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Students. Faculty. Staff.
Now get big savings on
Texas Instruments Portable
Professional Computer.
The TI Portable Professional Computer is
every bit as powerful as the desktop TI
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on-into your career. It’s identical to it in
every way except size: 128K bvtes of RAM,
expandable to 768K. Five expansion slots.
Room for one or two floppy diskette drives.
Or move all the way up to a 10 megabyte
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\bu get the superior keyboard. High resolu
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You gain: In portability. In convenience. You
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Portable Professional Computer
MEMORY
SIZE
FLOPPY
DRIVES
COLOR MONITOR
MONOCHROME MONITOR
SUG.
RETAIL
SPECIAL
PRICE
SUG.
RETAIL
SPECIAL
PRICE
128K
ONE
$2,895
$1,345
$2,295
$ 995
128K
TWO
$3,295
$1,495
$2,695
$1,175
25SK
TWO
,$3,465
$1,595
$2,865
$1,295
Texas A&.M is among the very few selected to participate in
this unprecedented Texas.Instruments promotion. To get your
TI Portable Professional Computer at unbelievably low prices,
go to the Lobby of the Texas Instruments building in College
Station at 3801 Harvey Road. Bring your University I.D.,
along with a money order or certified check for the amount
of your purchase plus 5.125% sales tax.
Software
DESCRIPTION
SUG.
RETAIL
SPECIAL
PRICE
MS-DOS 2.1
$ 75 00
$ 45.00
MS-BASIC
$ 40.00
$ 24.00
MS-C0B0L
$750.00
$450.00
MS-PASCAL
$300.00
$180.00
MS-FORTRAN
$500.00
$300.00
MULTIPLAN
$250.00
$150.00
EASYWRITER II SYSTEM
$395 CO
$237.00
Don’t wait. Supplies are limited.
Offer ends March 15, 1985.
LOBBY HOURS: 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
8:00 a.m.-2::00 p.m. Saturday
SUCCESS THE
FASHIONED WAY.
OLD
. WORK.
Luby’s Cafeterias, Inc., operating 80 cafeterias in Texas, Oklahoma and
New Mexico, is looking for twenty people to enter its management
training program in December and March.
To qualify, you must:
• Be at least 22 years old
• Be willing to relocate
• Have a stable employment history
• Be college educated or have
equivalent experience
• Have little or no food service
experience
You will receive:
• $19,200 starting salary
• Company funded profit sharing/
retirement
• Group health, life and disability
insurance
This is a serious offer by an established and rapidly growing company We
invite you to call or send your resume and find out more about us. You will be
amazed at the proven earnings potential of a career with Luby’s.
INTERVIEWING IN YOUR PLACEMENT CENTER
ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 & 7
Luby’s Cafeterias, Inc. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange with sales
exceeding $175 million last year.
your advertising dollars do better in
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Doctors hope
baby will live
after transplant
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Doctors at Texas
Children’s Hospital Tuesday said
they were “cautiously optimistic”
that an 11-week-old infant suffering
from immune deficiency syndrome
would survive an experimental bone
marrow transplant operation.
The infant, identified only as
Agnes Theresa, was born Oct. 28
without the ability to combat dis
eases.
Doctors on Dec. 11 transplanted
two ounces of bone marrow from
the baby’s 6-year-old sister in hopes
that Agnes’ system then would begin
producing her own ability to fight
infection.
Since the transplant, Agnes has
grown four pounds and three inches
and now weighs 12 pounds, 10
ounces and measures 28-‘A inches,
the hospital said in a statement.
“Agnes Theresa appears to be my
most successful transplant patient to
date,” Dr. William T. Shearer, direc
tor of the David Center at Texas
Children’s Hospital, said.
The center is named after Hous
ton’s so-called “Bubble Boy,” who
also suffered from severe immune
deficiency syndrome and lived vir
tually all of his 12 years in a plastic
germ-free bubble. Complications
following a bone marrow transplant
forced physicians to free David from
the bubble. He died last Feb. 22.
