Battalion
Friday, February 15, 1980
College Station, Texas
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Parking ‘mirage’
to vanish Monday
By JERRY MAZE
Campus Reporter
Students crawling around the west side
of campus searching for parking spaces will
just have to keep looking. The oasis of free
parking that appeared briefly by the rail
road tracks has turned out to be a mirage
after all.
A University Police notice, placed on
cars parked in the area along the Southern
Pacific right of way, warns that no parking
will be allowed there after Monday.
The railroad decided to reclaim the lot
after having to tow away as many as 10 cars
at once for blocking boxcar unloading,
assistant Police Chief Morris Maddox said
Thursday.
Southern Pacific asked University Police
to enforce the lease agreement that origin
ally allowed overflow parking on the lot for
football games only.
This semester the railroad agreed to let
students park on the half-mile strip to com
pensate for parking taken by construction
work on the Kyle Field expansion.
Maddox said the agreement specified
that cars would be parked at least 10 feet
from the tracks.
Tom Parsons, director of traffic and
security for the University Police Depart
ment, said the problem resulted trom stu
dents parking two rows of cars in the nar
row lot.
“Whether or not a car will be towed,”
Parsons said, “depends on where it is
parked.
“If the car is blocking railroad work, it
must be towed. If not, a parking violation
will be issued, beginning Monday.”
As an alternative for the lot’s approxi
mately 150 users, Parsons aid Lot 62, next
to Kyle Field and the Wofford Cain pool,
has more spaces available now and is usual
ly about one-third empty.
Deputy Corps Commander Dillard Stone, a journalism major from Brazosport,
leads Texas A&M University’s Corps of Cadets in its annual SCONA Review
Thursday afternoon. After reviewing the Corps, delegates to the 25th Student
review:
Conference on National Affairs attended evening formation and ate dinner with
cadets in Duncan Dining Hall.
Staff photo by Lynn Blanco
MSC
to fill
picks officers
council posts
pa thy
Democrats find local residents don’t care
By LAURA CORTEZ
City Staff
Blhere is a great deal of apathy among
ims A&M University students and resi-
Knts of Brazos County when it comes to
being politically involved, a member of the
State Democratic Executive Committee
joid.
f in an interview Thursday, Erma Jeffer-
■n, one of the two representatives on the
Rmmittee from this district (composed of
19counties), said although there are groups
Eh campus and in the community that are
Iblitically active, there are too many peo-
Ee who do not take advantage of the oppor-
Bnity to find out about the candidates and
Vote.
“Anyone who does not take the time to
cast a vote has no right to complain about
government,” she said.
Jefferson said this is a particularly impor
tant year to participate in the presidential
election because of the many critical issues
which now face the country.
“Students should especially be con
cerned about the draft because it will affect
all of them,” she said.
Jefferson also said it is very important for
people who live in Brazos County, includ
ing Texas A&M students, to participate in
local politics.
Out-of-town students have the option of
registering to vote in their home counties
or in Brazos County, but Jefferson said she
feels they should vote in Brazos County
because most will live here for at least four
years.
“What goes on in Brazos County, speci
fically in Bryan-College Station, will direct
ly affect their lives,” she said.
Jefferson, who works in the personnel
office at Texas A&M, said there are various
ways a person can become politically in
volved.
She said that in any election, a person
should become familiar with the issues, and
then decide which candidate’s ideals and
views he agrees with.
Information about a candidate and his
views can be obtained from his campaign
headquarters. If he is an incumbent, there
ifl Television ads believe
send j’ustifies the j'ears
are public records concerning what he has
done while in office, she said.
Jefferson said that another way of finding
but about a particular candidate is by talk
ing to community leaders who are know
ledgeable about politics, people involved
with special interest groups in the area, and
Democrat or Republican party leaders.
She said that people who wish to support
a particular candidate by doing more than
voting for him, can volunteer to work on his
campaign.
“People can do anything from working at
campaign headquarters to knocking on
doors.”
One of the most important things for
citizens to realize, Jefferson said, is that
their votes count.
She said that people can have a big effect
on politics if they organize — group
together and vote for or against a particular
issue or person.
Jefferson has studied political science,
and has been involved in politics for several
years. She attended the national conven
tion as a delegate alternate in 1976, and has
attended two state conventions. In addition
to her position on the State Democratic
Executive Committee, she serves as a Bra
zos County precinct chairman.
