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Page 6 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1981 SPECIAL NOTICE Optional Board Plan Summer Students may dine on the board plan during the First session of summer school at Texas A&M University. Each board student may dine three meals each day except Sunday evening if the seven day plan is selected, and three meals each day, Monday through Friday, if the five day plan is preferred. Each meal is served in the Commons. Fees for each session are payable to the Controller of Accounts, Fiscal Office, Coke building. Board fees for each plan are as follows: Plans First Session Seven Day - $171.43 Jun 2 through Jul 2 Five Day - $154.29 and Plus Tax Jul 6 throu 9 h Jul 8 Day students, including graduate students may purchase either of the board plans. | laHiiJflgJKkigaH Local MANOR EAST 3 FRIDAY & SATURDAY MIDNIGHT OOtSESB-® DOLBY STEREO CADDYSHACK” Country drinking water equals city standards \w\xm STUNTMAN R I960 TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FRI. MAY 1 RUDDER THEATRE SAT. MAY 2 THE GROVE Its a better movie thanUlazing Saddles' or 'Young Frankenstein'.-Roiling stone im twHoLvOh^IL '-£&• l pg FROM CINEMA 5 FRI. & SAT. MAY 1 & 2 MIDNIGHT RUDDER THEATRE Robert Redford ^Jeremiah Johnson' PG FAttMUl CUfOANC! SUGGUTfD • SUN. MAY 3 7:30 P.M. RUDDER THEATRE PIRANHACON II happening next week! MAY 8 WATCH IT TILL ITS HURTS PL.ITT CINEMA l&ll caggs shopping center/Across from A&M Monty Python’s JABBERWOCKY Friday & Saturday Midnight “Funnier than Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jabberwocky possesses a rich aura of authenticity with an earthy, ratty gran deur. " Los Angeles Times ‘The most marvelously demented comedy to come along since Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Vincent Canby, The New York Times By PAT DAVIDSON Battalion Reporter When Dr. Henry Pope built a new house east of College Station more than a year ago, he joined the Wixon Water Supply Corp. and was spared the expense and responsibility of drilling and main taining a private, domestic well. Can the Texas A&M University liberal arts project director and his family expect city-like quality to accompany the convenience of their rural water sysl#ih? Len Klandrud, Texas Depart ment of Health regional sanita rian, said the state’s quality stan dards for drinking water are the same for all public supply systems, whether serving 300 rural resi dents, 100,000 urban dwellers or 25 customers in a country re staurant. The requirements in clude bacteriological and chemical analyses as well as chlorination. The number of samples re quired, however, is related to the number of people the system serves, Klandrud said. For instance, Wixon and Well born water supply corporations, each serving an estimated 3,000 persons in rural Brazos County, are required to send a minimum of three monthly water samples to the county health laboratory for bacteriological analysis. On the other hand, Bryan, population 37,714, draws a minimum of 55 samples per month. A public water system is de fined by the state Health Depart ment as one that pipes water for human consumption to at least 15 service connections, or regularly serves an average of at least 25 individuals daily for 60 or more days a year. Jillaine Stiller, microbiologist with the Brazos County Health Unit, tests the water for coliform bacteria which may indicate con tamination from human wastes. “Coliform bacteria themselves are not a cause for alarm,” Stiller said. “But because they are nor mally found in the intestinal tracts of warm-blooded animals, they are an indicator of fecal material in the water.” Water contaminated by fecal wastes might contain aisease- causing pathogens, such as sal monella, Stiller said. Analysis of the water samples will yield one of three reports: -— no coliform s; — x number of coliforms per 100 milliliters of water; — confluent growth, or the pre sence of so much bacteria that it is impossible to determine if it is col iform. “Water of satisfactory condition is free from coliform organisms,” the microbiologist said from her office in Bryan. “If coliform are not present, it usually means pathogens won’t be either, be cause coliform bacteria are more hardy than pathogens.” State health department guide lines for drinking water set a imum contamination level of coliforms in a single sam When this level is exceeded, check samples must be colledi from the test point until two mi secutive samples show less lli one coliform bacterium per 1|| milliliters. If confluent growth is ■ the water is chlorinated sampled until a satisfactory rep«| is obtained, Stiller said Stiller analyzes between I and 500 samples of water month. More than 100 sai come from