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local Around town Young Democrats to hold party The Young Democrats of Texas A&M are sponsoring a party at Bee Creek Park on Thursday from 8 p.m. to mid night. There will be free beer and everyone is welcome. The purpose of the party is to acquaint the students and faculty of Texas A&M with the candidates for local office. Horticulture club selling pumpkins If you don’t have a jack-o-lantern yet, today is the last day of the pumpkin sale sponsored by the Texas A&M Horticul ture Club. The group will be selling the pumpkins outside the Plant Sciences Building. Graduate student to receive award Michael R. Strand, a graduate student in the Department of Entomology, is the 1982 recipient of the Entomological Society of America Southwestern Branch Graduate Student Award. This award is given annually to promote interest in the science of entomology at the graduate level. Strand will be presented an inscribed plaque during the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America and will attend the national meeting, all expenses paid, as part of his award. Madrigal dinner tickets to be sold Tickets for the second annual Memorial Student Center madrigal dinners, to be held Dec. 3-5 and Dec. 8-10, w ill go on sale Nov. 1 at the Rudder Tower Box Office. The dinners will feature troubadors, jugglers and dan cers. Music, dance, food, fun and a chance to do early Christ mas shopping at the Merchant’s Market are also planned as part of the medieval holiday celebration. Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for non-students. Patron’s tables are also available at $300 per party of six. All prof its from the dinners will go toward student scholarships. ’83 Aggieland looking for features The 1982-83 Aggieland staff is looking for a few good people. If you have an interesting talent or hobby, they may be interested in doing a feature on you. Contact the Aggie land in 01 1 Reed McDonald or call Dena or Lynn at 845- 2682. BAN A majors recieve scholarships Three Texas A&M students in the Department of Busi ness Analysis and Research have been awarded $1,000 schlarships from Standard Oil Company of California. William M. Allen, a senior BANA major, Julie Van Doren, a master’s student with emphasis in business comput ing science, and Kirt B. Morris, also a master’s student in business computing science, are the three recipients of Stan dard Oil’s first annual awarding of (he scholarships. They were chosen on the basis of their academic standing in business analy as well as in overall course work. Extracur ricular activities and faculty recommendations were also considered. Standard Oil to visit campus The Data Processing Management Association, an orga nization for undergraduate and graduate students in busi ness computing science, is sponsoring a presentation by Standard Oil Company of California representatives on career paths in the company. All interested students are welcome to come to the presentation tonight at 7:30 in the Ram ad a Inn. Houston executive to speak The real estate program in the College of Business Administration is sponsoring the 1982-83 Visiting Execu tive Speaker Series Monday. This years’ speaker will be Mr. Howard W. Horne, chairman of the board at Horne Com pany Realtors. Horne will speak four times and all interested persons are invited to attend. At 10 and 11 a.m. the speech topic will be “The Houston Investment Climate.” At 2 and 3 p.m., he will speak on “Managing the Commercial Brokerage Firm”. Both lectures will be in 130 Academic and Agency Building. 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. Thousands put their fingers on it.. Advertising in The Battalion 845-2611 Brainy tourney tonight The Memorial Student Cen ter College Bowl tournament will be held from 6 to 10 tonight in 502 Rudder. The tournament consists of matches between two teams of four students answering ques tions about the arts, humanities, sciences and mathematics. To start the 14-minute match, the teams are asked a toss-up question worth 10 points. The team which answers the question correctly has the chance to answer a bonus ques tion worth 20 to 40 points. The team with the most points wins the match. Sue Leibert, College Bowl adviser, said the matches will be gin every 30 minutes. Many of the teams playing in the double elimination tourna ment have won as many as three matches since the tournament started in September, she said. Teams in the winner’s bracket who have won four matches will advance to the Nov. 10 semifin als. l earns which lost one match must win up to seven matches to advance to the final competi tion. United Press HOUSTON - eople currentl n idges in Housl give up their : tents pitched i eagan adminis But organiz ression-style te 5 in the countt e low particip. ility to the pro “Itboggles th le are fightin nder the br ndrews, an or ssociation o! rganizations ft id. “I’m afraid Only 3 shopping clays left staff photo by Jwpli Gina Muras, left, a junior from La Grange, and horticulture majors. The average selling prices Dennis Joy, a senior from San Antonio, are busy pumpkin is $2 to $3; proceeds benefit selling pumpkins for Halloween. Both are University Horticulture Club. Mental energy, poltergeists subject of psychic’s lecture jet