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Thursday, February 16, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 Febuary 20 is deadline to sign up for Big Event Ml By ADA FAY WOOD Reporter Students who want to help make Bryan-College Station a neater, cleaner, shinier place to live have until Febuary 20 to sign up for The Big Event, community-wide one-day clean up program sponsored by Student Government. The second Big Event is scheduled for March 31, starting at 1 p.m. Because of the Big Event’s success last year, the requests for help from the area have been coming in at a fast pace. Yard work, painting and re pair jobs have already been accepted. We are willing to help anybody,” publicity chairman Maritza Pena said. Anyone who has as job to be done or knows of one can call the student government office at 845-3051 to ask for help, Pena said. Student and community organizations began volun teering their manpower last October. So far about 40 stu dent organizations and about the same number of commu nity groups have signed up. About 4,000 students are in volved, Pena said. Those who want to help, but don’t belong to a group, can also sign up. They will be put with a group or given a job to do individually, chair man of the Big Event, Joe Nussbaum, said. The number of people needed to do a job deter mines which organization gets that job. Organizations already as signed are the Off-Campus Aggies, which will hand out crime prevention pamphlets to apartment complexes in cooperation with the police departments; Hobby and Da- vis-Gary halls along with the Humana Hospital, which will paint and clean up various places in the community; Chi Omega sorority, which will paint the College Station community center; and other groups, including the Corps of Cadets, which will clean ce meteries, wash and wax city fire trucks, and treat a youth group to dinner at Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. progr year, Friends of the Big Event, gives businesses a chance to sponsor a group or individual and donate the money to a charity or buy the materials needed for job. Two businesses have of fered special kinds of sup port. The Texas Hall of Fame, a favorite of country- and-western dance lovers, is giving a cover charge dis count to all participating workers on the night of the Big Event. In addition, Both er’s Book Store has provided Big Event t-shirts to the pro gram at cost. ‘Operation: Mop-Up’ will pay up By REBECCA DIMEO Repot ter Some students who remem ber what the dormitories were like after the pipes burst in De cember have put together a drive to help the residents whose belongings were dam aged. “The first smell when you opened the doors was mildew,” says John McMaster, a senior in Hart Hall, whose room was not affected. McMaster, vice president of the Hart dorm council, said the council took the idea for the fund-raiser, called “Operation: Mop-Up,” to the Residence Hall Association. McMaster became chairman of the drive to be held Feb. 20-24. The group plans to raise $3000 for the victims of the freeze, he says. Dormitories af fected by the freeze were Haas, Hart, Underwood, Leggett and Walton halls. The dorm council members will campaign door-to-door for donations in the the dormito ries Feb.20-22 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. They also will set up collec tion tables in the Commons, the Memorial Student Center and in front of Sbisa Dining Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 20-24. The dorm council represen tatives will wear plastic name tags marked with “Operation: Mop-Up.” Posters also are be ing made to advertise the drive. “We’ve even thought of the idea of using mop buckets at the collection tables,” McMaster says. Cash and checks payable to “Operation: Mop-Up” are ac ceptable. Receipts will be given for donations of $ 1 or more. All money collected will be put into a sub-account of Hart Hall. McMaster and a representa tive from each of the five dorms affected will decide how the money will be distributed. The committee will be advised by Cyndi Lee, assistant central area coordinator. None of the com mittee members will be eligible for payments from the fund. Money will probably be dis tributed according to extent of damage. Certain items — those that are old, merely sentimen tal, or are covered by insurance — will have low priority for re imbursement, McMaster says. “We’re talking about major things like steros,” he says. “There were quite a few stereos messed up.” Other items reported dam aged were books, boots, boxes, popcorn poppers, flashlights, lamps, typewriters, pictures, guitars, clothes, pillows, refrig