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November 16,11
What’s Up at
JL
Tuesday
TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
ASSOCIATION:A series of documentaries will be
shown bi-weekly during the next semester. The first on
Columbia — Venezuela will be shown tonight at 8 p.m. in
701 Rudder Tower.
PRE-VET SOCIETY: A brief meeting will be held at 7
p.m. Wed., Nov. 17 in 321 Physics Building. The Aggie-
land picture will be taken afterwards.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT, STUDENT SER
VICES COMMITTEE:A meeting will be held at 8:30
p.m. in Rudder Tower. For more information, contact
Katherine Hurt at 260-3055.
MSC OUTDOOR RECREATION.‘99 Days to Survival”
will be presented in a meeting at 7 p.m. in 501 Rudder.
BETA BETA BETA (BIOLOGICAL HONOR
SOCI£TY):The group will meet at 6 p.m. in the MSC
Main Lounge to have the Aggieland pictures taken.
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB:Jim Eller from the
Granada Corporation will speak on Embryo Transplant
ing in a meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 115 Kleberg.
BONFIRE ’82:Bonfire Open House will be held from
noon to 5 p.m. at Duncan Field.
HILLEL CLUB:Rabbi Ken Kanter presents an evening of
songs composed by Jewish writers at 8 p.m. at the Jewish
Student Center. The public is invited.
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION Aggie
land group pictures will be taken at 6:15 p.m. in the MSC
Main Lounge.
MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY:A meeting will be held at
7:30 p.m. in 113 Biological Sciences Building East
(BSBE). The speaker will be announced in upcoming
posters. Refreshments will be provided.
PI SIGMA ALPHA (POLITICAL SCIENCE
SOCIETY): Yearbook pictures will be taken and a party
will be discussed in a meeting at 8:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP:Paul Giles
will speak in a meeting at 7 p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel.
MSC VIDEO: A gen eral membership meeting will be
held at 8 p.m. in 352 MSC. Arrangements will be made
for the weekends production.
PRE-MED — PRE-DENT SOCIETY:Texas A&M
Emergency Care Team members will speak in a meeting
at 7:30 p.m. in 202 Francis Hall.
TAMU SAILING TEAM; A meeting will beheldat7 p.m.
in 350-A MSC. Anyone interested in sailboat racing is
invited to attend.
TEACHER EXCELLENCE AWARDS NOMINA
TIONS: Attention: Liberal Arts students! Nominations
for teaching excellence awards will be accepted Nov. 15
through December 6. Nomination forms can be obtained
at the Academic and A&A Buildings — 1st floor. Let your
voice be heard!
STUDENT PUBLICATIONS:Juniors, Seniors Grad
and Vet, Med students may have your pictures taken
between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, at the Yearbook Associates at 1700 Puryear Dr.
For more information, call 693-6756 or 845-2611. The
final deadline for pictures is Dec. 17. No make-ups will be
allowed after this date.
THE MSC HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE.The
Annual Holiday Fashion Show will be held Wed., Nov. 17
at 7:30 p.m. in 201 MSC Ballroom. Refreshments will be
served and tickets will be 75 cents, sold at the door.
Extra winter care needed
Right oil protects engine
United Press International
NEW YORK — Oil and win
ter don’t mix.
When the temperature drops
below zero, the oil in an engine’s
crankcase thickens to a molas
ses-like state and clings to engine
parts, making it difficult for the
starter motor to turn the engine
over.
Consequently most car
manufacturers recommend us
ing a multi-viscosity oil like 10 W-
30 which remains thin enough
in the coldest weather and yet
has enough “body” to withstand
high speeds when the engine
warms up.
Viscosity is a numerical rating
System established by the Society
of Automotive Engineers to in
dicate an oil’s resistance to flow.
Thick oils have high viscosity.
For example, SAE 30 oil is a
heavy oil recommended for
summer driving. It retains its
viscosity and weight even in hot
environments.
For winter use, SAE 30 would
be like putting glue in your
crankcase: it’s too heavy and too
thick.
That’s why car makers urge
motorists to use 10W-30 or
10W-40 instead.
The “W” identifies oils whose
viscosity was measured at zero
degrees Fahrenheit.
Multi-viscosity oils change
thickness when the temperature
changes. They are light enough
for easy starting in Arctic condi
tions, yet heavy enough to pro
vide protection at high tempera
tures and turnpike speeds.
Whatever oil your carmaker
recommends for winter, look
for the “SE” or “SF” code on the
oil can. The code was intro
duced by the American Pet
roleum Institute to indicate an
oil’s quality and durability.
New cars require SF oil; 1978
cars and older, SE oil.
Inferior oil can break down
and not provide proper lubrica
tion for today’s expensive, high-
revolution engines.
Most drivers do not change
the oil as often as experts recom
mend which is every four
months or 7,500 miles, whichev
er comes first.
