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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1983)
i m H’ Around town Yearbook offers ‘one last chance’ The Aggieland staff has announced that there is ‘one last chance’ to have your picture taken for the 1983 Aggieland. If you are a junior, senior, vet, medical or graduate student you have until Friday to have your picture made for next year’s book. Pictures are being taken at the Yearbook Associates stu dio. The studio plans to be open 9:30 - 5 p.m. everyday this week. It is located at 1700 Puryear Drive off of Highway 30 and across from the Tanglewood Apartments. If you have any questions you can call Yearbook Associates at 693-6756 or the Aggieland at 845-261 1. On Friday the studio will close. No more individual pic tures will be taken after that day for the 1983 Aggieland. Committee to sponsor one-man play The MSC Black Awareness Committee has scheduled a series of events in February in celebration of Black History month. Scheduled for Feb. 1 is the play, “Can I Speak for You Brother,” starring actor Phillip Walker. In the one-man play, Walker portrays W.E.B. DuBois, Fredrick Douglas, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others. The play is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. in Rudder Forum. Tickets are available at the MSC Box Office and are $2 for students and $3 for non-students. On Feb. 2, the Film “Malcolm X” will be shown in Room 150 Rudder Tower at 7:30 p.m. Library group searchs for members During the months of January and February, the Friends of the Texas A&M University Library will conduct its annual membership drive. This year both new and current mem bers are eligible for a special prize drawing on Feb. 14. Three gift certificates, a $35, a $25, and a $15 redeemable at the Texas A&M University Press, will be awarded. The Friends of the Texas A&M University Library is a group of indiviuals who encourage and promote private gifts of books, manuscripts, and money to the University Library. The Friends have purchased otherwise unobtain able materials such as reading machines for the visually handicapped and costly materials for research. In addition, the Friends sponsor lectures, programs, and the annual Student Book Collectors’ Contest. Membership forms for the Friends are available on the First floor of the Sterling C. Evans Library. Theater arts majors win contest The American College Theatre Festival Region VI awarded First prizes to Texas A&M theatre arts majors John Redman and Sharon Hidalgo in the Fort Worth festival at the Scott Theatre on Jan. 18. Redman and and Hidalgo were recognized for their sce nic lighting designs, respectively, for the Oct. 1982 produc tion of Getting Out by the Texas A&M theatre arts program. Each received with their first place recognition a Glen C. Martin, Sr. Scholarship award of $300. They were in competition with graduate and undergradu ate designers from participating colleges and universities in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The Glen C. Martin, Sr. Scholarship, established by Texas Scenic, Inc. is awarded to further the education of student designers within the region. Both Redman and Hidalgo are seniors and plan to begin their graduate studies next year. MSC Travel plans March Gras trip The MSC Travel Committee has announced a Mardi Gras trip to New Orleans on Feb. 1 1-13. Total cost for the trip will be $100, which includes the hotel and bus charter. For further information or to sign up for the trip come by the Student Programs Office in Room 216 MSC, or call 845-1515. Welch Foundation lectures to begin Dr. Egon MatijeVic of Clarkson College of Technology will present the annual Robert A. Welch Foundation Lecture in Room 231 Chemistry Building at 3:30 p.m. today. Matijevic will speak on “Monodispersed Metal (Hydrous) Oxides: A Fascinating Field of Colloid Science.” Colloid chemistry is the study of matter which is smaller than one-millionth of a meter in dimension and which exists as suspension in a gas, liquid or solid medium. He is one of seven distinguished scientists performing lectures this year for the Welch Foundation of Houston. If you have an announcement or item to submit for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDo nald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611. Now you know United Press International With increasing frequency, researchers have been fanning off the haze that shrouds de pression, discovering its roots are as much embedded in biochemical imbalances as in emotional turmoil. The December