps himself.
When the food staff notices a lot of one
particular food getting left, one solution
may be to serve smaller portions to each
table.
Last fall, Commons’ 2,175 boarders
wasted an average of $330.45 worth of food
daily, for a semester total of $28,894.06.
Duncan’s 2,278 diners left food amounting
to $358.90 per day, totaling $32,664.63 for
the semester. Sbisa, with 4,340 boarders,
sent an average of $509.35 to the trash can
daily, for a total of $44,247.46.
In all, over $105,000 worth of food was
hauled away in the trash trucks last semes
ter. Smith estimates the average student
leaves about 7 cents worth of food on his
tray at each meal.
The department itself is doing its fair
share to save money and energy, Smith
said. He said the department is forming an
energy committee with representatives
from the kitchen and dining areas of each
facility.
“Management can always preach,” he
said, “but we hope that peer pressure will
have more effect than our sermons.”
Smith said the cost of the board plan will
have to go up again next fall, although he
doesn’t know just how much yet.
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dies when
hit by car
By LOUIE ARTHUR
City Staff
One Texas A&M University student was
lied and another was seriously injured
today when a car went out of control at
Texas Avenue and Krenek Tap Road.
Steve Sikora, a freshman transfer stu-
lent from Crosby, Texas, died Monday
iveningat St. Joseph Hospital from multi-
lie internal injuries, a hospital spokesman
aid.
Robert O. Brooks, a junior civil en-
jneering major, was transported by heli-
»pterfrom St. Joseph Hospital to Method-
! stHospital in Houston Monday afternoon,
although there is no official word as yet
ibout the extent of Brooks’ injuries, a hos-
litaladministrator said, “He’s not in very
’ood condition.”
College Station Police Sgt. Linda
Andrews, who is investigating the case,
laid the accident occurred at 2 p.m. Mon-
I lay when a car carrying two Texas A&M
I students ran off the road while travelling
north on Texas Avenue, 120 feet south of
| Krenek Tap Road. The intersection, a
Texas A&M shuttlebus stop, is about a mile
1 south of the university.
, Andrews said the car then became air-
tome, hitting Sikora while he was standing
_ at the shuttlebus stop. The car then hit
^ Brooks’ vehicle, as Brooks’ waited to turn
on to Texas Avenue.
Until her investigation of the accident is
completed, Andrews said, no charges will
lie filed.
The driver and the occupant of the car
that hit Sikora were treated and released
from St. Joseph, hospital sources said.
Sikora’s body will be moved to Crosby
Tuesday for burial.
Vol. 73 No. 89
10 Pages
Tuesday, January 29, 1980
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
An action and a reaction
Aggie center Rudy Woods looks for two of his
career-high 31 points during Monday night’s
92-79 victory over the Houston Cougars. Fans
weren’t shy in expressing their feelings about
the Aggies extending their winning streak to
eight games and continuing to lead the South
west Conference. Please see related story on
page 8.
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discuss new building, purchase of plane
Regents
By DEBBIE NELSON
Campus Staff
The Board of Regents of the Texas A&M
| University System discussed the funding
! and construction of new engineering and
medical sciences buildings, the purchase of
i an eight-passenger airplane, and the re
novation of roofs and windows on campus
buildings at their bimonthly meeting
I Monday.
Action discussed Monday will be voted
? on at Tuesday’s board meeting.
The new engineering building, to be
completed in Sept. 1981, has a low-bid esti
mate of $13,678,000. The laboratory-
By now nearly everyone has received it.
Most are probably stuffed in a desk drawer
or under a pile of magazines where they
will remain until April 14.
“It” is the federal income tax form and
instructions booklet, courtesy of the Inter
nal Revenue Service. Most college stu
dents use Short Form 1040A, for anyone
reporting an individual income of $20,000
, or less or a joint income of $40,000 or less.
The IRS has compiled a list of helpful
hints to make filing a return easy and pain
less.
One — Carefully read the instructions.
This will save time and should answer any
questions a taxpayer might have. Accord-
ing to an IRS press release, the service has
I been working hard the first few years to
make the instructions less technical and
easier to read and understand.
