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Valley TV Service Authorized Zenith sales & service Also service most other makes Located in back of K-Mart 1501 FM 2818 #327 696-1479 Af j. sC. ca ** ' n: c\ 'X 846-4234 O Where You Can Always See The Beef Fajita Special $3«95' $2.95 Pitcher of Beer $2.50 Skaggs Shopping Center Call in Order 846-4234 ' INTERESTED IN REAL ESTATE? * THE TEXAS A&M REAL ESTATE CLUB WILL INTEREST YOU! ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING WED., FEB. 20,1985 RUDDER, RM.401 7:00 P.M. Alone and Pregnant? * discuss all options * Confidential counseling * Free pregnancy test * Maternity care and adoption services 1-800-392-3807 Homes of St. Mark Houston, Texas All faiths served m The Boot Barn JUSTIN ROPERS $75 o ° Brown-Black-Tan Also available in Gray, Cloud Gray, Navy, Blue, Cloud Blue & Red forSZS 50 . 2.5 Miles East of Brazos Center on FM 1179 (Briarcrest Dr.) Mon-Sat 9.30-6:00 822-0247 CO-OP FAIR On Monday, February 25, the employers listed below will have booths in Zachry Engineering Center. These employers will be primarily interested in hiring co-op students, but if you are interested in either summer employment or full time employment, please feel free to stop by. The Co-op will be held between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. with the exception Of a lunch break from 12:15 to 1:00. EMPLOYER Baker Sand Control General Dynamics Houston Lighting & Power Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. LTV Aerospace & Defense Company MCI Telecommunications Corp. McNeil Consumer Products NASA/Johnson Space Center Texas Utilities Generating Company Texas Instruments Union Carbide Corp. Weyerhaeuser Co. LOCATION Houston, Texas Ft. Worth, Texas Houston, Texas Austin, Texas Dallas, Texas Richardson, Texas Round Rock, Texas Houston, Texas Dallas, Texas Dallas, Texas Texas City, Texas Tacoma, Washington Page 4/The Battalion/Tuesday, February 19, 1985 mm — Pornography, violence topic of NOW lecture By TRAYCE BERTLING Reporter Pornography and violence toward women will be problems discussed by Dr. Wendy Stock, a Texas A&M psychology professor, in a lecture at Y p.m. today at the College Station Community Center. Stock will show a slide presenta tion from various magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, Playboy and hard core pornography magazines such as Hustler. The purpose of the showing is to display how some segments of the media are degrading women. Stock said. “This is not an anti-sex crusade,” Stock said. “This is an objection to making violence look erotic.” She said she wants to familiarize the public with the popularization of the abuse of women in the media. The serious problem of violence against women is being made into something cute and funny in mag azines and advertisements, Stock said. She also said one out of every two married women has been beaten by her husband. Pornographic magazines are try ing to create an illusion that women are sex objects, Stock said, “We need to rethink how we are depicting sex,” she said. Stock also will discuss adult and child pornography and the effects it has on society. The lecture is sponsored by the Brazos County National Organiza tion for Women and will be given during the regular monthly meeting of NOW. All NOW meetings are open to the public. New club provides prof, student forum on regional issues By CHERYL CLARK Reporter Water problems and other re gional issues are the focus of the newly formed Regional Studies Club. The Regional Studies Club, orga nized by Dr. Robert Cornish and stu dents in the urban and regional planning department, was created to provide a way for students and fac ulty to exchange ideas and discuss g roblems related to regional areas, ornish said. A regional area is a natural geo physical region such as the Hill Country around Austin, he said. “The purpose of the club,” Corn ish said, “is a forum for regional to pics.” “People can learn more than they normally would about the problems faced by regional planners.” The club meets at noon the last Thursday of each month at different locations each meeting. Both faculty and students are welcome to join the club. Cornish said the Regional Studies Club, a University-recognized orga nization, is the only club on campus that has faculty and students as members. Cornish said professors and stu dents with various interests, includ ing geography, agricultural econom ics ana civil