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UNDERGROUND DELI AND STORE THE DIET PLACE OPEN BREAKFAST 7:30am - 10:30am LUNCH 10:30am - 3:30pm Mon— Friday “QUALITY FIRST” Page 8/The BattaliorVTuesday, February 14, 1984 Texas office is latest Sen. Proxmire target Ja s Galway and the as Chamber Orfchestra MSC Oi ra and Pe Arts Society •forming Febrluary 17, 1 8:00 pm Rudder Auditori 384 om “...the finest flutist now before the public.” The New York Times Tickets available at MSC Box Office 845-1234 United Press International WASHINGTON — The Ur ban Mass Transit Administra tion office serving five South western states Monday earned a Golden Fleece Award for “flatly mismanaging $64 million of capital improvement projects,” said Sen. William Proxmire, D- Wis. “Look no further for the clas sic case of runaway federal spending,” Proxmire said. “If you want to observe a spending program gone wild, check out the Fort Worth Regional Office of UMTA.” Proxmire said the regional office — which serves Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Okla homa and Texas — deserves February’s version of his monthly award for the most wasteful, ridiculous or ironic use of taxpayer money. “From January 1981 to May 1983, the Fort Worth office re ceived 399 applications for local transportation projects and ac cepted all but one, which was turned down for lack of money,” he said. “This is not my . idea of careful oversight of tax payers’ money. “If all federal agencies were as unable to see, hear or speak in their review of grant applica tions, the government would go broke faster than it is now,” he said. Wilbur Hare, the regional Mexican- United Press International SAN ANTONIO — Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum Monday de scribed a meeting of Mexican- Americans and Jews as an act of love and faith, saying each group must know “the hurts” both groups have suffered as minorities in American society. “We hardly know each ; a restaurant 8c club Valentine’s Day “Sweetheart Special” 2 For 1 on All Red Drinks “Live Jazz Music” by Totlyn Jackson & Notiopis $3.00 Cover—$1.00 Wearing Something Red Excellent Food. Live Shows Nightly Open 11 a m. daily. Reservations Accepted. 707 Texas Ave. S. College Station How to have class between classes. ; H'-.-v "i- . . • • >• .. . \ ' . • >; ' • • : . ' • • •- • • K ' . . . . . . ' ' - - . ■ ’ • > ■ ' • ■ ■ • • ‘ • ; ■ - * . : , . .1 V, 1. ; ; - ;• t W . ; •• . ; ' • ‘ . - -.V ; . • < . •• ■ ’ - •: * -■ * ' " ' • ' . • * • * • • - • . . = : . •* . . - •- : ■ - ' ■ • ■ .> ■; .• ' 1 ; • . • •. ■ ■' . : . \ * ■' ' . '. ' •'' . ■ • . *. • ... • ■ . • . 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Proxmire said the agency’s “rubber-stamp approval led to one horror story after another,” including: • Awarding two grants to help build bus garages to repair 150 and 200 buses respectively when the fleets in question only consisted of 45 in Dallas and 94 buses in El Paso; • Approving five grants worth about $1.7 million to buy jare parts for buses even tough only $160,000 was needed (one of the largest was in San Antonio); • Approving more than $1 million to install air condition ers in 200 buses in Houston even though 100 were to be sold; • Shelling out $32 million in capital assistance to New Or leans even though the city did spc the not have the money to match the grant; and • Approving a $1 million grant to replace trolley buses in Fort Worth with a ridership av eraging less than two passen gers per trip. Hare said the New Orleans situation was exaggerated. He said the local funds did arrive and the project was carried out. Proxmire said he has written Transportation Secretary Eliza beth Dole “asking her to clean up this mess and seek refunds for all overpayments.” He said Transportation audi tors attributed “this misman agement” to the absence of writ ten procedures covering the review of grant applications, in sufficient supervision, an im balance in workload, a lack of technical review and an insuffi cient number of visits to the lo cal projects. Chor said the problems cited by Proxmire were included in a Sept. 22, 1983, audit report by the agency’s internal watchdog. “They have essentially been addressed,” Chor said. “The people involved are no longer working with the agency and management policies have been f ut in place to correct these ind of things.” Around town Softball league to organize for ’84 The City of College Station will hold 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 March 22. Registration for the tournament will be Feb. 15-22. The Spring softball season will begin March 26 with registration March 5-9. For more information contact the Parks and Recreation Office at 764- 3773. Pell Grant deadline approaching Undergraduate students are reminded that March 15 is the deadline set by the Department of Education as the last date Federal Student Aid applications can be accepted for processing for the 1983-84 academic year. The application must arrive at the Federal Student Aids Programs Office, P.O. Box 92831, Los Angeles, CA, 90009-2496 on or before March 15 to be processed for the 1983-84 year. Health scholarships available Applications for the Julia Ball Lee and the H.R. Lewis Scholarships are currently available to undergraduate health science majors. The Julia Ball Lee Scholarship is a maximum $500 scholarship awarded to biological science majors with high achievement and evidence of finandal need. The H.R. Lewis Scholarship also is