age 8 THE BA' V WEDNESDAY, Local THE BATTALION APRIL 1, 1981 BEOG processing halted due to federal aid budget By JERI JONES Battalion Reporter Processing of the 1981-82 Stu- lent Elibibility Reports for the lasic Educational Opportunity Grants has stopped because of >ossible tight federal funds. “Students at Texas A&M Uni- 'ersity may not get their BEOGs >n time next year if the federal idministration and Congress can- tot agree soon on who is eligible or grants and how much money hey should get,” Ann Vivero, ;rant coordinator for student mancial aid, said. The BEOG office in Los Angeles is accepting student ap plications, but they are not pro cessing the reports, she said. Usually a student makes an ap plication for a BEOG to the Los \ngeles-based office, and the oasic grant office then processes die application. They can either |rant or deny aid to the applicant. If the student is eligible for aid, be is assigned an index number based on the amount of need, Vivero said. After receiving the SER, the student brings it to the Student Financial Aid Office at Texas A&M and payment is made. Approximately 4,000 students or 12.7 percent of the 31,443 stu- Handmade art on show at Rudder By SHARON D. RENFROW Battalion Reporter Art, crafts demonstrations, music and a festive atmosphere ire all part of the April Fool’s Fes- :ival today and Thursday. Local artisans are displaying their works from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. iround the Rudder Tower Foun tain at Texas A&M University. Pottery, stained glass designs, graphic art, tiber arts — anything landcrafted — are being shown. “Everything has to be hand made or handcrafted,” Andy Bal ly, assistant manager of the MSG Craft Shop, said. “No kit- produced items or items which are cast in molds are allowed in the festival. ” To prevent such items from being entered, a sample of each item that the artisan plans to dis play has been checked by the Craft Shop management, Bally said. Along with the crafts displays, information booths on various MSG committees are set up. “These booths are for those peo ple who just walk by the MSG and never come in,” Jill Teel, chair man of the MSG day, said. They will be able to find out about com mittees available in the center, she said. The committees are providing skits and other promotional activi ties the first day of the festival. And to get everybody in the spirit, a yell practice is planned for noon, Teel said. Sherry Symank, a graduate stu dent in biology, will entertain the following day with her belly dancing. Demonstrations in pot tery-making by hand and by wheel and jewelry-making with horseshoe nails will also be pre sented. And the performers in the MSG All University Variety Show will present a preview of the show to be held on Friday. The craft festival is put on every semester, Bally said. Armadillo gets backing from youths United Press International AUSTIN — It looks like the youthful “armadillo lobby” has won a partial victory in its efforts to have the nine-banded animal designated as the official state mammal. The lobby, headquartered at Oak Creek Elementary and Wells Middle School in Houston, won quick House committee approval Monday of a resolution giving the title to the armadillo after two years of lobbying. The resolution now goes to the full House for con sideration. The backers of the resolution— one in an armadillo suit, another in her cheerleader outfit and a third wearing an armadillo cap — first bombarded the House Rules Committee members with letters supporting the proposal, then sof tened them up by presenting them “gingerdillos” — ginger bread armadillos. dents at Texas A&M BEOGs. The decision may take months and cause an immense backlog as Texas A&M receives the SERs. “This will put us behind in pro cessing grant payments,” Vivero said. Similar delays plagued payment of the BEOGs last year. The grants were cut by $50, Vivero said, but the decision was not made until August and required many adjustments to be made be fore students could receive their grants. Vivero encourages students to apply for the BEOGs even though the SERs are not presently being processed. Applicants will be notified by the grant office when the federal government and the U.S. Depart ment of Education make a deci sion. Beginning with the 1981-82 academic school year, the BEOGs will be called Pell Grants. Artist uses Bible as inspiration By CAROLYN BARNES Battalion Reporter The song of the human spirit is the theme of artist Clarence Talley’s exhibit “Inspira tions” on display in the Ernest Langford Architecture Center this week. Talley said the exhibit, sponsored by the Department of Environmental Design, “attempts to motivate and inspire the view er to think, to ask questions, as well as seek an answer.” Talley says he reads the Bible to find scriptures that could be used as inspirations for his paintings. “Everyone should make a contribution in terms of bringing people to Christ,” Tal ley said. “This just happens to be mine.” Talley said his goal is to “visually preach through my work." One of his main themes is fertility, be cause he said he believes “the Lord is the only one who gives life.” One of the three series of the exhibition is a contemporary approach to the subject of “The Nude,” with the female figure as the central theme. A distinct trademark of Talley’s works is a wood-grained effect, created when the artist places Vs-inch strips of masking tape on the canvas and paints over them. 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