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Tuesday, November 1,1983/The Battalion/Page 7 What’s up TUESDAY • 1 ■ , CAMERA COMMITTEE:Prints may be entered in the 111 Photo Competition untii Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in ie Memorial Student Center hallway. The judging will be pturday. and the contest is open to all non-professionals in the iyan-CoHege Station area. ENT ACTIVITIES:!! you have a minimum GPR of 2.25, se a female and have completed one semester at Texas A&M, u should think about applying for the 1984 Cotton Bowl L’ Representative. Applications are available today in the Student J Activities Office. DIVERSITY LUTHERAN STUDENT CENTERtWe will lid the bJr et at the centc,r > 31 5 N. College Main, at 6:30 p.m. to go to the x>o/e ([ Sherwood Nursing Home to sing and visit. mtead ,WDENT ENGINEERS COUNCIL:The, c will a general | j j|1 bustncss irieeiing at 7 a.m. in 342 Zachry on Wednesday overl® IETV OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: We will have a speaker I and a business meeting at 7 p.m. in 103 Zachry on Wednesday. lUTRITION CLUBtThere is a meeting at 6 p.m. in 127 j J^elxn g. UD ) CLUBrThe open house will begin at 6:30 p.m. in 260 G. R< llie White Coliseum. We will demonstrate basic Judo and ’ sell defense, explain the dub, and register for the second half semester dasses. IETHODIST STUDENT MOVEMENT: ! !^ lunch Bible ^ study begins at 12:30 p.m. at the Texas A&M Wesley Founda- Jon (behind Pizza Hut). Bring a lunch or $1 for a sandwich. tHA:We will meet at 7 p.m. in 158 Blocker. The Aggieland t| picture will be taken. GREA f ISSUES:Paul Walker will sj>eak on “Nuclear War: pThi Ultimate Conflict" at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater. RING CLUB: We will elect officers and board members at the glee ting at 7:30 p.m. in the Easterwood Airport clubhouse. ISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION:There will be a fesumonial and meeting at 7 p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel. FeSterMERTY COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB:One of the yell l leaders will speak at the meeting at 7 p.m. in 604 Rudder Tower. UR I CLUB :We will meet to discuss important contest details, cries m| die club T-shirts, and upcoming parties at 8:30 p.m. in 140 movie iBfSC. id Rar.'iai ninuiff OUTDOOR RECREATION:There is a general meeting eveno ffrd seminar on snow camping and cross-country skiing at / p.m. in 501 Rudder Tower. Everyone is welcome. IblA ASSOC 1ATON rTickets are on sale this week for the Diwali function on Saturday. Purchase tickets from a club offic er or call 260-1896 or 693-9112. Everyone is welcome to the Celebration. ns IADDLE 8c SIRLOIN:9We will have a mock Quiz Bowl and a slide show at the meeting at 7 p.m. in 115 Kleberg. ‘^[/’idTUDENT ADVOCATES FOR FREE ENTERPRISE:The film “The Incredible Bread Machine” will be shown at 8:30 p.m. in 604 Rudder Tower. embtro in histc in Math s willbch 4 p.nu mcl will: Glynn L. m NAGEMENT SOCIETY:We will present representatives fprom Neiman Marcus at the meeting on Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in j|io8 Blocker. |C Video Committees ieneral meeting to discuss upcoming iProductions at 8:30 p.m. in 401 Rudder Tower. Mexico celebrates ancient holiday United Press International JUAREZ, Mexico — Truck- loads of freshly-cut flowers are arriving in the border city this week from Durango, Zacatecas and other southern states in pre paration for one of Mexico’s most celebrated, if unofficial, holidays — the “Day of the Dead.” Bakeries and candy shops will do a brisk business Wednesday as families take flowers, food, candy, tobacco and liquor to the graves of loved ones. Food is spread over the grave, picnic style, and family members gather to honor the memory of their deceased rela tives. The food, usually the favo rite dishes of the person in life, is consumed by survivors. Some families, especially in the city-owned cemetery where most of the poor are buried, spend the entire day. Those who can afford it bring musicians who play the favorite songs of the deceased. Banks and several other businesses in Juarez will be closed Wednesday to give em ployees time off to be with their families at graveside. For several days prior to the holiday, bunches of freshly-cut flowers are sold from the backs of trucks which line the main streets and parks. The flowers are used to decorate the graves. Bakeries profit from the holi day. A special “Pan de Muerto,” or “Bread of the Dead,” is baked and sold only Wednesday. It is a spongy-textured loaf, made with extra yeast, plain-tasting, with little sugar and no frosting. The bread is eaten as part of the main meal of the day to com memorate the loved ones who have died. The holiday is not without its lighter side. Candy shops and bakeries make candy skulls and skeletons with common names on them. The monogrammed skulls are presented in fun to those friends whose name appears on the candy. The “Day of the Dead” in Mexico coincides with the Ro man Catholic Feast of All Souls, but historians said the practice of paying tribute to the dead was an Aztec Indian custom dating back centuries before the Span ish Conquest. The Juarez Museum of Art and History annually presents an elaborate program outlining the origin of the celebration of the Day of the Dead, including replicas of home altars and tombs as the holiday is cele brated in Central Mexico. Jose Lizarraga, director of the museum, said the celebra tion is a Mexican custom which goes back centuries before the birth of Christ. “The Indians had a great re spect for the dead,” he said. “Their belief in a supernatural soul that did not die with physic- Bakeries and candy shops will do a brisk business Wednesday as families take flow ers, food, candy, tobacco and liquor to the graves of loved ones. al death coincided very conve niently