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local Battalion/Page 4 December 2,1982 tJ-LLCJ-H-LLJ umz ;i i ITT jrrn i >i rn Around town Series of seminars to start today A series of seminars, intended to familiarize Texas A&M researchers with the Texas Energy and Natural Resources Advisory Council’s energy models, will begin at 3:30 today in 504 Rudder. Five energy-related computer modeling systems and data bases designed to forecast the outcome of different energy- related scenarios will be introduced in a series'of six semi nars. The first seminar deals with the oil and gas supply model. Robert Ciliano and Bill Hery of Mathtech, a Prince ton-based consulting group, will make today’s presentation. Dates have not been set for the subsequent seminars. If you would like more to receive personal/departmental announcements about the seminars, contact the Center for Energy and Mineral Resources at 845-8025. Medical seminar set for Friday Dr. June Scott will present a formal seminar entitled “Regulation of the Replication of the Plasmid Propage P1” at 4 p.m. Friday in the Teague Building. Scott, from the Emory University School of Medicine, was the 1982-83 recipient of the annual award presented by the Cloning and Gene Transfer Group and the Department of Medical Biochemistry at the Texas A&M College of Medi cine. She was presented the award in recognition of significant contributions to molecular biology and to our understand ing of the biochemical and genetic principles of heredity. Scott is a professor of microbiology and immunology at Emory University School of Medicine. Award nominations being accepted This is the last week that nominations will be accepted for the College of Liberal Arts Teacher Excellence Awards. Boxes are on the first floor on the Academic and Agency Building and the Academic Building to accept nominations. You need not be a Liberal Arts major to nominate your favorite Liberal Arts professor. MSC committee to present show The MSC Outdoor Recreation Committee will present “Mountain Visions” at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Rudder T heater. This innovative art form uses 12 slide projectors simul taneously projected onto a 36-by-12 inch screen accompa nied by a sound system. Sled expeditions in Alaska, modern folk tales celebrating the solar eclipse, backpacking through the wilderness areas and canoeing untamed western rivers are the themes of Mountain Visions presentations. Mountain Visions was created by the husband and wife team of Gary O. Grimm and Katy Flanagan. Grimm holds an assistant professorship at the University of Oregan. Flana gan received a bachelor’s degree in Wilderness and Environ mental Education and Management. Tickets for the program are $3 each and may be purch ased at the MSC Box Office. For more information call 845-1515 or come by the ORC cubicle in 216 MSC. Christmas fair to be held today The First Annual Christmas Shopper’s Arts and Crafts Show will be today and Friday at the Brazos Center in Bryan. The show will feature over 65 artists and craftsmen, a visit with Santa Claus, caroling by community singers and a dis play of Christmas gifts. The fair will be upen from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. today and from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. Friday. Admission is $1. Mentors to display door plaques The Texas A&M Mentors, a program for students who “just need to talk with someone,” have come up with a new idea so that students may readily identify Mentor’s offices. The group has designed door plaques to be hung on the participating professor’s door knobs so that students can quickly find a meplor. The Mentors hope that the new identification will help more students during the two weeks before finals. Long library hours for dead week During dead week and finals week, the Sterling C. Evans Library will extend its hours. The additional hours will make the facilities available for study purposes only. Library ser vices will not be provided after midnight Sunday through Friday or after 6 p.m. on Saturday. Library hours for Dec. 5 through Dec. 17 are: Sunday noon to 2 a.m. Dec. 6 to Dec. 10 7:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. Dec. 11 (open 9 a.m. and open 24 hours a day until Dec. 17 at 5 p.m.) Library cards ready for pick-up Graduate students who completed an application form for an ALIS-II library card for the new circulation system may pick up their cards at the Circulation Desk, on the first floor of Sterling C. Evans Library. 