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Features THE BATTALION THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1981 Page 1‘ d that “a its lucation df s the first® e jobs hi increasd opportu duatesan w college! the et' ‘arch and ortunitics range indusb :e of the face liversity ores as contrails shifting goals: ial companies on for that :tee saidtliess obs alsoareb ed in? onsequencesd almost impossi 1 the city’s a sophisticate! Transportafe out, perhapsh ? than 250,(K factories air endangered l* would crad The city coni for many dan and telephone J over an aia These mares and colts behind the College of Veterinary Socience are being used for disease research. The 1- month old colts and the mares are stock that the vet school Staff Photo by Brian Tate raises for the sole reason of testing different experiments for various disease classes. Consumer adviser agrees that inflation is biggest worry apitalt that!* London coi® many feel & ver fully recofi to minimize oaign advisest- :rs whattodoii War-time sires t asmuchasfe : has Telex 0 set in motiosi urgency actio®- panning a oil Thames, show eat for good. 1 steel gates tlai keep sea wals ) the river, r of a five-si* 1 te river bed es in thecenlei pan 200 feet and . When not is into concrete river bed. Hie) 0 900-ton risirt es that would!* e. machinery !• is set on overed by stab s that resent icy will 1 pectacularritf London couiK- ; a tourist attrae e like this b< •ted before, ”si ,: a city engine;' ig the frontiers United Press International WASHINGTON — Virginia Knauer, consumer adviser to presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan, said most consumer issues have now been buried by an overwhelming worry about infla tion. “The whole mood in the coun try is Let s make sure that all the regulations that are coming forth are cost effective.’ I think that’s “The whole mood in the country is ‘Let’s make sure that all the regula tions that are coming forth are cost effec tive. ' I think that’s ex actly what this adminis tration is doing, ” said Virginia Knauer, con sumer adviser for pres idents Nixon, Ford and Carter. exactly what this administration is doing,” Knauer said in an inter view. “During the past 12 years we — everyone — through a joint effort, put a lot of consumer legislation on the books — credit, credit for women, packaging and labeling. These are all very hot issues. “Now in the past two years of traveling as a private citizen, I found that the one thing people have sudddenly awakened to is the fact that inflation is something that hits them, and they have a better understanding of how it works. “There’s no doubt in my mind that inflation became the number one consumer concern.” She said consumers and their lobbyists in the past often left in flation and unemployment to the lawmakers and the economists. In her own previous service at the White House, Knauer found her self involved in issues ranging from shortages of canning lids to how goods are shelf-priced in su permarkets. “If the administration can turn the economy around,” she said, “I think people will then perceive that everything is getting better and I think they will then begin to go back to some of the generic consumer issues — the ones we used to have.” Knauer said she will not lobby Congress to restore budget cuts in consumer agencies. “It’s really up to the agencies,” she said “We all have sustained budget cuts but I think this is what the people wanted. I think the perception was that the govern ment had grown too big. “But even if the president gets every single one of his cuts, this administration will be spending six percept more than they did this current year. Sb what he haii done is not wipe out everything, but shift the empahsis.” In her return to the White House Knauer has been given ex panded duties involving aged and disabled Americans as well as more general health and safety issues. T’m particularly interested in the area of aging women,” she said. “They face many, many problems. One of the ones that is surfacing now that distresses the most is the lack of safety on the streets and in their homes. “Every day we read about some elderly person, man or woman, whose house has been invaded “There’s no doubt in my mind that inflation became the number one consumer con cern, ” Knauer said. and they’ve been brutalized. This has become a major concern,” she said. Knauer said specific programs for her new responsibilities have yet to be devised, but education and working through groups which represent the elderly will be one direction in which she will head. When she was asked whether she thought the organized con sumer lobbyists in Washington should give up and and leave town, she said: “No. No. I think it’s very impor tant they express their concern “I’m particularly in terested in the area of' 1 aging women, ” Knauer said. “They face many, many problems. One of the ones that is surfac ing now that distresses them most is the