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Student liaison
positions open
The deadline to turn in applica
tions for the Chancellor’s Student
Advisory Board is April 17.
The 13-member board was
formed two years ago as a “mecha
nism of getting student input di
rectly into system administration
and the Board of Regents,” said Dr.
Malon Southerland, assistant vice
president of student services.
Madelon Yanta, vice chairman of
the board, said the group has
worked for increases in Interna
tional Student Services funding and
student health insurance, and also
lobbied last fall for a system-wide en
dorsement of Proposition 2.
“We have substantially increased
communication with the Board of
Regents,” she said.
dents at the different universities
within the system, he said.
Four positions are open for Texas
A&M representatives on the board.
To be eligible, a student must have
completed at least 27 hours of col
lege, attended A&M for at least one
semester, and have a 2.25 overall
grade point average.
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Applications are available at
following offices:
• Director of Student Activities
• Office of Student Affairs
• Office of the Commandant
• Office of the Director of the
Memorial Student Center
• Office of the Vice President for
Student Services
Southerland said the group is a
good way of facilitating communica
tion with the presidents of the insti
tutions.
The board also has fostered better
communication between the stu-
Completed applications should be
returned to Dr. John Koldus, vice
president for student services,
ml 10, YMCA Building. Interviews
will be held April 22-26, and the list
of 1985 CSAB members will be
posted April 26.
Coastal wildfires rage
across North Carolina
Associated Press
CRESWELL, N.C. — Wildfires
that stretched in a 25-mile line, con
suming 90,000 acres of coastal
brushlands and destroying about
two dozen homes, were “mostly con
tained” Monday, a North Carolina
forestry official said.
The outbreak in three eastern
counties “still poses a threat to un
burned adjacent areas,” said E.F.
porn, spokesman for the state Forest
Service. “The perimeter of the fire is
approximately 70 miles,” he said.
“About 75 percent of this area con
tains ground fire.
“Mostly contained means it is not
spreading. We think we have it down
... It’s really too smokey to see the
area yet.”
Fie added, “When the fire is con
trolled, it will probably take many
weeks to mop it up.”
Meanwhile, dry, windy weather
persisted and damage from a week
of fires across North Carolina
climbed toward $5 million. Joseph
Dean, tile state's public safety secre
tary, said the fires were the worst in
North Carolina since 1963.
Coastal tires also raged Monday
over 4,500 acres in South Carolina.
White arriveiwarpe
in Honduras?
with the bes
Associated Press
1 EGUCIGALPA, Hondura]
Gov. Mark White arrived in I
ras Monday, carrying400pounjl
barbecued beef for Texas Natio
Guard troops taking pari inq
games and kind words for Presii
Reagan's Central Anrerican[
“1 think the president isentitltJ
the support of the nation onitM
relating to foreign affairs," BQ/T)jOI
Presenting a service award to outgoing
Councilman Bill Scasta (left) is Bryan Mayor
Marvin Tate. Scasta, accompanied by his
Photo by PETER ROCHA
wife Delina, and outgoing Mayor Ron
Blatchley (right), next to his wife Ruth, both
received the award.
Bryan hosts farewell party
for city mayor, councilman
By REBECCA ADAIR
Staff Writer
The city of Bryan hosted an in
formal gathering for outgoing
Mayor Ron Blatchley and out
going Councilman Bill Scasta
Monday afternoon. The recep
tion, at the Bryan Utilities Build
ing, was complete with elaborate
decorations and refreshments for
the more than 100 people who
came to pay tribute.
Introduced by newly-elected
Mayor Marvin T ate, Scasta and
Blatchley were presented plaques
for community service.
Tate next introduced Blatchley
as a man who is never at a loss for
words, and one who had served
as a great friend and great leader
for the city.
“He’ll be a hard act to follow,
and a class act,” Tate said of
Blatchley.
Blatchley used his time at the
podium to publicly thank his wife
and family for the sacrifices they
had made.
“I’m embarrassed because we
asked all of yoy to come down
here during a working day,”
Blatchley added, “but I’m glad
you’re here.”
Scasta said, “I’ve enjoyed my
two years on the council, but it’s
like a woman’s housework — the
work is never done.”
Blatchley’s wife Ruth said now
that her husband has returned to
his one job as T exas A&M’s stu
dent affairs director, he will have
more time to spend with his
grandson.
"Ron has always been a busy
person,” she said, “and I’ve
learned to adjust to that through
the years.
T think it’s been a burden
more on him than on anyone else,
having to be away from the fami
ly.”
Both Blatchley and Scasta de
cided earlier this year not to run
lor re-election, though each
served only one term in office
White, a Democrat who has
been critical of the Republican
ministration in the past.
In addition to the smokedbi
front his wholesale barbecue
party, White brought SOOpouni
tortillas, 100 pounds ol pimnk
barbecue sauce and an undul
mined number ofjalapenopep]
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White was invited to Ct presenting tl
Unerica l>\ the Departmento! trends in con
lense aftei giving his permissio |,eld Wednes
the Texas guardsmen to partii g U( J(ler The
in t lie Big Pine III war games. theSIGC
"It’s important we demonsinj ‘The goal
we are an ellective lighting loan vide the st
should we be called to thedefeit
our nation,” White said.
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trip was designed to show >11; mbit and sym
foi the troops and "let themIrH'.omputer
the seriousness of the mission," di m and is o
Considerable attention has tcwaduates in
paid to the participation of said Baker,
Texas guard liecause of the pc jvitn the Coin
ity ol their base camp, whichTi&M.
call “the Alamo," to the NicaraJSktker said
Ixirder and the possibility of a tHd bringim
frontation with Nicaragua’s It pimmal vof
Sandinista troops. pujer graphi
pari of everyc
White was scheduled for a i SIGGRAPI
mg by General Walter Lopez ite-B
head of the Honduran militate *
I.ope/ canceled at the last miral
and U.S. Embassy officialss
pez had lieen called to a
council meeting by Presideml
ei to Sua/o Cordova.
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