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Tuesday, September 6, 1988/The Battalion/Page 5 What’s Up Tuesday UVER TAPS: will be at 10:30 p.m. in front of the Academic Building. THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING HONOR SOCIETY: Dr. Taylor, director of the Solid State Institute will speak at 7 p.m. in 104B Zachry. DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: Arthur Anderson will ^Jr information on careers in data processing at 7 p.m. at the University Inn. FIONAL RESIDENCE HALL HONORARY: will have a general meeting and prelections at 8:30 p.m. in 604B Rudder. JDENT Y: will have an “Extravaganza” at 7 p.m. in 226 MSC to discuss what “Y” has to offer. CYCLING TEAM: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 404 Rudder. New members or Rested riders are welcome. . NIGHT FAIR: will have a general meeting at 8:30 p.m. in 402 Rudder. JRPUS CHRISTI HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder. ILEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER: will have an ice cream and pizza ih from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at the Hillel Building. |GIE ALLEMANDERS: will have a free square dance lesson at 8 p.m. in 212 C. C SCONA: Committee applications are due by noon in the Scona Browsing ary office. HA PHI OMEGA: will have fall rush at 7 p.m. in 201 MSC. geBu EL SALVADOR STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet to plan activities for the- Benii{:K riesler at 8:30 p.m. in 407 Rudder. talkii ECONOMICS SOCIETY: will have an organizational meeting at 7 p.m. in 229 |MU MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY: will have a debate between medical school jents and graduate school students at 7 p.m. in 305 Rudder. IDDLE AND SIRLOIN: will meet at 7 p.m. in 115 Kleberg. )STER: Applications for committee postions are due by Friday at 5 p.m. in 221 Pavilion. TRIATHLON CLUB: will have an informational meeting at 9 p.m. in 167 Read. AGGIELAND: 1989 Aggieland contracts for all university-recognized organiza- ps are available in 230 Reed McDonald or in the organization boxes in the tc. TRAMURALS: entries close for indoor soccer at 5:30 p.m. in 167 Read. |PTIST STUDENT UNION: will have a Howdy Party at 7 p.m. in the Grove. IEMED/PREDENT SOCIETY: will have a fall mixer at 7 p.m. at the Flying To- v iteto. cksbu ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will have a support group meeting at noon. Call the center at 845-0820 for the room number. -—-TAMU SCUBA CLUB: will have an organizational meeting at 7 p.m. in 402 Rud der ^nmTAMU FLYING CLUB: will meet new members at 7 p.m. at the Easterwood Air- Mfi port clubhouse. wl GRAPEVINE/COLLEYVILLE HOMETOWN CLUB: will have an organizational meeting and officer elections at 8:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder. TAMU PISTOL TEAM: will have team tryouts at 7 p.m. in the basement of the itary Sciences Building. NUTRITION CLUB: will have an ice cream social and meeting at 7 p.m. in 127 Hberg. Everyone is welcome. CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will discuss Mary and her role in Chris tianity at 9 p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel. STUDY ABROAD: will have a Jr. Fulbright informational meeting at 2 p.m. in 251 Bizzell West. Wednesday fisGIE DEMOCRATS: Dukakis Campaign Coordinator Darryl Shaper will speak ■3:30 p.m. in 404 Rudder. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: will have a meeting for at6 p.m. and a general meeting at 6:45 p.m. in 103 Zachry. Cr BpC VISUAL ARTS: will have a lecture at 7 p.m. in 206 MSC and a reception artist Lynn Gurney of Dallas at 7 p.m. in the MSC Gallery. ■UDENT CHAPTER AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: 'iff p will have an executive board meeting at noon in the VPH meeting room. ; re:, EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 10 p.m. at the Flying Tomato. R f TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 410 Rudder. W j, r , TAMU PISTOL TEAM: will have team tryouts from 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. in the base- onl merit of the Military Sciences Building. . t '„iAGGIE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION: will have an organizational meeting at 5 "■n. in 144 Blocker. ieS ‘M TH0LIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a mid-week study break at '•/i 7:30 p.m. at the student center. There also will be a discussion on penance, rec- in ' onciNation and sin at 9 p.m. in Lounge B on the quad. Job; AGGIELAND: Contracts for all university-recognized organizations are available itandt inr oup mailboxesend in 230 Reed McDonald and are due Friday, Sept. 16. ie 1: . CLASS OF ‘91: wilt meet at 8:30 p.m. in 604 Rudder. CLASS OF '90: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 704 Rudder. B.ASS OF ‘89: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 305 Rudder. Applications for Ring , Knee sub-chairmen are available in the Student Programs Office in the MSC. '■“^STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will elect officers at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder. J" : All students are welcome. ice : AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION: will meet at 7 Jthoq p.m. in Blocker Building. Check the monitor screen for the room number. HUMAN FACTORS SOCIETY: will have an organizational meeting for anyone interested at 7 p.m. in 342 Zachry. gpRCLE K INTERNATIONAL: will have a new member meeting and social at 7 p.m. in Rudder Tower. Check the monitor screen for the room number. PLACEMENT CENTER: will have an orientation session for all December, May d August graduates at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in 601 Rudder. RAMURAL: will meet with fraternity intramural representatives at 7 p.m. in 167 Read. ! ^ANISH CLUB: will have its first meeting at 7 p.m. at the Flying Tomato. C GREAT ISSUES: will have its first meeting at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder. l 1 MEXICAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will have an organziational meeting at r Bbo p.m. in 504 Rudder. Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish erce| the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What’s Up is a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are run ?r pi on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you ,. e d have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315. L M II ■■■■■■! II I I he fiK life Catalog helps inventors sell products WASHINGTON (AP) — Better or otherwise, this mousetrap uses neither springs nor poison. If that doesn’t strike your fancy, how about a kit for making your own four seater plane? Could you use a few dozen cow gallstones? All this and more can be found in a federal government catalog de signed to help peddle U.S. goods around the world. Among the other novelties listed in the monthly publication, “Com mercial News USA,” is a machine for making miniature doughnuts. And there’s genuine Kiowa Indian beef jerky. The Department of Commerce sends 110,000 copies every month to U.S. missions in 140 countries, but does not distribute them in the United States. The magazine has an index in French and Spanish as well as English and some missions trans late the entire issue. The Foreign Agricultural Service of the Agriculture Department takes inquiries from other countries and makes them available through com puter information networks to Americans with farm products to sell. Some are published in the Jour nal of Commerce, a business daily in New York. Earlier in the 1980s, the inquiries included such exotic items as the cow gallstones — for use in Chinese med icine — as well as four-leaf clovers and turtle eggs. “Foreign Agricul ture,” published monthly by the de partment, says it does not know what the clover and turtle eggs were for. It quotes Stan Barrett, one of the department’s marketing specialists, as saying it now prefers to concen trate on more mundane products like wheat, wood, beef and poultry. Last year, the countries with the most requests were Taiwan, Japan, Britain, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain, West Germany and Canada. Manufacturers pay $150 to get a small black-and-white photo and a brief description of their product in “Commercial News USA.” The miniature doughnut ma chine, called “LiF Orbits,” is consid ered one of the magazine’s success stories. Janet Ebner, its program di rector, said in an interview that its mention in the magazine brought $600,000 worth of business for the manufacturer in Minneapolis. He had visits from interested agents in West Germany and Thailand, and negotiations with a Japanese distrib utor. The mousetrap works this way: The mouse crawls in to get the bait, tips the trap and causes the door to lock behind it. It costs 42 to 50 cents wholesale and can be either reused or thrown away with the mouse in side. The do-it-yourself airplane kit costs $40,000. The manufacturer claims the resulting plane, when put together from the instructions that come with it, has a cruising speed of 200 mph, a range of 1,000 miles and a useful load of 850 pounds. Beef jerky is meat that has been marinated, dried and cut into inch wide strips. The word comes from the Quechua Indians in Peru, but the version now being exported is made by a Kiowa Indian from Okla homa, Robert Rowell. " Dallas official faces apprehension /e atfp DALLAS (AP) — A.C. Gonzalez :nse f he realizes he’s stepping into a ag( latile situation when he takes his igi; Istns the highest ranking Hispanic Dallas city administration. Gonzalez will take his post as assis- exieife city manager today, replacing [nit!ffli[Moreno, who was fired July 20 cornier a federal bankruptcy judge lied that he had embezzled funds v I'/Wti the company he owned imme- ioniltdy before filing for bankruptcy /e years ago. ol i| Hispanic leaders sharply criticized »n, ty Manager Richard Knight, say- 1 he should have suspended Bbno or placed him on paid ad ministrative leave, as has been done with other city officials with legal problems. “None of that anger is being di rected at me,” Gonzalez, who has been city manager in San Marcos since 1979, told theDallas Times Herald. “It’s just an unfortunate sit uation. But it does put a little more focus on the fact I am Hispanic and I don’t mind that at all.” Community leaders expressed outrage at a recent meeting of the Mayor’s Hispanic Task Force that Knight could not find a qualified Hispanic from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. They also challenged Gonzalez to work closely with the community and help improve areas such as minority contracting and hir ing. “My concern is that Sam Moreno be retained as a liaison with the His panic community, because he was the most effective person doing that,” Ralph Martinez, a task force member, said. “Gonzalez has to be sensitized to the local community.” In an interview last week, Gonza lez said that he has no game plan for his first weeks in Dallas, but vowed he will be involved with the Hispanic community. IK PI KAPPA ALPHA Tal^e a ‘WaCt^on the. Side! FaU Rush 1988 Aug 31 Sept 2 Sept 3 Sept 5 Sept 7 Sept 9 Sept 10 Sept 12 The WILD SIDE Party* Volleyball sPIKEfest* Bus Trip to Delta Downs The James Dean Party* Smoker at Carney's Pub Swamp Party* Pool/Poker Party* i Date Party* * at the Pike House For Fall Rush Information: Sam Note 764-9155 James Martdngano 696-1704 David Mooney 696-0081 James Lancaster 696-8989 4L 'Tfr MSC TOWN HALL PRESENTS Friday, October 14 - 8:OOpm <5. Rollie White Coliseam with Special Guest Gene Watson TICKETS GO ON SALE SEPT. lOth Tickets available at the MSC Box Office & Dillards in the Post Oak Mall to order by phone call Teletron at 1-800-426-3094 for more information call 845-1234 Tickets are $15.00