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Bonf ire fundraisers to be held
Make this weekend a bonfire weekend. Two campus groups
are sponsoring bonfire fund raising events this Saturday,
Oct. 23.
The first is the Bonfire Barbecue honoring Thomas R.
Parsons, former Corps Commandant, to be held Saturday
afternoon in the Grove. Prices for tickets are $5 for students
and $7.50 for all others. Tickets can be purchased in the
MSC all this week.
The second event is a Bonfire Benefit Dance sponsored
by Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity. The
dance starts at 8 p.m. Saturday night in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
Advance tickets for the dance are being sold this week in
the MSC. The price is $2 for singles and $3 for couples.
Tickets will be available at the door as well.
Wear your tennis shoes or be prepared to dance barefo
oted because no shoes will be allowed on the gym floor.
Music for the dance will be provided by a local disc jockey.
Volleyballers to play tonight
The Texas A&M Women’s Volleyball team plays Texas
Tech tonight in G. Rollie White Coliseum at 7:30 p.m. Five
Pizza Hut pizzas will be given away at the game as door
prizes. The Aggie Ladies are number one in the Southwest
Conference and need your support.
ET students raise money
Even rain doesn’t stop Texas A&M engineering technology
students. The ET’s braved the weather last Wednesday to
raise money for their current service project, the College
Station Morning Lion’s Club Semi-annual garbage bag sale.
The money raised by the engineering students will be don
ated to the Lion’s Club for use in various local charities.
Church to hold Halloween festival
Santa Teresa Church on Bryan’s west side - 1212 Lucky
Street - will have its 7th Annual Halloween Jamaica and
Church Festival on Sunday, Oct. 24 beginning in the morn
ing and lasting until 9 p.m.
Special features include a costume contest, a carved
pumpkin contest, and a Super Spook House. The dancers
from the Fiesta Patrias will give two performances and music
will be provided during the day by Los Salvajes de Matamor-
os and Los Momentos. There will be games and food avail
able, including home-made tamales. A raffle drawing for a
car and eight other prizes will conclude the festivities. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
Peace Corps representative to speak
If you’re interested in oversea opportunities and hard work,
Betty Staubinger, a representative of the Peace Corps, will
speak at 7 p.m. tonight in Room 231 of the Memorial Stu
dent Center on opportunities for students and others in the
Peace Corps.
Cubicle space available to groups
Recognized student organizations who wish to apply for
one of the cubicle spaces available in the new registration
center must turn in applications by Oct. 29. For more infor
mation, contact the Student Activities Office at 845-1133.
Yearbook pictures to be taken
Pictures are now being taken of juniors and seniors for
the 1982-83 Aggieland. If you want your picture in the
yearbook, go now while there are no lines to Yearbook
Associates (9700 Puryear) and have it taken. No appoint
ment is necessary. For more information call 693-6756.
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.
Zoning Board
tables, denies
by Angie Kerr
Battalion Reporter
A request to allow temporary
signs to be displayed in front of
sorority houses was tabled last
night in a meeting of the College
Station Zoning Board of Adjust
ments.
The Board asked that the
College Panhellenic Association
of College Station set more spe
cific guidelines for the signs
which would announce events
such as football games, Songfest
and rush.
Jean McDermott, Panhelle
nic advisory board member, said
that the signs would only be dis
played in front of the houses,
and would not be used as identi
fication for the sororities.
In other business, the Board
denied a request to allow rear
parking at the proposed yillage
Square Office Park located in
Southwest Valley. Residents liv
ing directly behind the prop
osed complex complained that
the rear driveway and parking
would encourage a high amount
of traffic, noise and litter.
The Board also denied a re
quest for expansion of a duplex
the
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Parks overused
located at 203 Fairview Street.
The area, zoned single-family
residential, doesn’t allow for
construction of duplexes. T hose
that existed prior to the zoning
can be maintained but not ex
panded. The request by Johnny
A. Martinez for an addition to
his duplex was denied by the
board.
The board did not consider
one item on the agenda concern
ing Northgate parking because
of a recent College Station City
Council ruling.
The ruling states that, as of
Sept. 23, there will be no
changes concerning parking in
the Northgate area for the next
12 months. The area is bordered
by University Drive, Wellborn
Road, South College Avenue
and the city limits.
A request was approved for
the construction of a screened-
in porch in the backyard at the
residence located at 1026 Rose
Circle.
The next regular meeting of
the Board, originally scheduled
for Nov. 16, has been resche
duled for Nov. 30 due to a con
flict with the College Station City
Council meeting.
