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Friday, March 3,1989 The Battalion Page 5 Bookstore security techniques all but eliminate shoplifting By Sharon Maberry STAFF WRITER The Texas A&M University Bookstore’s security sys tem, which has existed since the 1970s, practically elimi nates shoplifting, Manager Howard DeHart said. The system is composed of a few simple methods that are effective when combined. The locker system was started in 1973 when custom ers placed their own belongings in lockers outside the store and took a key, DeHart said. That method was not successful because students often left belongings in lockers for extended periods of time, causing a short age of lockers. DeHart said the system was then changed to student workers placing belongings in lockers. “We don’t like the idea of having to take an individu al’s books,” DeHart said, “But we have to use the lockers because we don’t know if the books in customers’ hands are their books or our books. If they come through the checkout line with merchandise that we sell, we have to charge them.” Another security method employed by the bookstore is magnetized coding of merchandise. The coding, un less deactivated, sets off an alarm when it passes through an exit. Also, the bookstore employs a full-time security guard to monitor the exits on both levels of the store, DeHart said. The store’s employees must follow certain security measures, he said. Employees enter a back door and leave their belongings in lockers. They are not allowed to take anything off the sales floor. Any merchandise employees purchase is taken to the front desk and signed for by supervisors. DeHart, employed by A&M since 1969, said Aggies help make his job pleasant. “All in all, students at Texas A&M are special,” De Hart said. “They go along with our security measures and don’t complain. “My job has taken me to schools all over the country, but when I come back here, the attitude is so different from anywhere else. You can’t find a better campus than A&M. “The students are so friendly and, as a group, Aggies are more honest than students at other schools. The rich traditions that A&M has have always been honored and it makes this campus a nice place to be.” In Advance ‘Big Apple’ comes to MSC All Night Fair By Fiona Soltes STAFF WRITER This year’s MSC All Night Fair promises a taste of “The Big Ap ple” from 8 tonight to 2 a.m. Sat urday. The fair will be both inside and outside the Memorial Student Center for the first time, Elaine Horn, All Night Fair chairman, said. In the past, all booths have been inside. The event gives Texas A&M organizations the chance to earn money while providing a recre ational opportunity to the cam pus, Horn said. Visitors to the free event may participate in a dance sponsored by KKYS-FM or MSC Recre ation’s giant Twister game. About 70 carnival booths will be at the fair, each sponsored by a campus group to raise funds. By Chuck Lovejoy REVIEWER Young musicians from across the state, including two Bryan- area high school students, will compete in Rudder Auditorium this weekend for cash awards and the opportunity to perform with the Brazos Valley Symphony in the fourth annual Brazos Valley Young Artist Competition. The 23 young artists will per form concertos on piano or string instruments in the competition. Music professors from across the nation will judge the perfor mances. The competition will recognize two age divisions, one for per formers high school age and un der and one for ages 18-27. Pianist Alfred Lee from Bryan High School and violinist Natha lie Schweikert from St. Michael’s Academy will perform in the younger age division. Competition begins Saturday at 8 a.m. As many as eight semi-finalists, four strings and four pianists, will reach the preliminary round. The Texas A&M chapter of Eta Sigma Gamma will coordinate a food drive to benefit the needy in Brazos Valley from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today in Lot 5, behind the Blocker Building. The food drive will be contin ued, under the sponsorship erf the Brazos County Food Bank and KBTX-TV, Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Manor East Mall, Post Oak Mall and the Safeway located at 2000 E. High way 21 in Bryan. Coordinators of the event re quest that individuals donate food items which are non-perishable and are in non-glass containers. These booths will include activ ities such as cakewalks, mock jails, hayrides and bobbing for apples. Also included are Pictionary emmes, face painting, and a mas sage parlor, which Horn said is usually the favorite booth. To participate in these events, visitors can purchase tickets for 20 cents each. A book of 30 tickets may be purchased for $5, or 65 tickets for $ 10. Horn said “Variety in Motion,” an international juggling act, will perform at 10 p.m. and midnight in the Flag Room. The fair is sponsored by the Society for Entrepreneurship and New Ventures, Hullabaloo T- shirts, Flying Tomato, National Video and New York Seltzer. Horn said room has been re served in the MSC for the entire event in the case of inclement weather. Semifinal winners will each re ceive $100. Saturday’s winners will com pete in the semifinals beginning Sunday at 1:30 p.m., with as many as two from each instru ment division advancing to the fi nals, which begin Sunday night at 7:30. Musicians chosen for the finals will receive an additional $300. The top performer in the final round will be invited to perform with the Brazos Valley Symphony in their “Concerto Concert” on March 31 and will receive a cash award of $1,000. Admission to the preliminary and semi-final rounds is free. Tickets to the finals will be available at the door and are $3 for adults and $1 for students and unaccompanied children. Children accompanied by an adult will be admitted free. The competition is sponsored by the Brazos Valley Symphony Society