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Monday, October 24,1988 The Battalion Page 5
What’s Up
Monday
MINORITY FRESHMEN ORIENTATION ’89: Applications for associate director
are due in 151 W. Bizzell.
HIGH SCHOOL PUBLIC RELATIONS AND RECRUITMENT: will have an infor
mational meeting for students interested in becoming representatives at 7 p.m.
in 601 Rudder.
TEXAS MUSIC ASSOCIATION: will meet to discuss forming a local chapter at 8
p.m. at Brazos Landing. All persons interested in the music industry are invited.
INTRAMURALS: entries open for punt, pass and kick at 8 a.m. in 159 Read.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: Chevron will offer infor
mation on careers in data processing at 7 p.m. at the University Inn penthouse
suite.
ARLINGTON HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at Mr. Gatti’s at 7 p.m. to watch
movies.
NOW: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the Center for Drug Prevention and Educa
tion at 845-0280 for details on today’s meeting.
TAMU SNOW SKI CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS: will have nominations for Spring
1989 elections at 5:30 p.m. in 116 Thompson.
TAMU BAHA’I CLUB: will have a presentation about world peace at 7 p.m. in
704 Rudder.
AGGIES FOR BARTON: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in Rudder. Check the screen for
the room number.
POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIETY: Dr. West of the political science department
will speak about public administration at 7 p.m. in 026 MSC.
GERMAN CLUB: will show the film “Alice in the Cities" at 7:30 p.m. on the sixth
floor of Sterling C. Evans Library.
Tuesday
THE PLACEMENT CENTER: will have a workshop about job search strategies
at 5 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
CO-OP STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will eat pizza and discuss upcoming events
at 5:30 p.m. at the Flying Tomato.
TAMU HORSEMAN’S ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. at the Dick Freeman
HISPANIC BUSINESS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 114
Blocker.
TAMU SURF CLUB: will meet to discuss the next party and the next softball
game at 8:30 p.m. in 501 Rudder.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 701 Rudder.
TAMU SAILING TEAM: will discuss the A&M Regatta at 8 p.m. in 109 Military
Sciences.
ECONOMICS SOCIETY: will have a happy hour at the Dixie Chicken at 5 p.m.
and a group picture at 6:45 p.m. at Zachry.
DELTA SIGMA PI: will meet at 6 p.m. in 156 Blocker.
PI SIGMA EPSILON: will take Aggieland pictures at 7:30 p.m. in the Zachry
lobby.
KINO—EYE/CINEMA: will show avant guard films from 1957-1970 at 7:30 p.m.
in 105C Langford Architecture.
OCA SOCIAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: will have a mandatory meeting for ev
eryone involved in the haunted house at 8:30 p.m. in 701 Rudder.
INTRAMURALS: entries close for bowling singles at 5:30 p.m. in 159 Read.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the Center for Drug Prevention and Educa
tion at 845-0280 for details on today’s meeting.
COCAINE ANONYMOUS: call the Center at 845-0280 for details on today’s
meeting.
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no 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.
Nine near hits
at D-FW prove
crew confusion
GRAPEVINE (AP) — The near colli
sion Aug. 31 of two Delta Air Lines jets
because of pilot confusion about a taxi
way was the ninth in a series of similar
errors in the last year on a ramp at Dal-
las-Fort Worth International Airport,
federal records show.
Officials said all nine incidents oc
curred in the same area and involved
Delta jet crews confused about where the
aircraft parking ramp outside Delta’s ter
minal ends and a taxiway begins.
“We have two taxiways out there —
an inner taxiway and an outer taxiway —
and then the runway,” the airports’s
tower manager Norm Scroggins said.
“Because there is no grass between the
ramp and the inner taxiway, we had sev
eral pilots who believed the runway was
the outer taxiway. ’ ’
In recent weeks Delta and airport offi
cials painted thick black stripes outlined
Bush’s lead
strong but not
unbeatable
DALLAS (AP) — Republican presi
dential nominee George Bush holds a
“strong but not unbeatable” lead over
Michael Dukakis in Texas, while Lloyd
Bentsen has a commanding 25-point lead
over his challenger in the Senate race,
according to a poll for two newspapers.
The GOP ticket of Bush and Dan
Quayle was favored by 52 percent of the
likely Texas voters surveyed, while the
Democratic duo of Dukakis and Bentsen
was favored by 42 percent.
Bentsen, who also is seeking a fourth
term in the U.S. Senate, was the choice
of 58 percent of those surveyed, while
Beau Boulter, a Republican congress
man from Amarillo, was favored by 33
percent. Nine percent were undecided.
“The Democrats aren’t out of it in
Texas, but they’ve got a tough row to
hoe,” pollster Richard Murray said
about the presidential poll results.
‘ ‘They’ve got to get some breaks. ’ ’
The presidential poll — which had a
margin of error of plus or minus four per
centage points — also indicates that
Bentsen is the most popular of the four
candidates on the presidential tickets and
that his presence is keeping Dukakis in
the race.
Fifty-six percent of voters surveyed
picked Bush when asked who they
would support if the running mates —
Bentsen and Indiana Sen. Quayle —
were not on the ballot. Dukakis was the
choice of 40 percent.
“Certainly, Bentsen is a great help
here. Without him, it would be a rout. It
would be Mondale-Reagan again,” said
Murray, referring to President Ronald
Reagan’s defeat of Walter Mondale in
1984.
with yellow paint to mark the inner taxi
way. They also identified the taxiway
with 10-foot letters and solar-powered
strobe lights.
Procedures for directing Delta flights
to the runways have also changed, offi
cials say, so planes avoid Taxiway 29,
which leads directly from the ramp area
to Runway 17L, the first of two parallel
runways on the airport’s east side.
Delta spokesman Jackie Pate told the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram the airline has
hand-delivered notices to all of its pilots
alerting them about the taxi way.
The first problem occurred in October
1987 after the airport covered the grass
islands between the parking apron and
the inner taxi way with concrete.
“A lot of pilots use the grass to guide
them,” Richard Petit, the airport’s se
nior director of planning and engi
neering, said. “Problem was, there were
a bunch more who cut the corners short
and their landing gear went into the
grass.”
The most recent incident occured at
6:30 a.m. Aug. 31, less than three hours
before the crash of Delta 1141, when the
pilot of Delta Flight 297 mistakenly
turned left onto a runway and into the
path of a plane that was cleared for take
off, according to Federal Aviation Ad
ministration records.
Airport officials, as well as Delta and
FAA officials stepped up their efforts to
correct the problem after the Flight 297
incident, involving a McDonnell Doug
las MD-80 bound for Cincinnati, and
Delta Flight 638, a McDonnell Douglas
DC-9 bound for Houston.
Scroggins said it was the only time
two planes reached the runway at the
same time.
“It was pretty scary,” Scroggins said.
“That could have easily been a terrible
accident.”
A tower controller spotted Flight 297
on the runway just after the plane turned
onto it, records indicate.
A recording of conversations between
the tower and the two planes indicate that
one controller told Flight 297 to halt
while another instructed Flight 638 to
abort takeoff.
An FAA investigative report indicates
Flight 638 came to a stop a few yards
from Flight 297 _
“It was a relatively low-speed abort,
but the pilot decided to let his brakes
cool for about 10 minutes before heading
back up the runway,” Scroggins said.
Hours after the runway incident, Delta
Flight 1141, bound for Salt Lake City,
crashed just after takeoff on the west side
of the airport. Fourteen people died from
the crash, which is still under investiga
tion.
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