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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1979 Page 3 Battalion photo by Preston Jones Preparing to go on the air KAMU-TV technician Slycker Stites looks things over at master control during Broadcast Day activities. Broadcast Day, which is held at it AirM energy symposium the end of each semester, gives j'ournalism students a chance to have their programs shown live on Channel 15. Campus shopping provided by fairs By PAMELA RIMOLDI Battalion Reporter There aren’t many days for Aggies to Christmas shop after final exams this semester but the arts and crafts fair and the Aggie Christmas Fair are giving students a chance to do some shopping now, here on campus. The Aggie Christmas Fair, being held today in room 204 of the Memorial Student Center until 7 p.m., has merchants from different shops throughout Bryan-College Station selling everything from can dles and natural foods to stereo equipment and sporting goods. Eighty to 100 merchants reserved tables for the fair. There is a $30 limit on the goods being sold with only a few exceptions to accommodate the limited budgets typical of students, said Heather White, vice chairman of the MSC Hospitality Commit tee, the sponsor of the fair. “The idea is to allow students a place to do some of their Christmas shopping here on campus,” White said. It is a special advantage for students without a car who can’t get around to shop, she said, but the fair is for everyone. The Aggie Christmas Fair is different from the arts and crafts fair held in front of Rudder Tower because finished products are being sold as opposed to individuals selling their handmade wares. White said. The craft fair, sponsored by the MSC Crafts and Arts Committee is for students, staff, faculty and their spouses to sell things they make, said Karen Penny, program advisor for the MSC Programs Office. Stained glass windows, handmade jewelry and pottery were some of the things being sold at the fair, held Wednesday and Thursday. Harlan Shoulders, a horticulture student, was selling photographs he took in his travels to places such as Hawaii, Singapore and Taiwan. He said he had a good day Thursday selling about $200 worth of the photos which he developed and matted himself. One unusual item being sold at the fair was a T-shirt with the saying “calculus hates me” and a picture of a calculus student hanging with a rope around his neck from an integral sign. “The integral sign is a universally hated math symbol. Math majors dream about them,” said Dr. Lee Whitt, the calculus teacher who was selling the shirts. Whitt said he was in the fair because so many students have to take calculus and about 100 fail it each semester. “I’m just capitalizing on the market.” PREGNANCY TESTS • Immediate Appointments • Confidential Counseling • Birth Control Information • Termination of Pregnancy WEST LOOP CLINIC 622-2170 2909 WEST LOOP SOUTH HOUSTON, TEXAS 77027 S. POST OAK RD. \V" Engineer receives award mi Banker, oilman rap oil tax A New York banker and an inde- lendent oilman from West Texas old an energy conference at Texas l&M University Thursday the /indiall profits tax pending in Con fess would erase much of oil and gas rice deregulation’s incentive for ex- iloration and development of new nergy resrves. John G. Winger, vice president of >hase Manhattan Bank, told a sym- losium on energy at TAMU the pet- oleum industry would invest about >225 billion in the exploration and levelopment of oil and gas reserves the next decade without the wind- all profits tax, and said the proposal o tax up to 60 percent of the oil ompanies’ profits resulting from de- egulation makes no sense. He was backed up by A. V. Jones of mmentti Albany, Texas, an independent oil man who contended immediate de- egulation of oil and gas prices — with no windfall profits tax — would be the best way to stimulate produc tion in the United States. “Decontrol originally would have been a great incentive for produc tion, but with the windfall profits tax structured the way it is, it’s going to result in an increase in controls rather than a decrease,” Jones said. Rep. Phil Gramm, D-College Sta tion, Texas Railroad Commission Chairman John Poerner, and Texas House Speaker Bill Clayton all en dorsed deregulation of oil and gas prices as the key to increased domes tic production and criticized the proposed windfall profits tax. “There is no substitute for the pro fit motive, and if we want more ener gy we are going to have to have the pricing structure that rewards those who produce it and drives out those who don’t,” Gramm said. “We are going to see a windfall profits tax which unfortunately will do away with some, but not all, of the benefits of deregulation. ” Winger called new exploration essential if new domestic energy re serves are to be found. He said, however, if future invest ments in oil and gas exploration pro duced the same ratio of benefits as in the past, there would not be enough new ■ oil and gas iscoveries to make the country self- sufficient in energy. Clayton said tbe windfall profits tax should be applied only to re venue the oil an gas companies fail to reinvest in ex ploration for energy. “I think the incentives would have to be in the form of tax incentives, such as reduction in the sales tax on certain items needed to make the conversions,” Clayton said. Charles W. Reynolds of Oceanic Contractors was named Internation al Fabricating Engineer of the Year during a Sheet Metal and Structural Fabricating Seminar at Texas A&M University. Retnolds works for Oceanic Con tractors, subsidiary of the J. R. McDermott Corp., in the United i Bob's S 1 H 1 n T C Y A C A u C | 2510 TEXAS AVE. ^ 822-6613 ^ B ling Tin* ■ver cM rise inti rs shall* i. 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