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Thursday
PHI EPSILON KAPPA: wifi have an informal mixer for aJI
Health. I’F., and Recreation students and faculty at 7:30
p.m. in the Letter man's Lounge (G. Rollie White).'
iIGMA PI: will meet at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in 124
I he pledge meeting is mandatory, the active
will follow at 7:30.
>ENT ART FILM SOCIETY: will show the film
Trial” at 7 p.m. in 103 Soil Grop Sciences and Ento-
Bldg.
4PEACE: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 308 Rudder.
iiNT Y: will meet at 7 p.m. in 224 MSC.
HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: will meet for a
itte Chairman Workshop at 7 p.m. in 200 Kleberg.
IN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL ENGI-
will have its Fall Hamburger Fry at 6:30 p.m. in
ver and Machinery Lab.
SPACE DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY: will
n 401 Rudder.
CEPHEID VARIABLE: presents the movie
:30 and 9:45 pan. in Rudder Auditorium.
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3 p.m. in 164 Reed for inner-
>N PI EPSILON: will meet at 5 p.m. in 105B Zachry.
7:15 in 410 Rudder.
TAMU SYNCHRONIZED SWIM CLUB: will meet 8:30 p.m.
to 10 p.m* at the Indoor Fool for a synchronized swim
am irks hop. No experience mmmmmmmm
FRESHMAN LEAD)
is .n <• available in the Pavillion and thro
tils and are dtie Sept. 27 at 5 p.m.in 215 Pavillion.
Friday
■ AGGIE CINEMA:
■Ulld 9:45 p.m. in Ru
Midnight movie: “A Man Called Flimstone” at The Grove.
Admission is $1.50.
COLOMBIAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7
p.m. in 305AB Rudder.
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMEN
TAL DESIGN: presents Gerald D. Griffin, Director of
Johnson Space Center. “Design in Space: Challenge of the
Future.” 7:30 p.m. in 601 Rudder.
ETA KAPPA NU: will have a pledge smoker at 6 p.m.
(pledges) mid 7 p.m. (actives) in the Arbor Square party
room.
ASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS: presents
“Shrimpfcst ‘85” at 6 p.m. at Central Park. Tickets are
available on 2nd floor Langford Architecture Center, ($5
members, $6 non-memhers).
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will meet at 7 p m. in
701 Rudder.
PHI THETA KAPPA ALUMNI: will meet for a get-together
at 8 p.m. at the Briarwood Party Room.
TAMU CHESS CLUB: wUi meet 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in 504
Rudder for the continuation of the tournament.
MSC NOVA: will meet at 7 p.m. in 350A MSC to learn to play
“Illuminati.” Open gaming at 7 p.m.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will meet for Bible study at
6:15 at A&M Presbyterian Church. ,
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216 Meed McDonald, no less than three
sired publication date.
Trivia craze back
on campus in form
of College Bowl
By CHRISTOPHER EMIG
Reporter
“For 10 points — how many years
elapsed between the signing of the
Declaration of Independence and
the Gettysburg Address?”
This question may not mean any
thing to you, but to those students
who participate in Texas A&M’s Col
lege Bowl, a correct answer could
mean a trip to Emory University in
Atlanta to represent A&M in the Na-
tonal Invitational College Bowl
Tournament in April, says Janice
Green, chairperson of the Universi
ty’s College Bowl.
Green said the College Bowl has
taken place at A&M for the past five
years.
“But it has gotten more popular
each year,” she says.
Last year 32 teams signed up for
the double-elimination tournament.
“Dorm teams, MSC teams, and
Corps teams all participated,” Green
says.
Green says the Trivial Pursuit
craze has spurred interest among
many types of trivia games.
And College Bowl is just that: a
quiz-format game aimed at those
who are knowledgeable concerning
trivia.
“Questions that are asked test
your general knowledge about his
tory, literature, science and current
events such as movies or music,”
Green says.
She says there are two types of
questions: toss-ups, worth 10 points
each, and bonuses, worth a stated
number of points.
Two teams of four members each,
with a maximum of two graduate
students, compete head-to-head in a
game consisting of two seven-minute
halves with a two minute intermis
sion, Green says.
She says that if a team member
correctly answers a toss-up, only that
team receives a chance at a bonus
question in which the other mem
bers are able to confer.
Answers must indicate clear and
E recise information and may include
ist names, nicknames, abbreviations
and symbols.
The team with the most points af
ter the game wins. In case of a tie, a
sudden-death playoff of toss-up
questions will be given, Green says.
The tournament starts Oct. 2 and
will run Wednesday and Thursday
nights for the first two weeks. Then
games will be played on Thursday
nights through Nov. 21.
The campus champion and an all-
star team will be selected from the
tournament to represent A&M at
the regionals in February, Green
says.
Last year, the University’s College
Bowl squad placed second behind
Tulane in the regionals held at Rice
University in Houston, she says.
Green says the regional competi
tion included College Bowl teams
from Texas, Arkansas and Loui
siana.
At the national competition held
at Emory University, A&M finished
eighth with a team that had just be
gun to practice together a short time
before the competition, Green says.
“Before last year, our teams had
never really practiced together like
other schools,” she says. “So they
worked on questions together before
Nationals for a couple of weeks.”
Registration for the College Bowl
ends Sept. 27. Applications are avail
able at the reception desk inside the
Student Programs Office.
