local / state Battalion/PaiP^^ January 25/ i n mi ;i i rn irm Around town Candidate workshop offered tonight The Brazos County League of Women Voters is sponsoring a workshop for potential political candidates tonight at 7:30 p.m. in College Station Community Center. The workshop is open to candidates, campaign workers and other interested citizens. County Attorney Jeff Brown, KTAM Station Manager Ben Downs, and Account Executive Ron Gay will comprise a panel designed to assist potential candidates with ideas on media coverage, press conferences, and the steps in orgainz- ing an effective campaign. The LWV-sponsored workshop is the only training ses sion available locally to assist candidates. The workshop is presented as a public service and admission is free. Financial offices changing location The Financial Aid offices are in the process of moving from the third floor of the YMCA Building to the second floor of the new Registration Center. During the next few days certain offices will close and reopen, but at no time will all the offices close. Malon South erland, acting director of Student Financial Aid asks that you have patience with the offices during the move. 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 is scheduled to be open from 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. each day this week. Yearbook Associates’ studio is lo cated at 1700 Puryear Drive. Turn left off Highway 30 at Archie’s Taco Bell. The studio is in the office park across from Tanglewood Apartments. If you have any questions please call Yearbook Associates at 693-6756 or the Aggieland at 845-2611. On Friday, the studio will close. No more individual pic tures will be taken after that day for the 1983 Aggieland. Applications being taken for show It’s not too late! Applications for the 1983 MSC Variety Show are still available in the Student Programs Office in Room 216 MSC. The deadline for turning in applications is Feb. 4. at 5 p.m. Auditions for the show will be held on Feb. 22-23. The Variety Show staff is asking that you get your act together and come show-off your talent. The show is scheduled for Parents Weekend on April 15. 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. To kick off the month, the committee has scheduled the play, “Can I Speak for You Brother,” starring actor Phillip Walker for Feb. 1. In the one-man play. Walker portrays W.E.B. DuBois, Fredrick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and others. The play is 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. Continuing the celebration on Feb. 2, the film “Malcolm X” will be shown in Room 150 Rudder Tower at 7:30 p.m. 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. Senate to consider seat restraint bill United Press International AUSTIN — The Texas Sen ate is mulling a bill requiring all state motorists to include re straints for children in approved safety seats or face a fine of $25 to $50. “We don’t want to fine any body,” said Sen. Carl Parker, who proposed the bill. “What we want to do is save what could be hundreds of lives. This is one of those areas where we need gov ernment intervention to keep people from the mistakes and inattention that costs lives.” A Senate committee Monday overwhelmingly recommended the legislation. Speaking on behalf of the bill was Laura Begnaud, a Port Neches woman whose son, Adam, was killed and daughter, April, was seriously injured in a 1980 traffic accident. Neither of the children was restrained by safety seats. “We feel Adam’s death and April’s injury could have been prevented if they were re strained,” Begnaud said. “We did not put our child in a re straint just once and we became the accident that always happens to someone else.” According to Col. Jim Adams, director of the Department of Public Safety, 68 children youn ger than 4 were killed in traffic accidents in 1981. In many of those instances, he said, the child would have been saved by a safety device. Gay Polan, an Austin resi dent, credited a safety seat with saving her son’s life last year when her car was struck on a rain-slick road. “The $35 to $40 dollars these seats costs is a good investment because they cost less than a single X-ray or visit to the emergency room,” Polan said. Representatives of the Amer ican Automobile Association, and the Texas Pediatric Associa tion also spoke in behalf of the bill. Parker also emphasized