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=local Battalion/Pagell October 18, o Around town College of Education to host speaker Dr. Alexander W. Astin, a noted educator and professor of higher education at the University of California, will speak on the subject of quality undergraduate instruction at 8 p.m. tonight in Rooms 205/206 MSC. Astin will speak on “Measuring the Quality of Undergra duate Instruction: Are Traditional Methods Effective?” The presentation is sponsored by the Texas A&M Center for Teaching Excellence, the College of Education Standing Committee on Higher Education, the College of Education Inquiry Group on College Teaching and the President’s Committee on Minority Conditions. Recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on college teaching, Astin has published 17 books and a number of journal articles. The presentation is open to the public and is free of charge. Former students appointed Bookman Peters, chairman and chief executive officer of Bryan’s First City National Bank and two Dallas executives, Herbert G. Schiff and Ron Sperberg, have been appointed to the Texas A&M University College of Business Adminis tration Development Council. Schiff is president of H.G. Schiff and Co. of Dallas and Sperberg is director of special projects for the Electronic Data Systems Corp. of Dallas. All three men are former Texas A&M students. The 40-member council directly links the business com munity to education and research at Texas A&M’s business school and gives the college an opportunity to let people know of its activities and needs. Gospelfest to be held The MSC Black Awareness will sponsor its first annual Choir Extravaganza, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 23. Three area choirs along with soloists and instrumentalists will perform during the program. Among those scheduled to appear are the Baptist Student Movement Choir from Prairie View A&M University, the Soul Lifters from Sam Houston State University and Inner Visions of Blackness from the University of Texas. Admission is $2.50 in advance and $3 at the door. Tickets may be purchased at the Rudder Tower Box Office. MHMR plans litter pick-up ' program, keep the t and to keep the areas along state highways free of litter, has been undertaken by the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation and the Mental Health/Mental Retar dation Authority of Brazos Valley. The contract between the two agencies provides for a six-person crew to pick up litter in six counties within the Brazos Valley region over the next 12 months. The program’s goal is to help the mentally handicapped learn to respond in a positive manner to instructions from a supervisor and help them learn to get along with co-workers. Highway department officials have urged the traveling public to observe the “men-working” signs and to exercise caution through these areas where these signs are posted. Chamber of commerce elects directors The Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce mem bers recently elected eight new directors to serve a three-year term on the Chamber board. New directors for the Cham ber, beginning in 1983, will be: Alton Bowen of Citizens Bank, Ben Hardeman of OMC Industries, John Hughey of OI Corporation, Churchill Jones of Republic Bank A&M, Larry Linder of First City National Bank, Louis Newman of Newman Printing, Emil Ogden of Chaparral Minerals, Inc. and Marvin Tate of Courtney/Tate Reality. The new directors will take office Jan. 1, 1983 and will serve on the board until Dec. 31, 1985. Professors honored Two Texas A&M University mining engineering and geophysics professors, Dr. James E. Russell and Dr. Earl Hoskins, and management professor Dr. Don Hellriegal haveen awarded distinguished E.D. Brockett professorships this fall. Established at Texas A&M in 1974 with an endowment of $125,000 from the Gulf Oil Foundation, the professorships carry a $4,000 prize this year and are awarded annually to support research in engineering, geosciences and business. The professorships were created in honor of Brockett, retired chairman of the board and chief executive officer for the Gulf Oil Crop., who earned a petroleum engineering degree at Texas A&M in 1934 and began work at the com pany as a roustabout the same year. White to meet with supporters Mark White, Texas democratic gubernatorial candidate, will meet with supporters today at a luncheon at the Ramada Inn in College Station. White will hold a press conference prior to the luncheon at 11:00 a.m. in Ramada Inn Room A-6. If you have an announcement or interesting item to submit for this column, come by The Battlion office in Room 216 Reed McDonald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611. Fire ants continue to be a pain by Patrice Koranek Battalion Reporter Since the mid-oOs when the the the pesky red insects invaded Texas Gulf Coast region, words “fire ants” have been asso ciated with pain and bother. Un til better control techniques are found, the pain and bother are likely to continue. Total eradication is