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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1983)
Friday, December 9,1983/The Battalion/Page 7 Around town Btttilioe* camp.: s PhJ tion (pul xas ami > ?en Aggieland yearbook is giving juniors, seniors, veterinary and medical school students, and graduate students one more week to have individual pictures for the 1984 Aggie land taken at the Pavilion on campus. Dec. 12-16 will be the last chance for students to have pictures made. Flying club exhibits aircraft Sunday The TAMU Flying Club will sponsor an exhibit of various Piper aircraft, including the new Piper Malibu, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Easterwood Airport. The Piper Malibu is a new state-of-the-art, single engine cabin-class, pressurized airplane. Everyone is invited to view the planes. City forming adult basketball league The College Station Parks and Recreation Department is organizing an adult basketball league and would like to invite any interested group to participate. Entries will open Dec. 12 and close Jan. 3. The season will begin Jan. 9. The league will consist of a separate women’s, men’s, and a men’s six-foot-and-under basketball program. An entry fee of $22 will be required for teams wishing to participate in the league. For further information call the department at 764- 3773. Student government holds book sale Student Government’s annual Student Book Exchange will begin finals week. Students can bring their used tex tbooks to the Pavilion, and fora 10 cent charge for each book, put them on sale and set their own price. Books will be sold Jan. 11-13 andjan. 16-20. Students can collect the money for their sold books Jan. 23-27. To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald. -Mallei rcent of at between lillion Medialit to Acme ;ve corpoi e late Earl n Graves': tudent will not A 0 pass, despite As r’s labotf e Thursili 1 hi if it's* Ye'll first," United Press International ARLINGTON — A 15-year- old straight-A high school stu dent cannot graduate and enter university this fall because some of her credits were earned at a parochial school unacceptable to the Arlington school district. Leslie Har ris said she may be forced to repeat a year and not be able to attend the University of Texas at Arlington because ■the Arlington Independent School District has told her the courses she took in 1981 and 1982 at the Arlington Metroplex Christian School cannot be ap plied toward graduation. “I don't want to go to school another year,” she said. “L want to go on to something better,” she told the Arlington Daily News. The AISD requires 18 credits for graduation and since 6'A of those were earned at the private school, it makes her only a high school junior under AISD rules, said Mildred Helms, the dis- , j trict’s administrative assistant ;stigati° r ' f or secondary instruction, dth “The classes were taken prior |to her being in the 9th grade,” Helms said. Helms said Harris’ age is not influencing the district’s deci sion. “This child is motivated but ispeci®- 6 not diwir ive devitf re was suspects' u of i rearms ft we don’t allow one student to earn 13 credits in one year.” The girl’s parents said their daughter always has been a high academic achiever and officials agreed. High school counselor Lynda Reeves described Harris as an “exceptional student.” The student’s mother, Janice Harris, said, “UTA will accept kids at 15 and she is mature. They stop her at Sanger Harris to see if she wants a charge card,” “They don’t like to see any body go outside of their norms. 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