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local Battalion/Page 4 March 30, 1982 Community education registration is tonight by Lisa Thompson Battalion Reporter College Station residents may register tor community educa tion classes ranging from ballet to auto mechanics tonight from 7 to 8 at the A&M Consolidated High School cafeteria. Registration for non residents of College Station will be held from 8 to 8:30. Late registration will be Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Commun ity Education office at 109 Tim ber St. Other classes offered by the College Station community edu cation program include tennis, ballet, auto , mechanics, egg dyeing, dog obedience and candy-making. New courses this session in clude metal sculpture and eurythmy, a type of creative body movement. Classes will be at A&M Con solidated High School, A&M Consolidated Junior High School and Oakwood Middle School. Persons 65 and over can take Spe cies research to be speech topic courses tuition-free with golden passes, availible at the Commun ity Education main office at 1300 Jersey St. Community education in Texas is based at the Center of Community Education in the Texas A&M Department of Educational Administration. The center assists Texas com munities that wish to start com munity education projects and helps train directors for the programs, said Dr. Robert Ber- ridge, director of the center. Each program has a dif ferent set of goals and objectives based on its own needs in the commun ity, he said. “I think the real strength of community education is tbe fact that it is different in every com munity and it does shape itself to what that community needs,” Berridge said. “Research Needs in En dangered Species” is the topic of a speech presented by the cam pus chapter of Sigma Chi, the science honor society at 8 p.m. tomorrow in 701 Rudder Tower. Dr. Kurt Benirschke. dire ctor of research and health ser vices at the San Deigo Zoo and professor of pathology and re productive medicine at the Uni versity of California San Diego, will give the speech. The lecture is intended for a general audience and should be of interest to students, facultv. and the general public. Dr. William Clark of the Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Department said what is needed in research is to identify and preserve the critical points of en dangered species' habitats.In some cases, it may not lie worth while to preserve habitats except in zoos, he said. ’82 Queen to be picked in 48th Cotton Pageant by Tanya Yanta Battalion Reporter Cotton will rule again Saturday in Rudder Audi torium at the 48th Cotton Pageant when Queen Cotton will be selected from 67 con testants from across the state. Sponsored by the Agro nomy Society, the contest be gan as a promotion aid to the state cotton industry years ago and has remained as another Texas A&M tradition. Calvin Sanders, a senior from Buckholts, was elected by the Agronomy Society members to serve as this year’s King Cotton as escort to the queen. The king and eight dukes are elected prior to the pageant based on their work and accomplishment in the organization. Sixty-seven duchesses and their escorts will attend a square dance Friday night at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Bryan. Three judges will interview the women and select the top 20 to 25 contestants at a tea and reception Saturday. From these selections, Queen Cot ton and eight princesses will be chosen. I he 48th Queen Cotton will receive a scholarship: however, the amount of the scholarship hasn’t been de cided. is $2 for students and $3 for non-students. Tickets for the Cotton Ball, with music pro vided by the Leroy Heinrich Orchestra from Schulenburg. are $6 per couple. Tickets may be purchased at a table on the first floor of the Memorial Student Center, The first Cotton Pageant was held in 1932 and gave stu dents at the all-male military school something to look f or ward to. Wa u/1 0] lfrn h flVE 3 Marvin Seagull, president of the Southwest Apparel Manufacturing Association, is the master of ceremonies for the pageant, and entertain ment will be provided by final ists in the MSC All University Variety Show. Admission for the pageant “Women from Texas Women’s University would come to College Station to participate in the pageant,” Dr. A.|. Bockhold, associate professor of agronomy, said. The women from TWU were selected by a visiting group of Texas A&M stu dents. Texas A&M Mothers’ Clubs and Texas A&M Clubs sponsored the contestants. Now, contestants are spon sored by various University organizations, Mothers’ Clubs and professional clubs in the area. The originator of the Cot ton Pageant, Dr. J.S. “Cotton Joe” Mogfbrd, is retired from the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and lives in Bryan. “ The price of cotton was low, so the community and Texas A&M wanted to come up with a way to boost the col- ton trade," Mogford said. Bockhold said the Cotton Pageant was started to prom ote cotton and raise funds m send students to see how mill ing and manufacturing hap pened in Europe. Now the profits are used for agronomy societv field trip expenses. Target 2000 study problems Committees discuss funding In his work. Benirschke has tried to find ways to maintain and support populations of en dangered species. He has tried to preserve endangered species through reproductive work also. NOW TUESDAY NIGHT BUFFET PIZZA INN 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. All you can eat: salad, spaghetti, and pizza for only *3.09 We also have a noon buffet everyday from I I a.m. to 2 p.m. except Saturday. Pizza Inn 413 Texas Ave. College Station, Tx. by Jennifer Carr and Laura Williams Battalion Staff Funding for research and continued education, as well as facelifts in extension service programs, were discussed at meetings of the Target 2000 task forces Monday in Rudder Tower. The task forces also dis cussed the implications of the re ports and recommendations submitted to Gov. Bill Clements Fridav bv the Texas 2000 Com- Dr. Victor Arnold, past dire ctor of the Texas 2000 Commis sion, spoke to about 175 mem bers of the Target 2000 Task Force on projected problems f or the Texas A&M University Sys tem and the state bv the vear 2000. ture agricultural and transpor tation demands, government financing and relations with Mexico will be the issues facing Texans in the future. These dealt with bv the gov- “We need to get down to the serious business of thinking ab out the future and doing some thing about it,” Arnold said. Arnold said water scarcity, energv costs and availability, fu- DIETING? Even though we do not prescribe diets, we make it possible for many to enjoy a nutritious meal while they follow their doctor's orders. You will be delighted with the wide selection of low calorie, sugar free and fat free foods in the Souper Salad Area, Sbisa Dining Center Basement. yvere ernor’s commission. Target 2000 then divided into three task forces to discuss fu ture problems for the Texas A&M System, yvhich includes Texas A&M, Prairie View A&M, Tarleton State University, Texas A&M at (ialveston and all experiment stations and exten sion services. Recommendations from these woups are to be sub mitted to the Texas A&M Uni versity System Board of Re gents. The agriculture .task force primarily emphasized the prob lem of water resources, noting flooding and drought problems for Texas farmers and ranchers and the importance of the Texas Department of Water . Re sources. The force also advo cated extending research, up dating agriculture communica tion systems and increasing pub lic knoyvledge of the wide scope and importance of agriculture. The engineering task force focused on the need for re search. both applied and basic, and how to coordinate it be tween the engineering depart ment at Texas A&M and the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. Task force menibei also discussed the need to revi the experiment and externa service programs. Another priority of the ta ‘ <,f force is to attract top-notch! cultv to the University throui; academic freedom, fumling.r search and good graduate sn dents. The academic task loreenn in closed session today Show to feature auto burglaries During the early hours of dark ness Feb. 27, two black males yvere seen breaking into a vehi cle in a parking lot next to the USDA Building on the Texas A&M campus. 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