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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1985)
i NEED COPIE TODAI iMSC Print 'n' Copy room 221D-MSC College Station to install 6 new traffic signals Friday is the Last Day to submit to The Texas A&M Writing Contest Undergraduates and Graduate Students Poetry and Short Stories Entries should be sent to the English Dept. Mail Room from Feb. 4-15 Sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, Publisher of Nine Poems Questions: Contact Melissa Romine 693-1904 Dan Bitting 589-3145 A LITTLE OF YOUR TIME COULD SAVE A LIFETIME AGGIE BLOOD DRIVE RUDDER*PAVHJON*COMMONS*SBISA FEB 18—21 OPA*STUDENT GOVERNMENT* APO GREAT ICE CREAM AND FOOD FEBRUARY SPECIA SWEnsen’S MORE THAN YOU CAN EAT FOR ONLY $ 3" (reg. $6.15 value) GET A 1/3 LB. BURGER PLATE WITH THICK CUT WEDGE FRIES, A SUPER SUNDAE WITH YOUR CHOICE OF TOPPINGS AND A TALL FROSTED MUG OF DR. PEPPER.* ALL FOR ONLY $3" PLUS TAX. CHEESE AND/OR BACON EXTRA. *Dr. Pepper is a registered trademark. Not good with any other offer or discount Limit 5 per coupon Expires 2/28/85 ^^yCulpepper By MICHAEL CRAWFORD Staff Writer Friday AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION: will hokUf Winter meeting Friday-Sunday. Registration is Frith/ at Francis I lail. Cali 845-d368 to It will soon take longer to travel down Southwest Parkway. The Col lege Station City Council Thursday authorized the construction of six traffic signals — four to he on South west Parkway. Director of Capital Improvements Ehey Ash said vehicle and pedes trian traffic on Southwest Parkway had increased, creating the need for the signals. The four signals will be placed at the intersections of South west Parkway and Anderson Street, Glade Street, Southwood Drive and Welsh Avenue. Construction will he completed in October. Two other signals will be built at the intersections of Wellborn Road and Holieman Drive, and FM 2818 and Welsh Avenue. Ash said the signals were part of a five-year capital improvement pro gram begun in 1981. The city will pay $251,()()() to Houston-!) ased Electric Power Specialists for die sig nals. The city will pay an additional $82,253 to another company for the traffic signal controllers. The council also authorized the Parks and Recreation Department to develop plans for Richard Carter Park. The park, a sesquicentennial project of the city, is located at the corner of East Bypass Frontage Road and Brazoswood Drive. Part of the proposal lor the park’s development included a (iO loot tall flagpole to fly a 15 by 25 foot Texas Hag. I hat aspect of the plan drew crit icism front council members who wondered if the flagpole’s height would violate the city’s proposed sign ordinance. The ordinance, if approved, would limit signs along Highway 21 to 50 feet. City Attorney Cathy Locke said, “It’s a question of whether or not you want to live by the same ordinance you’re imposing on the rest of the city.” The program was approved unanimously, hut Mayor Gary Halter asked the Parks Department to, “Give a little thought to tne flag.” f jmrauos oi more infatfflp AICHE & ITE: will hold a “mixed hash” at 8 p.m. intk0 wood Apartment’s party room. All Chem. E saiHEi invited. CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will meet at 7 pr 108 Harrington. CLASS OF ’88: will hold a Valentine’s Bash 8 p.m. to 12;. at the Q-huts. Cost is $2. LUTHERAN COLLEGIANS: will meet at 7 p.m.atDr,!-/ mel’s house for games and movies night. LUTHERAN STUDENT MOVEMENT: will meet at 5 J to go on regional retreat in University LutheranQi^ Can 260-1830 tor more information. MESQUITE HOMETOWN CLUB: will hold a Valent party beginning at 8 p.m. at the president’s apt. Call? 8066 for more information. NAVIGATORS: will meet at 8 p.m. in Lounge B-Corps.fe; A film will be shown on Col. Bottomly, a Vietnamii^ : pilot. STUDENT PEACE ACTION: will sponsor Bill fe, sjreuking on the “Realities of the Nicaraguan Revolt! at 8 p.m. in the College Station Community Center* 102. Call 846-1 104 for more information. ^ TAMU CHESS CLUB: will meet 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.inl. Rudder. Players of all strengths welcome. Pleasefe hoard if possible. TEXAS A&M EMERGENCY CARE TEAM: willhavelJ pressure testing at the MSC Post Office for all whoart|: terested. VOICE OF PROPHECY: will meet at 7 p.m. to studyfe.; and faith of Abraham. (.all 846-9598 for more uilkf lion. , non-i fe suppo donati 1 and 1 Ijects,” I comm Abe I an acti I shekel comes Saturday TEXAS A&M LACROSSE: will play on the main drillM I p.m. amma i jured I mals. “W< Unite* I of vet !but th The l the sF Sunday CORPUS CHRISTI HOMETOWN CLUB: will hold J temoon BBQ at Hensel Park for all members. 