Monday, February 13, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 itly acciii culty ofi that w bird Wo light. ble andi ars idents,i to seto rests 0(1 counio loraic mtil iew of i ormedp and t you oing its. Dn the self a I of “Tiw same st# Around town Softball league to organize for ’84 The City of College Station will have an organizational meeting for its 1984 Adult Softball Program Tuesday at the College Station Community Center at 6 p.m. The entire softball program will be discussed. All those interested are invited to attend the meeting. The softball program will begin with a pre-season tour nament Feb. 27 through Mar. 22. Registration for the tour nament will be Feb. 15-22. The Spring softball season will begin March 26 with registration March 5-9. For more in formation contact the Parks and Recreation Office at 764- 3773. Tickets on sale for Star Trek program Tickets are now on sale for “The Star Trek Experience” Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. Gene Rodden- berry, creator and producer of Star Trek, will present the program. The program will be Roddenberry’s first public appearance in Texas in several years. Tickets are reserved seating only. One ticket per ID. Defensive driving to be taught The Brazos Valley Safety Agency will conduct a de fensive driving course tonight and Tuesday at the Ramada Inn. The eight-hour course will be from 6 to 10 p.m. both evenings. The course will qualify the student to dismiss a minor tra ffic citation and it also will qualify the student for a 10 per cent discount on automobile insurance. Registration begins at 5 p.m. at the Ramada Inn, but those interested are ad vised to pre-register by calling 693-8178. Cost for the class is $20. Pell Grant deadline approaching Undergraduate students are reminded that March 15 is the deadline set by the Department of Education as the last date a Federal Student Aid applications can be accepted for processing for the 1983-84 academic year. The applica tion must arrive at the Federal Student Aids Programs Of fice, P.O. Box 92831, Los Angeles, CA, 90009-2496 on or before March 15 to be processed for the 1983-84 year. Science students must take exam Any junior or senior in the College of Science who has not previously taken the English Proficiency Examination should plan to take the test this semester unless they have completed English 301 with a minimum grade of C. Stu dents in the College of Science are required to pass English 301 or the test in order to qualify as a degree candidate in the College of Science. The English Proficiency Exam will he administered by the English Department. Students in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics Departments should register for the exam in 151 or 152 Blocker before March 2. To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald. Aggies getting politically involved By KARI FLUEGEL Reporter Kissing babies, shaking hands and slapping backs. From the outside looking in, political campaigning seems to involve little more than those stereo types. But behind the campaign scenes, there are people orga nizing the hand shaking, find ing the backs to slap and publi cizing the baby kissing. They also answer phone calls, distrib ute pamphlets, lick stamps for campaign letters, and run end less errands. Many of the workers in local campaigns this year belong to groups such as the College Re publicans of A&M and the Young Democrats at A&M. Mark Stubbs, president of the Aggie Democrats, as they are informally known, says the organization is small — 17 members — but he expects it to grow. Stubbs says the Aggie Demo crats plan to help in the local elections by registering stu dents, putting up campaign signs, distributing pamphlets, driving voters to the polls and watching the polls. “We try to have fun doing it,” Stubbs says. The group also plans to sponsor a “Meet the Candidates Night” before the May primary and is looking into the possibil ity of registering high school se niors who are eligible to vote. The group also may run adver tisements to counter Republi can ads. “As a club, we don’t support individual candidates, but we do encourage members to get in touch with candidates and help them,” Stubbs says. Aggie Democrats, as an orga nization, cannot support a can didate until after the primaries. “We do work with the state and national candidate organi zations, but we typically interact with local candidates,” he says. “We support local people a lot because these are the people you can interact with. It’s hard to interact with Walter Mon dale.” Stubbs first became involved with politics when Jack Teague ran against Phil Gramm in the 