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rrrrm Wig mm? g... p ..P p v a oJ MARCH 2,1985 Safer Than Sunshine! Get a jump on Spring Break with a rich, natural tan from College Station’s state-of-the-art tanning salon You can have that healthy, golden glow for a price that keeps your wallet in shape, too. Call today for an appointment. Our hours are: 9 a.m.-9 p.mr Monday through Saturday Perfect Tan Post Oak Square, Harvey Road 764-2771 Printer Month at Yes Computers! Buy a printer during February and get a free printer starter pack (includes package of paper and one printer ribbon). Join our new ribbon club. Just pick up a card each time you purchase a ribbon, we’ll mark your card. For each 5 ribbons you purchase, get one free. ' Have the Mac Takfe a Picture of your Sweetheart for Valentine’s Day. Using the Mac Vision digitizer, we will take pictures (live or from a photo) of you and your Valentine. Mac Vision will be available from February 1 through 28, so be sure to stop by! SINGLE MAC 128K $1795 MAC 512K $2295 MAC XL $ 3495 PACKAGE $2495 $2995 Computers PACKAGE INCLUDES APPLE MACINTOSH, MACWRITE/MACPAINT, APPLE IMAGEWRITER PRINTER, AND MAC EXTERNAL DISK DRIVE. 2553 Texas Avenue College Station 693-8080 All the catfish N you can eat for $5.95 Come by Padre Cafe on Catfish nights and get all the Mississippi Delta Catfish filets, french fries, cole slaw, and homemade rolls and tartar sauce you can eat for just $5.95. If you like fresh catfish, you’re going to love Padre Cafe. Catfish Nights--$5.95 Wednesday and Thursday 5 p.m. ’til close Dominik Drive College Station-BY-THE-SEA Page 6/The BattalionAThursday, February 28, 1985 I — JSpons Around town Spring election filing continues Filing for Spring elections will be held y till Friday in room 214 of the Pavilion. Hours to tile are: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. today and 9 a.in.-5 p.m. Thursday and Friday. Personnel deportment offers courses A “Personnel Management for Supervisors” course, sponsored by the Personnel Department will he held Thursday and Friday, meeting a.m.-l 1 a.m. each day in 211 YMCA. The intent of the course is to help experienced managers improve their working knowledge of personnel related matters. Heads of departments and similar administrative units may make reservations for their supervi sory personnel bv call ing Mercedes Gon/alez at 845-4153. After Hours offers driving course The TAMO After Hours Program will sponsor a Driver Safety Course Friday and Saturday. This course may be used to have cer tain traffic violations dismissed and to receive a 10 percent discount on automobile insurance. Registration is held 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday in 216 MSC. For more information, call 845-1515. Class of ’88 holds Ball Saturday The Class of '88 presents the Freshman Ball Saturday evening in the MSC Ballroom. T ickets are on sale from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Quad, Sbisa and the MSC. Price is $12.50 per couple. Come support your class. Auditions held for upcoming play Auditions for the Aggie Players production of “You Can’t Take It With You" will be held at 7 p.m. on March 4 in the I-ib t heatre in 144 Blocker. Auditions are open to all interested Aggies and will consist of cold readings from the plav and some short improvisation. More than 20 actors will be needed to cast the show. BSIf will sponsor spring revival The Aggie Baptist Student Union will hold a revival March 4-6 at the BSU beginning at 7:30 p.m. each night. The featured speaker is David George, an evangelist from Arlington. Texas. Kathy Baum frotn Richardson will provide the music. Polo clinic slafed for fhis weekend ig a Polo Training Found! polo dink Saturday and Sunday at Louis Pearce Pavilion will atioii ith in- The TAMU Polo (3ub is holdin PPHHHHi ay structors Gerry Hilt and Mike McCteary. The Polo Training Foun dation does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, however, those who participate must have sufficient riding experience to be able to take instruction in polo. The tost is $10 tor tne clinic and includes a bar-b-que on Saturday evening. Contact Susan at 696-3522 for more information. ■ OUC holds oufdoor conference fhis week Outdoor Recreation is sponsoring the Fourth Annual Outdoor Horizons Conference through Sunday. This conference is a series of seminars, workshops and special programs dedicated to outdoor rec reation, outdoor education, andf the environment. T opics include mountaineering, backpacking, rockclimbing, kayaking, camping, " outdoor recreation, at 845-1515. Bryan recreation accepting applications >licalions for ter safety insti uc tor. Applications may be obtained at the Bryan Rec reation Office (203 E. 29th St.) or the Bryan Aquatic Center behind Bryan High School field house. For more information, please con tact Corine Van, instructional Swim Supervisor, at 779-3341. Kiwanis’ planning pancake day Saturday The Kiwanis (Tubs of Bryan are sponsoring their 33rd Annual >av Saturday at the Brazos Center. Tne four dubs will Ik* serving all the pancakes you can eat, sausage, coffee and milk from J O u.m.