Tuesday, October 11,1983/The Battalion/Page 7
Monkeys in National Zoo
going ‘ape’ over television
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The
caged apes at the National Zoo
fen now spend their lounging
time like many Americans,
. hatching sports, news, cartoons
and animals programs on their
new television sets.
| The apes have caught the
Redskins Fever that sweeps
through the nation’s capital each
tall, with their cage-side sets
tuned to weekend football
games.
| And when the Redskins’
“Hogs” and “Smurfs” finish
their cavorting on the field, the
real gorillas and orangutans can
turn to the cartoon Smurfs,
Muppets, Wild Kingdom or the
evening news.
Zoo officials recently instal
led three television sets for the
gorillas and orangutans “to re
lieve their boredom,” Oliver
Warren, a keeper in the Great
Ape house, said Monday.
“They do get bored from
time to time and this is some
thing different; something new
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Around town
History department gives film series
The Department of History fall film series on the Amer
ican West will present “Soldier Blue” (1970, starring Can-
dice Bergen) at 7 tonight in 100 Harrington. Everyone is
invited to attend and admission is free. The series is designed
to supplement the department’s regular instructional prog
ram, and each film is introduced by a member of the history
faculty placing the movie in historical perspective.
MSCauctions lost and found items
The MSC Lost and Found Auction will be held Wednes
day in the Memorial Student Center Main Lounge from 10
a m. to 1 p.m. Preview of items begins at 9 a.m. Items includ
ing umbrellas, calculators, jewelry, and sports equipment
will be auctioned on a cash basis only.
Sci-fi group presents mini-convention
MSC Cepheid Variable, a students’ science fiction group,
will sponsor Ittybittycon IV, a mini-convention fashioned
after its annual Aggiecon. Ittybittycon, beginning at 7:30
tonight in 302 Rudder Tower, will feature a reading and
lecture by Fred Soberhagen and a science fiction musical
called “You’ll Find Out.” Admission is free and everyone is
welcome.
“Dressing for success ’’show tonigh t
The A&M Accounting Society and the A&M Marketing
Society will present a brief look at how to promote yourself in
the business world through appearance in “Dressing for
Success” at 7 tonight in 201 MSC Ballroom. Clothing is
being provided by Shellenbergers and Casual Corner.
Admission is free and open to everyone.
Aggielandphotos taken at Pavilion
Individual pictures for the 1984 Aggieland are being
taken at the Yearbook Associates office at 1700 S. Kyle be
hind Culpepper Plaza, and at the Pavilion on campus.
Dates to have photographs made are:
• Freshmen and sophomores — Oct. 11 -14 at the Pavilion
•Juniors — Nov. 7-11, 14-18 at Yearbook Associates; and
Nov. 28-Dec. 2, Dec. 5-9 at the Pavilion
• Seniors, graduate students, veterinary and medical
school students — Oct. 11-14, 17-21, 24-28 at Yearbook
Associates; and Oct. 31-Nov. 4 at the Pavilion.
To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion
office in 216 Reed McDonald.
for them to look at,” he said.
“Hopefully, the television sets
will give them another diversion
and possibly calm them down,”
Warren said. Zoo keepers said
they have not noticed any dis-
cernable change in behavior.
“It’s not really a scientific ex
periment, but we’re trying to
make them more comfortable,”
said Warren.
“I don’t see anything diffe
rent about them now. They’re
like kids a lot. They’ll just lay
down and look at it. I can’t tell if
they really know what’s going
on,” he said.
There are two televisions for
the six gorillas and one for the
five orangutans. On Sundays,
the sets are tuned to the
Washington Redskins games,
attracting an even greater num
bers of visitors to check out the
action on the field and in the
cage.
“You’ll see lots of people stop
ping for a few minutes when the
Redskins are on. They some
times spend more time watching
the game than the animals,” he
said.
424,000 kids at home
Teachers on strike
United Press International
CHICAGO — Striking
teachers and the school board,
faced with growing public
pressure to get 424,000 stu
dents back to the classroom,
met Monday to try to end a
week-old walkout stalled over
pay raises and concessions.
“We are anxious indi
vidually and collectively to put
the strike behind us,” Board
of Education President Sol
Brandzel said. “But we are
unified in declaring our inten
tion to be responsible and sen
sible.”
