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Thursday, October 3, 1985/The Battalion/Page 5 ers jrs t0 resfaM in ni B , P in g speed m :SS ; Ampule, l:il(,r matioi) f 111 c «uld read' discs a - I,,, fi : t: IpOSSUM KINGDOM AREA HOMETOWN CLUB: will ■ meet at 7 p.ra. Call 260-8437 or 846-2596 for place. I he last mark ,v as 2.5 m ' II on one opi*; • e said, conn cnee how am. 1 'hat co]^ 'he individjj 'sroom si v s'udents'a'! al tromdien, BETA ALPHA PSI: Arthur Anderson will speak on ‘‘Audits i of Casinos” at 6:45 at the Hilton Hotel. OFF CAMPUS AGGIES: meet at 6:30 pan. at Mt. Aggie t tngo to yell practice. REGIONAL STUDIES CLUB: will meet in 221 Civil Engi neering Bldg, at 12:30 p.m. to hear Carson Hoge speak about the proposed state water plan. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS CLUB: will have a banatia ar e saying "'selves fast; han they are: at learns ! 'each him a 'ms moretji II teach at s virtually i i 1 people, wliel • same pan. omputen r the way s, he said manititesmli d prejudice )racl sGfoi ractices wdlit s geared up!j Texas Teck What’s up Thursday ENGUSH HONOR SOCIETY-SIGMA TAU DELTA: To day is the deadline for applications for STD. Turn them in TEXAS A&M EMERGENCY CARE TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder. NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder. .m. at Olsen Field Park. BYOB: Bring your for non-members. Dagger* DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: will hold its ICDP Series at 7 p.m. in the Ramada inn Pent house. Features presentation from Mobil. Business attire required. TAMU FENCING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 267 E. Kyle. TEXAS A&M MACINTOSH USERS GROUP: will meet at 7 p.m. in 101 Soil 3c Crop Sciences Bldg. Friday in Rudder Auditorium. STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder. ENTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will meet JPat? p.m. in 501 Rudder. lind.andaijBCHINA CLUB: will show the movie “Acrobatic Wonders” at jiy pun. in 601 Rudder. rfSC NOVA: will hold open gaming at 7 p.m. in 352 MSC. Lessons on how to play “Top Secret” at 7 p.m. in 350A MSC. TAMU CHESS CLUB: will hold open gaming 7 p.m*-10 p.m. in 410 Rudder. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will meet for Bible study at 6:15 p.m. at the A&M Presbyterian Church offices. 1936 MISS TAMU SCHOLARSHIP PAGEANT: Applica tions available in 216 MSC through Oct. 18. LUBBOCK A&M CLUB: is having a barbeque at 4 p.m. Sat urday, before the Texas A&M-Texas Tech football game. It will be held at the Lubbock Municipal Coliiseum, next to ho can't aita l)ock an sd t for tht ding yell p at tne Gro« ell practice Holly Parka; ocated on tht university. It he universitt l Jones Stadium. Admission is $5 with a student ID. — FAA says criticism of Delta Flight 191 controllers unfair Associated Press FORT WORTH — Air traffic controllers directing the doomed Delta Air Lines Flight 191 are being unjustly criticized because of tran scripts of the jet’s cockpit voice re corder, federal officials said. In the transcripts released this week, the plane’s captain made dis paraging remarks that seemed aimed at the controllers moments before the Aug. 2 crash. “Getting kinda hot in the oven with this controller. See, that’s what a lack of experience does,” Capt. Ed ward M. Conners said. He remarked at another point, “He’s sleeping. Get him out of bed.” But Federal Aviation Administra tion officials said T uesday that Con ners wrongly referred to a veteran of 16 years in air traffic control as in experienced. The other statement, they said, referred to a member of Connor’s flight crew, not a control ler. C.R. “Tex” Melugin, administra tor of the FAA’s Southwest Regional Office in Fort Worth, told a news conference Tuesday: “I’m uptight and the controllers are uptight” because of the tran scripts. Norman Scroggins, manager of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport control tower, said: “They (the controllers) feel they have been mistreated. “It really seems to be to some ex tent a perception that there has been a concerted effort to discredit not only them but the whole system.” The comments came one day af ter the National Transportation Safety Board released transcripts of the flight recordings from Flight 191, which crashed one-half mile short of the runway, killing 136 peo ple. NTSB officials issued a clarifica tion of that remark Tuesday, saying the pilot apparently referred to his flight engineer and not the control ler. But FAA officials expressed anger over suggestions the flight had not been handled properly and noted that the Fort Worth controller guiding Delta 191 had 16 years of experience. Those controllers also had no way of knowing that the rain cell Flight 191 entered was becoming severe, officials said, adding that they be lieve the controllers will be vindi cated during safety board hearings on the accident that are scheduled to begin Oct. 29. Gonzales fetes cannon's role in Texas independence Associated Press GONZALES — For residents of Gonzales, celebration of the Texas Sesquicentennial comes a bit early. Wednesday marked the 150th anni versary of a dispute that led to the first fight in the war for Texas inde pendence. The fight centered around possession of a small can non. Residents began a three-day cele bration of the contribution of the cannon, now a memorial, to the Texas battle for independence. His torians say it really was not much of a battle, but it did touch off the revo lution that led to the establishment of the Republic of Texas. The Mexican government gave the settlers the cannon, but de manded it back when settlers be came hostile to the Mexican