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THE BATTALION THURSDAY, FEB, 5, 1976 Page 3 Judicial proper Authority proposes of appliances use i Kyle GALE KAUFFMAN A sulxximmittee of the Residence Judicial Authority voted last t to allow the use of electric per- ( olators and popcorn poppers in ^ Ini' ersity dormitories. '“™ 1 r proposal states that only water be heated in the percolators and popcorn poppers may only he l for making popcorn, he subcommittee was estab- s|( d Jan. 29, to solve the problem Itudents cooking in their dorm . Ron Blatchley, Associate Di- of Student Affairs, established Bvolunteer committee to deter mine what constitutes cooking and to t a penalty for the violation of the g- luan interview yesterday, Charles ell, Director of Student Affairs, that a meeting was called on Jan. to discuss the cooking problem. Powell said that this meeting was to remind Resident Advisors to “main tain the regulations that should have been enforced to begin with. ” To in sure the maintenance of the regu lations, the use of popcorn poppers in dorm rooms was banned. Powell gave four reasons for the restrictions on dorm cooking: sanita tion, grease, the increasing problem of roaches and rats and a state regula tion requiring vent hoods in multiple dwellings where cooking is done. Cooking also causes overloading of electrical systems and creates fire hazards, Powell said. Powell said that he had received no pressure from Food Services con cerning the cooking problem. He said that he did not know what reac tions, if any, they had to the increas ing number of students who were cooking in their rooms instead of eat ing in the University cafeterias. Powell said that if the Residence Hall Judicial Authority and the Resi dence Hall Association could come up with an alternative plan that would be acceptable and that work ed, it would be fine. If it doesn’t work, “I’ll have to step back in and say no popcorn,” he added. Powell said, “This should never have been allowed to begin. Some of my people fell down on their jobs. We re just trying to enforce the rules that have been there all along.” Chronic violators of the ruling may be removed from the dorms, Powell said. “Either obey the rules or you don’t live in the halls—it’s just that simple,” he added. The subcommittee proposes that intense advertising throughout the dorms be conducted to inform all res idents of the situation. They said it should be made clear that electric percolators are for heating water and that popcorn poppers are for pop ping corn. The subcommittee determined that penalties for violations will be administered by the respective judi cial boards. The confiscation of prop erty for a specified time was the rec ommended penalty. Repeated of fenders may be referred to the Area Coordinators. Providing its acceptance by the Residence Hall Association, the pro-| posal should be submitted to Powell Friday. B-CS reps over utility The mayors and city managers of College Station and Bryan will meet tomorrow to discuss the continuing utility rate controversy. This will be the first in a series of meetings between representatives of the two cities to try to reach an agreement on a new utility contract. This was the only information re leased by College Station officials fol lowing a closed city council meeting yesterday. Several councilmen said strategy was the focus of the hour-long meet ing. They declined to make any fur ther comment. (College Station purchases about 25 per cent of Bryan’s electricity and water.) Internationals struggle with language agle congestion iscussed by panel Texas slang is a problem three recommendations to ease (traffic congestion on Nagle Street ed by construction were dis lat the meeting of the Univer- |Traffic Panel yesterday. he recommendations proposed the south section of Nagle be e into a one way street from rar to Lubbock. The north sec- from Lamar to the library would ain two way. was also proposed that parking estricted on part of Nagle north imar. This would eliminate 10 to indom parking spaces and allow gh room for two lanes of traffic agle by the construction area. The third recommendation was for a stop sign to be placed on Nagle at the Lamar intersection to control southbound traffic. The Traffic Panel also discussed the report of the Motor Vehicle Reg ulations Subcommittee. The report recommended changes be made in the Texas A&M Motor Vehicle Regu lations for next year. These changes include the abolishment of the perimeter park ing option and the return of faculty parking area 52 to golf course park ing. These changes will be voted on at the next meeting of the Traffic Panel. — Elaine Merrifield [1 duritl hades Feinberg, visiting Gen ial professor, will speak at 4 i today in Evans Library 206. ■Jpwith People will perform at 8 m today in the Rudder Au- niversiTOriunT. Kepheid Variable will present the Bie “Fantastic Voyage” at 8 p.m. crowdsBu ’ n R u dder 601. |e (] r J ACUI will hold a general session at p.m. today in MSC 201. 1 S.W. Landscape Architecture .Jorkshop will be held at 7 p.m. rffy in Rudder 301. t :f J 0Ut h Texas Tri-County HTC will L „.„, neet today at 7 p.m. in Rudder 504. |C0NA will meet at 7 p. m. today Rudder 510. rts and Crafts — Sand Ter- ums “A” will meet at 7 p.m. ay in MSC 139. 0PA will meet today at 7 p.m. in .'"'judder 607. 