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fhe Boot Barn Quality for Less “The original discount boot store with true discout prices.” Brown, Grey, Cloud Grey, Cloud Blue, Burgundy, Navy, Taupe, Pink, Red. ROPERS $79" Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, November 6, 1986 Energy equipment donated to A&M for sea research What’s up Open Monday-Saturday 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. 2.5 miles East of Brazos Center on FM 1179 (Briarcrest Dr.) 776-2895 What do public relations people do? What college coursework is recommended? How do you land a job in PR? Ask these questions and more from a panel of six top professionals from Houston, Dallas and Bryan. PANELISTS Sue /Knders President. Sue Anders Advertising and PR, Dallas Joe Buser President, Joe Buser & Associates, Bryan Robert E. Maine, APR Manager of Public Relations. Litton Industries, Inc., Houston President, Houston Chapter of Public Relations Society of America Cathy Oppel President. Oppel & Associates, Dallas Jim Pattillo District Staff Manager External Atfairs, Southwestern Bell. Dallas Marilyn Pippin Principal. Cox Pippin Communications, Dallas President. Dallas Chapter of Women In Communications, Inc MODERATOR Douglas P. Starr, APR Professor and Head, Department of Journalism. Texas A&M University Friday, November 7, 1986 212 MSC Panel Discussion: 9:30 to 11 a.m. Round Table: 11 a.m. to noon Sponsored by the Department of Journalism By Greg Bailey Reporter A recent donation by the U.S. De partment of Energy has made Texas A&M the recipient of more than $500,000 in research equipment. Special assistant to the Chancellor for Federal Relations Michael Lytle said the donation could make A&M more competitive for energy-related research opportunities in the marine environment. The equipment has been used at A&M for the past eight years in off shore oceanographic monitoring in conjunction with the Department of Energy’s Strategic Petroleum Re serve program. The department originally planned to auction off the equipment as excess government property. A&M researcher Dr. Roy Harm, program manager for the DOE pro ject, said the project was set up to monitor the effects of brine materi als deposited in the Gulf of Mexico from salt domes on the Texas and Louisiana coastlines. The brine materials were removed to allow for the storage of half a billion barrels of oil, he said. Hann said he is hoping the total donated material will be worth close to $700,000 and will greatly benefit both the environmental engineering and ocean engineering programs and the marine science program at A&M. Hann said A&M plans to use the equipment to build further research and educational programs. “We felt that it was in the best in terest of the government and A&M if the equipment stayed here,” he said. He added that having the equip ment will enable students and re searchers now using the equipment to stay and continue their work at A&M. Hann said getting the equip ment was not easy. “T he application was getting held up in the bureacracy,” Hann said. “I asked our congressional representa tives to look into it.” Hann said things were done much more rapidly with this help. Hann said the DOE donation con sists of around 200 pieces of equip ment and ranges from offshore cur- rent measuring systems to centrifuges and microscopes. A cheerful White says he’s looking to future AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Mark White did not have to stray far from home Wednesday to find a happy note on a rough day. He had lost his job, but found his dog. Sometime Tuesday, as Texans were voting the Democrat incum bent out of office. Willow, the first family’s cocker spaniel, escaped from the Governor’s Mansion. “The good news today is we found the dog,” White said Wednesday at a brief news conference in the Senate chamber. White, buoyant in defeat, put on a cheerful face as he refused to offer any in-depth analysis of his loss or his future. “We’re going to have a little party, Linda Gale and I, just a little cele bration,” he said. Asked what he was celebrating, White said, “The day. I just feel good. I’m looking at the future.” Asked how he planned to make a living, the lawyer and part-owner of a barbecue company said, “I’ll prob ably, somewhere between practicing law and selling barbecue, find some thing to do. “I’ve had several offers but I’m not entertaining those now.” When asked about future political races, he declined to make any pre dictions. “I’m not going to be worrying about that or commenting on that today,” White said. “I have a couple more months of work to do,” he said. White said Republican Bill Clem ents, in regaining the governor’s job, set a precedent that could possibly be followed by other defeated gover- Clements lost to White in 1982, but defeated him Tuesday by about 200,000 votes. “I wouldn’t want to set a practice of doing that,” White said. “I think it’s a terrible tradition to try to come back and do it again,” he said. “But then again, some have done it successfully and others might.” White attributed his defeat to any number of factors. “(It was) a whole host of things, a variety of things,” he said. He declined to be more specific. “(It was) just not nearly enough votes,” he said. Will Texans discover they had made a mistake in returning Bill Clements to office? “Oh no,” White said with a smile. “Texans never make mistakes.” The lame duck said that, if asked for it, he would offer Clements ad vice similar to the advice he offered lawmakers when he pushed an elec tion year tax hike that may have con tributed to his defeat. “Do right and suffer conse quences,” White said of his advice for Clements. Thursday DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: Sally Wade will conduci. writing outreach session, “Writing for a Reader,” at 6:3 p.m. in 153 Blocker. BETA ALPHA PSI: will meet with Arthur Young to discus “AY/ASQ: Audit Smarter and Quicker” at 6 p.m. atthefc mada Inn. GREEN EARTH SOCIETY: Dr. David Owen will discuj “Sea Turtles and Their Conservation” at 8:30 p.m. inM Rudder. I TAU BETA PI: actives will meet and have photos taken! j Aggieland ’87 at 6:30 p.m. in 103 Zachi \ CYCLING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 220 MSC. STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will meet at 8jj p.m. in 401 Rudder. ASIAN-AMERICAN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: willcoJ tinue a Bible study series on “The Christian Life” at 8:11 p.m. in Rudder Tower. Check monitor for room number, I ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon on cau| pus. For location call 845-5826. STUDENT Y: will have photos taken for Aggieland ’87i| 6:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Zachry Engineering Center, | NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS: will ha J photos taken for Aggieland ’87 at 5:45 p.m. in 102Zachni TAMU EMERGENCY CARE TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m 1 302 Rudder. KANM: will I lave a mandatory meeting at 7:30 p.m. in40!