By ANDY WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
The Memorial Student Center Council
and Directorate elected officers to six of its
nine posts in a meeting Thursday night.
The six will join president Ernen Haby,
who was elected at the group’s previous
meeting. Haby, ajunior finance major from
Wharton, is currently the vice president of
finance.
Officers elected at Thursday’s meeting
will take their positions April 12 at the M SC
Awards Banquet. They are:
— Keith Shurtleff, vice president of fi
nance. Shurtleff is a junior from Seguin
majoring in agricultural economics. He is
now the coordinator of funds.
— Sara Morse, vice president of prog
rams, who is a senior accounting major
from Houston. She is chairman of the MSC
Calendar of Events, which is not a part of
the Council and Directorate.
— Paul Fisher, director of operations.
Fisher, a sophomore from Tyler, is a che
mical engineering major who is now the
council assistant to the vice president of
administration.
— Brian Gross, director of projects. He
is a junior economics and English major
from Pecos and is currently vice president
of administration.
— Todd Norwood, coordinator of funds.
Norwood is a sophomore from Dainger-
field. He is majoring in chemical engineer
ing and is this year’s council assistant to the
coordinator of funds.
— Susan Gregory, comptroller. She is a
senior accounting major from Tyler who is
now council assistant to the vice president
of finance.
Two offices — vice president of adminis
tration and director of public relations —
were left open. President Brooks Herring
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United Press International
INEW YORK — Television advertising
today seems devoted to the motto that the
end justifies the jeans.
It’s hard to decide whether the girls in
the blue jeans ads are sewn into their dun-
firees, or whether the pants are just
painted on.
' Blue jeans may be the coming thing in
Revision advertising, but most of the girls
Wearing them are photographed going
llway.
It Any visitor from outer space monitoring
perican television for educational pur-
bses undoubtedly would think that the
ear end was the nation’s number one
Irogenous zone.
(Second place on the erogenous map
nould be the mouth.
Teeth are always perfect and gleaming
white, a tribute to our carnivore ancestors,
iiot to mention the dental Houdinis who
slugged the gaps, adjusted the braces and-
Or colormatched the caps.
But since make-believe dentists have
en de-smocked, ruled off commercials as
(feceptive advertising, the alien scientist
would be led to believe all that snowy
whiteness (eat your heart out, Lake Placid)
comes from the proper dentifrice.
[| Not only does television teach that man
kind— anyway, womankind — has overde
veloped backsides and teeth, but also a
highly developed sense of smell. Why else
iould we always be turning up our noses at
ie way the other guy smells — his body,
Js breath, even his Kitty Litter?
[7 The average day of an American televi-
n commercial family would go some-
iing like this:
A technological breakthrough has
owed the installation in the average fami-
home of devices that groom while you
ep, so everyone wakes up with hair com-
d, face washed, etc.
Soap is even scarcer than fossil fuel. The
tire family, almost always consisting of
sband, wife, and one child of each sex,
es up in front of the single bathroom to
[are the carefully saved sliver of preferred
lap.
Breakfast is the main meal of the day,
since more foods for breakfast are adver
tised than for any other meal. Breakfast
consists of cereals, mainly, but not orange
juice, which is no longer a breakfast drink.
Coffee also has been moved to other
parts of the day, when two mature-
appearing people simper over a rhyme ab
out filling the cup to the rim with a caffeine
less product.
After breakfast the children are bundled
off to school. The big mystery is what hap
pens to the television commercial husband
during the daytime. He disappears until
dinner time. Except he can receive calls at
an office, the purpose of which office is
undisclosed. As a matter of fact, answering
the telephone appears to be his primary
function.
The calls come from his wife, who wants
to nag him about his handling of their bank
account, or tell him about a disaster for
which, fortunately, they are insured. This
Pork products
high on the hog
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A researcher has
found that chitterlings are an acceptable
source of protein but pig ears aren’t.
The nutritional value of other pork by
products — pig feet, pig knuckles, hog
maws, neck bones, pig tails and lungs —
are also being analyzed, but the results
have not yet been published.
In an article in the Journal of Food Scien
ce, Moses William Vaughn, a food technol
ogy and science professor at the University
of Maryland-Eastern Shore, said cooked
chitterlings have as much protein as meat
patties made up of 60 percent beef and 40
percent soy protein added.
