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If you don’t, more than likely you are spending wasted hours exercising and/or dieting. Whether you work in an office or are a full time athlete, everyone reaches a plateau when trying to lose fat or gain muscle, or both. So what do you do? There is only one alternative and that is to create a healthy lifestyle which will enable you to obtain your ultimate fitness objective. Neal Spruce, world renowned Nutrition Expert will arrive from Los Angeles to conduct the seminar at Gold's Gym in College Station on Thursday, October 15. Neal has appeared on several talk shows including Jenny Jones and Good Morning America. He has written articles for virtually every fitness magazine (including Shape, Flex, and Muscle and Fitness) and has lectured all over the world. Neal currently works with movie and T.V. celebrities, top fashion models, professional athletes, and pro bodybuilders. ABOUT THE SEMINAR At the Nutrition and Fitness Seminar, you will receive all the information you need to reach whatever goal you desire. The seminar will provide factual information including: 1. How the human body works in response to nutrition and exercise. 2. How to gain muscle while losing body fat. 3. How to lose weight without rebounding. 4. Reasons why conventional diets fail. Every workout should make a difference. However, a certain knowledge of nutrition and exercise is required for each individual to be able to continually make the desired alterations in appearance and body composition. Each person is unique in regards to age, weight, height, sex, activity level, body composition (% fat, % muscle), rate of metabolism and rate of oxidation. At the seminar you will receive all of the information that you need to reach your personal fitness goals in the fastest way possible. ALLOWING YOU TO SEE A CHANGE EVERY 3-4 WEEKS. YOU WILL NEVER HIT ANOTHER PLATEAU! Therefore, more than anywhere else in the world, you need to be at this seminar. DATE: Thursday, October TIME: 8:00 p.m. PLACE: Gold's Gym ADMISSION: $2.00 in advance (thru 10/14/92) $5.00 at the door 2408 A Texas Ave. S. (in the Kroger Shopping Center) Please call for reservations, 764-8000 Page 10 The Battalion Thursday, Octoberlij State orders Texas Water Commissioi to prevent MERCO sludge dumping THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN — The state attorney general told the Texas Water Commission Tuesday to immedi ately revoke the permission it gave a company to spread New York City sludge on a West Texas ranch. The demand comes a week af ter the water commission imposed a 75-day moratorium on all new and pending applications of sludge, a by-product from waste water treatment plants. MERCO Joint Venture is spreading the sludge in West Texas and the water commission approved the spreading. The sludge does not meet all New York standards. Attorney Geheral Dan Morales said in a news release that state regulations prohibit the spreading of out-of-state sewage sludge in Texas if the sludge does not meet the more stringent requirements of the two states involved. "We have conducted an inde pendent review of the MERCO project and determined that the revocation of its permit is clearly warranted and we advise the commission to do so," Morales said. Ed Clark, water commission spokesman, said the agency will consider Morales' request. "The Texas Water Commission is absolutely determined to ensure this project is fiot a problem for the environment and never threat ens the public," Clark said. "If we ever discovered we had issued a registration or any other approval and it was not in accordance with the law and didn't meet the letter of the law then we woul solutelv take action." MERCO Joint Venture! spreading sludge in July 130,000-acre ranch on the skirts of Sierra Blanca, abo miles southeast of El Paso. The company has said sludge will restore nativegre to the ranch and tests will le ducted to ensure it posesnoi ger to the environment. Moi has sued MERCO andtheE ronmental ProtectionA| That lawsuit goes to trialNi Pecos. American, Frenchman win Nobel Prize for inventions THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM, Sweden- An American won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for theories explaining such phenomena as how plants store energy from light, while a Frenchman won the physics award for an invention allow ing a closer look into the heart of matter. Rudolph A. Marcus, 69, of the California Institute of Tech nology — a Canadian-born nat uralized American — was hon ored for work involving the transfer of electrons between molecules. Georges Charpak, a Polish- born Frenchman, was cited for his development of elementary particle detectors. Both discoveries were made in the 1960s and are used by re searchers worldwide. Charpak, 68, suspected a prank when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences called to say he had won the $1.2 million prize. Not until an academy mem ber who had met Charpak took the phone and confirmed the prize did he believe it. Charpak (pronounced Shahr- PUCK) told The Associated Press he had not expected to win the Nobel Prize for "a little thing" he invented 24 years ago. Since 1959 he has worked at CERN, the European Laborato ry for Particle Physics, near Geneva, Switzerland. His invention, the multiwire proportional chamber, "revolu tionized the way to register ele mentary particle reactions" al lowing researchers to see in much more detail the behavior of the smallest particles of mat ter, academy member Per Carl son said. The detector also made it possible to monitor reactions on computer screens and track down single particle trajectories within a pattern of a billion re actions. Earlier equipment only reg istered the occurrence of parti cle reactions without revealing where they happened. Carlson said Charpak's in vention opened the door to some of the inner secrets of matter. "Today practically every ex periment in