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Wednesday, February22 1984AThe Battalion/Page 13 iij Berry, Di ibbott, (ran mipeie in dun was junior show I second ots i[ie shooien or the Oln ; held in b ie lOih. Tb cker, Stone, tt, Pena, Os ff score f# points. m call this a ri efensively, Ik staff wasn't ■"last year, thing staff Chandler sal pitchen tin I help out' ce have til rise — buUt! ids returning n to theM -y’s today, thj are offaM in a Saturtltl ikI will toj a three-ga®f id Monday >ecf! e Kingdo® iday and San wed by t® vboys, Scald ilo Bills aal rs. il pofo/I i women, b itted they prostitutes, the lobby ^ el Friday®? ying hinisflb ,-ge number 11 Around town Political Forum to go to Washington MSC Political Forum is sponsoring its annual trip to Washington D.C. Cost for the trip is $525 which includes round-trip air fare, lodging at the Capital Hilton and seven meals. The trip is open to all Texas A&M students, faculty and staff. A deposit of $250 is due Feb. 23. For more infor mation contact Lauri May in the Student Programs Office at 845-1515. 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 financial 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. Liberal arts accepting nominations The Liberal Arts Student Council is now accepting stu dent nominations for Teaching Excellence Awards in the College of Liberal Arts. Any student, regardless of major, may nominate any liberal arts faculty member for the award. Nomination forms are available in 802 Harrington or in any liberal arts department office. Forms are due Feb. 27. Tournament registration closes Deadline for registration for College Station’s pre-sea son softball tournament ends today. Mens, womens and co- rec teams can enter the tournament at o cost of $55 per team. The tournament will begin Feb. 27 and continue through March 22. Teams can register at the Central Park Office until 5:30 p.m. For more information call 764-3773. Aggies to run for Village of Hope Seventeen runners will run 110 miles from the Aggie Eternal Flame to the University of Texas Special Events Center to benefit the Texas A&M Village of Hope. The runners Texas A&M at 3 a.m. and will arrive at the Special Events Center for the basketball game between the Aggies and the University of Texas Fdb. 25. Each runner is signing up sponsors and all proceeds will benefit the Village of Hope project. Donations will also be accepted in the Memo rial Student Center until Friday from 10 a.m. tp 2 p.m. Also at the MSC table, students can register for the Sec ond Annual Run for the Arts March 3 at 9 a.m. at G. Rollie White Coliseum. Entry fee for the five and 10K runs is $6. “All Night Long” theme of junior ball “All Night Long” is the theme for the Class of ’85 Ball March 2 in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. Music will be provided by the Debonaires. Tickets are on sale in the MSC Box Office. To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald. Changes not kept straight at plant United Press International FORT WORTH — Con struction drawings at the trou bled Comanche Peak nuclear power plant were almost impos sible to keep straight, a former plant records supervisor told the Nuclear Regulatory Com mission. Dobie Hatley testified before a three-member NRC panel Monday that a single building component underwent as many as 750 design changes, with each alteration laid out on a separate sheet instead of on the original working drawing. Ms. Hatley, who said she was fired Feb. 7 for accusing super visors of trying to conceal wors ening chaos in their vaunted new records system, said work ers sometimes failed to return current design packages to her office, meaning the worker who next needed the packet lacked up-to-date instructions. Workers resented being re quired to carry the 3 to 4 pound packets on the job, she said. The NRC is holding a week- long series of hearings in re sponse to complaints about the plant’s record keeping. The board must license the plant be fore it can begin operating. In October 1983, sloppy re cords prompted the NRC tem porarily to shut down some con struction at a Midland, Mich., plant. Texas Utilities Generating Co., a consortium of North Texas utility companies that is building Comanche Peak, last year revised the plant’s record keeping system under pressure from the NRC. The nuclear regulatory panel discovered that there had been little or no documentation of thousands of ad hoc design changes, so it was impossible to determine whether the plant conformed iq design specifications. Plant officials subsequently commissioned Cygna Energy Services of San Francisco to re view their new system, but the review results were brought into question Monday by a con sultant’s admission that she tipped off plant officials that construction plans would be scrutinized. Nancy H. Williams, Cygna’s project manager, defended the leaks, contending that advance notification is a “standard qual ity assurance audit approach.” Members of the Dallas-based Citizens Association for Sound Energy said the lead time Ms. Williams gave plant officials af forded them the chance to doc tor as well as collect data. Board Chairman Peter B. bloch agreed. “You had a period of 12 or 14 hours in which the people can scurry out to make sure things are right,” Bloch told Cygna representatives. “This doesn’t seem to be adequate in terms of assessing how things were handled on a day to day basis.” Child eating normally after transplants United Press International PITTSBURGH — Stormie Jones is eating food forbidden her before she underwent the nation’s first simultaneous heart and liver transplants exactly one week ago, a hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday. Stormie, 6, of Cumby, Texas, is