1982 primary for the 6th Con gressional District seat. “I worked with several local races, and then it just balled,” he says. Stubbs helps with campaigns, not because he thinks politics is fun, but because he is philosopi- cally committed to the Demo cratic beliefs. “It is a way for me to exercise a right I have and shape society by my values by electing candi dates with similar values,” Stubbs says. “I’m basically a pro gressive.” On the other side of the polit ical fence, the College Republi cans of Texas A&M is part of the larger Texas College Re publican Federation. The group has about 300 members, but is always grow- ing, president Mike Lavesphere says. “We hope to reach 500 by the end of the semester,”he says “then we will be the largest Col iege Repubican group in Texas.” He is confident that will hap pen because of the political makeup of the A&M student body. “We are kind of at a home neld advantage, since most of e students on campus seem to he c° n „ SerVative ° r Republican,” to sponsor a seminar to teach students the ins and outs of campaigning through a cam paign training seminar. Laves phere also says that the group is lobbying the county commision- ers to put a ballot box on cam pus. “We are trying to educate students and teach them how to participate and get their views represented,” he says.“We are trying to explain the Republi can views on campus. We try to educate students on the beliefs and actions of the Republican Party.” As with the Aggie Democrats, the College Republicans cannot support a candidate until after the primary elections. “Right now we are keying in on working hard on voter regis tration for the March 10 elec tion,” Lavesphere says. -Happy Hour- Beer $1.50/pitcher Everyday 4-7 Phone 764-1110 Near Kroger & TG&Y In Parkway Square says. . butter will be given away in B/CS snow Besides the usual campaign c ivities, the group is planning NEW, FAST ON-CAMPUS DELIVERY Hours: 11-2,5-9 Weekdays 12-9 weekend 1 free 10 oz. drink with a $3.00 order good thru 3/3/84 (For Delivery Only) COUPON Fajitas Chicken Fried Steak Fried Shrimp Chicken Basket Rib-Eye Steak $1.25 pitcher above items (In-store only) $3.29 $3.29 $4.95 $3.29 $4.95 with ■COUPON QUICK AS A FLASH QB First airplane inventor gets criticism, not credit United Press International DALLAS — An aviation pi oneer who missed the chance oi By MELINDA L. HANSEN Reporter Free cheese and butter will be distributed Wednesday and Thursday at the Lincoln Center on Eleanor Street by the Brazos Valley Community Action Agency from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eligibility guidelines must be met in order to receive the goods. More than 350 families in the Bryan-College Station area took home a cheese block on the Jan. 11 distribution date. Seventy- two cases were supplied by the federal government as com pared to 80 cases ordered for the December 1983 distribu tion. Susan Dashner, program su pervisor of the College Station Parks and Recreation Depart ment who was in charge of the distribution, said an estimate is used to order the six-block cases based on the previous month’s distribution figures. Most fami lies receive one five-pound (AFDC), or Medicaid are eligi ble for the free cheese. All in formation given on the forms is confidential. The government-supplied cheese has been distributed for a number of years in the Brazos Valley. Local churches and county officials used to handle the distribution, said Betty Steelman of the Community Action Agency. Later, new guidelines were set and the City of College Station contracted with the Community Action Agency to handle the distribu tion, she said. the fwp tawYiTig Yiis right fid place in old a me ider oil the Year for getting off the ibt dial the sul mpan)' 1 ground in an aircraft 38 years before the Wright Brothers. • , Accepting ’t it f®; f rom the B< the award Friday Bonehead Club of noosed Mas was Blanco County Sher iff Sherman L. Brodbeck, the r j a l Bo# recipient’s great-grandson. Did ] Jassof )Eail history was named Bonehead of Club spokesman Brad An gers said news accounts from San Antonio indicated that on Aug. 7, J865, Jacob Brodbeck block, but families of eight or brought his spring-powered more members receive two. contraption to a meadow for a Xo miMifv for the free demonstration. cheesejow income families are He pulled a lever, the giant required to fill out application spring began powering the two f ormSi A family’s income is de counter-rotating propellers, termined by the total amount AUTO INSURANCE TOR AGGIES Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group 3400 S. 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