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Dance Arts Society
Classes begin this week
Ballet, Point, Tap, Jazz, Modern,
Aerobics & Body Conditioning
Check the What’s Up column for
schedule
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FERNAND LEGER, Etude Pour Les Beaux Danseuses, 1929.
MODERN MASTERS
From the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
Opening Reception (Public Invited)
4:00 - 6:00 pm, Monday, February 3, 1986
College of Architecture Gallery
Langford Architecture Center
Febrary 3 - 24, 1986
Also Showing
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Gallery Hours
8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Monday - Friday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm, Weekends
Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, February 3, 1986
Dance-a-thon
grosses $5,800
for MDA charity
By KAREN WATSON
Reporter
While clubs around College Sta
tion were filling their dance floors
Friday night with couples paying to
dance, the ballroom at the Aggie-
land Inn was filled with 100 couples
who were paid.
The dance-a-thon, sponsored by
Alpha Phi Omega and Omega Phi
Alpha, raised $5,800 for the Muscu
lar Dystrophy Association. Both or
ganizations are service fraternities at
Texas A&M.
Co-chairman Scott Forstell said
the dance-a-thon, which for over 10
years has been a standing project for
APO, has always aimed for $20,000
but they still are very satisfied with
the amount raised. There was an in
crease of $600 over last years total.
Muscular Dystrophy Association
program coordinator Robyn Lind
say said APO and MDA have formed
a coalition on campus.
“APO has been working with us
for years so they’re very estab
lished,” Lindsay said. “They’re so
good at what they do that they’ve got
it down to a science.”
MDA felt the dance-a-thon was a
success, Lindsay said. He said he
hopes to raise people’s consciousness
about muscular dystrophy with
events such as the dance-a-thon.
“It’s (muscular dystrophy is) a
very high cost disorder,” Lindsay
said. “One electric wheelchair can
cost a patient up to $5,700, almost
the total amount this dance-a-thon
alone raised.”
Lindsay’s motto for running
fundraisers is “NO COST”. There
fore, donations from local busi
nesses, professionals and individuals
were sought.
Forstell said local businesses are
generally receptive “but it’s been a
little bit harder this year because the
economy in College Station hasn’t
been the best.”
But despite the economy, about
$1,828 worth of prizes were do
nated.
For being the top money raisers
with $205 in pledges, Scott Owen
and Katrina Smith won two round-
trip tickets to anywhere Rio Airways
flies and dinner for two at Maxi’s
Crepes in Bryan.
Ingrid Lessard, chairman of the
food and decorations committee,
said her committee and OPA mem
bers have worked since late October
preparing meals, snacks and drinks
for the dancers.
Lindsay said her goal is to send
the A&M APO chapter the national
telethon to present a check.
“APO is such an excellent organi
zation and they’ve worked so hard
for so many years that we’d sure like
see them go,” she said.
Texas officials say
AIDS-related cases
doubled in prisons
Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE — The number
of Texas prison inmates with ac
quired immune deficiency syn
drome remains constant, but the
number of AIDS-related complex
cases has nearly doubled in the past
few months, a prison official says.
According to chief of staff Dr.
Michele McDermott four cases of
AIDS were diagnosed last week
within the Texas Department of
Corrections’ 27 prison units — a
number which has remained con
stant for several months — and 10
cases of AIDS-related complex.
AIDS-related complex has a 5
percent to 10 percent chance of de
veloping into the disease that
cripples the body’s immune system,
McDerrhott said.
One of the inmates suffering
from AIDS has developed an infec
tion, but the other three are “in good
shape,” McDermott told The Hous
ton Post.
All four developed the disease
outside the prison system, she said.
The patients are housed in single
cells in infirmaries, she said. The
TDC medical staff has been trained
in spotting AIDS symptoms and
picking out convicts with high risk
factors for developing AIDS, Mc
Dermott said.
“Things have been very calm,” the
doctor said.“People seem to under
stand the nature of the illness, and
we’re not having any particular
problems related to AIDS in the
prison system.”
Since June 1984 there have been
four AIDS deaths in the Texas
prison system, the nation’s second
largest with 37,300 inmates.
Jack Corrie, information officer
of the California Department of
Corrections, said California’s prison
system, the nation’s largest with
50,200 inmates, has had 11 AIDS
victims since the first case was diag
nosed about three years ago and an
other 11 cases of AIDS-related com
plex.
Hardy Rauch, director of the
American Correctional Association,
said recent statistics show that the
highest concentration of AIDS
within prisons is in the mid-Atlantic
states.
District attorney says jail
doesn’t cure drunk drivers
Associated Press
FORT WORTH — Tarrant
County’s district attorney says he’s
no “bleeding heart liberal,” but he
doesn’t think jailing drunken drivers
is the answer to the problem.
In a stand at odds with most pub
lic officials these days, Tim Curry
disagrees with Mothers Against
Drunk Driving, state legislators and
many police officials.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
reported Sunday that his prosecu
tors have plea-bargained all the fel
ony driving-while-intoxicated cases
before them in the past two years.
Calling alcoholism a disease,
Curry said, “I don’t think jail cures
somebody who has got a sickness.
What it does do is warehouse people
— keep them off the street.”
