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Tuesday
TAMU HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: Ken Campbell will speak on horse rac
ing in Texas at 7 p.m. in 115 Kleberg.
MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: will have a general meeting at 8:30 p.m. in 301
Rudder.
TAMU COLLEGIATE FFA: will meet to elect officers at 7:30 p.m. in 208
Scoates.
STUDENT Y: Chairman applications close today at 5 p.m.
MSC WILEY LECTURE SERIES: will present “Nuclear War: Thinking the Un
thinkable" at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater.
Wednesday
STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will have an organizational meeting at
8:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder.
AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder.
CENTRAL TEXAS RED CROSS BLOOD CENTER: will accept blood donations
from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Rudder Fountain and the Commons.
AGGIE TOASTERS: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 342 Zachry.
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION: will meet at 7
p.m. in 105 Blocker.
EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 10 p.m. at the Flying Tomato.
OUTDOOR RECREATION CLUB: will meet to discuss upcoming trips and par
ties at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder.
TAMU SURF CLUB: will meet to discuss the summer surf trip at 8 p.m. at the
Rying Tomato.
AGGIELAND: Applications for staff positions are available through Monday out
side 011 Reed McDonald.
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Sunrise Wednesday: 6:44 a.m.
: Map Discussion: An upper level low pressure system in the north central states
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|* Today and Tonight and Wednesday. Fair to partly cloudy. High today 83 degrees;
Blow tonight near 60 degrees; high tomorrow in the low to mid 80s. Winds will be
■northeast today, veering into the east tonight and southeast on Wednesday.
|| Weather Fact General Circulation - The complete statistical description of
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A&M Department of Meteorology
In Advance
Red Cross starts A&M blood drive
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By Sharon Maberry
Reporter
The American Red Cross
Blood Drive at Texas A&M will
: Wednesday and Thursday.
American Red Cross volun
teers will be taking blood at Rud-
ier Fountain and the Commons
from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. said
’.ee Rone, a senior political sci
ence major and Alpha Phi Omega
chairman of Aggie blood drives.
Donors must weigh at least 110
xmnds to give a full pint of
Dlood.
People who have had tubercu-
ilosis, hepatitis or other diseases
directly relating to the blood are
not eligible to donate, although
tests are run on every unit of
blood before being distributed to
hospitals, he said.
All students and employees of
A&M have blood coverage simply
by residing in the Brazos Valley.
A&M students or employees in
need of blood can notify Red
Cross of their status and all the
blood, except the processing fee,
is free.
The Aggie Blood Drive Com
mittee’s goal for Red Cross is
1,000 units each time it comes on
campus. However, this semester’s
goal has been reduced to 750
units in anticipation of a lack of
donors because the semester is
nearing its end.
Tuesday, April 26, 1988,n~he Battalion/Page 5
B-CS youth can
gain experience
in new program
By Melissa Martin
Reporter
Young people in Bryan-College
Station have the opportunity to get
hands-on experience in areas such as
law enforcement, prevention of
drug and alcohol abuse and high-
tech manufacturing through partici
pation in a new program organized
by the Boy Scouts of America.
Britton Vincent, senior district ex
ecutive for the Boy Scouts of Amer
ica, said the program involves “ex
plorers posts,” which are clubs that
are centered around six experience
areas — career, social, service, cit
izenship, outdoors and fitness. Vin
cent said some posts are centered
around high adventure, others are
career oriented and some are service
oriented.
Three posts are being established
in Bryan-College Station. Vincent
said these posts are being sponsored
by the Department of Public Safety,
the Brazos Valley Council on Alco
hol and Substance Abuse and West-
inghouse Electric Corp.
An explorers post resembles a
Boy Scout troop in name only, Vin
cent said. It is open to males and fe
males age 14 to 21 who have com
pleted the eighth grade, and
members aren’t required to wear
Boy Scout uniforms.
Texas A&M students under 21
are eligible to participate.
The programs are presented by
officers who are elected by members
of the post, he said. Post advisers
serve as mentors to officers and
members.
“Regardless of specialty, posts typ
ically will have an overlap so that all
experience areas are touched on,”
he said.
Trooper Eddie Carmon, DPS post
adviser, said he hopes the DPS post
will build interest in law enforce
ment careers as well as a better un
derstanding of what police officers
do.
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“The post will give hands-on ex
perience in police work,” Carmon
said. “It will show members how po
lice officers deal with good and bad
situations.”
Law enforcement is the main fo
cus of the DPS post; however, the
post will participate in social func
tions and activities with other posts
in the area, Carmon said.
The explorers plan to go to the
DPS Academy in Austin for first-aid
training and basic training in various
areas of law enforcement such as tra
ffic control, search and seizure, fire
arms, drug recognition and crime
scene procedures. A local ride-along
program also is being developed.
Carmon hopes the explorers will
become role models for children and
young people by being visible as
public servants in projects such as
Scouting for Food.
Kelly Filgo, a sophomore environ
mental design major at A&M, will
participate in the DPS post. He also
participated in a law enforcement
post in his hometown. He said he
used the training he received in the
explorers post when he encountered
a wreck on the highway.
“I learned what to expect in emer
gency situations and now to deal
with them,” Filgo said.
The DPS post will meet at 6 p.m.
today at the DPS office on Hwy 6.
