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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1980 Page 3 local .Campus organizations ready for May primaries Team wins A&M College Bowl, advances to regional tournament By SHERRY WOODARD Campus Reporter With the 1980 primary elections tarting, several political organiza- ions on campus are drumming up support for one candidate or inother. The organizations get supporters 3y having parties, calling students, 3r more commonly by setting up booths in the Memorial Student Center where they answer questions and distribute literature. Young Texans for Connally Cam pus Director Kathleen Tobin said their organization has been success ful in signing new members. “Nearly 400 A&M students have joined,” Tobin said. She also said, “It’s not necessary to leull 'he ecepiiij lichisfei h esavinj eagan Brown alls for honesty le anil By BECKY SWANSON City Staff Calling for honesty and integrity at 11 levels of government, especially it the “grass roots, ” Texas Commis- leispi iioner of Agriculture Reagan Brown rse, 8: told several county officials that gov ernment officials need to dispel the ndsm image that “politicans are crooks.” Brown spoke Thursday morning at the County Judges and Commission ers Conference being held at the College Station Ramada Inn this week. Brown said the FBI investigation of congressmen is “another slam at public officials.” “We re going to have to be careful — more than any time in our lives — that we guard carefully the integrity of political aspiration, ” he said. Brown said much of the credibility crisis stems from “poor understand ing by people of public officials.” Officials cannot afford to lose the public’s trust, Brown said. “I’m one of the top eight elected officials in Texas and I’m not a crook,” Brown said. “You couldn’t buy me with a million dollars.” Brown expressed his faith in the county governments of Texas, saying that county governments have kept the country free. Brown called for more govern ment responsibility, rather than re ferring problems to committees. “The most damnable that has ever happened in this country is commit tees,” Brown said. “Who ever heard of a committee being held respon sible?” Congress “hides” in committees to avoid responsibility, he said. be a student to join. We’ve had a couple of professors come by also. ” Tobin said Young Texans for Con nally plans to have a ‘national watch party’ to “get together with other Connally supporters to watch his speech on television.” Aggies for Reagan Co-Chairman George Mauze said their current membership is about 200. He said activities are planned to interest other students in Aggies for Reagan. Mauze said that during Febraury the organization will have a ‘Campus Canvass’ in which they plan to call all A&M students to find out how many support Ronald Reagan. “We want to have everyone called by Feb. 23,” he said. Young Americans for Freedom, which is the largest conservative youth organization in the country, is also supporting Ronald Reagan. YAF President Dan Simpson said membership at A&M now stands at a little over 100. He said the organization has plan ned a meeting for signing new mem bers on Feb. 21, and a membership drive in March. Simpson said, “A&M has the thrid largest YAF chapter in the state.” Chuck Mullins Political Forum In ternational Programs Chairman, said his organization tries to increase stu dents political awareness through field trips to Austin and Washington, D.C.; and by bringing various poli tical speakers to tbe campus. ;n«i m ■■ ALTERATIONS By RICK STOLLE Campus reporter Three juniors and a graduate stu dent won Texas A&M University’s first annual College Bowl Thursday night when they named the theory that relates character traits and per sonality to skull conformation as the final answer to the competition. Juniors Mike Smith, a chemistry major; Camellia Pratt, a biological engineering student; captain Ruth Walters, an accounting major and Ruvane Marvit, a graduate student in meteorology, won the competiton without a loss. They will advance to the regionals to be held at TCU in Fort Worth February 22-23. They swept through the double elimination competition with little trouble. They won the final match 280-205. They had beaten the same team 490 to 0 in an earlier match. “It’s one of the highest scores I have ever heard of,” said Ted Hoef, one of the organizers. Hoef said 410 was considered a very high score. “The