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What’s up
Thursday
LEGISLATIVE STUDY GROUP: applications for mem
bership are available in the Student Government Office,
213 Pavilion, through Sept. 10.
11 j| STUDENT GOV’T. FRESHMAN AIDE: applications are
• t available in 213 Pavilion. Deadline to apply is 5 p.m. Fri
day.
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UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES: students appointed to com
mittees last spring must report their current addresses to
P Debbie Fleming in the Student Government Office.
MSC VARIETY SHOW: applications for committee mem-
if bership are available in the Student Programs Office.
CENTURY SINGERS: are holding auditions for the fall se
mester. Call 845*3974 for an appointment.
TRADITIONS COUNCIL: applications are available in the
p Student Government Office, 213 Pavilion. Deadline to ap-
h ply is Friday at 5 p.m.
| JUDICIAL BOARD: applications for the student body judi
cial board will be available in the Student Government Of
fice, 213 Pavilion, through Friday. Positions are open to
sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students.
TAMU HISTORIC RESOURCE SOCIETY: will meet to
elect officers at 7 p.m. in 111 Architecture, building C-
GUATEMALAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: is meeting at
8:30 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
SIGMA DELTA TAU: is meeting to discuss important busi
ness at 7 p.m. in 155 Blocker. All members should attend.
CHI ALPHA: will have a worship service and Bible teaching
at 7 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
MICRO-COMPUTER CLUB: will meet at 7:30 in 105C
Zachry. For more information, contact Fomas Rokicki at
260-5766.
SAN ANTONIO HOMETOWN CLUB: will have an organi
zational meeting at 7 p.m. in 201 MSC.
FOOD SCIENCE CLUB: will have a welcome back meeting
and ice cream mixer at 7;30 p.m. in 113 Kleberg.
WOMEN OF ST. MARY‘S: is sponsoring a reception for fe
male graduate students and wives of graduate students at
7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Center, 103 Nagle,
is POSSUM KINGDOM AREA HOMETOWN CLUB: will
meet at 7 p.m. in 502 Rudder.
TAMU AQUATIANS: is sponsoring a sychronized swim
ming workshop at 8 p.m. at Down's Pool.
CENTER FOR RETAILING STUDIES: is sponsoring a re
ception for anyone interested in retailing at 7:30 p.m. in
Ramada Inn Condo #12.
ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY: is having an infor
mational meeting at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
OFF-CAMPUS AGGIES: applications for director and chair
man positions are due by 5 p.m. in 223 Pavilion.
TAMU SCUBA CLUB: will eat at 7 p.m. in 305 Rudder.
STUDENT Y ASSOCIATION: is meeting at 7 p.m. in 601
Rudder.
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: will meet at 7 p.m. in
104 Zachry.
CIRCLE K: is accepting applications for new members.
Those interested are encouraged to attend the meeting at 7
p.m. in 137A MSC.
MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: is showing the movie “Someth-
ing Wicked This Wav Comes” at 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. in
Rudder Theater.
TAMU SURF CLUB: is meeting to elect officers and make
^ plans for the semester at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
MSC HOSPITALITY: appli cations for membership are
available in the Student Programs Office.
THE SOCIETY FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND NEW
I VENTURES: will meet at 7 p.m. in 206 MSC.
INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will hold a
p prayer meeting at noon in the All Faith’s Chapel.
TAMU FENCING CLUB: will have a meeting and practice
session at 7 p.m. in 267 E. Kyle.
Friday
MSC HOSPITALITY: applications for membership are due
in the cubicle by 5 p.m.
|TAMU CHESS CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
Players of all strengths welcome.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will meet at 7 p.m. in
601 Rudder.
PUERTO RICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at
8:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
STUDENT PEACE ACTION: will have an organizational
meeting at 7 p.m. in I40A MSC. Anybody is welcome to at
tend.
