NEWS IN BRIEF: Silver Saver cards out

The Student Association's Silver Saver cards were released on time this year with a substantial increase in the number of businesses offering discounts to Rice students. Nineteen new businesses in all were added to the card while three businesses, Happy All Chinese, Texas Mesquite BBQ and Pilgrim Cleaners, decided not to renew.

With 37 businesses on the card, SA External Vice President Tony Tran was forced to make the card double-sided for the first time ever. One side of the card contains deals from 20 area businesses who offer an array of entertainment and services from the Houston Astros to Reynolds Barber Shop. The other side contains 17 restaurants including newcomers Spaghetti Warehouse, Subway and Zuzu's. Two other businesses had expressed interest in the card but were late in reserving a spot on the card.

Tran is currently looking at different ways to get the two businesses added onto students' cards at minimal expense. The cards are being distributed to the student body by campus mail throughout the first week of school; cards will be available to faculty and graduate students no later than the second week of school. Five thousand cards were printed.

This item appeared in the News section of the September 1, 1995 issue.

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