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By MELINDA HANSEN
Reporter
It may cost more to run
hiiran Dining Hall than the
tliei student cafeterias, but
hot lorps of Cadets is in no
anger of losing its family-
yle meals.
The question of costs at
)utLan surfaced when Col,
toroid L. Burton, Corps
^nmiandant, reported to the
icel president for student
hvices that costs in the
:or{>' dining hall have been
Ixtut nine percent higher
iaii those in Sbisa and the
Hmons over the past seve-
al vrars.
The highet costs stem
om the family-style dining
H followed by the Corps,
adets march in formation to
tei| meals and are served bv
ail^rs after they are all
•<tie<i, rather than serving
etnsdves as studetUs do in
etklter dining halls.
Ik's also high because of
Haste of food," said Don-
Hu, Powell, director of
i&iess set vic es. “Cadets do
Ktave the selection of food
lat students have in the
het campus dining areas.”
Cm Fred VV. Dollar, direc-
Hf food services, said the
dels were served their food
cafeteria style last year for
one week. Even though it was
done only on a trial basis, the
cafeteria plan worked quite
well, Dollar said, but neither
the cadets not the t mversm
wanted to use the cafeteria
system permanently.
“L’nlil the Corps expresses
a desire to change their meal
system, we will give them
what they want,” Dollar said.
Some other mass dining
systems that ate commonly
used are die accordion, the
scramble and accelerated
(fast food). The accordion
system — used in the Com
mons — consists of several
sections of hoi food items, or
duplicates, as they are called.
In Sbisa Dining Hall, a combi
nation of accordion and fast
food systems is used. The Me
morial Student Center uses a
cafeteria sysTem. The scram
ble, although it is not used on
campus, consists of sections
that serve different foods.
The scramble is also called
tiie shopping center concept.
Dollar said the Corps’ main
requirement for a mass din
ing system is to have a good
meal as rapidly as possible,
but served so that all the ca
dets can sit together. It
doesn’t matter, he said,
whether this is achieved by a
conventional menu or by the
fast food system.
But Democrats have gooc[ chance
Carter: Reagan would win today
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Jimmy
Carter said Tuesday President
Reagan would win if the 1984
election were held today but the
Democrats “have a good
chance” in November if they
can overcome his charm, dram
atize the issues and unite for the
first lime in 20 years.
“Today, I think President
Reagan would win,” the former
president told wire service re
porters at a breakfast meeting.
He said the 73-year-old Re
publican has been “highly suc
cessful in not taking responsibil
ity” for failures during his
administration and in project
ing a positive image of himself
and the country’s f uture.
But in November, Carter
said, “I think the Democrats
have a good chance provided
we can delineate the issues and
overcome this personal attrac
tiveness of President Reagan
and provided we have a unified
Democratic Party.”
The hour-long meeting with
Carter focused on politics, but
he had some observations on
foreign and domestic issues as
well, saying:
• He opposed sending U.S.
7 think the Democrats
have a good chance
provided we can delin
eate the issues and
overcome this per
sonal attractiveness of
President Reagan and
provided we have a
unified Democratic
Party.'— former Presi
dent Jimmy Carter
Marines to Lebanon “from the
very beginning,” because “em
bracing” President Amin Gem-
ayel was “a political kiss of
death” to chances for a Leb
anese solution.-The same kind
of problem was present in sup-
g ort of the government in El
alvador, he said.
• He did not expect any pro
gress in the Middle East unless
the president or secretary of
state got personally involved.
Garter said the United Stales
“defaulted on a major responsi
bility” to push for peace there
and called developments in
Lebanon “a real blow to both us
and Israel.”
• “It is a mistake to underes
timate” new Soviet leader
Konstantin Gherneriko, who he
observed as an associate of Leo
nid Brezhnev at strategic nu
clear arms negotiations and be
lieves to be a competent person.
He said Chernenko, like Brezh
nev, would be obsessed with
keeping the Soviet Union out of
war, as older leaders who expe
rienced the hardships of World
War II.
• The absence of the presi
dent as “the champion” of civil
rights is “the most dramatic
change” brought about by the
Reagan administration.
Carter conceded he felt some
resentment about Reagan’s re
peated attacks on his adminis
tration.
Most presidents do not give
in to the temptation to blame
their predecessors for Ameri
ca’s troubles, hut “President
Reagan has not found it possi
ble to resist that temptation,” he
said.
“President Reagan himself is
quite popular, but his policies
are not very popular” and “the
most significant” factor in a
Democratic campaign would be
to get the voters to focus on the
policies instead of on the presi
dent’s personal likeability,” Car
ter said.
“Second, we might have the
first unified Democratic Party
since 1964,” he said.
“It is my gueSs” that both for
mer Vice President Walter
Mondale and Sen. Gary Hart of
Colorado would support who
ever won the nomination “with
full enthusiasm, without any
reticence,” and that black activ
ist Jesse Jackson would “remain
a loyal Democrat,” he added.
He noted that in the hot race
for the Democratic presidential
nomination, “My own prefer
ence is Vice President Mondale”
Services today
or A&M student
it pn
achitti
Glenn w
101 H;i is Jay Harlan, a fresh-
Hchemical engineering ma-
rai Texas A&M, will be hur-
ij-. Hxlay in Cathedral in the
e fies Cemetery in Tyler. Har-
[ ,18, was killed Sunday night
>. Heswn his car collided with an
so big atoning vehicle on U.S High-
fbr Gleif 9 outside of Oakwood, be-
Y een Buffalo and Palestine.
Betiy Null Copeland, a pas-
,n T' igerin the oncoming car, also
was killed. Her husband and
daughter were taken to St. Jo
seph Hospital in Bryan where
they were listed in satisfactory
condition Tuesday afternoon.
Funeral services for Harris
are this afternoon at 3:30 at the
First Christian Church in Tyler.
His parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Harris Jay Harlan, also of
Tyler.
Silver taps for Harris will he
held April 3.
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my friend, Neeley Lewis,for State Representative. I’ve known the
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A&M did not earn their degrees
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