-S p.m. Cost is $3 for adults and $2 for children. Proceeds support the community activities of the Kiwanis Clubs. To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald. ; ^t c o ^ i m iii | iiiii! in | n Alcohol awareness committee created By TAMARA BELL Staff Writer In response to students’ com ments on alcohol and drug use at Texas A&M, the Office of Student Services has created a committee aimed at educating students and fac ulty on this topic. “Some students said there was a problem on campus, at a greater de gree than most people think,” said Dr. J. Malon Southerland, assistant vice president of student services and chairman of the committee. Student, faculty and staff mem bers will be chosen next week for the committee from nominations sub mitted by organizations such as Stu dent Government, Residence Hall Association and Off-Campus Ag gies. When a committee for alcohol and drug awareness was first dis- cussed, Southerland said, a task force was chosen. The task force was to be for one semester to research the problem and report to Dr. John Koldus, vice president of student services. “But the problem deserves per manent attention,” Southerland said. “So a standing committee ap pointed this year with re-appoint- rnents next year was created to pro vide an on-going mechanism to gather information.” T he committee will be responsible for identifying the severity of the problem and suggesting ways to make students aware of those prob lems. The committee also will investi gate the possible raising of the drinking age from 19 to 21, and the effect this law might have on stu dents. “The University will go from one- fourth of the student body not of le gal drinking age to two-thirds,” Southerland said. A growing awareness of alcohol and drug abuse has generated not only the committee, but an alcohol and drug awareness week as well. The Office of Student Affairs will sponsor the three-day program be ginning March 4. “Although the two, the committee and the awareness week, aren’t con nected, it’s a nice coincidence which heightens the student’s awareness of this growing problem,” Southerland said. Mountaineer! to show slides of Mt. Everest By MEG CADIGAN Reporter T he leader of the 1982 ( Mount Everest expedition, I March, will give a slide presenii of the mountain ascent inf der at 7 p.m. today. The program is sponsoredfcj Prizes: Rules: , prinls will ' and Morel f-t-g-gd Memorial Student Center Recreation Committee. In Travehimes magazine,! said the Everest climb was “at tic team effort.” Although two peoplerea summit of Mount Everest,! est point on Earth, fourmemlie the expedition people werei an avalanche. "Climbing is a matter ofn ing your opportunities,”M “From a mountaineering viem we did bloody well.” Thurs 7:30 ( 701 H from Rena Koesler, the conimittetj viser, said she has met Mardp viouslv. She said he isastronp of leader who is “concerned i the individuals in his group.” In I raveltimes, March said, 1i i one tiling you nnist do is separ, I you i own emotional feelings« me Hint.mi. Foi a leader, a deal another logistic problem affee f the success. I told the lads befort | lef t that die risk was extremelyr but that we would continue, wi we lost someone.” Alin the four climbersdkd|ilI avalanche, March said he lefttki cision of w hether or not to conn up to each person. “We had our backs to the wall hard place,” he said in theanide “The risk was even higher ik usual last year, even for Even There would be no hard let against those who wanted to away from it.” Though the climb was success! March said the experience cosily. “You don’t lead an expedidoi which people die without pa heavily, he said. Nuclear plant opening dela could be cos| Associated Press DALLAS —The delay in Comanche Peak nuclear power pin could cost Texas Utilities Elecm Co. $12 million and ratepayers jump in their electric bills beforei plant’s total price tag is tallied. Texas Utilities may soon si^ contract for the right to buy stanf) power this summer because oft! delay in the plant’s opening, cot pany officials said Tuesday. As majority owner of the post plant, Texas Utilities hascomeic der fire f rom citizens and regulam over alleged safety and construct^ faults at the plant, located nearCk Rose, about 90 miles southwesl Dallas. The delay in licensing the fadS has helped push the estimatedtoi of the plant from $670 million loi most $4.6 billion, and the openiij date back until early 1986. The $4.6 billion price ta include the power purdias agreements discussed by the coc pany Tuesday. Aggie Ticket Call 8- Call 8- Seac Jacl 90 < <! How much of those costs yvilb paid by consumers will eventuallj decided by the FUC, which willjf termine what share is fairly borne: ratepayers and what share by il« company and its shareholders, state official said Wednesday. “We’d look into the reasonable ness of buying this power, if tb power is needed and the costs re; sonably incurred,” PUC g counsel Jacqueline Holmes sa: Wednesday. Negotiations are nearly coi with the Texas Municipal Pouf Pool and the Lower Colorado Ri'* Authority to buy 400 megawatts!! standby power this summer, Tetf Utilities spokesman Dick Rantf said Tuesday. Ramsey said the company will ft 1 7 percent to 33 percent more forlb' power than it would cost for elect!* tty generated from its own system. The Texas Municipal PowerPool which is Texas Municipal Pont' Agency and Brazos Electric Pouf 1 Cooperative, is expected to provitk 200 megawatts of standby capacii 1 for about $7 million, Ramsey said. The Lower Colorado River p thority, a wholesale electricity plier in Central Texas, is expected: provide another 200 megawatts'- standby capacity for about $5 ni lion, he saia. Meanwhile, a government cons* tant has said he is unable to ’ mine if the Comanche Peakp safe. His questions could required Texas Utilities to conduct a map analysis of the piping system fficialss; pipe supports, officials said.