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Battalion/Page 3
January 26, 1983
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r I' Battalion Reporter
The next time you’re at the
upermarket, don’t be surprised
®he voice checking your
ioceries is different than the
oice of the cashier behind the
ounter — it might be a
achine.
upafeway Stores Inc., in Cul-
tepper Plaza, is the first super-
narket in Bryan-College Station
[/ b use cash registers that electro-
HCally read and call out prices,
temi/.e receipts and total items.
Bkfter all groceries have been
jassed over a scanning device,
he voice from the register tells
ustomers their total grocery
till. The customers give the
:ashier money, the cashier en-
ers the amount received into
he terminal and if change is
lue, the register’s voice says how
fluch money is owed to the
aper.
pan Feldman, assistant man
ger of the store, said most of
(hop
the customer feedback on the
talking registers has been posi
tive.
Unlike many supermarkets,
Safeway does not put visible
prices on many of its items, Feld
man said. Instead, cashiers run
the item over a scanner to read
prices.
He said that now both cus
tomers and checkers will be able
to hear, as well as see all prices.
One cashier said the only dis
advantage of the talkies is they
can slow down work when
groceries have to be checked one
item at a time.
Felman said he thinks that
eventually all stores with scan
ners will adopt the new talking
system which makes price check
ing more accurate.
The novelty of the registers
has attracted many shoppers
who seemed amazed at the new
device and wonder what lies
ahead for supermarkets of the
future.
Regents
(continued from page 1)
miform rental fees for non-
10TC Cadets from $150 a year
;o $200 a year, effective Sept. 1.
• Named the Texas Engineer
ing Extension Service in San
Kntonio the H.B. Zachry Train
ing Center.
• Appropriated $395,000 for
installation of a PLATO compu
ter-based education system at
Texas A&M. The PLATO ter-
inals will offer four courses:
FORTRAN, Calculus I, Physics
I and Chemistry I.
• Appropriated $400,000 for
the establishment of a Presi
dent’s Reserve at Texas A&M.
The president will be able to use
the reserve to match salary
offers made to Texas A&M fa
culty by other institutions.
• Authorized Chancellor
Arthur G. Hansen to prepare
bid offerings for oil and gas
leases for two tracts of land
north of the University’s main
campus. A special meeting to act
on the bids was scheduled for
Feb. 22.
See tenure list, page 9
^-Traditions
^ I (continued from page 1)
^^.ing the organization coeduca-
“-choitffiPphe head of the school of
lllitary science, Lt. Gen.
I&mond R. Simpson, said that
Dinia. ■ ( ;he University has had a number
cord i:: >fjhigh school girls who were
ar e "ptaje champion baton twirlers
libers ipk to join the Aggie Band,
then'^ e re P** e d ^at we are a
n military marching band and that
'“i foe don’t use baton twirlers,”
; aD0 Simpson said. “We suggested
pit they attend a school that
loes.”
lit is for practical reasons that
lyomen are not encouraged to
join the band, Simpson said.
Ihere are no coed dorms at
lexas A&M; therefore, a
^_-^Woman in the band would have
to be housed with other female
cadets, he said.
H The female band member
would not be a part of the female
unit, nor would she be a member
of the band units, and therefore
she would not have a particular
place in the Corps, he said.
1 Lt. Col. Joe T. Haney, dire
ctor of the Aggie Band, agrees
with Simpson.
It would cfeate a hardship
t her (a female in the band),”
Bney said. “In my opinion, she
would have many, many prob-
' :ms.”
iFemale cadets also agree with
npson’s reasoning.
1| Kim Holtz, a junior cadet,
^;;said; “I think you’ll find most
^ Women agree with Gen. Simp
son. What makes the Aggie
1 ^ Band so great is living together
as a unit, and until we can get
, toed housing, it just wouldn’t be
a very good idea.”
Simpson said: “It would seem
to me that the females are glad
to see the Aggie Band, but they
would not like to see women in
it.”
Another area of traditions
that students were questioned
about was giving recognition to
members of fraternities and
sororities.
Most of the students polled
felt that Greek organizations
should not be recognized,
although a large percentage said’
they thought they should be.
Thirty-four percent disagreed
and 21 percent strongly dis
agreed with giving fraternities
and sororities campus recogni
tion. But 36 percent said they
thought Greeks should be rec
ognized.
Don Scott Marable, president
of the Interfraternity Council,
said he was pleased with those
results.
“I’m surprised that the num
ber of people who agreed out
weighed those who strongly dis
agreed,” he said.
But Marable, a member of
the Sigma Chi fraternity, said
that the IFC isn’t working to
promote recognition of Greeks
because it would take away some
of the group’s privileges and
damage its system of govern
ment.
“Our primary goal is accept
ance, not recognition,” he said.
“We want to be Aggies first and
Greeks second.”
Thursday: Should a football
coach at a university make
more than the university’s
president?
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