THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1981
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By ELI JONES
Battalion Reporter
Stop. Listen. There’s Christmas
music in the air on campus.
Instead of the usual hourly
chimes ringing from the Memorial
Student Center’s bell tower,
Christmas carols can be heard
from noon until 1p.m. and from 6
p.m. to 7 p.m. every day.
The carillon was donated by the
Class of’81. The carillon is a set of
bells in a tower played from a
keyboard or by some other
mechanism.
“They (the Class of’81) felt like
students being caught up in the
hustle and bustle of school life
never really have time to think
about Christmas, so they re
quested that it play Christmas
carols during the last few weeks of
the semester,’ James Randolph,
associate director of the MSC,
said.
The carillon contains a West
minster chime, which plays every
quarter hour and has the capacity
to play 108 different musical selec
tions.
Included in this repertoire are
Christmas carols, patriotic selec
tions, religious hymns and tradi
tional Aggie songs.
The carillon works like an old
player piano; the songs come on
scrolls, and when the scrolls are
rotated, the player arm plays the
selected songs. In addition, it has
an automatic timer to turn it on
and off.
The carillon cost $11,561, in
cluding the scrolls.
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Battalion Reporter
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ness Services has chosen the
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a July, the Texas A&M Board
gents decided to implement
Jiiversity-operated service to
we the service currently
Jed by Transporation Enter-
s Inc. The board appropri-
$1.4 million for purchasing
juses, but the cost has since
to $1.6 million.
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kted, said Jim Ferguson, Uni-
ity manager of administrative
ices for business services.
,Jie business services office has
W n l&| Ihased S3 buses, which will
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itherarei sma ]| 24 passenger buses,
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a good si nt Y judge has ordered the
"neys of three Limestone
nty police officers not to dis-
publicly the case involving
drowning deaths of three
agers in Mexia June 19.
[udge John Jackson issued the
order Wednesday after he
iu certaii Bponed a pre-trial hearing until
you B 7 because a new defense
to at® ;er has been hired by one of
officers.
Limestone County deputy
ny Elliott, 23; county proba-
officer David Drummond, 32;
the rear. They look like a cross
between a school bus without the
nose, and a transit bus.
“We only added three options
— an air-operated two-piece door,
a destination sign and a roof-lined
ventilation system,’’ Ferguson
said.
The large buses will not be air-
conditioned, he said, because it
costs an additional $14,300 per
bus. Ferguson said the small
buses may eventually be air-
conditioned if funds are available.
The price of a large bus has in
creased from an estimated
$41,000 to between $46,000 and
$47,000. Due to this increase, the
business services office had to dis
card the idea of buying one or two
additional buses that would be air-
conditioned, Ferguson said.
The additional buses Would
have been used for such events as
special field trips and for trans
porting University groups, he
said.
The money allocated by the re
gents for the purchase of the buses
is from existing auxiliary .enter
prise funds, a basically self-
sustaining fund, Ferguson said.
Funds from user fees, student the buses running, he said. “We
service fees and book store re- are still standing by our plan not to
venue funds will be used to keep raise user fees, ’ he added.
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and reserve deputy Kenneth
Archie, 23, are charged with cri
minally negligent homicide.
They were transporting three
handcuffed black youths across
Lake Mexia during a Juneteenth
celebration after they had arrested
the teenagers for possessing mari
juana.
The three who drowned were
Anthony Dwight Freeman, 18,
Carl Baker, 19, both of Mexia, and
Steve Booker, 19, of Dallas.
The trial was moved from
Groesbeck to San Marcos on a
change of venue.
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