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VARIETY SHOW COMMITTEE: applications are available
m 216 MSC and are due by Friday in the Variety Show cub
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the MSC, Deadline is
CLASS OF ‘S7 BALL: tickets for the ball will go on sale in the
MSC, Sbisa and the Quad*' < , v
TAMU VENEZUELAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will
hold a meeting concerning international week activities at 7
p.m. in H5 MSC. For more information call Rosa, 696*
4205.
AGGIE ALLEMANDERS; will give square dance lessons at 7
p.m. in 212 Pavilion and the dub will meet at 8:30 p.m.
PHILOSOPHY CLUB: will hold a meeting at 3 p.m. in 303
Harrington. For more information call Louis, 260-1382.
PHI THETA KAPPA: will hold a meeting. For the dine add
place call Brenda, 696-6586.
PHI THETA KAPPA ALUMNI; will finalize plans for the
state convention at 7:30 p.m. in 402 Rudder. For more m-
formaton call Kenneth, 775-0656.
PARKS AND RECREATION: registration I
softball tournament will run today
19. For-
4. Entry
day
mat will be double elimination. Play s
fee is $55. For more information call 7f
PARKS AND RECREATION: registration for College Sta
tion’s first soccer invitational will run today through Feb.
19. Format will be round-robin with play being on Feb
ruary 22-23. Entry fee is $75. For more information call
764-3773.
PARKS AND RECREATION: will offer adult soccer
leagues. Registration will be today through Feb. 21. Season
starts March 3 and will consist of 10 games plus playoffs.
Entry fee is $250. For more information call 764-3773.
PAID PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR INDUS
TRIAL DISTRIBUTION: will take a resume review pic
ture for 1986
Frank Smith wil
call Duane, 846*
Tuesday
GALVESTON COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB; will have a
general meeting at 7 p.m. in 501 Rudder to discuss the se
mester activities. For more information call Danny, 764-
7106.
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PEER AD
VISORS: will present programs on how to survive Math
230 at 7 p.m. in 127 Blocker and how to survive Bana 303
at 7 p.m. in 130 Blocker,
SPIRIT AWARD APPLICATIONS: Buck Weirus Spirit
Award applications are available in the Former Students
lobby, 110 YMCA, the Student Activities office, the Stu
dent Government office, and the MSC. Applications
should be returned by Feb. 29.
RHA FRESHMAN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM; will hold a
general meeting at 7 p.m. in 607 - - '
AGGIES FOR BARTON: invites everyone to come and meet
with Congressman Barton at 8:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
PLACEMENT CENTER: will hold a “Health Careers Oppor
tunity Day’’ with representatives from Allied Health, Pnar-
maceutical Sales, Medical Technology, Hospital Adminis-
tration and Graduate Schools of nursing, pharmacy and
|h|sical therapy. For more, information call Judy, 845-
FRONTIERS IN OCEAN TECHNOLOGY: a symposium on
the future of ocean technology and research will be in 301
Rudder from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The symposium is spon
sored by the University Marine Fellows Program and
Texas A&M’s Sea Grant College Program. For more infor
mation call 845-3854. ', ^ ^llljjll,; |jj||||| j||pg|||j;%
AGGIE ALLIANCE: will present a lecture by Missy Norton,
of Tennaco, at 8:30 p.m. in 601 Rudder. New mem
berships will be accepted. For more information call Dana,
693-9339.
PRE-LAW SOCIETY: will have a general meeting and hear
from former students now enrolled in law school at 8:30
p.m. in 308 Rudder. For more information call DeeDee,
260-0672.
PHI ETA SIGMA: will hold a “Welcome Back Pizza Party” at
7 p.m. at Mama’s Pizza. For more information call Brian,
846-7948, ; : '
STUDENT COUNCIL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN:
in 504 Rudder. For
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION; will present Dr
James E. Womack speaking on “What's New in Genetic Re
search” at 7 p.m, in 201 Vetemary Medical Sciences Bldg.
MUSLIM STUDENTS ASSOCIATION AND SOCIETY OF
IRANIAN STUDENTS: will present a lecture by Dr. Sid- '
diuui at 7 p.m. in 701 Rudder. For more information call
Saeid, 846-3889.
" • - NG TEAM: will hold a meeting at 7 p.m. in 109 Mili
tary Sciences Bldg. For-more information call Billy* 764*
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Mattox to investigate
insurance industry
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The state attorney
general says he will investigate the
insurance industry to look for anti
trust law violations and deceptive
trade practices.
Attorney General Jim Mattox told
a special legislative panel Saturday
he is sure the current insurance
crunch is the result of insurance
company collusion aimed at increas
ing premiums and profit.
Mattox said, “I’m not sure I can
prove it, as often is the case. But I
think the facts clearly show it.
“I am especially concerned with
our Texas citizens and businesses
who have been redlined by the in
surance carriers and their reinsur
ance partners. This group includes
our day care operators, our motor
carriers, our municipalities and even
ministers of the gospel,” he said.
The Joint Committee on Liability
Insurance and Tort Reform is
looking at the insurance crunch that
has driven up rates and, in some
cases, made liability coverage un
available. Several Texas cities have
had to drop basic coverage because
of high prices.
Insurance companies say the pre
miums have been driven up by big
jury awards in liability lawsuits.
Those jury awards have dried up
the availability of “reinsurance,” the
coverage purchased by insurance
companies to cover their risk. Mat
tox said it’s all a result of collusion.