erators, televisions, and a teddy bear. 3 Texas universities rank high in National Merit enrollment By ED ALANIS Staf f Writer Three Texas schools rank in [he top six universities in the lalion for enrollment of Na- ional Merit Scholars, a fact re- ently attributed to fierce com- letition in student recruitment. However, the competition imply doesn’t exist, says a Texas A&M official. “Certainly national merit cholars make A&M look to brinjfcod,” University Honors Pro- ar TheG ) ram Director Larry Kress said, w but we’re not competing with "exas and Rice to get them.” In the fall of 1983, the Uni- ersity of Texas led all public aniversities in the nation with ale in ll< -23 merit scholars, second only jo Harvard’s total of 297. Texas A&M ranked fourth nationally with 172 merit schol ars, and Rice ranked sixth with 155. Two other Texas schools stand hi finished in the top 25. Trinity* il measm University in San Antonio 0 f t |j e |)U ranked 24th, and Baylor Uni te grasps take otf' 1 J of tat thets 1 that, sis - formalii would It king ess is sii ; duck' fhis tin hich wo 1 jobs ie recess e been hi ;he fore® a cons® 1 versity ranked 25th. Texas schools have more merit scholars than any other state in the nation, including the prestigious ivy league schools in Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. To an outsider, the Texas schools seem to be fighting fier cely among themselves for the state’s 880 national merit semi finalists, in an effort to keep or even improve their national standings. However, such is not the case, at least not at Texas A&M, Kress said. When Texas A&M offers a scholarship to a high school stu dent, it’s not necessarily because he or she is a merit scholar, Kress said. “We look at the overall pic ture — SAT and PSAT scores, high school averages and extra curricular activities,” Kress said. “Many times we approach stu dents before they have been de clared national merit scholars.” The situation cannot be com pared to the “flesh peddling” of athletic recruiters, Kress said. “In football, if you lose out on a recruit, then he’s going to be playing for your opponent out on the field,” Kress said. “Such is not the case with merit scholars.” “I want to see good students come to A&M not to keep them from going to Texas, but to make A&M a little better,” he said. Texas A&M used to out number Texas in merit schol ars, before Texas started its honors colloquium in 1982, Kress said. The school invited 1,200 national merit semifi nalists from Texas high schools to a weekend of wining and din ing in Austin, at a cost of about $150,000. The number of na tional merit scholars enrolled at Texas jumped from 130 to 223 in just one year. Although these figures are impressive, Kress said that if the money was available, Texas A&M would rather offer $150,000 in actual scholarships OFF THE CUFF BY BOB DODSON The government has made liars out of more people than golf and fishing combined. * * * The irony of life is that by the time you have money to burn, the fire’s gone out. ★ * * Sign in office: “If you don’t have ulcers yet, you aren’t solving your share of the problems around here.” ★ ★ ★ Our friend says he gets six miles to the gallon in his car. His son gets the other twenty. * * * One thing that’s a gas: how our Big & Tall Man Clothing is at its prime at Heritage Men & Boyswear. THE VALUE PLACE HERITAGE DOWNTOWN BRYAN DISHG5 F6B.16& 4410 college main 846-1812 1 - ^ 11 advice J econo® e Presi* ; issue i® le, tbel»l dlar ai ;ausing i, the i® iced to® j. Take® ; nd resol 1 ir future t&M inf live in t. To ld boll “gram O' 1 r congre* state ref olve f ch yon* 1 ard to' t will do dition .geflitf" Hass ICOpil^ rT flf itions- editor 1 ' ough fl f| ■cptfo r . Stau 011 ' xclusm hes o atie r 11^ Station' The Dean’s Office, Faculty and Staff of the college of Business Administration extend their congratulations to the leadership and members of the Business Student council for their highly successful planning and implementation of the 1984 Business week and Career Fair. Texas A&M University students, present and future, are the beneficiaries of the highly favorable impression you made on Business Week visiting executives and corporate recruiters. Thanks for a job well done! 1984 Business Week/career Fair Committee Marianne Dominguez, President, CBA student Council Evan Barnard Susie Martin Ron Foshee Jim Currie Kyle Coldren Greg Ford Jerry Fabian Jeanette Van Flattum Paul Lambert Michelle Johnson Mike McCoy Mary Edna Stephens Judy Garrison Brent Sanders Charlotte Reuwer Kristine Kelly Randy Lewis Lynn Zimmerman (Advisior)