not the answer, says a report from the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. The ants may cause pain for people with their fiery stings or pose problems for farmers and ranchers, but the ants also help control other pests, the re port says. For example, when the ants moved through east Texas, they attacked tick larvae. Now cattle men don’t have to spray for ticks as much, Cliff Hoelscher, an ex tension service entomologist, said. The ants also feed on cot ton boll weevil larvae, he said. Although complaints about the ants have decreased in the past few months because of the hot, dry weather, the cooler and wetter weather will make the pests more visible, Brad Vinson, extension service entomologist, said. Complaints will increase as the ants begin building their mounds above the ground again, he said. Researchers are working to improve present control methods and develop new ones. Control through genetics is a new method and still needs work, Vinson said. Ant genetics have to be defined and a large number of sterile males pro duced before genetic control can be used, he said. Insecticide — the conven tional way to control fire ants — works, but getting the toxin to the ant is a problem, Vinson said. Two types of bait are used to attract the ant to the poison — oil and protein substances. The oil bait uses refined soybean oil as both a solvent and as a food attractant, the report says. Pro tein baits have a great potential because they are not readily eaten by foraging ants. Instead, the bait is carried into the colony and fed to the new generation of ants, which stops growth of the colony, the report says. To compound the fire ant problem, Vinson said, multiple queen colonies have been found in Brazos and surrounding counties. The average fire ant population is 30-40 single queen mounds per acre, but multiple queen mounds are occurring 100-150 per acre, Vinson said. Multiple queen colonies are not typical of the red imported fire ant found in Texas but they could be the same ant, he said. Mounds that have more than one queen are harder to eradi cate bcause all the queens have to be killed to destroy the colony, Vinson explained. The red fire ant was acciden tally brought to the Uni States from Brazil inthelM They were introduced I Mobile, Ala., and spreadra|l throughout the southeasl states. The lire ants wereS reported in Texas in 195^ now infest about lOOcouna The ant is still spreadingn west and south at therateo out 30 miles per year, there^ said. i REGULATION, DE-REGULATION, AND RE-REGULATION TUESDAY OCTOBER 19,1982 RUDDER AUDITORIUM STUDENTS .50 8=00 NON STUDENTS 1.00 RALPH NADER CS hosts nuclear debates by Tammy Jones Battalion Reporter Nuclear regulators and search reactor administi will discuss their opposing points in a conference that today at 9 a.m. in the Ag| Inn. The annual conferencei National Organization of Research and TrainingReac (TRTR), which continues noon Wednesday, is in Col Station for the first time ami eludes a number of sp from the NRC and other win accidei sities and laboratories thatepi- ate research reactors. A debate amon^ Nik# Regulatory Commission: sentatives and about 66t hers of TRTR will deah whether or not the samerej tions should apply to A College Battali Natic megawatt nuclear researcli tors and 2,000 mega-watt reactors. “Anti-nuclear people are testing research reactors along with nuclear weapul Randall said. “I’m oppose: nuclear weapons; I think should he wiped off thefafj the earth. Anyone Vito opposed to the nuclearrei reactors is out of his mind, for Women, “We want to first talk to ti lute of the Eq regulators to get them to set: merit, i s fjghi point, but if that doesn't*president of i we’ll go straight to Congdchapter. Randall said. || “We lean Texas A&M nuclear *RAcampaig gineer John Randall saidTetne Foy, pre A&M’s nuclear researchreJNOW chapte — a one mega-watt reactorTRA miss strong compared to other taught us n search reactors, but it is wdfeigning, ]< comparison to 2,000 mega-speaking an: power reactors. Bills.” He said the Texas A&W As a result search reactor has an exedffew many v safety record. Bpresent tl “Even if we did have an: throughout dent at our reactor, the wot H “During t could do is contaminate flocking the unit.,” Randall said. lentified,” onhdent tl Vomen leac 'lace them.’ NOW’s n 'ta said, is : Ho public o 'as propose to support * pte on wor Domino’s Pizza Delivers." At Domino’s Pizza we promise a hot, nutritious meal delivered in 30 minutes or less. Your pizza is made with 100% real dairy cheese, our own special sauce, and your choice of items. Then we deliver it fast- at no extra charge. Give us a call...we deliver! Fast.. Free Delivery Call us. 693-2335 1504 Holleman, C.S. $2.00 Off any 16' We use only 100% real dairy cheese. 260-9020 4407 Texas, Bryan 2-item or more pizza. One coupon per pizza. Fast, Free Delivery. Hours: 11:00-1:00 Sun.-Thurs. 11:00-2:00 Fri.-Sat. • o z $1.50 Off any 12 4-item or more pizza One coupon per pizza Fast, Free Delivery. 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