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Best place
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Poll reveals food, fun favorites
By Molly Pepper
StaffWriter
Conducting a poll without any
bias is a difficult job, best left to
Gallup or Harris, so I did just
that. When assigned to poll the
campus and discover what stu
dents thought “The Best of Col
lege Station” was, I decided to
carefully survey men and
women from three of the most
biased groups of people on
campus, with my own biases
intact.
Three buildings I consider to
be hot spots on campus were
the targets.
F irst was the Blocker Building,
home of the capitalist-moder-
ate-conservative-business-ma-
jor-pig-dogs. Then came Zachry
with its ultra-conservative, neo-
nerdy, engineering types. Fi
nally the Academic Building
and the punked-out, neo-artsy
liberal arts crowd.
I visited each of these build
ings in search of a typical group
of each kind to question and
find out where is the most ro
mantic place to have dinner,
the best place to drink beer,
who has the best fajitas, the
best ice cream, and the best de-
liveiy service (not necessarily
the fastest).
eing the aspiring, biased Bat
talion writer that I am, I’d al
ready picked the correct an
swers before I left the Reed
McDonald Building. To score
the survey, I gave a point for
each correct answer at each
building. The Blocker Building
had one less person on its team
but since fairness was no object
in my survey it doesn’t matter
anyway.
At Blocker I spotted a couple
eating their lunches. Knowing
how hard it is to eat and talk at
the same time, I chose them as
my Blocker sample.
The couple turned out to be
Lorrie Spelhaug, a graduate
student in business computing
science, and Doyle Lane, a se
nior in industrial distribution.
itting outside, Lorrie was
wearing shorts and enjoying the
sun while Doyle was sweating
away in jeans and a button
down. Fairly typical for a sunny
day at Blocker.
Doyle said he hasn’t been out
for a romantic dinner in five
years but Lorrie liked Maxi’s
and Cenare. (I didn’t ask but I
don’t think these two are dat-
in g)- ..
Since Steak and Ale is the res-
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