a minimum $500 scholarship presented to undergraduate health science ma jors with high academic achievement. Applications for the scholarships are available in the Scholarship Office on the second floor of the Pavilion and in 313 Biological Sciences. Deadline for application is March 1. , Jews hold relations meeting other,” said Tannenbaum, di rector of international affairs for the American Jewish Com mittee in New York. “There simply has been no real humhn contact (between Mexican- Americans and Jews).” Tanenbaum and Archbishop Patrick Flores of the Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio opened the unique, two-day conference titled “Texas Con sultation on Mexican-Ameri- can-Jewish Relations — Human Rights: A new Beginning.” Flores said Mexican-Ameri- cans knew of Jews only “as a people out there. We have just kept distances. We have done nothing to break down the dis tance between us.” Flores warmly welcomed the Jewish contingent, saying the beauty of dealing with people is finding their differences and accepting them as they are. He called for the conference to open a new dialogue between the two groups. “He (Flores) made love in K ublic to the Jews and Mexicans ere,” Tanenbaum said. “I made love back to them.” Tanenbaum recalled an an cient proverb in which a rabbi chastised a young man, who said he loved the rabbi but did not know what made him hurt. “There are Mexican-Ameri- cans who are hurting. Jews need to know what those hurts are. There are Jews who are hurting, and Mexican-Ameri- cans need to know what makes them hurt,” he said. Tanenbaub said the confer ence brought together for the first time the civil and religious leaders of both communities. He called the meeting “an act of faith. Above all an act of love.” He said both groups began the American experience as for eign language communities, suffering pain and discrimina tion as minority groups. “We know the culture shock involved,” he said. “We are vet erans of aculturation and we see the parallel experience of the Mexican community.” Tanenbaum said “the chem istry has already started” among conference attendees, who came to share their anxieties and fears with each other. The conference is viewedl) Flores and Tanenbaum as tkt first stage in a series of meeting! that will culminate in a Nationi Conference on Hispanic-Jewiil Relations. The conference, fundedh grant from the Nathan Appli- man Institute for the Advantt ment of Christian-Jewish It derstanding, was held MondJ at the Assumption Seminat and will move today to Temple Beth-El of San Anlt nio. Police beat The following incidents were reported to the University Po lice Department through Mon day. MISDEMEANOR THEFT: • A maroon Murray 10- speed bicycle was stolen from a Cain Hall bike rack. • A silver J.C. Penney’s 10- speed bicycle was stolen from a Bolton Hall bike rack. • A student’s wallet con taining a driver’s license, Texas A&M ID card and $35 in cash was stolen from his dorm room in Hart Hall. • A student’s purse con taining a driver’s license, credit cards and $10 in cash was stolen from the disc jockey’s booth in Quonset Hut-B. • A student’s wallet, left in an unlocked locker in the men’s room in East Kyle was stolen. The wallet contained the stu- Now Better Than Ever. 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FRIDAY EVENING SATURDAY SUNDAY SPECIAL SPECIAL NOON and EVENING NOON and EVENING FRIED CATFISH SPECIAL ROAST TURKEY DINNER FILET w TARTAR SAUCE Cole Slaw Hush Puppies Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee Yankee Pot Roast Texas Style (Tossed Salad) Mashed Potato w gravy Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee Served with Cranberry Sauce Cornbread Dressing Roll or Corn Bread - Butter Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And your choice of any One vegetable m^m“Quality First 7 dent’s Texas A&M ID card,a driver’s license, credit cardsand $5 in cash. • A student’s Simpson Model 62 helmet and Casioi road racing gloves were stolen from his motorcycle in Parking Annex 19. • A Nikon 35mm camera was stolen from a student! dorm room in Aston Hall. Tilt camera belongs to the Media Center in the Architecturt Blnlding. • A pair of wide-angle 7-t)f 35 binoculars were stolen fro® 442A Medical Sciences. • A student’s passport, Sfr cial Security card, Visacardand work permit were stolen fro® his dorm room in Law Hall. • A Minolta 35mm came® and flash attachment were sto len from an unlocked cabinet® 208 E. Pavilion. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: • The rear window of a cat was smashed in Parking Annes 56. • The deadbolt lock on tl* center door on the south sideo! the Animal Industries Building was tampered with. • The window in the doorol 120 East Kyle was broken. Tl< subject fled before Univers® Police officers arrived. OTHER: • A student who reported his wallet was stolen from tin Memorial Student Center o ; Feb. 5 notified University Poli® that it was returned. • Four subjects caught rf moving a manhole cover ® Parking Annex 13 were pi® sued on foot by University P® lice and jailed in Brazos Coun® Jail on a charge of evading rest. • An individual was si masturbating on the fouri floor of Sterling C. Evans v brary. University Police inves® gated the area but were unabk to locate the subject. • A student reported si* saw a man exposing himself® Sterling C. Evans Library. Tl® description of this subject do® not match the one in the vious offense. THE BAIT DOES IT DAILY Monday through Friday