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$711,000 house becomes home
to members of A&M fraternity
By Jeff Pollard
Staff Writer
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It was like watching the opening
credits of the television show “Dal
las.”
Dt iving out in the middle of no
where, among the fields and trees,
the audience suddenly sees a house
— a big house. The scene is impres
sive until someone is heard yelling,
“Get a fast-food restaurant out he
re!” Then the audience realizes that
it is not the Ewings who live here —
the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity is
moving into its new house.
Fraternity members moved into
the house on Jan. 15 even though all
the work had not been completed.
“I love just being in the house fi
nally,” said Darren Barfield, trea
surer of Alpha Gamma Rho, a pro
fessional and social fraternity for
agriculture majors. “We’ve been
planning for this since we sold our
old house three years ago.”
The new house is the first to be
built for any fraternity at Texas
A&M and is located off Wellborn
Road past FM 2818. Jason Howell,
the fraternity’s vice president, said
the developer has set aside the area
around the Alpha Gamma Rho
house for other fraternities inter
ested in moving.
“Building a house out here has
gotten a lot of energy going as far as
everyone trying to buy up the lots
and trying to have the second house
out here,” Howell said. “Everyone
keeps telling us that we won’t be
lonely out here for long.”
The house will hold 60 people liv
ing in two- and three-person rooms.
The house elso has a receiving room
for guests, a recreation room with a
pool table and large-screen tele
vision set, a librarv. a comnuter
Alpha Gamma Rho moved into the first house on fraternity row.
room and a fully furnished kitchen-
/dining room area.
The cost of all of this was
$711,000, said Dr. Ron Richter,
AGR’s faculty adviser.
Richter said that the national
chapter paid for part of the house
and guaranteed the loans for 10
years. Fraternity members are re
sponsible for the rest of the cost, he
said.
Barfield said the national frater
nity is supporting the A&M chapter.
“Our national headquarters is
really behind this house,” Barfield
said. “I think all national fraternities
are looking to improve their foot
holds in Texas. Since A&M is one of
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the largest agriculture schools in the
nation, it’s really important to us.”
There are 35 people living at the
house now, paying $390 per month.
This pays for food, rent, utilities and
the salary of the cook and house
mother. Howell said that 50 people
have to live there in order for the
fraternity to break even.
The $711,000 included the lot,
the house and a few r furnishings like
beds, tables and kitchen equipment.
It also included a lot of hidden ex
penses that the planners didn’t ex
pect, Barfield said.
“There are those little nit-pit ky
things like getting the water and the
power turned on that cost a lot of
monev," Barfield said. “Then theij
are the times when you wash volI
hands and there are no towels,
(you) take a shower and there iso
soap — little things.”
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ternity !i<>|><-s t<> have all work coil
pleted and the house decorated!l
Feb. 6, when an open house isschec
tiled for every one involved wit(
project, Howell said.
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“The open house is by invitatiotj
only, but if someone wants to see
place we would be glad to show
around,” Howell said. “We hope
have another open house in /
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DALLAS (AP) — High school stu
dents across Texas are being warned
they will face a new test of their skills
when they get to college — one that
holds the key to a college degree.
For the first time in Texas, stu
dents enrolling at public colleges
and universities must pass a
statewide exam before they can take
the upper-level courses necessary
for graduation.
Brochures describing the test re
quirement will go out to more than
400,000 high school students within
a few months, the Dallas Morning
News reported Sunday.
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“We are putting these students on
notice that they will have to take this
test,” said Nolan Wood of the Texas
Education Agency, adding that it
might provide additional incentive
to prepare for college.
The first wave of students to be
tested, those now in the 1 1th grade,
are being notified about the exam
this spring by the TEA. Sophomores
also will be notified^ ,\vM
The new exam —- the Texq? Aca
demic Skills Program (TA$P) Test
— could shake up the state’s higher
education system when it is first ad
ministered in 1989. An estimated
one in four freshmen lack the skills
necessary to do college-level work.
The 150-question exam, measur
ing competence in English, math
and writing, will be given to all in
coming college freshmen beginning
in the summer of 1989. Students will
be given four hours to complete the
test, which also includes a written es
say.
Those who fail will not be barred
from attending college, but they
must pass the exam before they can
attain junior status. And they must
take remedial courses until they
pass.
The new testing requirement was
perhaps the most significant of seve
ral higher education reforms passed
by the legislature last year.
In recommending the exam to
state lawmakers, a higher education
reform panel cited statistics dial
quarter of the 120,000 freshmen en
tering Texas’ public colleges and
universities each year lack basic skills
to do the work.
“It would be wonderful if our ex
pectations of a large number of stu
dents doing poorly on this test were
wrong, but most of us expect to see a
high failure rate,” said Rep. W'ilhel-
mina Delco, D-Austin, chairman of
the House Higher Education Com
mittee and a sponsor of the testing
legislation.
UFOs turn out to be planet Venus, moon
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) —
There really weren’t any little green
men in the skies near the Oklahoma
and Texas border, according to a
Little Rock astronomer.
Clay Sherrod, Arkansas Sky Ob
servatory director, believes what
Little River County, Ark. residents
saw as unidentified flying objects
were actually the planet Venus and
the moon.
The Little River County Sheriffs
Office received about 60 reports of
UFO sightings between Ashdown
and Foreman near the Oklahoma
and I exas borders. Observers re
ported seeing two unidentified fly
ing objects flying together and then
going off in different directions at
great speed. The objects changed
color from red to green to blue,
according to one witness.
“You can see that phenomenon
from all over the country,” Sherrod
said.
“That’s when the moon and Ve
nus were so close together. It (Ve
nus) appears to move from side to
side, enlarge and change colors.”
The motion and color changes are
an illusion caused as light from the
moon or other extraterrestrial object
passes through the earth’s atmo
sphere. Air currents in the atmo
sphere cause light waves to bend and
scatter, distorting the images of
planets and stars beyond; like
looking at an object through rippled
glass.
Air movement, such as that
caused by the rising of warm air in
the atmosphere, will make the planet
appear to twinkle or shift from side
to side. The atmosphere can also
work like a glass prism as it bends
light and breaks light into its compo
nent rainbow colors. Shifting air will
make the light from the object pass
through the air at different angles,
causing the planet appear to change
color.
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HOUSTON (AP) — With the
AIDS scare in full force, David
Stegman saw dollar signs when he
bought vending machines at a na
tional trade convention.
The machines were tastefully
designed. They lacked the gritty
graphics that usually adorned the
dispensers in the restrooms of|
truck stops and sleazy bars, so
Stegman bought six of them fori
the upscale nightclubs where he
has vending contracts.
He put one machine in a wom
en’s restroom at a fashionable
club on a Friday afternoon and
waited for the money to roll in.
After all, the vending machine I
salesman had told him all six of
his dispensers would be paid off]
once their hatch of goods was sold
to practitioners of safe sex.
However, Monday afternoon
when he opened the machine, he
discovered he had made only)
three sales. At 50 cents each, that
meant a grand total of $1.50.
“The manager bought one, his I
secretary bought one and blewii
up like a balloon and no one|
knows who bought the third," he
said. “They just don’t sell.”
Every two months for the past
year Stegman said he has col-|
ected an average of $6 from his
vending machine.
Barbara Nelson, vice president
sales for Mediverse Inc., a
manufacturer of condoms in
Minneapolis and a supplier to the
Houston area, blames poor sales
on the traditional shyness people
have about buying condoms and
because prophylactics are readily
available at pharmacies.
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