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Saturday, Jan.2<> Amnesty Internationa! Road run no rs will hi>kl a
5 km “Runt Against Torture. v The race begins at 8:30 a.m. on Joe
Routt Slvd, at G. Rollie White. An awards ceremony wall begin at
9:20 a.m. at the starting line. Registration is $6 in advance and $8 on
the day of the race. Forms can be obtained from A! or Roadrunners
at 216 MSC. Proceeds will go to Amnesty International USA.
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OCA looking for apartment reps
Off-Caropus Aggies has positions open for apartment council
presidents in the A&M community. AGF’s are responsible for off
campus poster distribution. Inteiested {persons can sign up in 223
Pavilion or call 845-0688 for details
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: • Deha Sigma Theta is presenting their First Annual Founders'
Day luncheon on Sunday. Jan. 27 at 2 p.m. in 201 MSC. Dr. Edith
Irley Jones, president of the National Medical Association will be the
guest speaker. Reservations can be made until Thursday, Ian.24. For
more information contact Teresa Brashear at 266-0904 or Karen
Williams at 260-8389.
Fellowship offered for spring semester
The W.G. Mills Fellowship (iomnmt.ee is receiving applications
tor the W.G. Mills Fellowship in Hydrology for the spring semester
of 1985. Fellowships in hydrology will lie used to provide financial
'Rapport to four or more highly qualified graduate students in hydro
logy. Outstanding students interested in hydrology, should call Eve
lyn Teaff at 845-1851 for information and details.
Sports car club hosts aufocross Sunday
The TAMU Sports Gar Club will hold Spring Autocross I Sun-
A^t 27 phe event is open to everyone and competition will be
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''within cars of the same class. Registration begins at 9 a.m. in Zac hr y
Parking lot 51. Timed runs begin at i p.m. t here will be a registra
tion fee and trophies awarded.
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To submit art item for this column, come by The Battalion office in
216 Reed McDonald.
Lawmakers focus
on drinking bills
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Several bills intro
duced in the Texas Legislature this
year would combat drunk driving,
and the lawmaker sponsoring three
of them says he hopes the state’s
“frontier mentality” is enough of a
memory for action to be taken.
But Rep. Gary Thompson, D-Abi-
lene, admits that changing some laws
will mean bucking Texas tradition.
Thompson has introduced bills to
ban happy hours, prohibit drinking
while driving and raise the drinking
age from 19 to 21. Other lawmakers
have introduced proposals of their
own.
The federal government is pres
suring the states, with the threat of
withholding highway funds, to raise
the drinking age. The Texas Alco
holic Beverage Commission already
has banned two-for-one drinks in a
move against happy hours.
Thompson says outlawing open
containers in motor vehicles could
be the toughest fight.
Although some people might say
drinking oeer while driving is as
Texan as boots and blue jeans,
Thompson insists there is consider
able public support for such a ban.
“I did a poll in my district last ses
sion,” he said. “Positive response was
in the 80 percent range.
“Time after time, I have had
strangers, people on the streets, con
stituents come up to me and remark
how paradoxical it is to try to control
the effects of DWI (driving while in
toxicated) and still have no law that
forbids drinking while driving.”
Also in the fight is Sen. Bill Sarpa-
lius, D-Canyon, who has offered a
slightly different open container bill.
While Thompson's proposal
would ban all open containers, Sar-
palius would prohibit carrying an
open alcoholic beverage container
while driving or while a passenger
within five feet of the driver.
“In 12 percent of all fatal acci
dents on rural highways, an open
container of alcohol has been found
in one of the vehicles involved,” Sar-
E alius said. “No state’s drunk driving
iws are complete if they allow
drinking while driving.”
MSC Visual Arts Committee
cordially invites you to
an opening reception in conjunction with
The Robert Levers exhibition of
paintings and works on paper
MSC Gallery
7:00p.m. -8:30p.m.
Thursday, January 24
Exhibition continues through February 9.
Gallery hours are 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. daily.
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Sarpalius spearheaded the 1983
drive to toughen penalties on
drunken driving, including manda-
toryjail terms for some convictions.
Joining the fight will be Mothers
Against Drunk Driving. MADD in
1983 helped lobby lawmakers for
stiffer drunk driving penalties.
Marinelle Timmons, president of
the Texas MADD chapter, said pas
sage of an open container ban this
year “is our top priority” because
“we don’t think Texas will ever take
drunk driving seriously as long as it’s
legal to drink and drive.”
Thompson said his 21-year-old
drinking age bill has a chance of be
coming law. It includes a provision
to allow people under 21 to serve al
coholic beverages, he said, adding,
“That was a concern of some of the
opponents of the bill in the past.”
The happy hour ban legislation
comes on the heels of the Alcoholic
Beverage Commission’s Dec. 27 rul
ing which prohibited clubs, restau
rants and oars from offering two
drinks for the price of one.
The ruling stopped short, how
ever, of prohibiting other happy
hour gimmicks such as free drinks
for women, drinks twice as large as
normal or serving pitchers of drinks.
Although one newspaper column
ist branded Thompson’s happy hour
bill a “joy-killing measure,” the law
maker says it, too, is needed.
“The bill takes the decision of the
Alcoholic Beverage Commission to
its logical conclusion — doing away
with gimmicks that would encourage
people to overindulge,” he said.
The anti-liquor legislation faces a
number of obstacles, backers say, in
cluding the Legislature’s past failure
to act and possible opposition from
liquor lobbyists.
Last session. Speaker Gib Lewis
was criticized for stacking the House
Liquor Regulation Committee with
opponents of open container and
higher drinking age legislation.
The committee this year has the
same chairman, Rep. Billy Hall, D-
Laredo, but several new members.
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