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local Battalion/Page 4 November 19, II - Opening set for Dec. 15 Around town] Pet shelter near completion Editor’s / a three-i by PJ. Fowler Battalion staff applications available Battalion Reporter The Brazos County Animal The Battalion is accepting applications for the spring semester staff until Nov. 29. Applications are available in 216 Reed McDonald in the editor’s office. Completed applications should be returned to the editor’s office. If you have not worked for The Battalion before, your application should include examples of any of your work and/or published articles. The spring staff will be announced before Christmas break. St. Nick to parachute into B-CS Only 30 shopping days remain until Christmas and Santa Claus will be making his first appearance of the holiday season Saturday at Post Oak Mall. Due to a severe lack of snow, Santa will not arrive in College Station with the traditional sleigh and reindeer, but will parachute into the mall parking lot at approximately 10 a.m. Saturday. Shelter, now under construction at 2200 Pinfeather Rd., Bryan, should be ready for use by Dec. 15, the executive director of the shelter says. Kathy Ricker said when finished, the shelter will have room for 80 dogs, about 20 cats and an undetermined number of puppies. It also will provide a neutering service for animals being claimed or adopted. Ricker said she hopes the shelter will have three full-time workers in addition to volun teers and professional help. The professional help will come either from the Texas A&M Veterinary School or f rom local veterinarians. “We’ll start taking in animals and start the programs on Dec. 15, but the grand opening won’t cost by local businesses. More be until the building is finished, than 30 people have volun- sometime in January,” Ricker teered to work in the shelter Brazos Animal Shelter Because of the help needed, Saturday has been set aside for a volunteer work day. The tasks consist of painting, pipe insulat ing, trimwork and putting up sheetrock. A barn raising has been tentatively set for Dec. 3 and 4 to finish whatever is not done Saturday. said. “If everything is done by Dec. 15, it would be great.” The shelter is being built by local residents who have don ated time and materials to the building. Framework, plumbing and masonry work have been donated, and the electrical work and insulation were supplied at when it is finished, but Ricker said the shelter still needs a lot of work before it’s finished. “It’s great to have help,” she said. “We’ll put a plaque on the cages with the donor’s name, anything to show how grateful we are. But, we still have a lot to do — we still need a lot of help." “The Humane Society has been trying to get an animal shelter built here for eight years,” she said. “Two years ago, a board of directors was set up. The people are eager to help. They’re excited that it’s being built because they’ve heard ab out it for so long.” Ricker, a former College Sta tion animal control officer, added that the animal shelter is separate from the Humane Soci ety and the Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals, rat although it will workwitk groups. Right now, the pai com pleted building hardiu like an animal shelter, building has only outside When completed, the will be equipped with a hit a rabies observation root surgery preparation roon operating room, a room and an observation! for sick animals, as well ash nel area and cat and rooms. Ricker said it will pr (dace where lost pets an found, orphaned animalso adopted and strays pickedii the police can be impounds Currently, the Bryan Department uses the pound and the College & Police use two privatevettii rians to impound strays. M Panel denies child-care permit ’82 Aggielands available for pickup The 1982 Aggielands are in. They may picked up today in the Commons from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Students may pick up their ’82 Aggielands through Nov. 23 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and on Nov. 24 from 8:30 a.m. until noon. Students are required to present their stu dent I.D. cards to pick up their copy of last year’s book. Aggielands will be available after Dec. 6 in 216 Reed McDonald. Pictures still are being taken for next year’s Aggieland at Yearbook Associates located at 1900 Puryear Ave. All juniors, seniors, graduate, veterinary and medical students can have their pictures taken through Dec. 17 at the studios. There will be no makeup pictures taken. If you miss the deadline you will not be in the 1983 yearbook. For more information call 693-6756 or 845-2611. by Kordell Reid Battalion Reporter An application to allow infant care in a private home was de nied Thursday night by the Col lege Station Planning and Zon ing Commission. Dolly Lundberg, 1713 Todd Trail, requested a Conditional Use Permit to care for two in fants full-time and two infants part-time in her home. Though the permit would