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Student Floral Concessions Aggie Mums ‘Made for Ags By Ags - 99 Orders taken in the MSC and on the Quad. . Tues-Fri FREE DORM DELIVERY Convenient Saturday pick in the MSC Register to Vote Let the Aggie Voice be Heard Aggie GOP Voter Registration Date: This Week Time: 10-3 Place: Rudder Fountain “Aggie influence is strongest when Aggies register to vote” Congressman Joe Barton ’72 Paid for by the Congressman Joe Barton committee The Other Eclipse Hair Design & Tanning Studio Sept-Oct Specials 696-8700 $5 00 Discount $3. 00 Discount Haircut/Blowdry Cut Only Expires 10/5/86 $10°° Discount Sculptured Nails Pedicures now $20°° Expires 10/5/£ Perms or Highlights $10 00 Discount (Does not apply for partial perms or highlights) Expires 10/5/86 Tanning 5-20 minute sessions <J>20 00 reg. $29 00 Expires 10/5/86 All Products 10% Discount Paul Mitchell, Sebastian, KMS, Ban de Terre, Don Sullivan Expires 10/5/86 Specials Good With: Linda Rosas, Goli Ahmadi, Sherri Williams, Faye Lane, Mary Kay Seigler, Paul Bhuiyan, Jackie Taylor, Sheena Under wood, Stella Holguin, Connie Lopez Page 4/The Battalion/Thursday, September 25, 1986 Libraries fear U.S. policy changes may hurt services By Mona Palmer Senior Staff Writer The U.S. Department of Com merce may propose a change in the structure of the National Technical Information Service that could af fect Texas A&M libraries. The possible changes in the NTIS structure are in keeping with the Reagan Administration’s philosophy that the government should not per form functions that the private sec tor can do itself, said David Gay, A&M’s U.S. documents librarian. Susan Tubs, chairman of govern ment documents at the University of Virginia, explained that the depart ment has two options — it could let the NTIS become a private corpora tion or it could structure the service as a government corporation. Janet Swanbeck, head of docu ments at the Sterling C. Evans Li brary, said that A&M spends $30,000 a year for the research in formation collected, printed and dis tributed by NTIS. She said research libraries are concerned that a private corporation would publish on a for-profit rather than a need basis. If the corporation publishes for profit only, then librar ies will end up paying more for the service, she said. Gay added that the data published by the NTIS is generated for the na tional good and for basic research — there is no money in generating this kind of information. Swambeck said librarians also are concerned that a private company won’t keep the back files that the NTIS keeps. She explained that when the N'l IS publishes research material it is always available and never goes out of print. This is important to re searchers so they can see the results of specific research and won’t dupli cate what’s been done, she said. Information from the NTIS shows that the agency’s collection is approaching 2 million titles and all of these remain permanently avail able. Between 70 and 80 publica tions are added annually and over 2.5 million reports are distributed each year. On July 30, about 100 people gathered in a meeting called by the Department of Commerce to discuss the proposed changes in the NTIS. Tubs said that no one spoke in support of complete privatization of the service and that private, for- profit information companies rep resented also spoke in favor of re taining some government role in the service. Tubs said if the service became a government corporation it would in crease its administrative and legal flexibility. She added that a dual cor poration between private business and government would also main tain the NTIS backfiles. Texas efforts help plant rose as national flower TYLER (AP) — An intense East Texas lobbying effort on Capitol Hill, which included giving a rose bush to every congressman, helped plant the rose firmly as the nation’s official flower, a lawmaker says. The House, after just two minutes of discussion, approved the Senate- passed bill Tuesday. The measure now goes to the White House, where President Reagan is expected to sign it next week. U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall, D-Rockwall, lauded Tyler rose bush grower Larry Burks and other area resi dents for their energetic lobbying. “It couldn’t have been done if Larry Burks hadn’t spent a great deal of time, effort and money on this bill,” Hall said. “He really camped out up here.” In Tyler — home of a nationally recognized rose festival, the world’s largest municipal rose garden and a major rose-producing area — Burks said the bill makes the self-pro claimed rose capital of the world the home of the national flower. Hall said lobbyists distributed rose bushes to every one of the nation’s senators and congressmen during the campaign. “It had a lot of impetus behind it,” Hall said. “They took the roses around and reminded them (the bill) was in the hopper. Of course, this isn’t Gramm-Rudman or Ways and Means, but it’s important to our area because of the attention it will get for the rose industry.” Burks said passage of the bill stemmed from a three-pronged co operative effort between profes sional cut-rose and garden-rose bush producers and amateur rose enthu siasts. What’s up OKAY, C LET- HUSTLE Thursday AGGIELAND ’87 f Recognized student organizations pick up yearbook contracts in their Student Finance noxes. Contracts are due T uesday. Class pictures fo nior, senior, graduate, medical and veterinary students w'ill be taken through Friday at AR Phot® II at 707 Texas Ave., suite 120B. STUDENT ENGINEERS COUNCIL/PLACEMENT TER: nationwide company representatives will be oi second floor of the Memorial Student Center from to noon and 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. to speak with about employment opportunities. TAMU CIVIL LIBERITES UNION: Frank Wilkinson speak on “The First Amendment vs. Repressive lg lation: Past and Present Conflicts” at 7 p.m. in 102Zad? Wak CAMPUS CRUSADE: will co-sponsor, along with three organizations, “The Middle Ages” at 12:30 p.m.inl Sterling Evans. This film is the second in a 10-pansc “How