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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.
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United Press International
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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.
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San Antonio indicated that on
Aug. 7, J865, Jacob Brodbeck block, but families of eight or
brought his spring-powered more members receive two.
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demonstration. cheesejow income families are
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