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THE BATTALION Page 7
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1978
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By BRIAN BONNET
Battalion Reporter
“I w the small group of Texas A&M
ofl [diversity students met in the
fessor Si ^morial Student Center to discuss
;ious topics. Then the group —
mi to a congregation — rented
Texas A&M Presbyterian
Birch. Now it will have a perma-
Jithome, complete in December.
K e Brethren Church of Bryan-
tge Station will build the
Ireh, which will be located on
ip 6 directly north of the K.O.A.
ipground.
hown as the Young Adult Fel-
;hip, the group began looking
a site for the church in 1976.
f pntlie|i )on Zabcik, a senior industrial
;ineering major, heads the
l,F., which decided to build on
K 4.3-acre tract in the spring of
The student group, along with
igregation members, has partially
red the land to speed up com-
ion.
’lumbing, building the pulpit
Ml general finishing work are other
the youth group plans to do,
is then iciksaid.
jcc raiiiij lonations from other Brethren
gregations and families have par
ly helped fill the future building,
irs, songbooks, a registration
ik and a communion set have
s worl b given to the church,
the church still needs a stove, re-
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frigerator, sound system and gen
eral kitchen utensils, Zabcik said.
“We also need moveable dividers
so we can separate the Sunday
school class from the church serv
ice,” Zabcik said.
The idea for the church began in
the fall of 1975 when Zabcik and
four other Texas A&M students
began meeting in MSC on Wednes
day nights.
They discussed religious topics
and usually ended the night with
singing. Y.A.F. now has an active
membership of 25 students and is
not affiliated with the Brethren
Church.
Seeing the need for a Brethren
Church in the Bryan-College Sta
tion area, a few members and some
of their parents worked on a plan to
set up a congregation.
The group rented the Texas A&M
Presbyterian Church, and the first
service was held there on Easter
Sunday of 1976. The service was at
tended by a small group of students,
parents and area residents.
Since then the congregation has
been officially recognized by the
unity of Brethren. In 1977, it be
came the latest Brethren group in
Texas.
The Brethren Church in Bryan-
College Station now has 25 official
members, with more than 120
people on a mailing list.
Speakers OK’d
The Memorial Student Center
Council approved speakers for the
24th Student Conference on Na
tional Affairs (SCONA) and the
Great Issues series in a meeting
Monday night.
The council also approved the
purchase of two paintings valued at
$6,200 and $5,280; the Outdoor
Recreation Committee’s report on
equipment rental, and $6,800 for a
Ronald Reagan speaking engage
ment. Reagan’s cost includes his
travel expense and facilities to be
used. Reagan will be paid $5,000 for
the speech.
The council then went into closed
session for about three hours to dis
cuss personnel matters.
The topic for SCONA this spring
involves the issue of government
regulation of the American eco
nomic system. Speakers approved
for SCONA are Jane Cahill Pfeiffer,
new chairman of NBC; Meg Green
field, editorial writer for Newsweek;
George Bush, former director of the
CIA and once the U.S. ambassador
to the United Nations; John Del
Vecchio, national board member of
the Democratic Socialist Organizat-
ing Committee; David S. Broder,
Pulitzer Prize winning political re
porter; Jack Kemp, Republican con
gressman from New York, and Re
ginald H. Jones, chairman of Gen
eral Electric.
Armored car ‘gives’
samples to motorists
No weight watchers here
The three little pigs? Mosher Hall residents
Georgia Grubbs, Candy Kibler and Susan
Weiding “pig out” in honor of Jane Eike,
founding member of Mosher’s Snarf Club.
Snarfettes are thought to spend much time in
their rooms and to eat a lot, among other
things. Eike is presently in Europe studying
environmental design graphics and expanding
Snarfette membership.
Battalion photo by Patti Simmons
United Press International
NEW YORK — Motorists on the
Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn
Tuesday got some “free samples”
from an armored truck.
