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Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, April 8, 1988 ^ BH^F ’N BRE^ Bar-B-Que Beef • Pork • Sausage <fc2 00T r 890 beer aSmm 'Sandwich ^ 330 Jersey Next to Pothers 693-1558 “L. G.” CRUM IS THE ONE: •For Aggies and TAMU •For A Full Time Commissioner •For Wise and Prudent Management •For Proven Leadership •For Addressing Economic and Social Issues Family Wife; Patricia Ann (McCoy) Sons; Barry-A&M '81 Doug-A&M ’84 Kevin-Bryan High Student Rep. Primary Run-Off April 12, 1988 For County Commissioner Pet. 3 Background: B.S. AgEd, Texas A&M ’54; MBA Michigan State University ’64; 30 yrs. experience in: Planning; Budgeting; Project Management; Contracting; Procurement;Construction; Working with people. Pd. Adv. By Mr. 8c Mrs. A.H. McCoy 2207 Echols Bryan, Tx 77801 5 c&fawsffibn' Saturday Only April 9,1988 Rudder Theater 7:30 pm 9:45 pm 12:00 midnight $2.00 with ID MSC Aggie Cinema will present "Wall Street" in place of "Fatal Attraction" on Friday April 15. Sorry for any inconvenience. Parents gather at A&M for weekend festivities By Mark Gee Staff Writer This year’s annual pilgramage of parents to Texas A&M will bring thousands of parents to campus for the weekend. Events of special interest in this year’s Parents’ Weekend include the rededication of the Ormond R. Sim pson Field Plaques and the dedica tion of Simpson Field at 3:00 p.m. Saturday, along with the Bryan-Col- lege Station Air Show ’88 Display at Easterwood Airport on Saturday and Sunday. Parents of the year will be an nounced at an awards ceremony Sunday at 9 a.m. in Rudder Audito rium. The 34-member Parents’ Weekend committee is responsible for selecting the honored parents. Mother’s Day to Mother and Dad’s Day to Parent Appreciation and Open House Day and now to Par ents’ Weekend. The purpose of the event also has changed. In the early days when A&M was an all-military school, parents came to campus to encourage their sons through the difficult underclassmen years. Now, parents come to campus to enjoy a myriad of activities with their sons and daughters, Purinton said. Schedules of events and maps of the campus are available at the MSC, the Clayton Williams Alumni Center and the Rudder Information Desk. Other events planned for the week end include: David Purinton, committee chair man, said this year 17 parents were nominated. The parents are selected based on their contributions to their family, community and Texas A&M. The Gen. George F. Moore Out standing Unit Award, the highest recognition given to a Corps unit, will be presented along with several other awards at a ceremony on Sun day. The award is selected by the offi cers in the Military Sciences Building and is given to the unit with the most outstanding scholarship, military proficiency, intramural sports and extra-curricular activities. Today • Federation of A&M Mothers’ Club Boutique, Rudder Exhibit Hall, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. • RHA Casino Night, MSC, 7 p.m. to midnight. • MSC Variety “I’ve Gotta Be Me,” rium, 7:30 p.m. • Century Singers Annual Spring Concert, Rudder Theater, 8 p.m. Key: £ m Lightning =z - Fog & - Thundarstoras • e -Rain ★ ★ - Snow > > - Drizzle - Ice Pellets ^7 - Rain Shower • - Freezing Rain Show Presents Rudder Audito- Sunset Today: 7:47 p.m. Sunrise Saturday: 7:04 a m. Saturday • Bryan-College Station Air Show ’88 Display, Easterwood Air port, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a demon stration from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. • Singing Cadets Spring Concert, Rudder Theater, 9:45 p.m. Map Disoussion: An amplifying upper air pattern over the North Pacificwii! produce a short-wave trough of low pressure aloft and an attendant suifaceto from Minnesota to Arizona. This combination will allow cold air adveclioneasu the Continental Divide and generate precipitation over portions of the Centra Rockies and into the Great Basin. Forecasts: Today and Tonight. Partly cloudy and warm with a high of 85 and southerly*-: from five to 10 mph. Saturday. A low of 57 in the morning with increasing cloudiness, warmer and windy in advance of the Pacific cold front which will affect Bryan-College State on Sunday. A high of 88 with southerly winds gusting to 20 mph after mid-day Parents’ Weekend, Texas A&M’s glorified open house, has gone through many changes since it was initiated in 1919. The name has changed from Sunday • Flower Pinning Ceremonies, Corps Guardroom, 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. • Corps