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. Andropov no liberal, Pole says by Kim Schmidt Battalion Reporter The Soviet Union, by making Yuri Andropov its leader, has signaled a possible return to the strict, terror-enforced discipline first established during the Bol shevik Revolution, a former Pol ish ambassador to Japan said Wednesday. Zdzislaw Ruraz is a Polish di plomat who defected to the Un ited States after martial law was declared in his homeland last year. His discussion Russia’s fu ture under Andropov was spon sored by Texas A&M’s Center for Strategic Technology. Ruraz, basing his opinions on 30 years of personal dealings with Soviet officials, anticipates an initiation of terror tactics under Andropov’s rule. Consid ering Andropov’s previous affi liation with the Soviet secret police, the KGB, and the critical economic problems facing the Soviet Union, Ruraz said that terror-enforced discipline could be reestablished. “They (the Soviet Union) have opted for a man whose only experience is terror,” he said. Andropov served as head of the KGB, which Ruraz refers to as “the Soviet apparatus of ter ror,” before his appointment as general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Ruraz blames the KGB for the deaths of tens of millions of people and the formulation of “grand terror” during the re volution which still exists in Rus sia today. And although Andropov has been described as a liberal intel lectual with pro-Western lean ings, Ruraz disagrees. “Andropov was the first man to raise the idea of military inter vention in Poland,” he said. “I don’t think he has changed his mind on issues since then.” He said that the primary ob jective of the new administration is to quell dissidents inside and outside of the Soviet Union. Therefore, despite a desperate need for reform and resolve of the economic problems in Rus sia, Ruraz predicts a continued build-up of military power. Con centration on military build-up Prakash Radia, a sophomore electrical engine* major from Kenya, talks to Dr. Zdzislaw Ruraz, 1 & under Brezhnev led to economic problems experienced today. And he expects no resolution of the troubles in Poland. “Even if martial law was lif ted officially, no great change in the condition of Poland can be ex pected,” Ruraz said. Ruraz said that a dangerous period is ahead. He said trouble could be expected if U.S.- Russian tensions are u| solved within the next fivtj But, in resolving those tens Ruraz warned about Andrl “He is a professionalii leading and conf using ill tional opinion,” hesaid,“lfl vered policies could beopf of those he reveals. “Beware of Andropov'] Matthev local c ceived from Js AGGIES!! CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS IN AGGIELAND December 6-8 Comptroller: Don’t! Of cheat on bingo law] United Press International AUSTIN — T he Texas com- K troller’s office says it will strict- / enforce a state law that re quires a fraternal organization to operate for three years bef ore it can obtain a bingo license. in the MSC Main Lounge First Presbyterian Church December 6 12-1 December 7 12-1 December 8 12-1 * Stacked Deck, from the Century Singers, will sing holiday music. The Revelliers continue the festivities with a variety of songs. The Women’s Chorus closes out the pro gram with a medley of Christmas carols. Christmas free Lighting Ceremony December 6 8 p.m. with Dr. Vandiver; Miss TAMU, Miss Gina Geiger; and an open concert by 1100 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan 823-8073 Dr. Robert Leslie, Pastor Barbara Ridlen, DCE SUNDAY: Worship at 8:30AM & 11:00AM Church School at 9:30 AM College Class at 9:30 AM (Bus from TAMU Krueger Dunn - 9:10 AM Northgate -9:15 AM Youth Meeting at 5:00 PM Nursery: All Events 4L The Singing Cadets sponsored by the MSC Christinas Program Committee JJU Ron DelVenton, assiss rector of the bingo rej division, said some preted the law to meanttol chapters of national fri organizat ions could quail] license immediately if thea organization was more three years old. “We are putting all or{i lions on notice thatwecef will not give a permit toa| that is just now organic said. T here is no time veterans’ groups with coi sional charters or volunttf departments, but groups must be in opera® 10 years before receiti license. Charitable bingo has legal in Texas only since ary, and it can be when approved by acou® or justice of the peacep election. DelVenton said bingoi I COULTER DRIVE in part or all of 173 ofthb 254 counties. VILLA MARIA ROAD Texas Off of Traffic Saftty Activities Hot Line - 822-7063 FOR HIM, FOR HER FOR CHRISTMAS shellenberger’s 1919 Texas Avenue 779-1645 520 E. University 693-0995 sh °P Dillai