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Wednesday, Nov. 23, 1988 Page 3
Food services begins work
on expansion for Commons
By Amy Radcliff
Reporter
The Food Services Department
has begun a $3 million expansion
project on the Commons dining fa
cility. The expanded facility is being
built to accommodate about 900
more students, residents of the four
new residence halls now under con
struction behind the Commons.
The project was approved by the
Texas A&M Board of Regents Nov.
5. Construction began the following
week.
Lloyd Smith, director of food
services, said the project is scheduled
for completion in November 1989.
“The Commons will seat about
400 more students at any one time,
and those seats turn over about
three times each meal,” Smith said.
“It will give us about 1,200 additio
nal people we can take care of seat
ing-wise.”
The east and west wings and the
back of the dining facility will be ex
tended. “The total addition on both
floors is 14,279 square feet, which is
really not that large considering how
much we needed it,” Smith said.
When the Commons was built in
October 1972, it consisted of only
two residence halls. In 1976, the two
south dorms were added to the com
plex.
The Commons dining hall also
served some of the Corps of Cadets
dormitories and Underwood Hall. _
“Expanding the facilities was the
only feasible way to accommodate
everyone,” Smith said.
In order to cause students as little
inconvenience as possible, construc
tion in the dining or kitchen areas
will not begin until after spring
break, Smith said.
“Most of the work that will incon
venience people will be done this
summer,” he said.
In other campus construction
plans, additions to the MSC and a
parking garage near G. Rollie White
Coliseum are in preliminary plan
ning stages, Smith said.
Video dating service popularity
overtakes B-CS singles scene
By Stephanie Stribling
Reporter
Some do it because they are
lonely. Some do it because they have
a hard time meeting new people.
Those who are divorced do it be
cause they have forgotten how. Oth
ers do it because it is perceived to be
less risky than the alternative.
“It” is the use of the increasingly
popular video dating service, Singles
Connection.
Michele Thompson, manager of
Singles Connection in Bryan, said
that people use dating services for a
variety of reasons.
“A lot of people are lonely or bu
sy,” Thompson said. “They don’t
have time to meet people or don’t
know how to go about it.”
Thompson said that because re
ports of date rape are on the rise,
some people use the service to
screen their dates in advance.
“People are getting more selecti
ve,” she said. “This way they know
something about the people they’re
going to meet. They certainly know
what they look like. They know if
they smoke, and what they do for a
living. It’s not like a blind date.”
However, Thompson said the
most common reason for using a
dating service is also the simplest.
“They just want to meet some
body nice,” she said.
Many people hold the misconcep
tion that people resort to the use of a
dating service only in desperation,
Thompson said.
"It’s not a desperate act,” she said.
“It’s good protection for yourself."
She said some women have a
more difficult time believing that
than than men do.
"It’s just a bright thing to do, and
men see it that way,” Thompson
said. “Women want to do it, they just
don’t want to appear desperate.
Women would always prefer that
University News Service
More than 2,100 Texas A&M cadets
will parade through downtown Austin
Thursday afternoon as part of the tradi
tional Aggie Corps Trip before the Uni
versity of Texas-Texas A&M Thanks
giving Day football game.
Led by Corps of Cadets Commander
Todd Reichert, the parade will include
the Parsons’ Mounted Cavalry and the
300-member Fightin’ Texas Aggie
Band. The cadets step off at 2 p.m. at
Third Street and Congress Avenue and
will march up Congress Avenue to the
State Capitol Building, where the group
will disband.
you think they’re sitting at home
turning down a multitude of dates.”
Because of this concern with
image, she said, attracting female
members to use the video service has
been more difficult than attracting
male members.
Thompson said the age of the
members varies widely, but the ma
jority of members are in their mid-
20s to late 30s. The possibility of se
lecting a date in this age group is sig
nificantly better than for those out
side the age group.
“If you’re a teen-ager, the selec
tion may not be real good,and if
you’re in your 50s, it may not be real
good,” Thompson said. “But if
you’re anywhere in the middle, that
is, 20 to 40, then it’s good.”
For $50 a month or $250 a year,
applicants can fill out a personal
f irofile form detailing their likes, dis-
ikes, desires and goals. These pro
files are placed in a book with two
photographs of the applicant. The
applicant then must make an ap
pointment to have a three- to five-
minute video of themselves made, in
which they are asked questions by an
interviewer.
