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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.
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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.
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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.
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Chicken Fajitas
Under the
Management of
JESSE G. OCANA
&
LUIS LEGS
Let us introduce you to
the best Mexican Food
in the Brazos Valley.
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*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
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Chenille Stem
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limit 10 please
Just arrived new
group of art & poster
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Student lap desk
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Special price $399
Liquitex Oils
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