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Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1981 Local / State Avoid the Holiday Rush! Order Your Personalized Christmas Cards NOW! October Imprinting Special Buy 1st box of Cards & get your cards personalized at regular price. Buy 2nd box of Cards & get your cards personalized FREE. Buy 3rd box of Cars & get your cards personalized at a reduced cost. Buy 4th box of Cards & get your cards personalized tsuy FREE. Etc., etc., etc.,. STARSHIP SHOPS In Culpepper Plaza Audience takes a magical trip Mangione drifts to Dreamland By RANDY CLEMENTS Battalion Staff About 2000 people took a magic journey Sunday night with Chuck Mangione as their tour guide. Mangione and his quartet, playing to a near capacity audi ence at Rudder Auditorium, lei surely traveled from “Hill Where The Lord Lives,” through the “Land of Make Believe,” while on the way to the Lake Placid and the 1980 Winter Olympics and “Give It All You’ve Got.” The flute and saxophone efforts of Chris Vadala far surpassed the playing of Mangione and the rest of the tour guides. However, the music succeded in conjuring vivid imdgery for many on the tour. The images awakened by the musicians were most vivid in Mangione’s second song of the evening, “Land of Make Believe.” The combination of the bass guitar, played by Grant Geiss- man, and Mangione and his flugelhorn rocked the audience into the rhythm of the dream. The day-dream effect lightened Review more difficult than composing the music. to a carefree tone as the rest of the musicians joined in. The Spanish- style guitar took the audience to a small fishing village with warm, tropical breezes, while the hustle of the city was brought to life as Mangione and the others joined back in. To introduce the next song, Mangione said the titles of the songs he writes are sometimes “When I work on a particular piece of music, I may stick with it for 24 hours straight in the living room (trying to name a song), ” he said. Mangione said: “My daughter Nancy asked me if she could go outside to play,” while he was trying to come up with a title for “Chase The Clouds Away.” “Since it looked like Hurricane Ethel outside, I told her no," Mangione said. “She said Daddy, chase the clouds away,”’ This song, as most of thes played, didn’t incite the aud to ‘get into’ the music. Thet was primarily something to i back and enjoy with a minimi amount of excitement — untiU encore. “ Main Squeeze” was fast-j and had the audience on its f clapping to the beat. N Mangione was more intoi song than any other in thee It was a pleasant trip to getij “Main Sqeeze,” butitwasthelo way. SAT ‘scores’ for first time since 1.961 Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, on the downswing for nearly two decades, may be head ing for an upturn. Results released by the College Entrance Examination Board re veal that for the first time since 1968 SAT scores failed to decline. 1980-81 high school seniors taking the test, which scores on a scale of 200 to 800 points, averaged 466 in mathematics and 424 in verbal skills — the same total as last year. With the exception of 1968, when results remained the same, SAT scores had been slipping f MSC FREE UNIVERSITY SHORT COURSE REGISTRATION Wed. Oct. 28 224 MSC 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For more info Call 845-1515 or come by 216 MSC COURSES INCLUDE: C & W DANCE BEG. GUITAR MECHANICS BEG. HAM RADIO JITTERBUG SLIMNASTICS JUGGLING UNIFICATION ISM VS. MARXISM Living at North Ramparts gives you convenience, comfort...and class! 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Hamlets Corporation Corporation ON NAGLE AT CHURCH STREET, ONE BLOCK OFF UNIVERSITY steadily since 1963. “It’s a little early to say whether this indicates a general upward trend (in student skills),’’ Sheryl Belli, the Board’s associate dire ctor for public affairs, said. “But, we’re optimistic because we’ve seen a lot of other score gains in state and local testing.” Belli attibutes the improve ment in part to concentrated efforts among secondary schools to improve their educational prog rams. “We hear all the time about efforts around the country to im prove school standards, about establishing basic competency levels.” The prolonged slide in SAT scores has long mystified educa tion experts. In 1975, a national advisory panel speculated the de cline was triggered by the increas ing number of college applicants from deprived economic grounds, plus a general slip high school academic stand Yet a much sharper dropinSI; scores from 1975 to 1980, < an increasingly improving sec dary cirriculum, left experts iti| loss for explanation. “We really don’t it. Belli said. “We’rejustt if the worst is really over.” Texas dump sites listed among worst in nation United Press International The head of a citizens’ environ mental group says the federal gov ernment would probably never scrape together sufficient funds to clean up four toxic dumping sites identified in Texas as among the nation’s worst. The Environmental Protection Agency Friday identified four Texas sites as among the 144 most noxious chemical dumps in the United States. Cited were Motco in La Mar que; French Limited and Sikes Disposal Pits, both in Crosby; and Bioecology Systems Inc., in Grand Prairie. The dumps were to be cleaned up with the help of the industry and a federal “Superfund” created last year. “There’s no miracle to saying Superfund money is going to be used to clean up a site, ” said Ann Alexander, president of the Toxic Substances Task Force of Galves ton, Beaumont and Houston. “Nothing’s going to get cleaned up unless there’s enough money, and I don’t think there is. Alexander said officials already had spent $750,000 at one of the areas, the French Limited Dis posal Site, and only managed to contain the toxic substances. “The clean-up has not even started, ” he said. She said in order to consider the site cleaned up, all contaminants and contaminated material must be collected and chemically re claimed, destoyed or disposed of in injection wells. “Millions and millions of dollars don’t mean a thing when you start talking about picking up earth and moving it to a disposal site in another state, she said. Motco, also known as T.C. Wye, is about 3 miles north of Gal veston. Originally permitted as a disposal site by Texas Water Qual ity Board in 1964, it was closed in 1968 under a city ordinance pro hibiting open dumping within city limits. The dump was sold to Motco Corp. of Minneapolis, who plan ned to recycle styrene tars, recov er metals and reclaim land, a ven ture that proved unsuccessful. Motco went bankrupt in 1975, be fore the state could force it to re move or neutralize liquid wastes in the pits. EPA tests have found several toxic chemicals including benzene (associated with leukemia), chlor oform (liver damage and heart fai lure), cyclohexane (skin disease) and phenol (cancer; liver and kid ney damage) at the site. Sikes, a 20-acre site locatdii out 20 miles east of Houston* puck Crosby, consists of four ak It doned sand pits. EPA waters! I pies found heavy metals, k | zene, arsenic and other toxics™ stances. At French Limited, locatedal mile from Sikes, contain® II work has been done by Kut-m environmental services. Kut-Il™ President C.M. Wright ssl building a dike around thepitipj putting comtaminated materialB it took ten months and $750,000. The containment work stoppj in July when funds ran Wright said it would take; weeks and and $150,000 toe plete the containment work, jQ L® QfS \ c\ Focus issistan lin said ctraenti 1 and S' FRENCH’S HAPPY DAY — child care center Bring your child and visit our professional staff in our new Ultra Modem Facility!! Conveniently located in Southwood Valley off FM 2818. 1024 Balcones Drive Day Care — Infants — Pre-School 696-90G2 After School Care — Kindergarten Music and Ballet : a' intercep : ’s signa iment N ■ Heest been si iple this Ike pet se are a * Almost better than Grandma's!’ 4 o' CHILDREN'S HALLOWEEN ■ PARTY For CO O, The Children of Faculty, Staff and Students Ages 3 and Up Welcome Wednesday, Oct. 2B 7:00p.m. Room 201 MSC M <20