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SIGN UP! INTRAMURAL/REC SPORTS SPORTS: Volleyball DIVISION: Co-Rec DATE: October 5-13,1987 TIME: 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. PLACE: 159 Read Building TEXAS A&M IM-SPORTS DEPARTMENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH General Motors is proud to sponsor your campus intramural/ recreational sports. JOIN THE FUN Read the information above and sign up with your Intramural/Rec reational Sports Department today! EVERYONE CAN PLAY All students, staff and faculty are eligible. CHEVROLET PONTIAC s Oldsmobile BUICK < Qzd60&zc C3 IN/I Cl TWLJCK CM CM HUOCS ELECTRONICS General Motors, "sharing your future” IM/REC SPORTS AUTO EXPO LOUPOTS OFF CAMPUS CENTER OFF CAMPUS AGGIES □ o o CONNECTION □ □ □ □ O a S. H. A. R. E. STUDENTS HELPING AGGIE RESIDENTS EVERYWHERE Are you having trouble getting repairs done? Are your roommates threatening to move out? Are the ants “bugging” you? S.H.A.R.E. Volunteers are as close as your phone to answer questions about living off campus, especially af ter office hours and on weekdays and holidays when the Off Campus Cen ter is closed. WHEREVER YOU LIVE, WHEN YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, GIVE US A CALL!!! Don 846-6720 Chris....764-6416 John 846-4475 Pam.....764-7512 Eddie 696-2154 Rob 696-6552 Carolyn...764-2035 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Loupot’s Book Store at Northgate and in Redmond Terrace sponsored the Off Campus Connection. From Mr. Loupot: ‘Thank you Aggies for all your sup port in this new academic year. My new store is now open with plenty of parking for the off campus student’s convenience.” Stories and artwork are provided by the Off Campus Center October 5,1987 Editor: Erika Gonzalez-Lima OFF CAMPUS AGGIES CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS Octobers Volleyball, Swimming, Flickerball competition Entries open. Sign up, Read Bldg, room 159 October 6 Meet for Silver Taps Rudder Fountain, 10:15 p.m. Octobers Meet for Midnight Yell Mount Aggie, 11:30 p.m. October 11 October 3-4 Bonfire Cut (bring boots, sac lunch, and cut card) Duncan Field, 8:00 a.m. October 28 General Meeting Zachry 102, 7:00 p.m. October 29-30 Nightmare on Spence St. II - Pa vilion October 30 Meet for Midnight Ydll Mount Aggie, 11:30 p.m. Novembers Meet for Silver Taps Rudder Fountain 10:15 p.m. November 13 Meet for Midnight Yell Mount Aggie, 11:30 p.m. November 18 General OCA Meeting Zachry 102, 7:00 p.m. November 18 Bonfire 1 November 30 Outdoor soccer entries open - In tramurals CUT IT QUESTIONS & ANSWERS REPAIRS REMAIN UNDONE Q. i am an off campus student. My apartment is fine but it needs repairs. My refrigerator does not cool well and my kitchen faucet leaks. My manager wrote a work order two weeks ago when I told her about it, but the repairs remain undone. What can I do? May I withhold the rent? A. According to the Texas Apart ment Association lease, you are obli gated to make all requests for mainte nance in writing (a work order filled out by the manager is not enough). Keep a copy for your files, signed by the manager or send it by certified mail with receipt requested. In Texas it is il legal to withhold rent for any reason. Always keep your rent current. If you have any questions about off campus living, please call or come by the Off Campus Center. We are lo cated in Puryear Hall, across the street from the YMCA building. We are open Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 Page GA'he Battalion/Monday, October 5, 1987 Texas Tech rebuts writer's contention of 'ugliest campus' LUBBOCK (AP) — Texas Tech students and alumni were not ter ribly amused in 1984 when a Sports Illustrated writer named Douglas Looney branded their campus the United States’ ugliest. “Looks as if they should cancel classes and convert the school into a prison,” hissed Looney, forked tongue in cheek. Looney didn’t appease Tech loy alists much when he went on to pro claim Austin as “best town” and the University of Texas Longhorn band as “best band.” The ugly-campus comment trig gered a spate of nasty responses, among them a letter from Bill Dean, executive director of Texas Tech’s Ex-Students Association. Dean wondered in his letter to Looney if the writer had ever indeed set foot on campus and suggested that his accuracy, if not his ancestry, was certainly suspect. Still, the issue soon died of natural Radio station KRLB, knom around town as fiesty FM99, con ducted a contest to determine tin “Ugliest Magazine Staff in Ameria SI was pretty much a unanimoii! choice, perhaps because those votitii for SI were promised free Texii Tech “Big, Bad and Ugly”T-shirts. ‘'I’ve seen some real ugh schools, but Tech’s not one of them. .. Ifsnottk prettiest place in the world, but it's not ugly." — Rick Hayes, KAMC-Tl sports anchor in a live report from the Texas Tech campus causes. But alas! Writing in a recent issue of Sports Illustrated, a magazine some say is the bible of the sporting world, Looney struck again. “Three years ago we said in this space that Texas Tech has the ug liest campus,” he wrote. “An av alanche of mail disputed this asser tion. So we have looked at the school again, rechecked the photos and consulted experts. We are not too proud to admit our mistakes. “This, however, was not one of them.” Bill Dean, still the executive direc tor of Tech exes, took pen in hand to again challenge Looney’s accuracy and fairness and