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June 16, 1982
Pac-Man, Defender help pay
expenses at some universities
by Colette Hutchings
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offer theiiMtionwide in the process.
According to a recent United
Press International story, va
rious campuses report that
money from video games helps
cut increased costs caused by in
flation in student room and
board fees.
At the University of Miami,
for example, the school’s game-
room income went up by 25 per
cent — or about $40,000 a year
— because of video games.
And at Boston University, the
story said, long lines are com
mon at the machines in the stu
dent union. And Pac-Man is re
portedly popular in the rec
room at the Air Force Academy.
Video games are nothing new
at Texas A&M University and so
>ader.
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jvantageo f om throughout the state arrive
rded dese 8 tr ^ exas today for a three-
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irengthening educational per-
per it com l )rmances through improved
iire'rMm 'structional management.
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ren 1 lexas A&M’s Department of
ducational Administration and
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el of wist thninistrators. Speakers in
gentlvi(i i lucle J ohn Rt Cham P lirl , super
intendent of the Johnson City
School District in Johnson City,
N.Y. and Texas Lt. Gov. William
Hobby. They will speak to the
group at 7 p.m. Thursday in 212
MSC.
Friday’s speakers include
Raymond Bynum, commission
er of education with the Texas
F-ducation Agency and Dr. John
R. Hoyle, Texas A&M professor
of educational administration.
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[ Today is Wednesday, June 16,
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upiter and Saturn.
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mder the sign of Gemini.
American soprano Helen
fraubel was born June 16, 1903.
On this date in history:
In 1871, the Ancient Order
of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
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KERMIT — A oilfield super-
isor, 28, is being sought in the
idnapping and slaying of a
nother and her 8-year-old
laughter and the abduction of
mother daughter, officials said
Tuesday.
Michael Eugene Sharp of
[Odessa, a tool pusher, is accused
in the arrest warrant of aggra
vated kidnapping and capital
murder.
Winkler County Sheriff
W.H. Bill Sage said an all-points
bulletin has been released for
Sharp.
He fled Odessa Monday
afternoon before officers ar-
ived to serve the warrant, infor
mation on the warrant said.
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aspect in slaying,
kidnapping sought
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far have not been responsible
for great increases in revenue,
but a few campus officials say
they’ve still helped.
“It’s old hat here, we’ve had
them for a number of years,”
said Don Powell, director of
business services.
Sanders Letbetter, business
manager for the University Cen
ter, said video games have been
on campus for about six to eight
years. He said one of the first
video games on campus was the
now primitive Pong.
Now, Pac-Man and the newest
game to the MSC game room,
Dig Dug, are popular among
students.
The game room still features
pinball machines, but Letbetter
said the video games are the
most popular. The MSC base
ment has a total of 20 video
games.
Video machines also are lo
cated in the Commons and in
the Underground Railroad, in
the basement of Sbisa dining
hall.
Fred Dollar, director of food
services, said the revenue from
those games along with Univer
sity cost-cutting efforts probably
have helped to keep the board
rate from going up.
“Out of all the other (Texas)
schools, Texas A&M has the
cheapest board rate,” Dollar
said.
Revenue from the MSC game
room has increased since the in
stallation of the video games,
Letbetter said, but he did not
know how much of that increase
was due solely to video games.
“By having the revenue it
helps offset inflation costs,” Let-
better said.
The costs of maintaining and
cleaning buildings, the theaters,
utilities, student use of meeting
rooms, and other parts of the
center all come under the ex
penses for the student services
center. A small portion of oper
ating funds come from the stu
dent center complex fees
charged to students, which,
Powell said, have not been raised
since 1973.
F.W. Hensel, manager of the
University Center, said, “It all
goes into that same financial
strength to help do things on
campus.”
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drawn from the surviving girl’s
recollections, brought in tips
from people who had worked
with Sharp, Sage said.
The slayer abducted the
woman and her two daughters
shortly after midnight Friday at
a Kermit car wash. The 14-year-
old daughter, Selena Kay Elms,
eluded her attacker, fleeing
naked across the desert.
The man drove the two
bodies in his pickup to a burial
site in Winkler County. The
slayings took place a half-mile
east of the Winkler County line
in Ector County, about 28 miles
southeast of Kermit.
Killed were Brenda Kay
Broadway, 30, of Kermit and
her daughter, Christie Mechelle
Elms.
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