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Page 4/The Battalion/Wednesday, February 18, 1987 irtw wmmmwmwmm mmmmr pEf.w TOD PMO * fy+S IN fiDm\ss\on p.m. In Advance Willie Stargell joins Brazos symphony at A&M Back By Popular Demand Hours: Sun-Thur11 a.m.-1 a.m. Fri & Sat 11 a.m.-2 a.m. 12” 2 item pizza and 2 16oz. bottles of Coke ,oron,y $7.25 16” 2 item oizza and 2 16 oz. bottles of Coke formly jjjg.gg No coupon necessary Tax included Good every Wednesday 693-2335 260-9020 822-7373 1504 Holleman 4407 Texas Ave. Townshire Shopping Center TEXAS A&M MSC AGGIE CINEMA IN ASSOCIATION WITH GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION PRESENTS DATE: MARCH 3 & 4 PLACE: RUDDER FOUNTAIN AREA TIME: 9:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M. WIN A VCR By attending your school’s GM Auto Expo event, you can be eligible to win a VCR courtesy of General Motors. Just fill out an entry form and drop it in the box marked “GM Auto Expo.” The winning entry will be drawn at the end of the GM Auto Expo event. No purchase is necessary to enter or win. Winner need not be present. Good luck! *1986 SANYO VHR #2250 Video Cassette Recorder (retail value $475) General Motors, "sharing your future’ By Karl Pallmeyer Music Critic Music and baseball fans are in for a treat Thursday night when the MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society brings the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra and Willie Stargell to Rudder Audito- Stargell will narrate Sergi Pro kofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf, an Orchestral Fairy Tale” and Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait.” The program also will include Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture” and Copland’s “Appa lachian Spring.” Aside from playing outfield and first base for 27 years with the Pittsburgh Pirates and, most recently, coaching the Atlanta Braves, Stargell has built a good reputation as a narrator. In 1980, Stargell was approached to nar rate Joseph Schwanter’s “New Morning of the World,” a collec tion of speeches and writings by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The work premiered at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. on Jan. 15, 1983, to commemorate King’s birthday. After a five-city tour of “New Morning of the World,” Stargell was approached to perform nar rations of other works. Since 1983, he has performed with sev eral orchestras including the St. Louis Symphony, the Kansas City Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Sym phony Orchestra, the Long Is land Symphony and the Balti more Symphony. The first half of Thursday’s program will be dedicated to Photo by Kyle 0*» | Franz Anton Krager, Brazos Valley symphony conductor. works by Russian composers. Pro kofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” has been a childrens’ favorite for about 50 years and was the first work by this Russian composer to achieve popularity in America. Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture" was written in 1954 to celebrate the 37th anniversary of the Octo ber Revolution. The music of Copland, the first great American composer, will make up the second half of the program. According to BVSO conductor Franz Anton Krager, “A[ chian Spring” originally was cob-I missioned as a ballet for the Mai l tha Graham Dance Comp Copland had scored the piece (oil 13 musicians liecause theorcbj tra pit at the Library of Congrts! where the work first was pel formed, would not accommodii!| a full-sized orchestra. Tickets tor Thursday’sperf.'| mance are available at the Rm der Box Office. Prices are L and S9.25 for students, and and $ 1 1 for non-students. Natural obstacles in count) make fish farm prospect d By Beverly Click Reporter Commercialized fish farming pro duction in Brazos County would be a medium-to high-risk undertaking, a fisheries expert says. Dr. Jim Davis, fisheries specialist with the Texas Agriculture Exten sion Service, says there are two ma jor obstacles to having a fish farming industry in the county — water avail ability and soil conditions. The obvious water source in the county is the Brazos River, Davis says, but a permit from the Texas Department of Water Resources is necessary to take water from the river, and all the water permits al ready have been issued. Another source for water, he says, might be to dig wells in the Brazos Bottom, although the water is not very high quality. The areas of the county with high clay content will have to depend on rainwater that has run off from higher ground, Davis says. These areas are anywhere from 1,200 to 2,700 feet from water, and pumping water from that much of a distance makes the cost of a fish farm consid erably higher, he says. care of. But because there; stand-by water supply anil] farmer will be dependentonn ter, the production needs to l*lj low to keep the pond from over ing. If a fish farmer depends on run- e P , off water, Davis says, he will have to be content with lower production. A commercialized fish farming in dustry would produce around 4,000 to 5,000 pounds of fish per acre per year, he says, and such an extensive production means having a depend able water supply all the time, which Brazos County cannot offer. However, Davis says this area would be good for small-production fish farming. “You can take the stockwater ponds, clean them out, and stock channel catfish in them,” he says. This undertaking would not be that expensive, he says, because the initial costs of the pond, the water and the land will have been taken The kind of fish farming would be most interesting wpi in the county would be channej ish, Davis says. Locally, one could markeic somewhat easily because tki supply is not very dependable | One of the most interest®! lures of fish farming, Davis a that it tends to lie very respoaj management efforts. AUSTIN (AP) — Children won’t be saved from AIDS by “condom mania,” but they may have a chance if taught restraint, U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett said Tuesday. sex education is needed to fight the spread of acquired immune defi ciency syndrome. But so far that education only has focused on condoms, he said. “The threat of AIDS is just one more compelling reason for discour aging sexual activity,” Bennett told a news conference. “To be fixated on condoms as the answer is a mistake.” Bennett said he and U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop agree that “To focus exclusively on this is like teaching the children that when they are driving drunk they should drive slow,” Bennett said. “Condoms often fail. Teen-agers who know about them often fail to use them.” Bennett was in Austin for a series of speeches on higher education. STATE INSPECTION STATION IS YOUR NUMBER UP? Get your car or motorcycle inspected while you wait Anti A disc' and day the' part D sear Cou Tuc 301 Le of AU! 1 search jday th i merce 1 state’s The stion ha |Cleme Develc Ifewis’ Leg! lent i In “If you already have ane pond, you can go ahead aw. some fish in it, feed theraoiii| lar basis, and grow a few ®j home use and very possiblyM sale,” he says. He says it doesn’t takeawf of expertise — only i U.S. Secretary of Education warn ‘condom mania’ is not solution His remarks follow Koop’s 1 call for sex education for < beginning in third grade®! combat the spread of called AIDS a disease thatkfl potential of killing morep plagues of history. AIDS is a disease that rest*! believe generally is sexual!'i milted and strikes the i cal system. Bennett was speaking w 1 ! Women’s Alliance audience 1 200. 308 S. 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