If you drive in a dusty climate
or do much stdp-and-go driving
— and who doesn’t — experts
recommend an oil change every
two months or 3,500 miles.
Also recommended is chang
ing the oil filter with every oil
change. The filter helps screen
out engine-destroying dirt and
sludge. It makes little sense to
put new oil in a crankcase when
the oil filter is plugged up.
A few words of caution if you
are thinking of changing your
own oil. First, if you are going to
put your car on a ramp or jack it
up to get under it, make certain
the parking brake is engaged,
the back wheels are blocked and
that proper safety devices like
jack stands are used.
Also, use the right wrench for
the oil filler plug. Many back
yard mechanics ruin the oil filler
plug by using a loosefitting, ad
justable wrench. Make sure your
wrench fits snugly and that the
threads on the end of the spark
plug mesh exactly with the
threads in the engine block
when you reinsert it.
A crossthreaded filler plug
will lead to real problems: Oil
leaks, dirt entering the crank
case and other nightmares.
The best time to change the
oil is when the engine is hot.
This allows the maximum
amount of dirt and pollutants to
be held in suspension and float
out, insuring a clean crankcase.
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Biological Honor Society
Aggieland pictures —
Tuesday, Nov. 16
6 p.m. MSC Main Lounge
SKI SWAP
SUN. NOV. SI ST 12-5 P.M.
Rm. 263 G. Rollie White
Bring Tour Equipment to be Sold
Sat. Nov. SOtli 9 a.m.-12
or Sun. 11 a.m.-12
to Room 263
Sponsored by TAMU Ski Club
Call 845-2843 for more info.
Boots, Poles, SldLs, Cross Country
Backpacking Equip., Ski Clothing.
Kenneth
Kanter
Nov. 16
8 p.m.
B’nai B’rith
Hillel Foundation
800 Jersey
College Station
Kenneth Aaron Kanter, Assistant Rabbi at the
Temple Congregation Ohabai Shalom, in Nash
ville, Tennessee and author of The Jews on Tin
Pan Alley, will be appearing at The B’nai B’rith
Hillel Foundation on Nov. 16 in his musical
production of the Jewish contribution to popular
music. Rabbi Kanter presents the lives and
times of such famous songwriters as A1 Jolson,
Irving Berlin and many more. This is sure to be
an evening you won’t want to miss.
TYo Admission Charge
Death row convict
set free — tells all
.76 No
United Press International
MONETA, Va. — Clyde
Near, 58, who had 19 appoint
ments with Virginia’s electric
chair, says life behind bars is a
nightmare that forces criminals
to live with their guilt. Execution
is an escape.
Near saw six fellow convicts
enter the execution chamber
and heard the deadly hum of the
electric chair during the five
years he spent on death row.
“I feel like I’ve been punished
more than if they took my life,”
he said. “I had to lay in that cell
and think about things.”
A federal judge finally
agreed that Near’s murder trial
was “tainted” and allowed the
killer to trade a guilty plea for a
life sentence. He was paroled in
1974 and has become a foe of
capital punishment.
“Even if it is the law, it ain’t
nothing but plain murder,”
Near said. “It’s not equal justice
for all. A poor man doesn’t stand
a chance in court ’cause he can’t
afford a fancy lawyer,” Near
said.
“I don’t see where the death
penalty deters anything anyway.
States that have it have just as
much violent crime as those
without it.”
Near blames a quick temper, a
free spirit and a habit of shirking
responsibility for the bloody
slaying of a youth counselor that
landed him on death row.
He became friends with coun
selor Barry Chapman at a juve
nile detention center. Then
Chapman’s wife left him.
“Next thing 1 know, he was
accusing me of making her run
off,” Near said.
His denials made Chapman
madder, and Chapman lunged
for a shotgun.
“I was a little quicker, and I hit
him with it,” Near said.
The shotgun stock was shat
tered by repeated blows which
police said crushed Chapman’s
skull and nearly severed his voc
al cords.
Near stripped off his bloody
clothes, took Chapman’s wallet
and car and fled. He was
arrested 12 days later, Nov. 19,
1958.
After a brief trial, Near was
convicted of first degree murder
in May 1959 and sentenced to
death at the Virginia State
Penitentiary.
Death row was in the base
ment — a corridor which Near
said was vermin-infested and
reeked of sweat and urine. In
mates were kept in small isola
tion cells, unable to leave except
for a weekly shower.
The electric chair was 10 feet
from Near’s cell. He could hear
guards polishing and testing it.
He could watch the inmate’s
shaven head disappear down
the corridor. And knew the in
stant of death.
“You can hear it when they
give it to him,” Near said. “You
can hear that old chair hum.”
The strain intensified when
Near’s execution approached.
He was granted a record 19 stays
— 15 by the governor and four
by the courts — and twice he was
within a day of his death before
lawyers won him another delay
“I’d dream about it, and it
would be as real as if it were hap
pening to me,” Near said.
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