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Marriott Corporation, one of the
largest hotel and food service com
panies in the nation, is now serving
UNC following its contract selection
April 25.
Marriott, is one of the world's
largest food service companies,
serves over 60 college campuses
including Georgetown University,
The College of William and Mary
and Indiana University. The com
pany also serves airlines as the
world's largest in-flight caterer, and
operates several restaurant chains
including Roy Roger's Restaurants.
Big Boy Restaurants and Hot Shot
Cafeterias, said Bill Dux, Marriott's
director of food services at UNC.
Marriott was selected by the
Country-western star killed
From Associated Press reports
INDUSTRY, ILL. The leader
of a country-western band from
Iowa was killed when her husband
accidentally ran over her with the
band's bus near here, authorities
said.
Dorla Stewart Watson. 43. of
Keokuk, was killed on U.S. High
way 67 a mile north of here and 12
miles south of Macomb when her
husband, Larry Gale Watson,
backed over her with the bus
Saturday, police said.
Police said Mrs. Watson and the
band Dorla Stewart and the CC
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Committee because its representa
tives showed that they could provide
the University with the highest
quality and the best service at the
lowest price, said Charles Antle, the
associate vice chancellor of business
and finance.
"Their proposal showed that they
would be using more managers than
the others and wcknew that they
were used to dealing with high
qualithy institutions," he said. "The
other schools that were already
using them gave them very high
marks in terms of quality."
The company was operating
Lenior Hall by May 20, due to
AR A's unwillingness to remain until
the suggested June 30 transition
deadline, Antle said.
Riders were headed for a show
in Beardstown when a truck being
towed by the bus broke loose.
Watson decided to stop and retrieve
the truck. Mrs. Watson apparently
got out of the bus to give directions
while her husband drove, police
said.
' The back windows of the bus were
boarded over so Larry Watson could
not have seen his wife standing
behind the bus, police said.
Mrs. Watson died of massive head
and chest injuries and multiple
fractures at the scene.
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I and Marriott found out . at
about the same time that we had
a commitment for the TOPS orien
tation on May 20, and much to their
credit. Marriott came in at the
University's request, and were able
to begin service by then," Antle said.
Dux said that even though it was
only a couple of weeks after they
had been awarded the contract, they
were eager to prove themselves.
"ARA wanted to pull out imme
diately following graduation, so we
were more than willing to begin
serving ' by the first orientation
session if that's what the University
wanted," he said.
All of the employees that Marriott
hired for the summer had previously
been employees of ARA, and all
employees maintained the same
status and seniority, Dux said. "We
didn't hire anybody that wasn't with
ARA, as is standard practice with
our company," he said.
Antle said UNC was a difficult
campus to serve because, unlike
other campuses, the contractor has
competition from other sources on
campus. Caterers often serve special
events, the hospital provides its own
meal service, and athletes often eat
at a training table. These factors,
along with the lack of a combined
room and board plan, which gua
rantees a certain amount of revenue
to the contractor, forces the food
contractor to compete with other
businesses both on and off campus,
he said.
The company plans to begin some
minor renovations in the operation
of both Lenior and Chase halls, but.
is now concentrating on getting the
operation running smoothly, and
doing some cleaning of the dining
facilities in order to begin full
operations in the fall.
Hormones
From Associated Press reports
PHILADELPHIA The clear
superiority of junior high boys over
girls at math cannot be explained
by differences in upbringing or
attitudes, and probably results from
the influence of male sex hormones,
a researcher said Monday.
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There will not be many highly
visible changes in the facilities
themselves, since they are provided
by the University, but Marriott is
striving to improve the service and
food quality. Dux said.
"We are mainly concentatlng on
food quality, food service seems to
have been the hot issue on this
campus, and we want to make sure
we can become a part of the Uni
versity, and not the hot issue," Dux
said.
The snack bars around campus
will be a key area targeted for
renovations, he said. The main
emphasis will be to make them more
attractive and to offer a wider variety
of snacks. t
v Lenoir and Chase halls will
remain relatively unchanged, except
for minor changes to improve the
logistics of their operations. The
Commons area will be the only one
changed extensively, with the fast
food area to be renamed H. B. Quix.
It will be redone with a concept
similar to a Roy Roger's Restaurant,
and offer fast food comparable or
surpassing the quality of the area's
various fast food chains, he said.
Dux stressed that the main empha
sis will be on improving food
quality.
I was here during the survey
process when the various companies
were bidding for the process, and
I saw the potential that food service
here has," Dux said. "The main
change will be in what we call batch
cooking, like not having 50 or 60
biscuits sitting out at 7:30 in the
morning, or having all the ham
burgers cooked at 11 for the 1:00
rush."
The mandatory meal card plan
will be made more flexible, although
give boys edge in-math
Dr. Camilla P. Benbow acknowl
edged that the idea of males' bio
logical edge in math is "unpopular
and controversial."
The Iowa State University psy
chologist presented her findings at
the annual meeting of the American
Assocatiori for the Advancement of
Summer
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the requirement is University policy
and not controlled by Marriott. The
$100 minimum requirement will still
be in affect, but at the end of a
semester, balances over $100 can be
automatically applied to the next
semester's account. At the end of the
school year, students may apply for
a refund and receive the balance of
their accounts back, Dux said.
Antle said the meal plan was
implemented in 1982 after the
University made $4.5 million reno
vations to Lenoir Hall and felt it
needed to demonstrate some min
imal level of use to the food service
contractor.
The pricing structure will also be
evaluated before the fall semester to
ensure that it is in line with area
restaurants serving similar menus,
he said.
"That way we can show the
reasons why our pricing structure is
as it is, and if we see that something
is out of line, we will change it.
"I recently had someone tell me
that our beverage prices were out
rageous, but those prices are the
same as they have been, same drinks
and the same sizes. Well make the
adjustments if they are reasonable
and have some basis, but if someone
says prime rib should be 25 cents,
well, it's a more logical process then
that."
The company hopes to maintain
a positive relationship with UNC
students, faculty and staff, he said.
"It's very important that we listen
to what they say," Dux said. "Any
food service that's successful is going
to have to do that. My door is open
to all our customers students and
faculty and the last thing I want
to do if they have a question is push
them away."
Science.
Another researcher at the meet
ing, Dr. Marlaine E. Lockheed of
the World Bank, said she reviewed
31 studies that looked into sex
differences in math between grades
See HORMONES page 18
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