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Page 4rThe BattalioiVTuesday, September 1,1987 WELCOME HOME AGGIES STUDENT CHECKING •NO MINIMUM BALANCE. NO MONTHLY SERVICE CHARGE. fruv&UUi L NATIONAL hank 711 University Drive Station. Texas WELCOME HOME AGGIES STUDENT CHECKING •NO MINIMUM BALANCE. NO MONTHLY SERVICE CHARGE. fnusMit 711 University Drive Station Texas , NATIONAL BANK m % % % don't let your business bomb. coll 845-2611 to advertise at ease MSC OPAS WE NEED SOMETHING NEW AND IT S YOU!! MSC OPAS IS NOW ACCEPTIN© APPLICATIONS FOR FRESHMEN AND TRANSFER STUDENTS APPLICATIONS MAY BE PICKED VP AT THE STUDENT PROGRAMS OFFICE ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE MSC. APPLICATIONS WILL BE DUE SEPTEMBER 8. •a IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CALL: SARA WALL 845-1515 OR ANNE BLACK 845-1661 ♦MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER OPERA AND PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY elp create a new sorority at Texas A&M! Alpha Phi sorority invites you to join us at our Open Houses and Rush Parties. If you have schedule conflicts, call 693- 5097 to set up an individual meeting. ^Monday, Aug. 31 — Open House 3:00-4:00 and 4:30-5:30 Dress: Casual ^Wednesday, Sept. 2—Rush Party 7:00-7:45 and 8:15-9:00 Dress: Casual ^Thursday, Sept. 3—Preference 7:00 Dress: “Sunday” Dress I Location: College Station Community Center, 1300 Jersey FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL 693-5097 Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 Otis Day and the Nights to perform in B-CS area 1w By Tom Reinarts Music Reviewer If you are a normal college stu dent and your major concern this early in the semester has nothing to do with studying but everything to do with festive socializing, you may want to consider heading out to the Brazos County Pavilion at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Lampoon’s the band in National ‘‘Animal House.” The rest of the band members have changed since then, but the idea is still the same. Songs such as “Shout!” and “Shamalama Ding Dong” will be on the agenda and toga wearing is encouraged. Otis Day and the Nights will be the performing artists and partying will be the main activity. Otis Day (as portrayed by De- wayne Jessie) was the lead singer of Dewayne Jessie has been touring the country over the last two years as Otis Day and has a history of draw ing large and enthusiastic crowds. The band generally plays for college audiences, but also has played at the Hard Rock Cafe in Dallas and at the opening ceremonies of the 19s U.S. Olympic Festival in Houston Jessie also has appeared on td vision and in films other than " mal House” as an actor as well as singer. His credits include “H Street Blues” and “DC Cab.” The doors open at 8 p.m. andti Land should m.ih playing shortly; p^*]' J J ter 9:30 p.m. Tickets may be p chased in advance at Rocco’sorM sic Express for S7 or at the door S10. Those under 21 need not won about getting in, since all agesi dcome. Tr KERRV1 men have « actor Gregc for singer j compares t communioi welcome. I here will be food a • „ ■ *«««*■ ni on implei drinks available. Women still find club doors shut despite court’s ruling “No proj or prestige designer of at his mass i f the ch pany, Jame (the pope) individual simplicity o I The vess DALLAS (AP) — Although the Supreme Court ruled this summer that women must be allowed in the traditionally all-male Rotary Club, some irate female executives are finding the doors of similiar clubs still shut. Among them are the Petroleum Club and the Salesmanship Club, some of Dallas’ most prestigious or ganizations where although women can now enter the main dining rooms, no women are members. Sally Schreiber, a partner with Johnson & Swanson law firm and a Standford University graduate, said she began practicing law in Dallas in 1976. Three years later, she was invited to lunch at the Petroleum Club to close a deal but found the main din ing room closed to her. “Another woman who is a secre tary and myself had to go to a pri vate dining room” while the clients and the other lawyers went to the main dining room, Schreiber said. “Usually when it happens, who ever you’re with is most embar rassed,” she said. ‘There are jokes. get in. white Such as, ‘Maybe you could Sally, if you wear this little apron and hat.’ ” But many women do not take the situation lightly. Janie Bush, president of the Dal las County chapter of the National Organization for Women, believes that Dallas clubs and men need to change the rules to the all-mate game. “1 think it’s absolutely archaic that we still play that game,” she said. "1 think Dallas is pretty backward. I trust with Annette Strauss in the mayor’s office, we’ll see more accep tance of women. “We talk a good game in this city, but we don’t really practice a good game.” A1 Hill, a member of the Petro leum Club for over 20 years, said the reason no women belong to the club is because none have applied. Even Hill’s mother and aunt — Margaret Hunt Hill and Caroline Hunt Schoellkopf, considered two of the wealthiest women in the state — are not members and do not plan on applying. trong,” A' malities ar< bv the pom The chal holds the < flagon, whi Dorm.» King. Si hoellkopfs sec the paien. tary, said, “She doesn’t iitvtWk bread is of! sell in anything that smacks ofvj commission en’s rights. lie Archdioc “She’s a little uncomfortabit* Shaped f that." vessels also Bui some 1).ill.is women • limestone fi utives find the all-m.tlc ilubuni near Ken \ i unsettling. The Rev Barbara Lynn, a litigator wuM when anno law firm of Carrington. Cokn “We wan tec Sloman & Blumenthal, said Aedi and native not believe women have not he troubled by all-male clubs. “There can’t be any women J have been in business in Dallas iri last five years that haven’t been; fected at one time or another bytSi she said. “What I disagree witll clubs where business is done, in where certain business peoples: not gain access because they haptr to lie women." Rebecca Heflin, a vice preside of investment hanking for Stears & Co. Inc. who wasamo first four women admitted to 1 ! Dallas Kiwanis Club this