lack of safety on the streets and in their homes. ” and the concern of their consti tuencies. I do feel that we don’t have to agree on everything but, we can seek common ground. This is what we’ve been saying to each other.” Knauer also said she thinks Americans are “much better con sumers” today. “They’re more sophisticated. They’re much more able to handle complaints than they once were, and I think this is largely traceable to what we did in the ‘70s. “And also because business has reponded by having consumer affairs professionals right in their own companies. And, let’s face it, when I came to Washington (12 XFtouPOT'sro BOOKSTORE At Northgate Across from the Post Office WE BUY BOOKS EVERYDAY! AND GIVE 20% MORE IN TRADE ON USED BOOKS! w“}T>VrE o F>TICAE Prescriptions Filled Glasses Repaired 216 N. MAIN Caveman courting lives United Press International SEATTLE — Modern man may not be much beyond the cave man when it comes to courting girls, says anthropologist David Givens. Givens, a University of Washington professor, specializes in studying the ways men and women are brought together. His main laboratory is the Hub, the student gathering center on the university campus. He spends hours quietly observing young men and women and what they do to attract persons of the opposite sex. Givens finds early communica tion between strangers is nonver bal body language. This, the pro fessor says, involves preening, drawing in of the stomach and posture correction as each gra dually becomes more aware of the other. A man and a woman who reach the conclusion they are attracted to each other are in a state of “isop- raxism, ” Givens says. They are be having in like patterns. He says this behavior pattern is also found among birds and fish and is “real, real important in courtship.” Givens says men and women can’t just go up and say something when they want to meet because there’s something in the mind that prevents this approach. “In the emotional centers of the brain, we re jerked around by these patterns formed millions and millions of years ago. ... in courtship, we’re still with the apes and monkeys and whatever. ” Besides, Givens says a spoken message is “too strong. ” The preening, hair tossing, tummy tucking or chest expanding is the unlearned, non-conscious, in stinctive stuff of which budding romance is made. The professor says the miles tone in early courting lies in find ing ways to “accidentally” touch. “They’ll do the sneakiest thing to get a touch,” he says, then they’ll snitch a hug and modify it with humor. Givens says humor is vital. CORNERSTONE FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH Temporarily meeting in the Old College Station City Hall at the corner of Wellborn and Church Street, one block from the Northwest comer of the main campus. WEEKLY SERVICES Sunday School 9:45 A.M. Sunday Worship 11:00 A.M. Sunday Evening 7:00 P.M. Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 P.M. We are growing and serving. Come and Worship with us. Pastor - Rev. Wesley Bigelow Phone 846-3811 On The Double Northgate 846-3755 XEROX COPIES, TYPING We specialize in R6sum6s, Theses, Dissertations Open M-F, 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Sat., 9-6 years ago) there were only 16 state bureaus (of consumer protection). Now they have consumer protec tion offices in every state, and most states have two — one in the governor’s office and one in the attorney general’s.” In her time out of office Knauer opened a consulting firm. She di vested her interest in it to return. In other areas Knauer said: —Her “favorite grandchild” is the Consumer Information Cen ter that she helped found 10 years ago. The Boulder, Colo., center promotes and distributes a host of government publications, many of them free. —She has ordered the staff of the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs, which she heads, to stop intervening in proceedings in other regulatory proceedings. “I thought that was not proper. Ob viously Congress was outraged ab out it. I don’t think a White House spokesman or a federal officer should be intervening in any state ratemaking case, for example.” —She still backs the concept of a Federal Trade Commission proposal to require more consum er information from funeral dire ctors. “I just think people in a time of grief need all the information they can get. And the ethical undertak ers have been supplying that in formation.” Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611 SPECIAL BUY I SPUD AND BET A 2ND SPUD ^ (LEAST EXPENSIVE) rj FOR V2 PRICE. GOOD HON.-THURS. AFTER 5 P.M. 775-4775 (WITH COUPON) WE ALSO SERVE DELICIOUS SALADS AND 3 DIFFERENT SUPER SANDWICHESI 10 DIFFERENT SUPER POTATOES AND 4 KINDS OF NACHOSI NOTHING OVER $2,691 GOOD THRU 4-23-81 OPEN I I AM-9 PM MON.-SAT. CLOSED SUN. LOCATED AT 403 VILLA MARLA _ 1 BL. WEST OF TEXAS AVE. iamond Room 707 WE’VE GOT YOUR DIAMOND BRYAN Mon.-Fri. 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