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i.M:!v:.nsV:> ; !;'K v u ■T THE BATTALION Page 11 aid :| y wanted lo ' enc y to deal l director o( ^ Studies, a a >d an or- | materia! oi wnomenais r emeritus o[ | eestern Uaj. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1978 'oblem Personal ao- :t, ’me minister t’FOs are ’d by being mankind anil way of life.' t in the myr- m'ry told» mtivated me bnet Earti ^ s domain' th nearly ev- ’c, he said ter told re- wo persoml 'oth in Git- bting caiti igo, at 2J ming home said, and Ik ever since by the tie brilliance d what’s up? Wednesday LANT SEMINAR: Daniel Caulkins of the Department of Plant Sciences will speak on “Sorghum anther culture” at 4 p.m. in Room 113, Plant Sciences Building. R CHRISTMAS TREE: The annual Christmas Tree Lighting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the MSC Student Lounge. The Century Singers will also perform. CHI EPSILON PI: Will hold its fall induction banquet at the Blue Bonnet Room of Wyatt’s Cafeteria. Ronald Godbey will speak on “A Study in Contrast: From Dr. Brundidge’s Thermodynamics Class to a Congressional Campaign." OADRUNNERS CLUB: Dr. Herb Fred will speak at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater on marathon running. Thursday WIRE: The 1978 Texas A&M Bonfire will be lit at 7:30 p.m. in the field behind Duncan Dining Hall. ONCERT: Town Hall presents David Gates and Bread with Ian Matthews as the warm-up act at 9 p.m. in G. Rollie White Col iseum, immediately after Bonfire. SENIOR DEADLINE: Library books for December graduates are I due today, two weeks prior to graduation. TAMU CHAPTER OF AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY: Andy Landry will speak on sea turtles at 7:30 p.m. in Room 104, Nagle Hall. lAHAl CLUB: Will discuss “The Return of Christ” at 7:30 p.m. in Room 507AB, Rudder Tower. iASKETBALL: The women’s team will play in the George West Tournament in George West, Texas, today through Friday. EPHEID VARIABLE: “Zardoz, starring Sean Connery and Char- lette Rampling, will be shown at midnight in Rudder Theater. Friday 10 SCHOOL AND NO BATTALION: All day •EADLINE: To submit dates for the Spring All-University Calendar is today. Forms and instructions for submitting dates for the calen dar are available in Room 221, MSC and Room 217, MSC. For more information call 845-1133. ENIORS: Today is the last day of class. ENNIS: The NCAA Indoor Doubles Championships will be held in Wichita, Kansas. l^GGIE CINEMA: “Barry Lyndon, ” the story of a 19th Century rogue who galavants through Europe from casino to casino, with side excursions as a spy, soldier, and wife-beater, starring Ryan O’Neal and Marisa Berenson, will be.shoyvngt 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater. t Utah machine makes waves Wins wastefulness award The Soft Touch United Press International WASHINGTON — Sen. William Proxmire Tuesday sent his Golden Fleece Award for November to an Interior Department agency for spending $145,000 on a wave making machine for a Salt Lake City swimming pool. But the man he tried to pin the award on, sent it back, telling Prox mire he was flat-out wrong on a couple of points. As might be ex pected, a Proxmire aide insisted the senator was “absolutely correct. The Wisconsin Democrat, who considers himself the Senate’s fiscal watchdog, picks out a particular fed eral program each month for his award, symbolizing “the biggest, most ridiculous or most ironic exam ple of wasteful government spending for the period.” This month’s award went to the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation for its funding of the wave-making machine in a million-dollar Salt Lake City swimming pool, designed to give in land residents the aquatic experi ence known only to coastal swim mers. “Based on this rationale, hard-pressed taxpayers will next he Their bite was definitely worse than her bark United Press International MEXICO CITY — Rather than dog bites man, it was Woman bites woman. Bertha Vivar Rojas, a worker of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, said she was walking down the street in Ciudad Netzahualcoyotl, a Mexico City suburb, when seven women at tacked her, hitting her, scratching her face and biting her arms. Three of the assailants who were arrested said they were relatives of the woman and that she was spread ing gossip about their personal lives, authorities said. asked to fund ski slopes in Florida, mountain scenery in Indiana, igloos in Death Valley or tropical rain forests in Wisconsin,” Proxmire said. “First, let’s get our facts straight,” protested agency head Chris De- laporte. “There is no Bureau of Out door Recreation. He said it was abolished last January and replaced by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, empowered by law to make such grants based on applications from states and localities. Delaporte said six such wave making machines were approved, and that last May, he himself put a hold on any more “until we have had an opportunity to thoroughly analyze the eligibility and implication of funding such projects.” Delaporte said Proxmire’s staff knew of the action of six months ago but the senator’s statement did not report it. “In this case, so that the senator cannot he accused of either misplac ing his good intentions or misap propriating such a scarce and pre stigious award, we are sending it back to him so he can use it elsewhere,” Delaporte said. Furthermore, he said, the funds did not come from taxpayers bpt from royalties from offshore oil and gas leases. “This is not money from citizens,” Delaporte said. He said he has not decided whether other such projects would be approved, saying: “We certainly might continue to fund them but vye’re taking a look at them.” Proxmire aide Howard Shuman said at least t two other wave-making machines were approved since the ofte iri Salt Lake City and insisted, “It is taxpayers’ money. It comes froln funds which would otherwise go into the Treasury. 707 Texas 846-1972 X/ PRE-HOLIDAY SALE 3 BIG DAYS THURSDAY, FRIDAY, & SATURDAY NOVEMBER 30, DECEMBER 1 & 2 \ublic ‘sweet’ on sugar ad han United Press International IWASHINGTON — A landslide of trcomment from consumers, in ane/ other interested groups lied the Federal Trade Commis- \s proposal to ban some chil li s television commercials. official time for public com fit on the controversial, proposal led at the ciosel of business r |day — one day later than origi- planned due to a request for from some of the affected in- ies. Be FTC staff proposal, on which ment was invited, recom- ided a ban on all television ads ted at children under 8, and a on ads for snacks and other ly sugared foods aimed at chil- from 8 to 12. ?n addition, advertisers would have to pay for public service mes sages promoting good nutrition. Two weeks ago Tuesday, Action for Children’s Television and a coali tion of more than 40 consumer, med ical, labor and other groups urged parents to watch one hour of com mercial children’s television during ■-the final-days of the comment period and let the FTC know what they thought about what they saw. The FTC’s correspondence sec tion said the watch-and-write cam paign appeared to have produced somewhere between 2,000 and 2,500 individual letters — more than doubling the number of consumer letters on the issue received by the agency in the weeks it had been open to public comment. ACT itself added to the avalanche by filing what it said were “several cartons” of material before the com ment period closed. One lengthy document filed near the deadline came from M and M-Mars, one of the country’s biggest candy makers, which called the pro posal “a mechanical, uncritical, ah- surd and extreme exercise of no ben-. . ’ efif to the ptiblic, to those affected; ' or even to the commission . ” “It is not unrealistic to conclude that what the commission staff and its allies really seek is the beginning of an effective destruction of commer cial television in the United States through the elimination of its eco nomic base,” it charged, and said the requirement that advertisers pay for public service nutrition messages amounted to an illegal excise tax on advertising. 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