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The doctors of <
with Ibcas Stole Opkcal joKm th^eerv
contaci lens prvscnftion musl w oeKt.
The ft must be predse You must i-,
compklely oomfortaMe \
every year peoffl^ sperta16fTiii%s I
on contacts, put them away in a drawer
and never wear them
Because they re uncomfortable
They don’t ft right
These people have never been to
Ibcas State Optical
\bu can’t affcaxi
contact knse^ I
that donft fit ri^lt.
At ai^ price.
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Afpt CP,
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year, iust by hu
work dents out of im h
engine part and recyrte k
v asquei . an aircraft medianic at
the Corpus Christi Army Depot, re
cently was awarded more than
$6.WO for the suggestion. It is the
Department of theArmr Suggestion
Program’s highest award ever pre
sented at the
anci maintain*
copters.
depot which repairs
f *8 the Army’s Wh-
• wA Vf.4
* Under the program, begun in
^ 19M, the Army rewards any work
* improvement Suggestion that saves
1 the government money with a per
mtsge! 1 of those savings Last year.
' employee suggestiom saved the de
pot almost $2 mtUsnrt
1 A mechanic m the depot's Engine
1 Disassembly shop. Vasquer said part
4 of his job is repairing and replacing
* a 3-inch vane in an engine’s variable
* inlet guidance assembly.
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So much.
For so little.
BODY
There are !• such vanes, which
cost about 916ft apiece, in the
guidance assembly During the re
pair process, about ftO percent of the
• vanes were being rejected because
they were too deeply dented, Vas
4 quez said
Not only was a lot of metal being
•crapped, httt a str^to P»*» on the
materials’
and I thoui
\ wane getting hard and
rtifig, pore eapgnsive.
rht it was time to do
>ut a,” Vasquez said.
VasqhcS taorked #ut h«.w it could
be done. Pen* murh it would cost to
\i> repair versus the cost of new vanes
I He then worked with the Army engi
neers and helped put reworked
!W assembly for testing.
vanes in a new
Niagara Falls
sparks replica
in North Texas
WICHITA FALLS (AP) — The
man why*jjfesides over the nation’s
most Wa^rrfcfi city will be on
hand to jpMyjS^yth ,*TeXas city
in4ugura%t**nva»faade ycrsio/i df its
atMgagk*. ,
ol watei
746-0549 1800D. Texas Ave.
When the first drops of watei
slide over the new falls in Wichita
Falls this spfin g. M ic hael C.
O'Laughhn — the mayor of Niagara
Falls. N.T. — wiB help set the project
m motion. , Wichita Falls Mavor
Charles Harper says
Niagara Fails is famous for its nat-
uraTfalls that are 167 feet high and
1.000 feet wide
Wichita Falls will boost a four-
tiered waterfall about 50 feet high
and ISO feet wide
T’d be pleased to attend,"
O’Laughhn said This is the first
time rve ever heard of anyone
building a falls I haven't the slight
est idea what loexpekf ."
No date has been set fpr the event
* « V 4 k «
I'hc invitation to O’Laughhn said
that Wichita Falls residents would
like him to come see th « falls *■ since
he kflows what ft is Khr
have a wa-
ir to I
terlall in his backyard," Harper said.
DEFENSIVE DRIVING: will be held Monday and Tuesday
from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Wesley Foundation. Cal 695-0006
for move information.
STUDY ABROAD: students interested in the
dent program will meet from 2 to 3 p.m. at 251
West.
HONORS STUDENT COUNCIL: will meet at 7:90 p.m. in
302 Rudder
MSC IORDAN INSTITUTE: will meet at 8:50 p.m. in 501
Rudder
OFF-CAMPUS AGGIES: wifi meet at 6:50 p.m. an 105 HeL
denfek.
AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: will hold free square-dance les
sons from 7 to 8:50 p.m in 228 MSC.
STUDENT AGRICULTURAL COUNCIL: will meet at 7 r
p.m. in 125 Kleberg.
INTRAMURAL RECREATIONAL SPORTS: entries for
horseshoe doubles and the free-throw contest open today
in 159 Read.
TRI-BETA BIOLOGICAL HONOR SOCIETY: will meet at
7 p.m. in 107 Hddenfeb.
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7
p.m. in 201 Veterinary Medical Sciences.
CLASS OF *88: applications for Boot Dance subchairmen are
available through today in the Student Programs Office.
Tueaday
DEPARTMENT OF STUDENT AFFAIRS: will present Dr.
Mark Stevens at 8 p.m. in 201 MSC. The topic will be “Dpte
Rape: I heard you say no but I thought you meant maybe."
MSC HOSPITALITY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 212 MSC.
MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: will meet at 8:50 p.m. in 501
Rudder.
MSC ALL-NIGHT FAIR: will hold a general committee
meeting at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder and a meeting for organi
zations at 7 p.m. in 704B Rudder.
AGGIE DEMOCRATS: will meet at 8:50 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
TEXAS STUDENT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: will
meet at 7 p.m. in 250 MSC.
