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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.”
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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
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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.
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Commemorative mark
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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
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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.