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A SC Produced by MARTIN STARGER [-pre-l^r1 Directed by PETER BOGDANOVICH A UNIVERSAL PICTURE READ THE BERKLEY BOOK I I— Mw>n* U tm <’ l9li4 Univerv*! City Studios Inc Friday & Saturday, March 28 & 29, 1986 7:30 & 9:45 p.m.. Rudder Theatre, $2.00 NOTICE: “ROCKY IV HAS BEEN POSTPONED FROM APRIL 11 6P 12 TO APRIL 18. “THE JAGGED EDGE” WILL BE SHOWN APRIL 11 6? 12 IN ITS PLACE. PLEASE NOTE THIS ON YOUR CALENDARS. -ivrsc • town • haTTU w announces Applications of 1986-1987 Applicants must attend one of two mandatory informational meetings on March 31 and April 1 at 8:30 Room 601 Rudder for more information, please come by the Townhall Cubicle in Room 216 MSC Candidates at A&M explain plans continued from pagel seek to establish a student leaders’ council to be comprised of leaders from all major groups on campus. Such a council would meet regularly to discuss and exchange ideas, he said. Sims also outlined a plan to de velop a committee to oversee the appropriation of student monies sent into the University Police Depart ment, such as parking permit fees and ticket fees. ' “I feel that the problem with the University Police Department is that they’ve become greatly concerned with generating revenues from tick ets, and there are those people who feel that those revenues are being misappropriated,” Sims said. Sims added that he would attempt to implement his plan by first pre senting it to the administration for its approval. Shine cited the campus parking situation as an example of how re sourcefulness could be used to allevi ate student problems. “Instead of walking just through the front door, if we can’t get in, why not try the other doors with the admi nistration?” Shine said. “Maybe we can’t get five new parking lots built in the place of the library, but what we can do is maybe look into lower ticket prices, because I feel that the situa tion is one in which students are en couraged, to park illegally.” Shine said he wants to stress a more Pharmacy pulls drug Continued from pagel and Federal Drug Administration in vestigation had been completed. When asked about the investiga tion, Williams said he was unable to comment. He said that in matters in volving a threat to poison drugs the FDA is notified and begins an investi gation. Williams said it’s not FBI policy to tell people not to talk about an inci dent. “People can discuss anything they want to,” he said. When asked if he was aware of any threat or danger to people who might take Dexatrim, Williams replied that there is not an FBI investigation into any conduct that is a health threat to Bryan-College Station residents. Williams did say that FDA investi gators had taken some samples from Medical Center and would examine them for contamination. He said the FDA may have some information that can be released today. Calls to local stores revealed that some were still selling Dexatrim while others had removed it from shelves. One pharmacy still selling the diet aid said a decision had been made to wait until the FDA had completed an in vestigation. Most of the large chain stores had not taken the drug off the market. The threat came two days after an anonymous caller in Houston noti fied the media that he had poisoned capsules of Dietac, Contac and Tel- drin. Some of the capsules were later found to contain rat poison and cyanide. Houston store owners were forced to throw away thousands of the capsules. Four unsuccessful attempts were made to reach officials at Thompson Medical Company, makers of Dexat rim. The company is based in New York City. Dexatrim capsules are made of the same gelatin-like capsules as the poisoned Tylenol capsules that killed several. The Contac, Dietac and Tel- drin capsules were also made of gelatin. Consumer groups have asked the FDA to ban gelatin capsules saying that they are too easily tampered with. cooperative spirit within Student Government. Shine also recommended estab lishing a “legislative page,” a weekly update to be published in The Batta lion explaining Student Government bills, the rationale behind those bills, and Student Government’s accom plishments. In addition. Shine promised to be a president who would be readily accessible to students. “I have an assurance that the time a student votes for me will not be the last time that the student sees me,” Shine said. Hachtman said better communica tion with students could be achieved by setting up a help phone line for students to call whenever problems arise. He said a lack of communication between students and their elected representatives leads to a lack of rep resentation. “An example from this past semes ter: The Student Senate hastily pas sed a $3 student service fee increase for you and I,” Hachtman said. “Now most students didn’t know about that and most student senators didn’t know about it until it came in front of them.” He also emphasized the need for the student body president to be more visible to students. One way to do this is for the president to show up at meetings of campus organizations and let