allow care for a maximum of 10 children, Lundberg wanted per mission to care for only four. The commission denied the request 4-1 after hearing com plaints from Lundberg’s neigh bors concerned with safety and a possible decline in property value of their area. Mark Waller expressed con cern for sal ty hazards caused by increased traffic on Todd Trail from Lundberg’s child-care. “She’s asked her patrons not to turn around in my driveway, but they may forget and hit one of my kids or others in the street,” Waller said. Anita Friedman, another neighbor, said: “We want to keep the dignity of a residential neighborhood. Lundberg is ob viously running a business here. which shoudn’t be allowed to happen.” Mark Amos asked the com mittee to uphold the area’s ori ginal planned use — as a re sidential area. Lundberg disagreed. She said that she spoke with two realtors who told her prop erty value of the neighborhood would not decline if she was car- “Since I’m babysitting four infants, there is no creased traffic to our street,' said. Lundberg said she's not ning a business, and is asking to do legally whitiil ing for children in her home. people in the neighborhood, doing already: caring for dren in their homes. Aggies to compete against Indiana The Texas A&M men’s swimming team will compete against Indiana University Saturday at 7 p.m. in P.L. Downs Natatorium. Indiana has long been one of the highest ranked swim ming teams in the nation and this is their first trip to Texas A&M. Come by the natatorium and support Aggie Aquatics after the football game Saturday. Free SG car-wash area to open soon on campus Alpha Zeta sells smoked turkeys Alpha Zeta, the agricultural honor society, is having its annual smoked turkey sale now through the end of the semester. Turkeys are available for Thanksgiving. The prices are $15 for 9-pound turkeys and $18 for 1 1-pound turkeys. Proceeds from the sale help f und scholarships for agriculture students and to finance the annual Agriculture Convocation. If you are interested in ordering a turkey, please contact any Alpha Zeta member or call 846-4539 or 846-9238. COMPLETE PACKAGE INCLUDES. ★ 5 Nights Deluxe Condo Lodging ★ 5 Days Lift Tickets ★ Mountain Picnic ★ Ski Races with Prizes ★ Ski Jamboree Party ★ Optional Air and Motorcoach Transportation OTHER 82/83 DESTINATIONS: Aspen ★ Winter Park * Breckenridge Steamboat ★ Crested Butte * Vail by Ann Ramsbottom Battalion Reporter Students who enjoy washing their cars but dislike coin- operated carwashes soon w ill be able to check out hoses and wash their vehicles on campus at a Student Government- sponsored facility. An on-campus location for washing cars will be f inished by the end of this month, said Joe Nussbaum, vice president for student services. The carwash area, near De- Ware Field House in Parking Annex 62, will be available free to all students. “T he cost of implementing the project will be really inex pensive,” Nussbaum said. “It will cost only $25 to $30. We will be utilizing a concrete slab that already exists. In addition, three faucets will be installed by the University physical plant workers.” Three hoses for use on the carwash slab will be availabk check-out at the intraimnal: part merit desk in DeWare House. Students musrpiw their I.D. cards to died hoses. The project, coordinaled Jeff Underhill, Student (ln'cB mem senator, has gone sum ly so far, Nussbaum said “Some students had i» tioned that acar washwoull valuable service," Nussliai said. “So far it has beencln and the physical plain man has been very cooperative. Nussbaum said hedoul«i facilities will become ot/ tion for the local coin-open! car washes since thev won'tl* I L everal Lebanese comment pendenci Please set 2. b Febn beginnin troyed a more tha pie dead one-thirc homeless of its lar foreign a This Pa by Propo: for the Council i property public [ theater. The Departm ingThur conjuncti park boa ithe devel block par will inch balf-cour possibly : Czimskey parks am “The | give sug* Ca Un CAL’ fourth since 1 tions h( eat fooc used th scribe s Bu Wedne: mistic h tendent raised t parent; board i Th: calling mockin told to which f vestigat HOUS Cityoffic statistics Illinois prof to discuss metaphors Stanley Deetz, an associate professor of speech communi cation at Southern Illinois University, will speak on “Metaphors We Work By: The Construction of Social Real ity in Organizations” Monday at 3 p.m. in 203 Academic and Agency Building. Deetz is a visiting associate professor at the University of Texas this fall. The speech is sponsored by the Texas A&M Department of English. Liberal arts nominations open Any student who has taken or who is presently enrolled in any Liberal Arts class can nominate his or her favorite liberal arts professor for teaching excellence awards. Nominations will be accepted through Dec. 6. Nomina tion forms may be obtained on the first floor of the Academic and Agency Building and the Academic 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.