govern ment. The settlers mounted it on a wagon and fashioning a flag out of two yards of white cloth, bore a drawing of the cannon and the mes sage: “Come and Take It.” On Oct. 2, 1835, they fired the cannon into the Mexican troops. The revolution had begun. association keeps students informed By FRANK SMITH Staff Writer Ffhe leader of the Texas State Stu dent Association said Tuesday that students can make a difference in government if they take an interest in issues affecting them. [ “Right now students don’t seem involved in, say, the water plan or maybe security deposit laws or ten ant code laws,” said John Hatch, president of TSSA and a senior po litical science major at Texas A&M. “And sure, those things don’t strike everybody as being very exciting. But if you’re from West Texas the water plan is something you take at heart because you’ve lived with lim ited resources of water for most of your life. jj “If you are an A&M student who happened to be living in one of the now-bankrupt apartment com plexes, you know what a pain it was to just lose that $150 you put down as a security deposit.” pHatch was elected in March to head the TSSA. He describes the or ganization as an information net work which works with student gov ernments of universities and junior colleges across the state and keeps them abreast of upcoming issues af fecting students. “The current administration on the federal level is try ing to cut financial aid. Our objective there would be to watch this and to periodically send out information to student leaders. . . —John Hatch, president of Texas State Student Asso ciation “Every school of higher education in the state of Texas from junior col lege on up is automatically a mem ber of TSSA, simply because they are an institution of higher educa tion,” he said. “They can choose to become active members, which means they pay their dues and get voting privileges and all of the other services we provide.” One of those services is a service information office currently located at East Texas State University, Hatch said. “They are responsible for keeping on file more or less a data base of all service information related projects — constitutions of all the schools, by laws, different programs and pro jects they’ve all done,” Hatch said. He said if a member university’s student government is preparing to launch a new program, the service information office can give it all the details of related programs which have been implemented at other schools. Another service available to TSSA members is a legislative information office currently located at the Uni versity of Texas at El Paso, Hatch said. This office monitors issues per taining to students on both the fed eral and state levels. “For instance, the current admin istration on the federal level is trying to cut financial aid,” he said. “Our objective there would be to watch this and to periodically send out in formation to the student leaders say ing, ‘This is what is happening on the federal level. This is what it will do. Take whatever action you deem necessary.’” Hatch said its apolitical nature makes TSSA different from its pre vious entities, which have existed un der different names since 1949. Prior to the official formation of TSSA in the fall of 1984, the organi zation, then called the Texas Stu dent Association, was a student lob bying group, he said. The organization always has had about 20 active member schools each year, he said. Hatch said he expects 20 to 30 schools to be active by the end of the year. However, Hatch said, the organi zation could triple its active mem berships by the fall semester of 1986 if members of the Texas Junior Col lege Student Government Associa tion join the TSSA. “What we’re trying to show now is that it’s to their advantage to become a member and get the information,” he said. “Plus, we have a few other things that are in the making that will make it much more to their ben efit to be a member.” Hatch said those “other things” include: • Obtaining information on avail able internships from all state agen cies and distributing a major listing to the student governments of all ac tive member schools. • An effort to convince different agencies or officeholders to commit one internship from their offices to the TSSA. CASA CHAPULTEPEC ) Sizzling Beef Fajitas Chicken Fajitas Under the Management of JESSE G. OCANA & LUIS LEGS Let us introduce you to the best Mexican Food in the Brazos Valley. . *Chili Relleno *Flautas LUNCH SPECIALS Fajita Lunch Combination Dinner Taco Dinner Enchilada Dinner Chicken Fried Steak Taco Salad Mon.-Fri. 11:00-2:00 Complimentary Soup w/Meal $335 1315 S. College (We deliver after 6 p.m.) 822-7543 IT’S A SHOOT OUT!! MSC Camera Committee presents STUDIO SEMINAR by Ron Bland Friday, Oct. 4 6:30-9:00 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5 9:30-3:00 p.m. MSC Rm 212 Bring: photo equipment camera tripod film eoc nn (studio membership Price. $25.00 card included) •Models provided by MSC Hospitality •Instant slide processor available for fast results •If you have questions call: MSC Camera 845-1515 c^Anibe^s ARTS-CRAFTS-FRAMES CUSTOM FRAMING AND CUSTOM FLORAL DESIGN SALE THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY Ceramic hurricane lamp with glass shade reg. 11 99 reduced 60% now only $4 79 Chenille Stem (from Darice) -J 590 ~'V Great for that Christmas project limit 10 please Just arrived new group of art & poster prints $5 —$10 Student lap desk reg $9 99 reduced 60% Special price $399 Liquitex Oils by Grumbacher 25% off suggested retail price cyi nj ber^s Your Christmas Headquarters 1304 E. Harvey 693-0920 Monday-Saturday 10-9 OPEN SUNDAY NOON-6