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Page 8 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1980 ■ s I The Cow Hop “AN AGGIE TRADITION” " T-BONE OZ. STEAK $goo z**- 846-1588 8 Tender, delicious T-Bone served with Texas Toast and French Fries JUST 317 UNIVERSITY DR. (NORTH GATE) Builders will eat 12,000 cookies Female bonfire help ‘refreshing Tolcins “In Germany, where optical excellence is a way of life, TOKINA is the best-selling By BELINDA McCOY Battalion Staff Tradition changed last year at Texas A&M University, and now women are allowed to help build the annual Texas Aggie bonfire. But some women prefer to let the men do the “dirty” work, and so female Aggies have found another way to help with the tradition. They serve refreshments to their male counterparts. The bonfire committee of the Stu dent Y Association at Texas A&M is one organization of women helping with the bonfire. Their service to the workers is furnishing them with cookies. Michelle Piatt, chairman of the bonfire committe of Student Y, said women have been providing refresh ments for the workers for several lens. TOKINA 70-210 mm f/3.5 Zoom Lens List Price $ 411.90 FOCUS PHOTO SPECIAL PRICE years. “No one knows exactly the date (when women started providing re freshments), but it was somewhere in the mid ’60s when a lot of women started coming here (to Texas A&M).” Last year, Piatt said the organiza tion spent over $1,500 on conces sions for the workers — money which came mostly from the Student Y activity fund. So this year, for the first time, the Student Y sent requests for home- come to town for a football. In addition to cookie do! nine mother’s clubs have monetary contributions to tb mittee. But despite contributions^,! mothers clubs, the Student? stil* have to order an addition^ j cookies horn a company in Ho,, Piatt said. The Student Y is presentlyJ— mg the same shifts as the builders — from 5 p. m . t o( Three women are assigned to tJ shift. When the builders ben hour shifts, so will the women [ Another student organJ which plans to help serve refc ments to the bonfire workers j year is Off-Campus Aggies, OCA plans to bake cookies [J workers, said Kim Hoskins a her of OCA’s bonfire committeejR v they will be operating under: : ram of "bonfire buddies.’’ Br Belinda Barnum, Linda Johnson, Martha Can trell and Laurie Dunn dish out coffee and cookies to bonfire workers from Moses Hall. Staff photo by Greg Gammon The girls work the same hours as the builders. More than 12,000 cookies will be distruibuted before the bonfire burns Nov. 25. made cookies to every club affiliated with the Federation of Texas A&M University Mother’s Clubs. So far cookie donations — 200 dozen — have come in from Dallas, Amarillo, Beaumont, Lafayette, Tyl er, Abilene, Baytown and William son County. The cookies are usually brought by the mothers when they In this program, eachu assigned an off-campus student,] is helping with the bonfire buli and she bakes cookies for him "We’re trying to get going," kins said, but she added hard for them to get organ, cause the large number of ape. complexes creates a communka problem. I A Texi ;her is c< are real!) JDr. Gj of anator limals i ment dis Eieke $ 289 95 ! 70-210 mm Close Focusing f/3.5 Zoom Lens. Fast 3X Zoom ratio in zoom range perfect for sports and portraiture. This super-sharp lens available with mounts to fit Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Pentax and Minolta 35 mm cameras. Includes 5-year warranty. (Sale Price Good Thru Thurs., Nov. 20) BANGKOK FLU STUDY VOLUNTEERS Blood Sample $10.00 Thursday, Friday November 13, 14 PHOTO & CAMERA, INC. 1603 S. Texas Ave. — Culpepper Plaza Next To Rosewood Junction 693-1402 "Professional Assistance And Service With Every Sale" Health Center .9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Friday Commons Lounge 9 a .m. to 9 p.m. Thursday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday If you forgot to pick up your $3.00 for the symptom card, go to the Health Center station during these times NewNTSU presided to be sworn