Starting on page seven of the booklet are
|j detailed instructions with examples, begin-
1 ning with how to fill in the name, address
and Social Security number and ending
i with how to complete the return.
I Two — Review the form carefully. The
IRS release states that many people can do
their own returns if they go carefully, line
f byline, through the form. Skipping a line
1 can be a costly mistake, according to the
release.
research facility will run parallel to Bizzell
Street, with connections to McNew En
gineering Lab and the Hydromechanics
Lab.
A spokesman for Bernard Johnson, Inc.,
an architecture firm from Houston, said the
three-story Engineering Laboratoxy Cen
ter will have moveable lab facilities and
walls in order to gain greater flexibility.
A 20-ton crane in the center section of
the building will be used for experiments.
The entire third floor will hold research
support offices.
The consideration of bids for the new
Medical Sciences Building came under de-
Three — Check back over basics. Make
sure the information is correct and check
for mathematical errors.
Four— Check attachments. Be sure the
W-2 forms are stapled in the correct place
on the front of the form.
According to Taxpayer Information Ser
vice worker Kelly Casper, most taxpayers
think imployers are required to mail out
W-2 forms. However, the law only requires
employers to make the forms available to
employees by Jan. 31. If a W-2 form is
received after filing the return, an
amended return will be required.
Five — Sign the return. Without a signa
ture a return is not considered to be prop
erly filed and must be returned to the tax
payer to be signed. This will slow down the
refund process, which Casper said takes
anywhere from five to seven weeks, de
pending on how it is filed.
Six — Use the peel-off label and the
coded envelope. Both are designed to
speed up processing. If corrections are
necessary on the address label, they may be
written right on it. If the Social Security
number is wrong, contact the IRS. Do not
attach the label until completing the form
— it only peels off once.
For those people with questions not
answered in the instructions, help is avail
able by calling toll free the Taxpayers Ser
vice Center in Dallas. The center serves
bate by the board. The lowest bid,
$14,292,000, was recommended by the
planners. However, this bid left out several
facilities which other board members
deemed important.
Some of the regents argued that the faci
lities in question (the Family Community
Medicine section, several labs and environ
mental rooms) were eliminated to hold the
building within the budget, because addi
tional funds were not available. Other
board members said the facilities will be
needed by the time the building is com
pleted two years from now, so the sections
should be added now to avoid added costs
Texas and New Mexico; staffers take a six-
week training course on tax qualifications,
filing requirements and the deduction
technicalities, Casper said.
The number is 1-800-492-4830 and the
hours are from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The
release stated that the best time to call is
late Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
afternoons.
“There is just one call after another dur
ing filing season,” Casper said.
Locally, Beta Alpha Psi, the accounting
honor and professional society, will operate
a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance booth
in the Memorial Student Center, Niles
Wood, president of the society, said the
VITA program is set up by the IRS and is
tentatively planned for the last two weeks
in March from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
For those who would rather not figure
their income taxes there are two options.
The first is to let the IRS do the return. Just
fill out the form to line 12a, sign and date
the return and attach the W-2 forms.
The other is to pay someone else to do
the return. Taxpayers are advised to make
sure the paid preparer is reputable. The
ultimate responsibility for a return is pri
marily on the person signing it, not the
preparer.
Finally, make sure the return is in the
mail by midnight April 15.
due to inflation.
Later in the day, regent H. C. Bell re
ported that adequate funding had been
found for the labs and family medicine sec
tion in question. Members agreed the faci
lities should be added to the budgeting of
the building.
—Almanac 1
United Press International
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 29, the 29th
day of 1980 with 337 to follow.
The moon is moving toward its full
phase.
English-American freedom crusader
Thomas Paine was born Jan. 29, 1737.
On this date in history:
In 1861, Kansas became the 34th
state.
In 1900, eight baseball teams were
organized as the American League.
They were Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland,
Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Mil
waukee and Minneapolis.
In 1936, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson,
Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth and
Honus Wagner became the first five
men elected to the Baseball Hall of
Fame.
Also on this date in 1979, President
Carter commuted Patricia Hearst’s
seven-year bank robbery prison sent
ence to two years, opening the way for
her to leave prison and get married in
February.