Agnes’ progress has been so good
have be
doctors have been able to remove a
special tube in her heart that was in
serted in case she needed additional
drugs to combat reaction to the mar
row transplant.
“The baby’s growth told us weeks
before the laboratory tests turned
positive that an early and powerful
immunological reconstitution was
taken place,” he said.
Shearer said it would be another
month before doctors can say for
certain whether the initial progress
would be sustained.
Unlike David, whose bone mar
row transplant was not a perfect
match, Agnes Theresa’s was perfect,
doctors said.
It was the second such operation
at Texas Children’s Hospital.
Official says
water bill needs
modifications
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The water bill before
the Legislature needs revisions to
meet the needs of farmers and
ranchers, a Texas Farm Bureau offi
cial said.
John Baker of Temple, chairman
of the bureau’s water policy commit
tee, said the main problems are wa
ter rights, the formation of water
districts not controlled locally and
the control of ground water.
“We believe the key issue in new
water legislation for farmers and
ranchers will be to maintain the
existing ownership of ground water
rights and to give no further
grounds regarding surface water
rights,” Baker said at a Farm Bureau
luncheon.
The House Committee on Natu
ral Resources continued its review of
the water package put together by
Gov. Mark White, Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby and Speaker Gib Lewis.
Baker said underground water
should remain the property of the
landowner and the state should not
regulate underground water conser
vation districts. The Farm Bureau
would rather see the districts con
trolled on a local level, he said.
Other issues of concern to the
Farm Bureau are conservation pro
gram research, agricultural loan
programs, provisions on bays and es
tuaries, future water storage facili
ties and water quality and pollution,
Baker said.
The bay and estuaries provision in
the water bill is of major concern to
farmers and ranchers, especially
those who use reservoir water, he
said. Coastal interests want any wa
ter bill to include protection of
fresh-water flow to bays and estua
ries.
During the 1984 drought. Baker
said, Gulf Coast rice growers were
hurt when reservoir water was sent
downstream to help shell fish nurse
ries.
“The consequence was less water
for rice growers at a critical time in
their production cycle,” Baker said.
Farm Bureau President S.M.
True of Plain view said his group also
will monitor farm labor legislation,
tax changes and farm-to-market
road bills.
Around town
Fish camp counselor applications open
Student ‘Y’ Fish Camp has counselor applications available no*
through Feb. 28. Interested persons may pick them up on the sec
ond floor of the Pavilion. For more information, call 84a-1133.
Big Event looking for job requests
Bryan-College Station area residents and businesses are encour
aged to submit job request for the Big Event, a four-hour servia
project sponsored by Student Government. More than 5,000 Agg»
will participate in the project on March 2. To place a job request
contact Maritza Pena at 845-3051 in the Student < Government Office
Students may nominate professors
Forms for the Former Students Association Distinguished
Awards for teaching may be picked up in 802 Harrington Tower
Students mav nominate liberal arts professors for teaching, studen:
relations ana staff/faculty awards. Nominations are also being ae
cepted for the 1985 “Preferred Prof Award”. This award, spon
sored by the Cap & Gown Senior Honor Society, is presentedeaci
year to a faculty member exhibiting outstanding qualities of soviet,
leadership and scholarship. Nominations are due Friday by 5 pm.is
208 Pavilion.
Low school scholarships offered to Aggies
Three tuition-free scholarships ate being offered to Texas A&M
ops
students wishing to study law at Baylor University. 1 heseare the jo-
Tu
seph Milton Nance scholarships available lor first year law student'
and renewable in the second and third years if the recipient main
tains a C +. Only students who have done all or most of their pre-b*
work at Texas A&M w ill lx* eligible. At the time of applying for
scholarship the student must have applied or be in the process of ap
plying to Baylor Law School. The application deadline is Feb. 8. For
forms and additional information, contact Dr. J.M. Nance at the His
tory Dept, in Harrington Tower.
