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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
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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
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creased by 15. InBrazosjen A.
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ped almost two percent masses v
wide. Total crimeindutif{ Jn 19
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burglary and theft. Tlieirtei ale
decrease was 15.2 [Already
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ported an 8.6 percent Jam akei
and Bryan reported abof S23
cent decrease in total|s 44.1
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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
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in crime) is the fact t
working with a full compel
of police officers,” Parsorl
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little more professionaltT
were one or two years a
said.
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with the college student'l
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of the crime.”
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