competition was really great,” Walters said. “Some of the questions were tough but I don’t think they were impossible.” The winners will receive free tick ets to the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, a dinner with Texas A&M President Jarvis Miller, plaques to be hung in the MSC and an all expense-paid. trip to the regionals. College Bowl is a question and answer game played between two teams of four players. Toss-up ques tions are asked and the team that responds first gets a chance at the bonus question. Toss-up questions are worth ten points and the bonus questions can be worth as much as 30 points. The team with the highest score after two seven-minute halves is the winner. The team will have a practice match with Rice University the Saturday before it goes to regionals. After the regionals are the finals that are scheduled to be held in Miami, Fla. “There is a question right now concerning the site,” said Patricia Price, coordinator of College Bowl, “but I think they will have by the time the finals roll around.” Allen P. Schreiber, twins Daniel and Charles Erlandson and Adalber- to Gallegos won free Aggie Cinema tickets Cinema for second place. IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF OLD TEXAS WHERE MOTHER TAUGHT DAUGHTER THE FINE ART OF SEWING — SO HELEN MARIE TAUGHT EDITH MARIE THE SECRETS OF SEWING AND ALTERATIONS. "DON’T GIVE UP — WE LL MAKE IT FIT!" AT WELCH'S CLEANERS. WE NOT ONLY SERVE AS AN EXCELLENT DRY CLEANERS BUT WE SPE CIALIZE IN ALTERING HARD TO FIT EVENING DRESSES, TAPERED SHIRTS, JEAN HEMS, WATCH POCKETS, ETC. (WE RE JUST A FEW BLOCKS NORTH OF FED MART.) WELCH’S CLEANERS 3819 E. 29th (TOWN & COUNTRY SHOPPING CENTER)^ A&M debating team wins fifth in contest iccessi* By USCHI MICHEL-HOWELL Campus Reporter Texas A&M University debaters Michael T. Shelby and James Starr placed fifth in a field of 46 teams in a regional debate tournament last weekend. Shelby, 21, a junior in psychology, and Starr, 20, an accounting sopho more, beat five universities and lost to three at Baylor University, coach Wayne L. Kraemer said Wednesday. Whether the government should significantly increase regulations on mass media communications in the United States was the topic of the debates. “We did better than we thought, ” Shelby commented on the Baylor tournament. “Baylor is a good measure of the district’s teams,” Starr said, “and it showed that we’re competitive with other teams in the national tourna ment.” The Baylor win improves the Aggies’ chances of qualifying for the National Debate Tournament in Tucson, Ariz., in April, Kraemer said. Forty-five teams from nine re gions will compete in the NDT, Kraemer said, and he added that for the Aggies to participate in the tour- Iterntfj nament they must place in the top iml m’l . veit^ |yl# leave 11 ’ 'yOllF 'it, it>'' : 16 \\V .Off! om rpos fl eavff** oW five at a district meet in March. It would be the first time an Aggie team would participate in the NDT. Aggies have debated since 1959, Kraemer said. Shelby and Starr are the leading team of 35 Aggie debaters, Kraemer said, and they will represent Texas A&M next weekend in another tour nament at Northwestern University in Chicago. To prepare for the NDT the Aggies debate almost every weekend in regional and national tourna ments, Kraemer added. Topics for the regional and nation al debates are selected by the Amer ican Forensic Association, Shelby said. Shelby and Starr, who started de bating in high school, do research and practice 15 to 20 hours a week together, Shelby said. “My parents stirred me into de bating,” Starr said. “They said I liked to argue a lot and told me to join a debate team.” “This is our second year together, ” Shelby said. “We’re the traveling team.” Both Aggies have debated in Ken tucky, Tennessee, Kansas, Georgia and Texas. Other Texas A&M debate teams have taken second and third place in other regional debates this semester, Kraemer said. Cadets to perform at church The Singing Cadets of Texas A&M University will present a program of spiritual music at the First Baptist Church in College Station Sunday evening. “Sermon In Song” will begin at 7 p.m. in the church auditorium, lo cated at 200 College Main. The prog ram is free of charge and the public is encouraged to attend. The Singing Cadets are directed by Robert L. Boone. off ft# Steffi p Bw I SURPRISE YOUR VALENTINE. . . 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