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4r MSC DINNER THEATRE
AND AGGIE PLAYERS PRESENT:
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JUNE 26“29
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Learn to fly
A&M Flying Club offering lower rates
By DONNA HARSHMAN
Reporter
Texas A&M students, faculty and
staff can learn to fly at discounted
rates if they contact the Texas A&M
Flying Club.
Dr. Thomas Adair, an A&M phys
ics professor and flying club orga
nizer, says lessons run $28 an hour
for plane rental and $10-$ 15 for an
instructor. Lessons in Houston and
Dallas can run well over $100 an
hour.
Any flying license can be obtained
through the club, but most students
aim toward a private pilot’s license.
“The FAA minimum for a private
pilot’s license is 20 hours with an in
structor and 20 hours solo,” Adair
said. “A person usually needs more
than the 20/20 though.”
The flying club has 15 active in
structors and 100 members. To be
come a member, students, faculty
and staff must buy a $200 share in
the club. The $200 is refundable af
ter a club membership of one year.
Monthly dues for the flying club
are $20. The club covers the $ 15,000
a year insurance costs and the $240 a
month airplane parking fee.
The flying club, which is based in
State board
pressured to
set standard
Associated Press
GRAPEVINE — The State Board
of Education will face some heavy
political pressure to set a standard
that could keep nearly half of Texas’
high school students from graduat
ing, officials said.
State education officials, meeting
at the Dallas-Fort Worth Interna
tional Airport Tuesday, learned that
49.9 percent of Texas’ llth-graders
scored below 70 on a preliminary
version of a competency test.
If 70 is set as the minimum pass
ing score when it meets next month,
it could bode disaster for many stu
dents after the actual test is adminis
tered this fall, officials said.
“Because the public believes a 70
percent correct passing standard has
been sanctioned, the public is apt to
view with displeasure any perfor
mance standards which do not, at
least eventually, equal or exceed 70
percent correct,” according to a re
port by IOX Assessment Associates
of Culver City, Calif., which devel
oped the test.
But Board of Education Chair
man Jon Brumley said the board will
probably agree on a passing grade
below 70 for the first year, with in
cremental increases each year until
the eventual permanent passing
grade is met.
About 51 percent of the 14,446
students who participated in a field
test of the exam last school year
scored 70 percent on the math por
tion. Sixty-five percent got 70 per
cent correct on the language arts sec
tion.
Based on the field testing, only
23.7 percent of blacks and 35 per
cent of Hispanics would pass the
Texas Educational Assessment of
Minimum Skills test.
The Federal Aviation Ad
ministration s minimum
for a private pilot's license
is 20 hours of Hying with
an instructor and 20
hours solo.
a student-built clubhouse at Eas-
terwood Airport, owns six planes:
three Cessna 152s, two Cessna 172s
and a Mooney.
Neal Gruber, a flying club board
member, said the club has changed.
“During my two and a half years
in the club, facilities have developed
considerably,” Gruber said. “We
have six dependable, quality air
planes and a new clubhouse in a
prime location.”
Gruber added that the club is es
pecially proud of the Mooney —pre
viously leased by the club — ob
tained last year.
The Cessnas all are fairly new;
none is more than five years old.
The average cost of a new Cessna
152 runs between $ 17,000-$ 19,000.
Besides offering lessons, the Hy
ing club is interested in promolim
air safety.
“Our goal is to promote aviation
and aviation safety for A&M stu
dents, faculty and staff,” Adairsaid
“All our meetings are aimed atav>
ation safety.”
Each year, the flying dub spot,
sors an FAA safety seminar in Rod
der Tower. T he seminar is open it
anyone who’s interested.
T he flying club also is active it
several service projects.
During football games, as man)ai
200 planes may be at Eastenvood
Flying club volunteers tunas'
system, which brings pilots and pas
sengers to the airport terminal.
For three years, the dub helped
the National Wildlife Federation
count bald eagles. Volunteers He*
statewide, counting as many as 450-
500 eagles per year.
Adair said the flying club is alwajs
looking foi new members.
“We are an active and on-going
club," he said. “We are always inter
ested in new members who wanttt
participate and become active in dul
responsibilities.”
What’s up
i: pi
tide:
Friday
f .m. in 701 Rudder. Tickets are $1 with a student ID and
1.50 for non-students.
TAMU CH3ESS CLUB: Ls meeting at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de-
siredpublication date.
MSC Dinner Theater
opens summer season
with 'Spangled Girl'
By CINDY IRVING
Reporter
The MSC Dinner Theater Com
mittee and the Aggie Players pre
sented this summer’s first play, “The
Star Spangled Girl,” Wednesday.
MSC Dinner Theater, now in its
twelfth season, operates only during
the summer. “The Star Spangled
Girl,” a Neil Simon production, is
the first of two plays it is presenting
this year. The second production
will be Agatha Christie’s “Ten Tittle
Indians” and will run July 31 - Au
gusts.
Nancy Durrenberger, chairman
of the committee, said, “The pur
pose of the committee is to create an
enjoyable setting with a show and
dinner for the students and commu
nity.
“The main goal is to bring out
community effort,” she said.
Durrenberger said the play is
about a girl named Sophie who is a
true believer in the American way of
life. She moves to San Francisco
where she influences the lives of two
men. The men, Norman and Andy,
are underground writers who write
opinionated and satirical papers on
everything wrong with American so
ciety. The play evolves into a three-
way romantic triangle.
Durrenberger said Simons orip
nal 1966 Broadway production,siai
ring Connie Stevens, Anthony Pei
kins and Richard Benjamitl
portrayed that love isn’t a matteroi
intellect but one of emotions.
Robert Wenck, an associate pm
fessor in the theater arts depan I
ment, is in charge of the studerj
play.
The cast of “The Star SpangM
Girl” includes senior theater arts®
jor Michon Breishcher as Sophie
Breishcher, is also a four-year ref
eran of the A&M women’s swin
team.
Jeff Danish, who plays Norman,/
a sophomore studying internatioffl 1
marketing and theater arts
He also is president of the
Flayers.
Tim McEvoy, who plays Andy,isi
junior theater arts major and vict
president of the Aggie Players.
Tickets will be on sale at the MSI
box office until 5 p.m. thedaybf
fore each show, which will continK
through Saturday. Tickets will h
$13 for students and $14 for not
students.
“I am very optimistic about
play,” Durrenberger said. “TicWl
sales are doing great for the
show and are almost over half
out for the remaining ones.”
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