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Page 6C THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1976 The best of A&M and Bryan-College Station .. >C 4 By KARL WOLFSHOHL and Battalion Staff A recent issue of “Texas Monthly” included an article written by Richard West entitled “The Best of Texas. ” If you can, get your hands on a copy and read it. It’s good. West even included some trivia about A&M in the story, such as “Best Ag gie” and “Best Aggie Joke” categories. West didn’t get specific enough about A&M and the Bryan-College Station area to suit some Aggies, though, so here’s a localized follow up to his “Best.” I’ll paraphrase West and say it’s okay if you don’t agree with my choices here, because I know I’m right. BEST WAITRESS: Lisa Halliwell at the University Pizza Hut. She’s beautiful and doesn’t seem to know it (a rarity here). She’s also as friendly as she is pretty and, above all, she won’t let your glass run dry or you croutons run low. I hear Lisa kills ’em on tips. Dread the day she gets her degree and leaves team. BEST SECRETARY: Pat Cote in the Communications Department. Known as “Mother” to her many fol lowers, she keeps a steady hand on departmental affairs — business and otherwise. BEST TELEPHONE COMPANY: Does not apply. Sometimes the only guy in town can be Brand X. BEST OLD AGGIE (combination “Best Old Coot” and “Best Aggie): Dr. R.C. Potts, Associate Dean for Instruction in the College of Agricul ture. More people consider Dr. Potts a close personal friend than will ever remember me or you. If there’s an honest Aggie Godfather, R. C. Potts is him. BEST CHICKEN-FRIED STEAK: The Aggie Special at Youngblood’s, by far. BEST BEER JOINT. The Dixie Chicken, by Gawd. Wallow in Willie and Waylon as you lap Longneck Lone Star and crunch cheese and crackers. BEST DANCE HALL: The Lakeview Club — well worth the 15 minute drive out there. Dennis Ivy and the Waymen will jerk your heart out with “Silver Wings,” but you can’t say no to “Cotton-Eyed Joe.” BEST BUNCH OF ORDERLY DRUNKS: The Lakeview Club crowd on Thursday nights. BEST BULLSHOOTER: Alan Al len, a lanky, handlebarred. East Texas boy who’d as soon lie to you as look at you, especially when it comes to bass fishing. I asked Alan how his recent trip to New York had been, and he answered, “It was fine; we filled a couple of stringers.” ter pound of their ribs and you’ll ag- BEST SLEEPING PLACE: In the rainy season, anywhere far away BEST SIDEUNE PERFORMER: Dr. Shelby Metcalf— an A&M bas ketball game wouldn’t be the same without him. from classes. In the sunny season, the Academic lawn. at A&M. I won’t tell you wl>;|p a Best Nasty Girl is, either, j uc BEST CAMPUS NEWSPAPER: See “Best Telephone Company.” BEST BARBECUE: The original 3-C in downtown Bryan. Try a quar- BEST ARCHITECTURAL CA LAMITY: The Great Wall. Nobody knows what it’s there for or where it’s going, but everyone knows where it’s coming from — your pocket, friend. BEST GIRL AS SEEN FROM THE FRONT: I don’t know her name, but she swims a lot at the Wofford Cain pool. She dives pretty well, but it’s her breaststroke you’ll notice right away. BEST OBCENITY: The skyj^ water tower, fondly called bysl e “The Erection.” H , If BEST PASTRY: Snook h tai , Company in Snook. Bread, oj mon rolls, pies and kolaches BEST GIRL AS SEEN FROM THE REAR: Sorry, it would embarrass her if I told. She’s also Best Nice Girl by a handful of little old ladiesK do it like your grandma usedt one heckuva lot better. Sir j n world class team. R. BEST MEXICAN FOOD IN TOWN: Zarape, by a country kilometer. The prices are low, and you won’t find a better beef taco north of San Antonio. Their red sauce with onions is the best on either side of the border. Estoy seg- uro. TAMU’s sea program to receive funds Te. Te; thi BEST UNIVERSITY CAMPUS POLICE DEPARTMENT: See “Best Telephone Company.” BEST VIEW OF CAMPUS: From the Tower restaurant at night. It’s a real problem to get there at night, but where there’s a will; there’s a way. Texas A&M will receive $1,310,000 from the U.S. Depart ment of Commerce for the continua tion of marine research, education and advisory programs under the University’s Sea Grant College Program. The grant from the Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will be supplemented by $1,010,488 in non-federal matching funds, Roy W. Hann, Jr. acting di rector of A&M’s Center for Marine Resources, said. The 1976-77 Sea Grant Program, which begins September 1, includes research and education projects in six of the University’s College Sta tion colleges and at the University of Houston, Baylor College of Medicine and A&M’s Moody Col lege of Marine Sciences and Maritime Resources in Galveston. Advisory programs, which include assistance to marine businesses, marinas and recreations, recreation interest, commercial fishing and sea food processing are conducted through the Industrial Economics Research Division of Texas En gineering Experiment Station and by marine agents and specialists of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. One major research effort being undertaken by the A&M scientists this year is a continuing study into *1+1* *1+1* *1+14 *1+Z* *1+14 41+14 41+14 41+14 41+14 41+14 41+14 41+14 41+14 41+14 *1+14 41+14 41+14 *1+14 41+14 41+1441+14 41+1441+14 41+1441+14 41+14 41+1441+144^+14 >75%*T5T« *T3T«»T5T*»TST«*T«>Tt»T5T»»T5T«»T5T«»T5T«»T5T«»T5T« ►"VT* >TV%»7*7« j'- mmmmKmmmmmm +. —-— Mirrm --f- i : : Welcome Back IB » m n n n m n m m m m n n n n n m n m m n Aggies! >«•: M w M Tropical studies certificate offered Come by and visit the Beehive Boutique to renew old friendships and to select from m m >u< M M M m the finest fashions in Aggieland. Classic separates you can wear together or apart. Handsome solid color gabardine jacket, neat vest and pants. They’re Solo’s by Country Set in a host of colorings. Since you can’t go around saying you’re terrific, let our clothes do it for you. n M :*H*: 'M M >u*: M >«•: M A new multidisciplinary course will be offered this fall that deals with the great