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By PAM COLEMAN
Reporter
It’s 1 a.m. on a weeknight and
ou’ve been at the library for several
ours. Your books are scattered
round, papers are everywhere, and
ou’re in deep concentration as the
|ast round of wtirning bells go off.
Tie lights suddenly go out. You are
lurrounded in darkness as you
truggle to collect your books. Why
doesp’t the library stay open just a
few hours later?
Student Government seems to
:hink there is a need for extended
hours in the Sterling C. Evans Li
brary, and Tom Urban, the Vice-
; President of Academic Affairs for
Student Government, is doing some
thing about it.
I Operating hours in the Sterling C.
Evans Library now are 12 noon to 1
,m. Sunday, 7:30 a.m. to 1 a.m.
fonday through Thursday, 7:30
a m. to 11 p.m. Friday, and 9 a.m. to
9 p.m. Saturday.
“I’ve had a lot of complaints from
eople,” Urban said. “It’s sort of a
rustrating feeling when you go to
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late at night and the library is al-
eady closed.”
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to 3 a.m., Monday through Thurs
day 7 a.m. to 3 a.m., Friday 7 a.m. to
12 p.m., said Evelyn King, assistant
director of the Sterling G. Evans Li
brary.
“We will do it,” King said. “It just
hasn’t beeti announced to all the
staff yet.”
The cost involved in having
longer library hours is not a major
factor, King said. The problem in
volves finding staff to stay the late
hours.
The service desk will be closed late
at night just as it is during the ex
tended hours for finals week, King
said. Only the building will be open,
which cuts out the need for service
desk workers, she said.
Urban conducted a random sur
vey of students to determine if the li
brary would be used late at night'
and early in the morning.
“I had people on my committee,
go out and ask their constituents
how they felt,” Urban said. “Eve
ryone’s pretty happy about it (the
new hours). They’re real pleased.”
The possibility of 24-hour library
hours was discussed at the time the
poll was conducted, Urban said.
“When we researched it with our
informal polls, itjust seemed that be
tween 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. people
wouldn’t use it,” Urban said.
Urban, however, would like to see
24-hour library hours in the future.
King said the question of adequate
usage is the library’s main concern.
If the library is not used enough, the
Crowds of people visit the library this week
Photo by ANTHONY CASPER
extended hours wall end, she said.
“If the traffic is great enough,
they (the extended hours) will be
kept,” King said. “We have no spe
cial numbers in mind.”
Urban also said it was important
that the extended hours be utilized.
“They had, in the past, opened
the library early on Saturdays and
Sundays and they would have two,
three, or maybe four people in the li
brary during the early hours, ” Ur
ban said. “That’s why they moved
them up.”
The response from students has
been positive. Jana Ahlfinger, a stu
dent government senator represent
ing Krueger, Briggs and Spence
halls, said the students she has talked
with agree that the library should be
■opened late at night.
Student Government pushed for
longer library hours on a trial basis
early in November, but the plan
failed, Urban said.
This time, however, the proposed
new hours have been approved and
will go into effect the week before
midterms. Urban said.
“The main thing that’s going to be
different about this proposal is that
we’re really going to have to adver
tise it,” Urban said. “A lot of people
are used to the old hours and they
really need to know about the new
hours. If we don’t use these new
hours they’ll take them away.”
To advertise the change advertise
ments will be placed in The Battal
ion, and fliers and public service an
nouncements will be posted, Urban
said.
Jesters, minstrels entertain at Madrigal Dinners
Photo by DEAN SAITO
A juggler shows his talent at the Madrigal Dinners.
By ANN CERVENKA
Staff Writer
“The path ahead may be undy
ing, but at the end you will be
finding, pleasures of good
cheer,” the jester said as the audi
ence entered the banquet hall in
the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom.
Jesters, jugglers, minstrels and
instrumentalists entertained an
enthusiastic audience at the
fourth annual MSC Madrigal
Dinners Wednesday night.
Sponsored by the MSC Madri
gal Dinner Committee, the pro
gram is like a medieval Christmas
party to bring in the Yuletide sea
son, Chairman Tracie Woods
said.
The characters speak with an
English accent and are dressed in
medieval costumes, colored
tights, feathered hats and bright
robes.
Michelle Dortch, a minstrel,
said the performances help get
the cast into the Christmas spirit.
“We get to play with the audi
ence and flirt a little,” she said.
Audience involvement is essen
tial to the program. “The audi
ence participates because it is fun
and because we make them par
ticipate,” Dortch said.
Several of the characters are
not Texas A&M students. Jason
Reynolds, 13, and Melane Rey
nolds, 10, children of MSC Direc
tor Jim Reynolds, have been in
volved for three years.
“It takes a lot of time, but it’s
fun,” Jason said.
The two were dressed as pages.
“We mostly introduce ourselves
and talk with the people,” Melane
said.
Before entering the banquet
hall, the jester informed the
guests of the Rules of Courtesy:
“Ye must enter the hall with the
spirite of Christmas. Ye should
not pick thy teeth at the table with
a knife, straw or stick. Ye must
not stuff thy mouth or make a pig
of thyself.”
During dinner, the instrumen
talists, minstrels and jugglers con
tinued with the entertainment.
After dinner, the royalty at the
head table sang madrigal
Christmas songs to the audience.
MSC Madrigal Dinners are
continuing at 6:30 p.m. through
Saturday and at 3 p.m. on Sun
day. Tickets are available in the
MSC Box Office.
Anorexia,
bulimia
film shown
By ADA FAY WOOD
Reporter
Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are
the fastest spreading psychosomatic
diseases today. About 10 percent of
all reported cases result in death.
The film “I Don’t Have to Hide,”
shown Wednesday in the Medical
Sciences Building, dealt with this dis
ease.
It was sponsored by the Medicine
and Society Forum and the Learning
Resources Center of the Department
of Humanities in the College of
Medicine.
“We try to bring a wide variety of
topics to everyone, not just medical
students,” Dr. Don Self said.
Self, professor of medical ethics in
the Department of Humanities, said
he started the forum in January, be
cause he wanted to expose medical
students to more of the social prob
lems of the world.
“They get scientific aspects of sub
jects everyday in class,” Self said. “I
wanted them to get it from a differ
ent angle.”
The social issues of anorexia,
starving the body, and bulimia, an
obsessive need to eat, were pre
sented in Wednesday’s film with a
counseling center format. The film
concentrated on one girl’s problem
with bulimia.
People suffering from these two
diseases usually are described as in
telligent people who drive them
selves hard. About 95 percent of the
victims are women, the film said. It
also said that anorexia and bulimia
are the fastest spreading psychoso
matic diseases. Of the victims, 30
percent regain their health, 30 per
cent get worse and worse, 30 percent
experience no change, and 10 per
cent of the victims die.
The symptoms of the two diseases
normally can be seen in childhood
behavior patterns. A child usually
hides his inner feelings by being
quiet, introverted and striving to be
the “perfect” child, the film said.
Coming to terms with life in gen
eral and believing in their own sell
worth are the main problems for the
victims of anorexia and bulimia, it
said.
Previous topics or films, pre
sented by the Medicine and Society
Forum included: rape, aging, busi
ness advertising’s image of women,
and the medical consequences of nu
clear war.
Everyone is welcome and there is
no admission, Self said.
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