worse.” Andrews sai ^nly five peopl bitched along i lowntown Hot aated that bet w beople currem bridges all over |n benches. He said abou lies have been I barks for sever: “It’s become bousing and situation — that | to lose their si ridges," he said lome with us Su bur tents will on lays and their Ihere forever.” Andrews said by Patti Schwierzke Battalion Reporter Psychic phenomena were the subject of a lecture Tuesday night by a self-proclaimed psychic. Donna Buhrman of Austin Childrens Party October 28 7.00 Rm 230,231 MSC Refreshments, games spookhouse Faculty, Staff & Student’s children invited discussed a number of paranor mal incidents during "Pol tergeist: Fact or Fantasy?”, pre sented by MSC Cepheid Vari able. "Do you feel different as you drive in to Austin?” she asked. Buhrman said people feel diffe rent when they enter the city be cause Austin is a vortex of ener gy. Other vortices of energy in clude the Bermuda Triangle, Black Forest of Germany and a place near Santa Fe, N.M. People are attracted by the energy radiated by the Austin area, she said. And spirits linger af ter death, she said, to complete unfinished business, to give things to people and to help the living develop their own psychic powers. Once, a friend of Buhrman’s was murdered for hire and re vealed the number of the pay off check to a person still living, she said. As for Poltergeist, she said Speilberg’s imagination is “real- r wondei movie are very real very HoIIvk parts are said. Poltergeists areenergi perhaps spirits or souls] make choices by free»!| make noise. Natural elt: like wood, metal andsli»| the spirit vibrations. Buhrman added tl powers are latent inevtf just awaiting developmei “The imagery partofl is always present andjui ing to emerge,” she said| first thoughts and impi are right-brain oriented*! where the creative procenl cated. By the time we are'I years old, we have beenf to think with our which stunts our creatitfl iy lerful.” Parts of the People have to learn] how to see auras andf fields, she said. If the leM the brain had not beeuli to predominate then would not lose their | power, she said. Economy feature! in lecture series Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. 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FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL BREADED FISH FILET w TARTAR SAUCE Cole Slaw Hush Puppies Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SATURDAY NOON and EVENING SPECIAL Yankee Pot Ro^st (Texas Salad) Mashed Potato w gravy Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SUNDAY SPECIAL NOON and EVENING ROAST TURKEY DINNER Served with Cranberry Sauce Cornbread Dressing Roll or Corn Bread - Butter - Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And your choice of any One vegetable by Myra Retta Battalion Reporter The Texas A&M Center for Education and Research in Free Enterprise is presenting the lec ture series “Taming Leviathan: Defederalizing the American Economy.” It will start Thurs day and continue through Feb ruary. The speakers featured in the series are individuals recognized for stimulating changes in pub lic policy. They will speak on the relationship between the indi vidual and government. Karl Brunner, director of the Center for Research in Govern ment Policy and Business, and Fred H. Gowen, an economics professor from theUnnU Rochester, will begin the*] Thursday with a preset] entitled “The Taming off eminent Monetary Poll) Henry Manne,directoiC Law and Economics Cenif'l law professor at EmoryM sity, will speak f topic will be “The Modem 1 ] poration and the FreeSM Three more lectures » l f given during the spring* ter. “Private Provisions# Services,” “Revitalizing I Philanthropy,” and “The] of tbe CorporationasaCm’ of the State” will be pre during the semester. United Press HOUSTON - lurango, Colo. the only won lulf chemical j:ase — is back fhe has hope of Unlike the fc In the case and lion bond eacl lird probably from Harris C lue to a reduct londay. U.S. Magistr: said because Bir record and hi good risk to sho vould free her ilO.OOO of a $S The feder Houston argue [her bond remai [that she would 1 Iferetuly than th meets — McBric lice, 30; Theoi j45; and Mich Those four ai ported from C< zona jails to H( for arraign men Lawyer Chai Bird’s mother, Vurpillat of 1 had already ra friends were , together the re After Bird’s mon-law hi McBride Oct. 3 was jailed for DIETING? Even though we do not prescril) diets, we make it possible for many enjoy a nutritious meal while the' follow their doctor's orders. You wi be delighted with the wide selects of low calorie, sugar free and fat fe foods in the Souper Salad Area, Sbis 3 Dining Center Basement. OPEN Monday through Friday 10:45 AM-1:45 i QUALITY FIRST United Pres: NEW ORLI neys for “Car Ronald Clark asked a federal scheduled Hall of the man poisoning his s laced trick-or-t The attorne with the 5th U of Appeals Me court to stay < tion, schedule! Texas. The lawyei appeals court Houston fedei tion last week ( tion for a writ i The petition c gularities in th: ler’s 1975 trial State Distri McSpadden c O’Bryan’s ex< coincide wit anniversary of man’s son. C taunted as the Texas’ death n of killing his so ance money. ^executed will be the fit United States t and the first e since July 30,1