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Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, November 9, 1987 ^•^MSC Fall Leadership Chairman Orientation on Wednesday, November U MSC Room 216T at 5:00 p.m. Applications should be picked up at the Orientation Interviews will be held Wednesday, November 18 For more information, call Christi Woods at 845-1914 Hold Amigos! 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In New Jersey, call collect (201)540-2458. e.p.t. The first and most trusted name in pregnancy testing. Introducing new e.p.t.® stick test. - Defense firm, union agree on contracts FORT WORTH (AP) — General Dynamics Corp. and its machinists union reached a new contract agreement late Saturday that would give union members lump-sum bo nuses in lieu of general-wage in creases. The contract Sunday went before members of International Associa tion of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The company also offered a cost- of-living adjustment of 12 cents per of it hour for each employee as part of its concessions. “We feel real pleased, although we’re not pleased the company was not generous enough,” said Pat Lane, president of the union lodge, which represents more than 10,000 workers at General Dynamics. Burt Lambert, director of em ployee relations and the company’s chief negotiator, said, “It was a long, tough struggle. We’re looking for ward to ratification.” The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 776’s contract was to expire at midnight Sunday. Negotiators met until late Satur day in subcommittees before reach ing an agreement. Since talks began in September, the two sides have disagreed on the issue of lump-sum bonuses. The company wanted them to contain la bor costs and remain competitive while the union wanted general- wage increases, which raise the base- pay rate from which future contracts will be negotiated. The final contract offer was made early Saturday. The proposal in cluded lump-sum bonuses of 12 per cent of an employee’s annual earn ings for the first year of the contract and 5 percent for each of the follow ing two years. That was more than twice the original offer of 5 percent for the first year and 3 percent for the two years after that. Under the new proposal, a worker making between $11.50 and $12.50 an hour would draw a $3,058 bonus the first year, $1,311 the second year and $1,368 the third year. What’s up ■>1 ■1c rc Monday PHI THETA KAPPA ALUMNI: will meet at 7:30 p.m in MSC. COLLEGIATE 4-H CLUB: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 123 Kle berg. New members are welcome. PI SIGMA EPSILON: will have an executive board meeting at 6 p.m. on the second floor of the Pavilion and TeamB, Si> the oeepers,” will play volleyball at 9 p.m. in the Readri ve d Building. SOCIETY: will have a 1$ in front of Room 100 in sure T1 medi TEXAS A&M MICROBIOLOGY bake sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the old Chemistry Building. ug ur EXTERNAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE — STUDENT GOV agec ERNMENT: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 404 Rudder. INTRAMURAL SPORTS: Entries open for archery singles and sports trivia bowl in 159 Read. COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN: will have an opening re-^ro ception for Italy-Art, which will show works by stuaents £i ;le who studied abroad in Italy, at 7 p.m. at the College of Ar- Xg] chitecture gallery. pof< SIGMA IOTA EPSILON: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 123 Buc Blocker. Ai T-CAMP: Co-chair applications are available until Nov. 16 in P a j the second floor of tne Pavilion. PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT: Peer advising will be avail- E? able for all psychology majors until Friday on the third a £ a( j floor of the Academic Building. Vtri STUDENT ACTIVITIES: The deadline to sign up for Stu- Ju dent Career Day in Houston is Tuesday. MBea; MSC LITERARY ARTS COMMITTEE: is accepting graph ^ ics submissions for the fourth edition of Litmus. vu e MSC COUNCIL: will meet at 7 p.m. in 216T MSC. AGGIES FOR DUKAKIS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 407AB | r Rudder. cai^ RHA FRESHMAN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: will meet at jinn 8:30 p.m. in 203 Harrington. J un( CLASS OF ’89: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 202 Harrington. TAMU HORSEMAN’S ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 pm |aste in 115 Kleberg. \\ WRITING OUTREACH: Chris Ellery will discuss “Visual lunc Aids in Business Writing” at 6:30 p.m. in 110 Blocker. EL PASO HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7:15 p.m. in 308 Rudder. SOCIOLOGY CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 125 Academic. CLASS OF ’90: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 209 Harrington. MSC ALL NIGHT FAIR: will meet at 7 p.m. in 407 Rudder. STUDENT Y ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in 102 Blocker. 