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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.
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This Friday Night
G. Rollie Coliseum
with Special Guest
Gene Watson
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