issue of Scien ce Digest reports that at the Uni versity of Chicago, psychiatrist Herbert Meltzer has found some types of depression can be diagnosed simply by looking at irregularities in a patient’s blood platelets. Freckling the surface of the tiny cells are uptake sites for serotonin, a complex substance that acts as a neurotransmitter regulating moods. Serotonin has been called the “molecule of depression” because some de pressed persons have inadequ ate amounts of the substance in their brains. “In some depressed patients, the total of serotonin uptake sites will be 30 percent to 40 per cent below average,” Meltzer says. “Because lowered levels are present even when a person is not depressed, testing platelets “could serve to identify not only those people suffering from de pression, but also those likely to develop it.” r W «W ...nv --MW" MK-T- ■ nw n*r TAP Instructor NEEDED 1! local January 24,1 Crime prevention ' ; program is success l If you are interested in teaching tap danc ing for Dance Arts Society, meet at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday Jan. 26 at 268 E. Kyle (Dance Room). Auditions begin at 7 p.m. For more information call Cynthia at 260-0056 3UC rx>c :m>c IttIC =x>c @X Fraternity Spring Rush '83 Mon. Jan. 24 'Toga Party" 403 W. Brookside Thurs. Jan. 27 "Taco & Tequila" El Toro's, Bryan 779-1460 or 846-1540 S' c? I 1 fTaGGn 1 | 3 1A Co //c^ e by Craig Harris Battalion Reporter After one year in Brazos County, Crime Stoppers has helped recover $279,000 in stolen property, the program’s coordinator says. Deputy Sheriff Charlie Owen said the local program has led to the arrest of 74 people in Brazos County since the program be gan in December 1981. He also said that $279,000 in stolen property was recovered during the Brazos County prog ram’s First year and $5,000 to $6,000 in rewards were given. The tight economy has caused more people to turn in names of offenders — including friends and relatives — for the cash rewards, Owen said. Crime Stoppers is a deterrant to crime, he said. People some times are reluctant to commit a crime because they fear that Brazos County M STOPPERS 775-tips someone they know will turn them in for the reward. Of the 383 calls Brazos Coun ty Crime Stoppers received dur ing its First year, about 26 calls came from Texas A&M stu dents, he said. “Peers tend to stick together so we don’t get very many calls from the Texas A&M students,” Owen said. Only 20 percent of the t ails received are useful tips, Owen said. Most of the other calls don’t provide enough information. Statewide, Crime Stoppers has helped recover almost S 12.3 million in stolen goods, cleared more than 6,000casesaa 454 arrests. There arcSj programs in Texas. l lie reward monof program is from tax ded donations. Brazos citizens have contributdl SI<),()()() to the progra| First year. Between 20 and 30| received rewards in (:<Hint\ The amounul I rom $ 100 for inform! w amcd fugitives to p| helping solve burglarvc Many people call mu lion without seeking] ()wen said. 1 he crime of they ram of fers a Sl.OOOrti information which leat .uiesi .md grand j™ mem < .I a suspect in til During the first vearl crime of the week ase| solved, he said. Commemorative mark planned for Universit) ie 1 Aggi care’ holding A historical marker com memorating Texas A&M’s sta tus as the oldest public college in the state is being placed by the University on New Main Drive. The marker should be com pleted in late February or early March, Eugene Ray, director of grounds maintenance, said. A two-car pull-off area is planned for the site with a sidewalk lead ing to the marker. The marker is being built by the grounds maintenance de partment. The idea for the marker was initiated by William Nance, for mer head of the history depart ment, and Walter Carl Jones of the Texas Highway Depart ment, Ray says. Bothwl ( ountv HistoricalSociepf Ol sentatives. Texas A&M Univei™ , j the first land grantcollefH v [Sa fished in Texas. On Oct (Kan yoi Texas A&M opened its tien run t 106 students, makingiitHf so, yc state-supported public ?ring the Recr JJU March in O The hi; Beer loca 'articii nn t rtge in MSC STUDENT PROGRAMS IS EXPLODING WITH EXCITEMENT COME SEE WHAT WE HAVE IN STORE FOR YOU THIS SPRING. WED. JAN. 26 10-2 1ST FLOOR MSC HK SA u •I Yearbook Pictures Juniors & Seniors ON€ LAST CHANC€ 578 Ui JANUARY 24-28 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 1700 Puryear Dr. 693-6756 On January 28 at 5 p.m. the studio will close. No more individu al pictures will be taken after that date for the 83 Aggieland.