“1 intend to ask my staff to deter
mine whether the anti-competitive
practices of the liability insurance
carriers and their reinsurance asso
ciates in boycotting entire lines of
business amount to illegal restraints
of trade or deceptive trade prac
tices,” he said.
“I think any lawyer that would
look at what appears to be the
cancellation of insurance would lead
one to believe there’s collusion in
volved,” Mattox said.
A Washington attorney for
Lloyd’s of London, a major re
insurer, testified Saturday that the
rising cost of coverage is a result of
“horrendous” losses.
“Underwriters at Lloyd’s are not
holding U.S. insurers for ransom by
withholding reinsurance capacity,”
said Charles Havens HI in denying
Mattox’s allegations.
The reinsurance companies paid
out $133 for every $100 of premi
ums collected in 1984, according to
Andre Maisonpierre, president of
the Reinsurance Association of
America.
Changes in the court system are
needed, he told the committee.
Maisonpierre said,“We are not en
couraged by the action which the va
rious legislatures have taken to date
to reform the tort system.”
‘Burnings’
Conservationists: Fire holds
hope for disppearing prairie
Associated Press
WACO — Centuries ago, light
ning-sparked prairie fires would
light up Central Texas skies from
horizon to horizon in a natural cycle
of death and rejuvenation.
But now, with little more than
3,000 acres of pristine prairie re
maining in the state, it is left to hu
mans with torches to light friendly
fires to simulate the process, envi
ronmentalists say.
Madge Gatlin, founder of the Na
tive Prairies Association of Texas,
says “Fire is the reason we have the
prairie.”
About 20 student ecologists and
ranchers gathered last week at a 60-
acre patch of popcorn-colored prai
rie to witness such a burn.
Though four inches of recent rain
dampened their efforts to torch
more than a few acres, the event
served to focus attention on the par
ticular ecology of the prairie.
Conservationists agree it seems
contrary to common sense to burn
something to bring it back to live.
But fire is what holds some hope
for the preservation of the once-
ubiquitous prairie in Texas.
Throughout the years, prairie
fires periodically decimated the
land, scorching scores of varieties of
plants down to their roots.
Those plants that survived were
the ones with deepest and strongest
roots — the grasses, the genetic fore
runners of wheat and corn.
Woody plants such as trees and
bushes died.
The fires also replenished the soil
with nitrogen, helping to create the
fertile black dirt so prized by farm
ers.
The surviving grasses evolved into
the nourishing plants upon which bi
son, and eventually cattle, grazed.
Without fire, “woody plants
would have come to dominate,” Dal
las environmentalist Ned Fritz said,
and the prairie would disappear.
But the Texas prairie is disap
pearing.
Once stretching from the Red
River north of Dallas to San Anto
nio, the native tall grasses now can
be found only in pockets of pre
serves and in vacant plots on the
edge of developed areas.
“So much has been covered up
with development and roads and ru
ined by dirt bikers,” amateur natu
ralist and photographer Gatlin says.
“It just kind of tears me up inside.”
Environmentalists say Texas is
lagging behind other states in the
protection of what prairie land re
mains.
While Missouri, Minnesota and
Iowa have officially saved thousands
of acres, Texas so far has preserved
fewer than 500 acres.
The Nature Conservancy has
tried to buy up as much of Texas
prairie as it can, including the 60-
acre tract in Marlin, near Waco.
Another 70-acre preserve is in Ce
leste in Hunt County.
To educate the public and de
velop strageties for preservation, a
national prairie conference will be
held in June in Denton.
But in the meantime, periodic
burns like the one in Marlin will go
on.
She admits that she, like many
people, didn’t always appreciate the
subtle beauty of grasses such as the
Eastern Gamagrass and the Big and
Little Blue Stems.
“To most people, grass is grass,”
she says.
But she said she was won over
when she studied the ecology of the
prairie and learned of the impor
tance of the grassland to the culture
of Texas and to the development of
cultivated grains.
“It’s part of our natural heritage
and cultural environment,” Gatlin
told the Dallas Times Herald.
Beyond that, Gatlin and other en
vironmentalists are convinced that
the study of the native grasses will
ultimately lead to a better under
standing of the genetics of plant life
and thus to improvements in every
day human life.
“Those same native species out
there will someday provide us with
new foods and medicines,” she says.
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Great reasons lor seeing a movie this
week at Schulman Theatres!
1. Family night every Tuesday at each location - Admission 2.50
2. Students with current ID*s to local schools admitted for just 2.50 Mon.-Wed.
3. Every week at each location we will give away two free passes. Register each time
you visit.
4. All seats are just 2.50 for any movie starting before 3pm.
5. We strive to serve the freshest and finest quality snacks available at our
concession stands. Each week we will offer a different discount special.
Visit a Schulman Theatre near you at one of three convenient
locations:
Plaza 3 • 226 Southwest Parkway (Behind Wendy's)
Manor East 3 - Manor East Mall
Schulman 6 - 2002 E. 29th
SCHULMAN 6
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693-2457
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[HOLMES (PG-13)
7:20-9:40
MURPHY’S ROMANCE
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7:20-9:451
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[PURPLE (PG-13)
7:05-9:55
MY CHAUFFER (R)
7:25-9:45
ROCKY IV (PG)
7:30-9:55
UPHILL ALL
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7:20-9:35
THE HELLS HAVE
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7:15-9:40
♦OUT OF AFRICA (PG)
8:30
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YOUNG-BLOOD (R)
7:15-9:35
♦DOWN & OUT IN
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7:25-9:45
101 DALMATIONS (G)
7:30-9:15
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