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lay • November 7, A&J Celly said. “Evenifii :omes questionable, n in the building is mitored.” ar power is probably isunderstood source Reece said, n people think of nut .hey see the mushruj leece said, one is exposed to narj ation everyday ot be feared, Hart sail onday • November 7, 1994 Vggiebucks ontinued from Page 1 niversities, like Southern [ethodist University, using a ebit card banking system. “Since Southern Methodist diversity does not fall within be definition of ‘institution of igher education’ as defined in ;he Texas Education Code), here is no plausible authority ir it to engage in either sale of hecks or banking activities ithout a license or a certificate f authority, respectively, to en- age in such activities,” Ihiglieri wrote in the letter. nuclear power indue well regulated,” Hiiowen wants to expand iere should be moreci n 0 * o ** ut oil. eas, and cod: “ r - R " y ®k W a?; A&M P resl - ° , „„„ i,,„„ ent, said il the Attorney Gener- are not near],m ^ that the Univ J sity can the beginning of the, “‘‘""S , to P tilize Buck ( 8 ' »er age in 1944.4 wl11 try .l° ex P and them lnt0 n seven deaths a» k ' commun y-,. , . . adiation. Hart said, /epresentatives from local Hen read about refir; lff - cam P us bookstores and Mc- ‘ , , ir ' lonald’s met with Bowen Oct. 5 ” Hart said ^ 0 discuss ex P an ding the Aggie * lucks system to off-campus Tnisinesses. John Raney, owner of the 1 exas Aggie Bookstores, said the iff-campus bookstores want to ie able to accept Aggie Bucks so hat students can shop for the lest prices and still use their Iggie Bucks. “We feel like the students are etting the short end of the itick,” he said. “Students who pgether tve. This enables you ions about your hea: ions. The only way ins about your care is i do not understand oarticular procedure ^our physician. Thii your right to participi ent. Leather py, follow the instra were given. Doing m to your normal leu le, if you receive ructions are to take! uhe medication unlesi mrse drug reaction. ; your physician im® tion was given tor; erms and the only omplete the treatment iking sure that yourt ns is to repeat them It , ask any questions re , such as danger sign up appointment, that up to 30 percen| dividuals had a of several basic met istic only emphasize se four points. Be nanaging your heal our physician is put their money in Aggie Bucks cannot shop for the best deal.” No book, liquor buying Bowen said the University is willing to allow some off-campus businesses to accept Aggie Bucks, but not businesses that sell books or liquor. He said Barnes and Noble Bookstores, Inc. has a contract with the University to be the only bookstore to accept Aggie Bucks. The contract expires in 2005. Raney said he knows about the contract, but wants students to be aware of the situation. “We’ve had students walk out of our store because we do not accept Aggie Bucks,” he said. Shri Parchuri, textbook man ager at Loupot’s Bookstore, said the local bookstores were not al lowed to bid on the contract for the on-campus bookstore. “We feel that their contract with Barnes and Noble was pret ty sneaky,” he said. Parchuri said bidding for the contract was not open to local bookstores. He said the local bookstores did not know A&M was considering privatizing the bookstore until the contract was signed. Same thing, different state Other states have faced simi lar situations. When Florida State Univer sity was designing its debit card system in 1989, off-cam- pus businesses complained that The Battalion • Page 3 the university was creating its own bank. FSU resolved the issue of ex clusive banking by having an outside banking institution handle their debit cards system, Bill Norwood, executive director of card application technology center at FSU, said. Norwood said that FSU has been able to expand their debit card into many uses. Next se mester, students’ financial aid will be credited to their cards instead of them having to wait in line, he said. “We have the capability to do these things because we have an outside banking institution,” he said. FSU allows 'open card' They also allowed the card to be used both on and off campus. “We wanted to design an open card that could be used both on and off campus,” Nor wood said. Norwood said the off-campus businesses who want to accept universities’ debit cards are concerned about how students use their discretionary money. “These businesses consider the on-campus businesses that accept the debit cards to be in unfair competition with them,” he said. 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