3 Page 4 THE BATTALION 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 The Light Lunch!! Not hungry enough to tackle our Sub? Then t?y the Deli’s new Light Lunch! It’s light on your wallet and on your diet! ONLY ‘I 30 Bagel Sandwich Lay's Chips Medium Drink Scoop of Bluebell the deli (next to Faces; Skaggs Center) Call in Orders Welcome 846-4868 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,! 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The workshop on “Computers in Farm and Ranch Management” is designed to provide an intro duction to computer systems available today, said Dr. Wayne Hayenga, economist in manage ment with the extension service. “Participants will have an opportunity to get some actual ex perience by operating several dif ferent computer programs," Hayenga said. “Everyone attending should have time to run a computer, us ing his own farm or ranch data. This will be true ’hands-on’ work shop,” he said. The first day of the workshop will feature discussions on various computer systems, their agriculture, how to sele(!p rt ‘ a l available programs and fen Ids. r Th p periences with computers 1 Four work sessions ullt* 151 out the workshop the nerff' to ing. These will deal wife: In 1 ?: farm accounting systems l 1 ’ tock management decisi I. ‘f . ll £1 :..l J. K e d b financial projections aids. : Irth. Speakers during the ph mat workshop include extenskB ch nomists and several farawS.OO 1 ranchers who will talk ak» adm they usecomputersintlijf truss tions. t® in p Commercial exhibits r L ' ' 1 be on hand. ■ 3 ^ As an indication of the in computers in agrioM^ Hayenga notes that an ^ similar workshop in (■ Christi attracted some ll| viduals from six states. 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 3^- They lost the World Serie