those organizations know he is concerned, Hachtman said. Furthermore, Hachtman said Stu dent Government must concern itself with the consequences students will face because of state budget cuts. “We have to concentrate on how those are going to af fect the students- -not whether or not some faculty member is going to get a new typewri ter this week or if a department’s going to get new computers--buthow it’s going to affect you and I,” he said. Hachtman also warned that A&M, in its quest for world-class research, must be careful not to let that goal adversely affect the quality of educa tion it offers to students. Roos said he thinks the administra tion is hiring more toward research and publication and, in the processes sometimes neglecting students’ needs. He recommended collaborating with faculty members to establish a mutual understanding and concern. Roos said his ultimate goal as presi dent would be “to increase student awareness. “I think that you need to increase student involvement, and we propose that you have a training program,"he said. Roos then outlined the training program, saying it would span three months. For the first two weeks stu dents would be introduced to the workings of the student body presi dent and the Student Senate. Later, they would be introduced to prog rams such as Muster, Traditions Council, Parents’ Weekend and the Conference on Student Governmem Associations, Roos said. By the time one completed the program, he would be well aware of ii» opportunities to serve and could choose to interview for the commit tees of his choice, Roos said. Reagan’s Contra aid plan amended in Senate debate continued from page 1 nistration policy in the body (Sen ate) he controls. It’s a razor-thin margin for the president. . . . This bodes well for getting in the House a compromise of the type that I think the American people want.” By agreement with the GOP leadership, managers of the bill accepted an amendment by Sen. Alan Dixon, D-Ill., which bars sending American military advis ers or trainers in Nicaragua, a step the administration said it did not intend to take. In Nicaragua, government-run radio reported the vote and de nounced it as an “immoral act” adding, “Nothing good will come out of the Congress, and it is necessary to be prepared.” Shortly before the Senate voted, Sen. Richard Lugar, R- Ind., made public a letter in which Reagan said that the direct U.S.- Sandinista talks sought by many Democrats would have “severe and adverse” consequences and would “afford the Sandinistas an opportunity for further duplicity and result in further delay in re solving the conflict.” The political chemistry of the measure was changed when the White House said up to 1,500 San dinistas poured across the border into Honduras over the weekend. Reagan quickly provided Hon duras with S20 million in emergency aid. But the Nicara guan government denied that any large-scale incursion had occurred. Those denials were waved away by the Reagan administration. Secretary of State George Schultz said the Sandinistas had “in vaded.” As approved by the Senate, the measure carries a provision, spon sored by Senate Majority leader Bob Dole, stating that the presi dent may not provide offensive weapons to the Contras until July 1. He would be permitted to begin arms shipments after that date if he determines that “there is no reasonable chance for negotia tions.” Congress would then be given 15 days to reverse this determina tion by passing a joint House- Senate resolution. But this, in essence, would re quire the two-thirds votes of both houses to override a certain pres idential veto. Foes hotly opposed the provision. Opponents of the Reagan approach, led by Sasser, said the president’s plan abandons the possibility of peace negotiations with the Sandinista government, sets the United States on the road to “a military morass in Central America,” and raises the spectre of “Americans once again coming home in body bags.” But Sasser was defeated, 67-33, on his amendment to permit just $30 million in non-lethal logistical aid f dr the Contras and delay weapons shipments for six months while directing the Reagan admi nistration to enter negotiations with the Sandinistas. Reagan supporters said an approach that does not supply a military stick to accompany a di plomatic carrot is naive and dan gerous. They said arming the Contras is an essential step to pin down the Sandinistas and slow the export of communist revolution in Central Sen. Pete Wilson, R-Calif., asked, “Great Cod, where havemy colleagues been? This is not just naive. What makes it dangerous is that people will die because of it... . I can tell you when negotiations will be effective: it is when there is sufficient military pressure on the Sandinistas.” But Sen. Dale Bumpers, D- Ark., told the Senate that by aid ing the counterrevolution in Nicaragua the United States is most likely guaranteeing a fizzle. “Revolutions are like romances — they very seldom work when they are arranged by outsiders,” he said. 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