Police said the rear-door hinge
apparently broke loose on a Com
munity National Bank armored
truck, sending a bag containing
$85,000 in cash flying onto the
roadway.
That’s when, according to police,
Army Sgt. Luis Sierra happened to
drive by with Nellie Loe, an Army
recruit.
“They turned out to be very hon
est people,” said Sgt. John Muldoon
of the Brooklyn Avenue
stationhouse.
Not everyone however was so
honest.
Sierra turned in $78,095 — the
$85,000 minus “the free samples,”
Muldoon said.
Record in research funds received
BY MARK BEATTY
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M University received a
ord $60 million in research
nts during its 1977-78 fiscal year,
8 percent above last year’s fund
s'
The total funding exceeded ear-
r projections by $5 million. Dr.
bert R. Berg, director of the Of-
e of University Research, cred-
|d the increase to an unusual
mber of grants during the final
jnth. Berg said August grants of
3 million were approximately
) times greater than in any previ-
medici report for September 1977
rough August 1978 showed 43.7
rcent of all research was in ag-
ulture, 28 percent was in engi
ning, 10.8 percent was in geosci-
mome«r
e for Sfj
drinta
ences, 9.8 percent was in science
and the remainder went to the
seven other colleges or various re
search groups.
Texas Transportation Institute re
ceived $317,830 in a contract
awarded them by the Department
of Transportation-Federal Highway
Administration.
Dr. Don L. Ivey of TTI said the
money will go for the development
of safer barriers for construction
sites. Their main objective is to do a
complete survey of existing barriers
and to develop performance
standards for these barriers.
Ivey said the new portable bar
riers are pre-cast concrete segments
that are installed along roads and
highways to protect the public from
possible hazardous construction
sites. The most commonly used bar
riers in Texas and many other states
are barrels with guard rails attached
to them. The barriers redirect traffic
at construction sites.
The oceanograpahy department
was awarded a contract in excess of
$1.9 million for a study of topo
graphic features at the outer edge of
the continental shelf in the Gulf of
Mexico. The contract was awarded
them by the Bureau of Land Man
agement of the Department of the
Interior.
Thomas Hilde, associate professor
of oceanography and one of the 11
principle investigators on the opera
tion, said the project will provide
data for the government that can be
used to make decisions on future pe
troleum and other offshore de
velopments in the Gulf of Mexico,
without disrupting marine life.
The Gulf of Mexico has seen ex
tensive offshore petroleum de
velopment in the past and with the
increased petroleum shortage, ex
ploration and development can be
expected.
The project, led by Dr. Richard
Rezak and Dr. Thomas Bright, both
of the oceanography department, is
concentrated on the topographic
highs near the edge of the continen
tal shelf. Topographic highs are ele
vated places in the sea. The re
searchers are trying to find out why
they exist, how they developed and
what type of marine life systems
they support. Marine life is more
abundant near topographic highs,
i The project involves several
Texas A&M scientists doing the re
search on the Gyre, Texas A&M’s
Oceanographic Research Ship,
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EW YORK — For 62 percent of
34 registered voters polled by
e magazine, the state of the
inomy is the most troublesome
Irry, and most people surveyed
[d they think taxes can be cut
rply.
!oncem about the economy has
n dramatically during President
Irter’s administration. Only 42
cent cited the issue as a major
rry in March, 1977, the survey
lS ovet d, adding that confidence in Car
handling of the economy sag-
ie M j f rom 33 percent to only 14 per-
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Americans think high taxes are a re
sult of the relentless growth of the
bureaucracy, not of the public de
mand for services. Many believe
taxes can be cut as much as 33 per
cent, beginning with elimination of
government waste.
Rather than a reduction in serv
ices, most of those polled wanted
more spent in areas as health and
education. Welfare and foreign aid
were said to be too costly.
The findings were from a na
tionwide telelphone survey taken
for Time by the public opinion re
search firm of Yankelovich, Skelly
and White over a four-day period
ending Oct. 8.
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