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Page 4/The BattalionTuesday, February 10, 1987 Wrap your Valentine in our heart-shaped, hand-painted wooden boxes. We’re painting “love” all over baskets and boxes for Valentine’s Day. Surprise your special someone with a hand-made Valentine box filled with your own homemade cookies or candies. Navasota (409) 825-8030 Open Monday through Saturday 9—5 Pedernales Falls State Park J IS M; February 20-22 Join us in hiking through the Texas Hill Country!! The $35 fee includes camping equipment, backpacks, food, permits, transportation costs, and experienced guides. Sign up in the Intramural-Recreational Sports Office in 159 Read until February 16. F or more informa tion please call Patsy at 845-7826. Y. $.E5UJL \ |y m Relives the PROHIBITION L Application deadline extended to February 14. Mandatory meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 10 7:00pm 701 Rudder Wednesday, Feb. 11 7:00pm 601 Rudder jjgUP - Hightower: Democrats offer best farm policy AUSTIN (AP) — Democratic con gressmen have offered the only rea listic alternative to disastrous farm policies of the Reagan administra tion, Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower said Monday. “It no longer is alarmist to say that America’s system of independent, competitive family farms is on the brink of destruction,” Hightower said. “It is now a fact.” Since President Reagan took of fice, Hightower said, the U.S. farm program has “deliberately busted U.S. farm prices” and “put an intol erable debt loan on the backs of our nation’s independent producers.” Of the approximately 640,000 full-time, commercial farmers still in business nationwide, at least 280,000 are in serious financial trouble, and 120,000 of those could be out of business in two years, he said. “That system has one foot in the grave and one foot on a banana peel,” Hightower said in a speech prepared for delivery to the Texas Corn Growers Association. Hightower has worked with Dem ocratic lawmakers in Washington on farm policy and was a major author of the farm plank in the party’s 1984 presidential platform. He said that since 1981, more than 500,000 farmers have been forced out of business, but the proc ess wasn’t a natural shakeout of bad businessmen. “Overwhelmingly, these were the fully modernized, full-time commer cial operators who have achieved economies of scale and efficiencies necessary to make it,” Hightower said. Seat belt use drops in Texas during 1986 AUSTIN (AP) — Texas cities have the highest rates of seat belt use in the nation, but the overall rate in Texas dropped over the past year, according to the state highway de partment. A January survey shows an overall usage rate in the state of 59.2 per cent, which is a 6.9 percent reduc tion from the previous year. The study was done by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University. “We don’t feel there is cause for alarm yet,” said Bob Hodge, traffic safety administrator for the depart ment. “Preliminary figures for 1986 show that deaths on Texas roads are down, and that we are at an 11-year low.” Capt. Frankie Waller of the De partment of Public Safety said about 7,000 tickets are being issued each month for non-belted drivers and front seat passengers. In January, Corpus Christi showed the highest seat belt usage among Texas cities, whi Brownsville had the lowest. In Advance SCONA plans 4-day program on YOt |ACC RO/ WK By Carolyn Garcia Staff Writer “The United Nations: Purpose vs. Politics” will be the topic for discussion as the 32nd Memorial Student Center Conference on National Affairs gets under way Wednesday in Rudder Theater. Almost 200 university student delegates from throughout the world are expected to attend the four-day international confer ence. Sandra Coerking, chairman of SCONA, said the United Nations was chosen as this year’s topic to educate the participants and com mittee members. Chayes, a Harvard law profess* and Tex Borek of the stated partment tackling the topic iJ ternational Court of Justice: Effect of the U.S. vs. Nicaram Decision.” Lt. Col. DavidGn will moderate. John Fobes, president of i Economic Development Fount tion, will talk about economica: social development on Fridas J 1:30 p.m. “We thought that the U.N. hadn’t been examined in the last couple of years, and it is some thing that affects everyone,” Coerking said. A variety of speakers will ad dress and debate the purpose, ac tions, inactions and politics of the United Nations. Ambassador Jaime DePinies, under secretary general of the United Nations, will deliver the keynote address Wednesday at 7 p.m. to begin the conference. The final speaker will be LI Cioffi. Cioffi, the ABCnewscol respondent at the United Kj (ions, will talk about the outli for its future Saturday all All speeches will be delivtic in Rudder Theater and areopc to the public. Speakers such as these kj been coming to A&M since 1 to address issues of internatk concern. Each year MSC SCONA bra together students, faculty meJ !x*rs, government officials public figures to discuss suchi ,I 4/tN JEC ftRM Elliot Richardson, chairman of the U.N. association — United States, will debate with Roger Brooks, director of policy plan ning of the state department. The topic will be “The Role of the United States Involvements with the United Nations.” Moderator for the 9 a.m. Thursday debate will be Betty Unterberger, A&M professor of history. And U.N. legal officer, Mpazi Sinjela, will address the topic “In ternational Security and World Peace,” Thursday at 1:30 p.m. The conference continues on Friday at 9 a.m. with Abram The student delegates if| resent more than 70 highschot colleges and universities throurj out me world. During this year's SCONA,sJ dents will lie divided into ssf “round table" groups to did and exchange ideas and view the United Nations. The round-table discuss will be accented by nationally! internationally known spokesizl who will address a differentil pect of the topic. MSC SCONA is a self-suppo-l ing organization. The commef receives no funding from Ail Its budget — almost according to Cocking — is rati through support from fej students, businessmen, corpow lions and industrial leaden i Senate to hear report on service fees By Christi Daugherty Staff Writer The finance committee will present its budget findings and could propose an increase in stu dent service fees at the Student Senate meeting Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in 204 Harrington. There have been some indica tions that the Senate will try to raise the fees if it cannot find a way to lower the fee requests of various departments. Senate Speaker Miles Bradshaw said A&M, which has a $61 fee per student, has lower fees than many Texas universi ties, as the legal limit is $90. The Senate also will discuss a bill that could decrease the size of the Senate by one-half — from 80 to about 40 legislators. The object of the Senate Re form Bill is to tackle the atten dance problems that havebeli e dogging the Senate for M||* ut time. Approximately 60memkiP^ 1 show up at most meetings,Aiw v last meeting of the fall semes:r| nes less than the necessary two-tfej of the members appeared, tet ing the group without a quoraiP 1 ’ 1 A smaller Senate might lea:. more competition fora government, and could maketl senators more dedicated toil™? en roles, Bradshaw said. |; v' s Also, the new executive rf- 1 administrative vice presidents, be sworn in, he said. At thetfir 6 meeting, the chairman of the; dicial Board chose nottoswSP' them in after a disagreements^ Student Body President Sims about the legality of M ^' 5 ' |sen appointments. 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