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By CAMI BROWN
Reporter
As bonfire grows tall, its
roots grow deeper into Aggie
soil. What started out as a
casual burning of a trash pile
has become a sturdy symbol of
Aggie spirit.
Now a committee has been
formed to discuss whether or
not the bonfire will be up
rooted for the second time m
its history.
Malon Southerland, assis
tant vice president of student
services, is the 1984 bonfire
advisor and he suggested that
the ad hoc committee be
formed.
“I think it’s reasonable and
prudent for us to have at least
considered whether or not
there are any legitimate alter
natives,” he said.
The bonfire was moved
from the main drill field to
Duncan field because of safety
problems. Southerland said
he is unaware of any problems
with the present site other
than the possibility that on the
night of the fire, amber car
ried by the wind may settle on
nearby rooftops. Bonfire
funds cover the $ 1,700 it costs
the physical plant to water the
roots of neighboring build
ings.
Southerland said, however,
this problem would not neces
sarily be solved if the site were
changed.
Other sites being consi
dered — the polo field, the
west part of camps and off
campus — may eliminate
some fire hazards but intro
duce other problems.
“We have to consider the
type of access, the proximity
to residence halls and the sta
bility of the site,” Southerland
said.
The stability of a site refers
to how long the bonfire will be.
able to slay on that location.
Southerland said a recom
mendation to change the site
from Duncan field will be
issued only if an overwhelm
ing problem is found to exist,
with the location and a better
alternative clearly exists.
“We’re not doing this with
the attitude that bonfire
should be moved, that’s not
the idea at all,” Southerland
said. “The positive benefit of
this is even if Duncan remains-
the best site we will be able to
do a better job at using Dun
can field.”
Although the possibility of
an off-campus site is not being
ignored, Southerland said the
project is too dependent on
students to be located out of
their reach.
“If it is moved off campus,”
Southerland said, “there’s a
good probability that bonfire
is over.” Thus the on-campus
alternatives such as the polo
field and Duncan field are
being given serious attention
by the committee.
Probable committee mem
bers include: Southerland;
Col. Donald L. Burton, Corps
commandant; William L. Kib-
ler, assistant director of stu
dent affairs; Eugene H. Ray,
director of grounds mainte
nance; Raymond Janec, city
fire marshal; Joe Jordan, stu
dent body president; Randy
Bover, bonfire ‘83 redpot;
Keith Anderson, bonfire ‘84
headslack and antoher stu
dent representative not yet
appointed.
“Bonfire makes a statement
about the individual and the
institution,” Southerland said.
“As long as possible it will be
perpetuated.”
Wright: Reagan’s not a liar
United Press International
WASHINGTON — House
Democratic leader Jim Wright
said Sunday he did not call Presi
dent Reagan a liar, and would
not — but that some of Reagan’s
statements about the budget
negotiations were lies.
In an appearance on NBC’s
“Meet the Press,” a questioner
said when Reagan accused the
Democrats of foot-dragging on
the negotiations to reduce the
federal deficit, “You took the
floor of the House and essential
ly denounced the president as a
liar.”
Wright replied: “I didn’t call
the president a liar, nor, I hope,
would I ever use a perjorative
term like that for any president
or any political opponent.
“What I said was his charac
terization — frequently repe
ated — to the effect that we had
offered no suggestions, was a lie.
It was a lie. It was untrue. I was at
that meeting; he was not.
“We made — I made — as
many as 20 different sugges
tions (for reducing the deficit).
If he had said we made no sug
gestions that he personally
found acceptable, that may have
been truthful. For him to have
said, as he did, that we made no
suggestions was false. It was un
true.
“He said they had a very diffi
cult time getting us to meet.
That was a lie. That was not true
at all. That charge began to be
made the very day the budget
came out ... apparently that was
their plan, to accuse us of this.
We went out every time we were
invited,” Wright said.
He said: “A couple of times I
suggested meeting dates that
were inconvienent to the presi
dent’s designee (chief of staff
James Baker) and that was all
right — I didn’t go out and ac
cuse him of dragging his feet.
