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Spring Break
March 10-16
$249
Includes:
RoundTrip Bus Transportation
4 Nights Lodging
3 DayLiftTickets
LOTS MORE
For more information about these trips come by the MSC
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Printer Month at Yes Computers!
Buy a printer during February and get a free
printer starter pack (includes package of paper
and one printer ribbon).
Join our new ribbon club. Just pick up a card
each time you purchase a ribbon, we’ll mark
your card. For each 5 ribbons you purchase, get
one free.
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of your Sweetheart for
Valentine’s Day.
Using the Mac Vision digitizer, we will take
pictures (live or from a photo) of you and your
Valentine. Mac Vision will be available from
February 1 through 28, so be sure to stop by!
SINGLE
MAC128K $1795
MAC 512K $2295
MAC XL $ 3495
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$2995
Computers
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During February only, get
The Alpine Touch Jacket free
when you buy any Alpine
Car Audio System—FM/AM
Cassette Deck with Speakers
or Amplifier.
The top-quality blue
cotton jacket is just like any
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To get it, just fill out and
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Board tastes menu suggestions
Students review food
By JENS KOEPKE
Reporter
It is a ritual for many Texas A&M
students.
They stumble into the dining cen
ter. Senseless and burnt out, they
wearily fill their trays with food and
plop down at the nearest table.
With their frustration at a peak,
they scream, “Is this lasagna or a
pork chop?”
Ask the menu board.
The Student Menu Board is a
group of students who decide on the
acceptability of menu additions and
who relay complaints from board-
plan members to the food services
administrators.
“Anything that I’m told by stu
dents that makes sense, I write down
and bring up at our meetings,” said
David Taylor, a Sbisa menu board
member.
Texas A&M was the first univer
sity to initiate the program in 1965.
Assistant Director of Food Serv
ices Lloyd Smith said, tastes change
so quickly that understanding the
tastes of today’s college student is
very difficult.
“By having a group of 16 to 18
people that are the current genera
tion ... and are somewhat represen
tative, we’re going to get some
ideas,” Smith said.
“They’re going to tell us what they
like and what they don’t like. They’ll
see some things I don’t see.”
Each dining center has a board
that meets once a month. All three
menu boards also meet jointly with
managers and supervisors from each
of the dining centers, and several
food services administrators the first
Tuesday of the month.
During the joint meetings, Taylor
said the ooard members taste food
items ranging from chopped steak
patties to different brands of thou
sand island salad dressing. They
then vote on their acceptability. A
simple majority rules.
If the food is already on the
menu, members sample several dif
ferent brands. Those brands
deemed acceptable are placed on the
competitive bid list and considered
for purchase.
Smith said, the Department of
Food Services will sometimes intro
duce a new recipe or a new food
item and have the boards taste it. If
the food is voted acceptable, the
board members must decide
whether to add it to the menu. If the
board adds an item to the menu, it
must also take something off.
“They have a right to put any
thing or take anything off the me
nu,” Smith said.
Commons board member Marty
Roos said, “They (the managers) tell
us that we have to eat our mistakes.”
The foods tasted at the meetings
are chosen either as a result of a stu
dent complaint, or sometimes
through department initiative.
The addition of lasagna and
baked potatoes as entrees to the
night menu is an example of the
Taylor said board members
choose food that most students
enjoy, and not just ones that
like.
I think the strangest tastes ha
come from salad dressings,” hesas'
ft that we
“We have had some stuff that we
thought was bad. Like the soft
cheese dressing that had the cons
tency of sour cream.”
The boards also pick the dates!
all cheese and ice cream paid |
while the Duncan Hall menu
alone chooses the dates of t)
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