in today Hunting : son’s dis< pown. Huntii United Press International DENTON — Civil War scholar Frank Vandiver will be inaugurated today as president of North Texas State University. Vandiver, 54, a noted historian and scholar, succeeds C.C. Nolen, who resigned in April 1979, hours before he was to testify before a legis lative committee about charges of financial mismanagement at the uni versity. The committee later ruled Nolen apparently violated state law regard ing transactions involving school live mov dually sti mtrol, ‘Him around 4 funds, hut a Denton Count) jury later declined to indict kin plates The new NTSU president ®: afll ids m wants to move the school intotlif l usually s three in Texas with the Univerat 35 to 40 Texas and Texas A&M UniversiiHlhe d Vandiver quit school in tie ofthevic grade to pursue independentiti.Jsaul Kiel and after receiving a Rockefeller i erate the lowship, re-entered formalsclioci the nerv at the graduate level. | Rieke He received his mastcr sdegif: from the history from the Universityofle ca in 1949 and later got his dock from Tulane. BEAT THE HELL OUT OF ARKANSAS o a Rural I Car ExcelU Eledrit Telecoi Engine Engine Ask yc pamph Eledril offers l Jail adv Servici THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1980 8:30 p.m. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY PAVILLION sign up rm2I6 MSC for info. 845-I5I5 MSC RECREATION aTm STUDY ABROAD aTm STUDY ABROAD a! < * >- Q D h U) tl tilt ttltfrfodk'hwt! Q STUDY ABROAD FAIR Thursday, November 20, 19^0 ^ RM 2G6MSC | , - im 12 pm - 2pm ^ THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM Q D h* C/) For undergraduates at TAMU. Costs the same as one year at TAW. 5“^ abroad for one academic year on a reciprocal program funded oy c y Applicants must: Be a full time undergraduate student enrolled at TAMU. rnnflie ncin<l Have completed freshman & sophomore years at TAMU prior t their period of study abroad. , „ , n their nw.l° r Have an overall B(3.0) average, with no grades below a B r> 4*. .A .. an uverd11 average, witn no graueb uciu- - field of study. . 14tv require- The Study Abroad Advisor will discuss in greater detail e1 j5' b esSi ments for the ISEP program as well as outline the application p IHIS SUMMER IN LATIN AMERICA (2 x You can volunteer to inoculate, do dental hygiene & visual scr ^jj!!hj e in digging, cnrrenunftv c»ni+»f4nn hnch.nrirv. Programs ava ^p U 5ilc. ^,,^1 ..... be avallahl® “ j^ioorft Resource table will be on first gCwwvwna.»tISC I -.yy.a.y, uuniHuiiicy sanitation or animal nusoanary. nuy*--- Lexica, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Paraguay, & the Dominical Representatives from AMIGOS De Las Americas will be available the above mentioned opportunities. Resource table will be on § MSC TRAVEL COMMITTEE MSC Travel Committee presents several students discussing experiences in study and travel programs. their overseas >* Q D h- TRANSFER OF CREDITS FROM FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS lr. Harvey Striegler, Associate Director of Admissions & Records cuss transfer of credits from overseas Universities. will'd 15 ' 1 j/bratyMy...Jorei/eryMyr... MJYTADS Q i CO < TAMU MODERN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT SUMMER STUDIES IN EUROPE. Uach summer the Department of Modern Languages at Texas A&M Unbe^^ students who have the equivalent of at least one year of co i n tensiV e French, German, or Spanish the opportunity to participate i eC ts of language prograu abroad and to experience first hand varl ° u , Qr . n iangua9 e foreign cultures and civilizations. Professors from the Moder Department will be available to discuss in greater detail- LOW t AW|M£AN INSTITUTE FOR FORFlfiN STIItlY (AtFS) A representative from AIFS will be on Campus to give an * * * - 3 morning (taoie *!? S *u tute '\ W1 ^ 136 available throughout the mommy v of the MSC) to meet individually with interested students overview^ )J' or Battalion Classified 845-2611 Q STUDY ABROAD OFFICE £ BIZZELL HALL ^ THL 845-1824 sl )j; VMjyaVOHHV ACinj.S IMjy C1VOHLTV A<Ji