The Council on Alcohol and Sub
stance Abuse also sponsors an ex
plorers post. The Youth Council
Post is a public service post promot
ing the fight against alcohol and
drug abuse, post adviser Russ Robi-
nett said. The post emphasizes pre
vention of alcohol and drug abuse,
crime prevention and “Just Say No”
activities. Personal development,
service projects and camping trips
also will be major components of the
program, he said.
Robinett said exploring answers
teen-ager’s complaints that there is
nothing to do but drink and use
drugs.
“The post will be an outreach for
kids who don’t drink or use drugs as
well as kids who are recovering from
alcohol and drug abuse,” he said.
The next meeting for the sub
stance abuse post is at 7 p.m. May 3.
The location nas not been anounced,
Robinett said.
The Westinghouse post special
izes in high-tech manufacturing,
post adviser Frank Wingfield said.
Activities are centered around ro
botics, electronics, computer-aided
design and soldering. Wingield said
he hopes the post will stir interest in
high-tech manufacturing. The par
ticipation of A&M students would
help it accomplish this goal.
Many of the Westinghouse plant
managers are participating in the
program, Wingfield said. This is an
excellent chance for students to
meet people working in these fields.
The Westinghouse plant in Bryan
manufactures electronic radar com
ponents for F-16 planes.
The high-tech post meets on the
second and fourth Tuesday of every
month at 7 p.m. at the Westinghouse
training house behind the Westing
house plant.
Interested students may call Vin
cent at 846-2239, Carmon at 776-
3731, Robinett at 775-5757 and
Wingfield after 10 a.m. at 268-0343.
Dispute on contract
finds Exxon in court
HOUSTON (AP) — A contract
dispute between Exxon Company
U.S.A. and a local oil company will
go before the U.S. Supreme Court,
which agreed Monday to decide if
Exxon waited too long in seeking to
collect on a $19.5 million standby let
ter of credit.
The case will be used to decide a
procedural point on the relationship
of federal and state court rulings in
cases based on state law, the justices
said.
In the business world, standby let
ters of credit are common and are is
sued by banks to assure the prompt
payment of money to one signer of a
contract if the other signer fails to
live up to the contract’s terms.
The bank issuing such a letter of
credit is required to make payment
only if it is presented with specified
documents within a specified time.
Exxon Company U.S.A, a division
of Exxon Corp., in 1981 contracted
with Houston Oil & Refining Inc. to
make reciprocal deliveries of crude
oil.
Exxon agreed to ship 558,000
barrels of oil to Houston Oil during
July 1981, and Houston Oil agreed
to ship an equal quantity of oil to Ex
xon from September through De
cember of that year.
Houston Oil was issued a $19.3
million standby letter of credit by
Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas (Pa
ribas) that said $19.3 million would
be payable upon certification that
Houston Oil failed to deliver the
promised oil between September
and December 1981.
But the certification had to be
presented to Paribas “not later than
October 1981” — an inconsistency
with the contract’s terms.
Exxon, which delivered 558,000
barrels of oil to Houston Oil in July
1981, learned sometime in Novem
ber 1981 that Houston Oil would not
be delivering any oil to Exxon.
Exxon requested payment from
Paribas on the letter of credit but the
bank refused, contending that Exx
on’s request was too late.
Exxon sued in federal court even
though its lawsuit, alleging the
wrongful dishonor of a letter of
credit, was based on Texas contract
law. Exxon could do that under so-
called “diversity jurisdiction” rules
because Paribas is not based in
Texas.
A federal trial judge ruled for Ex
xon, but the 5th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals in New Orleans reversed
that ruling Oct. 8.
Study: Recruiters favor eyeglass-wearers
I DALLAS (AP) — Workers with their sights set
on moving up in the business world may do bet
ter in eyeglasses, says a new study that found cor
porate recruiters look favorably on the bespec
tacled.
IfThe survey, conducted by the Dallas-based
Pearle Vision Center, found 79 percent of the
corporate recruiters and fashion-image consul
tants queried said that glasses connote intelli
gence.
r And 69 percent said they viewed glasses as en
hancing a professional image.
but it could be a consideration for those who
need corrective lenses.
“Eyeglasses are not only functional for vision
correction, but they also make a statement about
the individual wearing them,” Dono said Mon
day. “Today’s consumer may purchase glasses as
a fashion accessory, or to project a more busi
ness-like image for that ‘board room’ look.”
Pearle researchers interviewed 100 corporate
recruiters and image consultants in New York,
Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. About
60 percent of those polled recruit either for exec
utive-level positions or for the financial or com
munications field.
The survey reported 80 percent of respon
dents think eyeglasses help the wearer focus on
making a power statement during a business pre
sentation.
Removing glasses at strategic points is consid
ered an effective way to emphasize a particular
word or phrase. A third of those surveyed ad
mitted using glasses for such a purpose.
“It’s an eye-opener to people who are buying
eyeglasses today,” Dono said. “Many people who
are buying glasses today haven’t bought eyewear
in about two years. Everything has changed since
then.”
The poll showed the best choice for the work
environment for both men and women is the the
classic tortoise-shell frame style, which for years
has suggested a studious image.
Joseph Dono, Pearle’s senior vice president of
marketing, said the survey doesn’t necessarily
mean the 20-20 set should rush to buy glasses,
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