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ASAE chooses Whittaker
Texas A&rM senior Dale Whittaker of Noack, Texas, has
been selected by the American Society of Agricultural En
gineers as the nation’s outstanding agricutltural engineering
student.
Whittaker was selected by a national committee of the
ASAE and competed for the title against nominees from
agricultural engineering departments across the nation.
He currently serves as the first vice-president of the
student branch of the American Society of Agricultural En
gineers; as treasurer of Alpha Zeta, the honor society at
Texas A&M’s College of Agriculture; as president of Mortar
Board, the college’s senior honor society; and as secretary of
Alpha Epsilon, the honor society in the Agricultural En
gineering Department (the largest in the country). He was an
officer of Texas A&M’s Student Academic Council and is in
the University Undergraduate Fellows Program.
The award consists of $100 prize, a plaque and $125 for
travel to the ASAE national meeting in Chicago in De
cember.
Whittaker plans to pursue a graduate degree in agricultu
ral engineering after graduating.
Yell practice in Houston
If you’re going to Houston this weekend for the Texas
A&M-UH game, midnight yell practice will be at the Cattle-
guard Restaurant (located at 2800 Louisiana in downtown
Houston) Friday night. Take Interstate 59 North into town
and exit Louisiana. The restaurant is in the 2800 block on the
corner. Yell practice should start about 10:30 p.m.
There will be free bar-be-que at the Cattleguard for all
Aggies who come by before the game Saturday.
Local doctor wins
Dr. Harry Lipscomb, local physician and professor of fami
ly and community medicine at Texas A&M University has
won the annual distinguished service award from the South
west Science Forum, an affiliate of the New York Academy
of Science. The Forum annually recognizes one person from
the Southwest who has demonstrated distinguished service
in the advances of science and/or the promotion of science
for the common welfare.
SPE honors faculty and alumni
The faculty is doing it again. Dr. John Calhoun, Jr., deputy
chancellor for engineering for the Texas A&M University
system, has been awarded the DeGolyer Distinguished Ser
vice Medal by the Society of Petroleum Engineers meeting in
New Orleans. The presentation was made during the SPE’s
57th annual technical conference and exhibition in New
Orleans.
The DeGolyer Medal, created in 1965, recognizes out
standing service to SPE and the petroleum industry.
The conference also gave two other top awards to two
two former Texas A&M students — the Uren Award to
William Goins Jr. and the Carll Award to Floyd Scott. Both
are from Houston.
Goins ’45, is senior vice-president of O’Brien, Goins,
Simpson & Associates Inc. of Houston. The Uren Award,
established in 1963, recognizes distinguished achievement in
petroleum engineering technology by a person under 45.
Scott ’14 is retired from Hughes Tool Company after four
decades of service in product design, metallurgical research
and field engineering. The Carll Award, established in 1956,
recognizes outstanding advances in technology.
Aggieland pictures
If you want your picture in the 1982-83 Aggieland, you have
until a week from Friday (Oct. 15) to make sure it gets there.
October 15 is positively the last day for Freshmen and Soph
omores to have the picture taken. No make-ups will be
allowed. Yearbook Associates will be taking pictures on cam
pus in Room 350 of the MSC through Friday.(Oct.8). Juniors
and Seniors may have their pictures taken at the Yearbook
Associate studio starting next week. The studio is located at
9700 Puryear. If you have any questions call: 693-6756.
“Getting Out” tickets available
The Theatre Arts Program opened its 1982-83 season
Thursday with “Getting Out,” a drama that probes the
struggle of a woman released from prison. The play, runs
this Friday and Saturday, as well as Oct. 14-16. It will also be
Texas A&M’s entry in the American College Theater Festiv
al competition.
Tickets are available at the Rudder Tower Box Office or
at the door. A season ticket subscription form can be
obtained from the Theatre Arts Program office located on
the first floor of the A&A Building.
Associate VP for operations named
Jim Ferguson has been appointed as associate vice-president
for operations.
Ferguson, ’72, formally manager of adminstrative services
in the Department of Business Services, received his master
of business administration degree in management from
Texas A&M this year and is currently pursueing a doctoral
degree in educational administration.
Ferguson’s responsibilities will include assisting Cargill in
overseeing the operations of Security and Traffic, Educa
tional Informational Services, Physical Plant, Grounds
Maintenance and the Office of the Coordinator of Comput
ing, as well as other special projects.
If you have an annoucement or interesting item to submit
for this column, come by The Battalion office in Room 216
Reed McDonald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611.
Official owns
rotting complex
United Press International
FORT WORTH — A group
of apartments owned by the top
federal housing official in Texas
is in substandard condition and
must be repaired, the official
was warned by the city’s housing
inspection chief.
The official, Dick Eudaly, is
head of the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Develop
ment’s five-state region. He re
fused to discuss the matter
Thursday.
Mark Thielke, a spokesman
for Eudaly, told a reporter, “If it
concerns those apartments, he
just won’t talk to you.”
Olen Lowell, Fort Worth en
vironmental inspections super
visor, said Eudaly will be given
60 days to bring the apartment
complex up to legal standards.