The rest is up to individual mem
bers, Thompson said, but it the
process is usually the same.
“You pick a guy you would like to
meet,” she said. “He comes in and
looks at your video, your pictures
and your profile sheet. Both of you
have to say yes. If he also agrees,
then we exchange your phone num
bers.”
Thompson said being chosen by a
prospective date can be exciting.
“It’s a lot of fun when you get a
little card in the mail saying you have
been selected by another member,"
Thompson said.
She said that the screening and
application procedures at the Singles
Connection help ensure that mem
bers are serious and discriminating.
Maj. Gen. Don O. Daniel, commander
of Troop Command of the Texas Army
National Guard, will serve as reviewing
officer and receive the salutes from the
38 Corps units as they pass the reviewing
stand at Seventh Street and Congress
Avenue.
Daniel is a 1956 A&M graduate.
Aggie Corps Trips date back to 1878,
when special trains transported the entire
uniformed A&M student body. Early
outings were made to the San Jacinto
Battlefield for the staging of mock bat
tles. At about the turn of the century, the
trips were made to coincide with football
contests.
“Just the nature of the business is
screening,” Thompson said. “If you
weren’t a discriminating individual
to start with, why come here?”
In addition to its sophisticated
screening procedures, Thompson
said, Singles Connection reserves the
right to refuse membership to any
one on moral grounds. She gave an
example for which such refusal
might be necessary: “If a girl has a
real hard time with a guy, and it was
a big struggle throughout the whole
evening, then I don’t want him as a
member,” Thompson said.
She said that no such incidents
By Michelle Sanger
Reporter
Texas A&M students now have an
alternative to Northgate copy cen
ters with the recent opening of Copy
Corner, which is owned and oper
ated by students.
Nick Bregenzer, vice president of
Copy Corner, said plans for the cen
ter were designed to provide stu
dents with a convenient alternative
to other copy centers.
Bregenzer, an A&M senior fi
nance and accounting major, said
that before Copy Corner, only two
copy centers — both located in
Northgate — supplied the copying
services students needed.
“Convenience is our big niche,”
Bregenzer said. “In a demographic
study we discovered that over 67
percent of the student population
lives closer to our location. No one
has ever come into the market to
compete with the copy centers in
town and the market was ready.”
Bregenzer and two other A&M
students realized the opportunity to
open a copy center, so they raised
the money and started their own
company, he said.
“Copy Corner, a full service copy
center, is owned by Aggies for Ag
gies with the students’ needs in
mind,” he said.
Copy Corner’s prices for typing
and binding will be less than its com
petitors’ prices. The copy center will
sell class notes during the spring se
mester, he said.
Larry Hodges, a senior finance
major and president of Copy Cor
ner, said the copy center staff is en
thusiastic about establishing a good
reputation at A&M.
“We want to provide a friendly at-
have occurred at Singles Connec
tion, which has been in operation
about a year.
“No one has ever gone out with
someone from here and hated
them,” Thompson said. “Every now
and then they may not go out a sec
ond time, but usually they do.”
She said that successful dates hap
pen more frequently than
unsucessful ones.
“We have our first couple getting
married that met through us,”
Thompson said.
mosphere and quality service,” he
said.
Bregenzer said, “Eventually we
will have a study room in the back
where students can relax or study.”
Dennis Averitt, a junior education
major, is in charge of production at
Copy Corner. Averitt, who has
worked for Kinkos and On the Dou
ble, is familiar with the mechanics of
the machines, Bregenzer said.
The Copy Corner staff will finish
printing class notes and setting up
the store during Christmas break,
' "We’re using this month before
Christmas to iron out any problems
we have and to see how large our
market is,” Bregenzer said.
Copy Corner is open Monday
through Thursday 7 a.m-2 a.m., Fri
day 7 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday 10
a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.-2
a.m.
Correction
A story in Tuesday’s Battalion
about the Texas A&M Board of
Regents’ approval of construction
of the proposed University Cen
ter contained some incorrect in
formation.
Off Campus Aggies was men
tioned as one of the student of
fices that might be moved to the
University Center when construc
tion is complete. The story re
ported incorrectly that OCA is lo
cated in Puryear Hall.
The Off Campus Center, an
administratively funded office, is
located in Puryear. OCA is lo
cated in the Pavilion.
The Battalion regrets the er
ror.
Texas A&M cadets
set for Austin trip
New copy center
owned by students
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