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March 11, 1982
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Campus areas have
special break hours
Following is a list of the
spring break hours of campus
facilities:
■The MSC will be open
from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday,
Tuesday through
March 20, and will reopen at
noon March 21.
The MSC Cafeteria will be
^rpen from 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
pfonday, closed Tuesday
^Hugh March 20, and will
eopt n March 22.
■ Rudder Tower will be
§§»n from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday, closed Tuesday
through March 20, and will
reopen at noon March 21.
■Irhe MSC bookstore will be
open from 7:45 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday, closed Tuesday
through March 21, and will
reopen March 22.
The MSC barber shop will
be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday and closed Tuesday
through March 21. The MSC
beauty shop will be open from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and
closed Tuesday through
March 21. Both will reopen
March 22.
The Post Office window
will be open from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. through March 19,
closed March 20 and 21, and
will reopen March 22. The
Post Office lobby will be open
24 hours a day during the
break.
The Student Finance
Office will be open from 8
a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, closed
Tuesday through March 21,
and will reopen March 22.
Sterling C. Evans Library
will be open from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday through March 20,
and resume regular hours
March 21.
The Medical Sciences Lib
rary will be open 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. to
11 p.m. Sunday. Then from
7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday,
and from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Tuesday through Thursday
and from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
March 19. Regular hours will
resume March 20.
feme bald eagles spend
vinter on Texas plains
| L'nited Press International
JASPER — This year marks
•ie 2(H)th anniversarv of the
^^Bon of our national bird,
jTpit it will take eagle eyes and a
of patience to spot the majes-
BPT ; creature in Texas.
| Many people do not realize
Hroud-looking bird with the
fool wingspan actually nests in
e Lone Star State.
{When I tell people about the
Id eagles, they look at me like,
[hat are you talking about?’
jpst peoplejust don't know that
igles come this far south,”
Hies Wengier, a U.S. Army
Mprps of Engineers park ranger
; -id. This winter, be counted 62
fesild eagles on the Sam Ravburn
. |servoir near Jasper.
S “A guy came in of f the lake
^^■other day and said he
ffiginted to report seeing a white-
Hided buzzard." Wengier said.
B Steve Runnels, ornithologist
at the Dallas Museum of Natural
History, said one bald eagle was
spotted at White Rock Lake in
Dallas during the Christmas
bird count.
Wildlife officials estimate
1,000 bald eagles winter in
Texas, but only 14 pairs have
been spotted nesting here year-
round.
Eagles form mating bonds
that last their 25-year lifetime.
The Continental Congress
chose the bald eagle as a national
symbol 200 years ago, but in re
cent years Americans have
seemed bent on destroying the
creature.
Ranchers, worried about
their predatory nature, killed
eagles. Meanwhile, civilization
destroyed their habitat and pes
ticides such as DDT all but did
them in.
Ranchers have lobbied for
permission to kill eagles sus-
o by Athctu Vara
>nal Journal
Df Informal;
asking stuifa
which prole
FOI Act,
IHA to announce
ecurity winners
pected of preying on livestock,
but have been unsuccessful.
To appease the ranchers,ahe
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
operates a trapping program
that captures and transports
problem birds to the Falcon Re
servoir in South Texas.
Sam Crowe, director of the
trapping project, said bald
eagles are as fierce as their im
age suggests.
“Balds have a hotter temper
than golden eagles. When you
trap them, they are harder to
handle. They try to bite,” he
said.
Wildlife biologist John Smith
of Rockport said eagle nests,
usually in remote areas, are un
mistakable.
“The nests are about the size
of a Volkswagon and can weigh
up to a ton,” he said. “They build
the nests in the forks of a hard
wood tree, usually near the top
of the tallest tree in the area.”
by Pam Baldwin
Battalion Reporter
^ c Winners of the Residence
^ LI yVail Association security aware-
ess program will be announced
| the group’s meeting at 7
I P^K >n |ht in 158 Academic and
4 W vJ 1/ .gency Building.
RHA President T im Ryan
onintr request! 1 ^’he best male dorm and the
j |||( [ 1M ,| ie (£sfc female dorm that partici-
t I'eatuie in(M ate( * ' n ’he Lock Up and Look
f KrenekTapM Security Awareness Prog-
I of the Drelirf 171 W1 *’ he announced. The
■ s / | tinners will receive a free mixer
Twoandl.pfc red K by . RHA - ,
Subdivision*ffj th V buslness to b f ’ 1SC ’ 1S -
thrmnnril I? at tbe meeting include Pa-
c .| r ;ents’ Day, which is scheduled
Subdivlsiofl«F r ‘* l ", and RHA Casi-
iubdivisiofl t>°' r w, " ch 15 P l 5" ned A Pnl 16
II be discutdl^Py 0 * Cadet members wtH
bers ® uss their annual march to
also will 4 e B /Tn in SUPP ° rt ° f tHe
reclamation ^ arch of D,mes -
A meeting for anyone in
terested in a director’s position
or an executive position in RHA
will follow the regular meeting,
Ryan said.
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Peace Corps- type format
Caribbean trips offered
by Chris Thayer
Battalion Reporter
The MSC Travel Committee
is sponsoring trips to the Domi
nican Republic and Trinidad as
part of a new cultural exchange
program.
The trips are during the
second summer session and cost
about $800 each.
About 15 students went on
the first trip to the Dominican
Republic last year, and about 20
students are expected to partici
pate this year.
Trinidad was included in the
program this year because it is
an English-speaking country.
The choice of the Dominican
Republic last year kept a lot of
students from participating be
cause it is a Spanish-speaking
country, Tom Ryan, project
chairman, said.
Students in the program live
with middle-class families and
work with the poor in a Peace
Corps-type situation, Ryan said.
The program puts students in
a Third World country and
teaches them to cope with their
experiences there, Ryan said.
Students receive no academic
credit or payment for their
efforts.
The program allows students
to develop interests in a foreign
country and skills within their
majors, said Cindy Heep, a stu
dent participating in the prog
ram this summer.
The program is flexible and
students can create their own
projects, Heep said. “We decide
what we want to do and (Texas
A&M) University gives us the
supplies,” she said.
One of last year’s participants,
Cyndi Lee, worked with the
Dominican Republic’s Forestry
Department and the Superior
Institute of Agriculture in plan
ning the country’s first picnic
park.
OCA continues push for voter
registration of A&M students
by David Calvert
Battalion Reporter
The Off-Campus Aggies con
tinued its efforts toward orga
nizing student voters for the
May 1 state elections Wednesday
night.
OCA willjoin the department
of external affairs in distribut
ing voter registration cards to
Texas A&M dormitories.
OCA is making a firm com
mitment to registering student
voters because three issues,
which will affect student’s pock-
etbooks, will come up in the next
legislative session, OCA Presi
dent Paul Bettencourt said.
Bettencourt said major
changes will be considered re
garding tuition increases, cuts in
student financial aid and distri
bution of the Permanent Uni
versity Fund.
Bettencourt said students
need to get more involved in
issues like these, which have a
direct effect on them, and said
the best way for students to voice
their opinion is to get out and
vote.
In other business, OCA dis
cussed several changes to be
made in its constitution and
proposed a bill that would
change the format for selecting
the student representative to the
College Station City Council.
OCA will omit several offices
and combine them into special
committees by rewriting its con
stitution. The organization will
be reorganized into three bran
ches: the executive, representa
tive, made up of apartment
council presidents and the gen
eral assembly.
A bill was introduced that
would require the student rep
resentative to the city council
undergo an interview before a
committee of student leaders.
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the Baha’is?
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