to decry repetition of what he called “this slur.” He also canceled a renewal of his son’s subscription to SI and ended his letter thusly: “Further ... I intend to write a let ter addressed to all 91,000 graduates of this university and strongly en courage them to cancel their sub scriptions to SI if they have one.” The September-October issue of the Texas Techsan contains an open letter to Tech exes in which Dean carried out his threat. KAMC-TV in Lubbock located the “ugliest” spot it could find on campus and provided a live report on the controversy, Grumbled sports anchor Rick Hayes said, “I’ve seen some real ugly schools, but Tech’s not one of them . . . It’s not the prettiest place in the world, but it’s not ugly.” FM 99 notified Looney of the® test results and sent him som “Ugly" T-shirts along with phoit graphs purportedly depicting ll Tech campus. The pictures looks suspiciously similar to Europ river, mountain and garden setting In a recent letter to FM99,L» ney accepted the T-shirts “in gd f grace” and confessed that hesomt low overlooked the river windinj “majestically" through the campus Last week, Texas Tech’s newsp per, the University Daily, soughtrt action from Tech’s more dm 23,000 students to the “ugliest* pus” claim. Most everyone disagreed Looney’s assessment, noting thattk campus was “uncluttered" ani “spread out” and that its “openntss was but one of its many charms. It’s possible that Tech ex Joel Brandenberger of Austin got in tilt best, if not last, word. In a letttt printed the other day in SI, Bran denberger claimed that Looney! second shot demanded rebuttal, He quoted an objective obsenet named Ron Reid who wrote “...nei ther Texas Tech with its elegat campus nor air as clear as Steuben glass has enabled Lubbock to shak its unsophisticated image.. T he article describing the campi E as elegant was entitled “A RealLu) in Lubbock,” and appeared in ik November 1976 issue of Sports !b trated. Student violence in Texas schools prompts concern DALLAS (AP) — Student stab- bings and fights are increasing in in tensity in North Texas schools, prompting concern among parents and administrators who are search ing for solutions to curb the vio lence. Although the number of violent acts are not increasing, the intensity of the violence in schools is increas ing for some unknown reason, Dal las Independent School District Su perintendent Linus Wright said. “They are more severe, more hos tile, and I’m concerned,” Wright said. Statistics show that in the fei month of this school year, officials confiscated 10 weapons in s throughout the district, a decrease from the 17 confiscated duringtbc same period last year. Student assaults also are down, from 29 to 22. But with at least sis students hospitalized fromtwoinci dents in the past week, students,tea chers and administrators are con cerned about the level of violence® several isolated incidents. Students, parents, teachers and administrators across Dallas grap pled with the ramifications of one of the worst football-related incidents in the district’s history two weeks ago. Five students were stabbed and one was treated for a head injury when a fight broke out after the game between football fans of op posing teams of Carter and Roose velt high schools. And in a separate incident, a Roosevelt student was arrested for allegedly punching one of his school’s football players and then hitting a coach attempting to break up the fight, police said. Suspect held on suspicion of beating DISD spokesman Rodney Davis says students are arrested regularly throughout the district. But since the Roosevelt and Carter incident, the district has been watching those two schools closely. Other area high schools are taking a closer look at their students and have begun planning preventive measures to curb possible violence. At Adamson High School, princi pal Edward Baca met with his coaches to outline a plan to keep emotions in line and PTA presidents from across the district discussed re viving “Dads Clubs” to patrol high school football games. Other plans under consideration throughout the district include add ing more security guards to some stadiums, changing two-way streets to one-way trafric during games to help manage crowds and locking the gates between rival teams’ bleachers. AUSTIN (AP) — A dry-clean®! store employee was severely bea lt: by a man who robbed the store a® then waited on customers after 11 ' assault, police said. The 17-year-old store derk^f serious but stable condition at Brat* enridge Hospital while an 18f J old suspect was held in police tody soon after the beating and 101 bery. According to police reports man entered the dry-cleanings 105 after noon Saturday. He toot 0 * counter clerk to the back of the s 105 and severely beat her, police s|# man Kellye Norris said. “She was beaten up real Norris said. “She’s going to be^ but she took a heck of a beatiif She said no weapon was used in 10 beating or robbery. Shortly after the beating, a of three walked into the store » ! the suspect waited on them as if 0 worked there, Norris said. “The guy did wait on them f° : while, but (police) believe he f spooked by the people and then 1 * out the back door,” she said. The customers found the bea®' victim and called police, who 1 rested the suspect minutes later. Charges had not been filed Sal- day night because officers were"® ing to talk with the victim, Nd 1 said. 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