kingdoms of Africa, hous ing in monsoon Asia and laws of the seas. 399, “The Tropical World. ” The course is taught by professors from 24 different departments each with experiences of the topics offered. There are no prerequisites for this lecture-type course given this fall at 11 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Zachary 203. Graduates and undergraduates are welcomed. Professor John Griffiths lectures on the different tropical climates —proving they aren’t all hot and sticky. Dr. Vaughn Bryant talks about the tropical origins of man. Dr. Malcolm Richards talks about the economic climates for invest ment and multinational firms in the Third-World nations of the tropics. || A&M researchers say cattle >1K ¥i market controls too simple >1K * BOUTIQUE 1422 TEXAS AVE. REDMOND TERRACE COLLEGE STATION Lake Austin • Texas Labor Day Weekend • Sept. 5 In Alphabetical Order EN0UUDMN/ HREFMJL HfEIWDOO MAC SIEVE MUER BAND From the folks who brought you the highly successful Sunday Break in May comes Sunday Break II ... a "farewell to summer” celebration on the shores of Lake Austin. 18 miles west of Austin in a natural grassy amphitheatre on the 5,000 acre Steiner Ranch. Acres of parking adjacent to the concert site. Easily accessible by Highway 183, Highway 71, or FM 2222. Excellent facilities. Food and beverage service. No glass containers, please. Tickets on sale now! $10.00 advance; $12.50 at the gate. Austin: MG Tapes on the Drag, Oat Willie’s, Inner Sanctum, Discovery Records, and Armadillo World Headquarters. Dallas; Preston Ticket Agency. Fort Worth: Central Ticket Agency. Houston: All Foley’s stores. San Antonio: Record Hole #1 & #2. Beaumont: Salmarand Sunrise Imports. For mail order tickets send cashier’s check or money order to Mayday Productions, Box 15207, Austin, Texas 78761. Presented by Mayday Productions. It costs more to market and pro cess cattle produced in remote areas of East Africa than the price paid to the producer for a 5 or 6-year-old animal, Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station research shows. The delimma is common in many developing countries that control or administer livestock and meat prices to reduce price instability and to subsidize consumers, producers or both, according to researchers D.E. Farris, G.M. Sullivan and K.W. Stokes. Farris is a professor of livestock marketing and Sullivan is research assistant at the A&M Agricultural Economics Department. Stokes is a livestock marketing economist work ing under an A&M-U.S. Agency for International Development contract in Tanzania, East Africa. The trio collaborated to write a paper presented during the Ameri can Economics Association meeting Aug. 15-17 at Pennsylvania State University. Their research findings point out that the cattle market controls are often too simple to handle complex economics relationships. The result is wasteful market distortions, such as localized shortages, surpluses, black markets and smuggling. Their paper also provides guides for pricing and processing plant loca tion. Such pointers could help in crease the efficiency of livestock and meat marketing in Tanzania. The economists believe that their research may apply to many other African and South American beef producing countries where the ten dency is to ignore some basic economic principles in setting price policies. Tanzania’s price policies for live stock and meat fail to provide neces sary seasonal, geographic and qual ity price differences to achieve the objectives of that nation’s meat policies, the economists said. Live cattle marketing on the Afri can coast often costs much as the total value of cattle in the interior, where thin animals sold for as low as $25 per head and fleshy animals for as much as $150 in 1975-76. Consequently, locating new pro cessing plants in the interior cattle producting regions could yield a very high return to the industry and to the overall economy, the economists said. fine tropical foliage | sales, | leasing & I maintenance university drive texas a&m campus the greenery 702 n. rosemary 846-2838 “you oughta see our plants” * the greenery the feasibility of commercial produc tion of shrimp in captivity. Efforts will be directed toward evaluating technology which would permit pond production of shrimp to bait and edible market size, simplifying hatchery techniques to reduce seed stock costs and developing sources of pregnant female shrimp from local fishing grounds and through control led maturation. Based on the work being carried out at A&M, it is expected that scien tists will be able to design a commer cial production system which will allow individual shrimp farmers to operate both hatchery and matura tion units economically. ish< In a closely related pro biologists are hopeful of clomB life cycle in an artificial enw 1 ment. Lack of full knowledge^ shrimps natural spawning ™ and difficulties encounteredir termining egg maturation ofi under laboratory conditions, caused difficulty in completii life cycle under laboratory capi Success with this project pected to reduce greatly s farming costs and make possili periments dealing with sel breeding and hybridizati shrimp. Dr. Robert Scott describes the for mation of valuable ores which are being exploited more and more by national governments than by colo nial powers. Each lecture is a diffe rent experience and after a unit of lectures, a discussion seminar is held. After completing Geography 399, students may want to continue learn ing more about the tropics and work toward the Tropical Studies Certifi cate. It is not a degree,but a little something extra awarded at gradua tion that could help in acquiring a position abroad. This certificate can be obtained after completing selected courses (which are listed in the Tropical Studies Office in the O&M Bldg. 814) in many different fields and should not interfere with completing your major degree plan. FOR THE 85th TIME WELCOME AGGIES . and we really mean it toda as in the past. 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