Should We Then Live.” DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATIOl will meet at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder. SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: will meet at "dj: 103 Zachry. VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATE will meet at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder. FISH CAMP: C lamp Hansen will hold a reunion witha show and video at 7:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder. POSSUM KINGDOM HOMETOWN CLUB: will met:t p.m. in 507 Rudder. GUATEMALAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: willmee p.m. in 401 Rudder. BRAZOS DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB: invites stui 1 HE/ QUUTT COf Male faculty and any beginners to come at 7 p.m. on Thus; at College Station Community Center. RHA CASINO: applications for subchairman aredueO Applications are available in 215 Pavilion. TAMU MEN’S RUGBY: holds practice ever) Tuesdai T hursday at 6 p.m. on the rugby field. Formoreinfa tion call Mark, 846-97 7 2 ASIAN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will hold a Bibles at 8:30 p.m. in 510 Rudder. STUDENT GOVERNMENT: filing for freshman ete {n Tihe i has been extended through today at 5 p.m Friday INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: Paulfc will discuss “Spiritual Gif ts” at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder. LATTER DAY SAINT STUDENT ASSOCIATION:' Lee Miller will speak on the changing structureoftlii! ter Day Saint Church at noon in the LDS Buildingot E. Dexter. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will hold a Bible®: 6:15 p.m. at the A&M Presbyterian Church. SADDLE AND SIRLOIN: will hold initiation at 4:i Louis Pearce Pavilion. An initiation dance will be 8:30 p.m. at Shiloh Mall. CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will tneei p.m. in 161 Blocker. STUDENT ACTIVITIES: "T he University Rulesandfe lations," “Student Organization Guide” and the Fall All-University Calendars are available in 208 Pavilion. COOKE COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB: anyone inert in forming a Cooke County Hometown Club cal) 268-4292. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The to- 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working prior to desired publication date. A plan deveiope sociation David Me Extens tion hou new mea RHA is c< An Rf informal i across tin he said, veyed to the projei In add the resul housing dents at progress formed tl Cadets, h Neithe nected wi “The whole pn Dowell s seem to 1 University Plus classes filling quickly By John Jarvis Reporter Classes are filling fast for the arts and crafts, business, aerobics/dance and special interest courses being offered by the Memorial Student Center University Plus Craft Center this semes ter. The classes, which are open to the public, range from aerobics to bartending to Appala chian basket weaving, and include almost every thing in between. Forty-eight courses are schedxded for this fall, including 65 separate classes. Pat Garrison, assistant supervisor of the MSC University Plus Craft Center, says registration will continue for each class until it begins or fills. The starting dates ranged from Sept. 16 for two beginning aerobic exercise classes to Dec. 9 for a three-hour interviewing course. Garrison says University Plus, a combination of the old After Hours Free University Commu nity and the MSC Craft Shop, has existed for one year. The name was changed, she says, not only be cause of the merger, but also because University Plus offers more than just craft courses. peopl stude University Plus classes are students, Garrison says. However, she adds, the ratio of students to non-students varies from class to class. Cost for the classes ranges from $5 for a three- hour interviewing class to $36 for a four-and-a- half week bartending class. A special feature University Plus offers this se mester, Garrison says, are the business section courses. The classes are new and include such topics as interviewing, resume writing, and in vesting. Advertising and marketing strategies for small businesses also will be included in the new pro gram. Garrison says the aerobics courses are the most popular. She says that five out of eight aerobic courses offered are full, and spaces in the others are filling fast. About half of the people who teach University Plus courses are students, Garrison says. The stu dents are hired not because it’s more convenient to use them, but because they have proven them selves as being able to teach the courses, she says. Garrison says the classes offered are a result of people’s requests for them. However, some of the classes requested can’t be offered they're “just too strange," she says.'® one request that comes to mind,"shesa« Not all of the courses offered are® campus. Garrison says. One off-campiisS Texas Hall of Fame for country-west® courses. The reason, she says, is that tl* 1 enough campus space to handle allthedi fered. However, all of the arts andcrafe; are taught in the University Plus Crf she says. c< nc Garrison says that in addition to tk that are offered each fall and spring/ the center also offers special O' workshops to help people make Christmas holiday season. The registn 1 this mini-session begins Nov. 3. The^ meet from Dec. 1 to Dec. 11 for this null' University Plus Craft Center is op® public seven days a week. Hours through Friday are 10 a.m. to lOp.m^ 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, 1pm® For more information on classesand® : the University Plus Craft Center at 8P STUDENT ERNMENT U N I V E R S I T Y is proud to announce the 1985-86 Traditions Council Julie Bednarz Kim Brezina Mike (Bill Simpson) Dvoracek David Funk Todd Guidry Wes Holloway Steven Ihnen Rick Juarez Scott King Susan Mannina Julie Martin Andrea Mobley Frank Muller Julie Owen Susie Pollard Chrissy Pradel Karen Rector Matt Sellers Enoch Wong Laura Zanetti Beat the Hell Outta Southern Miss Western Beverajf “Every Day Low Prid ([to row Extra T-Shirts $4-. a9 to $4. Hats $a." to $5- 701 University Dr. 846-1257