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Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, March 25, 1983 Bicycle traffic to be restricted New intramurals complex planned by Michelle Powe Battalion Reporter Bicycle riders should take no tice; about two months from now riding bikes on Texas Ave nue and on Harvey Road could result in a $37.50 fine. During a College Station City Council meeting Thursday night, John Black, a traffic en gineer for College Station, said bicycle traffic will be prohibited on parts of Texas Avenue and Hat vey Road. Bicycle traffic will not be allowed on Texas Ave nue, from University Drive to Holleman Drive, and on Harvey Road, from University Drive to West Frontage Road. Bike riders will be allowed to cross these roads, but will no lon ger be allowed to ride with tlte traffic, Black said. The city plans to put up signs in about three weeks which will indicate where bicycle riding is not allowed. Black said. After the signs all placed. Black said, there will be a five- day grace period in which police will give warnings to violaters. After 30 days, he said, there will be a $37.50 fine — for a moving violation. Black said that although peo ple may think this fine is exces sive, it is about the same as the fine given for the same violation in Austin. He said $37.50 is the minimum fine for a moving violation. Black also discussed with council members the possibility of changing school zone hours. The current school zone hours, when drivers must drive at 20 mph, are from 7-9 a.m. and from 1:45-4 p.m. Black said that all four schools in College Sta tion are in session by 8:30 a.m. and are finished by 3:00 p.m. He suggested, therefore, that the current regulated hours be shortened. Also at the meeting, Mayor Gary Halter proclaimed April 10-11 as days of remembrance for the Holocaust — the syste matic murder of over six million Jews in Nazi Germany before and during World War II. by Ruth Wedergren Battalion Reporter Construction or a new intra mural complex planned for fis cal .year 1985 could begin this fall, Dr. Charles McCandless, chairman of Texas A&M’s mas ter planning committee, said Tuesday. The intramural complex is only one project in the Universi ty’s continuing five-year master plan which is updated each year by the master planning commit tee. The committee recom mends facility construction and renovation to the University president. McCandless, associate pro vost for academic affairs, said there are several stages the pro ject must go through before work actually begins. A descrip tion of what will be done, a pre liminary design and then a de tailed design must all be approved by the Texas A&M Board of Regents, he said. Dr. John Koldus, committee member and vice president for student services, said the project is in the early stages, with the initial paperwork underway. Koldus said the new complex will be west and south of the Penberthy Intramural Complex across Beef Cattle Road. It will be about the same size as Pen berthy. The cost of the new com plex was estimated at $1.5 mil lion when the proposal was put together several years ago. Intramurals Director Dennis Corrington said, “It’s a godsend. We’ve been playing at maximum capacity, sometimes playing un til midnight and on Sundays, which aren’t good times.” Gen. Wesley Peel, vice chan cellor for facilities planning and construction, said a horse barn on the site will be torn down and a new one built behind the ex isting horse center on Jersey Street. Construction of the field probably will be done by a con tracted company and the grounds maintenance depart ment, Peel said. Corrington said the new field will have a drainage system simi lar to that of the football practice field and better drainage than Penberthy currently has. Drainage repairs to the Pen berthy field are not currently in the master plan, but Eugene Ray, director of the Grounds Maintenance Department, said they are badly needed. “Frankly, I'm amazed it’s held up as long as it has,” he said. Local soil, heavy use and sodium in the water has lead to surface compaction, causing poor drainage, Ray said. “We need a soil that doesn’t ANOTHER TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE FROM SHARP. INTRODUCING A COMPUTER TEACHER THAT WON'T FAILYOU. ’ If yoxx _, „ waiting to get into computers, the new Sharp PC-1250 is the computer you’ve been waiting for. Not only is it an advanced personal computer that nts in your pocket, it’s also an excellent teacher. It comes with a self-teaching manual prepared especially for Sharp by the New York Institute of Technology. It teaches you quickly and easily how to master the Extended BASIC language—one of the most widely used and respected programming languages in the computer mdustry today. And before long, you’ll be taking full advantage of the PC-1250’s memory capacity, And even before you learn how to use it as a computer, the PC-1250 can perform many valuable classroom calculations as well. It pro vides trigonometric, logarithmic, exponential functions plus extraction of square roots, finan cial and statistical calculations. But best of all, size isn’t the only thing that’s small about our new computer. Its price is well within the student budget. The Sharp PC-1250. The computer you’ve been waiting for. Also available with CE-125 cassette msmm in ifiji lend itself to compaction,” he said. A turf like that on the prac tice