with the belief's of the Ro man Catholic missionaries who came over with the Conquista dors.” Throughout Juarez, special memorial masses are celebrated in Catholic churches. Open-air masses are celebrated at several cemeteries. Acfoss the Rio Grande in El Paso, the holiday also is cele brated, although not with as much flair. In El Paso and throughout many of the small towns in West Texas, Roman Catholic families, especially in the Mexican- American community, spend time cleaning off grave sites and attending special services. A special open-air mass is celebrated annually by the Rev. James Hall, pastor of Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church at Mount Carmel Cemetery, El Paso’s Catholic cemetery. Thousands come to pray for the eternal repose of relatives and other loved ones. Juarez religious leaders have lamented that the American tra dition of Halloween has been creeping across the border and has rriade the “Day of the Dead” part of a week-long celebration. Halloween, they said, was once “hallowed evening,’’ named because it was the night before Nov. 1, the Catholic feast of All Saints, a day when all Catholics are obliged to attend mass. “Halloween is no longer a re ligious holiday,” a Juarez priest said. “It is now just another ex cuse for merchants to have a sale.” Adam’s killer questioned later this week United Press International JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Police from three jurisdictions in Florida are in Jacksonville this week to question Ottis Elwood Toole, who confessed to mur dering 6-year-old Adam Walsh, about unsolved murders in their areas. Toole already has been charged with the murder of a 64-year-old man in Jacksonville and charges are pending in the highly-publicized Walsh kid napping and decapitation murder. Detectives from Fort Lauder dale, Lee County and Polk County have journeyed to the Duval County Jail to ask Toole about six slayings. Escape Couple left Grenada before U.S. invasion United Press Internationa] HOUSTON — A Houston law student and her fiance, a medical student in Grenada, ar rived in Texas Monday after a harrowing escape from the is land which included eight hours in high seas on a 23-foot sailboat. Pam Davis, 26, a student at South Texas College of Law, said she went to Grenada Oct. 16 to persuade her fiance, Paul Terracciano to leave the island. Terracciano, 26, is a second- year student at St. George’s Medical School. “I felt my presence was neces sary to entice Paul out, knowing how shut off from the world news he was. I knew what I was hearing. I thought the only way to inform him of the severity of die problem was to go down there,” Davis said. Once in Grenada, Davis said she heard former prime minis ter Marcos Bishop was under s-* house arrest and the army had taken over the country. “We saw all the activity. One day we were driving downtown and we saw a truck full of Grena dians driving toward the capital. We went to the beach and started hearing all this shooting in the town of St. George. That was when they stormed Bishop’s house to free him. They firecl a cannon to note his release then they stormed the fort and that’s when Bishop was killed,” she said. By monitoring Voice of America and the Armed Forces Radio on a neighbor’s radio, Davis and Terracciano learned of the American force in the Caribbean. “We heard numerous reports that the island was going to be invaded. They (the Grenadians) were ready for it. We weren’t going to wait for an evacuation,” she said. “I felt if it came to an evacuation, I was convinced that it a coope ly, featun he highly rahamDr. Singo generates funds government once gave 504 'hrough d to attt: icllldetn United Press International floor of: ACOMA PUEBLO, N.M. — entationudging from their first turn- ersons. ut, Acoma Pueblo officials may ave hit the jackpot with a deci- on to use bingo as a means to - enerate funds the state and \ Ud pderal governments once pro- ided. : An estimated 700 people e ,0 Pnl >w e d up Sunday for the first idderTc ,anits al l ^ e fanned “Sky City” iteract»’ U . ebl °- . wit h a total of $5,000 studenff'S offered in prize money. Collect u eCause °f its sovereign status, ifferori P u . eb l° is able to exceed the tate bingo prize money limit of ; Forr too. f P°b George, executive direc- or of the Acoma Development Authority, said funding levels roin the state and federal gov- e Battil' rnmerits had tumbled from |5 () million two years ago to •2.4 million this year. — Bmgo, he said, seemed a I iatural way to recover some of he lost money, considering that 100 bingo operations in the state Ifenerate up to $40 million in re- J en oes each year. *¥| George said the pueblo in- ■*» rested about $10,000 in bingo I quipment after deciding sever al weeks ago to try to find a way to generate funds for handicap ped, alcoholism, youth, foster and elderly care programs. PROBLEM PREGNANCY Are you considering Abortion? Confidential Free Pregnancy Testing & Referrals Call (713) 524-0548 Houston, Texas it would be more traumatic and bloody.” In order to clear Grenadian immigration, Smith, her fiance and three friends signed on a 65-foot sailboat as crew mem bers. The owner of the ship wanted to get it away from the island, fearful it would be seized or destroyed. “That was the only way we could leave. We did clear immig ration and we were able to leave at noon on Monday before the invasion (Tuesday morning),” she said. The group sailed for 12 hours to an island about 20 miles from Grenada, where they hoped to get a plane. However, a 50-mile radius in which planes could not fly had been established around Grenada. The group boarded a 23-foot sailboat owned by another Gre nadian. The group then pleaded its way onto a cargo snip, which took them to St. Vincent. From St. Vincent they flew to Bar bados. 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