The two sides had agreed
to try to reach a contract
agreement by 9 a. m.
Monday to open schools Tues-
day in the nation’s third
largest school district. But
negotiations were recessed
early Monday with no settle
ment in sight.
Bargainers were scheduled
to go back to the table later in
the day, heeding a burgeon
ing cry from parents and civic
groups for an end to the strike
by teachers and other board
employees.
A stumbling block in the
talks has been the union’s re
quest for a pay raise, which the
board maintains it cannot
afford without concessions.
Brandzel called teacher de
mands for a raise “financially
irresponsible,” unless coupled
with the concessions.
“The union is being asked
to accept concessions first and
then talk increases,” said Chi
cago Teachers Union spokes
man Chuck Burdeen. “The
strike will continue until they
decide teachers are a very im
portant part of the schools.” '
The deficit-ridden board
has offered the union a 0.5
percent pay increase.
Strikebreakers to be
awarded large fine
United Press International
DENVER — Denver-based
members of the Air Line Pilots
Association adopted a resolu
tion urging the national organi
zation to impose a $10,000 fine
on any ALPA member who flies
a Continental Airlines plane af
ter midnight Tuesday.
The resolution, which passed
by a vote of 65-1 at a union meet
ing Sunday, will be presented
this week for discussion at a ses
sion of ALPA Master Executive
Council in Houston, union offi
cials said.
One pilot called the measure
“a hammer” to get defecting un
ion members to stop flying and
join the strike.
Continental spokesman
Bruce Hicks blasted the fine
vote as illegal and a sign that the
pilots are frustrated because the
strike has not stopped Continen
tal from flying.
“I think it clearly illustrates
Family of 5
killed in
auto wreck
United Press International
STOCKDALE — The bodies
of five members of a south
Texas family, apparently killed
in an auto accident Friday, were
discovered Monday by a farmer,
the Department of Public Safety
reported.
DPS spokesman Larry Todd
said the car apparently went out
of control and struck a concrete
piling then landed in a culvert.
The wreckage along SH 123, 3
miles north of Stockdale, was
hidden by tall weeds and a blind-
side in the curve of the highway,
he said.
Killed were the driver, Frank
P. Ramirez, 36, of McAllen; his
wife Louisa, 32; an unidentified
3 year-old female believed to be
the couple’s daughter; Benita
Ramirez, 37, sister-in-law of the
driver, and Angela Ramirez, age
60-65, Ramirez’ mother from
Harlingen.
The group was headed to Au
stin when the accident occurred.
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in a 1 hour period. One drink is equivalent to a 12oz. can of beer, a 4 oz. glass of wine or a drink with IVzoz. of
80 proof liquor.
The safest policy is not to drive after drinking, but if you must drink and then drive, know your personal limit
and stay within it. In most cases, the driver’s personal limit is about .05% BAL, far below the legal limit at .10%.
Alcohol Awareness Project —- Dept, of Student Affairs, 845-5826.
the strike is not successful from
ALPA’s point of view and this is
certainly a drastic step on their
part to try to scare pilots who
have chosen to work rather than
walk a picket line,” Hicks said.
Continental, which sparked a
strike by pilots and flight atten
dants after filing for Chapter 11
bankruptcy protection on Sept.
24, began conducting interviews
Monday of non-working pilots
in 11 cities.
Continental has been Hying
with pilots willing to cross picket
lines since the strike began, but is
going outside the company for
pilots because it has had difficul
ty maintaining its schedule.
Larry Baxter, the chairman of
the Continental ALPA group,
told about 250 pilots at the De
nver meeting that he would
travel to Washington D.C. in an
attempt to take the union’s argu
ments against Continental to the
Supreme Court and to President
Reagan.
“If I can get a few minutes
with President Reagan, I’m
going to do it,” said Baxter.
“There are 8,000 to 9,000 peo
ple involved here — people who
are out of work.”
Baxter also said he would
attempt to meet with Supreme
Court Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor to discuss Continen
tal’s filing for reorganization
under the Chapter 11 federal
bankruptcy code. The union has
claimed Continental chairman
Frank Lorenzo used the bank
ruptcy statutes as a “union bust
ing” measure.
Baxter noted the Supreme
Court already has agreed to
hear a case against a decision by
a bankrupt New Jersey building
supply company to renege on its
collective bargaining agreement
with the Teamsters.
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