Thursday, August 30,1984/The Battalion/Page 5
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Around town
MSC Open House is scheduled for Sunday
Over 150 student organizations will be represented at MSC
Open House from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday, boor prizes will be
given and entertainment will be provided. There will be an auction
Nominees sought for Fulbright Grants
Applications for Fulbright Grants will be available in the Study
Abroad Office, 101 Academic, through Oct. 1. More than 700 of
these awards will be available for the 1985-86 school year.
The purpose of these grants is to increase mutual understanding
between the people of the United States and other countries through
the exchange ot persons, knowledge and skills. They are provided
under the terms of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange
Act of 1961 and by foreign governments, universities, corporations
and private donors.
College Station offering Flag Football
The College Station Parks and Recreation Department is offer
ing an Adult Flag Football program. Registration will continue
through Sept. 7, at the College Sutton Parks and Recreation office at
Central Park. Registration fee is $180 per team.
College of Geosciences receives grant
Texas A&M’s College of Geosciences has received a $10,000
grant from Tenneco Oil Exploration and Production Co. of Hous
ton to support teaching and research. The grant, made possible
through the efforts of Joe B. Foster, executive vice president of Ten
neco Inc., was presented to Dean Melvin Friedman by Gray J. Mabie,
a 1965 graduate of Texas A&M and Production Manager of Tenne-
co’s Texas Gulf Coast Division.
Spaghetti Dinner will benefit MDA
Plantation Oaks Apartments is sponsoring a Spaghetti Dinner on
Sunday from noon to 10 p.m. to benefit the Muscular Distrophy As
sociation. Tickets may be purchased for $2.50 at the Plantation Oaks
Apartments, Fish Richards, Mario’s and Serene Waterbeds.
Humanities grants available to students
Guidelines and application forms for the Younger Scholars Pro
gram of the National Endowment for the Humanities are now avail
able for photocopying in the Placement Office. The program will
award up to 100 grams nationally to students under 21 to conduct
their own research and writing projects in the fields of history, phi
losophy and literature. Recipients of these awards will receive a sti
pend of $1,800 and be expected to work full time for nine weeks
during the summer of 1985, researching and writing a humanities
paper under the close supervision of a humanities scholar. Applica
tion deadline is Oct. 15.
Looking for
alternatives
to teens’ DWI
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Raising the
legal drinking age for teenagers
guarantees “considerable law-break
ing,” but does not guarantee a de
crease in fatal crashes, says a survey
presented to delegates at the Ameri
can Sociological Association.
“This survey has real impact since
so many states are considering legis
lative action,” said a spokeswoman
for the ASA, Ruth Thaler, on
Wednesday. “We’ve had more than a
thousand papers, 224 sessions. But
this is one study with real signifi
cance, especially with the growing
influence of groups like MADD —
Mothers Against Drunk Driving.”
A panel of Boston University so
ciologists told delegates Monday that
the number of fatal crashes did not
significantly drop in Massachusetts
despite the passage of a law in 1979
raising the legal drinking age from
18 to 20 years old.
“The study covered three years of
data after the law was passed,” said
Robert Smith, project coordinator.
“Overall crashes did not decline in
Massachusetts compared to statistics
for New York.
“But Massachusetts experienced a
significant 21 percent decline in sin
gle vehicle nighttime fatal crashes
among 18 and 19 years old.”
Raising the drinking age did not
apparently affect the drinking be
havior of 16 and 17 year olds, the
panelists said.
“The study indicates that raising
the drinking age ensures consider
able law-breaking among young
people who continue to acquire alco
holic beverages,” Smith said.“It is al
together possible that such laws fos
ter a cynicism toward the legislative
process and disregard of law en
forcement among teenagers.”
The group urged lawmakers to
explore alternate methods of reduc
ing drunken driving.
“Our findings suggest that legis
lators would do well to consider ad
ditional and alternative ways to re
duce the problem of alcohol-related
(car) crashes among young people,”
Smith said.
“Our study suggests that while
drinking age changes may offer
some reduction in teenage traffic
crash involvement, teenage drinking
and driving remain serious prob
lems even in states that raise the
drinking ages,” he said.
MSC OPAS
MEMBERSHIP
open to all FRESHMEM and TRANSFER students
Applications available in 216 MSC
Applications due Tuesday, Sept. 4 5 p.m.
Interviews Wednesday, Sept. 5
For more information call MSC Programs
Office 845-1515
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Alcohol
Awareness
Program
Department Of Student Affairs 845-5826
Season’s first tropical storm
forms in mid-Atlantic waters
United Press International
MIAMI — Tropical storm Arthur
formed in the warm waters of the
mid-Atlantic Wednesday and
pointed 50 mph winds toward Bar
bados at the southeastern corner of
the Caribbean Sea.
Forecasters said the first Atlantic-
Caribbean tropical storm of the sea
son was expected to sweep over the
Windward Islands with gales and
heavy rains by early Thursday.
At 6 p.m. EDT, the poorly de
fined center of the storm was located
about 200 miles east southeast of
Barbados, near latitude 12.0 north
and longitude 56.8 west. Arthur was
moving toward the west northwest at
about 15 mph and was expected to
continue that speed and direction
through Thursday.
“Highest sustained winds are esti
mated to be 50 mph with winds of
gale force extending out 100 miles in
the eastern semicircle and 75 miles
to the west,” the National Hurricane
Center said in its first advisory on
the storm. “Little change in strength
is expected during the next 24
hours.”
The developing tropical storm
had been watched closely after it
moved off the African coast and
headed across the Atlantic. First it
was a tropical wave of showery
squalls then an Air Force “hurricane
hunter” plane Tuesday found sus
tained winds of 35 mph had begun d
counter-clockwise circulation, a tell
tale sign of a budding storrp.
“It really hasn’t changed that
much,” said forecaster Bob Sheets.
“It just crossed that threshhold.”
He said, however, “There’s a con
vective area that’s developed over
the center that gave it that extra
strength.”
If Arthur were to reach hurricane
strength — sustained winds of 74
mph — the convective area would
eventually become the hurricane
“eye,” a calm area in the middle of
the storm, he said.
“We don’t expect any rapid
changes in strength,” Sheets said.
“Conditions are still not favorable
for rapid development.”
Sheets explained that while the
depression was moving west, winds
in the upper atmosphere were mov
ing in the opposite direction, shear
ing off the top of the system. That
was stunting the weather system’s
development.
“The winds are blowing against
the system,” Sheets said. “It’s sort of
like winds blowing across a chimney
and putting out a fire in a fireplace.
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