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Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, February 20, 1987 2018 Texas Short & Long Dresses sizes 5 & up & Shoes Up to 50% OFF while they last 823-0630 erformance "Is our Business" We believe in Performance: In Your Car or Truck For any Repair-Import or Domestic Bryan Drive Train call us 268-AUTO Dance Arts Society will host a Modern Dance Workshop with Tana Kent an independent modern choreographer from Austin Saturday, February 21, $7 Sunday, February 22, $6 ($10 for the weekend) Room 268 Read (East Kyle) For workshop schedule call: Ginger 260-0510 Kathy 696-6257 New Class Schedule for the Spring Semester: Monday - 7:30 Aerobics, 8:30 Beg. Jazz, 9:30 Int./Adv. Jazz Tuesday - 8:30 Aerobics Wednesday - 7:30 Aerobics, 8:30 Beg. Ballet, 9:30 Int./Adv. Ballet Thursday - 7:30 Beg. Modern, 8:30 Int. Adv. Modern Semester Dues $25 Everyone Welcomet For information: Ginger 260-0510 Leslie 260-7282 In Celebration of International Women’s Day TAMU NOW Presents International Women’s Week March 1 -8 March 1 International Potluck Dinner March 3 Guest Speakers: Former WWII female pilots March 5 Film: The Nicaraquan Women’s Movement March 8 “A Night of Culture” featuring performances by women FOR WOMEN! Now Offering European Body Wraps Pre-Spring Break Special Sun Tana Membership Now 50% OFF Buy 5 tanning sessions for $30 and get 5 more for $1 each Buy lO tanning sessions for $55 and get lO more at $1 each Offical Tanning Center of the Miss Texas A&M Pagent The Original. Perfect Tan Port Oak Square Harvty Road 764-2771 k /-V' - Photo by Tom Own bey Photo by Bill Hufiel Exchange student Susan Wilson has a beer with a friend (also named Susan Wilson) at Duddley’s Thursday night. At right, grad uate assistant Joanie Kleypas helps exchange student Peter Merkel work out a problem in geology lab. Foreign exchange students find A&M ‘different,’ adapting well to changes By Tammy Hedgpeth Reporter Once an Aggie, always an Aggie? Certainly for most, but foreign ex change students Susan Wilson and Peter Merkel are still wondering what an Aggie is. “One semester is not enough,” Wilson says. “I love it here. It (Aggie spirit) is alive.” Wilson, an environmental science major from Ashby Parva, England, is a junior exchange student from the University of Stirling in Scot land. After one semester at A&M, she says she has adapted well to envi ronmental and cultural changes. But one major change is the social scene. “It is totally different,” Wilson says, with a proper British accent. The music and atmosphere can not compare to that in Scotland, she says. “I kind of like Duddley’s myself — I like the people there. I’m not too keen on the Dixie Chicken; I find it a bit of a pick-up joint,” she says. Because the legal drinking age in Scotland is 18, there are bars around campus, Wilson says. The cover charge at a bar is about 60 cents, she says, and a glass of lager is 40 or 50 cents. Adjusting to a different lifestyle hasn’t affected Wilson’s academic lege that you’re in,” she says. “When you’re in the upper level, you cannot take lower-level classes.” Merkel, a geology major from Friedrichshafen, Germany, has a different view of A&M. “I don’t identify with school spi- “I kind of like Duddley’s myself— I like the people there. ” — Susan Wilson “There are things that are really different, but I really like A&M. The school’s excellent. ’’ — Peter Merkel performance. She made straight A’s her first semester at A&M. She says she has more time than she did at her other school, which contributes to her making better grades. The whole college system is dif ferent in Scotland, Wilson says. “You take only classes in the col- rit,” he says, “I don’t think I’m a real Aggie.” But Wilson also says the whole set ting here is different from than that at Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tu bingen, where Merkel attends col lege. “There are things that are really different, but I really like A&M,” Merkel says, with a slight aid “The school's excellent.” His 4.0 grade-point ratio i played his academic adjustmentdi ing the Fall 1986 semester. The quizzes at A&M keeps dents working, Merkel says,andi| likes the professors better thaii| Germany Ixecause the studentta cher relationship is good. AtTl bingen, the students havelitdetof witfi the professors, he says. “The system is different,"hesi “Here you have quizzes. An school you have one or two tests)! mester, mostly one at theendofil semester. “During the semester, youi pretty free ... if you keepup* the stuff. You have to knowitatll| end of the semester." Speaking of the exchange gram, Merkel says, “You cannot ply for a specific place.” But once he was chosenasan change student, he could dux* ther Louisiana State Universit A&M — he decided to go to the ter school, he says. Legal assistant enforces city's smoking law DALLAS (AP) — To Jim Carrao, a restaurant is only as good as its no-smoking creed. And never mind if the lettuce is crisp at the neighborhood grocer’s. What matters is how prominent no-smoking signs are displayed. Carrao is a free-lance legal assistant who moonlights as a self-appointed enforcer of the city’s smoking ordinance. The law took effect Feb. 6, 1986, and forbids smoking in administra tive areas, restaurants, hospitals, retail stores, public service areas and elevators. Violators face fines ranging from $25 to $500. Carrao has filed four of the five complaints against people who he said violated the ordi nance. He has also filed 85 of the more than 300 complaints against businesses that have not com plied with the law. “What I would like to see done is to make man agement required to enforce it,” Carrao said. “Police should be required to enforce it, too.” He said he is sensitive to smoke. It gives him a headache, causes respiratory problems and makes him nauseous. “As for as smokers having rights, I can’t think of any rights they would have,” Carrao said. “It’s the only substance that, if properly used, kills and maims people. No one has the right to hurt someone else.” He recently saw a man breaking the law in a grocery store aisle. Walking briskly, Carrao caught up with the man as he shopped. “Would you put out that cigarette plea* Carrao said. “This is a no-smoking area." “Listen, you can’t tell me what to do," said, walking off with a cigarette betweenhisl gers. “That’s a typical smoker response,” Can said. “Most smokers are instantly offended few smokers have said they were going! outside and beat the . . . out of me.” He doesn’t play favorites. 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