5075 for more information. TAMU ASSOCIATION OF AMATEUR ASTRONOMY will meet at 7 p.m. in 111 Heldenfels. John West wills^ on meteor observing. TEXAS A&M LACROSSE: will play on the main drillfe 11 a.m. j coupe | an an ; for a ! shot, t “Tf McCu able i health ikes.” Th* from ers to “W Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Banal: 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days priortoi sired publication date. part-t Texat McCu mute mals. “I t fortui Chinese New Year festivitle us, s; Pat ploye requi to be held in MSC Saturda By WAYNE L. GRABEIN Reporter While many people are accus tomed to ringing in the new year only once, one group will toast the arrival of 1985 a second time. The Chinese Student Association will celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year, which begins next Wednesday, Saturday night in 201 MSC. Wen-Liang Kuo, the association’s president, said that in addition to a banquet of traditional Chinese dishes the festivities include a raffle, a Chinese musical instrument dem onstration, a choral performance and a “mini-show” of comical skits. “One of the evening’s highlights will he the colorful Lion Dance,” Kuo said. In this traditional dance, Kuo said, performers move two brightly decorated lions to the rhythm of ac companying drums. Each lion must be handled by two people. Guests can spend the remainder of the evening dancing or playing casino games including Mahjong, Chinese dominoes and Oriental dice, Kuo said. Descriptions and rules for the games will be provided. Using the Chinese Lunar Cal endar, the Chinese New Year begins on the date of the second new moon after the winter solstice. Twelve creatures, ranging from dragons to dogs, rotate each year as the symbolic names in the 12-year cycle of the Chinese Lunar Zodiac. For example, 1985 is the year of the ox. According to ancient belief, peo ple born during the year of the ox are described as calm, quiet, express ive and mentally alert. Also, they of ten can be stubborn and are inclined to be eccentric and foolhardy. Kuo said the new year is a time of reunion for the Chinese. Tradition dictates that families spend the holi day evening together in their homes, dining on traditional dishes and pre senting “Hong Bau” or red enve lopes of money to the children, he said. The doors to the home are sealed with red paper to prevent the en- %% Photo by WAYNELw A sketch of a traditional Chinese door god provides a bad' ground for an invitation to the Chinese New Yearbanquetn be held Saturday. trance of evil spirits, Kuo said. On the paper are poems expressing good luck for the future. The celebration at Texas A&M will be as traditional as possible de spite its modern surroundings, Kuo said. The Chinese Lunar Ned Lest ival is open to the public/1 lor members of the ChineseS! Association are $5 and lid*] non-members are $fi. begins at (i p.m. Parking (continued from page 1) Plaza College Station, Texas handing out a lot of tickets to those who are parking in spaces reserved for the handicapped,” he says. “As far as a real parking problem, we don’t have one at SMU. At the police department we are trying to main tain good parking facilities, concen trating our efforts on the hani- capped parking and the girl’s parking situation.” Mike Pittman, of the university parking office at the LIniversity of Arkansas, says the bus system there has taken care of the parking prob lems. “We have three busses running on six routes,” Pittman says. “The busses service three apartment com plexes and really basically take care of any severe parking situation on campus. Ray James, head of r traffic at the University of I says the bus system therehelfj viate some of the parkingij ties, but students and complain. “ People basically just don't walk very far,” he says.‘Wl come to a big institutionsuclt] you should expect to haveto*l little. But some people don't