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Battalion/Page 3
October 26, 1982
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Tower (middle), a freshman from Cuero, help their
friend Becky Lingo, a freshman from San Antonio,
move from Haas Hall to Legett Hall.
louncil OKs lecture series
by Pam Fowler
Battalion Reporter
Anyone who has written a hot
check knows the penalty for
doing so — the infamous re
turned check fee. In addition to
the hassle and embarrassment
of a returned check, this fee can
prove to be costly.
When a check is returned un
paid, a processing fee is added to
the original amount of the
check. This returned check fee
is used by banks and businesses
to discourage people from writ
ing bad checks.
The fiscal office at Texas
A&M University has recently
raised the returned check fee to
$20. If the check is not paid
within 20 days, the fee goes to
$40.
Fiscal office staff and students
appointed by Dr.JohnJ. Koldus
III , vice president for student
services, recommended the new
fee in a study done this summer.
The fee went into effect Sept. 1,
after administrative approval.
Robert Smith, University con
troller, said the University is
attempting to keep the amount
of hot checks down.
“There were over 7,500 re
turned checks last year totalling
more than half a million dol
lars,” he said. “That averages
out to over 600 checks a month
at about $60 to $70 a check.”
The student’s name is placed
on a bad check list which is given
to the bookstore, the cashiers
and other facilities. Being on the
list prevents someone from get
ting other checks cashed on
campus.
The student is contacted,
usually by mail. To be taken off
the bad check list, the student
must take care of the bad check
as soon as possible. It takes two
or three days for the name to be
cleared.
In Bryan/College Station, re
turned c heck fees vary from $5
to $50 at different businesses.
Most stores in Northgate use
similar techniques in handling
returned checks:
First the check is redeposited.
If it is returned a second time,
the student is contacted by
phone and asked to pay the bill
in cash.
If this does not get a response,
the student is contacted by mail.
If there is still no response, the
student is sent a registered letter
— the first step toward legal ac
tion.
If there is still no response,
the check is turned over to the
county attorney for collection.
Most store operators say re
turned checks are treated as if
they are mistakes, and most
stores are willing to cooperate
with students.
For more information about
controlling hot checks, a semi
nar will be held Wednesday at
the College Station Community
Center.
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■ by Jennifer Carr
television SliT Battalion Staff
exas A&M hsBl MSC Council approved a
l >./•' lor an endowed let tine
Vcn foreign policy in its
• Big Monday night. The
t to be held April 5-7,
nmitment iroaB ature three former secre-
>s is to beouiJes of state in a panel discus-
il it is adiievt.|moderated by ABC Night-
pTed Koppel.
Snile Tampke, chairman of
■rogram advisory commit-
—————i,said Alexander Haig, Henry
Rger and Edmund Muskie
live expressed an interest in
Big to Texas A&M Universi-
6ut have not yet said how
ih time they can spend at the
aijpsity. Former Secretary of
ati Cyrus Vance, who was ori-
Hv being considered as the
fourth speaker, is not available.
Tempke said Dean Rusk will be
contacted to participate.
Tempke said there also is a
possibility the discussion, enti
tled “Perspectives on U.S. Fore
ign Policy,” will be broadcast live
from the University on Night-
line. He said Koppel will negoti
ate with ABC regarding the
broadcast. The show has been
broadcast live from other uni
versities, including Southern
Methodist University.
The council also approved a
proposal to allow an MSC com
mittee-sponsored event to publi
cize a gift certificate for a keg of
beer as a prize. The council will
then review reaction to the pub
licity and make a permanent de
cision on the issue. Previously
there has been no adverse reac
tion to such University-
sponsored programs as the
Aggie Blood Drive giving beer
as prizes.
Jeff Bissey, vice-president of
educational programs, said the
Student Conference on Nation
al Affairs is making an effort to
sponsor delegates from the
northeastern United States.
SCONA is planning a fund
raising trip to New York City in
November, Bissey said. SCONA
also will use funds left from its
Canada and Mexico drives.
In other business, the council
approved two speakers. The
MSC Camera Committee will
sponsor Alan Perry, a nature
photographer, and Creat Issues
will present University Board of
Regents Chairman H.R. “Bum”
Bright in the spring to begin a
series of Texas A&M alumni
speakers.
andidate seeks
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Government is not the solu-
B- it’s the problem — Liber-
Han gubernatorial candidate,
and Hut/elman, said here
1 Iff day night.
■‘More regulations, more
ixes, more laws and more agen-
Biare not going to solve the
IBletns that we face in Texas
IB’” Hutzelman told the au-
ielKe of about 60. “They are to
large extent, the cause of the
lioblems.
“In the economy, in our per-
Janal lives and in the education-
I system, I have been making
r|posals to free-up the system,
■move those barriers that the
late government has placed in
hlway of individual Texans ...
uniting their own lives.”
[Among Hutzelman’s cam
paign proposals are: return of
pe SI.3 billion state surplus to
axpayers by declaring a four-
Bth moratorium on sales tax
Bections; repeal of the Sunday
^B-Laws; repeal of the occu
pational licensing laws and sun
set regulatory agencies which re
strict unemployed workers from
entering field such as trucking,
taxi driving, day-care operators
and street vendors.
Hutzelman, sponsored by
MSC Political Forum, also said
the utility industry should be
opened up to more competition
like the telephone industry has
in the last two years.
“Already 23 cities in the Un
ited States including Lubbock,
allow consumers to choose be
tween competing power com
panies,” he said. “Only by en
couraging competition ... can we
hope to permanently lower util
ity rates.”
Hutzelman also said he is in
favor of legalizing marijuana.
“We are in favor of keeping
police forces concentrating on
real crimes he said.
Hutzelman was the Liberta
rian Party candidate for railroad
commissioner in 1980. The
libertarian party has 122 people
running for various offices ir
Texas elections this year.
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