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local Battalion/Pagc: November 11, Police crack down on DWIs Around town Revel Alliance wins College Bowl The winning team in the Texas A&M College Bowl tourna ment Wednesday night was Revel Alliance. Members of the team, Nancy Underwood, Greg Jones, Yvette Kelley, Lori Wolf and Troyce Wilson, plus four all-stars — members of the tournament who answered the highest number of toss up questions — will compete for positions on a team which will compete in the regional College Bowl competition in Feb ruary. Twenty-five teams competed in the Texas A&M College Bowl tournament — the varsity sport of the mind — in a double elimination tournament that began Sept. 29. The tournament is sponsored by the American College Unions- International. College teams from across the nation compete in local competitions and advance to regional and national competitions. The regional competition will be at the University of Houston and will include winning teams from colleges and universities from Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. The win ner of the regionals will advance to the national competition in April. Students answer a variety of questions ranging from liter ature and science to pop trivia and culture. The questions are gathered by Time magazine and put together in packets which are sent to all the competing schools. Mother’s club luncheon set for Kyle The District 4 Texas A&M Mother’s Club will hold a luncheon today starting at 10 a.m. in the pressbox at Kyle Field. The luncheon is held only once every four years and usually has an attendance of about 35 or 40. This year they are expecting 105 mothers. District 4 includes four counties in the Brazos Valley area. Chemical engineers to travel to LjA The officers of the Texas A&M student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers will be attending the annual national convention Nov. 13-15 in Los Angeles. Those participating in the convention activities will be: Sue Harrity, president; Kim Cavender, vice-president; Bruce Moore, secretary; Johnita Davis, treasurer; Bryan Beissel, publicity chairman; David Estes, historian; Frank Jones, senior representative and Emma Baumgardner, junior representative. The convention will include a series of workshops de signed to help the officers improve the local chapter. Stress workshop planned for Sat. A workshop designed to help people deal with stress and stressful relationships will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Bryan. The workshop will be led by Marsha Lawson, a family therapist from Houston. She is currently in private practice in Houston, and works with a variety of marital, family and personal problems. She has her M.A. from the University of Houston and was formerly the Clinical Co-ordinator of the family therapy program at Sand Dollar/Family Works, Inc. First Presbyterian Church in Bryan is located at 1100 Carter Creek Pkwy. For more information contact Barbara Ridlen at 823-8073. Grazing conference begins here The Grazing Management Technology Conference, a con ference “to facilitate communication, coordination and pro fessional evaluation for current and future grazing manage ment technology,” opened on campus Wednesday. It will run through Friday. The objectives of the conference are to enhance aware ness of current grazing management research and to discuss future approaches to the same. The conference is sponsored by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, the Texas Agricultural Extension Ser vice and the Department of Range Science. Wagoner to read poems this Friday David Wagoner, distinguished poet and critic, will read a selection of his poems Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Room 204C of the Sterling C. Evans Library. Wagoner is the author of 13 books of poems, ten novels and many essays and reviews. In 1975 and 1977, his books were nominated for the National Book Award, and in 1978 he was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He now teaches English and creative writing at the University of Washington in Seattle. The reading is co-sponsored by the English Department of Texas A&M and the Texas Reading Circuit, a consor tium of five Texas universities sharing a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts to bring nationally recog nized writers to Texas. Winning photos displayed in gallery The MSC Arts Committee will display the winning photo graphs of the 1982 Fall Photo Contest in the MSC Gallery through Nov. 20. The Fall Photo Contest is sponsored by the MSC Camera Committee and the MSC Arts Committee as an attempt to enrich the community by introducing an aspect of the visual arts — photography. The Gallery is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. There will be a reception for the winners on Nov. 15 at 5:30 p.m. in the Gallery. 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. by Beverly Hamilton Battalion Staff The Bryan Police Department is taking special measures this month — which Gov. Bill Cle ments has proclaimed DWI awareness month — to decrease the number of driving-while- intoxicated offenses in the area. The department has several regular and reserve officers working overtime to identify and arrest drunk drivers, Maj. Lee Freeman of the Bryan Police Department said. “We send them to the areas we feel have a larger number of DWIs,” he said. “It’s been very effective so far. We’ve arrested 34 people suspected of DWI through the eighth of this month compared to 13 through the same time last month.” Safeway Correction PEPSI OKI PEPSI, PEPSI LIGHT OR MOUNTAIN DEW Pack 12 Oz. Cans LIMIT 4 6 PACKS Of those 34 people, 28 failed a breath-analyzer test given by the police department, three passed the test and three refused to take it, he said. In Texas, failure of the breath-analyzer test results when a person’s blood-alcohol level is 0.1 percent or higher. Blood-alcohol levels in those arrested in November ranged from about 0.12 percent to 0.3 percent, Freeman said. Capt. Mason Newton of the College Station Police Depart ment said the department has arrested eight people in Novem ber for DWI. Six failed the breath-analyzer test, and two passed it. usually charged as a offender, Newton said. One-time offenders sentenced to no less tha days and no more than two 1 in the county jail, and thti be fined from a minimumd to a maximum of $500. One of tl |ands in th 1’exas Stat Band, will p But a judge can setafinc probate the jail sentence (i ^ Rudder' period no less than six i* | The gr Newton said. *- exas “This happensbecausej® 63 ! 