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Friday, March 14,1986/The Battalion Page 3 chimney hill bowling center - State and Local twenty dealers display mputers at Micro Fair i iTimisi >cas i»ge i*.tors l leir B\ MIKE SULLIVAN *' SchooB Staff Writer itigthenl 1 ng |x>j:B as A&M students, faculty and ^"Biewed a variety of personal ipjiters at the tliircl annual A&M v-s. mg gffH Fair in the MSC, where 20 iputer manufacturers and local rfornijers displayed their wares homtl nesc * a y anc l I hursday. t bothifln Kane, manager of the Micro hcirdiiBr, said the purpose of the Mi- i aree Fair, like the Micro Center, is to knock ! ulate d e > nan d f or personal com er^ and software among stu- > , lou r* teem. I'Jit Holland, representing Profes- ins of‘■Computing in Ciollege Station, 1 his business has gained more ex- , tin'from the fair. :s, thertsj ^ lany local dealers complain they 't compete with the Micro Cen- SICS ofl, s I 1 ' ces > but Holland said Profes- ‘mainsiB Computing’s sales haven’t in 'y' 1 '. 1 ' Mi ‘ r " <:em y- 1 Tolessional Computing deals mostly with Hewlett-Packard prod ucts, which are offered by the Micro Center, but Holland said most of his business comes from calculator sales and service. Holland said the Micro Center doesn’t sell Hewlett-Packard calcula tors, so the two businesses don’t compete directly with one another. All the manufacturers rep- resented at the fair sell their com puters through the Micro Center. Bex kv O’ Neill, representing Apple Computers, said students in terested in buying the Apple Macin tosh are referred to the A&M Micro Center, and students interested in the Apple lie are encouraged to purchase from Yes Computers, also represented at the fair. Carrie Wisnoski, marketing sup port representative for Apple, said the local Apple dealers may lose some sales, but they will gain service business because of the Micro Cen ter. “If you buy something from the Micro Center and it breaks, you would have to take it to a local dea ler,” Wisnoski said. O’ Neill said the exposure Apple has gained from their relationship with such outlets as the Micro Center has paid off in the development of new software. She said a University of Texas stu dent recently wrote a revolutionary program that is being used by engi neers at NASA. cocoa; Gas prices to stabilize n goveni V work ■ Associated Press urnafelfUSTON — Gasoline prices )uli bottom out around 7T> cents imsf an< i eventually stabilize at $1 per gallon, Chrysler Corp. nan Lee lacocca predicted ursday. hink a buck is where it’s going nd itself,” he said at a news con- B:e. “You don’t know what this pour planning.” e noted that the designs for cars ■■oiling off assembly lines were ll oe with $2-per-gallon gasoline in m/ionininS the iinii lapcca, on the third stop of a 10- jfbur to promote new Chrysler els, said he believed falling oil ces were the result of a deliberate ort by the Organization of Petro- HExporting Countries, would It * More important, (domestic oil) >le an ob> cannot e compu 1 you sell I t h a pock throwno ed to! layment LMi if it ist • I did day. It’s Tit arsei dion. d-16, i these t» school yefl ed of hire* h money ;gunisleg* law. I gucs appen ;ry durable • hunters, e have use^ leased. Tbe : is that id y with gufl is not tokil exploration and development goes to hell,” he said. “In Five years, they’ve got us again. Cheap gas is like a drug habit. And we’re going to get hooked again. Make no mistake about it.” lacocca acknowledged, however, that the lower gasoline prices mean more Americans are buying bigger cars with less fuel-efficent, larger en gines. Those bigger cars, with higher profit margins, mean more money for the nation’s automakers. “We’ve made a bundle of money because of America’s cheap gas pol icy," he said, adding that he has made clear to government officials in Washington his disgust over the lack of a national energy policy. “I go to the bank with all these cheap gas profits and not have any guilty conscience,” he said. iorrection tuts March It issue, The But- reported that the 198<>-B7 ... ( i 1)nn .- get of the Memorial Student iter would be unaffected by 7 percent budget cut up ■ed by the Texas A&M Board egems rry Eichor, MSC vice prest- of finance, said a reduction nil, buttl#*^ balances n>av be required, ’.. nia (( dtich case the money would be ■a out of a S 127,000 reserve d. But a mandated cut could ill in the cancellation of pter in contracts, he said, although C President Denis Davis be es this is unlikely, he Battalion regrets the er- Texas company to purchase 9 Dallas area newspapers SAN ANTONIO — Harte-Hanks Communications Inc. announced agreements Thursday to sell seven daily newspapers in Texas, Michi gan, Ohio and Washington and to acquire 19 newspapers, most of them weeklies. John T. Williams, publisher of the Bryan-College Station Eagle, is pres ident of a group of Harte-Hanks newspapers, to which two Dallas- area newspapers will be added as a result of the deal. They are the Le wisville Daily Leader and the Plano Daily Star-Courier. The weeklies in the Dallas area in clude the Carrollton Chronicle, Farmers Branch Times, Addison- North Dallas Today, Coppell Ga zette, the Mesquite News. Harte-Hanks plans to acquire the newspapers in agreements with Gar den State Newspapers Inc. of Wood bury, N.J., and Taylor Communica tions Inc. of Carrollton. “We are particularly pleased with these moves . . .and (with) the oppor tunity to be in areas with faster growth potential than we have expe rienced in the markets we are leav ing. . .,” said Bob Marbut, Harte- Hanks’ president and chief exec utive officer. Michelle Po* Kay Male' ,,,Loren Stef .....Jerry Osf thleAnderso" .Travis ’ jiirf/lnan-C# mrih represent to , classes lidsund exanntn lvcMM% rales M 7813 St. Patrick deserves more than a day J.T McCord’s iving him a week. Being a good Irishman, J.T. McCord feels that St. Patrick is entitled to more than a single day of tribute. After an ugly incident with a power-painter, some green latex enamel and a busload of Japanese tourists, he settled for a less extreme St. Patrick’s Day celebration — St. Patrick^ Week. We’re honoring St. Patrick with green beer and green drinks from March 10 through March 17. That old Irish favorite — Rueben sandwich and fries — is only $3.99 all week long. And on March 17, we’re giving away three green satin jackets for the traditional wearin’ of the viridescent shiny stuff. We realize this doesn’t overcome the problem of ignoring St. Patrick for most of the year. But it does give you six more days of green beer than you’d have otherwise, and that’s a start. FUN. FOOD & SPIRITS 2232 Texas Avenue, College Station, TX 77840 Brazos Square Shopping Center No purchase necessary to win jackets. Aplentiful supply of green beer encourages demonstrations of daring and dexterity during St. Patrick’s Week at J. T McCord’s. 40 LANES League & Open Bowling Family Entertainment Bar & Snack Bar 701 University Dr E 260-9184 NAVY REP COMING Your Navy Representative will be on campus March 26. To schedule an appointment call (713)226-2445. THE BATT DOES IT DAILY “We are making a helluva mistake by throwing out our energy policy,” he said. “We are playing right into OPEC’s hands. I keep screaming this in Washington. Our energy policy is stupid. We’ll all become energy hos tages again.” lacocca complained that when his two larger domestic competitors, General Motors Corp. and Ford Mo tor Co., could not meet government fleet mileage requirements, they lob bied for the requirements to be eased and “Washington went ahead and complied.” He said that in his most recent ap pearance in Houston three years ago, cheap imports were killing the automakers. Now, he said, cheap im ports were killing the Texas oil in dustry. itrecordS'tapeS'Video ' . 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