Thursday, January 9, 1984AThe Battalion/Page 7 ha in letters going hrough the campus U.r V ¥A7~11 ™ R.l. SlAIC£ JB\J AW I BROKE: UP I FEEL SO LOWLY. 50 EMPTY. By Karen Wallace Stall Writer xlucts stale *bi ; standiii ruit. Another plague has joined e flu epidemic at Texas A&M. nly this time it’s a quieter, less jainful tormentor. This plague s a pesky chain letter. Although many people have teen irritated by the chain letter circulating the campus, more people are hindering the situa tion by responding to the letter and sending twenty copies to friends, John Stanislaw, man ager of the mail service, said Wednesday. A chain letter requests a per son to send copies to a specified number of people in order to receive good luck. If the warn ings in the letter are ignored, bad luck supposedly results. Those who respond to the letter keep the chain going. Hence, a chain letter is born. The letter circulating now, ti lled “With Love All Things Is Possible,” says that whoever sends a copy to 20 people will receive good luck within four days. Examples in the letter say people who sent responses re ceived thousands of dollars a few days later. .However, whoever ignores the warnings and doesn’t send copies will have bad luck and possibly die, according to the letter. “These people are supersti tious and believe the warnings in the letter,” he said. “It scares them enough that they even pay the postage for twenty letters.” Think about the person who is depressed or confused, Sla- nislaw said. This person re sponds from the fear that things could actually get worse than they already are. Besides being a nuisance to the mail service and to recipi ents, chain letters also are against University policy, Sta nislaw said. by Paul Dirmeyer VJHDA! DOWAJ, T/6-EK! Stanislaw said people re-, and because the letter scares spc them into believing bad luck will occur if they ignore the let ter. “The campus mail service is for campus business such as payrolls, schedules and leave of absence requests,” he said. “Chain letters slow down the mail service.” However, this particular let ter is not against federal law, lie said. “II the letter doesn’t ask for money, doesn’t threaten or doesn’t offer pr izes then it isn’t against federal law,” he sad. The letter was discovered by Stanislaw one week ago when eight people complained about receiving one. “How to ace a test by making a phone c Califon :1 to befii e substa un Flo itrus [ > be fretf jarfutm Student Senate OKs lab user fee By Ed Alanis Stall Writer Wednesday night the Stu- Jent Senate approved a bill rec- : mat studer immending that students pay a user fee for all students hav ing lab tests performed at the '.P. Beutel Health Center. The fee would generate an fennual income between 115,000 and $20,000. Although lwould not pay for the lab tests ompletely, it would provide ome much needed relief for Health Center costs. Students currently support he Health Center through stu- lent service fees and the $15 ed in a iea | t [j cen t er f eCi b ut t j ue lo r j s _ recast", ngmedical costs more funding ul y- I is needed. The user fee may l>e J' 1 a * lernal ' v e to apportioning iddthea 0 f s t U( j en i service funds •ess on>3 ;o the Health Center. [edonejj ^f ter researc h arK ] debate, pears sail the Senate reasoned that the $1 jsury la* | f mirron fee would not prevent students requiring lab tests from having them done. Health Center ad ministrators say the user fee will reduce waste and increase effi ciency. The bill will be sub mitted to University administra tors for consideration. The Senate also approved a bill recommending that the fee for faculty use of intramural fa cilities be raised. The proposal is to raise the fee to $10 per se mester and an additional $10 per semester for each faculty dependent. The goal of the bill is to make all users of the facili ties pay the same rate. Representatives from RHA and Hart Hall gave a report on proposed Operation Mop-up, a campaign to provide financial relief for the more than 100 stu dents that suffered water dam age in dorms over the Christmas break. Since the Uni versity has no liability for the damage, donations are going to •age, ■■ be collected and apoortioned to . . a PP ( victims on an equal basis. In other business: • The Academic Affairs will begin consideration of a bill rec ommending that professors be required to provide in writing to students the basis for final grade determination. Student Services is researching the • The Committee feasibility of placing large "naps of the campus (similar to those in shopping malls) in various lo cations for the benefit of visitors and new students. 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