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Vice Consul to discuss South Africa
South African Vice Consul Jac
ques Jordaan will discuss the po
litical and social climate of South
Africa at 7 p.m. Wednesday in
301 Rudder.
Addressing Texas A&M’s
Young Conservatives of Texas
organization, Jordaan will speak
about recent reforms the South
Afriran government has made in
its system of apartheid. Jordaan
will promote the position that
U.S. ecomomic sanctions against
South Africa will not benefit
blacks in that country, Chairman
of the Young Conservatives Dick
Lonqukst said.
Jordaan works with the South
African Consulate in Houston.
MSC to sponsor lost and found auction
By Lisabeth Rabun
Reporter
Items that were lost before
May 1987 and remain unclaimed
will be auctioned from 10 a.m. to
1 p.m. Thursday at Rudder
Fountain, Linda Dysart, the di
rector of the MSC Lost and
Found Auction said.
“The most interesting items
this year are a piece of Hebrew
jewelry and a man’s 14-karat gold
and diamond watch,” Dysart said.
Other items include books,
clothes and sports equipment.
The auction items accumulated at
the MSC main desk, she said.
“There are several hundred
umbrellas alone,” Dysart said,
“There are about 30 basketballs
and lots of sunglasses. We have
some valuable computer and me
chanical equipment and around
40 men’s watches.”
To make this year’s auction
more exciting, free bonuses will
accompany certain auction items,
and those who buy the secretly
earmarked items will win the
prizes. Two bonuses will be given
away each hour.
Several restaurants are contrib
uting free meals, and two MSC
committees are giving away tick
ets to upcoming events, Dysart
said. MSC Town Hall will contrib
ute R.E.M. concert tickets, and
MSC Great Issues will give away
tickets to the upcoming Dr. Ruth
program.
“The auction functions as a
fundraiser for MSC Hospitality’s
campus and community service
projects,” Dysart said. “It also
gives the students an opportunity
to purchase the accumulated
items found on campus.”
If students see their own lost
items, they must purchase them
at the auction, Dysart said. The
coordinators are very careful
about giving the owners six
months to claim the articles be
fore they can be auctioned.
If it rains Thursday, the auc
tion will be in the MSC Flag
Room, she said. Cash and checks
will be accepted for payment.
Debaters discuss media evangelism
The Texas A&M Debate Fo
rum will discuss the issue of mass
media evangelism Thursday at 7
p.m. in Room 201 of the Memo
rial Student Center.
Two speakers will each give a
seven-minute speech on whether
or not evangelists like Rev. Jerry
Falwell and former PTL leader
Jim Bakker should be allowed to
solicit money over the airwaves.
Forum chairman Karen Tels-
chow, a senior political science
major, said two members would
be chosen to speak at Thursday’s
debate based on the most con
vincing argument from a pre
vious forum meeting.
Telschow said after both views
are presented, the audience is
asked to give their opinions and
will be able to discuss the issue in
an open forum. An audience vote
will decide which side wins.
This is the last of three debates
the forum has scheduled. Sub
jects for debate are chosen by
speech communication faculty.
Other topics have been increasing
admission standards at- A&M and
affirmative action.
Telschow expects about 300
people at this last forum because
attendance at one debate is re
quired for a Speech Communica
tion 404 class. She said most stu
dents have put off coming and
Thursday is their last chance.
Scientist to discuss infant malnutrition
The International Devel
opment Forum will present a lec
ture on the causes and circum
stances surrounding infant
malnutrition in Third World
countries at 7 p.m. Thursday in
510 Rudder.
Dr. Katherine Dettwyler, an
A&M assistant professor of an
thropology, said she will discuss
factors that cause poor nutrition
in children in developing coun
tries. She also will discuss the age
children are weaned, what they
eat, and who determines what
they eat.
Dettwyler will specifically ad
dress the situation in the West Af
rican country of Mali, where she
did graduate work.
“I am going to be looking at the
economic, political and cultural
aspects,” Dettwyler said.
She also will discuss the contro
versy surrounding the use of in
fant formula and its promotion
by multinational corporations in
the Third World. Dettwyler said
she will focus on whether this
promotion causes malnutrition.
Professor to discuss greenhouse effect
By Janet Goode
Staff Writer
The University Lecture Series
will host Dr. Wallace S. Broecker
Thursday at 8 p.m. in 601 Rud
der. Broecker will present his
findings on the “greenhouse ef
fect” and the consequent warm
ing trend of the Earth’s climate,
which he says may be sudden
rather than gradual.
The greenhouse effect is
caused by atmospheric changes
resulting from our industrialized
society and has been well-the
orized to lead to a gradual cli
matic warming trend.
Broecker, a Newberry profes
sor of Geology at Columbia Uni
versity, says there is now evidence
that changes in the Earth’s cli
mate occur in unpredictable sud
den jumps that would leave in
habitants of Earth unprepared.
Broecker is the author of nu
merous articles and has written
four books on paleoclimatology,
isotope dating, environmental sci
ence and ocean chemistry.
In his July 1987 article, “Un
pleasant surprises in the green
house?” that was published in Na
ture magazine, Broecker says the
release of “greenhouse gases” are
largely by-products of energy and
food production. He compares
this to an experiment over which
we have little control.