eating “some real weird com binations,” said Sonja Levine, a spokeswoman at Pittsburgh’s Children’s Hospital. “Her mother says she is eat ing everything she can get her hands on. She had indigestion (Monday) because she’s eating so fast,” Ms. Levine said. “This is the first real food she’s been able to eat in a long time because of her cholesterol problem,” she said. Paula McCarty, a registered dietician at the hospital, said Stormie was on a soft diet of a limited variety of relatively low fiber foods, which are consid ered easy to digest. The diet allowed Stormie to order a corny dog, a hot dog on a stick dipped in corn meal and fried, for lunch Monday, Ms. Levine said. Ms. McCarty said the corny dog is high in cholesterol and was forbidden before the sur gery Stormie underwent to treat a rare genetic disease that created extremely high levels of cholesterol in her blood. “There’s no complication now because she has a new heart,” Ms. McCarty said. For lunch Tuesday, Stormie requested tomato soup, a toasted cheese sandwich, mashed potatoes, macaroni, strawberry whip and skim milk, Ms. McCarty said. Ms. Levine said the child’s doctors have given her permis sion to eat anything she wants. Doctors had said the dual transplant, which took 16 hours and ended last Tuesday morn ing, was Stormie’s only hope of survival. She had a heart attack when she was 5 and underwent two double-bypass operations. Doc tors said her heart was too weak to withstand the strain of a liver transplant and had to be re placed Stormie is still listed in critical condition in the hospital’s inten sive care unit. “Because of the nature of the surgery, her doctors are keep ing her up there as a precau tion,” Ms. Levine saif’ Mexican farm workers want eligibility for injury insurance United Press International AUSTIN — Attorneys for Rio Grande Valley farm work ers say they hope a two-day trial that began Tuesday will end de cades of discrimination against Mexican-American laborers who are exempted by Texas law from on-the-job injury insur ance. The trial before state District Judge Harley Clark will decide whether a permanent injunc tion can be issued to effectively bar the state from enforcing statutes that exempt farm labor ers from workers’ compensa tion insurance. All other workers in Texas are covered under workers’ compensation insurance, prompting attorneys for the Texas Civil Liberties Union to claim the law unconstitutionally discriminates against farm la borers, 90 percent of whom are Mexican-American. “Farm workers are the only class of people excluded from the law and there’s just absolu- The trial on a tely no rational basis for that,” permanent injunction was ex- said TCLU attorney Jim Har- pected to conclude late rington. Wednesday. wontsn -al sex with" prosper •reived 521 \ the with seven Mondale and fellow democrats campaigning in New Hampshire United Press International ng j CONCORD, N.H. — Riding the crest of a huge victory in powa, Walter Mondale threw a ree lunch Tuesday for hun- the * ytlreds of Granite State voters, who stripl* 1 Bo wa also-ran John Glenn orced her fa Bowed to “reverse it all in New shetoldp 0 ^ Hampshire” Feb. 28. J As his Democratic rivals Struggled to emerge from far back in the pack, Mondale "" ' r the®! fcmght his way into a large Man- /allU an jji! Bhester restaurant packed with W< li n the? ■ lun g r y, enthusiastic support- ’ W down 8 * b 1 " 5 ' promised a free h er nJhot lunch to all takers, and hun- hmg.^j Qj Idredsjoined the victory party. : arrl nit I Acting as if he had already ne assa , oflifl Bon the nomination. Mondale - orne '^ fjaimched his final week of New ei nt ’ al ., ..ffiiampshire campaigning by ac- also said 115 ’ e case t( > jutorso" 1 ]< more arranted’ u!! ‘using President Reagan of fail ing to lead and running the na tion “by amnesia.” J Stunned by a poor fifth-place ^showing in Iowa — behind even undecided” — Glenn con- Seded he was disappointed but dd he would do better next uesday. “We’re going to reverse it all i New Hampshire,” he said in laremont, a depressed mill town. “It’s not the end of the “The phones have been ring ing off the hook here and I’m sure they’re doing the same in Washington,” she said. “It mostly related to the showing (in Iowa).” New Hampshire Democratic officials said Hart might benefit from his Iowa finish, but pre dicted traditionally indepen dent Yankees mostly will ignore the Iowa results. “The voters in our state are independent and have been dealing with the candidates on a personal basis for more than a year,” state Democratic Chair man George Bruno said. Paul McEachern, a Demo cratic candidate for governor and a Mondale supporter, said both Mondale and Hart would be helped by Iowa, but “I don’t see New Hampshire going just like Iowa, however, because an election is different than a cau cus.” The latest New Hampshire polls — all published Sunday in the Union Leader of Manches ter, the Keene Sentinel and the Boston Globe — give Mondale a commanding lead. Glenn, the “clean marine,” was a weak second in the Globe and the Union Leader, while Hart was third and closing in on Glenn. MSC Cepheid Variable ' WHO IS HE? WHAT IS HE? SHOULD WE FEAR HIM? CAN WE STOP HIM? IS HE A WARNING? IS HE THE BEGINNING OF THE END? 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Reservations Accepted. t? i ?! i?M ..voV PRE-LAW SOCIETY MEETING WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 7:00 p.m., 302 RUDDER Discuss Plans for Regional Conference - February 25 ISLAND ARABISE FClass Of 87 Ball March 3,1984 MSC Ballroom 9tol $12 per FEATURING THE DEBONAIRES’ MSC Basement present Tim Settimi A COMEDY MIME WHO IS Wednesday, February 22 8 p.m. Rudder Theatre Tickets $4.00 MSC Box Office nr