Summer Edition Number 5 Fl Technician Friday, July 21, 1972 F
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fl Technician Summer Edition Number 5 Friday, July 21, 1972 Flsher WIIlS _ ARA Slater checkmated in sandwich" match by Hilton Smith Sandwiches were numbered and not “In some areas where Fisher For many years the Fisher At that time it was hoped that Guest Writer labled by company. did not win in competition he has Company along,with the Wilson Sand- Through these profits to Slater, the campus cafeteria ARA sandwiches will disappear results and the eval- seen the winning sandwich and has wich Company had supplied sand- caterer, and to the University would uation of the written proposals sub- agreed to make changes in his sand- wiches to the campus snack bars. from campus snack bar shelves July mitted by the four companies, the be increased. 28 ending almost two and wich to bring it up to that quality,” This did not occur. Resentment a half years Fisher Company was awarded the commented Armstrong. In the spring of 1970 the Univer- of service which had its stormy contract. sity Office of Business Affairs directed over the Business Office decision beginnings in March of 1970. ARA Services District Manager Joe the Student Supply Store to switch resulted in a boycott of sandwiches. According to Armstrong the sand- Grogan expressed dissappointment to “Fisher Sandwich Company of wiches that Fisher prepared for the Slater(now ARA Services) as their In fact sales of sandwiches have never Raleigh has been the successful that his company had lost out on the (continued taste test will be used as the standard contract. supplier. on page 5) sandwich firm in our negotiations. for the one that will be sold here. Slater’s (now ARA Services) last day “From all indications from every- of service will be Friday, July 28. one who was at the evaluation they Slater’s Service Fisher will start early on the morning certainly could see the difference. The “Really I know they could get of July 29,” stated Student Supply quality has been set and the quality sandwiches cheaper than we could but Store Assistant General Manager G. that we saw is what we will accept,” no one could give them the service Robert Armstrong. stated Armstrong. that we could. They are our only Check of Suppliers However Armstrong announced customer. We could tailor our service that there will be some price increases to them,” said Grogan. “We checked out between 12 and because sandwiches will be heavier “From the day we first negotiated, 15 potential sandwich suppliers. We and will have more ingredients than in we have been requesting permission to sent invitations to nine. We received the past. ARA Services has been ask- serve better sandwiches at a higher proposals from six of them. We ing for an increase for almost a year. price.” invited four of the six to send samples In addition to current offerings, According to Grogan the em- for a taste test.” Fisher will include some new sand- ployees'who now work on sandwiches The taste test was held June 31 wiches such as a breakfast line includ- will be absorbed into the other two' with, John Walston, representing the ing ham and egg and sausage and egg‘. ARA operations on campus or into Campus Stores Committee Chairman, Microwave ovens are planned to be other units in the area. Chairman Thomas Gordon of the Uni- installed in both Bragaw Snack Bar The loss of the sandwich contract versity Food Services Committee, and and the Student Supply Store Snack means a loss to Slater of $100,000 in representatives of the Supply Store Bar with more installations possible annual gross sales and a loss to the and Business Office participating. later. University of $7,000 annually. University exploring possibility of establishing Veterinary School The increasing need for more and Maryland as well as North Caro- “It is a matter of such a school’s spaces in the field of veterinary lina are now short of spaces. relationship with other states and its medicine is forcing State and the State At the same time such states as cost. It is estimated that it would . of North Carolina to consider Oklahoma that have schools have had cost between $15 million and $20 establishing such a school at State. to cut back on the number of outside million for establishment of a school “The point has become critical spaces because of the increasing de- and $2 million and $4 million an- here in the last few years in North mand from their own state residents. nually to operate it, depending on its Carolina especially in serving regional depth and study. needs,” stated Agriculture and Life State-Wide Board Sciences Academic Affairs Director According to Glazener SREB made “I think that somewhere in the Dr. E. W. Glazener. a study and concluded that more upper half of the south a school will Because of this State has asked and Spaces are needed either through ex- have to be located to take care of the received tentative approval for a De- panded schools or new schools. They students from these areas.” partment of Veterinary Science by the did not specify locations however. Glazener sees costs as the main North Carolina Board of Higher Edu- A feasibility study was made by obstacle and hopes that the University cation. However neither funds for this the North Carolina Board of Higher of North Carolina Board of Governors department, nor planning funds for Education which resulted in the ten- will look at such a school on a studying the need for a full school tative approval of a department of regional as well as on a state-wide here have been allocated. veterinary science at State. basis. “The permanent establishment of a “In the meantime what this means Study Made school, the size and its funding are is that we will be operating as we have {\-‘ .- still under study. Requests are now in the past. Our students from North While the Supply Stere In addition the Board of Higher being made for planning money to Carolina were accepted by, five schools changes sandwich suppliers, the new Education and the Consolidated Uni- look at the total picture,” said this year. Certainly no one will slow University Student Center snack bar has opened with a line of versity Office have now been abo- Glazener. made-to-order delicatessen sandwiches. lished in favor of a new state-wide down on this.” (Photo by Caram) Board of Governors. What affect this will have on the tentative department and the planning request is unclear. Glazener explained that no veteri- Chancellor vetoes transit system nary school presently exists in North Carolina and that qualified North “The transit system at least tempo- Carolina graduates have been serviced and Environment Committee voted (the administration and the Commit- parking on parts of the main campus rarily is dead and I think the uni- against that plan “on the basis tee) want to push ahead on the con- through an agreement with the versity will during the day. Southern Regional Education Board. probably be proceeding that the negative environmental im- struction of the first parking this fall with the development of the pact would far outweigh the benefits structure. The location will probably Nighttime parking regulations will “The State of North Carolina and first parking N. C. State have been participating in structure,” stated Uni- to be gained from such service.” be in the East Coliseum lot or west of be unchanged from last semester. versity Traffic Administrative Officer the Coliseum,” stated Williams. A raise is a regional program through the W. L. Williams in a recent interview. The Parking and Traffic Committee being wnsidered for “A” Southern Regional Education Board met with these objections and came or reserved space, decals which are Chancellor John T. Caldwell early “I really think the transit system only available to certain since the late 1940’s. By this plan the this summer rejected a proposed cam- up with the second plan which the top admini- State of North Carolina through Chancellor just recently turned down. would have worked but how to get strators, deans, and students. pus transit system for a second time around the funding problem I don’t SREB has purchased spaces for North citing problems of equitable financing. Consultants Bicycle Carolina residents to study veterinary Report know. I have never been against a Registration As proposed by the University The Committee had patterned its parking structure.” medicine in other states,” he said. Parking and Traffic Committee the “It is now mandatory to register a “Under this plan a student paid the recommendation for a transit system bicycle and Student Government will campus loop system would have been after the final report of its consultant, Little change will be made in the tuition rate as if he were an in-state financed by a mandatory $10 fee fee structure this year according to do the registration! am for the regis- student. Primarily Wilbur Smith and Associates. Smith tration because it is a quick identity the schools have levied on each student and faculty had recommended both a transit Williams. A new “F” decal will be in been the University of Georgia, Okla- member. Questions arose however on available for those who want to park case the bike is stolen. SG will charge homa State University system and a parking structure as part only administrative and Tuskegee how many of these Students would of its final report to the Committee. in McKimmon Village and Fraternity costs,” com- Institute.” actually use the system. Court at $5 a year.