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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1981)
Page 4 THE BATTALION MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1981 Today’s Almanac Local United Press International Today is Monday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 1981 with 87 to follow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. On this date in history: In 1960, an Eastern Air Lines Electra crashed into Boston Har bor, killing 61 people. In 1965, Pope Paul made a 14- hour visit to New York to plead for world peace before the United Nations. Come on in — the water's fine! This Hereford cow cools off Sunday afternoon in a farm pond on Bird Pond Road, south of College Station. High temperatures have been in the 90s during the past several days. 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LOCATION: MSC 221-D Complete Printing Services at a Great Location Automated Photocopying Free Collating & Stapling Offset Printing Postermaking Buttonmaking Laminating Invitations Silk Screening Cutting, Folding Linoscribe Signs Nameplates HOURS: Mon.-Thurs. 8-8, Fri. 8-5, Sat. 9-12 Gromets wage war weekly et War games an escape All Bfl SCI By ELAINE ENGSTROM Battalion Reporter Every weekend in the deep, dark recesses of the Memorial Stu dent Center, the world stops for 33 hours. Battles are won and wars are lost. Ships sink and planes are shot down. Powerful beings make un ending journeys through worlds unknown to mere mortals. organization, an expanded library and an increased awareness of the group s existence on campus, said Gromets Chairman Don Gilman. The Gromets will be working with the MSC Free University to establish a Dungeons and Dra gons workshop as a fall short course or a full course in the nund The Gromets, Texas A&M Uni versity’s 100-member war gaming group, is a sub-committee of the MSC Recreation Committee. “Gromets” stands for Game Repli cation of Motivational Economic Tactical Situations. The $10 yearly dues gives members access to the group’s extensive collection of board games, books and hobby magazines, as well as a 20 percent discount on mail order games. The Gromets have several rooms reserved in the MSC where they play war games and role- playing games like Dungeons and Dragons. During the fall semes ter, weekend gaming hours are shortened so members can attend yell practice and the football game. Usual gaming hours are: Fri day, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.; Saturday, noon to 2 a.m. and Sunday, noon to 11 p.m. The group is eight years old but membership has increased 50 per cent since last year due to better spring. “We’re experimenting with new ideas,” said Ann Barrier, chairman of MSC Free Universi ty. “It should be a good class.” The Gromets also plan to play war games “by mail” with Annapo lis, West Point and the Air Force Academy. “We’d also like to chal lenge the University of Texas group to a tournament,” Gilman said. The eighth annual Warcon, the annual wargaming convention at Texas A&M, is scheduled for Feb. 5, 6 and 7. People come from all over Texas and the adjacent states to be in tournaments and to buy and sell war games. Nick Schuessler, editor and publisher of “The Journal of World War II Wargaming,” said approximately 100,000 war gam ers live in the United States and others live in Canada, Britain, Au stralia and Germany. The Austin-based journal pub lishes book and game reviews, articles about conventions and editorial opinions on the art of World War II war gaming. Schuessler 35 has a n| degree in English and now for the Texas Education Af t, He publishes the h*-montlil)jI nal as a hobby. The journall■“n a3 circulation of approximately A e f clubs from as far away as Hoit|j and the Virgin Islands. issue published in March ^ now a collector’s item. Scheussler has been a wan nt er for 20 years and says wareA ces serves a useful purpose. an undercurrent of aggresa®"- America’s youth and war JStafc provide a better release, he®™ ■ “No one gets killed in a warp “Chess is nothing but asty® nsun war game. Over the centuriei®* 5 £ appearance changed but the® atec ' flict of two forces is still there ®° ut ^ stigma of today’s war gamesliB wa y their explicitness, not the l*? xas ; conflict involved. K in , ( I d< Gilman says war games pro»oM e t an opportunity to look at hiq|an S j and discover why things l®^ pened in a particular way. Tl® games require problem sol'^_ and management skills," hea [jT "If playing war games givesyi appetite for war, then watch television would give you anf tite for sdx and violence.” | The next Gromets meedngl be tonight at 7:30 pm in 330H and is open to anyone interest I in becoming a member ofthe 1 ®^™ committee. PICTURE PERFECT MEMORIES As easy as crossing the street. Now you can get superb Pentax quality 35mm pictures easily, automatically.. .and inexpensively... with the exciting new Pentax MV-1. “Stop-Caution-Go” red, yellow and green LEDs in the bright viewfinder make quality pictures as easy to take as crossing the street. GREEN...shoot. RED...don’t. YELLOW... use the optional AF-200S Auto Flash for great indoor shots. Of course, there’s a lot more. Because it’s an SLR, the picture you see is the picture you get. 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