111 , ^Sailing Club will meet today at ':30 in Rudder 302. ], 1 Mexican Student Association will 10 ’"^eet today at 7:30 in Rudder 308. p 1 English Society will meet today at er f ap p.m. in Rudder 501. s 0 ( Radio Committee will meet today v . anta ®:30 p.m. in L&M MSC 216. ^CONA Host and Hostesses immittee will meet today at 8 p. m. jhe MSC Conference Room, lidland HTC will meet today at 8 in Rudder 502. bilene and Area HTC will meet lay at 7:15 p.m. in the Board of Regents Courtyard of the MSC. Ag- gieland picture will be taken. Orange County HTC will meet today at 7:30 p.m. in the Board of Regents Courtyard of the MSC. Ag- gieland picture will be taken. TAMU Horesman’s Association will meet today at 7 p.m. in AI Build ing 215. Laredo HTC will meet today at 6 p.m. in the MSC Student Pro grams, Council Conference Room 216T. B-CS Knife and Fork Club will meet for dinner today at 7:30 p. m. at Ramada Inn. Dr. No-Yong Park will be guest lecturer. Having to learn Texas slang is one of the biggest problems a student from another country faces at Texas A&M, say several students from Venezuela and Spain. During an interview Monday, the “international students,” a term which they prefer to “foreign stu dents, ” spoke on a wide range of top ics, ranging from communications to how the average Spaniard prefers his chicken cooked. Most foreign students already have some background in technical English when they arrive here and are able to understand lectures and classes fairly easily. They are, how ever, often at a loss as to what their fellow students from the United States are saying. The informal language that we speak often bears little or no re semblance to the precise English that the student learned back home. The result is often isolation from North Americans. Rafael Acosta, a graduate student studying Range Science and the President of the Venezuelan Student Association, said that poor com munication is primarily responsible for the lack of understanding be tween the various nationalities at A&M. Acosta said that when he and his wife, who is studying Agriculture Economics, came to College Station they faced a tremendous culture bar rier. After learning colloquial En glish and figuring out peculiar “gringo” customs, they fared much bettep. They are happy here, he said. Pedro Sanabria came to A&M to study computer science. He is from Madrid, which has a population of 3,000,000, and College Station is quite a change for him. He said he doesn’t understand the way Texans have fun. “Parties here are to get drunk, while they shovdd be to enjoy people,” he said. In Spain, he and his A Diamond /V^ W T in your Aggie Ring . . . k i !*/- V v 3 |5y —the final touch. ^^Carl Bussells \ /ill ah on o Room 3731 E. 29 846-4708 Ml MHI K AMI KK AN til \t MX II I V ( .V ) Leonard Harris. CBS-TV attlj tion rRobi ,atW dline he fl'q g' ^fl Fisc®| *pp'L :>oni/, tie) A knockout of a movie The utmost in suspense Yves Montand in -Sem‘ <5 l <,1*1 rurni^L _ Coli^i of a" 1 gtiOl) friends would get together and dance, but to do that in the apart ments here results in neighbors complaining and police dropping by to warn them of the noise. “North Americans need to de velop another, more critical mental ity,” Acosta said. When he first came here, he lived in the dorms and he said that people he met there trusted the system too much. To improve the system, Acosta said people must learn to criticize. This is a static and conservative community and many residents want to preserve the status quo, he said. Criticism of the system is often con strued as denunciation of the system. Acosta said that in his opinion, criticism tends to improve things and therefore is a way of showing love for one’s country. One of Acosta s criticisms was di rected at American journalism. “Fifty per cent of the stuffin North American newspapers is garbage,”- he said. “The papers do not give enough coverage to international af fairs.” Acosta said that he has sub scribed to a Houston newspaper for several years, and in that time has only seen two stories on Venezuela. Before they came to the United States, the internationals were pre pared for a Texas which doesn’t exist. They expected to see Texas as it is presented in the movies. The trees and grass confused them. Texas, they thought, was a big cacti-covered desert studded with oil wells and populated by cowboys on horseback. They said they prefer the real thing. — Richard Chamberlain AGGIE CINEMA Popular Film Series presents WHAT FAMOUS TRIO? brawled In the streets, crashed the king’s Ball, and left without paying the check. Hint: It’s not the Three Stooges. Three Musketeers PG Feb. 6 & 7 Rudder Auditorium 8 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. $1.00 Advance Tickets Available at Rudder Box Office MANOR EAST 3 THEATRES MANOR EAST MALL Happy Hour in I & III Till 6:30 Weekdays; Till 2:30 Sat. & Sun. Daily 5:40-7:40-9:40 Sat.-Sun. 1:40-3:40 Also Still the lairestof them all! 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Open 6:30 West Screen Friday Skyway Twin 822-3300 Feature at 7:00 East Screen Friday ‘MAHOGANY’ PLUS ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH’ HUMAN FACTOR’ PLUS ‘DEVIL’S RAIN’ Call Theatre for Showtimes Campus IUS 846-6512 COLLEGE STATION $1.50 First Hour ‘DIARY OF A NYMPHO’ (X) AND ‘FORBIDDEN SEXUALITIES’ (X) to meet contract College Station rejected Bryan’s contract offer last week and gave Bryan officials until February 12 to come up with a new contract offer. Bryan has asked for 30 days in which to negotiate a new contract. College Station officials have threatened to go to another power source (Gulf States Utilities) if Bryan does not come up with competitive rates and terms. The Gulf States rates are 40 per cent lower than the proposed Bryan rates, according to a College Station Utility Rate Advisory Committee report. Keep on Clog gin’ (Shala’s (Shoes 3725 E. 29th 846-1148 THE TAMU ISSHINRYU KARATE CLUB will meet at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Room 256 of G. Roilie White. Sun Theaters 333 University 846-9808 , The only movies in town. Special Midnight Shows Friday & Saturday $2.00 per person No one under 17. Escorted Ladies Free ALL SEATS $3. $1 off with this ad. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY TOWN HALL UNIVERSITY VARIETY SERIES in cooperation with Gingerbread Productions, Ltd. presents DON PERKINS starring in tm Music & Lyrics by Sherman Edwards Book by Peter Stone Monday, February 16,1976 General Public A&M Student /Date 8:00 p.m. Rudder Auditorium $6.50 $4.00 Tickets and information available at the MSC Box Office, first floor of Rudder Tower. Open 9-4 Monday-Friday. 845-2916. No cameras or recording equipment wilt be allowed. Eg) Pass List Suspended ® Daily at 7:00, 9:15 Sat. & Sun, at 2:40, A: 50 also ■ FAMILY MATINEE! All Seats $1.25 CINEMA ■Sat. & Sun. at 2:00, 3:50 only! 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