The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 29, 1981, Image 3

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    THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1981
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By LISA SURMAN
Battalion Reporter
Some Texas A&M freshman
ay have an essay worth not only a
* good grade, but also money in the
ank.
Entries for the sixth annual
m Thomas F. Mayo Prize Essay Con
test are being accepted by the
Texas A&M English department.
The contest, open to students,
in English 103, 104 and 10411 dur
ing the fall semester, honors
Mayo, who was named head of the
Texas A&M English department
in 1944, and also served as dire
ctor of the Texas A&M Library.
He died in 1954.
Deadline for essay submission
isSp.m. Nov. 9. The winner, who
receive $100 will be
announced Nov. 16.
Essays should not exceed 750
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old Josephine was scampering around
Wednesday night at the annual MSC
Hospitality Committee’s Halloween
costume party for the children of faculty,
staff and married students.
Freshman essay entries
due Nov. 9; prize $100
words and must be a class assign
ment, Dr. Mark Busby, chairman
of the Mayo Award Committee,
said.
Six faculty members, one gra
duate student representative and
one undergraduate student repre
sentative will judge the contest.
Judges will look for original,
well-organized, fluent essays with
“a clear and significant thesis
that’s vividly imaginative,” Busby
said.
The number of winners
selected depends on the quality of
the essays received, Busby said,
but generally there’s one winner
and four runners-up.
Last year’s winning essay was
about racial discrimination in the
Rio Grande Valley. Another win
ning topic was about the effect of
an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on
in Corpus
small businesses
Christi.
Author of “Epicurus in Eng
land, 1650-1725, ” Mayo taught at
Texas A&M in 1916. He returned
in 1921 after spending time at Ox
ford University and in the Naval
Reserve during World War I.
Mayo, who held degrees from
Oxford, the LTniversity of Missis
sippi and Columbia University,
taught author William Faulkner.
He was also a Rhodes Scholar.
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Cable problem for some dorms
Task force to study contracts
By SANDRA K. GARY
Battalion Reporter
A task force to study inconsis
tencies in the present television
cable contract procedures used on
campus has been set up by the
Department of Student Affairs.
Procedures for signing up for
cable service, ways of collecting
the service fees and the cost of
cable service for the different
areas of campus vary, said-Associ
ate Director of Student Affairs
Ron Sasse.
The task force will look at all the
cable contract procedures and de
termine what, if any, changes
should be made and whether they
should be consistent for the whole
campus, Sasse added.
Consisting of the four area coor
dinators, student representatives
from the various dorms and sever
al members of the Residence Hall
Association, the task force will
make recommendations and re
port their findings to the student
affairs department before the
semester ends, Sasse said.
“This way any new procedures
can be implemented during the
spring semester,” he added.
The need for a task force came
to light when McFadden Hall’s
dorm council tried to save the
dorm’s residents time and money
in getting their cables hooked up.
Instead of having the cable
company come out to the dorm
and set up a booth where the resi
dents could sign up for cable ser
vice individually, McFadden’s
dorm council did the job them
selves.
“We took up money for the
cable along with activity fees the
first week of school, ” Wilson said.
“This way we got the service a
little cheaper and were hoping to
get it sooner.”
About 100 of McFadden s 240
residents paid for the service,
which costs $7 for a television or
stereo hook-up or $12 for both
hook-ups, Wilson added.
Melinda Hindes, former vice-
president of McFadden, took the
$834 the dorm council collected to
Community Cablevision on Tues
day, Sept. 8. She was told McFad
den would have their cable service
by the end of that week, Wilson
said.
Hindes called the company on
Sept. 12 to add more names to the
list and to find out what was caus
ing the delay. Community Cable-
vision told Hindes the service
would be hooked up by the begin
ning of the week of Sept. 13.
As of Sept. 21, the residents of
McFadden still had no television
or stereo hook-ups and the dorm
council had given their money to
the Community Cablevision with
out signing a contract of any kind,
Wilson said.
“It reflected badly on the dorm
council because we took the girls’
money, and they weren’t getting
what we promised them,” she
said.
On Sept. 22, Brenda Bivona,
McFadden’s RHA representative, I
told the RHA executive council/
about the problems McFadden
was having with the cable com-*
pany. i
Following that meeting, Moni-J
ca Christen, north area coordina-,
tor, contacted the Community;
Cablevision manager. She said:H
“The problem was due basically tOM
36,000 Aggies returning to school,
and all of them wanting to have I
their cables hooked up the first;
week.”
By Oct. 22, all McFadden resi-l
dents had their cables hooked up,;
Wilson said.
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