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Phi Eta Sigma (a Freshman Honor
Society) is inducting all Freshmen
(Men & Women) with a G.P.R. of at
least 3.5 who have taken at least 13
hours. You should receive a formal
invitation. If you desire to join yet you
did not receive an invitation, and you
meet the qualifications stated above,
please come by the Phi Eta Sigma
table in the MSC Monday through
Thursday (March 8 through March
11) from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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Study says users
of estrogen have
less cancer chance
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — A study
indicates older women in the
United States who receive re
placement estrogens have a low
er death rate than women who
do not take the hormone.
However, a University of
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North Carolina researcher in
volved in the study, presented
during the weekend at an Amer
ican Heart Association meeting,
said women should not begin
taking estrogens because the
correlation has not been proved.
“The whole purpose of pre
senting this information it to
alert (researchers) and the
medical community to an in
teresting observation that is
worth investigating in other
groups,” said Dr. John Karon, a
biostatistics professor in the
UNC School of Public Health.
Estrogens, female sex hor
mones, are frequently pre
scribed by doctors to control
symptoms such as depression
and hot flashes in menopausal
and post-menopausal women.
Some studies have shown re
placement estrogens slightly in
crease the chance of cancer in
the uterus lining, Karon said,
but he and his colleagues started
analyzing medical information
on file because of isolated re
ports the hormones lowered the
risk of heart disease and death.
By studying death records
and comparing them with re
cords of estrogen therapy, the
researchers found the death
rate of estrogen users was about
one-third that of nonusers and
slightly less than onethird the
general population.
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Age Building Room #309
Phone: 845-7570
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THE COMMUNIST PARTY, U.S.A.
ITS ROLE AND FUTURE
IN AMERICA
POLITICAL
FORUM
GUS HALL
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Tuesday, March 9
8:00 p.m.
Rudder Theater
Admission Free
Wlem&nial Student
Campus Names
Three faculty members in
the College of Engineering
have recently received recog
nition for their activities.
Dr. L. S. Fletcher, associate
dean of the College of En
gineering, was recently reap
pointed as an associate editor
of the Journal of Energy. This
journal is a publication of the
American Institute of Aero
nautics and Astronautics.
John E. Flipse, professor
of ocean engineering at Texas
A&M University, was recently
elected to the grade of Fellow
in the Society of Naval
Architects and Marine En-
William Keeler Memorial
Fund. This fund honors Wil
liam Keeler, a mechanical en
gineering former student in
the Class of 1949 and the late
President of ARCO Oil and
Gas Company. The endow
ment will be used to provide a
William Keeler Memorial Fel
lowship in the mechanical en
gineering department.
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gineers.
Glenn Simpson, president
of ARCO Oil and Gas Com
pany, presented Dr. Robert
H. Page, dean of the College
of Engineering, with a grant
from the Atlantic Richfield
Foundation for $130,000 for
the College of Engineering’s
The 1982-83 commanders
for the four major units of the
Corps of Cadets have been
approved by the Office of the
Commandant.
The new commanders are
David A. Eubanks, First Bri
gade; Gene L. Munn Jr., First
Wing; Keith E. Dunn, First
Regiment and Shayne H.
Doering, Combined Band.
Eubank, a junior political
science major from Dallas, is a
member of the Ross Volun
teers. Eubank has received a
four year Army scholarship,
four Distinguished Student
Awards, the Department of
the Army Superior Cadet
Award and the Prictes Scho
larship Special Award.
Munn, a junior agriculture B fit*is
economics major from Fort
Worth, is also a member of the
Ross Volunteers. He is a mem
ber of Aggie Cinema, and par
ticipates in intramural sports.
Dunn is a junior civil en
gineering major from Hous
ton. He is a Ross Volunteer
and a member of the Corps
Long Range Planning Com
mittee. He also participates in
intramural wrestling.
Doering is a junior agricul
tural education major from
Spring. He is a member of the
Ross Volunteers. He was also
a member of the Drum and
Bugle Corps, and was a fish
camp counselor.
Two buildings destroyed,
others damaged in bar fire |tl
United Press International
COMMERCE — A fire that
started in a bar early Saturday
destroyed two brick structures
and damaged other buildings in
a downtown block.
It was the lesser of two fires in
Texas early Saturday morning.
A fire at the Westchase Hilton in
Houston killed 10 people, in
cluding five members of a 50-
person wedding party staying at
the hotel, and injured dozens
more.
Commerce police said a fire
fighter was overcome by smoke
and treated at a hospital. His was
the only injury.
The Palace, a bar that had
just been renovated from a thea
ter last fall, was completely des
troyed. Police officials said the
fire started in the Palace and
then spread to the city’s tax
building next door and a small
private tax office. Investigators
did not know the cause of th|
fire.
Also damaged were the rooil
of the Commerce Journal builil
ing, which houses the town!
newspaper, and a small beaut
parlor. Both structures also suf I
fered water damage. The Com
merce fire department
assisted by departments froiiB-t dis
several surrounding cities, wt the
Commerce is a town of aboil bt anv
10,000 people.
Today’s Almanac
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Today is Monday, March 8, the
67th day of 1982, with 298 to
follow.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., was
born March 8, 1841.
On this date in history:
In 1894, New York became
ths first state to pass a law requir-
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ing dogs to be licensed.
In 1917, strikes and riots in St.
Petersburg marked the start of
the Russian Bolshevik revolu
tion.
In 1961, the U.S. nuclearsub-
marine Patrick Henry arrived in
Holy Loch, Scotland, from
Charleston, S.C., the first Amer
ican sub to use the Scottish naval
base.
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A thought for the day: Justk® than
Oliver Wendell Holmes saiiiH at he
“Taxes are what we pay for dvi (lue-c
ized society.”
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Battalion Reporter
Saddle blankets and steaming
black coffee around the camp
fire bring to mind the cowboy of
the Old West. His world, “Thf
Cult of the American Cowboy]
is the topic of a graduate lecturt
presented by Dr. Williai
Eugene Hollon, University
Toledo professor in 350 MSC
tonight at 7:30.
The lecture is co-sponsored
by the Texas A&M Departmert
of History and the local chapter
of Phi Alpha Theta, the histoi
honor society.
Hollon began teaching
Texas, and later went to the U
versity of Oklahoma, where htl
gained national and internation I
al recognition as a scholar of tht|
American West.
Some of Hollon’s bettd
known works include biog'
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book “The Movie Cowboy.”
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