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Tuesday, October 23, 1984/n'he Battalion/Page 7 Warped by Scott McCullar II 3b uyBht a sked hoi, said,^ W nfor 0w 3ur bi gge8 Jce ries aid sell betn, olle ge Sia. ^ the sen. ia cigarette ie business ins said In in d wanted i«s. Teas :e » friendlt le came to sons could ied in Col. he said lie y enjoyable t the yean ce and kind ins as nel 'ouncil has the iresidentol so close i he's cute.’ ace ie Mandsdi ark a wtlii rr non' the Constro et next Sunt; icy will reiii s, all Mam es in them the withdi for the sra he Nkaray; , referring t la war ome 12,1 ricada,tlte' mdinista Ft i. Ambasst d a "CIA aye hdraw fror nones said, 'Vell, for SUPPER rollout, ALLEN? I PAY ‘f *1 ■’ THE At! M MEMORIAL CHECK CASHING WlVPOW (LEST WE COLt> FRIED CHICKEW, AND IT'S READY VOW. GREAT. I LOVE LEFTOVER FRIED ... WAIT A A1IWUTE, WHEA/••• WHEN DID WE HAVE THIS THE FIRST... WERE 700, PER CHAIYCE, TRYING To SAVE SOME TIME BY SK\rPiHG THE OWES/ STEP? E E SHOE JENKINS, FIR,... f ROW ACCOUNTING. by Jeff MacNelly RIGHT JENKINS. ; WflMT'SMR. WHAT ONI VO R^HHAWKpSlR- FDR YOU E CAST YEAR WE NAP HIMON 1HE.0OUKS AS AN EMPIOYEGi WTHE5NOTUS1EP IHERE THIS YEAR SHOE AND UNCE65 WESETACnON ON by Jeff MacNelly OUR CONTRACT PENVANP^, WE W J WORK t o ^TASC A WORK eiovicvm-jA P Bulkfood Consumers can see what they're getting By BRITTANY MILLHOLLAND Reporter Some consumers today are choos ing to buy foods such as dried fruit, cereal, coffee beans and popcorn in bulk. This growing trend has led food retailers to ask for help from the Food and Drug Administration in applying sanitation laws in their handling of bulk food, says Marilyn Haggard, a Texas A&M University Agricultural Extension Service food and nutrition specialist. “The objective in providing guidelines for bulk food sales is to control potential health problems such as the spread of communicable disease, outbreaks of foodborne ill ness and unintentional contami nation of food,” Haggard said. Haggard said the FDA completed guidelines for handling bulk food in supermarkets earlier this year, and the effects are now being seen in the grocery stores. FDA ordinance states that bulk food should be dispensed from con tainers with tight-fitting individual covers. The containers must be eas ily removable from the display unit for servicing, unless they can be cleaned in place without contaminat ing the food. Each container should be no deeper than 18 inches and its open ing should be at least 30 inches above the floor in order to avoid contamination, Haggard said. In order to avoid manual contact between food and customers, the rules require the use of mechanical dispensing devices such as gravity fed units, manual dispensers like , tongs and scoops, or wrapping and sacking products. Selling food in bulk still carries the obligation of providing' product information. Each container should display either a counter card or manufacturer’s label stating the name of the product and its ingre dients in order of predominance. Although the guidelines only call for voluntary compliance, Haggard said most reputable retailers will want to comply with the rules. “Consumers have gotten more so phisticated, we expect clean stores and clean products,” Haggard said. Buying food in bulk “allows con sumers to see what they’re getting and to choose the specific amount they need,” Haggard said. Senate leaders to visit student clubs, meetings By KATHICOOK Reporter Project Visibility — an effort by the Student Senate to contact more students and get their opinions — will be re-implemented through sen ators attending various student club meetings, said Eric Thode, speaker pro tempore. The project, suggested last year by Diane Baumbach, speaker of the Senate, will focus on the constituents of the Memorial Student Center, Off-Campus Aggies and the Resi dence Hall Association. “In order to work with constitu ents before, senators had to stand on corners and bus stops and ask peo ple questions about issues,” Baum bach said. “They hated doing it, but talking with constituents is one of the most important things we do. I think this way gets more people in volved and we’ve gotten a lot of good feedback from it.” Several student clubs have been asked to participate with the senate in keeping the constituents in formed about the senate’s activities. The replies will be divided, accord ing to the number of members, into two categories for the 86 senators at tention. “A club will either have a senator attend their meetings regularly or have a senator visit one meeting to speak to the club about who they can contact with their input,” Thode said. Thode said some students just don’t know who to talk to. “We figured everyone belongs to some sort of club, so now we can hear other problems besides bicycles and parking that the University is al ready looking into,” Thode said. The visiting senators will read minutes of the bills, ask for sugges tions or criticism and answer any questions from the members, Thode said. “If the senator can’t answer the question, he will get back to them at the next meeting and answer it then,” he said. “We want people to know us and know that they can call 845-3051 anytime they have a ques tion.” Senators have begun visiting resi dence halls and various club meet ings that have responded such as the Business Student Council, the Inter national Student Association and Lambda Sigma. The senators have discussed issues in the senate com mittees such as obtaining change machines for the north side of cam pus and extending the sidewalk run ning from the Reed McDonald Building to the Blocker Building. Banking policies and student check ing account fees in local banks are also being analyzed, Thode said. 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MSC to acution lost, found items Wednesday The Memorial Student Center Lost and Found Committee is spon soring an auction of items from all campus lost and found collections. The cash-only auction will be in the MSC Main Lounge on October 24, from 10 a.m. to I pan. The auctioned items will consist of calculators, men’s and women’s watches, gold and costume jewelry, umbrellas and clothes. All items to be auctioned have been in the lost and found for at least six months. Chairman of the MSC Lost and Found Committee, Bruce Cameron, said he expects this auction to be suc cessful. The lost-and found usually has more items after the summer months, because people just don’t come back to get their things; he said. He said he wanted to stress that any items with full names on them immediately go to the campus police station and the owner is notified. The money from this auction will go to the MSC Christmas Committee for Christmas decorations. 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