5 ' ^ * 1!s , times officers don’t makeajB^, ? r m se ' case,” Newton said.'‘Orhf^r™ bargaining the defendant■>' receive a reduced sentenaf The College Station Police Department has a new breath- analyzer machine called an in- toxilizer that provides a digital readout, Newton said. A breathalyzer had been used in the past, but the operator had to read a dial and record the blood- alcohol level on a police report, he. said. The new intoxilizer reads the level and prints it out on a card. The ban related to the drivingoffesK' 1 '!;' r „ !’ like for a broken tail light'K^i] 1 ^ 'md Someone arrested fortlferookmeyei for the first time and passe* The 1 O’ 1 breath-analyzer test usuaiBected by K given a lesser charge, likeaiT lie intoxication, Newtons “It takes out all human error possibility factors,” he said. Penalties for DWI convic tions vary according to whether the person has a prior DWI con viction. If someone is convicted for DWI and has a prior arrest for the offense or is convicted for such aggravated circumstances as an accident, the person is ip band at bands, he first colk Second-time offender!fiominated f be sentenced to no lesstluily the Natio days and no more than twosBording Art; in the county jail or fornoB five tru than $100 and no more Aombonists, $5,000. The offenderalsotn Ijaho playe: be sent to the state penite® grummer, a for no more than five yean Lsionist m could be fined and imprison land menib “With the high capacityii:f|]o m as f ar jails it is hard to get a jury judge to send them up to pen,” he said. “A casein they would probably go toIkhich is spor pen would be one involvinj irts Commit accident in which someone MSC Bo been killed.” Canada, anc orth. Tickets fo Get the look you’re looking for at $3*00 off. Brazos Valley is cleaning up Command Performance knows you want a special look that’s really you. That’s why we want to do something special for students. Just present your A&M Student I.D. at our Post Oak Mall salon. You’ll receive $3 off the regular price of a consultation, shampoo, haircut and blowdry styling. Offer expires December 31, 1982. Not good with any other offer. Command Performance For the look you’re looking for. POST OAK MALL/NEAR SEARS 764-0404 by Patrice Koranek Battalion Reporter Brazos County is hoping to become a certified member of the Keep America Beautiful program early next year. Project coordinator Barbara Vance said that after certifica tion a board of directors will be chosen to decide what kind of programs the project will in clude. The city of College Sta tion and the Brazos County Commissioners Court have don ated more than $ 10,000 each for the beautification project, and Vance said she expects to receive an equal amount from Bryan. If the local program is certi fied, the money will be used to pay a full-time coordinator to implement the programs sug gested by the board of directors, to pay a secretary and to buy office supplies and photo graphic equipment, Vance said. The Keep America Beautiful program was started in 1953 as a national non-profit organiza tion to educate people about lit ter and how to stop it. Citizens of Brazos County have worked to keep the area clean for many years, but the effort has never (continued But he isn’i Igfor help. John Box, sorofthefn Jan Resour Keep Ameij lan( | f or r , been a project as far-reacbkij the Brazos Beautiful campion of the E Vance said. One of the Beautiful projects is anelMBod stamps cut down on the amount oflij“M an y 0 f that comes from construct»equently h; sites and trash dumpsters i imes/’hesa overflow. Mostofthelitterala leycome to roads does not come from)* imething to pie throwing it out of car* In Januan dows but from open tracist! , B razos q haul trash and from plastic® ) ()( [ stamps; bags that get torn before p olds appliec bage collectors pick them! ast month Vance said. ere using fo People have three pri® un iber of n< ideas about litter, Vance satflying for foe First, people feel it is allaS 139, ne to litter where they haveB^ount of sense of ownership, she slpuarv. Second, if they knowsomeoi* ming to clean it up, theydi leel bad about littering,shes) mployment; Finally, if litter alreadyisp sent they don’t think a S ^uldmakea more will be noticed, she sat 'at the two “These three ideas per® our individual minds and what we have to change," Vaa ff ectec ) by u said. “Why spend a lot of nW 1 on something that doesn'tki to be there in the first placf STANDING IN LONG LINES LIKE THIS FOR YEARBOOK PICTURES DOESN’T HAVE TO BE ANOTHER A&M TRADITION... A V* Box said h ired correk emand for fi Whether tl it not, the Sta With 850 h on or reci nd 3,000 pe snot hard tc roblem. Witl T. Atlas Br; je decrease pities in nda natiomv nemplovmet figures 940), Bryan- *ling it. So how do iejobs disap >s the statistii Not kr JUNIORS SENIORS GRADUATES... YOU HAVE UNTIL DEC. 17TH TO HAVE YOUR PHOTO TAKEN FOR THE 82-83 AGGIELAND. GO BY YEARBOOK ASSO. (1700 PURYEAR BEHIND CULPEPPER PLAZA) 693-6756 TODAY AND AVOID WAITING IN LINE!! 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