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Jarthy, nowp extraordinan!t| jut on the qK d. “Evetyfw 1 is not tappedi type." f Tuesday STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will have a Fulbright informa tional meeting at 251 Bizzell Hall West at 2 p.m. HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION: will have an ice-cream, pizza bash for freshmen at the Hillel Jewish Stu dent Center at 5 p.m. NATIONAL RESIDENCE HALL HONORARY: will meet in 145 MSC at 8:30 p.m. WRITING OUTREACH: will hold a workshop entitled “The Writing Process: Filling the Blank Page” in 112 Blocker at 6:30 p.m. WILDLIFE BIOLOGY SOCIETY: Dr. David Owens will speak in 108 Harrington at 7:30 p.m. SILVER TAPS: will be held in front of the Academic Build ing at the Lawrence Sullivan Ross Statue at 10:30 p.m. COLLEGIATE FFA: will have an ice-cream social in 101 Scoates Hall at 6:30 p.m. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: will meet in 158 Blocker at 7 p.m. TAMU HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: will meet in 115 Kleberg at 7 p.m. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS: Bob Davis will speak on hazardous waste in 110 Civil Engineering Building at 7 p.m. ON-CAMPUS CATHOLICS: will meet at the All Faiths Cha pel at 9 p.m. TEXAS STUDENT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: will meet in 206 Rudder at 7 p.m. GYMNASTICS CLUB: will meet for a workout in 307 Read at 6:30 p.m. TAMU FLYING CLUB: will meet in the clubhouse at Eas- terwood airport at 7 p.m. ALPHA PHI OMEGA: will have a rush meeting in 226 MSC at 7 p.m. AGGIES FOR JACK KEMP: will meet in 504 Rudder at 7 p.m. INTRAMURAL SPORTS: Indoor soccer entries close in 159 Read at 5:30 p.m. RETAILING SOCIETY: will meet in 150 Blocker at 7 p.m. BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: will hold a tour of the College of Veterinary Medicine. Meet at VMS 201 at 7 p.m. UNDERGRADUATE BIOCHEMISTRY SOCIETY: will have an ice-cream sundae social on the lawn of the Herman Heep Building at 6:30 p.m. TEXAS AGGIE GRASSROOTS COALITION: will meet at 205-1 Sulphur Springs Road between South College and Texas Avenue at 6:30 p.m. STUDENT GOVERNMENT: will have a “Get Involved Night” in 301 Rudder at 8:30 p.m. TEXAS A&M ASSOCIATION OF MARTIAL ARTS: will have a karate-gung fu demonstration at Rudder Fountain at 2 p.m. MSC JORDAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS: will meet in 302 Rudder at 7 p.m. PHI THETA KAPPA: will have a reception for old and new members in 145 MSC from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. AGGIE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION: will meet in 144 Blocker at 5 p.m. OMEGA PHI ALPHA SERVICE SORORITY: will hold fall rush in 230 MSC at 7 p.m. TAMU ONE WHEELERS: will meet in front of G. Rollie White at 6 p.m. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: will hold a prayer meeting in the library of the All Faiths Chapel at 7 p.m. WHO’S WHO AMONG STUDENTS IN AMERICAN UNI VERSITIES AND COLLEGES: applications will be avail able at several campus locations from 8 a.m. to 5 pm. Sept. 7 through Sept. 25. For more information call 845-4728. COSGA — STUDENT GOVERNMENT: Applications are available for student government organizations in 221 Pa vilion. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days be fore desired publication date. Houston officials expect increase in hotel business HOUSTON (AP) — Local hotel officials are anticipating an end to drops in occupancy rates with the opening of the city’s George R. Brown Convention Center. Hotel occupancy rates slid during the recent economic downturn and many hotel employees’ hours were cut. But some officials believe such de creases could soon end. The city hopes to put its best foot forward on Sept. 26 as it hosts a group of 500 meeting planners to show off the downtown convention center. The meeting planners and asso ciation executives play a leading role in helping major groups decide on convention sites. The next month, the convention center will host its first full-fledged convention — the World Travel Congress of the American Society of Travel Agents. A favorable impression on the travel agents would lead to more business in Houston if they help pro mote the city on an ongoing basis, officials said. “We’re hoping it’s probably inevi table,” said Cheryl Willis, spokesman for the Greater Houston Convention & Visitors Council. Some 4,000 travel agents and up to 3,000 other travel-related profes sionals are expected to attend the convention Oct. 11-16. Six major shows have been booked into the convention center through the end of 1987, which will bring about 36,500 people to the city. Those visits will result in 8,700 ho tel room nights, Willis said. The Four Seasons Hotel, the downtown hotel located closest to the new convention center, has seen its group bookings for 1988 climb to 15,000 from the 4,000 it projected for 1987. Cody Plott, general manager of the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, said tne hotel business is “coming back slowly.” Although downtown