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ZEPHYR CLUB
by David Hatch
Battalion Reporter
As the number of tourists
and residents has increased in
Texas, state parks have gotten
more use — in some cases, too
much.
“Judging a park as over
used is a rating which is de
pendent upon thejudge’s per
sonal concepts of what exactly
constitutes overuse,” said Dr.
Glenn Carls of the recreation
and parks department.
Overuse judgments are
based on two major criteria.
The first is the social carrying
capacity — the rating that
compares the number of peo
ple in the park to the activities
in which they are partici
pating.
On the social carrying
capacity basis, a crowded
beach is overused. There is
simply not enough room for
people who want to play fris-
bee, jog or lie in the sun to do
so without interfering with
each other.
The second category is the
environmental carrying
capacity — a rating of the
number of people a park can
handle before physical dam
age to the environment is
done.
“An example of overuse in
environmental terms is Hunt
sville State Park, where the
soil in the picnic area has been
packed down by years of use
to the point that several tree
roots are exposed,” Garls said.
“Overuse can also be sea
sonal. Lost Maples State Park
(in Bandera County) is almost
always empty except for a few
weeks in the fall when the
foliage begins to turn colors,
at which time the park is rela
tively crowded."
The most popular parks in
the state are close to popula
tion centers and have a oody
of water for recreational pur
poses. T he most visited park
in the state is Garner State
Park located in northern
Uvalde County. Second on
the popularity list is Inks Lake
Slate Park near Waco. The
combined beaches and parks
on Galveston Island are third.
“The more popular parks
in the state have been har
dened to help offset the
potential damage that could
be caused by overuse,” Carls
said. “This means that mod
ern sewer systems have been
installed and that campsites
and the trails to main attrac
tions have been paved or co
vered with a protective
gravel."
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Many of the parks in the
state have huife tracts of land
which are not easily accessible
to the family camper or day
visitor.
“It is hard to rate a park
overused when the majority
of it is simply unused because
it is away from the main
attractions, so lew people
bother with the area," he said.
“A family who brings
camper and parks it
crowded campground
find the park ovei
whereas an individual
backpacks into the wi
few miles can find the
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ence he wants. Since
park visitors use the
popular areas, a
visitors consider the
overused.”
Carls also said
creased use of state
sometimes can lead to al
by visitors.
“We don’t have the
lems in Texas that they
in California with parks
so heavily used that air
tion and traffic problem
caused. Nevertheless,
Texas we have trouble
people being intoxicated
causing problems anda
problem with people steal
signs for souvenirs."
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of some state parks, Carlsst
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Local bifida association
promotes special week
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by Pamela J. Franklin
Battalion Reporter
The newly-formed Bryan-
College Station Spina Bifida
Association is promoting Na
tional Spina Bifida Week this
week. The group wants to prom
ote awareness of the disease, a
birth defect of the spinal column
which affects approximately one
child born every hour.
Dr. Clifford Sherry, presi
dent of the local spina bifidd
chapter, said spina bifida asso
ciations are raising money to
fund research to find the dis
ease s cause.
Mike Baker, a member of the
association, said the Bryan-
College Station association was
formed in September and has
approximately 20 members.
The association’s projects in
clude placing coin containers in
local businesses and collecting
money door-to-door. They also
will have a Healthy Baby Booth
on Oct. 30 in Post Oak Mall and
a float in the holiday parade.
Sherry, a specialist in birth de
fects, said that when a child is
born with spina bifida, his back
bone never closes completely
and part of the spinal cord Mb
exposed through an opening
under the skin.
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na bifida culta, the birth deft
so slight that most pei
unaware they have it,
with this type of spina bifidit
fer from minor backachei
bladder problems.
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da, children are bornwithaf
on their back. The sacktf
removed by surgery, but
child may experience wet
in the area of the bodyaffj
by the exposed portion
spinal cord. 1^™
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— which usually forms on
lower back — contains 11
nerve roots of the spinalll
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ger. Surgery is neccessaijM
cause the child could d|®
the infection. In addition,||
child’s legs are paralyzedjl
have no feeling.
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not decrease a person'slife-l
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occur unless hydrocephalusj
condition which sometimesi
velops in children with s[^
bifida — is present.
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be corrected by placingaht#
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Sherry said spina bifidafl
be detected at about theii
week of pregnancy j
amniocentesis, a test on
amniotic fluid. The onlypre*
tion for spina bifida is abort
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