of Cadets Review and Awards Ceremony, Kyle Field, 2:30 p.m. Weather Fact. Backing: A change in wind direction in a counter-clockwiseses Winds which “back" with height indicate cold air advection. Prepared by: Charlie&es Staff Meteor: A&M Department of Meteo Melted ice MSC exchanges losses caus>isto for profit with auction to be canceleJ By Taani Baier Reporter Last year’s auction raised a record $2,500. The MSC Hospitality Committee’s semi-annual Lost and Found Auc tion raised $ 1,300 T hursday —about half of what it made last semester. Susan Bender, adviser for the Hospitality Committee, said al though the figures don’t show it, the auction was a big success. . .. .uii*. ,tj ) o) do: “The auction was very well run this year,” she said. “Historically the spring auction has made less money than the auction in the fall. I don’t really know why. I guess people don’t lose as much stuff from Octo ber to April.” Items auctioned off ranged from a box containing a seed collection to a shower caddy. The items are gathered from va rious lost and found collections around campus. Lost and Found Auction Director Laura Dysart said there is a lot of va riety in the items collected. Umbrel las are the biggest item, hut a lot of books, clothes and basketballs also are picked up. Bender said the auction is always a lot of fun. “One of the neatest things about it is to see how the people get so in volved with the bidding process,” she said. “People really get into it.” Like all Texas A&M traditions, the MSC Lost and Found Auction has been around since the beginning of time, but this tradition is a little unique, Bender said. “The auction is unique for two main reasons,” she said. “It offers people the opportunity to go to an auciton and actually participate. It also allows the MSC to get rid of all of their stuff and make some money off of it, too.” Photo by Shelly Schluter Students gather near Rudder Fountain Thursday to bid on items during the MSC Lost and Found auction from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Most of the items were sold and those remaining will be donated to the Twin City Mission. The money raised will go toward Christmas decorations for the MSC. The auction was held at Rudder Fountain. FORT WORTH (AP)-A down at the Tarrant Couni) vention Center left Disney's! On Ice in puddles and hundii tiny Mickey M ouse and Sno* fans out in the cold. After a Tuesday openingtb I tracted more than 6,000 fansi ice capades version of a Sno*tl adventure, convention center cials were forced to cancel tm foi mances Wednesday wti( blown fuse melted the rink. A cast of Disney characters- cluding Doc, Happy, Sin Grumpy, Sneezy, Dopey and fid — got an unscheduleddayol “It’s unbelievable,’ 1 said 1 Morgan, executive director^ convention center. “This has« happened to us before -J them.” Greg Ericson, regional mark director for the show, esiisi ticket sale losses could be any from $40,000 to $200,000, "N there may be some kindofinsm! covering this, but I’ninOtpo® he said. Morgan said convention® workers first noticed the blow! had jammed a pump used tol ice late T uesday, after the «[*| performance. But workersw® vinced t he problem was not5(4 “Throughout the night, T* start up and run for awhilea»l J shut off,” Morgan said. By day morning, some ice ren$ but most of the rink hadM slushy mire. “Of all the problems youp® for, the one thing you never on is the ice melting,” Morga* “I’m sick about the whole Bl nc IN Re 1/ Dc He Al inc to for S< tic P- M Hi A, Be Fe Al ini Hi wi a.i C< AS gr< an an L d i Tl Evar week Wee and i W Sterl : sor ; I the 1 and 1 know a lot pf-kids who 1 ® wide planning on seeing the si#| able too.” ersa A company fixed the puof i N fuse by 4 p.m. Wednesday. libra BRING YOUR PARENTS TO THE 1988 ^MSC VARIETY SHOW ^ cotta a,. PARENTS’ WEEKEND Friday, April 8, 1988 7:30 PM RUDDER AUDITORIUM EMCEE: EDDY STRANGE TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE MSC BOX OFFICE AND AT ALL TICKETRON OUTLETS $4.00 AND $5.00 It f s Y our Health- Check It Out! HEALTH AND WELLNESS FAIR Date: Monday, April II Time: 10 A.M. - 4 P.M. Place: MSC Come On, Aggies! Take Responsibility For A Truly Valuable Possession — YOUR HEALTH! Find out about topics such as: • First Aid • Alcohol and Drug Abuse • Birth Control • AIDS • Highway Safety • Mental Health o Eating Disorders • Stress Management • General Fitness • Smoking Cessation Sponsored by The Center for Drug Prevention and 845-0280 FREE demonstrations and informatio 11 will be available. So, CHECK IT OlT 1 J