VMI Cadet. December 1, 1973

              VOLUME LXV Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia December 1, 1973 Number 13
New Concessionaire
Agreement Reached
The Concessions Council met
recently and approved the new
five year Concessionaire
Agreement between VMI and
Mr. Charles Turner, Following
this action a copy of the new
Agreement was sent to the
Superintendent for review and
approval. A final decision is
expected on that within two
weeks. There were a few
changes made in the
Agreement, but basically it
remained the same.
One of the changes concerned
the percentage of the total,
monthly gross sales which is
paid to VMI by Mr. Turner. In
the original Agreement, which
was begun in 1968, the per-centage
was twelve percent and
did not include the income from
vending machine sales. The
new Agreement calls for a
payment on the total, monthly
gross sales of ten percent and
this includes the vending
Aiachine sales.
Also, in the old Agreement an
additional payment was made
to VMI for each additional
$25,000 of gross sales which
exceeded $350,000 in total gross
sales for the fiscal year. That
was paid according to the
following:
$375,000 to $400,000 - 1 per cent
$400,001 to $425,000 - 2 per cent
425,001 to $450,000 - 3 per cent
$450,001 to $475,000 - 4 per cent
$475,001 to $500,000 - 5 per cent
$500,000 and above - 6 per cent.
According to the new
Agreement, additional
payments are made on each
$50,000 of gross sales which
exceeds $450,000 for the fiscal
year in accordance with the
following:
$450,000 to $500,000 - 1 per cent
$500,001 to $5SO.OOO - 2 per cent
$550,001 to $600,000 - 3 per cent
$600,001 to $650,000 - 4 per cent
$650,001 to $700,000 - 5 per cent
$700,001 and above - 6 per cent.
There was a change in the
paragraph of the Agreement
which deals with prohibiting
discrimination against any
employee, or applicant, for
employment. The old
Agreement stated that there
could be no discrimination
becuase of race, creed, color, or
national origin. The new
Agreement restates this to say
that there will be no
discrimination, in any way,
because of sex, age, race,
religion, national origin,
political affiliation, or other
non-merit, job related'factors.
The old Agreement had in-cluded
the Cleaning and
Pressing Shop and Secondhand
Clothing Store sales as com-prising
part of the Cadet
Canteen. However, these two
operations were taken over by
VMI at the beginning of the year
and thus they were no included
in the new Agreement.
These changes were the only
major ones made in the Con-cessionaire
Agreement. The
Agreement will again come up
for renewal in 1978.
This will be the final
issue of the VMI CADET
for the first semester.
The Staff of the Cadet
wishes all of its readers a
Merry Christmas and the
happiest of New Years. We
remind all of our friends to
drive safely over this
holiday season, and look
forward to another year of
service in 1974.
XMAS CONCERT
The VMI Glee Club's
traditional Christmas concert is
tentatively scheduled for
Monday, December 10 at 8 p.m.
In past years
civilians have been allowed
in barracks for this
concert. This year the carols
will be Silent Night, sung in both
Germany and English, 0' Come
All Ye Faithful, Angels We have
Heard On High, Cantate
Domino by Hans Leo Von
Hassler, Joy to the World
arranged by George A. Biester,
and many more.
The Director of the Glee Club
this year is Cadet Robert C.
Braren. The 50 cadets in the
Glee Club have performed at
Southern Seminary Jr. College
and at the Augusta County
Women's Society. Many plans
are being made for the second
semester including a trip to
New York and New Jersey for
four days. The Glee Club will be
accepting new members for the
second semester.
Brig. Gen. Frank McCarthy, VMI '33. is former Assistant
Secretary of State, and producer of the Oscar winning movie Patton.
General McCarthy will be the featured speaker at the Third An-nual
Foodball Awards Program, tonight, at 7:00 p.m. in Cocke Hall.
Receiving awards at the banquet will be seniw safety Gene Williams
(Honorable mention All-America, All Southern Con-ference.
S. C. player of the week); Andy Dearman (Honourable
mention All-America. All Southern Conference). Junior offensive
tackle.
The Boys In
The Band
The VMI Theatre will begin
work on another play soon after
the beginning of next semester.
The Boys in the Band by Mort
Crowley will be the play
produced. Bob Carrere, the
director, would like as many
people as possible to read the
play before auditioning. It
makes tryout readings much
more effective when those who
are reading for parts have an
idea of what is going on in the
play and who the characters
are. Scripts may be borrowed
from Dr. James B. Davis' office
after Christmas furlough.
As always, everyone and
anyone is welcome to attend the
tryouts, even if you have no
acting experience. There is a lot
more to putting on a play than
acting. If you would like to help
on one of the stage crews, the
Theatre has jobs for elec-tricians,
carpenters, and ar-tists,
props people, and lots of
others.
The dates for tryouts are 15,
16, 17 of Jan., at 7:30, in room
318 Scott Shipp Hall.