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Monday, October 10,1988 The Battalion Page 5 des du il rides m if food me the Renas- I are altis •e Sl2 ii o ages it ee. licy Sterling C ices Lite- : losses Is- will be® ienateisti .lowing s- liversity. s to (te- / solicit ot innualcst for tkisii lolicyonis s. The l ! m :s of"D"[j new s” or aboi? What's Up Monday SOCIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS: will meet at 5:30 p.m. in 116 Thompson. DEBATE SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 136 Blocker. COLLEGIATE 4-H: will meet at 8 p.m. in 123 Kleberg. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Call the center at 845-0280 for information on today's meeting. POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder. A&M JUDO TEAM: will meet and practice at 7 p.m. in 263 G. Rollie White. ARLINGTON HOMETWON CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 229 MSC. MSC SPRING LEADERSHIP: Applications for committees are available in the Student Programs Office and are due today in 216 MSC. CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION/INQUIRY CLASS: will have a dis cussion about moral teachings of the church at 7:30 p.m. at the student center. N.O.W.: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder. Tuesday THE PLACEMENT CENTER: will have a workshop about resume writing at 5 D.m. in 302 Rudder. TAMU COLLEGIATE FFA: Texas State Congressman Robert Early will speak at7:30 p.m. in 208 Scoates. DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: COMPAQ will offer in formation on careers in data processing at 7 p.m. in the University Inn pent house suite. TRI BETA: will have a general meeting at 6 p.m. in 109 Heldenfels. CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will have a 5K run for the Pleasant Hills Children’s Home at 6:30 p.m. at the parking lot by Olsen Field. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the center at 845-0280 for details on today’s meeting. COCAINE ANONYMOUS: call the center at 845-0280 for details on today’s eeting. STUDY ABROAD: will have Overseas Day: study abroad opportunities from 10 ,m.-2 p.m. in the MSC hallway. GGIE ALLIANCE: Dr. Brian Cole will speak about Senate Bill 994 at 7 p.m. in 101 Rudder. Aggieland photos will be taken at 6 p.m. at Zachry. T0MEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: will tour the exotic animal center at 6 .m. at the Wildlife and Exotic Animal Center. AMU COMPUTER USERS GROUP: Mr. Joe Jaros, head of instructional serv ices at Sterling C. Evans Library will speak at 3 p.m. in 204C Sterling C. Evans. ,GGIES ABROAD CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 604 Rudder. ORT WORTH HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder. GGIE G.O.P.: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 701 Rudder. NDERGRADUATE BIOCHEMISTRY SOCIETY: Dr. Caray will speak about he Handedness of Life and Matter” at 7 p.m. in 113 Herman Heep. CM/IEEE-CS: will have a “Welcome to the Jungle” meeting at 8 p.m. in 102 jfochry. TAMU SAILING TEAM: will meet at 8 p.m. in the Military Sciences Building. AGGIE TOASTERS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 342 Zachry. SPANISH CLUB: will have a bowling fiesta and meeting at 8 p.m. at the Chim- hey Hill Bowling Center. TAMU SURF CLUB: Dr. Martha Scott will discuss the formation of waves and Ihen members will discuss intramurals and club trips at 8:30 p.m. in 501 Rudder. CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION/ON CAMPUS CATHOLICS: will discuss (Mass: a message in the motions?” at 9 p.m. at St. Mary’s church. AGGIELAND: Juniors and seniors may get yearbook photos taken from 8:30 i.m. - 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at Yearbook Associates Studio. Don’t Ivait until the last minute. perns for What’s Up should be submitted to TheBattalion, 216 Reed McDonald, jto later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish 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 on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315. Pesticides enter U.S. on produce HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Depart ment of Agriculture officials and others say the U.S. Food and Drug Administra tion should do more to prevent fruits and vegetables with excessive levels of pesti cide residues from entering the United States. Up to 6 percent of the fruits and vege tables inspected by the FDA as they enter the United States through Texas are tainted with unacceptable pesticide lev els, officials said. Some of the pesticides are hazardous enough to have been banned for use by farmers in the United States. The FDA, the agency responsible for protecting consumers from contaminated foods, insists there is adequate protec tion; however, critics charge the agency is not doing enough. “It’s puzzling to us the FDA could feel this is not a more serious and de manding matter of public health,” said Ellen Widess, director of the state agri culture department’s pesticide evaluation program. “The point is, there is not enough test ing of produce routinely coming into the United States,” she said. “The second major concern is they are not testing for enough (types of) pesticides.” Her comments follow a recent report by the Office of Technology Assessment — a bipartisan research arm of Congress — that concluded the multi-residue methods used by the FDA for most of its screening can detect only 163 of 316 pes ticides registered by the EPA. Susan Shen, the OTA’s residue pro ject director, said FDA testing failed to detect 33 pesticides with moderate to high risks for health problems such as cancer and birth defects. She said the conclusion of the study was that FDA has “not allocated a lot of resources toward research to expand the number of pesticides they can detect.” Gerald Vince, the FDA’s district di rector in Dallas, said the problem is less than the critics perceive it to be. But he agreed the agency suffers from a short age of resources. “Based on resources that have been provided to FDA and the number of dol lars and bodies allocated to the pesticide program, there is adequate protection be ing provided at this point,” Vince told the Houston Post. “We could use more dollars and more people to expand what we are already doing. ” Vince said 35 chemists and microbio logists and 42 investigators and inspec tors are responsible for checking the safety of domestic and imported food products in Texas, Oklahoma and Ar kansas. STYLINGi CEfslTEI^ Professional Hair Care for Men 8c Women Memorial Student Center Lower Level 268-2051 perms Haircut Included Regular $40-$75 i\' \ 00 OFF expires 10/31/88 # MSC TOWN HALL PRESENTS This Friday Night G. Rollie Coliseum with Special Guest Gene Watson TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE 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