that hospitals and a variety of civic organizations currently provide safety seats to parents who can’t afford them. The bill now goes to the full Senate for its con sideration. Shellfish ban angers some United Press International GALVESTON — A tempor ary ban on harvesting West Bay oysters issued by the Texas De partment of Health has angered at least one oyster harvester. The ban was issued because of potential health hazards posed by pollution from rainwa ter runoff. “There ain’t nothing wrong with them oysters,” said J.L Neg- rini, owner of J.L Negrini Fish and Oyster House Inc. in Gal veston. “I ate two dozen of them this morning (Friday) and I’m still alive.” Negrini said he and other oyster harvesters are upset over the West Bay ban issued to allow West Bay oysters to cleanse themselves because of high fecal bacteria counts reported in West Bay waters. Officials say two weeks of lit tle or no runoff into the bay should be long enough, but rainy weather could extend the ban. Richard Thompson, the health department’s chief sani tarian for shellfish, said that be cause of the high counts in West Bay water, the “potential exists” for contamination of West Bay oysters. “We’re not saying that if you eat oysters out of West Bay you’ll get hepatitis or anything like that, but the potential exists,” Thompson said. Thompson said the hazard from fecal coliform is mainly gastroenteritis, causing nausea and diarrhea, but he said fecal pollution raises the risk of any type of waterborne disease, in cluding hepatitis and typhoid. BUSINESS CAREER FAIR ’83 BANQUET February 1 MSC 7:30-9:00 p.m. Tickets and Reservations are available THIS WEEK in the ASA Foyer $ 5 per person 9 a.m.-4 p.m. EV1TA The International Musical Hit Presented by MSC Town Hall-Broadway February 14, 15 & 16 at 8:00 p.m. Rudder Auditorium-Texas A&M Univ. Available at MSC Box Office Phone (713) 845-1234 Ticket prices $14, $18, $22 Mastercard & Visa accepted ugh United Pi WASH 1' f.S. Suprt ay stayed 'hoinas A xecution : . r niidnig Barehu jr the At er oi I 'exas, i Any SUIT photo bjr RokJ*|jj i iu d p which way but up? :ers soo ^ 1 Much it Maureen Beiper, top, a sophomore Sunday afternoon practicinj from Austin, and Darcy Wilson, a W’offord Cain outdoor pool In sophomore from Clear Lake, spend an upcoming diving -i r coni] ue ye; s dripp Local police report decreased crime rate ting pet on in lo Vs 1982 on’s stet ibout oi i only kfprce. The ind ve aitei by Patti Schwierzke Battalion Staff Reported crimes in Brazos County decreased 1.6 percent in 1982, according to unadjusted figures released by local police. The crime drop rate wasn’t consistent throughout the coun ty or for every crime category. The figures may be some what misleading. The figures will be adjusted when the local departments file their results with the state. Most figures will have even greater decreases be cause false alarms will he elimin ated from the statistics. There were 13 more violent crimes reported on the Texas A&M campus, in 1982 than in the previous year. Twenty-six more violent crimes were re ported in College Station in 1982. Violent crimes include FINAL WEEK FURTHER REDUCTIONS -60% OFF EVERYTHING IN THE STORE 105 North Main, Downtown Bryan AU SALES FINAL NO IAYAWAYS +5% CREDIT CARDS W ifu [ e A mrlaDm? Jewelry Cd 404 EAST UNIVERSITY DRIVE REOPENS FEBRUARY dav slui ng im] murder, rape, robbei'eai luk assault. "This ii In Bryan, violentcn®howr creased by 15. InBrazosjen A. violent crimes decrei'it of Kii four. ,, in Ne Total crimes reporitf heelma ped almost two percent masses v wide. Total crimeindutif{ Jn 19 der, rape, robben. ion of t burglary and theft. Tlieirtei ale decrease was 15.2 [Already Texas A&M. BrazosO rp., the ported an 8.6 percent Jam akei and Bryan reported abof S23 cent decrease in total|s 44.1 H owever, an increase ed wit! percent was reported 1981. lege Station. jeventl Thomas R. Parsons,'. Fridt of the University Police, i8.8 m era! factors resulted in npanie crease. Ibince “One factor (for thedt|bjie o in crime) is the fact t working with a full compel of police officers,” Parsorl “Working with a full staffer*— 1 the job considerably eat® are also working hardtfK doing more building chslr^i^ “We like to thinkthai'Ji^V little more professionaltT were one or two years a said. “We don’t havemuclH! with the college student'l usually outsiders thatcausl of the crime.” Brazos County