TEXAS AScM BADMINTON CLUB: will meet at 8 p.m. in
351 G. Rollie White. New members are welcome.
Cowboys
hate book
hits stands
United Press International
The “Semi-Official Dallas Cow
boys Haters Handbook,” based on
the premise that there is nothing
more American than vehemently
disliking “America’s Team,” goes on
sale in bookstores nationwide today.
And its authors — two men with
Texas connections — are hoping the
public will agree with their assess
ment and pay $4.95 to take part in
what they say is the national pastime
of hating the men in silver and blue.
The 112-page book has 12 chap
ters with tides like “A History of
Cowboy-Hating,” “Great Lowlights
in Cowboys History,” “Sex on the
Sidelines” and “Rolaids Roger Stau-
bach.”
“The Cowboys, if truth be known,
are about as popular with real Amer
icans as Exxon and AIDs,” the intro
duction reads. “Hating ‘America’s
Team’ has become a national pas
time. Come to think of it, what could
be more American than hating the
Dallas Cowboys?”
“Nothing.”
Miller Bonner — a 33-year-old
native of Blossom, Texas, former
Texas congressional aide and for
mer reporter who now works for
IBM in Connecticut — and 35-year-
old Wisconsin native Mark Nelson,
who covers Washington for a Texas
newspaper he’d rather leave un
named, penned the book despite
warnings from friends who said
Cowboys fans “don’t have a very
good sense of humor.”
So the book cover carries an aster
isk near “Semi-Official” to later ex
plain it is “completely unauthorized,
untouched and untainted by Dallas
Cowboys’ hands.”
Cowboy spokesman (Teg Aiello in
Dallas said the team is “looking for
ward to” the book’s distribution.
“Love us or hate us but don’t ig
nore us,” he said. “We will view this
in great humor. It’s one of those
back-handed compliments.”
The book highlights several of the
lesser-known facts about the Cow
boys, as well as well-known items like
the Cowboys play in Irving instead
of Dallas and if they are “so rich, so
powerful, why can’t they fix the hole
in t he roof of their stadium?”
But it mostly dredges up things
some Cowboy fans might like to for
get. For example:
• In 1975, after the Redskins
whipped the Cowboys in overtime,
30-24, the Texas congressional dele
gation urged Congress to pass a res
olution banning further Cowboy
embarrassments, but it failed by a
vote of 412-23.
• The roots of the Cowboys-
Redskins rivalry go back to the days
when Texas oilman Clint Murchison
bought the rights to the “Hail to the
Redskins” song and used it to black
mail Redskins owner George Mar
shall into a 1960 NFL meeting vote
to approve the awarding of a NFL
franenise to Murchison in Dallas.
• The Cowboys hold Super Bowl
records for most penalties in a game
(12 against Denver in 1978) and
most yards penalized (131 against
Baltimore in 1971).
• Murchison sold the the Cow-
boys and the remaining 65 years on
the lease for Texas Stadium for $80
million — “not a bad return on a
$600,000 investment” — to wealthy
“Bum” Bright and two other Dallas
businessmen.
iGothic sand castle sculpture sets record
United Press International
SAN DIEGO — A team of sculp-
ftors built what they call the world’s
largest sand castle, a model of King
Arthur’s Camelot, standing more
than 29 feet high and 1 18 feet long.
But, according to plan, a bull
dozer moved in Tuesday to flatten it.
The castle, carved Sunday from a
hill of sand dumped on the shore at
Pacific Beach, was built by a team of
sand sculptors assembled by Sand
Sculptors International.
The group of sculptors spent the
entire weekend building the castle,
using tools ranging from shovels to
palette knives.
“Camelot is a fantasy,” said Gerry
Kirk, 46, a member of the group.
When finished, the pile of sand
had been transformed into a gothic
city perched atop a mountain and
dominated by a domed palace
topped with a spire.
“This is the project to beat,” said
Kirk, who added that Camelot broke
the record for the biggest sand
sculpture which his group first set in
1977.
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