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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1980
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Tech to host talks United Way drive extended
on women’s jobs
Students who are interested in in
ternational developments are in
vited to attend a conference titled:
“Developing Nations: Challenges
Involving Women,” next Monday
and Tuesday at Texas Tech Universi
ty in Lubbock.
The Office of International Prog
rams is offering $150 mini-grants
under the Title XII Strengthening
Grant Program to students, faculty
and administrators.
Mini-grant applications must be
filed by Thursday with Dr. Pamela
Home, strengthening grant coordi
nator, Office of International Prog
rams, Bizzell Hall.
All other information about the
conference can also be obtained from
Home.
The conference will focus on
women’s role in development in
many foreign nations. Workshops,
discussions and lectures will cover
such topics as expanding opportuni
ties, resource development, cultu
rally sensitive programs and others.
“Women in development need to
be recognized by our technical per
sonnel,” Horne said. “Sixty to 70
percent of women are small farmers
in some countries. Some technical
personnel talk only to women and
that deters development,” she said.
Male and female students and fa
culty are invited to attend the confer
ence, Home said.
The Title XII program is spon
sored by the Agency for Internation
al Development which provides
funds for international assistance and
development to Texas A&M Univer
sity.
The Brazos Valley United Way has
collected $163,000.50 or 67 percent
of its goal and has extended its fund
drive into November.
Texas A&M University has
reached 66 percent of its $50,210
goal, said Anne Bell, publicity
chairman.
The United Way supports the fol
lowing local agencies: the Arthritis
Foundation, Bluebonnet Girl Scout
Council, Boys’ Club of Bryan, Boy
Scouts of America, Brazos County
Chapter of the American Red Cross,
Brazos County Community Council,
Brazos County Senior Citizens Asso
ciation, Brazos Valley MH-MR Cen
ter, Brazos Valley Museum of Natu
ral Science, Brazos Valley Rehabili
tation Center, Camp Sweeney Di
abetic Foundation, College Station
Recreation Council, Community
House, Girls’ Club of Brazos Coun
ty, Retired Senior Volunteer Pro
gram and Salvation Army.
Mechanical engineer
gets Halliburton grant
Fixing an old problem
Staff photo by Pat O'Malley
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to leavti
x ^Virgil Hartsfield, an employee for the Physical
Plant, sprays a degreasing agent on the layer of
tar inside the fountain in front of the Chemis-
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try building. After the tar is removed, a new
layer will be put on and then a layer of epoxy
sealant will be applied after that.
mil crowd sees Pulitzer play
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Gin Game’ deals odd hand
By JULIE STANDARD
Battalion Reporter
|* A simple card game became the final realization of life
" \ ran elderly man and woman Monday night in MSC
k L/ ’ora Hall’s presentation of “The Gin Game” in Rudder
uditorium.
)fcoursc»F or almost two hours, the crowd of about 400 first
lotos at c y nical attitude of Weller Martin and
( H . lie self-righteous air of Fonsia Dorsey before being
f | jrced, along with the characters, to accept the bitter
of anilities of their past.
u aste A primarily middle-aged crowd watched this 1978
lit in timtiljtzer Prize winning play for drama by D. L. Cobum.
• the vicMPhyllis Thaxter (Dorsey) and Larry Gates (Martin)
s the wonBtray two divorced, elderly residents of a run-down
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ement home who begin to use the game of gin
hmy as an escape from the frustrations they experi-
iCe at the home.
Woes the food around here give you diarrhea?,”
artin asks Dorsey over their first game of rummy.
oustonianTNot that I’ve noticed,” she says.
|Toud notice,” he replies.
, and s«f Mart m s colorful, though sometimes not too clean,
hree yeJP 11 ) 611 * 5 express his disappointment and need for
: se xism at home. The game of gin rummy is his
■ t Cal-Bep ^ or expressing himself.
h a con®
)orsey becomes Martin’s gin partner when both dis
cover they don’t feel quite as helpless as the other
residents.
“I’m still alive, damn it,” Martin yells in frustration.
Dorsey, claiming not to be a card-shark because of her
strict, religious upbringing, frustrates Martin even
more when she beats him at every hand.
It is at this point in the play where the audience’s
humor is silenced into seriousness when the characters
begin to make some realizations about their own lives.
After every loss to Dorsey, Martin must go through a
series of temper-tantrums and obscenities. He hates to
lose and the audience learns his attitude at losing at
cards is reflected from his attitude when he lost own
ership of his business years earlier.
Dorsey, through Martin’s criticisms, must also face
her failures as a wife and mother.
The two express a genuine need for their companion
ship and the portrayal of the characters by Thaxter and
Gates is essential for the message of the play to be
expressed to the audience.
For the younger members of the audience, “The Gin
Game” closed the generation gap in letting them realize
that they, too, don’t like to be treated like children.
For the older members of the audience, “The Gin
Game” offered a chance to examine their lives without
having to experience the same pain Martin and Dorsey
have.
The ending seemed to leave the audience unsatisfied,
as Dorsey runs Martin off as she has everyone else in her
life and Martin loses yet one more battle, with neither
having a chance to change the patterns they had estab
lished their entire lives.
A $20,000 grant has been pre
sented to the Texas A&M University
College of Engineering by the Halli
burton Education Foundation.
Engineering Dean Robert H.
Page received the grant from officials
of Brown and Root, Welex and Otis
engineering firms, which are units of
the Dallas-based Halliburton Co.
Page said the funds, which repre
sent the 16th annual grant to Texas
A&M by the foundation, will enable
the new Halliburton Professor of En
gineering, Dr. Walter L. Bradley of
the mechanical engineering faculty,
to perform studies in high tempera
ture mechanical behavior of mate
rials.
Bradley, a four-year Texas A&M
faculty member, has degrees from
the University of Texas at Austin and
taught earlier at the Colorado School
of Mines.
The metallurgist has presented ex
pert testimony on gas pipeline fai
lure. Also, he has studied thermal
fatigue of turbine blades in jet en-
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COUNTRY MUSIC CONCERT WITH BILLY WALKER
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TICKETS ON SALE AT ALL U-TOTE-M STORES, TIP-TOP RECORDS, DOWN TOWN
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s? e P rese ntati v es from General
plephone Company tonight will
puss problems with the telephone
-rvicc in Texas A&M University
urmitories.
L? i e representatives will be
I guest speakers at the Residence
ut he rest Association meeting at 7 p. m. in
naive. ^ Har rington.
to shed I; 50 on the agenda are the results
tte seaSOBE, P ro P° sa l to collect room keys
T makers i S , ents faring the Christmas
® ak and evaluation of the RHAllo-
t Jr cel ebration held Oct. 30.
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Prints accepted:
8:00-5:00
8:00-2:00
in MSC main hallway.
Entry fee $1.00
Prints should be 8 X 10 or larger
and must be matted.
Direct other questions to
MSC Camera Committee
Rm. 216 MSC