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substantial
Senior honor society accepting members ! e s ,he 1
lUjlM Lnivei sitv
budget wri
Applications are now being accepted for membership iotoCapi
wn Senior Honor Society. Qualifications include a 3.25
Gown Senior Honor Society. Qualifications include a 3.25 GPR,"5
hours completed by Jan. 1, 1985 and active involvement in schol
arship, leadership and service activities. Information sheets avaiiablt
in Cap & Gown cubicle on the 2nd floor of the Pavilion, the libran
and at information sessions held Wednesday and Thursday at 7 puu
in 410 Rudder. Applications are due on fc’eb. 8 bv 5 p.m. in lb
YMCA.
Masquerade Ball scheduled Friday
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jrogram.
The Class of ’86 will present a Masquerade Ball on Friday froraS
p.m.-midnight. Tickets are $10 per couple and On sale now at the
, MSC.
Kemble
re “pain!
toney pro
nittee men
location as
anomic assei
Duchesses needed tor Cotton Pageant
Kemble i
Stion hikes
I realistic an
ilion.”
Applications are now available for duchesses to the 51st Annual
Pageant. Any campus organization is invited to enter aeon-
, as well as sororities and fraternities. The winner receives a
$500 scholarship to TAMU. Entry fee Ls $40. The pageant willk
held March 29 and 30. For applications and information, call Patrice
at 764-7133.
I Texas s
||nnong the
iber hour, a
Writing contest accepting entries
le Texas A&M Writing Contest will be accepting poetry and
stories from graduate and undergraduate students from
Entries can be sent through the campus or delivered di
sh Department maUroom. Address entries to: The
Contest. Students may submit up to three
ed and
or one short story. All entries must be typed and must
student’s name on (he poems or short stories. A 3x5 in-
iould include name, aadress and phone number. The
up to 15 poems and up to 5 short stories, avail-
item for this column, come by The Battalion office in
Panel is questionin
care of discharged
state mental patients
Associated Press
“These are vital issues to agricul
ture because they affect our costs
and the way we farm,” True said.
True said some farmers and
ranchers will have a hard time com
plying with new pesticide regula
tions, especially those in high density
population areas.
Agriculture Commissioner Jim
Hightower has put together a pesti
cide regulation package that some
farmers say would be costly to imple
ment.
AUSTIN — “Serious questions”
exist about whether the state pro
vides adequate care for discharged
mental patients, according to a panel
monitoring court-ordered im
provements in Texas’ mental hospi
tals.
In a report issued Monday, the
three-member panel said it had
doubts about whether hospitalized
patients are getting better care, even
though the state met the first of four
court-ordered deadlines and now
has more staff and fewer patients at
its eight hospitals.
The panel cited recent newspaper
coverage about patients being bused
to Houston, dropped off at a bus sta
tion and left to fend for themselves.
That and reports of inadequate
after-care service in Austin “raise se
rious questions about the mental
health delivery system’s current ca
pacity to adequately serve and main
tain clients who have been dis
charged from the hospitals,” the
report said.
The panel also said mental health
workers in the eight state mental
hospitals are suffering from “serious
morale problems.”
The persistence of those problems
raises questions about whether the
measures taken by the Texas De-
artment of Mental Health and
ental Retardation to meet the first
pa
M
deadline are “having the desired
feet of improving the quality ofc
for mental patients,” the panels*
The department is operating 1
der an order by U.S. District H
Barefoot Sanders of Dallas. W
der requires each mental he*
worker to be caring for no in #|1
than five patients during the •
and no more than 10 at nij
September.
Department officials have $
they plan to achieve the news
patients ratios by discharging P 1
tients whenever possible rattier^
by hiring additional workers.
The officials agreed to meet t'
new staff-to-patient ratios by red 11
ing patient rolls by 352 or hiringS"
workers every three months.
The panel reported the dep^
ment met the first deadline by^
ducing by 369 the number of md 1 ®
patients and by hiring 70 mfl 15
health workers from May throtf
October 1984.
The panel said it reviewed reco 1 *
of patients at Austin State Hospi 1
and Terrell State Hospital in an
tempt to determine the kindoftf
received by discharged patients.
The records noted where the?
tient would be living upon dischaff
and showed, in almost all cases,ih
an outpatient appointment hadb^
scheduled with a community agein 1
the panel said.
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