particle physics uses some type of track detector that has been developed from Charpak's original invention," the academy said. Thur ' Germany lowers on incoming refugees Coalition to propose immigration la ( THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BONN, Germany— In a move to stem violence and outcry over a heavy influx of immigrants, lead ers of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's three-party coalition government agreed Tuesday to change the constitution to limit the number of refugees. Under a proposal to be intro duced in Parliament on Thursday, the coalition also said the country must consider adopting its first immigration law. Germany is bur dened with supporting hundreds of thousands who fled ex-Yu goslav republics, the former Sovi et bloc and the Third World while it struggles to revamp post-Com- munist eastern Germany. "We want Germany to remain a foreigner-friendly country," the coalition said in obvious reference to the rise in right-wing attacks on foreigners that have left over a dozen people dead since unifica tion two years ago. The coalition promised to re spect international conventions on accepting political refugees, but proposed new regulations naming countries where political persecu tion would no longer be consid ered a threat, such as Poland and Romania. The plan also effectively n require refugees whocomt Germany via a "safe try" to return to that county! would refuse asylumtolhi guilty of non-political crime: their home country. War refugees would be alow to remain in Germany for thee ration of fighting intheirhos land, in a concession to those£- ing former Yugoslavia. More than 300,000 people?! sought asylum in Germanyii first nine months of 1992, and(E cials expect the year's reach 450,000. The govern! contends most come for earns reasons. Less than 5 percent^ plicants are judged to be gens refugees. The decision to wis immigration policy came ate crisis session Tuesday momiii; Kohl's conservative coalifafi includes his ChristianDemOT the Christian Social Union ate: Free Democrats. They announced agreemen! changing the constitution'sHj ket guarantee of political asylffl A two-thirds majority is quired to approve a change in constitution, so any olanwf have to have support from\hf position Social Democrats. Ai Tex tratio: cern c uals 1 shi^c issue with was r discri in the nities Wit problc ramps pus is sons f< ily acc Thi demo disabl throuj createi U-Act creates mock university at retrea Prc By TANYA WILLIAMS sity. Reporter of THE BATTALION Over the past weekend, 41 student leaders enrolled, took classes and earned their degrees from a university other than Texas A&M. At U-ACT University, students learned a lesson in diversity. U-ACT, which stands for University Awareness for Cultural Togetherness, con ducted its third annual student leader retreat at Brazos Valley Camp in Snook, Texas. The camp, which was transformed by the 10 member U-ACT core committee into a ficti tious university, mirrored any university in enrollment statistics. Color groups, representing four different cultures and their hierarchical levels in society and on college campuses, were given different characteristics by the staff. Each retreat participant was given a color, the descriptions of their culture, and the free dom to develop any extra characteristics that the color group wanted. What each group did not realize was that other color groups, or cultures, were given stereotypes and misconceptions, much like the ones held today against many cultures. These stereotypes caused dissension when later that evening, the cultures combined to create student organizations at U-ACT Univer- Eventually, the cultures found that they must work together to get any work done in their organizations. The preconceived notions held against any group were completely, in most cases, un rounded. This activity, created by the U-ACT staff, enlightened many participants about racism and stereotyping in a university and in organi zations. "The purpose of the exercise was to put many in the position of experiencing many as pects of racism on a university setting," said Erin Taylor, a senior political science major and U-ACT core committee member. "It forced people to look at themselves and reevaluate their beliefs, and realize we're all victims and perpetrators of several forms of discrimina tion." "The retreat helped me realize that there are a lot of diversity issues that aren't addressed which we overlook in our organization," said Aimee Barefoot, a senior accounting major and member of the Class of '93 Council. "It's given me a chance to plan some goals for our organi zation and hopefully make a difference. "It was needed because some people don't realize that there are problems with their orga nizations, I never would have thought that Class Council could be different," Barefoot added. "But, we realized some problems4 we have and we're going to try to chat! them." Edward Munoz, Jr., who is a memte S.T.E.P. O.N.E. (Starting to EliminatePrejii^ Offering New Experiences) which promo 1 - racial understanding, also felt the retreat• fered an understanding of different cultures "I believe it was an awakening to quit few people, and that's something we neei Munoz said. "The winds of change are up: us. Multiculturalism is the way of thefutuie "I learned to start seeing people witte open mind, and not colorwise; to beute* standing and to be patient and to listen top pies views," said Connie Smith, a senior® ing construction major. The retreat also offered networking opp tunities for student leaders. Recently-elty freshman class president, Todd Rice, offered him the chance to interact student leaders. "As a freshman, I haven't gotten a chartf interact with a lot other people," Ricesai "This retreat weekend allowed metheclw 1 to understand other organizations on camp and interact with people of other culture understand them." 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