“But for them to suggest that
we were unwilling or didn’t
make earnest, serious efforts to
come to some agreement that
would make serious reductions
in these staggering Reagan de
ficits is a lie. It is a falsehood.”
Iran accuses Iraq
of using nerve gas
Student menu board helps
make ‘dorm food’ palatable
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By HELEN DE LA ROSA
Reporter
Input from Texas A&M stu
dents and occasional compari-
, -Ions with other colleges are part
thereiiBf the Texas A&M Department
t in thepf Food Services’ policy.
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ices, said that during the fall
emester about 2,200 students
jvere served daily in the Com
mons Dining Center, 4,000 in
ibisa Dining Center and be-
ween 2,000 and 4,000 in Dun-
:an Dining Center.
“Dining center managers are
■equired to sit with a minimum
jf five students a week and have
he the students compare a food
lervice questionaire,” Smith
aid. “The surveys, which are
ompleted in the students’
lanclwriting, are discussed at
weekly food services staff meet-
ngs and managers are required
o reply.”
Each facility has a six-member
menu board made up of stu
dents who are appointed yearly
by the student body president.
“The menu board is responsi
ble for putting anything on or
iff facility menus by majority
,ote,” Smith said. “Even catsup,
/ogurt and ice cream are tested
jy menu board members and
heir preferences checked.”
But some A&M students still
iren’t happy with “dorm food.”
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“bland, cold and almost every
thing is fried and greasy.”
Another added, “I think it’s got
ten worse since I’ve been here.
Everything’s fried. We have
shrimp or steak one night and
fried chicken the rest of the
week.”
Other students who com
mented on what they liked about
Texas A&M food services men-
tioned nutrition, three
“squares” a day, baked potatoes, -
steaks and even Captain Crunch
cereal.
Some dislikes mentioned
were: chicken served too often,
too many fried foods, too many
carbohydrates and starches,
bland food and re-heated food.
Most who were questioned
knew about the menu board, but
had not voiced any opinions to
board members. Some said they
did not know who was on the
board and did not know how to
contact them.
Pictures, names and phone
numbers of menu board mem
bers are displayed in each dining
center. This year’s board mem
bers are:
• Duncan — Keith Car
michael, Dawson Clark, John
-Cook, Mike Hicks, Joe Kilianski
anH Warren Sumner.
• Commons — Ian McClellan,
Marsh Perkins, Kathy Mills,
Cherry Callegari, Erin Messo-
nier and Don Smith.
• Sbisa — David Alders, Ajey-
Chandra, Brian Hay, Diane
Peat, Chip heath and Janet
Netardus.
United Press International
Iran accused Iraq Sunday of
using nerve gas and germ war
fare on the southern battlefront,
injuring hundreds of Iranians in
its latest chemical weapons
attack in the 42-month-old Per
sian Gulf war. Iraq denied the
charge.
Iraq reported Sunday that it
used helicopter gunships in
attacks that killed 119 Iranian
troops east of the southern Iraqi
port city Basra.
It said Iranian shelling of Bas
ra killed a civilian and de
molished a house.
Iran’s official news agency
IRNA said 460 soldiers were in
jured by “microbic and nerve
bombs” Saturday and more than
200 “are suffering from nervous
spasms due to being exposed to
nerve bombs.”
The Iranian claim of the che
mical attack on the Kheibar
front, 40 to 70 miles north of
Basra, was at least the third
alleged Iraqi chemical attack
since the current offensive be
gan on Feb. 22.
Iraq responded to the latest
Iranian accusation by saying it
was prepared to take journalists
to see a fertilizer factory in a re
mote section of western Iraq,
which Western reports have
identified as the source of Iraq’s
chemical weapons.
“Zionist and Iranian organs,
which are working in full col
laboration, have not ceased to
fabricate such allegations about
the nature of this plant,” senior
government officials in the Iraqi
capital of Baghdad told United
Press International.
The Iranian charge Sunday
came a day after an I raqi general
told journalists on the warfront
that Baghdad would not rule out
the use of chemical weapons
against Iran.
“If they keep coming and
attacking us we shall not hesitate
to use any weapons, even che
mical weapons,” said Gen. Mah
er Abdul-Rasheed, commander
of the 3rd Army Corps.
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