Geneva Heckard, director of Tar
rant County’s Alcohol Recovery
Center, said sometimes jail is the
only thing that gets the attention of
someone who has had some past
DWI scrapes from which they have
easily escaped.
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Workshop to focus on watt
as elennent in land plann
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By CAROLYN VEIGA
Reporter
Water, Water . . . Ubiquitous?
Yes, water, water is everywhere
— that’s the theme the Texas
A&M chapter of the American
Society of Landscape Architec
ture is using to sponsor a
workshop held next week.
The workshop will be held
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
in Rudder Tower and the Lang
ford Architecture Center for any
one interested in learning how
water is an important element in
land planning and design.
James Blackwell, chairman of
ASLA’s workshop, says he has ar
ranged for seven landscape ar
chitects from around the country
to attend the workshop seminars
and discuss how water is used as a
design element, a resource, and a
political issue.
Ed Able, executive vice presi
dent of ASLA and guest speaker
for the workshop, will aim his
topic at the politics concerning
water issues, Blackwell says.
Lane Marshall, dean of Land
scape Architecture at A&M, says
one way to remedy tne m
shortage is to integrate comer®‘
tion projects within our publictff e 1
ucation system. IPS (
The workshop is open to|“ "J'. 1
majors and isn’t restricted to JF 1 1
chitecture students, Manhr, ent '
says. Its uni
The remaining two days of l( '"
workshop will consist of in
classes in the architecture k.
ing where students will bepk
in groups to work on actualp
jects assigned by a teamoflai
scape architects, Blackwellsavs
“Students must come up w
suitable design solution than
satisfy everyone’s needs,"
well says
Darcy Wilson, treasurerfor ,ll5UI M
touncil
ASLA workshop and a %
landscape architecture stude
says that when she attended
workshop last year, it expos
her to the professional archin
in the landscaping field.
Early registration for ap
cants ends Monday and tu
$25. Late registraion will
Tuesday through Thursday,
a $10 fee will be added to
cost.
H, and
Career fair to aid interviewee
By KIM WALTERS
Reporter
Many students wonder how to
go about settinj
with companies
work for.
interviews
ng up
they would like to
Other students may not be in
terested in interviewing but
would like information on com
panies that interest them.
The Seventh Annual Business
Week Career Fair provides stu
dents with information concern
ing companies and a chance to
meet with their representatives.
“Many students will also have a
chance to interview with many
companies after talking 'with
them at the fair,” said Lynn /.im-
mermann, assistant dean of the
business college.
Companies will set up informa
tion booths on the first two floors
of the Blocker Building, he said.
They will open at 8:30 a.m. on
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Students can talk with rep
resentatives of the companies and
obtain information about them,
Zimmermann said.
“We have about 48 companies
setting up booths the first day
and about 38 the second,” Zim
mermann said.
The fair begins Mondayw:
Retailing Studies Symposium
ends Friday with the Masten
Business Administration Ci
Competition.
“The fair is geared tow
business majors,'but anyonev
would like to attend maydoi
he said. “The fair will cos:
tween S25,000 and S30,000-
the companies payingmosto::
Over 75 companies wilha
this year and Zimmermanr
lieves still more will attend;!
year.
Students wishing to ps
more information about cot:
nies may attend a banquet
Tuesday.
The cost is $8.00 and stucc
may choose the company
would like to sit with at the J
quet.
On Thursday the Women
Business Symposium startsi
a.m. and will include a panel a
cussion for students and a
cheon.
The luncheon tickets
S10.75 per person.
The final event scheduled!
the fair will be the Masters!
Business Administration Gj
Competition scheduled for!?
day and Saturday.
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University Plus opening ctef
By KAREN BOEHNKE
Reporter
University Plus, Texas A&M’s
leisure education program, is of
fering a variety of new classes for
the spring semester.
Pat Garrison, University Plus’
assistant supervisor, said the pro
gram is expanding to offer some
thing for everyone.
For the first time, classes will be
offered in auto mechanics, scuba
diving, cooking and other catego
ries.
Old favorites such as dance
and exercise, arts and crafts, and
language classes will again be of
fered.
A driver improvement pro
gram for traffic ticket dismissals
or a 10 percent savings on auto
mobile insurance will be offered
also.
Registration begins today at
10 a.m. in the University Plus
Craft Center in the MSC base
ment.
University Plus began as a stu
dent organization, but its classes
grew to be so popular that the
program now has a paid staff and
its own facility, located
craft center of the Memorial-)
dent Center basement.
University Plus is the sets
largest program of its kind
Texas, Garrison said.
Last year 1,100 people*!
enrolled in classes offered
University Plus and 2,OOOotf!
used the craft center on their?
time, Garrison said. It is out
the largest expanding partsofi
University, she said.
Next year classes maybe
fered in home finance, per*!
investment and home comp®
she said.
Garrison says the courses-
a break from academic press
where you can create somei
on your own.
“It’s a learning experience
there are no grades,” she said
Trudy Adam, owner of
Black Forest Inn, will be ted
the gourmet cooking classes
semester. Adam said sheteab
the class because she’s an Afj
and she enjoys it.
Brochures for University!
may be picked up in the crafts
ter and in racks around campt
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