STUDY ABROAD: students interested in studying abroad
will meet at 3 p.m. at 251 Bizaell West.
AGGIE PARTNERS FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS: will meet
at 8:30 p.m. in 274 Read.
TAMU SPORT PARACHUTE CLUB: will show a slide show
for those interested in learning to skydive at 7 p.m. in 226
MSC.
OUTDOOR RECREATION CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in
205 MSC.
TAMU ONE-WHEELERS: will meet at 6 p.m. in front of G
Rollie White Coliseum.
INTRAMURAL RECREATIONAL SPORTS: entries for
wallybail, slam dunk, preseason softball and softball dose
at 6 p.m. in 159 Read
PANAMANIAN STUDENT ASSOCATION: will meet at
• ^ 8:30 pvm. in 501 Rudder
SPANISH CLUB: will meet at 8 p.m. at the Flying Tomato.
ENGLISH CLUB: will meet at 6 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
SOCIOLOGY CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 125 Academic.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS:
will meet at 7 p.m. in 102 Zachry.
TAMU P REM ED/DENTAL SOCIETY: will meet at 8 p.m. in
200HECC. '
UNDERGRADUATE BIOCHEMISTRY SOCIETY: will
meet at 7:30 p.m in 113 HEEP
HORSEMEN'S ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in the
Dick Freeman Arena.
COLLEGIATE FFA: will meet at 7:50 p.m. in 208 Senates.
LIBERAL ARTS SOCIETY: will meet at 8:50 p.m. in 228
MSC.
EL PASO HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 308
Rudder.
DELTA SIGMA PI: Mr. John Willingham will speak. Busi
ness attire is requested.
PARENTS WEEKEND: applications and schedule forms are
available for any group planning an activity Applkauoi|S
are due Feb. 27.
Items for Whmt i Up mbouSd be moboUaed to The
216 Reed McDonmid, mo teem them that
prior to deeired pubiiemtiom dote
Students in Mexico protest
university admissions plan
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A 26
point program to stiffen admission
and academic requirements in the
huge National University system has
drawn students together in ihrtr bi^
gest protest movement since 1968
and prompted, a strike, paralyzing
the sdiool for more than a week.
V- • kA < *' t tv
< The University Student Council,
formed last October to protest the
reforms, says the reforms “seek to
reduce enrollment and dimmish ac
cess by low-income sectors through
restrictions of all kinds and through
the increase’oF tees.”-' instead, pro
testers say, the schuoUghould be re
inforced as a “university of the
masses ".
Rector Jorgfc Carpizo defends his
program as an effort to raise the de
teriorating afcademir level at the 456-
year-old school, one of the world’s
largest. The Official title is the Na
tional Autonomous University of
Mexico, and k is known here by its
Spanish acronym UNAM
There have been no
since the strike
Growing with' Mexico s young
population, the university system
tripled in star between 1970 and
1980 ft now has an estimated
330C000 students: about half of them
m high schoob for students prepar
ing to go on to the university.
From its main campus in southern
Mexico City, with its landmark mu
ral-covered library and rectory
tower, the university expanded, add
ing high schools and universky-level
bools in other parts of the sprawl-
congested metropolis.
the high school students who
are among the nx*
nents of the reforms.
tend at least W)
lima of two
t 80 percent
► makeup es
a total of 1ft
of <
am
for
i per se-
a bar He-
’V
active oppo-
been no negotiations
began Jan. *9
nth Mexico's young
University high school graduates
enjoy automatic admission to
UNAM. the roost renowned of the
public universities, if they have a
grade average of seven on a 10-point
vale. Some take seven years or
longer to finish
i si nisn’i reforms would limit au
tomatic admission to studenu who
complete 10th through 12th grades
in three years with an eight-print av
erage.
Others would have to take en
trance examinations along with stu
dents from non-university high
schoob. The time and grade-pomt
are considered negotiable
The Student Council says the
measures would favor private school
students who are better prepared
than those at UNAM sc hoofs.
Two out of three students who be
gin UNAM undergraduate pro
grams coxae from the system’s high
schools, according to the newspaper
La Jornada, which has covered the
dispute closely. But only one in three
of the high school students grad
uates in three years, it said.
Other pnncipol objections focus
on a requirement that studenu st
ipe's degree program or 10 for high
school and establish mem of stan
dardised examinations.
Although the 200-peso university
tuition, about 20 U.S cents, and the
150-peso, or 15-cent, fee for high
schoob remain unchanged, the re
forms add hefty fees for makeup
nuuns and degree
A Jan. 22 protest march to the
downtown Zocaio plaza drew about
60,000 students and was believed so
be the bsggeat since studenu filled
the huge psasa SO overflowing dur-
"vz'zzzr also would crack
down on professors who don’t show
up for rlsss, a
the symam. M
only part-time
The Student Council
forms to
the
duced
force with le
a great
for mad in the
Students agree reforms are
the school. They are <
atton of a university
solve the curren
lo