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The Battalion ■Hpi p I E ,RA Tuesday • March What's Up Tuesday TAMU Water Ski Club: A general meeting will be held at 8:30 p.m. in the Student Recreation Center. Con tact John at 695-8843 for details. Alpha Phi Omega: Meet to go to the Crestview Re tirement Home at 3:30 p.m. in 133 Koldus. ATM Womens Rugby: Come join! No experience needed. Practices are from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the pitch on the corner of Texas Ave. and University Dr. Call Nikki at 694-0084 for information. Aggie Lutherans: A meeting will be held from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Treehouse, Our Saviors Lutheran Church. Call 694-6663 for details. Catholic Students Association: There will be a gen eral meeting today in MSC 225 from 7:00-8:00 p.m. There will also be a daily mass at 12:05 p.m. every Tuesday in the All-Faiths Chapel. TAMU Anthropological Society: There will be a general meeting and guest lecture tonight at 7:00 p.m. in room 130 of the Anthropology Building. Donny Wood will discuss “Ogata-mura: A Japanese Model Farming Community”. For details call Judy at 693-7870. Counseling Psychology Department: They will hold a support group for women in abusive relationships in 112 Harrington from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Call 845- 8021 for more information. Student Y: Youth Fun Day counselor sessions will be held at 8:30 p.m. in Koldus 111. Premedical Society: Dr. Guillory from the Texas Chil dren’s Prenatal Care will be speaking at 7 p.m. in MSC 206. Executive Council of Health Organizations: There will be a health professions symposium from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the MSC Flagroom. Future Aggie Physician Assistants: There will be a seminar at 7:00 p.m. in VMS room 005 for applicants to competitive allied health programs. A guest speak er will address “Plan B: What To Do If You Have Aren’t Accepted”. Call Stephanie Martin at 268-8699 for more details. IL CIRCULO ITALIANO: There will be a movie tonight in Academic 130 at 7:30 p.m.. The film "Ladri Di Bi- ciclette” (“The Bicycle Thieves") is in Italian with Eng lish subtitles. Call Roberto Gasparini at 76A2916 for details. Aggie Alliance: A meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in Read 274. Call Wesley at 7644475 for details. Floriculture-Horticulture Society: A meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the Horticulture and Forest Sciences Building Room 102. Spring Plant Fair and other up coming events will be discussed. Champions Fellowship: There will be a meeting in Rudder 407 at 8:30 p.m. Tom Sirotrak, author and former “Power Team” member, will be speaking. Call Jason at 696-5604 for details. Center for Academic Enhancement: There will be a GRE math review in Blocker 526. Call 845-2724 for details. LEGALS Mock Trial: A mandatory meeting will be held in the Academic building at 5:00 p.m. today. We will review the case and assign parts for the next competition. Christian Science Organization: A lecture entitled “Is Prayer Effective” will be held at 5:30 p.m. in Rudder 308. Call David at 846-6115 for details. Wednesday ATM Womens Rugby: Come join! No experience needed. Practices are from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the pitch on the corner of Texas Ave. and University Dr. Call Nikki at 6940084 for information. TAMU Snow Ski Club: A meeting will be held at 8:30 p.m. in Rudder 410. Call Chuck at 694-2726 for details. What’s Up is a Battalion service that lists non profit student and faculty events and activi ties. Items should be submitted no later than three days in advance of the desired run date. Application deadlines and notices are not events and will not be run in What’s Up. If you have any questions, please call the newsroom at 845-3313. Parking officers remi calm while drivers fm Amish leave farms to start businesses CHURCHTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Moses Smucker, an Amish busi nessman, takes a puff on his cigar, then asks his receptionist through a speakerphone if a customer can wait a minute — he's busy. On his cluttered desk, an electronic Rolodex shares space with a calculator. Outside his office, the hum of electric sewing machines fills