Bryan, College Statin and Texas A&M University mtn systems. Another 200 samplesu drawn from small public system such as a country restaurantorse vice station with its own vs Klandrud said the n health department analyzes * public water supply system Ij chemical and radiological once every three years. OOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOO | CAMPUS THEATRE 8 210 University Dr. 846-6512 Now Showing at Northgate 7:40 9:45 ALTERED SMTES FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MIDNIGHT Starts at 12 Midnight Admission $2.00 20TH CKNTURY-FOX PRKSKNTS A RALPH BAKSHI FILM WIZARDS *I*I*>T*T*T*T*TwT*T*TwTwWr* 8 ooooooooooooooooo MANOR EAST 3 MANOR EAST MALL 823-8300 Forged by god. Foretold by a wizard. Found by a King. John Boorman's “EXCALIBUR" Nigel Terry’Helen Mirren Nicholas Clay’Cherie Lunghi’Paul Geoffrey .no Nicol Williamson Executive Producers Edgar E Gross .mi Robert A. Eisenstein Directed ..a Produced b, John Boorman Screenplay b. Rospo Pallenberg ..j John Boorman Adapted from Malory's Le Morte Darthur h. Rospo Pallenberg Thru WARNER BROS O A Warner Communications Company 7:10 9:45 “HEAVEN’S GATE” 9:35 only fit DEATH HUNT 7:20 9:40 She taught them to speak. They taught her to love. Walt Disney Productions Technicolor® Released by BUENA VISTA DISTRIBUTION CO., INC. © 1981 Walt Disney Productions 1:30 4:50 7:50 THE SAGA OF TWO RIVALS WHO CLASH AS ENEMIES ANDTRIUMPH AS HEROES. ASED ON A TRUE STORY. 3:15 6:30 Student} Thursda strong v the tests are sent to the indiviAij who has ultimate responsibility!) the system — the president of rural water supply corporafe the mayor of a city, the preside! of a university system or them er of a private system. If the water is not satisfacte the manager or operator of them tern would be informed, Klandit; said. Otherwise, the operators never see the results of tests. Larry Brown, manager ofl on Water Supply Corp., said people who inquire about them ter’s mineral quality are t terested in aesthetics, such a and graduate whether the water will star, porcelain fixtures or harm plant Some are also concerned ahoj the water’s sodium content andit effect on their diets. H.B. Thompson, ei assistant with the Health ment’s state office in Austin, saii once the mineral quality groundwater is determined, it i ; usually stable. Thompson and Klandrud that the overriding concern fe public water systems is By WA Battul ITEM: Tex 'resident jar igned as a sp< ihancellor of t ersity Systen ials in The B if protest by : University go ITEM: The lent Affairs ar ling in fall 19 pven on-cam itudents voic iViih no real r :y goes on as ITEM: An nginecniii service fees i Ith Dmrtlwie Student C Committee ; A, safe water to all their customer. Mcerning pi So Pope, if he takes theirmi should have confidence in th j^nts compl; quality of his water. |oes on as us Texas A&I he love its s bring: BAC life to dym programs By RACHEL BOSTWICK Battalion Reporter New programming and ant« n dollar figui ehool, yet 'r: bpinions on v issues— issi lents either c The term i refers to a st uphold Texas the term cou tothestuden Jo influence ] iity. And thosi ave the dii structure have sparked the MStRenting an ap In recent s 20 percent voted. Yet, stud opportunity is not the pr Black Awareness Committee i Texas A&M University back toli again. Over the past couple of years, BAC has had no viable struct®. Craig Hanks, vice president it mograms, said. The MSC Cone President Bi “We are Jthe administ needs of the student popuk were not being met, he said, The council appointed a j rams study committee to rest? BAC along with a cou committees, Hanks said. Upon finding there was anil' committees terest in BAC, the programsslml! committee met in February Elisa Brown, BAC chairman, am Allen Ray Milton, a member oft committee. The programs study committtf gave these options to BAC: — create a special fund M would be made available to MSC Directorate committeeti® ing any program the council fd 1 was geared toward black a«f' ness, into Univei Any well-ba< heard.” Students; the 91 Univ The numl student bod Smith said, evaluated as dent memb faculty and bers. Smith en provements “Improve in eqpippin mittees wit! through inc — submitting to the cound budgets and plans for the firsts programs for a probation period — be allowed to go on as it is, — or submit budget and pla® to Hanks and the staff adviser!* approval. . Brown said BAC decided ^ accept the probation period $ submit the budgets and plans fe the first two programs to ik council. The members are excited ovs the program ideas for the year, Brown said. A few of the* ideas include a celebration fe Kwanza, an African holiday, anl ! program for black history moiA On comr affect stude Who Select Students’ I the proper bers to face