Thursday, July 28, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3
Data Processing Center cuts rates
by Gabriel Elliott
Battalion Reporter
Beginning Sept. 1, the Data
Processing Center will reduce
rates charged for use of the stan
dard Central Processing Unit
WYLBUR terminals and disk
storage facility.
William C. Lafield, interim
director of the DPC, announced
the new rates in a memorandum
published earlier this month.
Students and researchers,
Lafield said, will benefit most
from the new rates.
The DPC now charges 38
cents per hour for a first shift
CPU usage, 20 cents per hour
for second shift and 55 cents for
zero priority.
The new rates according to
shifts are:
•academic and research — 8
cents, 4 cents and 2 cents per
hour.
•administrative — 16 cents, 8
cents and 4 cents per hour.
•non-Texas A&M— 18 cents,
9 cents and 45 cents per hour.
•commercial — unchanged at
45 cents regardless of shift.
According to the memoran
dum, the reduction was made
possible by the University’s deci
sion to allocate funds in fiscal
year 1984 to pay a major part of
DPC equipment costs and by the
discontinuation of previous free
services such as “bonus CPU
time” and “happy hour.”
“Bonus CPU time” is when a
large number of users qualify
for free time on the computers,
and “happy hour” is a period
between 5 p.m. and 6 a.m. daily
when anyone can run programs
free on the DPC computers.
Lafield said the average cost
of using a terminal to access the
WYLBUR system — an interac
tive text editing system de
veloped by Stanford University
— will be down from about 50
cents per hour to 30 cents per
hour.
Lafield said utilization of the
DPC’s two main computers is ab
out 65 percent. At 85 percent
utilization, service deteriorates.
Dinner theater comedy
opens Wednesday night
by Gwyneth M. Vaughn
Battalion Reporter
The Memorial Student Cen
ter Summer Dinner Theater will
present an adult comedy, “The
Man with the Plastic Sandwich”
by Roger Karshner, Aug. 3-6.
The play focuses on Walter
Price, a conservative hot tub
salesman, who wants to be a
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Donna Woodburn, part of the Texas A&M
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patrol, brings Tigger in for his
vaccination at the Texas A&M Small
Animal Clinic Wednesday afternoon.
writer.
Price spends much of his time
sitting on a park bench attemp
ting to write. However, his
routine life in the park is dis
rupted by three bizarre encoun
ters that reshape his way of
thinking.
Price will be played by Jim
Burford. The personalities Wal
ter meets in the park will be por
trayed by Karen Miller Barnes,
Ed Guthrie and Fran Tindall.
Production and set direction are
by Robert Wenck of the theater
arts section of the English de
partment. Other participants in
the play are Randy Lemmon,
Brenda Dolan, Shawn Brown,
Donna Gough and Carla
Proctor.
Dinner will be served at three
of the performances, but re
freshments only will be served
during intermission at the
Wednesday show.
Tickets for the Wednesday
show are $2.50 for students and
$3.50 for the general public.
Tickets for Thursday’s show,
which includes a barbecue din
ner, are $6.50 and $7.50. Tick
ets for Friday’s dinner, which in
cludes a chicken dinner, are
$7.50 and $8.50. Saturday’s
show will feature a buffet with
seafood creole and turkey tetra-
zinni. It will cost $9.50 and
$10.50.
Tickets are on sale now at the
MSC Box Office and must be
purchased 24 hours in advance
of the dinner shows. Tickets for
Wednesday’s show may be pur
chased at the door. Curtain time
is 7:45 p.m. for all four perform-
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r re _ e i ect j ( Bie special committee on
^ ion ligate submitted its pre-
’ , iminary report at a College Sta-
r grab * 1 "* City Council workshop
iccusedr v ec i liest i a y afternoon. Chair-
^ear appw Dan McGilvray said,
ivould cnllBere is not anything drastic in
er U.S.effijhai the committee has prop-
higher del®'”
s likelylo McGilvray said the committee
st the rest 'h e N° rt hgate area brings
hepty a third of a million dol-
H in revenue, but slightly
parking require-
se merchants who
1 * 111 ^ 1 note than that is spent on the
•stand deli* ^ p 0 ij ce an( j f ire dg.
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pie un lartments. He said 15 percent
budget#t!he police calls are made in
he iNorthgate.
I;The committee made recom-
(tendations in five areas: park-
ng, zoning, traffic, mainte-
Rnce and capital improve-
nents.
McGilvray said parking is the
aost severe and most visible
toblem. Northgate shoppers
Winot find enough spaces, and
he kids Tex as A&M students and facul-
thingoT often use Northgate for a
larking lot, he said. The com-
n thatwal‘ tlee had several recomrnen-
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parking on certain streets at cer
tain times of the day.
Other recommendations in
cluded:
• Reducing
ments for those
have mostly pedestrian cus
tomers.
•Working with Texas A&M
on the problem. One suggestion
was that students residing in
northside dormitories who do
not need their cars during the
week be asked to park on the
west side of the University.
•Acquiring some of the
vacant land in Northgate for use
as municipal parking lots. The
committee suggested these be fi
nanced with parking meters or
by charging the merchants.
Zoning recommendations in
cluded:
•Rezoning the commercial
area to a new “planned commer
cial” zone.
•Rezoning some of the re
sidential areas to insure adequ
ate space for housing.
McGilvray said the committee
also recommended that tax cre
dits be given to promote de
velopment of the area, and that
a special tax district be created
for the area.
Recommendations to ease
traffic problems in the area in
cluded:
•Changing Patricia Street
from one-way east to one-way
west, or closing it to traffic
altogether.
•Establishing a bicycle path
system and improving side
walks.
•Working with the University
on making better use of the
shuttle bus service.
Maintenance suggestions in
cluded:
•Enforcing trash laws, run
ning the street sweeper during
quiet hours and maintaining the
streets better, especially Cherry
and Cross Streets and Church
Avenue.
•Studying drainage and
street lighting improvements.
Capital improvement recom
mendations by the committee
included:
•Making Patricia Street into a
plaza or mini-mall.
•Removing the
places in front of the cl
University Drive to provide
more standing room for custom
ers and keep people from stand
ing in University Drive.
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