hotels will feel the impact of the convention center the most, the spillover effect of displaced corporate travelers will improve occupancy rates for other area hotels, officials said. The average occupancy rate has increased from 49.9 percent in July 1986 to 52.7 percent in the same month this year, according to a sur vey by the accounting firm of Laven- tol 8c Horwath. Terry Richards, an analyst who tracks tne lodging industry for Lav- entol 8c Horwath, said he expects dowhtown hotel occupancy rates to climb 5 to 10 percentage points dur ing the next year with convention business. “It’s not going to be consistent, but it will have an impact when they (conventions) are in town,” Richards said. Evangelists accused of weakening power of religious television BEAUMONT (AP) — Television evangelists such as Jerry Falwell and Jimmy Swaggart who publicized Jim Bakker’s downfall seriously set back the cause of Christian broadcast pro gramming, the head of the nation’s third-largest Christian TV network said. “I have told Jimmy Swaggart per sonally, I have told Jerry Falwell per sonally, John Ankerberg, and that whole gang, I’ve looked them all in the eye and told them I think they should have kept their mouths shut,” Paul Crouch, president of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, said in an interview with the Beaumont Enterprise. Falwell took over PTL when Bak- ker resigned in March after confes sing to a sexual affair with a church secretary in 1980. Swaggart and Ankerberg went to denominational leaders and the se cular media with more allegations of Bakker’s sexual and financial mis conduct. “They made a big mistake. . . . I’m grieved in my spirit that so many Christian brethren jumped in there and talked to you news media peo ple,” he said. “I think they should have kept their mouths shut, and dealt with it in the confines of the church,” he said. “We completely stayed out of the fray,” he said. Crouch, 53, and Bakker started TBN, based in Santa Ana, Calif., in 1973. Last week, Crouch and his wife, Jan, brought the staff of their broad casting network to a Baptist church in Lumberton, outside Beaumont, to broadcast their “Praise the Lord” show live. They also conducted a telethon to gather pledges for a local educatio nal station owned by TBN. Crouch and Bakker split in 1973 shordy after the two Assembly of God ministers started TBN. Bakker founded the PTL dub soon after he left the broadcasting network. Experts: Gulf instability helps West Texas oilmen 1 numerous! tholic Churcn* of four IA : Synod of -es says MIDLAND (AP) — Three dollars — the dif ference between a barrel of crude oil this sum- |mer and a year ago — has never meant so much to oil-dependent West Texas. Experts say instability in the Persian Gulf has returned hope and activity to the Permian Basin, but they question whether the oil-dependent re gion can improve further. “There’s a speck of light out there at the end of the tunnel, but it’s been a long tunnel,” said William Gee, an independent oilman in Midland. The Permian Basin was one of the fastest growing regions in the nation during the early 1980s, when the Arab oil embargo, Iranian revo lution and other factors drove up the price of do mestic oil. In 1985, the price of oil declined slowly but steadily and by 1986 the price of a bar rel of domestic crude plunged. The increase in oil prices in late 1986 began encouraging oil firms that survived the bust to take the first, cautious steps back into exploration and production. Grant Billingsley, an executive with one of Midland’s major independent oil companies, Wagner 8c Brown, said,“The sense I get is that people have a better attitude and are allowing themselves to consider alternatives in the future. This fall is like the coming of a new year.” Oil prices were about $19-a-barrel this sum mer, compared to $16 last year. The increase largely has been fueled by tensions in the Persian Gulf and concern over the availability of foreign oil, industry officials said. rryl nth development official with the local Chamber of Commerce, said,“We are starting to see some positive signs. I wouldn’t call it large, but it cer tainly is a turn in the right direction.” But despite the good news, experts are skepti cal about a turnaround. For one thing, surviving lenders who bank rolled the oil exploration during the West Texas oil boom may not be willing to risk their money a second time. PBBaWIWUlll ivutglf ■Hllllkl 1 HUMMIW UNDERGRADUATE BIOCHEMISTRY SOCIETY ICE CREAM SUNDAE SOCIAL — 1st GENERAL MEETING LA WN OF THE HERMAN HEEP 6:30 p.m. • Come meet the faculty and advisors. • Everyone welcome G rex cVe STUDENT RNMENT UNIVERSITY GET INVOLVED NIGHT TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 8:30 p.m. 301 RUDDER Qei 9*tuoluett Now- Buy your Back-tb-School Bike at ponAggieland Schwinn©, Inc^a for the finest in quality & service Raleigh Capri Raleigh Record Raleigh Technium NOW 159 8S NOW 219 95 NOW 249" With every bicycle purchase ask for a FREE frame mounted tire pump. 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