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Friday, May 4, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 geophysics student MADD honored by Gulf Oil (continued from page 1) By CATHERINE CAMP BELL Reporter jhris Corley, a Texas A&M schol- people sophomore, collects iarships the way some icollect baseball cards. trhe lastesl addition to Cor- jley’s collection is the Gulf Oil Cotp. Honor Scholar schol arship. This scholarship will I coyer 80 percent of his costs for ort-campus room and board, lu- itibo and fees, and $150 for K books for both his junior and [senior years. A $1,000 check also was issued to the geophy sics department to aid the costs ofadministering the geophysics program. ■Corley, a 19-year-old geo physics major from Bristol, Va., was presented with the schol- iarship check Monday afternoon by (he Gulf Supervisor of Basin Analysis, Alan Bell, and the Gulf Director of Human Re sources, Robert Myers, both | from Houston. But Corley said he never tilled out the application and still is wondering how he won the scholarship. K I’m not quite sure how I got it, 1 don’t know if the depart ment Filled it out for me or w|jiai,” Corley said. “It’s a mys- tery to me — I guess I just got .Li VS.V1 lucky." f In order to retain the Gulf Army scholarship, Corley will have to rough maintain a 3.0 grade point ra tio. The Gulf Honors Scholar scholarship offers to those uni versities with a geophysics pro- Kam, one scholarship per year d es PRIM (continued from page 1) to act i| esort in I *i reseeal s not ahki -cause f' ■nabletofl -udesc Democrat Bob Harris Republican Max Hoyt Republican Dan Kubiak Democrat Hugh Parmer Democrat J.M. “Rip” Van Winkle _aco a sts. State Representative 14th District cl that | ' Neeley Lewis Democrat John D. Seaman Democrat Richard Smith Republican State Railroad Commis- lioner iclude 11 John Thomas Henderson ii the si Republican Mack Wallace Democrat Chief Justice State Supreme Court John L. Bates Republican John L. Hill Democrat Sears McGee Democrat of ns co’s Getty, rtain ne refii hidings party' ■ in ro in ^ Brazos County Sheriff Ralph Behrens Democrat Warren E. Hancock Demo- er was crat state c Quinnan H. Hodges Demo- jnless i;t f l y c oul(l Toni Ingversen Democrat -jgt # Ed Lindsay Democrat 500jobs§j Ronnie Miller Republican nd red| 1 ~ cr ude4 Polls for the primary will ^/^>pen at 7 a.m. Saturday for i>th the Democratic and Re publican primaries and will be >pen until 7 p.m. The parly pri- paries will be held at the same locations. V j Registered voters will be al- Ewed to vote in only one pri- Kry, Democrat or Republican, in order to vole, bring your i)ter registration card with you IMlhe polling place. If you do lit have a voter registration card but are registered, bring jliosilive identification such as a driver’s license; the election judges have a list of all eligible Ivoters in their particular pre- nClfci. ■f n| Some on-campus students ©ay vole at precinct 20 in the _ — Memorial Student Center, and r pther on-campus students vote W precinct 35 at the College Sta tion Municipal Building on e lurch Street, one block east of ellborn Road. Students living off campus y vote at their respective pre- ICincts. To Find out where to i|te, call the Brazos County lax ifFice at 775-7400, extension 207. The names oF the Democratic presidential contenders will not Be on the Democratic primary ■Hot. To vote For the presi- Pential nominees, voters should return to the same polling place and attend their precinct con ventions. j; Precinct meetings, or conven- Kms, will begin at 7:15 p.m., 15 iminutes after the polls close. J to a student Finishing his sopho more year. Corley, who has a 3.923 grade-point ratio, considers himself a sophomore although technically he is a junior with 85 credit hours, 1(5 of which he placed out of based on his SAT lest scores. Other scholarships Corley has won include: •A National Merit Schol arship that gives him $500 a se mester. •The Leehner Scholarship from Texas A&M which gives him $900 per semester. •The Geophysics depart ment scholarship which gives him $500 per semester. •The Society of Exploration Geophysicists scholarship from Exxon, which pays $750 a se mester. However, with all the bene- Fils of winning the Gulf Honor Scholar scholarship, Corley learned that he must forfeit his department’s scholarship for the rest of his semesters at Texas A&M. But the Gulf scholarship of fers more than just a check. The Houston branch of the Gulf company offers Corley an op portunity for a summer inter nship after his junior year — but Corley is not obligated to take the job. “Thai’s something to tieFi- nitely think about,” Corley said. “But living in Houston would be expensive, but then again, it would look pretty good on a re sume.” Corley came to Texas A&M primarily because it was the oidy university that offered him such an array of scholarships. With an SAT score of 1470, Corley began receiving numer ous scholarship application forms from Texas A&M. An SAT score of 1000 is considered perfect. Those applications had a great impact on his choice of major since many of them were for geophysics. Although Corley spends a fair amount of time studying, he also spends several hours a week playing ultimate frisbee and is an avid cyclist. Brown became involved with MADD two years ago when he buried both his mother and fa ther-in-law. “Their deaths were related to alcohol, but not caused by accidents,” he said. “I’ve been concerned with drunk driving for the past 10 years and I want to protect my children from getting in situa tions that involve heavy drink ing,” Brown said. The 50 members involved in the Brazos County chapter of MADD, he said, are working to change the attitudes about drinking and driving among college and high school stu dents. Brown’s chapter of MADD sponsors Aggies Against Drunk Driving which is a group of Ag gies organized to combat the No. 1 killer in their age group — death due to drinking and driving. AADD tries to educate stu dents about the problems of drinking and help students be come aware of the alcohol prob lem as it exists on the local, state, and national levels, says Lee Ann Snodgrass, vice-presi dent of AADD. “Many of us have been at parties where liquor was served, such as a mixer or office parly. Everyone is encouraged to drink as much as they like,” Brown said. “At these events, we’re fully aware that many guests get into their cars to drive home ‘under the influ ence’in various degrees. “We should speak up to pre vent someone who’s had to much to drink from driving ho me.” Drinking doesn’t have to be an essential evil, Brown said, it just needs to be controlled to prevent accidents in Brazos County. AUTO INSURANCE ; FOR AGGIES Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group 3400 S. 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