THE BATTALION
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1980
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local
[ONDAY
), 1980
Register by filling out postcard
tudent government to give
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By DENISE CRENWELGE
Campus Reporter
|J Texas A&M University’s student
government is giving a new look to
an old friend. This fall, the Student
pPurchase Program — student gov-
I and industrial basfL^rnment’s discount coupon book —
ig a reexaminationtij.will become Aggie Bucks.
iong business, labon&j Sue Vito, director of Aggie Bucks,
ier to sustain ttiecon^; said the SPP books are undergoing
j United States in | The name change for a number of
treasons.
K “We needed a new approach to
the whole project,’’ Vito said. “We
didn’t get a good response at first and
we needed a name that students
amid relate to and remember.
| “Right now we re known as that
other book’ or ‘the book that the stu
dent government puts out,”’ she
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said. Most people are more familiar
with student government’s competi
tors, the People Book.
Aggie Bucks will have a new cov
er, new format and possibly an in
dex. The coupons will look like dollar
bills, Vito said.
Aggie Bucks workers are now pre
paring for the advertisement sales for
the fall edition and merchants will be
offered a chance to advertise by the
semester or yearly, she said.
The books will be similar to the
SPP books. They will concentrate on
fast food places, but will include res
taurants, auto repair shops, figure
salons, T-shirt shops, bookstores and
stereo shop coupons, Vito said.
Aggie Bucks wants to get busines
ses that students use regularly, she
said.
Cheryl Swanzy, vice president for
external affairs, said the books will be
publisehd each semester as they
have been for the past three years.
She said 22,500 books were
printed this semester.
Vito said the Agggie Bucks will be
distributed in survival kits. The kits
contain information about campus
facilities and campus traditions. One
kit is geared to on-campus students
and another is geared to the off-
campus students. Each kit will con
tain two books and each dormitory
room will receive one kit.
“This activity is one of the more
noticed activities of the student gov
ernment and a major public relations
project for the campus,” Swanzy
said, referring to the coupon books.
Swanzy said distribution has been
by trial and error so far, and through
the survival kits they are hoping to
solve the problem.
“In print we have had students
present fee slip and I.D., and other
times we have just handed them
out,” Swanzy said. “We are hoping
the survival kits will enable eveyone
to get a book and prevent others from
getting several.”
There are about 1,000 SPP books
still available, Vito said. Anyone
wanting one may pick it up by going
by the student government office at
216 MSC, Monday through Friday
from 8 a. m.-5 p.m.
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* presence which hjff,■ Texas A&M University not only
the political compe^t has great football, basketball and
, very likely, willcoi^haseball players, it can also claim to
to come. I§ ave best college chess and
■ WashingtonPost&n.'women’s billiards players in Texas,
Brkansas and Louisiana.
|| Three Aggies won first place in the
: annual oassociation of College Un-
Hbns-International Region 12 games
tournament Feb. 14-16 in Baton
Rouge, La.
|| Thirty other Aggies placed high in
flifferent events to enable Texas
pi&M to keep possession of the tro-
Bhy for the most points scored in the
tournament.
|| A total of 337 students from 27
Eihools were at Louisiana State Uni-
■ersity to compete.
K Gary Gray and Mark Hulsey won
prst place in the team chess divi-
|Sion, and Gray also won first place in
the individual division.
wins overall trophy
Since there is no national competi
tion in college chess, Ted Geoca,
vice chairman of the MSC Recrea
tion Committee, said Gray and
Hulsey are “the best college chess
team in the Southwest. ”
Sandy Patterson won first place in
women’s billiards and will go on to
the national competition in April in
Carbondale, Ill. She will compete
against the winners of 14 other geog
raphic regions in the United States.
A national sponsor will pay all ex
penses for Patterson, and the 14 othr
regional billiards winners, to go to
the national competition.
Besides chess and billiards, there
were backgammon, Frisbee, bowl
ing, table tennis and table soccer
competitions. All except backgam
mon and chess have a national com
petition and an all-expense paid trip
to nationals for the regional winner.
In a close competition with the
University of Houston, Texas A&M
won 11 more points to retain posses
sion of the all-events school trophy.
Last year Texs A&M won the trophy
by 16 points over the University of
Texas.
Sanders Ledbetter, recreation
coordinator for Region 12, said these
games are “recreational activities
that revolve around student unions
on many college campuses which
allow just about any college-age stu
dent the opportunity to compete in
things he or she enjoys on a national
level. ”
So, what can start out as a hobby
can take a student who is good
enough to national competition. To
get involved in the school games
competition, Geoca said the only
prerequisite is to be a full-time stu
dent.
Students then participate in a
series of tournaments sponsored by
Fibrosis ride coming up
V
i;, Spring is in the air. The weather is
great, and it’s time to get out the old
two-wheeler and start gearing up for
this year’s bicyling season.
: The 1980 Cystic Fibrosis Bike-a-
thon is being organized in the Bryan-
College Station area and local resi
dents, organizations and businesses
are being asked to help,
i j “We want to try to involve as many
people and organizations in this pro
ject as possible,” Mo Moser, chair
man of the bike-a-thon, said.
The date for the bike-a-thon is
April 12, but the route has not been
f arranged, Moser said.
“It’s still in the planning stages,”
he said. Definite plans for the route
and arrangements for prizs and en
trants will be made in the next two to
three weeks.
The funds raised through the bike-
a-thon will help support research
programs for cystic fibrosis and other
lung-damaging diseases.
Money raised will also provide
medical care to lengthen the lives of
lung-damaged children in over 120
cystic fibrosis centers in the United
States.
Cystic fibrosis centers specialize
in the diagnosis and care of children
with cystic fibrosis and other lung
damaging diseases like chronic bron
chitis, bronchiectasis, severe asthma
and recurrent pneumonia.
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nine subcommittees of the MSC Re
creation Committee. The tourna
ments decide who will advance to
regional competition, Geoca said,
and those who win first place there
go on to national competition.
By DENISE CRENWLEGE
Campus Reporter
Registering to vote in the upcom
ing local elections is as easy as filling
out a postcard.
Melissa Gosper, campus voter
registration chairman, said Texas
A&M University’s student govern
ment is working to make it easier for
students to register.
She said that as of Thursday, post
ers covered the campus containing
pre-addressed and pre-paid post
cards that have all the registration
information on them. Students just
need to fill one out and drop it in the
mail, said Gosper.
Buddy Winn, Brazos County tax
assessor-collector, said the only re
quirements for registration are that
voters reside in Brazos County and
that they register 30 days prior to
election day.
A voter is registered for two years
before he needs to renew, said
Winn.
Winn said the upcoming elections
include city and local elections on
April 1, Democratic and Republican
primaries May 3 and a run-off in June
if necessary, and the general elec
tions in November.
Winn said if a voter is registered in
another county and wishes to vote in
Brazos County he must surrender
his privileges in the other county.
If a voter moves, Winn said he has
90 days to renew before his eligibility
is void.
Cheryl Swanzy, vice president of
external affairs, said the student vo
ter turnout needs to increase.
“We don’t have the number
necessary to show concern or have an
impact on what is said in govern
ment,” said Swanzy.
“We need more voters so we will
have that impact and people will lis
ten to us.”
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