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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1981
Local
Board plan option still open
By CATHY ANDERSON
Battalion Reporter
Spaces are still available on Uni
versity board plans this semester
for off-campus students who don’t
want to cook and for on-campus
students who are tired of eating
out.
Currently, 8,500 students are
on the five- and seven-day board
plans but the figures change daily
as new students are added, Lloyd
Smith, assistant director of food
services, said. “There is still space
available to handle about 1,000
more students,” he said.
Board plan fees are pro-rated so
that students can purchase board
plan at any time during the
semester.
Three dining halls serve stu
dents on board plan: Sbisa Dining
Hall, for students in the North and
Central housing areas: Duncan
Dining Hall, for students in the
Corps Area; and the Commons
Dining Hall for students in the
South housing area.
Off-campus students are eligi
ble to eat their meals in University
dining halls as well.
However, the number of off-
campus students was limited ear
lier this year to a quota of 600.
Smith said the limit was set to pre
vent crowded dining halls as a re
sult of two new women’s dorms —
Clements Hall in the North Area
and Underwood Hall in the Com
mons Area.
“We have had a hard time get
ting across to off-campus students
that there is space available on the
board plan,” Smith said. Notices
have been put around campus and
in The Battalion to inform all in
terested students.
Students wishing to be on the
board plan first should go to
Heaton Hall to pay the board plan
fee and then take fee slips and I. D.
cards to the Food Services office
located in the basement of Sbisa
for validation.
New building to store food
t By CATHY ANDERSON
Battalion Reporter
> Another new building is sche-
«' duled for construction at Texas
A&M University. Only this build
ing will not hold classrooms — it
will store food.
Situated on the west campus on
Agronomy Road, the building will
replace space being used for food
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storage in the basement of Dun
can Dining Hall.
There isn’t enough space in the
basement of Duncan, Lloyd
Smith, assistant director of Food
Services, said.
In the building, which is sche
duled to be completed by the fall
of 1983, there will be enough
space for Food Services to butcher
its own meat and process some
vegetables.
The new single story building
will be designed for easy access to
trucks. The main advantage is hav
ing enough room to store truck-
loads of food, therefore reducing
the overall costs of food. Smith
said.
Designing the building so that a
forklift can be used to stack food 25
feet high will save the University
money by enabling it to buy sup
plies at the cheapest time of the
year. Smith said. This could save
the students money, he said.
By purchasing railroad cars or
truckloads of food, the middleman
will be eliminated. Smith said.
Presently, Food Services purch
ases food through a wholesale
grocery warehouse which can be
more expensive.
“We have compared expenses
closely with other universities,
such as Michigan State, who buy
food in large quantities and have
found that we can definitely save
money,” Smith said.
OCA kindles interest
in building ’81 bonfire
By FARA ALEXANDER
Battalion Reporter
The Off-Campus Aggies are
kindling interest in the tradi
tional Aggie Bonfire.
Bruce Martin, OCA vice
president, is recruiting off-
campus students to work on the
bonfire which will burn Nov.
25, the night before the Aggies
play the University of Texas.
OCA seminars are being
held this week and on Sept. 28-
30 in apartment complexes and
on campus to discuss proce
dures and schedules for cutting
and stacking logs.
This year’s major cutting site
is the Texas Power Agency
Plant in Carlos. Cutting crews,
with workers from various
apartment complexes, will cut
at the site for three weekends
before the bonfire, Martin said.
“We hope to have a crew for
each one of the six cutting
days,” he said.
Crew members must furnish
their own axes. Martin suggests
using athletic tape and leather
gloves to protect hands. Work
ers must also pass a “mini-safety
course” before entering the cut
ting site, he said.
“Anyone that has ever
worked on the bonfire
will find it the most en
joyable part of Texas
A&M. It is the greatest
mass of free manpower
ever assembled in the
world, besides the pyra
mids. ” — Bruce Martin,
OCA vice president.
All persons cutting logs must
first obtain a cutting card by
attending safety classes taught
by Redpots who coordinate
bonfire efforts. Cards must be
carried to the cutting site.
Unlike workers
campus, the off-campus d
ers will not be awaM
night to work, Martin sail
Building the bonfiresm
secondary effort. "We wj
have more than we nedl
stack crew,” Martinsaidl
emphasis is being placed®!
ting people to the cutM
“Anyone that hasewl
ed on the bonfire will WI
most enjoyable part oflj
A&M. It is the greatesti
free manpower ever a .
in the world, besides ttej
mids,” he said.
But “manpower" mayt»
wrong choice of words foilj
this bonfire. Sheldon I
stein, OCA public relaS
chairman, said OCAistns
recruit an all-women
campus cutting team. Pla [Line
not definite yet, he sad pomi
OCA will hold a meeting!! the f
day night to organize (lies ticke
For more information,!
OCA members at 845-lil:
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Texas A&M System.
The workshop on “Computers
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is designed to provide an intro
duction to computer systems
available today, said Dr. Wayne
Hayenga, economist in manage
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“Participants will have an
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“Everyone attending should
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Today’s Almanac
United Press International
Today is Tuesday, Sept. 22, the
265th day of 1981 with 100 to
follow.
Autumn begins today.
The moon is almost full.
The morning star is Mars.
The evening stars are Venus
and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Virgo.
English chemist and pk)
Michael Faraday was luj
Sept. 22, 1791.
On this date in history; I
In 1776, the British !l
American Revolutionary |
hero and patriot
seconds after he uttered
mortal words: “I onlyregiel
have but one life to lose 1
country.”
In 1949, the U.S.
monopoly ended as the Sot
ion detonated its first
bomb.
In 1959, the Chicago WliiJ
won the American Leag
nan t for the first time inf
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