field would be best. Corrington said, “Penberthy has a real drainage problem. Sometimes we have to wait three or four days af ter it rains to play. “The University of Texas fields have similar drainage as the Kyle practice field, and they say they can play 30 minutes af ter it rains. That’s what we’re looking for.” Koldus said there are two pos sibilities for repair. “A quick fix would cost about $85,000, but we don’t know how long it would last,” he said. “We wouldn’t want to keep replacing the field every few years.” He said a major repair, mak ing the drainage similar to that of the practice field, would cost about $227,000. “The problem is it would take about a year for the major fix," he said. “We’ll probably wait un til the new complex is finished so there will be a place to play, then work on Penberthy.” Corrington said, “When the time comes, we ll push for the expensive job.” Ray said, “To really do it right, we need a thorough re pair. The time has come in this country to treat athletic fields like they do in Europe — with long-term investment.” S, 2 : i c c r ! -LLLUJLI Around toi Toastmasters to hold speech com The Toastmasters International area spring: evaluation contests will be held Saturday a Inn in College Station. Clubs from College Station,ui Houston, Humble and 1 he Woodlands will bait| pants in the contests. For information on the area contests am communications development programs contact at 846-7439 or 845-4036 in College Station. Election officers’ school to he and printer. Watch for our TV commercial to learn about the latest advance in computer technology from Sharp. We replaced a half-million transistors and diodes with one tiny “chip.” FROM SHARP MINDS COME SHARP PRODUCTS Sharp Electronics Corporation 10 Sharp Plaza, Paramus, NJ. 07652 A School of Instruction has lx*en announcec holding the April 2 election for Places No. Id 5 on the College Station City Council, and Place and No. 5 on the College Station Independen trict Board of Trustee*. The school will Ik* held a 5 p.m. on Mar Council R«»om. College Station City Hall, 1101 Avenue, in College Station. Presiding judg judges and clerks will receive instruction once election. All interested membersol the public areinvi For additional information contact Mary l.vn Assistant Board Secretary, CSISD, at 696-889 Four presider Bonn F sG del Police to hold bicycle safety day by M Bat Six of se\ Bryan’s Recreation Division and Police Depar® J ^ e,lt * )<K ' co-sponsoring a Bicycle Safety Day .it bmtun CmtBB in a 9 l Saturday from 10 a.m until noon :r ‘ 01 ‘ ,n< Burton Creek Park, is 1<h ated on Sharon Diiw. £ 11 Henderson School. From 10 a.m. to 1 1 a.m. bicycles may beolli lered with the Bryan Police Department lor a fee 11 a.m. to I 1:30 a.m. bicycle safetv instructiont by a Bryan policeman. ^Eandida onn Friedt [ike Wolff, usibaum p n current is icluding cl an fire, to If you have an announcement or item to submit anpidate F column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Re« nable to at nald or contact Tracey Taylor at 845-2665. ^ me cantl lev would | Police beat a campus i Forman a te ultimate ill happen ecidecl by tid the lead The following incidents were reported to the University Polit e Department for March 23. HARRASSMENT: •Several calls made to a resi- UH worker finel for taking bribes United Press Internationa] HOUSTON — One of two University of Houston registra tion office employees accused of offering to alter student records in return for money has been placed on probation and fined >400. Charisse McBride, 26, of Mis souri City, pleaded no contest to the charge of bribery Wednes day and was sentenced to three years probation. Last January, an undercover security officer posing as a stu dent contacted McBride, and she offered to alter his records dent ol Legetl Hall, ‘nment she VIOLATION: >e students • A fu tic intis (kje future o stic ket (bund on ;t le ' r decisio Moses I lull parkingL Nussbaun te | red pots reatest inf id its futun te most al iced that joyed from udent Go\ exible aboi te next bes Friedman ave lost th !nfire. Be to show he was a Tex nail, yet it 1 which would havecosi tgfor stud less a semester than ibw, be said been an out-of-state stijrThe mos 1 he undercover te bond boi gan the probe after-ze,” he saic reported that employ*®! the offer to changerol $30, authorities said, j McBride’s co-dtl Sheila Dupar, 21, isl trial on similar chargftj ()fficials said 1’spoS some students paid toll records c hanged, bin initial charges referoni 1 student. Today’s almanac United Press International Today is Friday, March 25, the 84th day of 1983 with 281 to follow. The moon is moving toward its full phase. The morning stars are Mer cury, Jupiter and Saturn. T he evening stars are Venus and Mars. T hose born on this date are under the sign of Aries. Italian symphony conductor Arturo Toscanini was born on this date in 1867, as were com poser Bela Bartok, in 1881 and film director David Lean, in 1908. On this date in history: In 1911, 147 people died when they were trapped by a fire that swept a dress-i lory in New York City In 1947, a mineex| Centralia, Ill., result deaths of 111 men. 1! whom were asphyxias fumes. In 1954, the Radiof^t; tion of America began cial production of teM'l to receive programs inf In 1975, King Faisal Arabia was shot to dt deranged nephejv in b in Riyadh. 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