summed it up by saying, “Oldi tions die hard.” fo< HUNTS 1 plans to con [damaged b spokesman Forest of [acres of thi I Sam Houstc Visitors enjoy atmosphere in (Monday wii i weather per A total oi MELROSE (AP) — The tiny grocery store has been tear the same location for many years, and although • *rte and Mattie V. Hurst took over the business only vears ago, visitors get the feeling they have been th re forever. F he Hursts have spent 39 of their 47 years of mar riage in this East Texas town of 150 people and took over the family store after Hurst retired from a hard ware store in Nacogdoches, about 10 miles away. clinking a few coins against a small table. He still pla'U few games a week, if not in Melrose then occasional^ the Holly Sorings country store. In between working in Nacogdoches and runic. the store, the couple raised broiler chickens, “for- while, then we got too old for it,” Hurst says. I operation a said. The burn intended to dying vegeti Following | mostly likely Hurst’s father ran the country grocery store when it a fe ’ was in its original location just the road. few hundred feet up “We moved the walls up the highway and put the top back on,” the 72-year-old Hurst says. “We needed him close by,” says Mrs. Hurst, explain ing that the store was moved closer to their home after her father-in-law’s health began to fail. “He didn’t sell much, he just played dominoes," Mrs. Hurst says, recalling her father-in-law’s tenure in the store. The country store was a favorite gathering place for domino players, but many are gone now. “Most are gone for good, if you know what I mean,” Hurst says, seated comfortably in an old chair and A baseball and basketball fan, Hurst once volti teered his time coaching rural teams around ik* county. “1 was too short in high school” to play basketb% Hurst says. As for baseball, “I couldn’t run very fac hit, but I could tell everyone else how to do it,”he»[| with a laugh. He now enjoys keeping up with the Hoc ton Astros and arguing politics — “good-naturedly If says — with anyone. “We survived pretty well out here,” he says of W store. “People have been good to us. We’ll stay beret we die, then we’ll close it up,” he says with a smile. The Hursts say they’ve enjoyed running the “li- little store.” “It keeps you occupied,” says Mrs. Hurst, who sow times does some sewing while working in the store. “Oh, we do just what we want,” she says. “Our friend come by and talk; we serve coffee. We enjoy seeingjtf pie.” Physicist discovers lightning device that gives early warning of dange Dan Jones remembers the reddish glow of a day-old sun streaming around a big cloud billowing up south of Boulder, Colo., that June evening in 1984. The New Mexico Institute of Min ing and Technology research physi cist remembers reading the next day the same cloud spawned lightning that killed two children playing in their yard. “That was one thing that started me thinking about building a light ning forecaster,” he said. The device is a personal detector that warns when conditions are fa vorable for lightning to strike. . Jones has built two rod-like light ning forecasters. One, about a yard long, is porta ble. It consists of a telescoping tele vision antenna, a 6-inch grounding spike and a sounding gadget on the side of some PVC pipe that contains an electronic circuit driven by two 6- volt batteries. The other is longer and runs off a standard 9-volt battery. It is installed at a swimming pool at the New Mexico Tech campus at Socorro. Both versions have been operat ing for about a year without a hitch. Different versions can be made. “I haven’t built one like a staff yet, but it can be done,” Jones said. “One value of a staff version is that a golfer can keep it in his bag and it will tell him there’s a cloud overhead and it says this is danger ous,” he said. Golfers, with their long metal golf clubs, make good lightning rods. Golfers make even better targets if they live in Florida, where Jones said lightning strikes most frequently in the United States. “The predominant type of people who are killed are males engaged in outdoor activity — on golf courses, “The device will not pre dict where lightning will strike, but only will detect the high probability of a nearby strike. ” — Dan Jones, inventor out on a lake in a boat, recreation areas, that sort of thing,” he said. Jones’ device is triggered by an electric field produced by an electric charge generated inside storm clouds. “The strength of the electric field draws a weak current from the sharpened tip of the antenna,” he said. “The weak current is utilized by the electronic circuit to sound the alarm. The bigger the current, the more frequently it beeps. “The more frequently it beeps is an indication of a higher probability of lightning. “The device forecasts lightning by detecting the electric field. “The device will not predict where lightning will strike, but only will de tect the high probability of a nearby strike.” But, when it comes to lightnin! it’s better to be safe than sorry. ] “It alerts people to their being*; risk for being struck by lightning Jones said. “Once there has been a storm, j (the device) has a further advantag in that it does monitor the storm, i said. “As long as it is beeping, there'*! be a possibility of lightning,” Jo^ said. The device can give about fi 1 minutes’ warning — long enough*; allow people to take shelter, Jonf said. He said he took his gadget al when he and a friend hiked to top of Wheeler Peak near Taos 1*1 September. “We sat down, had lunch a f talked for a while,” Jones said. “It beeped once after clouds h been growing for some time anh| said, “Let’s get out of here,’ ” said. “We put our backpacks on; walked down a ridge along the trail “Ten minutes later, lightnW struck in the vicinity of the peak. He said he wants to test his devi* a bit more this summer. “Next fall, I hope to get a co®l pany set up in Socorro and st* manufacturing and marketing gadgets. In the long run, I’d like|| make it cheap enough so homeowj ers can buy it just like they woull buy a smoke alarm. “Parents could have one on thf- home and bring their kids in befef lightning strikes.”