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Tuesday August 6, 1985/The Battalion/Page 3 )n wwilQi Si U|7 A&M placement center will speak on interviewing and sume writing. BCAUS: is meeting at 7 p.m. in 102 Teague. A&M CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: is meeting in 10 i and Crops Sciences. There will be music, refreshments and 216 Heed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de- 16,000 are expected at church conference Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — More than 16,000 delegates are expected to ar rive this week for the biennial con ference of the Assemblies of God, which describes itself as the world’s largest and fastest-growing Pente costal denomination. Meetings of the church’s govern ing General Presbytery began Sun day and were to continue daily until the convention begins Thursday. A highlight of the six-day confer ence will be a live, two-hour nation wide broadcast of the Sunday af ternoon vesper service to Assemblies of God churches nationwide. The Assemblies of God, an arm of the Pentecostal movement, got its , start in 1914 and since has grown to more than 15 million adherents, church officials say. Most of the church’s membership lies outside the United States, which claims 2 million members. The Assemblies of God has held steadfastly to its belief in the “bap tism of the Holy Spirit,” character ized by speaking in tongues and claims of miracle healings. ives." ft aving pit million fi should it [lion prep ild be kt has to!* iuth k confusini . Thediii that” a nt of > ons” on! xual ignij irease : and tli not® s countn g bandit come ait -ision net eir this “coo lem of 11 anancif) hard tele Groups claim ERA lax on enforcement Associated Press AUSTIN — The Sierra Club and Sportsmen’s Clubs of Texas threat ened Monday to file suit against the Environmental Portection Agency for not enforcing clean water stan dards in Texas. ‘Unless major steps are taken soon to come to grips with our state’s major water pollution problems, Texans will awake one day to find water made stagnant by our lack of action and an economy made stag nant by our degradation of that wa ter,” Ken Kramer, Sierra Club spokesman, told a news conference. “We’re sick and tired of all these fish kills,” said Alan Allen, executive director of SCOT. “We’ve tried to work within the system but we have finally just had too much and want to do something about it. Allen said SCOT officials were particularly incensed by last month’s kill of about 286,000 fish “due to sewage in the Trinity River alone.” Austin attorney Rick Lowerre said EPA was given the required 60-day notice Monday that the lawsuit was . beingprepared. Lowerre said the suit claims that EPA approved Texas Water Quality Standards knowing that they did not : comply with the federal Clean Water Act. He said the suit alleges that EPA , has even failed to require Texas to | assure that the discharge of pollut- i ants in Texas lakes and rivers com ply with the state’s own laws. “SCOT and the Sierra Club will sue to force the EPA to take over the review and certification process (of water quality guidelines) since Texas has failed to establish an adequate process,” Lowerre said. Female cadets A&M women becoming more active in Corps despite traditionalists' scorn By BRIAN PEARSON Staff Writer Women are playing a more active role in the Texas A&M Corps of Ca dets, although fight-to-tne-death tradition upholders at the University continue to stand in their way. The female Corps cadets — from the first who joined the Corps in 1974 to the three who recently joined the Aggie Band — under stand the problems associated with becoming a member of the tradition ally all-male organization. Roxie Pranglin, who joined the Corps in 1974, remembers what it was like being one of the first women to join the Corps. About 25 women joined the Corps at this time as freshmen and sopho mores. Pranglin, who is now Corps area coordinator at A&M, said she expe rienced her share of scorn and re jection during her first year in the Corps. “There wasn’t much change that first year,” she said. “It was all neg ative except for a few people.” During the fall of the first year, the women in the Corps marched in civilian clothes because no uniforms were available. They also lived either off campus or in campus housing away from the Quadrangle, the Corps dormitory area, because there was no Corps dormitory for women. The female cadets were fitted for uniforms in the spring of 1975 and moved into a Quadrangle dorm by the next fall. Pranglin said joining the Corps at that time was a “radical move.” “I guess when you’re 18 or 19 years old you look at things differ ently,” Pranglin said, “but back then “Lacii year -} l think?; we made some steps in terms ap~ for MAMz&r Roxte who is now Corps area coordinator at I really felt like the Corps was an ac tive student organization and if you were involved with that, you were ac tively involved with all phases of stu dent life.” But she said women have gained more acceptance as the years pass. “Each year I think we made some steps forward in terms of positions applied for or recognition in certain positions,” Pranglin said. She said that women in the Corps have accomplished more in the past three or four years than they have in all the other years they have been in the Corps. The most recent step forward for women cadets has been the accep tance of three women into the Aggie Band for this fall. Pranglin said whether the women make it as band members “depends on how much support they get from everybody” including band mem bers, fellow women in the Corps and administrators. Currently, the Corps must “en courage” women to join Corps orga nizations such as the band and Ross Volunteers, an elite outfit. A January court agreement, which settled a 1979 suit filed by for mer cadet Melanie Zentgraf, forced the Corps to encourage women to join Corps organizations. Retired Lt. Col. Donald Johnson, assistant commandant of the Corps, said the Corps received negative newspaper attention because of the Zentgraf case. “Based on what’s been printed in the papers, I think that most people would believe that Melanie Zentgraf applied for the Aggie Band and ev ery other organization and was den ied membership in all of those, which is simply not true,” Johnson said. He said the rejection of Zentgraf s application to the Color Guard, a Corps organization, was based “s- trictly on ability and how she got along with other cadets.” “There was another young lady at the same time who was asked to ap ply for membership to the Ross Vol unteers,” Johnson said. “Several of the Ross Volunteers told her that they would vote for her if she applied, but she would not ap ply,” he said. That woman was Doriot Masca- rich. Although Mascarich did not be come the first woman in the RVs, she did go on to be battalion com mander, one of the highest Corps positions achieved by a woman. Johnson said at least one woman will apply for the RVs for the fall 1985 semester. If accepted, she will be the first woman to join that Corps organiza tion. afism®' 'ditor fa iard r ; Editors editor or ne Hurt Leopold >r Smitt 1 [i Block -y Oslilt' Pearson Leopold assavoy. d Clark illmeyer r Bailey' ’Casper ling toTet* ■c those of o not oeO' A&M a*'- ■y ncifsp 3 ' photog"' w rwini» eh Ftity •xccpt frr iscrip" or, j I yearanO iedonre- UcDonW e Stats 01 !' '409) W’ 5 to rite c Stal’ 011, Attorney says competency tests discriminate Associated Press TYLER — An attorney represent ing several minority groups and stu dents argued in federal court Mon day that competency tests for potential teachers are discrimina tory. Albert Kauffman, an attorney from the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, asked U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice to issue an injunction © Christian Band Looking for bass guitar player. For auditions call nights & weekends 846-691 2 Days 822-2612 keeping state officials from testing sophomore teacher education stu dents this fall. 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