The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, December 13, 1982, Image 6

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don’t need.”
“I could do better, like cutting
out video games.”
One person gave a resigned
answer: “It’s probably not well
spent, but there’s notning I can
do about it.”
Another respondent was par
ticularly upset about the way she
spends her money: “I get mad
when I have to go to the book
store and spend $5 for
lead for my mechanical pencil.”
Asked if he felt his money was
spent well, one respondent said:
“Yes, because if I quit drinking
my grades would plummet.”
Most of the respondents also
entertainment dollars. Twenty
percent said they have jobs and
only half of them said they use
that money for expenses. The
other half said they either save it
or spend it — “on beer and girls"
one respondent said or “on
junk” as another said.
Forty-nine percent of those
questioned said their school ex
penses are paid by their parents.
Another 8 percent of the stu
dents said they share the ex
penses with their parents and 6
percent said their expenses are
paid totally by scholarship
money. Scholarship money
pays, in part, for another 20 per
cent of school expenses, respon
dents said.
But jobs do h
dents get by. Seve
of the students
their own school f
addition to eat
ing money.
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percent of the respoiw
they have a cariiull
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cars were paid forb j
rents, while 43 percetta
paid for the car witltj
nard-earned dollar.(I
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paid for the car, “I
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percent of the students
pay to get it fixed anij
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money they receive fii
for expenses or
money.
Gala fund-raist
benefits White
United Press International
DALLAS — Mark White has
retired nearly all of his cam-
E aign debt with a $1.3 million
oost from a local “pre-Inagural
Ball”, campaign workers for the
governor-elect said Saturday.
About 1,300 people attended
the $l,000-a-plate gala Friday
night. The dinner was the last
event in a five-city fund-raising
effort to retire tne $3 million
campaign debt White acquired
in his successful effort to unseat
Gov. Bill Clements.
White spent $7.2 million in
his upset of the Republican in
cumbent, $6.1 million less than
Clements spent but $3 million
more than White rais(t|
Jess Hay, whoorja
fund- raiser, said (hep
from the ball would rea)
if not all, of the campi!
Money also was raisedi]
during the past two*
Houston, Fort Worth!
and Austin.
White acknowledged
an easier time
now that he has beend
“It’s a lot easier now,'I
“But the money wer
was very important I
We were very gratefi
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