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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
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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.
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