Vaughn found chitterlings have a much
higher fat content and about twice as much
cholesterol as pig ears, but pig ears provide
too little protein to be nutritious.
is not to be confused with those people
insured by having a piece of the rock —
those people are the victims of the weirdest
accidents.
The wife spends her day occupied with
the national pasttime. Housecleaning.
During the seventh inning stretch, she
does clotheswashing. Wives do not worry
about Iran, Afghanistan or the resurrection
of the draft. They worry about spots on
glassware. Because of a shortage of mirrors,
they worry about being able to see their
reflections in their dishes and, thanks to a
new development, on their floors.
When the women aren’t cleaning, they
gather in groups of four to six to discuss the
quality of peanut butter and the worst kinds
of soil.
After busy days of floormopping and rug
shampooing, the wives need diversion.
While one wife and mother whips off her
clothes and dons perfume, most of the
wives offer a different type of entertain
ment.
They blindfold their husbands and ask
them to fondle diapers or squeeze toilet
paper. One housewife, incidentally, has
nothing on her kitchen shelves except rolls
of toilet tissue. Weird.
Other forms of recreation include the
woman who dances the cha-cha-cha with
the family cat, the husbands who road test
automobiles in their spare time, and the
children who get their kicks brushing their
teeth with a blue gel.
Dinner almost invariably comes out of a
frozen package, a can, or a flavor packet,
unless it’s chicken — that can be made at
home or brought home fried. Families eat
ing out dine on hamburgers, pizza and fried
fish. They do not eat vegetables, which may
be on the attorney general’s list as hazar
dous to health.
Oddly, although this is television, in
commercial-land few families watch the
screen. By after dinner they are beginning
to feel the onset of a cold or flu, or worrying
about insomnia, and discussing what medi
cations to take.
She’s exhausted from cleaning. Nobody
knows why he’s so tired.
Frisbee flinging
Roy Pledger, 49, associate professor of environmental design, executes
his prize-winning frisbee form at Dexter Park near his home. Pledger is
the faculty advisor to the Disc Association of A&M (DAAM) and also holds
several Senior Division world records in frisbee throwing.
Photo by Abbie Hayley
said the group will try to fill these positions
at its next meeting March 3.
The Council and Directorate also voted
to allow the Arts Committee to transfer
funds from two of its accounts to pay for
printing of Texas A&M’s literary magazine,
the Moebius.
Kerri Kernan, acting chairman of the
committee; said the transfers were neces
sary to pay a $750 bill for typesetting of
material from last year’s magazine, which
was never printed. Some of the works
which were to be in that issue will be used
in this year’s, Kernan said.
Kernan also said that the committee
hopes to publish the magazine this spring
rather than next fall, which will probably
necessitate printing it at added expense off
campus. The group hopes to put out an
SVz-by-l 1-inch magazine, instead of the 6-
by-9-inch format used previously.
The committee will transfer unused
money from its professional fees and rental
expenses funds.
CS police drop
traffic charges
Charges against a Texas A&M University
oceanographer were dismissed Thursday
by Judge Ken Robison.
Hussein Abdel-Reheim, an Egyptian-
born U.S. citizen, had planned to file a
complaint against a College Station police
officer claiming his civil rights had been
violated when he was stopped for a routine
traffic violation Feb. 6.
He was arrested for not signing a traffic
ticket for driving a moped without license
tags. Abdel-Reheim said he was never pre
sented with a ticket.
His lawyer, Lamar Hankins, said the
complaint will not be filed at this time be
cause it would just be the word of his client
against the word of the arresting officer.
Hankins said if any witnesses to the
arrest stepped forward, he and Abdel-
Reheim would reconsider filing the com
plaint.
After hearing Robison’s decision, Hank
ins and Abdel-Reheim were unable to con
tact Police Chief Marvin Byrd to discuss
the case with him.
KAMI! reaches
tenth birthday
KAMU-TV, the local Public Broadcast
ing Service station, is celebrating its 10th
birthday today. Festivities include a parade
featuring kindergarten children from
Bryan, College Station, Hearne, Snook and
Somerville.
It will air at 1 p.m.
Also included will be the renaming of the
street next to the Joe H. Moore Communi
cations Center, to Sesame Street. The re
naming is in honor of the 10th season of the
children’s show Sesame Street.
At 7 p.m. programming highlights of the
last 10 years at Channel 15 will be aired.