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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.
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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.
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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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MSC All Night Fair invites all recog
nized student org. to have booths in
the fair, Feb. 23. Entry deadline —
Dec. 8. For information call 845-
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Wednesday Nov. 29
& Thursday Nov. 30.
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