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. talkt tous A mor nm skill: f 0 bale cure wire foot dins gnn N ■ stor Student sells pills designed to help people stay awake buil mill Emt volu trail tran By Doug Driskell Staff Writer If you are tired, sleepy and having trouble staying awake, but want to stay within the law, a Texas A&M student claims she is selling what you need. Laura Nelson, a freshman from Dimmitt, is selling pills made from guarana root, which is found in South America, she said. The pills are 4 percent caffeine, which is the active ingredient that keeps the user awake. “They are not like caffeine pills, because they don’t make you ner vous or anything like that,” Nelson said. Dr. Claude Goswick Jr., director of the A&M Beutel Health Center, said although the drug has been ap proved by the federal Food and Drug Administration, it should be taken with caution. “Any drug can be abused,” Gos wick said. “And there is no reason this one couldn’t, too. There is a big danger when people are told that something is completely safe. Caf feine can be harmful to anyone with heart problems, and one should take caution when taking caffeine.” into Sharon Oates, an art teacher at A&M Consolidated High School, said extracts from the guarana root have been used for centuries by the Amazon Indians. Oates is distributing the pillSi was called N.R.G., or Nature’s Ra" den Guarana, to Nelson to sell on cam-wou pus, she said. Oates gets the pi orin from Herbal Life International in for i Los Angeles. A When it first was introduced, the pi et drug’s purpose was to help people surr lose weight, she said. N.R.G. keeps j the overweight person active, which cree results in more calories being wit! burned. Bin “I got on it for weight reduction,' acre Oates said. “I discovered that not U p only did I feel better, but I wasdoint trai: more when I was on it. I also found! j, out that I could handle stress at thi eacl high school much better.” } A N.R.G. has less caffeine than ont tow cup of coffee, she said. brie ing Texas officials expect increase in federal food-stamp applicants^ DALLAS (AP) — State officials say they are bracing for a flood of food-stamp applicants as new federal guidelines expand the pool of those eligible for one-day service next month. “We don’t know exactly what the impact will be . . . except staff are planning right now how to handle the problem,” said Gary Garner, a Department of Human Services income-assistance administrator in Austin. The state administers the federally funded food- stamp program that provides grocery script to qualified low-income families. About 47 percent of the qualified food-stamp appli cants statewide now are eligible for emergency assis tance because they earn no more than $150 a month and have no more than $100 in resources, Garner said. Under new rules effective Dec. 1 — which expand the service to the homeless and low-income families whose resources and monthly income will not cover rent or mortgage and utility expenses — about 65 per cent of the qualified applicants will be eligible, he said. In some parts of the 19-county region surrounding Dallas and Fort Worth, as many as 90 percent of qual ified applicants may be eligible for emergency assis tance, said Martha Carroll, assistant to the DHS re Wee 1 gional director for income assistance. acini “Most of these people are going to get immediate at-shoi tendon, but that means many of the regular applicants “3 may have to wait longer,” Carroll said. Iron Processing paperwork for food-stamp recipients re-had quiring recertification or changes in benefits also could our be delayed, she said. H U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines requirenot that the state either provide or deny food stamps within kinc 30 days of application, except in the case of families thatpeoj qualify for emergency relief. 1 .1 T Under federal rules, emergency cases are to be ban-sine died within five days, but Texas has a state law requir adm ing 24-hour service. Mie: Because of steadily rising numbers of food-stamp ap plicants earlier this year, income-assistance caseworkers fell behind in processing applications and were forced to put a priority on handling emergency cases, officials said. As a result, some applicants had to wait more than 30 days to learn whether they would qualify for food stamps. CALL TODAY FOR YOUR HOLIDAY TRAVEL NEEDS iniEtLUBE Travel We are the travel professionals for business and leisure travel. 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