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Wednesday, April 18, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 heelchair track added to intramurals program By PATRICIA FLINT Reporter The long and lanky runner lay be the track star of the list. Wheelchair track events be a new addition to to night’s All University track in- amurals. | There will be no preliminar- sheld for the wheelchair track leet; those who want to partici- atejust need to sign up today, eople will be chosen on a first come, first served basis. The meet begins at 7 p.m. and all students, faculty, staff and spouses may participate as long as they have a student or recre ational ID card. In addition, a person may be in any other track event and still participate in the wheelchair meets. The wheelchair track events are a first for the Texas A&M intramural department. Mary Wilson, who is coordinating the events as part of her internship project with the department, says that she has three goals for the wheelchair meets. She hopes to show able-bodied peo ple the capabilities of the hand icapped, as well as the barriers that face them; to get more handicapped people involved in intramural-recreational sports; and most of all, to have fun. The wheelchair events are: a 50-meter dash, 100-meter dash, 400-meter dash and a four- by 100-meter relay. There will be eight chairs per heat and two heats per event for the dashes. This way participants will be racing against the clock and not only against the people in the heat. For the relays there will be no more than three teams per heat with no more than two heats. Wilson says because the wheelchair events are new, the departmen is still trying to work all the bugs out. “One thing that nobody right now has been ready to predict is who is going to show up,” says Wilson. However, if a blind person or someone unable to push his own chair wants to participate, Wilson says that the department might not be able to accomo date that person. Eric Hunter, assistant direc tor of intramural and recre ation sports is enthusiastic about Wilson’s work with the wheelchair track meet. “We’ve been trying to find ways to get handicaps more in volved in our intramural pro gram,” Hunter says. “I think we need to have more specific programing for the disabled, so I think this is a good start,” Hunter said. But before deciding to hold a wheel chair track meet again, he says, the department will see how many people turn out for this" one and get some feedback from the disabled on it as well. “We’re trying to maintain an open program on all of our ac tivities where we don’t just re strict it to the able-bodied,” Hunter says. “We haven’t had a whole lot of participation from the disabled, so we thought we’d just try to gear something more directly to the students.” ew sorority tries to meet blacks’ needs By KAREN WALLACE Staff Writer Service organizations at Texas A&M are always at work liroughout the community, st month, another such orga- |ization was introduced on impus, but this one is a little fferent. Delta Sigma Theta is the first redominately black service so- irity at Texas A&M. “We established this sorority ecause there isn’t one that (orks towards meeting the eds of blacks on campus,” J Tiys Sonia Ellis, Delta Sigma iheta adviser. I Ellis said women don’t have tcbe black tojoin. *■ “The object is to unite black - Jtomen on campus, and women in general,” she said. The Texas A&M chapter of the sorority, the Omicron Omega chapter, recieved Uni versity recognition last August, Ellis said. “The main thing we want to do is bridge the gap between the University and the black community here,” she said. “The gap is communication it self. The University and the black community do not meet.” The black community is sometimes not aware of all its educational opportunities, she said. “So we want to work in coop eration with the community,” Ellis said. “We want to get the students involved in the com munity.” Charnella Swanson, a junior accounting major, said there were a few reasons why she got involved with the sorority. “The main reason is because of what Delta Theta has to offer me and what I have to offer them,” said Swanson, who will be chairman of the Black Awareness Commitee next year. “Also, when it comes to the less fortunate people I’m al ways willing to help.” Ellis said the sorority was working in the community be fore it got the charter. The women have worked at a tutor ing assistance program, the Big Event and helped at Sheltering Arms, a shelter for abused chil dren before they are sent to fos ter homes. Projects have been planned already for next year, such as a Thanksgiving food drive and a j Orwell’s 1984 topic of speech bile By KATHLEEN REEVES trail Reporter George Orwell’s futuristic vel 1984 is the topic of Dr. udations k Warren Dixon’s speech here at vhichsugp ?tonight in 701 Rudder, traffic (all| Dixon, assistant professor of olitical science, says he will ke a look at the image of total- used bv iff ar i ari i sm i n 1984, and its weak- esses. He also will discuss how alistic Orwell’s totalitarian nage is and how Orwell inter- reted the totalitarian future. Dixon is being sponsored by i making streets ducing tk Hart to speak here next week Tipus trait! ;n only to n campus, h parking ild decreast_ By KAREN WALLACE ire con* I Staff Writer coherent I ! Texas A&M will greet Demo tive progt ratic Presidential candidate ffic probld Gary Hart on April 27. cyclists ®t ^ art ’ w ^° k e in town for ; ilittle more than an hour, will peak at 12:30 p.m. in Rudder play a ^ iuditorium as a part of Political e probleffil wum’s attempts to let Texas force peoplt k&M students meet the presi- Strate locals tdential candidates. Last semester, Democratic I andidates Jesse Jackson and 1 George McGovern visited the the freshmen honor society Al pha Lamba Delta. Kyle Coleman, secretary of ALD, said the honor society was asked by the English depart ment to sponsor the speech. Dorothy Van Riper, an En glish lecturer at Texas A&M, said several of the English fac ulty members are discussing Orwell’s 1984 in class. She said they got together and decided it would be a good idea to ask someone speak about the book, so they asked Alpha Lamba Delta to sponsor Dixon. A polit ical science professor was cho sen because the teachers wanted someone to talk about the politi cal situation £>f 1984. “We are a group of English teachers and can talk about the English aspects of the book, but since there has been so much emphasis about the political side, we decided to get someone from the Political Science de partment,” she said. She said that, in addition, Dixon was chosen because he will teach a course about 1984 in the fall. young appeal,” Brannon said. “But Mondale represents the traditional Democrat.” Brannon said it will be a while before he knows if Mon dale will come. “It took weeks and months to get Hart,” he said. “It will be no sooner than a week before we find out.” ust also! le, and A 'campus. facilities' ig lots ind reduce Kevin Brannon, chairman of Political Forum, says he still is rying to get Mondale to come. 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