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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1982)
Around town i n x C CTT) 0 * u a Yearbook picture deadline extended Freshmen and sophomores, next week is the last chance to have pictures taken for the 1982-83 Aggieland. The year book staff can not extend the deadline any longer. Pictures will be taken Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 9 to 6 p.m. On Wednesday and Thursday the studio will be open from 9 to 8 p.m. The studio will continue to take junior and senior pictures at the same time. The Yearbook Associates studio is located at 9700 Puryear Drive. To reach the studio, turn east onto Highway 30 and turn left at Archie’s Taco Bell. The studio is on the left across from Tanglewood Apartments. For more information call the Aggieland office at 845-2682, or Yearbook Associates at 693-6756. Fun run scheduled for Saturday The College Station Parks and Recreation Department is sponsoring a four-mile fun run Saturday, Oct. 23, to begin at 8:30 a.m. The run will start and finish at Bee Creek Parkand will be divided into age groups. There is no entry fee and prizes will be awarded in each division. EES to give fan, fireplace seminar People interested in lowering electricity bills by using fans and fireplaces can learn more at a seminar Thursday, Oct. 28, at the A&M Consolidated High School library at 7 p.m. The first part of the seminar will cover various types of fans and the ways they help reduce the need for air condi tioning. Whole house fans as well as portable fans will be discussed. The second part of the seminar will explain more efficient ways to use fireplaces, including glass doors, which can be added to the front of fireplaces, and better fire-building . The seminar is sponsored by the Texas Energy Extension Service and is part of the College Station Community Educa tion program. A nominal registration fee of $2 will be charged. For more information call the Texas Energy Exten sion Service at Texas A&M at 845-8025. Admiral to review march-in Rear Adm. Howard H. Haynes (USN), commander of the Pacific Division of the Naval Facilities Engineering Com mand and of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Naval Construction Batta lions, will serve as reviewing officer during march-in before the Rice University football game Saturday. Haynes, a registered professional engineer in Texas, is a Texas A&M graduate. His career included duties on the staff of the officer in charge of construction in Vietnam and as public works officer and officer in charge of construction at the U.S. Naval Academy. March-in Saturday is at 12:45 p.m. with kickoff at 2 p.m. UT prof named to academic chair Dr. Darwin Klingham, professor of statistics, operations research and computer sciences at the University of Texas, was named to an academic chair in business here at Texas A&M. Klingham, currently director of computer sciences re search for the Center of Cybernetic Studies at UT, will assume the Texas A&M College of Business Administra tion’s Jeanne and John Blocker Chair. The chair was estab lished a year ago with a gif t from Texas A&M University Regent John R. Blocker. An academic chair is among the highest honors the Uni versity offers to an outstanding faculty member. Klingman will teach in Texas A&M’s Department of Business Analysis and Research. Hellenic Students to meet The Texas A&M Hellenic Student Association is sponsor ing a presentation of Greece Friday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder. They plan to show a film called “Hellascope,” fol lowed by a lecture by club president Sophia Iliadou on “Greek History Through the Ages.” Refreshments will in clude Greek cookies and punch. Plans will also be made for the upcoming Greek food and dance party. Everyone is invited. The club also sponsors free Greek language, danc ing and cuisine classes. For more information, call Iliadou at 779-6771. If you have an announcement or interesting item to submit for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611. 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As expected, the commission rejected, by a 4-2 vote, a reouest to rezone the tract near Univer sity Park from residential to light commercial. The commis sion expects the question to lx? resubmitted and a request for access from University Drive to be included. Spencer Wendt, who submit ted the request, said since low elevation of most of the tract puts it below the flood plain, nuilding residential structures would lx* uneconomical. He said building elevated commercial structures would lx? feasible be cause of different standards for commercial and residential structures. In another motion, the com mission unanimously approved a request for a conditional use permit to set up a day-care cen ter at 113 Cooper St. The commission als approved a request by Builds Crafts Inc. to rezone a 32.2-am tract west of West LutherStrte from medium density housis to single family and low dens: apartments. The commissi said the main problem witht previous zoning designations; the lac k of access to Hnllctik Drive from West Luther Stn In other approvals,thet mission rezoned several d submitted in a proposal by Hi zosland Properties, Inc. The commission ap by a 5-1 vote, a reconsidei of the zoning designation (planned commercial disd The new definition of the G zone defines it as a district* can include only repair which repair household itensi shops similar to those reason for the new designate the commission said, is to vent excessive noise, oui storage of equipment or p and excessive dust andvibnd which is discernable fra beyond the property line. I Musici, II string SMU group folds, programs continue' name the group Students for United Press International DALLAS — Negative campus reaction — not official pressure — persuaded an engineering stuclent to dissolve an organiza tion he formed to protect the rights of white males, said the president of Southern Method ist University. James T. Robison, 21, a senior from Boston, Wednesday disbanded the group he formed last week to end what he called discrimination against white males. Originally named the Association of White Students, an immediate outpouring of protest prompted Robison to re- the Equality. SMU President Donald Shields said he believes con tinued oppostion to the group’s existence at the predominantly white, private school led to its demise. “I certainly have no know ledge of any official pressure being brought on this group to dissolve,” Shields said. Shields came under fire from student and community leaders for not revoking the SMU Stu dent Senate’s decision Tuesday to recognize the group as a cam pus organization. Shields explained he person ally opposed the formation of the group because it smacked of racism, but said university policy prevented him from stopping .. ... by David St lormatton of the orgamzaWB Guest Revie However, Shields said ttaltLs a delight for the local comm ted 12 of Italy’s sicians in Ru< ium Thursday n 1 Musici, sponsc era and Perfo fciety, played a fi ichamher music. the group had requested port for any activity which i school deemed in the categt of racism or bigotry, thatrequf would have been denied. Robison was not available ft comment and copies of a stait| ment be hand-delivered to« rious campus offices saidonk “Considering the present ft cumstances, the Students' Equality requests the studs senate to withdraw recognil of our organization. The dents for Equality is complett musicians” — play dissolved.” public concert at t T he objectives of the gr*, 0 ^ ^ a ‘ nt Cecilia which attracted only 19 nieife° u P was ^ orrnec * bers f rom the 9,000-plus s»| dent body long been a c roque chamber sented the deli roque period t M audience. 1 Musici — Ital entsof the Acader ;ver wf« announced officially, thoujil Robison objected to speffi| programs designed to minority students. Revi< lay chamber re He reportedly sought reP'lheir own pleasure ter their first perfi group already had of Europe and wit! attracted listeners the Americas. I The group still c of its original mem semble contains ■ two violists, two cel sist and a harpsic lIVC /A.I.IKJI1 cIIIU UUIC1 UIUKiw , - 1 . for miniorities to continue,' ^ U P P la y s Wlth ° ,jll!, : tor, but does as oups which have al of the four campus sen# seals reserved for minorities The SMU student body is percent white. Student body President J« Dooley said the uni versin' reputation remains strong dn spite the controversy. 'This» now allow our various Affirit live Action and other program said. “Our reputation w strong as ever.” Now you know United Press International ‘r nils a nr ] t u„ At a steady jogger’s pace of 6 than five years to go aroilndll* - ’ f cumference of Earth andniort t, Thursday night jluded concertos b aer, Tartini, Viva The first conce: van Wassenaer w treat. 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