A thought for the day: Early Amer
ican freedom fighter Thomas Paine said,
“A bad cause will ever be supported by
bad means and bad men.
Man bitten
A man called the Battalion Monday
and said that he had been bitten by a dog
in the Corps dorm — Heldenfels build
ing area. The man is scheduled to
undergo a painful series of rabies shots
unless it can be determined that the dog
is not rabid. The man is asking that the
owner of the dog, named “Eva,” call
him at 845-7874 as soon as possible.
Moving news
Students who have moved or changed
their mailing address should complete
an address change card in the records
section of Heaton Hall, room 112. Both
local and permanent addresses should
be accurate.
Also discussed was the purchase of a 1973
Beechcraft KingAir A100 for $625,000.
Presently, the University owns three air
planes, two of which are KingAir compara
ble to the new airplane. The other plane, a
Navajo, will probably be sold for about
$625,000, Texas A&M University Presi
dent Jarvis Miller said.
Pilots will be interchangeable between
aircraft when all three airplanes are the
same type. Now, pilots can’t easily adjust
from the Navajo to the Beechcraft air
planes.
Cost of fuel for the new airplane will be
10 percent over the two Beechcraft KingAir
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Congress is on the
verge of sending a strong message to the
Soviet Union that its invasion of Afghanis
tan and internal exile of dissident Andrei
Sakharov will cost it the propaganda fruits
of the 1980 summer Olympics.
The Senate was scheduled to vote today
on a resolution calling for a U. S. and West
ern boycott of the Moscow games unless
the International Olympic Committee
tranfers, postpones, or cancels them.
The Foreign Relations Committee voted
14-0 in favor of the resolution Monday after
hearing testimony from other senators in
cluding 1964 Olympic basketball gold med
alist Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., and more
recent competitors.
The Senate resolution, unlike the one
passed 386-12, by the House last week does
not condition the U.S. Olympic sanctions
on a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“The sin has already been committed”
said Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark. “We should
be strong and resolute in our answer. If we
have to stand alone, let’s stand alone and
let’s not attach any reservations to it.”
The Senate resolution adopting a propos
al made four years ago by Bradley when he
was a professional basketball player called
for permanently relocating the summer
games in Greece.
That idea, said committee Chairman
Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, would
“allow us to put an end to this movable
propaganda feast.”
Since the House and Senate resolutions
now owned, but the new craft seats eight
passengers and the old ones seat six.
Another subject under discussion was
urethane foam roofing on four dormitories,
the Coke Building, the Physical Plant
Office, the Old Engineering Building, and
four warehouses.
Total costs for the projects is $300,361.
Proposed replacement of existing win
dows on Hotard Hall, Bizzell Hall, and
Fermier Hall with anodized aluminum
windows will cost an estimated $128,265.
The Board of Regents will formally
accept or reject these items at today’s
meeting.
are different wording will have to be work
ed out in a conference committee, unless
either house agrees to take the other’s ver
sion.
In any event, a congressional resolution
will not have force of law but it will put
Congress firmly behind President Carter’s
call for a boycott if the games are held as
scheduled.
The U.S. Olympic Committee and many
potential U.S. competitors have taken the
concerted federal action as a signal to
voluntarily stay away from Moscow.
Al Oerter, 43, seeking a gold medal in
the discus throw in a record fifth Olympics,
said, “It’s a time for the athletes to put aside
all personal considerations” and support
the federal government.
He said a boycott would be a “unifying
thing for the United States and “a message
would be driven home to the Soviet
people.”
Another athlete, 1976 women’s rowing
team captain Anita DeFrantz, took an
opposite view, complaining that athletes
who have devoted three years to training
“are portrayed as villains” and she “felt
betrayed by the boycott effort.
Georgetown University basketball
Coach John Thompson, who was assistant
coach on the 1976 U.S. team, told the
panel: “If boycotting the Olympic Games in
Moscow will help to prevent a war, then I
stand firmly behind President Carter. . . I
am very sympathetic to the Olympians, but
as a black man I vehemently oppose
oppression.”
Got the income tax blues?
Take some tips from IRS
By NANCY ANDERSEN
City Staff
Senate to vote today
on Olympics boycott