Lowell said he sent an inspec
tor to the complex — El Tesoro
Apartments — after receiving a
complaint from a new tenant.
The inspector was concerned
about exposed wiring and balco
nies that are “rotting and
sinking.”
“Substandard condition
doesn’t mean it has to be torn
down, but it does mean that
there are some violations that
need to be corrected,” Lovell
said.
The complaining tenant,
Marty Foltz, 29, said the com
plex was in disrepair — includ
ing exposed, live wires, collaps
ing outside balconies on the
second floor, dangerous stair
wells, garbage that frequently
overflows the trash container
and brown windows.
The tenant also complaint
that two weeks after she moved
in, both bathtubs in the $425-a-
month, two-bedroom unit were
filled with raw sewage.
Eudaly’s name is the only one
listed on the deed and he listed
himself as a managing partner
of the complex in a financial
statement last year.
P&Z approves
office project
‘Getting Out’ good;
four hours too Ion;
by Gary Barker
Battalion Staff
It’s a world of prisons and
prostitutes — a world where it’s
hard to tell the inmates from the
guards and where the bars of the
prison cell merge with the out
side world.
And, it’s a world where it’s
hard to tell just exactly who’s in
prison, the audience ortthe
actors.
Suite is dynamic as the anima
listic Arlie, a former prostitute
and murderer. Rachel Her
nandez is warm and human as
Arlene, the woman torn be
tween a life of poverty or a life
of prostitution.
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The play is the Theatre
Arts Program’s “Getting
Out,” which premiered
Thursday night in Rudder
Forum. The play is brilliant
—both in content and per
formance — but is much too
long for the average playgoer.
The dual-actress device
gives the play a wonderful
sense of symmetry, balance
and conflict, and combines
well with other expressionistic
techniques used in the play.
The other actors and
actresses in the play are also
believable. Jay Meador is lov
able as Bennie, the guard who
quits his job to escort Arlene
home from prison. Miki Bone
does well as Arlene’s calloused
mother.
But it is the actresses who
finally make it work. Anne
Donny Potts is superb as
Arlene’s despicable, former
pimp. And Jennifer Berry is
efficient as Ruby, the woman
who offers Arlene an alterna
tive to prostitution.
The sets, special ef fects and
other details are graphically
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sha Norman, is the stonif
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prison and struggles to gain®
trol of her life.
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character, Arlene. Arlene is ;,
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Suite.
by Kordell Reid
Battalion Reporter
An office park project in
South wood Valley was
approved Thursday night by the
Planning and Zoning Commis-
The project, which will be lo
cated near the intersection of
Deacon Drive and Longmire
Drive, was approved by a 4-3 de-
cison after nearly two hours of
discussion.
tract of land, but wanted a few
adjustsments to the existing
plans.
Lofgren wanted to eliminate
the rear entrance to the park be
cause he said the access road
would become a shortcut for
traffic since it would connect two
Freshman
slated for
runoff elections
Oct. 12
Neighbor residents to the
projected site who were present
at the meeting were not against
the office park, but were con
cerned with flooding in South-
wood Valley and felt that the
project may worsen the
problem.
John Lofgren, spokesman
for the residents, said that they
he thought the office park was
the best plan thus far for that
major streets.
He also said that the dikes in
the area may erode more due to
run-off water from the build
ings and parking lot. He said
careful planning should be
taken for an alternative method
for run-off water.
In other action, the commis
sion unanimously approved to
rezone Tract B of the Courtyard
Apartments Subdivision from a
R-6 (apartments high density)
District to an A-P (administra
tive professional) District.
They also approved a final
plat for the Villas of Chimney
Hill.
Results of Wdnesday’s fresh
man class elections were
approved and posted Thursday
night. Senators were named, but
a run-off election will be held
Oct. 12 to determine Class of
1986 officers.
Billy Cassel and Mike Cook
are left in the race for president.
Vice president candidates in the
run-off are Brad Winn and
Brian McConnell. Still in the
running for secretary/treasurer
are Robert Shepard and Mau
reen Lassonde. Stephanie Ack-
les and Lori Zeigler are the social
secretary candidates in the run
off.
C.J. Johnson, Matt McKay,
Pre Ball, Mike Cook, Buddy
Walker, Brian Crawford and
Jeff Brady were electedtos™
torial positions.
The run-off election is
because none of theclassoi
candidates received a iraji;’
of the votes. Senators needs
a plurality of votes to
election.
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Tylenol deliveries
United Press International
DALLAS — The U.S. Postal
Service halted delivery of
350,000 promotional samples of
Extra-Strength Tylenol, offi
cials say.
The free samples were deli
vered to an undetermined num
ber of Dallas residents as late as
Wednesday before deliveries
were halted.
“It’s so ironic,” said resident
Clare Conlon. “I just finished
reading the front page (about
Tylenol deaths) and here it was
in the mail as a gift. It was Extra-
Strength Tylenol in a miniature
package.”
McNeil Consumer Products,
manufacturer of the pain reliev
er, mailed the samples before
cyanide-tainted capsules were
linked to at least seven deaths.
Roy Rooney, a postal official
in Dallas, said the halt of deliver
ies was ordered by the postmas
ter general on Friday.
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