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Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, April 8, 1983 Two flags stolen During the weekend of Jan. 21, someone cut the cables on a flag pole and stole a large American flag from 3007 Longmire in Col lege Station. The total loss was more than $1,000. About six weeks later, another American flag, 10-feet by 18-feet, was stolen from Joe Courtney, Inc. If you have any information on the persons responsible for these thefts, call Crime Stoppers at 775-TIPS. If your informa tion leads to the arrest and grand jury indictment, Crime Stoppers will pay you $1,000 in cash. All callers are issued spe cial coded numbers to assure anonymity. Women’s choir gives spring concert at 8 ^iiimiiimiimmiiiiimiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii; OFFICIAL NOTICE General Studies Program Students who plan to Pre-Register for the E Fall Semester in the General Studies Pro- § gram are URGED to pick up a Pre- = registration Form in Room lOO of Hairing- m ton Tower from Mar. 28 thru Apr. 15. by Donn Friedman Battalion Reporter The Women’s Chorus will present its spring concert at 8 tonight in Rudder Theater. “It will be a varied concert featuring everything from sacred secular music to patriotic pop and swing,” said Patty Fleitas, director of the chorus. “In our concert this Friday night we will try to, through our music and text of every song, bring the audience and the per formers together as an entity,” she said. The group started because there was such an abundance of talented female singers on cam pus that an all-female group was needed, Fleitas said. The Women’s Chorus gives those talented females a place to per form. Tonight’s concert is one of the about 15 concerts the Women’s Chorus performs each year. “We are always looking for in vitations to perform at banquets, conventions and other events,” Fleitus said. The performance for this evening is arranged around themes, she said. The first half of the show will include reli gious, folk and patriotic music. After intermission, the chorus will perform a 1940s medley and some contemporary love songs, including a song written by two Texas A&M students. The song “Remembering” iiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiT? M S C- Post Oak Mall iHmMlllll 1500 Harvey Road 764-0416 Aggie cinema FRI TIMES:8:00 ONLY SAT/SUN TIMES: noo'. 4:30-8:00 5ACADEMY Award Nominations R| MerylStreep SOPHIES CHOICE was written and composed by Donna Darsey of the Women’s Chorus and Neil Hall of the Re vellers. The selections for Women’s Chorus programs are chosen by the director. Fleitas said she uses three criteria when chosing what the choir will perform. She said the music should en rich and advance the technical quality of the choir member’s voices, the program should be varied enough to entertain the audience and selections should be written for an all-female group. Tickets for the Women’s Chorus concert are $3 and $3.50 and are available at the MSC box office. Council takes vote on zoning by Ruth Wedergren Battalion Reporter The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission sent a rezoning proposal for an area in Prairie View Heights to the City Council without a recommenda tion Thursday night. A tie vote on the approval of the proposal brings it to the Council without a recommenda tion of approval or disapproval for the rezoning. The proposal, which calls for rezoning eight lots on the west side of Tarrow Street between Banks and Peyton streets to single family residential lots of 5,000 and 4,000 square feet, was not the original rezoning prop osal. The original proposal re zoned the lots from commercial industrial to neighborhood busi ness and single family residen tial districts. This proposal was initiated by the City Council after 65 resi dents brought a petition to the Council saying that liquor sales at a restaurant in the area were causing problems in the neigh borhood. The plan was changed by the commission, but they could not recommend approval of the new proposal to the council. The commission also approved the rezoning of an area on University Drive and Lincoln Avenue from single family residential to smaller single family residential lots, administrative-professional dis trict and low-density apart ments. In other action, the commis sion approved final plans for the Emerald Forest Recreational Facility and Villa on the Rio Grande, which is zoned for low density apartments. in rr r i \ n = * C"T) JX.LLU. Unite austi Tfeir Around tom SG committee positions open l e . s t ' Applications will be accepted until April 15 for Studu 21 pitt Goverment University committee positions for Committees with open positions include Who’s WhoSelul tion Committee, Head Yell Leader Selection Committee,il menu boards, the Athletic Council and the Conce Committee. Interested students may pick up applications in theS dent Programs Office in 216 MSC or the Student Coven, ment Office in the Pavilion. For more information calltl Student Government Office at 845-3051. County treasurers to meet here About 