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By JO BETH MURPHY
Reporter
No, it isn’t a new dish craved by
pregnant women. Peanut butter
mixed with mayonnaise and crisp
bits of bacon on white bread is
one of many suggestions offered
to brown baggers in the pamphlet
“Packed Lunches.”
The pamphlet, which is distrib
uted by the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service, also offers tips
on proper food storage for sack
lunches.
Convenience, economy and
nutrition are some of the virtues
of bringing a sack lunch on cam
pus, says Susan Lawrence, a ju
nior from Houston.
A Texas A&M foods and nutri
tion specialist on campus agrees.
“Without a doubt sack lunches
can be less expensive,” Alice
Hunt says.
She says a student can eat tor
less than $1.40 a meal by bringing
a lunch from home.
Hunt says how nutritious a
lunch is depends on what is
packed, but she says the four
food groups should be rep
resented.
The specialist also says sack
lunches can be low in calories. A
sample low calorie lunch might
consist of a sandwich with meat
and cheese, raw vegetable sticks
and a piece of fresh fruit. She
warns that calories creep in when
things such as butter or mayon
naise are added.
The qualities Hunt looks for in
a packed lunch seem to be qual
ities some students also appre
ciate.
“1 don’t try to eat right, but 1
think I do,” says Clay Gomez,
graduate student from San Anto
nio. “I use to eat in Sbisa and that
was f un but not cheap.”
Lawrence says that with a sack
lunch “You have more time to re
lax."
She says she used most of her
lunch time standing in lines wait
ing to get her food before she
started bringing her lunch with
her.
A limited number of the pam
phlets are availale in 109 Kleberg
Animal and Food Science Center.
Planning pointers, recipes and
money-saving tips are included in
the pamphlet.
Jicketron tickets now at Rudder Box Office
By MARK RUDOLPH
Reporter
You you don’t have to go out of
iwn to purchase concert tickets any-
nore. You don’t even have to leave
he Texas A&M campus.
The tickets are now offered
hrough the Rudder Box Office,
ays Debbie Murray, ticket supervi-
or for the box office.
“Ticketron tickets have been of-
ered through the box office since
Tb. 1,” Murray says.
Ticketron is a nationwide service
vhich sells tickets for almost any
vent. The box office has two com-
>uter terminals connected to the
ervice, she says.
Murray says tickets offered
hrough Ticketron at the box office
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include concerts, Houston Astro’s
baseball, Houston Rocket’s basket
ball, the Houston Symphony, the
Houston Pops Orchestra, the Hous
ton Ballet, Las Vegas shows and
even Broadway shows in New York
City.
Thjese tickets are more expensive
than those purchased at the partic
ular location of the event, Murray
says, because of the service charge
Ticketron assesses.
Tickets also can be purchased
through Ticketron outlets for out-
of-town A&M f ootball games.
“Through this service an alumni
can get tickets to A&M events with
out having to come into town to pur
chase them,” she says.
The box of fice also sells tickets for
the Plitt movie theatres in the area.
The tickets are of fered at a discount
of $2.75, Murray says, and can be
used for any show at any time.
Murray says MSC Operal and Per
forming Arts Society season tickets
are now on sale and tickets for
Broadway shows coming to A&M
will go on sale Oct. 7. Student dis
counts are offered for these produc
tions.
However, concert tickets offered
through Town Hall are not dis
counted, Murray says, because of
contract requirements.
Besides selling tickets for these
events, the box office will sell tickets
for any organization on campus,
Murray says. A service charge is as
sessed if the organization isn’t recog
nized by the University.
Also, student option passes have
been discontinued this year because
of the limited number of concerts
Town Hall brought in last year, she
says. The option passes were used by
students to obtain reserved seating
for events, prior to general public
ticket sales.
Murray says the box office has op
erated at A&M for over 12 years, al
ways as a non-profit organization.
She emphasizes that the box office
is not involved with the scheduling
of events, but it does keep up with
the people touring as much as possi
ble.
“We just sell tickets,” she says.
In the past year, the box office has
sold over 100,000 tickets, grossing
over $ 1 million, Murray says.
By ABBY L. LECOCQ
Repot ter
Barring further complications,
residents around Dartmouth and
Holleman streets may have a more
direct route to Southwest Parkway
and Post Oak Mall within a year, said
David Pullen, city engineer for Col
lege Station.
Dartmouth Street will be cut
through to Southwest Parkway and
Holleman will be reconstructed
from Texas Avenue to the Sears
Service Center across from Post Oak
Mall, Pullen said.
Bids were opened in |uly with the
hope construction would start Aug.
1, he said, but a problem of right-of-
way has postponed the awarding of
the contract.
The problem involves negotia
tions regarding the value of a piece
of property that has been under
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Pullen said.
If the right-of-way is secured,
Pullen plans to go to the College Sta
tion City Council on Sept. 26 with a
recommendation to award the con
struction contract.
“As I understand, there has been
an agreement reached on the land
negotiations,” Pullen said. “It’s just a
matter of getting some signatures on
paper.”
If the council approves the recom
mendation, Pullen said he antic
ipates construction to begin in mid-
to late October. It should be com
pleted in about one year, but only if
the right-of-way is secured, he em
phasized.
“The building of the project will
not create any additional expenses to
property taxes,” Pullen said.
The opening of the two streets
also may help T exas A&M bus oper
ations better serve students in these
areas, said Doug Williams, manager
of Bus Operations.
Currently, students living in
Woodstock Condominiums, Stone-
wood Village and Huntington
Apartments must board the shuttle
bus at the intersection of Dartmouth
and Highway 30. The construction,
when finished, will make it possible
to open a new route so students can
get on the bus closer to their apart
ments, Williams said.
Presently it’s hard to tell which
route the buses would take, Williams
said, but it’s possible that the plan
would include reducing the number
of buses on the Scarlet O’Hara route
and scheduling a new route on Dart
mouth and maybe back down Holle
man.
“It would be easier to go ahead
and make a new route down Dart
mouth and we wouldn’t have to stop
at all on Highway 30,” Williams said.
“It would be a little safer and a little
more convenient for students:”
The duplexes and fourplexes on
Manuel St. currently are not on a
shuttle bus route, but the construc
tion may change that, Williams said.
Also, Eastmark Apartments on
Southwest Parkway may be able to
be serviced by the shuttle buses, he
said.
“It depends on which streets are
open and how much access we have
to certain areas over there,” Williams
said.
But the rescheduling of bus
routes depends on more than just
the open streets, Williams said. It
also depends on the length of time it
takes to drive the route and the
number of people buying passes.
“There’s so many variables it’s
hard to tell where we’d begin to rou
te,” Williams said. “If nobody else is
added, just (for) the people that live
over in the apartments on Dart
mouth Street at present we can jus
tify putting buses over there and
making a separate route.”
But, for now, everything is on
hold.
“Until we have the concrete to
drive on, we can just plan,” Williams
said. “You can draw anything you
want to on paper.”
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