| Rudder. MEXICAN-AMERICAN ENGINEERING SOCIETY: RalJ Gonzales, MAES National President, will speak at 7 p.m.. j 502 Rudder. STUDENT ART FILM SOCIETY: will show the film Z ai 1 p.m. in 153 B1 oc ker. PEER ADVISERS: will hold a “Pajama Party Reunion"aul p.m. at K.C. Hall. INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will hold I campus-wide "Concert of Prayer" at 6 p.m. in Rudd: T ower. See monitor for room number. BRAZOS DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB: invites student! !: :l faculty and any beginners to come at 7 p.m. at CollegeSu tion Community Center. Friday LATTER-DAY SAINTS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: D | Wouter Van Beck, anthropologist from the Universityi Texas voter turnout less than 50% for election AUSTIN (AP) — While Gov.-elect Bill Clements said Texas’ voter turn out was just what he had expected, Gov. Mark White hinted he had hoped more than 47 percent would vote. A total of 3,422,151 Texans voted Tuesday, according to governor’s race results reported from all but eight of the state’s 6,674 precincts. There are 7,287,173 registered voters, which means the turnout was 46.96 percent. “I kept talking about how we were going to set a historical high for a Republican in a non-presidential year,” Clements, who beat White by about 225,000 votes, said. “I just want to remind you that we did,” he said. Nearly complete returns gave him 1,804,065 votes. White hinted that he was disap pointed in the 47 percent turnout, but said he would not offer any spe cific analysis about his loss. “A voter turnout higher than 47 percent might have helped,” he said, however. Meanwhile, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Robert Slagle said he has run out of ideas on how to lure more voters to the polls. “We had phone banks beating on people, and people going door-to- door trying to get people to vote,” he said of the less-than-half turnout. “It’s rather shocking. And we’ve got a lot of people eligible to vote who don’t register because they want to avoid jury duty.” In 1982, 3.2 million Texans, 50 percent of the total registered, cast ballots on a rainy Election Day that ended with White ousting Clements. Two years later, 5.3 million Tex ans, a 68 percent turnout, showed up for a ballot that included a presi dential and U.S. Senate race. Regional reports from Tuesday’s election showed varied turnouts around the state. In the Panhandle, where Clem ents pulled 63.8 percent of the vote, total turnout was 50.6 percent ; In North Central Texas,"] Clements gathered 56.4 perceHj tal turnout was 48.8 percent. Traditionally Democratic Texas also went for Clements,j him 51 percent of the voteimf percent turnout. In South Texas, where "j hoped to build a big lead, theOT bent had 51.7 percent ofthevtl a 43.1 percent turnout. Clements edged White inf Texas, where the turnout was] percent, and the GOP cli won big in West Central TeWf taking 64.2 percent of theyott 52.3 percent turnout. ^MSC Travel presents Ski Park City, Utah! January 7-13, 1987 $539.00 Price Includes: • Round Trip Airfare • Bus Transportation to/from Airport and Ski Resort • Four Day Lift Ticket at Park City • One Day Lift Ticket at Deer Valley (10 minute drive) • Five Day Ski Rental • Keg and Pizza Party For Information call, 845-1515 Contact Lenses Only Quality Name Brazos (Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Branes-Hinds-Hydrocurve) 59 00 00 -STD. DAILY WEAR SOFT LENSES reg. $79. 00 a pair 79 00 ■$99 m -STD. EXTENDED WEAR SOFT LENSES reg. $99. 00 a pair 79 00 no -STD. TINTED SOFT LENSES reg. $99. 00 a pair Holiday Sale Ends Dec. 20,1986 Call 696-3754 For Appointment * Eye exam and care kit not included CHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, O.D., P.C. DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY 707 South Texas Ave., Suite 101D College Station, Texas 77840 1 block South of Texas & University vvouicT van itcun, aiiiiii 11 vji ii me: ljuivcimij um Utrecht in Holland, will speak at noon at the Latter-daiH Saints Institute Building, 100 E. Dexter. DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM: will sponsor PR Dal ’86” with six public relations professionals giving a pan:lf discussion at 9:30 a.m. and nolding a round table dis-IJ cussion at 1 1 a.m. in 212 MSC. INTERVARSTIY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: Dr Sul Geller will discuss “Biblical Exposition of Covenants”at p.m. in 308 Rudder. PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT: will sponsor a workshopfotj faculty and staff on “Families and Work: Setting Priorities® /Finding a Balance” from 8:30 a.m. to 1 1:30 a.m. andiron || 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder. ADVERTISING ASSOCIATION: will sponsor a trip to| Ogilvy 8c Mather and GSD 8c M in Houston. For rnorein | formation call Karen at 846-5601. TABLE TENNIS CLUB: will hold practice and competition! at 6 p.m. in 304 Read. COLOMBIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at‘k p.m. in 604 A-B Rudder. CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will meet at'R p.m. in 160 Blocker. INTRAMURAL RECREATIONAL SPORTS: entries closcf for cross country at 6 p.m. in 159 Read. A&M LITERARY ARTS CLUB: now is accepting submisl sions for Litmus. STUDENT Y: applications for Youth Fun Day Advisers art | available in the Student Activities Office in the Pavilion. | Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion ,1 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working dap K prior to desired publication date.