150 of the state’s county treasurers are expected; attend a professional development conference here Ip; 12-14. “Education That Counts,” is the theme of the llthanntil County Treasurers Seminar. Charity horse show set for Sunday The Texas A&M Saddle & Sirloin Club will sponsor its lid Annual Charity Horse Show Sunday at the A&M Equestrt Center on FM 2818. The Bryan-College Station Chapter of the Spinal Association will receive the proceeds. The show is open to all riders and breeds and is divide! into two age groups — 17-years-old and underand 18-yesi I old and over. There w ill be 16 halter classes, indudingii all-age stallion class and grand champion mare andgeli; classes. Performance events include 17 American Qu; Horse Association classes and five “fun” classes. For more information or if someone is interested inspl soring a class, contact John Sanders at 764-8652 orLom Migues at 693-9782. If you have an announcement or item to submit ford column, come by The Battalion office in 216 ReedMcDi nald or contact Tracey Taylor at 845-2665. Senate committeeBr OKs UT regents ne United Press International AUSTIN — A Senate com mittee has unanimously approved and sent to the full Senate Gov. Mark White’s choice of three men to fill vacan cies on the University of Texas Board of Regents. With no apparent opposition, the Senate Subcommittee on Nominations Wednesday approved the nominations of Jess Thomas Hay of Dallas, Robert Baldwin III of Austin and Mario Yzaguirre of Brown sville. White appointed the three af ter the Senate rejectednis tions made to the boardti mer Gov. Bill Clemenlv chose ex-Gov. John Con former aide Hilary and San Antonio motelf live Sam Barshop. Hay, chairman of Loffi Nettleton Financial 0 Baldwin, an investor a nessman, were leading®; ters and fundraisers i successful election cam; r § r< Yzaguirre is a Brownsvillt; macist and banker. All of the men will send extending to Jan. 10,11 Majority oppose nuclear freeze at forum debate by Scott Griffin Battalion Reporter In a public debate Thursday night, a Rudder Tower audi ence voted against a freeze on the development and produc tion of nuclear weapons by the United States. In the debate, sponsored by the Texas A&M debate team, students voted 166-69 against a unilateral freeze on the further development of nuclear weapons. The topic of the debate was, “Resolved: that a unilateral freeze on the production and development of nuclear weapons by the United States endangers and undermines U.S. national security.” Michael Scott, a senior man agement major from Goliad, de livered an opening speech in favor of the resolution. His argument included three main points: — the Soviet Union cannot be trusted; the breaking of the Yal ta treaty, the Helsinki accords and the first SALT treaty are reasons to distrust the Russians. — a freeze would give the Soviets a military advantage. The Russians already have a lead in number of missiles, and any freeze would only widen the g a P- — Third World countries would obtain nuclear weapons and pose a threat to the United States if a freeze were to occur. Harold Hinkle, a sophomore political science major from Bra zoria, gave the opposing speech. zona, gave tne opposing speech. Hinkle favored a freeze because, he said: — the Soviets and Americans currently have nuclear parity; the balance of power in Europe is equal. All NATOforct# bined are equivalent to I strength in the area. — the currentbalancetf er favors the West. Tliti advantage in missilesisol superior American strength. — current research in# fBuffi beams and space weapon make nuclear weaponsol)t 00 ^ President Reagan’s plani^'' — laser beams from satef destroy nuclear missil# eventually make : £ £ weaponry obsolete. ™ ^ After the opening spf the debate was openedWj lie comment. Many appeared to be against)1 from the beginning; the' was split up into pro-con* sections, with the pros!' people. The con side about half full. Hollf 900 swim, run and bike in Triathlon Two Saturday Registration for the Texas Triathlon Two was closed on March 18 with 900 entries. The event will begin at 6:30 a.m. with a one-kilometer swim in the Cain Pool. The partici pants will then run ten kilo meters from the pool through the campus and surrounding areas to the Olsen field baseball complex, where they will pick up their bicycles and ride 30 kilo meters. The race will end back at Olsen field. Tom Weis, assistant director of Intamural-Recreational Sports, said participants in the event are from twelve states and range in age from 12 to 67. There are ten age divisions, and plaques will be awarded to the top four finishers in each divi sion. Plaques will also be awarded to the youngest, the oldest and the fastest male and female en trants who finish. Every entrant will receive a Triathlon!' and every finisher will 0 commemorative coffee®; The event is sponsored! Bryan/College Station Cl! of Commerce, the Texas Intramural-Recreational! Department and the locals distributor. Due to this event .1 Drive will be closed fro# railroad tracks to the i® 1 tion of F.M. 2818 fronial^| a.m. to 4 p.m.