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What’s up at
Texas A&M
Tuesday
MSC BASEMENT: Bring money for T-shirts at 7 p.m. in 212
MSG.
TRADITIONS COUNCIL: Howdy T-shirts will be on side
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday in the MSC.
CLASS OF ’82 MEETING: Dr. Samson will speak and class
council picture will be taken at 7:30 p.m. in 204 Harrington.
INTRAMURAL SWIMMING DIVISIONALS: Meet will
begin at 7 p.m. in P.L. Downs Natatorium.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIA
TION: Zapata will he presenting information on careers in
Data Processing from 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in theAggieland
Inn Conference Room. All students and faculty invited for
refreshments and discussion.
AMERICAN FOUNDRYMEN’S SOCIETY: Production
work will be discussed at 6 p.m. in Thompson Hall Foundry.
PRE-MED/DENT SOCIETY: Dr. John Ross D.D.S. will
speak on “Foreign Medical and Dental Missionaries” at 8 p. m.
in 321 Physics Building. Pictures for Aggieland will be taken.
SOCIETY of AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS: EPA Fuel
Economy Ratings: Fact or Fiction? Meet in 103 Zaehry at 7:30
p.m.
POLITICAL FORUM: Debate on ERA between Phyllis
Schaflyand Katherine Brady at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theatre.
FOOD SCIENCE CLUB: Meeting at 7 p.m. 127 Klehuvg.
CHI ALPHA: Charasniatic worship and teaching from the Bible
at 7 p.m. in Rudder Tower.
COLLEGLVTE FFA: Rural safety at 7:30 p.m. in 110 Har
rington.
TAMU COLLEGIATE HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION:
Club pictures will he taken in the lobby of Zaehry at 8 p.m.
TAMU RODEO CLUB: Final preparations for the All Aggie
| Rodeo at 7:30 p.m. in 103 Klehurg.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Nursing Home
r Gommittee meets at 7:30p.m. in the Student Center. Intema-
i tionau Students will have a Bible study at 8 p.m. in tlie Student
' Center. Rosary will he held at 9 p.m. in St. Mary’s.
TEXAS A&M WATERSKI CLUB: General meeting at 7
p.m. in 140 MSC.
PRE LAW SOCIETY: Richard Calkins, the Druke Law School
dean, will speak at Interurban Eating House at 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday ... . ^
SCO.NA: Pictures will he taken at 6:30 p.m. in the MSC lounge
and general committee meeting will follow in 701 Rudder.
TAMU MATH CLUB: Yearbook picture will be taken and
Career Day plans will be discussed at 7:30 p.m. on the 3rd
floor of Milner in the lounge.
MARKETING SOCIETY: Picture will he taken and last mi
nute details on the Dallas trip will be discussed at 7:45 p.m. in
the MSC main lounge.
PS1 CHI: Membership drive at 7:30 p.m. in 402 Academic
Building. Any interested person is encouraged to come and
join.
CATHOUC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Newman’s Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in St. Mary’s Student Center.
TRADITIONS COUNCIL: Howdy T-shirts on sale today in
the MSC. Also on sale Thursday and Saturday.
AGGm SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Meeting to orga
nize firetower session at 7 p.m. in 140 MSC. All are welcome
to come.
Ill ANNUAL ANTHROPOLOGY LECTURE SERIES:
Together with the Dept, of Biology and the Graduate College-
presents Topics in Pleistocene Extinctions at 2 p.m. in Sterling
C. Evans Library 204C. Topic today is “Relevance of Contem
porary East Agrican Large Mammal Populations to Pleis
tocene Extinctions’’ by Fred Smeins of Texas A&M Univer
sity,
MSC VARIETY SHOW: Membership meeting in 216B MSC
at 6:30 p.m. Anyone is welcome.
OCA: Executive committee yearbook pictures will be taken at 5
p.m. at die OCA cubicle in 216 MSC.
THE TEXAS A&M STUDENT CHAPTER OF THE
AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY: Meet
ing at 7:30 p.m. on the 12th floor of the O&M Building .
Members interested in Nov. 7th field trip should attend.
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AGGIE OWNED & OPERATED
404 University Drive in University Center
OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK
Lignite reclamation needed in Texas
There’s no doubt about if or
when. State officials estimate lig
nite production in Texas will esca
late from 1980’s 27 million tons to
225 million tons for the year 2000.
But how that black, lumpy fuel
is extracted raises many doubts.
Thoughts of strip mining conjure
up visions of desolate moons
capes. However, with proper
mining and reclamation methods.
Dr. Ed Colburn said, those vi
sions can be dispelled.
Colburn is an agronomist with
the Texas A&M Agricultural Ex
tension Service and works with re-
clamationists to minimize pollu
tion and revegetation problems
and maximize the productivity of
restored land.
Colburn estimated that the one
million acres of land in Texas that
are suitable for surface mining
have already been leased. Some
12,500 acres have been affected by
suface mining to date.
“Utility companies and the pet
rochemical industry will be major
lignite users, and it’s important
that they plan for reclamation
now,” Colburn said.
Recently the extension service
in San Antonio held a two-day sur
face mine workshop. The work
shop focused on Texas mining con
ditions and covered surface- and
ground-water hydrology, over
burden handling, revegetation
and management of reclaimed
land.
The 195 people who attended
the workshop included utility and
oil company representatives, ser
vice and equipment suppliers, en
vironmental consultants and sev
eral in-state and federal agency
representatives. “They were all
concerned about how to continue
improving reclamation methods,”
he said.
Colburn said some of the parti
cipants also were concerned about
state and federal regulations re
garding surface mining.
“Government regulations are
useful in establishing reclamation
standards for lands that have been
mined,” Colburn said . “Howev
er, federal regulations actually
dictate how land should be re
stored, and that’s not necessarily
the best way in every part of the
country.”
In Texas, areas affected by sur
face mining lie within the coastal
plains and include woodlands,
grazing land and some cropland.
“Reclamation involves various
leveling, soil preparation and
seeding operations,” Colburn
said. “Research is currently being
conducted to refine these opera
tions for reforestation.”
Colburn said 30 to 35 lignite-
fired power plants are planned or
in operation in Texas. “Texas’
abundant lignite resources help
bridge the gap between dir
minishing oil and gas supplies and
the more permanent energy re
sources of the future,” Colburh
said.
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