the harness shop. The Amish are known for eschewing electricity, cars, telephones and embracing a simple life on the farm. In Lancaster County, home to an estimated 20,000 Amish, more and more are leaving the farm and entering the business world. “There’s just not enough land for all of us,” Jacob King ex plains as he cuts wood with an air-powered saw for a furniture business. Land is scarce partly because the Amish population has doubled each decade in the last 30 years, says Conrad Kanagy, a professor of sociology at nearby Elizabethtown College. And what land is left is expensive, roughly $5,000 to $7,000 an acre, making housing devel opments and shopping outlets more profitable than farming. Donald B. Kraybill, a provost at Messiah College, estimates 1,000 "micro enterprises” exist in the county today— from metal smithing, woodworking and arts and crafts shops to construction operations that rely on the “English” to give men rides. Some of the Amish are building gazebos and putting swing sets together. Others are supplying their brethren with carriages or farm equipment fitted with horse hitches and steel wheels. This departure from Amish ways is actually helping to preserve Amish tradition: Many of the Amish businessmen are using their profits to buy farmland. Since 1984, they have bought 168 farms in the county. “In a kind of modern capitalist economy, we take our profits and put it back into the business,” Kanagy says. “But in their economy, because the church leaders don’t want them increasing in size, they’re taking their profits and buying up farmland and, in a sense, preserv ing their culture.” Most of the county’s 120 church districts limit their flock’s ven tures by prohibiting business owners from employing more than 10 people. Smucker doesn’t see much future in farming. It’s too much work and stress, he says. “It’s not ‘Old McDonald’s Farm’ anymore,” says the 47-year-old businessman whose harnesses have been seen in a nationally tele vised beer commercial featuring the Budweiser Clydesdales. At home, Smucker has no car and no electricity, and lights his home with gas lanterns. He says he’s going to continue to develop his company, adding: “I have two sons, and I hope they will take it over.” Another member of the Amish community, John Stultzfus, builds intricate dovetailed furniture with air-powered drills and hydraulic saws. “I like to farm, I grew up on a farm, but we had two daughters,” he says. “And what are you going to do? You’re here in the county and you just can’t pull up your roots.” He draws customers from as far away as New Jersey. He keeps in touch with them by a telephone in his shop, checking his voice mail periodically. DALLAS (AP)—They tried to prepare him, but Russell Finley didn’t fully under stand the nature of his new job until the day a delivery truck driver, purple with rage, chased him down the block and screamed in his face. For Johnny White, total comprehen sion came when an elderly woman - “80 if she was a day,” he said - cruised along side as he strode down the sidewalk, shrieking obscenities out her car window. That was when Finley and White were rookies in what might be considered the worst job on the city payroll: civilian officer in the Parking Enforce ment Division. Day in and day out, parking enforcement officers walk the streets, issuing lots of tickets, hearing lots of excuses and enduring a whole lot of abuse. ‘‘They’ll call me names. They’ll say 1 was hiding in the bushes, waiting for their meter to run out,” said enforcement officer Denise Clarke, who is nearing the two-year mark with the department. ‘‘They’ll say I’m working on commission -1 wish! - and I’ve had them tear up a ticket and throw it in my face." Those who stick with the job said the in sults and ridicule slide right off, that they’re nothing compared with the scary stuff. One woman officer was sucker-punched by an irate motorist a few months ago. Another was badly bruised when a cabbie trying to flee from having his taxi "booted” struck her with his front bumper. Last year, the city prosecuted a dentist after he shoved an of ficer to the ground. “We’ve had knives flashed at our peo ple,” said Jon Rose, manager of enforce ment and acting head of all parking man agement services for the city of Dallas. “We train them to just walkaway.G ’no confrontation.’ ” That rule is the drumbeatt start hearing the day theyapph With luck, they leamtoacce: suit as the price of a relatively- door job with plenty of auton: patience and self-discipline,v- field a nasty crack as calmlyasi mark on the weather. But some rookies walk oil: fore they even hit the street when the training ; shows a ft “They’ll say Tm working on commission - I wish! - and I’ve had them tear up a ticket and throw it in my face.” Denise Clarke Enforcement Officer owner spt languages ing a ticket an officer Others longer. One rookie re mined her after twoc ‘'Than) 1 ing me," thought I co. wrote to Ros verbal abuse from the cit wrong.” [J Getting a parking ticket re scale of universal nuisances so: tween a fiat tire and a root cam later, it will be your turn. Last year, the city’s 36 pt forcement officers issue: 180,000 tickets, generatingal lion in revenue. Most of their ten in the parking-scarcedoK West End districts, with otki| near hospitals and popularsh] eas. Others were written foniil residential areas. On any day, about 4,400pa are in service citywide, giveoij that are out of service or cove strict parking for special events Bonfire Continued from Page 1 O’Brien said there are several things the committee hopes to accompMj never been done before. “One thing we would like to set up is a program where grade schools cacj tour Bonfire,” she said. Jeremy Frampton, a bonfire leader and a junior psychology major, saidhtj new hostess committee will help generate interest in Bonfire. “There is definitely a need for a committee out at Bonfire to help out,” he] T.J. Sari, a bonfire leader and a junior agriculture business major, said thee is a good idea. “Anything that gels the community involved in Bonfire is a good tiling,"hi AGGIE WRANGLERS AN AGGIE TRADITION FOR THIRTEEN YEARS SPRING SESSION II DANCE LESSONS CLASS />■ DAY TIME LOCATION JITTERBUG I SUNDAY 4-5:30 GRW 266 COUNTRY & WESTERN I SUNDAY 6-7:30 GRW 266 JITTERBUG I SUNDAY 8-9:30 GRW 266 COUNTRY & WESTERN 11 WEDNESDAY/:30-9:00 GRW 255 ADVANCED JITTERBUG THURSDAY 7:45-9:15 GRW 266 SIGN-UPS IN THE MSC FLAGROOM AT 8 A.M. - 3 P.M. ON MARCH 11 & 12 (or until classes fill) COST: Adv. Jitterbug is $40 per couple, all others $30 per couple (non-students add $20/person for rec-sports facility use fee) CLASSES START MARCH 29 - ALL CLASSES RUN 4 WEEKS (skips Easter weekend) For more information, visit the Aggie Wranglers on-line at: http^Avww.tamu.ediVaggie vvranglers Looking for a partner? Come find one at Rodeo 2000 Saturday, March 7 at the Aggie Wranglers "singles" night. TradllttioinLS 'Week IVIarcL (y 1, - 12' 1 ' TV ^ ^ On what holiday ^ was Parent’s Weekend f*- held until rescheduling ^ in 1969? 3qY S If you know the answer, place it in the box at the Traditions Week table at Rudder Fountain for a PRIZE! Schedule of Events M: Fish, T-, & Howdy Camp W: Corps of Cadets & Yell Leaders T: Parent’s Weekend Th: Muster & Silver Taps Traditions Council Thanks El Chico and On The Border 1998-99 Student Organization Fundi] $$$ Applications now available in Student Fill Center (217 MSC) or Student Activities (125 ft] for 1998-99 Student Organization Funding. Applications due Tuesday, April 4:30 p.m. Informational meetings: Friday, March 27 3 p.m. 144 Koldusl Tuesday, March 31 5:30 p.m. 144Kol(J Visit our Web site http://stuact.tamu.edu/stuorgs/sofrequesl 1 for more information IMPROVE YOUR WEALTH- BY SHARING YOUR HEALTH u i K1594057S S 11 ir K15940576 B Here are 81 good reasons to become a plasma donor at Westgate Plasma Center: $80 dollars in your first two weeks, and you save lives. If you have any questions about donating Plasma or wish to set up an appointment please call us at 268-6050. ***VALUABLE COUPONS*** NEW & DONORS: off program for 6 months: I Receive an extra I $5 on your second donation. I CURRENT DONORS: Receive an extra $10 when you bring in a friend and they donate four times in their first 2 weeks. i OLD DONORS: I Receive an extra $5 on I your next donation if you l haven’t donated in 2 or l more months. WORK FOR THE PREMIER RESORT OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST Play on our sandy beaches... 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