If the change comes suddenly,
rather than gradually, Broecker
suggests that the Earth’s wildlife
may be “dealt a serious blow” and
our food supply may be threat
ened.
“We have little choice but to let
it continue,” he says. “All we can
do is try and prepare ourselves to
cope with its effects.
“We play Russian roulette with
climate hoping that the future
will hold no unpleasant surprises.
No one knows what lies in the ac
tive chamber of the gun, but I am
less optimistic about its contents
than many.”
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the GSL program, but the depart
ment would like to change it to a 90
percent guarantee to give lenders a
;ger incentive to track down those
in default, Bertak said. The depart
ment so far has been unable to get
Congress to agree.
University financial aid officials
said they feel lenders should be held
more responsible for the high de
fault rate.
James said, “Our hands are tied.
We have no control over who gets
the loans. All we can do is counsel
students about their responsibility to
repay the loan.”
As a result of the plan, Texas
Southern University could be in
trouble. As announced, the plan
gives Texas Southern two years to
bring its default rate down from its
current 29 percent to 20 percent or
less.
Yancy Beavers, director of finan
cial aid at Texas Southern, said if the
school fails to decrease the default
rate, it could lose between $10 mil
lion and $12 million in federal stu
dent aid.
If Texas Southern lost all its fi
nancial aid, the results “would be
very obvious,” Beavers said.
Texas Southern will be doing all it
can to lower the default rate, but
doesn’t have a concrete plan for ac
tion, Beavers said. Once a student
leaves a university, it is up to the stu
dent and the lending institution to
take care of the matter, he said.
Torres said the program itself also
is a large part of the problem of high
default rates.
Student
“If you wanted to create a loan
program with a high default rate,
you’ve got one with the Guaranteed
Student Loan program,” Torres
said. “Because the program gives
loans to students with no credit his
tory, a low family income and no col
lateral, you are going to have a high
default rate.”
Taft Benson, A&M’s director of
financial aid, said that if A&M is
held responsible for its default rate,
then A&M should be able to deter
mine who gets the loans and how
much they get.
Beavers agreed and said the cur
rent system is “totally unfair.”
“It has the potential to be like a
noose,around your neck,” he said.
The plan will unfairly punish
needy students who haven’t even
taken out loans by making it hard
for them to get the loans, Beavers
said.
“What happens to those students
who don’t get in because we had to
raise the admission standards?” he
said. “What happens to those stu
dents who can’t get a loan to con
tinue their education because some
one doesn’t think they will
graduate?”
If needy students are not able to
get loans, Benson said, it could end
up costing taxpayers more than the
current cost of defaulted funds.
“If a young person is not able to
attend school because they can’t get
a loan, then what do they do?” he
said. “If they can’t get a college edu
cation it could end up costing Amer
icans more in the long run.”
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Like many other A&M students,
Smith works summers to help pay
his college expenses. He worked for
his father this summer, who owns
L&L Drilling Company, a well-dril
ling company in Hye.
“Drilling wells is a really hard job,
using some heavy equipment,” Smith
says, shaking his head again at the
memory of aching muscles. “It pays
pretty well, though.”
With his sun-bleached blond hair
and moustache and healthy tan,
Smith brings to mind the picture of a
cowboy just in from a day in the hot
sun. a.:
“That’s ft*om working outside,” he
says.
Smith, who lives in Crocker Hall
and eats meals at Sbisa Dining Hall,
says he usually enjoys the food.
“But I don’t like going there on
Fridays before football games — it’s
so noisy,” he says. “There’s so much
yelling.”
Marak explained that too much
noise can become distorted through
a hearing aid.
“It picks up everything, and pro
duces a lot of noise on its own,” he
says. “When you’re not used to any
thing it’s just too much all at once.”
In his free time, Smith enjoys
playing softball — “especially coed”
— and seeing movies. He also enjoys
spending time at the Dixie Chicken.
“I go every Thursday,” he says.
Smith got his freshman room
mate, Keith Knauber, as a ‘potluck’
assignment.
Although he doesn’t know sign
language, Knauber says Smith is
easy to live with.
“His hearing disability doesn’t
cause problems with us living to
gether,” Knauber says.
60,000 Muscovites will lose
jobs, Soviet paper reveals
MOSCOW (AP) — A national
newspaper disclosed Tuesday that
60,000 Moscow residents will be
fired in the next two years under So
viet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s
campaign to streamline government
by cutting 50 percent of all ministry
jobs.
The newspaper Socialist Industry
said the order to eliminate every sec
ond government job by the year
1990 has resulted in turmoil in the
Moscow-based ministries, with tear
ful employees lined up to appeal
their firing orders.
The report raised the usually ta
boo subject of unemployment in the
Soviet Union, although it never re
ferred to the “reassigned” workers
as unemployed.
Soviet officials contend there is no
unemployment in this country be
cause of the advantages of a socialist
economy. But some officials have es
timated that about 5 percent of Sovi
ets are without work at any given
time due to firings and voluntary job
changes.
The newspaper said 60,000 Sovi
ets would lose their jobs in Moscow-
based industrial ministries, but it did
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