and the Bryan-College Station Music Teachers Associa tion, as well as A&M’s MSC OPAS, College of Liberal Arts and Department of Philosophy and Humanities. Homemade and home-canned items will not be accepted as do nations because of state law. Donations will be stored at the Brazos Country Food Bank ware house and distributed by various charitable organizations and churches in the area. If the event lives up to its theme, “100,000 pounds of food from 100,000 people,” the Brazos County Food Bank will store enough food to supply the needy for five to six months, said Bar bara Reilley, a member of the the food bank’s board of directors. Hunger (Continued from page 1) bers have to be decreased, but we have to cut the death rate before we can cut the birth rate.” Kimberley said if they asked a woman in an underdeveloped coun try to have only two children, she would most likely say no. “She knows that the chances of those two children surviving is grim,” he said. “So she’ll have a large family, and there’s not much that we can do.” What Kimberley suggests the United States do to help suffering people around the globe is restruc ture the debt owed by third-world countries. He said it’s possible to feed all the people in the world, but every coun try has to help in order for poverty and starvation to decrease. The number of people who live in in poverty and starvation has varied over the years, but it’s something the world has always known. Cralle said, “We know the home less from yesterday — not just the starving children in Africa, but in the United States as well — and we know the homeless of today.” The diffence between the two is that today’s homeless know pro gress. “We know more about childhood diseases, and we know how to treat them responsibly, but restrictions are holding us back,” Cralle said. The restrictions being physical and political limitations. “When I say physical limitations, I’m talking about the percentage of land capable of crop production,” Cralle said. “For example in Mexico it’s 15 percent.” As for political limitations, Cralle is referring to the power the govern ment holds in terms of allocating re sources. The resources are present in so ciety, but it’s a matter of lifting the restrictions or working with them in order to bring change, Cralle said. Change can only occur through action and people willing to take that action, he said. Kimberley said many people tell him they want to help but don’t think their contribution would make a difference. “It’s impossible to sit this one out,” he said. “What we have right now are the resources to save millions of lives.” Some lives will be helped and pos sibly saved by money the Interna tional Students Association raised in donations for UNICEF this week. Jayne Mobley, wife of A&M Presi dent William Mobley, was the guest of honor at the forum and presented Kimberley with a donation from the ISA. ISA collected $1,200 for UNICEF during the cultural display in the MSC. Sandra Burke, public relations coordinator of ISA, said although she doesn’t know how much was raised at a buffet Wednesday eve ning, they did well. “The tickets were sold out and we had to make 100 more tickets, while sending another 100 people away,” Burke said. Tonight a talent show will bring International Week to a close. Tick ets are still available at the box office in Rudder. Young Artist contest features 2 local teens Food drive today helps Brazos Valley hungry YESTERDAYS DART TOURNAMENT Blind Draw Doubles Tuesdays 8:30 Home Dress Code near Lubys 846-2625 \ARRIBA, ARRIBA \ Begin Summer with a Cultural Fiesta! WHO: Festive Texas A&M Students WHEN: Monday, May 15 through Sunday, May 21, 1989 WHERE: Scenic MEXICO CITY WHAT: Pyramids, Museums, Mercados, Bullfights, and mucho, mucho more! For more exciting details, join us in a Informational Meeting Tuesday, March 7, 1989, Room 231 MSC, 8:30pm. ***Total cost for roundtrip airfare and 6 nights in Aristos Hotel is $406 for double occupancy and $359 for triple occupancy. A nonrefundable $50 deposit is due by noon, Thursday. March 30,1989 in room 223G in the MSC Browsing Library, second floor. Deposits will be taJken from - 3:00 to 5:00pm on March 27 to 29. and 9:00am to 12:00pm on March 30 in room 223G. •MSC Jordan Institute for International Awareness 845-8770 Spring Break for Sale Great Rates for Great Times Make your spring break affordable! Great rates offer deluxe rooms at one low price for the whole family. $85 per night/gets you a room, 4 adults to a room, plus tax. $88 Emerald Beach - the best that Corpus Christi has to offer: • Located on 600 feet of white sandy beachfront • Relax & play in the surf, join a fishing party or sightsee • Indoor pool, whirlpool & sauna • Indoor playport for the kids Call 1-800-Holiday for Reservations (Not available on oceanfront rooms. Must be 19 or older for reservations. Subject to availability.) EMERALD ^BEACH 1102 S. Shoreline, Corpus Christi, Texas 78401, 512 883-5731 Exchange Ideas... Exchange Cultures... Be an EXCHANGE STUDENT May 22 through Tune 22,1989 ***a cultural exchange hosted by Georg August Universitat students ***live with families in Gottingen, West Germany *’ f ’*'travel to other parts of Europe Informational Meeting: Thursday, March 9,1989 in Room 604 Rudder at 7:00 pm. Applications are now available in 223G Browsing Library, second floor MSC, and are due on Monday, March 20,1989 at noon. COST = group rate airfare + spending money MSC Jordan Institute for International Awareness 845-8770 Afghanistan: The Cultural & Social Implications of Soviet Withdrawal INSIDE AFGHANISTAN The MSC Jordan Institute for International Awareness and introduced by Dr. Manochehr Dorraj, Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science Dept. Monday, March 6,1989 Room 510 Rudder 8:30 PM Plant your ad in The Battalion Classified and harvest the RESULTS! Phone 845-2611 for help in placing your ad.