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By PEGGY C. McCULLEN
■ Basic bK Battalion Reporter
|n the International Year of the
’ m, children all over the world
More ^iruie to starve.
1 P' m ' K small group of students who
jresent a national organization fo
cused solely on hunger are doing
something about the problem.
Members of Bread for the World
utilize their influence as citizens —
by voting, by writing letters to con
gressmen and by informing the pub
lic about current issues.
Local elective posts
nciiremain uncontested
6Te.\a> Several candidates will be running unopposed in the April 7 elec-
t j ex tion for positions on the Bryan and College Station city councils and
month districts.
n ^ All three of the College Station city council positions are uncon-
)n st tested Incumbents Gary Halter, Place 1 and Larry Ringer, Place 3,
>e BSl'i® see ^i n g re-election. Tony Jones, owner of a College Station con-
j £ or struction company, will run unopposed for Place 5, which is currently
held by Ann Hazen.
In Bryan, Sparky Hardee, owner of several local businesses includ-
i ing a towing company, is challenging incumbent Wayne Gibson for
Position 5 on the City Council.
Pla ces 1 and 2 are uncontested and have been filed for by incum-
Cross bents Joe Hanover and Peyton Waller, respectively.
)egan College Station Mayor Richard Smith is also unopposed in his bid
ch 12 f° r re-election.
o rner Both positions on the A&M Consolidated School Board are con-
>5f ee tested races.
ist be T wo College Station homemakers, Mary Fellenz and Ann Jones,
have filed for Position 1, currently held by Lambert Wilkes.
Three candidates affiliated with Texas A&M University have filed
for Position 2, held by Rodney Hill: James McNamara, an education
professor; Herman Brown, an agriculture education professor and
H Jones, a technical buyer.
On the Bryan School Board, incumbent Travis Bryan is unopposed
for Position 7. Ronald Holmes, an associate professor of mechanical
engineering at Texas A&M, is challenging incumbent James Steagall
nr Position 6.
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By STEVE LEE
Battalion Staff
ds
The Texas A&M University stu-
mt senate passed a bill Wednes-
ty opposing the Traffic Panel’s rec-
mmended increase in student
irking fines from $5 to $10 per
elope bket.
ards, The senate does not recommend
state ny blanket increase in parking
they KlHowever, Fred Bayler, stu-
scan- lent lice president for rules and
ship, egulations, suggested that those
ivhile Bents who park on the campus
ie by dthout stickers be assessed a $25
ng in ne after the third week of each
> me. -meter.
Helsaid there are students who
mtinely park on campus without a
to avoid paying the $15 dol-
king fee. He said several stu-
entslare paying less in parking
nes than they would for the park-
gfee.
The $25 dollar fine would al-
viate the problem, Bayler said,
nee the one big fine would cost
ore pan the semester parking fee.
ut he said that a blanket increase
parking fines is not needed.
The senate passed a bill recom
ending the addition of a compul-
medical service fee to go along
he present $15 health center
e. Steven Hageman, a senior Col-
ge of neering senator, ex-
ained that the Beutel Health Cen-
ir has been operating at a deficit
id that an increase in fees is neces-
ry to maintain the health services.
He said an alternative to the
tional fee was to charge a user
to the student upon each office
t. But, he said, this would dis-
;e use of the center. He said
will probably be a $5
lonal fee.
The senate also passed a bill rec-
mding to the state legislature
5 inclusion of graduate students in
acher retirement system. This
1 allow graduate students to
aw pensions from their assistant-
lips. Also passed was support for
leTexas Guaranteed Student Loan
rogram, allowing qualified stu-
ents to receive loans through banks
a reduced interest rate. In ex-
lange for the lower interest rate,
ie government would guarantee
ayment to the banks in case of de-
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The senate defeated a bill pro
posed by Brian Gross, Liberal Arts
sophomore, and Hageman, that
would make dormitory activity fees
optional to dorm students. The fees
are collected by the Head Resident
of those dorms that have social activ
ity programs before the resident is
given a room key. The bill went
down after a lengthy discussion.
“The dorm has no right to tell
students that they have to pay the
fee,” Gross said. “The Dorm Coun
cil is not a bonafide government
body.”
Other senators said the fees aren’t
compulsory now and that some head
residents do offer a choice. Still
others pointed out that many
senators represent students who do
not live in dorms, or dorms with
these programs. Kevin Patterson,
student vice president for student
services, cited a possible conflict
with the affairs of the Residence
Hall Association.
“It would seem that the senate
would stay out of RHA’s business,”
Patterson said, and added that the
RHA should take up the matter if
necessary.
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BFW does not distribute food to
the hungry. Emphasis is on helping
less-developed countries become
more self-sufficient.
Edgar Anderson, past president
of BFW, called it a citizen’s lobby
group.
“We try to work through the gov
ernment to solve the hunger prob
lem.
“Our goal is to persuade Congress
to establish foreign aid that will help
the countries to be self-sufficient,
not dependent,” Anderson said.
In 1976, the U.S. House of Rep
resentatives and the Senate passed
right-to-food resolutions which were
a direct result of BFW lobbying,
Anderson said.
The Texas A&M University
branch of the group has also helped
other national organizations with
goals of helping the poor. In Oc
tober, it collected $160 by trick-or-
treating for UNICEF.
The group collected $350 during
the fall semester for World
Vision International, an organization
which sends volunteers directly to
the needy.
The chapter meets once a month
to discuss a monthly newsletter sent
to by the BFW national headquar
ters. The letter reports congres
sional decisions and provides mem
bers with addresses so that they may
write officials who are dealing with
assistance policies.
Mary Ward, president of BFW,
said the group will show a rotating
sequence of world hunger films in
the Memorial Student Center lobby
March 21 to better inform students
of the hunger problems facing the
world.
British
food cost
doubles
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY. MARCH 8. 1078
Page 3
United Press International
LONDON — The price of food in
Britain has more than doubled in
the last five years, and that is offi
cial.
Food prices have risen by 115.6
percent since the beginning of 1974
Prices Undersecretary Robert Mac-
Lennan told Parliament Monday.
His announcement during ques
tion time, traditionally Parliament’s
liveliest debating session, drew
whistles of incredulity from opposi
tion Conservative members mindful
of catching the housewife’s vote this
election year.
The harsh winter weather, which
damaged the vegetable crop this
year, was one of the main cause of
the price increases, he said.
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