engineering, have attended the lectures. Senators propose mortgage reforms Associated Press AUSTIN — Two lawmakers on Monday proposed a constitutional amendment that would allow second mortgages, freeing Texans to bor row on the equity built up on their homes. Sen. Chet Brooks, D-Pasadena, and Rep. Debra Danburg, D-Hous- ton, said their proposal would not put borrowers in undue jeopardy of losing their homes to creditors. Under the current homestead exemption law, a Texan can borrow against his home only for a first mortgage or home improvement loan. A home also can be sold to clear a tax debt. Brooks said second mortgages are needed by families who have “paid 18-20 years on the property, nave their first lien down to $15,000- $20,000, have a home worth $70,000 and want to send the child to college or they have a catastrophic illness.” “We’re only trying to let people use equity for a purpose that is im portant to them,” he said at a news conference. “This allows Texans to borrow on the equity of their homes,” said Dan burg. “The money is rightfully theirs.” Texas is the only state that bars second mortgages, according to Brooks and Ms. Danburg. The Texas Consumer Association says that unique status has served the state well. “The homestead exemption has played a role in the economic stabil ity of the state and has worked well- for Texas citizens,” the association said in a position paper. Danburg said second mortgages could be used to help Texans start businesses. But the consumer association said loans for new businesses, and most other purposes, now are readily available. “The reason lenders will not make most new business loans now is that they realize the high risk involved and yet they want to encourage peo ple to mortgage the family home stead on propositions with the same degree of failure,” the association said. Brooks said opponents of second mortgages are using decades-old “horror stories” involving old ladies losing their homes. “Almost all of them involved things that were against the law or unethical in the first place,” he said of the “horror stories.” The consumer association main tains the bill is favored only by “large national corporations who see Texas homesteads as ripe for picking.” These corporations include, Citi corp, Sears, Transamerica and other lenders who have formed Texans for Home Value Access to push le galized second mortgages. House Speaker Gib Lewis said Monday he is not ready to take a stand on second mortgages. “I think it’s something we ought to let the committee look at and study,” he said. What’s up in 701 Tuesday ACCIE ALLIANCE: will meet at 7 p.m Guest speaker will be Frank Thomas. AGRONOMY SOCIETY: will meet at 7:15 p.m. in 10H and Crop Sciences. Dr. Fambrough will speak on su^ usage in an oH and gas lease. BIG EVENT: will meet at 7 p.m. in 704 Rudder. Aik. leer organizations need to attend. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT: will have two mini-courses; mg Quoted Material” at 1 p.m. in 206 O&M and “Pets* ing Effectively” at 2 p.m. in 206 O&M. FAITH IN ACTION: will hold an organizational nietti;. 7 p.m. in 507 A/B Rudder. This is a nomdenomink; service club. Both students and non-students are web IU—REC SPORTS: horseshoe doubles entries close at 6 in 159 E. Kyle. MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: will show “Close Encountw the Third Kind” at 8 p.m. in 601 Rudder. Admi® free. MSC HOSPITALITY/1985 MISS TAMU SCHOLARS? PAGEANT: will hold a contestant talent preview atuij in the MSC Lounge. POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIETY & PI SIGMA ALP1; will meet at 7 p.m. in 401 Rudder. New members art couraged to attend. POLO CLUB: will hold practice 6 p.m.-10 p.m. at L Pearce Pavilion. Everyone is invited to watch. PRE—MED/PRE—DENT SOCIETY: will meet at 7:3(1}; in 201 Harrington. Kathleen O’Brien of Scholl Coll® Podiatry will s)x*ak. STUDENT COUNSELING SERVICE: will hold a du, reer relationship workshop on “Role Exceptions and is Role Stereotypes’' at 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m. Locations van terested couples call 845-165 l. TAMU FLYING CLUB: will meet at 7:30 p.m. Clubhouse. Non-members welcome. Call 696-93^: more information. TAMU ONE—WHEELERS: will meet at 6 p.m. in they Newcomers welcome. Call 260-1988 for more infonaatid TEXAS A&M ROADRUNNERS: will meet at 7 p.m-itl Rudder. Mike Sherman w ill talk about “Carbohydrates the Runners.” Wh think drink; or tak handi are all “It’ ine u YOUNG DEMOCRATS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 302k der. New members welcome. Wednesday BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROGRAM BLACK NESS: presents a panel discussion at 7 p.m. in RtidderGj 693-2783 for mor •e information. CLASS OF ’85 RING DANCE: decorations committee !