For those trivia buffs, 87 years, or
“four score and seven” elapsed be
tween the signing of the Declaration
oflndependence and the delivery of
the Gettysburg Address.
Students suit against school
over minimum GPR dismissed
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The 3rd Court of
Appeals pn Wednesday dismissed as
moot a college student’s challenge of
a rule requiring a minimum grade-
point average for admission into up
per-level business courses.
Carter Speer sued Southwest
Texas State University in Hays
County after the University notified
him he would be removed from the
courses because his average was be
low the minimum.
The trial court granted a tempo
rary restraining order, which al
lowed Speer to enroll in the courses,
and three months later entered a
< permanent injunction, noting that
the minimum average had not been
in effept when Speer first enrolled at
the school.
The school appealed but the 3rd
Court of Appeals said the injunction
had expired on Speer’s graduation,
and this made the case moot. “When
an appeal is moot, the judgment is
s£t aside and the cause is dismissed,”
the court said.
Would-be heirs wait for riches from Spindletop
I
Associated Press
BEAUMONT — A U.S. magis
trate says he hopes to decide by Nov.
1 if he will recommend that two fed
eral lawsuits seeking almost 75 years’
worth of Spindletop Oil Field roy
alties be dismissed.
People nationwide are hoping
their family claim will entitle them to
a share of billions or trillons of dol
lars in oil royalties — royalties
earned on a $10 investment made in
1911.
They are pinning the dreams of
wealth on the decision of U.S. Magis-
| (rate Earl Hines.
Attorneys for five oil companies
[that are defendants in the lawsuits
say the claims made by two groups
who say they are decemdants of a
man who once owned a share of the
oil field are too late.
The oil companies also say there
was never any basis for the claims.
Hines will make his recommenda
tion to U.S. District Judge Joe
Fisher. Fisher will make the official
ruling on the oil companies’ dis
missal request.
The lawsuits, like tme dismissed
by Fisher in March, contend that the
descendants of a man named James
Meadors, — sometimes spelled
Meadows, Meddors, Medders or any
one of several other ways — should
have been getting a one-eighth inter
est on oil royalties from a large por
tion of Spindletop since 1911.
The Spindletop field near Beau
mont has been producing oil since
Texas’ first oil gusher erupted there
in 1911.
During a recent hearing before
Hines, Mike Powell, a Dallas attor
ney speaking for five oil companies
that are defendants in the case, ar
gued for dismissing the case, saying
James Meadors and his descendants
should have staked their claim de
cades ago.
But Brady Sparks, a Dallas attor
ney who represents about 2,800 peo
ple who believe they are descendants
of Meadors, said Meadors never had
to place a claim because he didn’t
own a majority of the mineral rights
involved.
That lawsuit contends that Mea
dors purchased a one-eighth interest
in a large portion of the Spindletop
field in 1911 after the first boom had
played out.
Tim Hatton represents Jewell
Robbins of Lexington, Ky., and
more than 430 other people who
claim to be the heirs of Meadors.
“We have now found the true
heirs of James Meadors,” he said.
Hines said he will decide the fate
of both lawsuits at the same time.
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PLACE: BRAZOS RODEO ARENA
TIME: FRIDAY & SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 2TTH & 28TH
7:00 P.M. BOTH DAYS
Tickets: $8.00 Adults. $5.00 Students and
$3.00 children under 13
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Quality Pontiac GMC Buick Subaru
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Bryan/College Station Jaycees 775-7885 or 779-3149
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In case of rain, pull will be rescheduled
for Sunday. September-29th at 2 p.m.,
same place
Texas A&M University
Howdy
Week
Sept. 23 - 27
Say Howdy and support
an Aggie Tradition
Howdy t-shirts on Sale
in MSC Main Lobby for
$5 all week
Sponsored by the Traditions Council
£ ^ Texas) Mobile Home Outlet, Inc.
Sales and Service
Why rent when you can buy for less
822-9140
North Texas Ave. and Hwy 21
under the big Texas flag
new, used and repo mobile homes
•Manicures
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MECHANICAL
ENGINEERS
Rohm and Haas Texas Inc.
interviews on campus October 9.
Rohm and Haas Company is a major manufacturer of
specialty chemicals used in industry and agriculture.
Our operations are international in scope and our
business activities are highly technical in nature with
over 2,500 products sold to customers in a wide array
of industries.
Rohm and Haas will be on campus October 9 to inter
view Mechanical Engineers graduating in December
or May for openings at our Houston manufacturing
facility.
Mechanical Engineers are employed in two primary
areas in our Houston facility: Project Engineering and
Maintenance Engineering.
Project Engineers are involved with the design, acqui
sition and installation of plant facilities. The work
includes equipment design and specification, cost
estimatirig, cost justification and capital funds appro
priation, field labor contracts, field construction
supervision and start-up of facilities.
Maintenance Engineers apply engineering technol
ogy and judgment to resolve a variety of equipment
and systems problems required to keep the plant facili
ties operating safely and efficiently. They also plan and
execute both routine and major maintenanceof turbo
machinery, heat exchange systems, process piping
and vessels.
If you’re the kind of person who can take the initiative,
works independently, and is capable of assuming
increasing responsibility, we would like to talk with
you.
Sign up now at the Placement Office
for an interview on October 9
with Robert Heath of Rohm
and Haas Texas Inc.
An Equal Opportunity
Employer M/F.
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