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►ne ick or ant on and,i| to a live wo a mon ic rate ■e subje' notice •anteed mintmutti >me banl; ibr an ( lance dro| for one >p theratt .veragebalj corapotitiii 00 invesieij, cited for a iy banks 4 o $2,735,1 lily; skly;$2,)jj Looking for the local hot spots? Turn to today’s Community section, Get yourself acclimated — look into the Traditions supplement. me BaTTcmon Serving the University community mthly le interest ol,76 No. 188 USPS 045360 78 Pages In 7 Sections buti benefits j ks offer a, Mastet i and ees alonj ■ deposit College Station, Texas Monday, August 29, 1983 terry hits Mexico, :auses little damage FENCE 4G OVER FENCE, EEL NO CT FOR I>T Untied Press International MATAMOROS, Mexico— Hurri- me Barry, which set off a frenzy of mie buying, finally made landfall at desolate spot on the Mexican coast id caused almost no damage or in- ries. The worst of Hurricane Barry hit lore early Sunday afternoon along ic desolate Mexican coast 30 miles Kith of the Texas border and lost rength almost immediately. Around the central plaza in Mata- interrupt moros, a border city of 300,000, stores and shops early Sunday re ported panic buying by residents who feared the storm would food supplies. Luis Felipe Rojas, a Tamaulipas statejudicial policeman, said he drove through the area where the eye of the hurricane reportedly came ashore — 30 miles south of the Texas border — but saw no damage. Rojas and his partner, Mario Hur tado, said several cars skidded off the narrow highway onto the muddy shoulder at the height of the storm. After threatening to hit Texas all day Saturday, Barry changed direc tion during the night and headed for the Mexican coast Sunday. Judicial police in the state of Tamaulipas reported a group of fishermen at the coastal village of La Pesca had asked for help, but there were no reports of injuries as the storm blew inland. Information for first week of school released a sparel LIMIT 3 ' ■ mm' .Yte illk Filling station staff photo by Eric Evan Lee Wayne Grabein, a refills his bucket if I junior marketing major from Houston, in a Davis-Gary Hall bathroom. Residents of Davis-Gary Hall and Moses Hall had a water fight on the lawn in front of Davis-Gary Hall Sunday night. Important dates, events and information students should know for the fall are listed below: — All sports and football ticket books can be picked up this week at the north end ticket booth behind DeWare Field House. Non-student tickets are also on sale there. — Football tickets w ill be issued this week according to student classification. Seniors can pick up tickets on Mon day, juniors on T uesday, sophomores on Wednesday and freshmen on Thursday. Ticket pick-up begins each morning at 8. — Parking stickers can be picked up this week at the University Police Station from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. — Shuttle passes can be picked up this week in the Rudder Tower lobby from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. — A student book exchange, sponsored by Student Government, will be held in the Memorial Student Center this week. Students can bring in any books they wish to sell as long as the books are still being used by the University. Students set their own sale prices for their books and Student Government catalogues those prices. Anyone interested in buying books can look through the lists of books and prices and decide from who they want to buy books. Student Government is charging a 25 cent hand ling fee for each book. — Sign-ups for placement interview's begin today in the Placement Center on the 10th floor of Rudder Tower. — The Class of ’84 is sponsoring a Welcome Back dance tonight following All-U night. The dance will be at the Texas Hall of Fame located on F.M. 2818. — The first day to order graduation announcements is Sept. 1. Orders are taken on the second floor of the MSC. — The last day to add classes is September 2. The last day to drop courses with no record is September 13. — The first Midnight Yell Practice of the year is Friday in Kyle Field. — The first home football game of the year is at 6 p.m. Saturday. Texas A&M will play University of California. — Senior rings are expected to arrive around Septem ber 12. — To receive senior rings in December, seniors need to order them by September 9 and leave their names in the ring office in Heaton Hall one week in advance. The ring office uses this week to check transcripts to verify if stu dents have enough hours to order rings. — The deadline for applying for a degree this semester is September 9. Seniors need to pay a $15 diploma fee at the fiscal office. Undergraduate students need to take the receipt to Heaton Hall and graduate students need to take receipts to the Graduate College in the Teague Re search Center. — The last day to order graduation announcements for December is September 30. — Yearbooks are tentatively scheduled to arrive by the end of September. — Silver Taps is Tuesday, September 6 at 10:30 p.m. by the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue. First yell happens tonight by Christine Mallon Battalion Staff The first yell practice of the year will be held at All-University Night tonight at 7:30 in G. Rollie White Col iseum. Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Jackie Sherrill, his coaching staff and the Texas Aggie football team will join the yell leaders, Univer sity officials and student leaders in officially welcoming all new and old students to Texas A&M. Head yell leader Jeff Crofton says tonight will be an informal gathering where students — especially fresh men — can meet old and new friends and at the same time learn the yells in time for the first midnight yell prac tice on Friday. Sherrill will make some opening remarks and introduce members of the football team. Crofton will intro duce the other four yell leaders. Dr. John J. Koldus, vice president for student services, and Student Body President, Joe Jordan also will address the audience. Most students will attend with members of their dormitories. Corps outfits or off-campus organizations. Today would be a good time for freshmen to learn their dorm yells and traditions, since All-U Night usually turns into a yelling contest be tween dorms, Crofton said. The program probably will last ab out an hour, Crofton said. He said he would strongly encourage all new and returning students to go to G. Rollie White tonight to get back into the swing of Aggie spirit. Enrollment figures up esidence halls overbooked YARD OWATT JUS I Ml by Michelle Powe Battalion Staff The residence halls are overbooked lagain this semester and 326 people [are living in study carrels in Aston [and Mosher Halls or have been tri- Ipled in dormitory rooms. But Tom IMurray, supervisor for housing ser- [vices, says the housing office over- [books the residence halls purposely to [compensate for ‘no-shows.’ The housing office knows that home people who have reserved a [room will not show up, Murray says, ho it overassigns students to residence jhalls to fill those empty spaces. Stu- Idents who have not checked into their Irooms by 5 p.m. today will lose their room and forfeit their room deposit. Murray says the housing office will reassign students without rooms on Wednesday, and will try to inform the students of their room assignments by that evening. The housing office also will approve hall changes on Wednesday. After the students living in study carrels and three-to-a-room are accommodated, Murray says, the housing office will take walk-ons. Stu dents who are not living in a residence hall but would like to may sign a wait ing list and may be assigned to a dor mitory room if there are any open- ings. Priority will be given to freshmen, Murray says. Eighty percent of the room assignments will be given to freshmen, 10 percent will be given to returning students and 10 percent will be given to transfer students. The demand for on-campus hous ing exceeds the supply. According to the Division of Student Services, only 2,800 new freshmen out of 5,800 re ceived a space on campus in the fall of 1982. While there may be a shortage of on-campus housing, temporary or otherwise, there is no such shortage off campus. According to the Off Campus Center, there are 120 apart ment complexes listed with the office this fall compared to 85 apartment complexes in the fall of 1980. The in crease in building has resulted in an 8 percent drop in apartment prices in the last year. Louann Schulze, coordinator for the Off Campus Center, says students are benefiting from that surplus* inside Around town 4 Classified 6 Local 3 Opinions 2 Sports 13 State 5 forecast Today will be partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thunder showers. The high will be in the lower 90s with southerly winds from 5 to 10 miles per hour. Tonight will be fair with lows in the mid 70s. Tuesday will be sunny and hot with highs in the mid 90s with southerly winds from 5 to 10 mph. Home-educated teenager begins classes at Harvard United Press International BOONVILLE, Calif. — A teenager who was educated entirely by his pa rents at home on a backwoods ranch is among 2,200 freshmen entering Har vard University this week. Grant Colfax, 18, who grew up without television or telephone, was educated by his father, David Colfax, a Ph.D. in sociology and former pro fessor, and his mother, Mickey Col fax, a former high school English teacher. Colfax, who scored in the top 5 percent of high school seniors on col lege entrance exams, says Harvard “didn’t take me because I may or may not be intelligent. They took me be cause I’m unique.” Grant also won admission to Yale but said he chose the Cambridge, Mass., university because of its pre medical program. The Colfaxes chucked the acade mic life 11 years ago and moved to the mountains of Mendocino County. They established Mountain School with state approval so their four boys, the only pupils, could be legally taught at home. by Christine Mallon Battalion Staff About 36,500 Texas A&M stu dents are expected to begin classes this week — a slight increase over the number of students enrolled at this time last year, a University official says. Associate Registrar Donald P. Carter estimated that 36,000 stu dents had registered as of last Fri day. Late registration begins today and Carter estimated that about 500 more students will complete registration this week. Official enrollment for the 1982 fall semester was 36,127. Carter said the reason the amount hasn’t risen much since last year probably is because of tougher en trance requirements for incom- imng freshmen. Incoming freshmen w r ho gra duated in the top 10 percent of their senior class are not required to have a minimum Scholastic Aptitude Test score. Those in the top quarter of their class must have a minimum score of 800 on the test, second quarter must have a 950 minimum, third quarter must have a 1,100 minimum and bottom quarter must have scored at least a 1,200. Carter said he is expecting ab out 5,500 to 6,000 freshmen to be enrolled this fall, which is approxi mately the same as last fall. Harvey Striegler, head of trans C0/VTENT5 3C,000 STOPE-i fer admissions, said he expects ab out 2,500 transfer students to en roll. Striegler said transfer admis sions policies have become stricter here over the last two years. Not as many transfers have been accepted this year as last year be cause of the stricter policies, he said. “Since last fall was our first semester to use the new standards, we made a lot more exceptions then than we made this year,” Striegler said. Most transfer stu dents who come to Texas A&M have spent at least one or two years at a Texas junior college, he added. Jean Ringer, assistant director of admissions and head of interna tional admissions, said there will be about 300 new international stu dents here this fall — about the same as last year.