«t| ing for all those interested at 8 pan. in 410 Rudder b 846-5689 DEL RIO HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 8:30 dje 502 Rudder. ENGLISH DEPARTMENTns holding a mini-course on voiding Wordiness” at 1 1 a.m. in 135 Blocker. HISTORY DEPARTMENT: will show “My Son John’: p.m in 100 H E< X MSC HOSPITALITY—1985 MISS TAMU SCHOLA PAGEANT : will hold a Mr. Aggie contest at noonii!!:<| MSC lounge. ON—CAMPUS CATHOLICS: will meet at 9:30 p.ra.inJI lounge to discuss Ash Wednesday and the Lenten sea STUDENT ADVOCATES OF FREE ENTERPRISE meet at 7 p.m. at 501 Rudder. STUDENT ENGINEERS COUNCIL: will hold ana? neering careers seminar, 9 a.m.-l 1:30 a.m. and p.m., in 224-225 MSC. TAMU SAILING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 410Rues Everyone welcome — no experience needed. TEXAS A&M REAL ESTATE CLUB: will meet at 7 pur 401 Rudder. Call 693-3089 for more information. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will meet 6 p.m.-7:20p: at the A&M Presbyterian Church. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Bum 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days priori sired publication date,. Optimization Lecture on problem-soli, mathematics at 8 By MEG CADIGAN Reporter How do you figure out how many bartenders are needed at the Dixie Chicken to keep all the customers happy on a Thursday night? Optimi zation. Optimization, a mathematical technique used to solve finite prob lems, and its applications to linear programming will be the topic of a lecture given by Dr. John Mote, as- trial engineering doctoraloK said a common type of optic?* problem is the backpackpro^f In a backpack problem ail must fill a backpack with^1 pounds of essential equipnrf ^ mization helps the person to** which items it would bemo!! : '| cial to take, Michels said. Two other types of opt®?: Michels said, are queing sistant professor of business analysis, tonight at 8 in 156 Blocker. Linear programming involves computerizing sets of equations to solve complex problems in a very short time, Mote said. Joe Michels, a Texas A&M indus- namic programming. He said this mathematic?* nique is used mainly in the a?, statistics, industrial engineer?' mathematics. Mote said that during hit/j he would concentrate on tltf- j ematics involved in optit#’* a more sophisticated level Senator pushes timeshare regulatio Associated Press AUSTIN — A lawyer for the state said Monday high-pressure promot ers who refer to customers as “ups” or “units” are selling timeshares in Texas. “They’re either the best salesmen in the country or the best con art ists,” said Assistant Attorney General William Goodman. weeks a year and want for two weeks to go to some far-off place.” One example of a timeshare, which Farabee’s bill would regulate, would be to buy two weeks on an an nual basis at a vacation resort. There are arrangements where a person can exchange his two weeks in Colo rado, for instance, for two weeks in Florida. Farabee, D-Wichita Falls, also cited cases where a timeshare is sold and then the corporation selling the timeshares fails and the buyers don’t get their money back. already has won a prize. 0? 7 processor” turned out to ^ knives, Goodman said. Goodman testified before the Senate Economic Development Committee on a bill by Sen. Ray Fa rabee, who said timeshares “appeal to the desire of people who work 50 “Our biggest problem with the ex change program is overbooking . . . and the only time you can get two weeks in Florida is the middle of the summer,” Farabee said. His bill would allow a customer three days after a sale to change his or her mind and get out of the deal, unless the transaction had been ar ranged by a licensed real estate agent. Goodman said most timeshares are advertised through direct mail or by telephone, and often tell a pro spective customer that the customer He said firms will bring® consumers at the same tin® “you’ve never seen such sf cated, intense, high-presst® niques.” After three hours of Goodman said, "consumer) 1 exhausted that they’re up.” “The bottom line, the wk« ! ject is not to give consumers^ make an intelligent decision