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Bike Subcommittee To Survey Traffic

In an attempt to design
better and safer bicycle paths,
the bicycle subcommittee of
the University Division of
Traffic and Parking will study
bike traffic at important
intersections on the Grounds.

The subcommittee, headed
by Bill Huyett, has been
meeting recently to review
existing bicycle regulations and
means of easing existing
hazardous conditions.

Students wishing to
volunteer for several hours
next Monday or Tuesday to
observe congested areas should
attend the meeting of the
newly formed Bicycle Club at
7:30 tonight in the South
Meeting Room of Newcomb
Hall.

Singer To Speak

S. Fred Singer will speak
tonight at 8 in Jefferson Hall
on "Pollution: Does Uncle Sam
Give a Damn?". Sponsored by
the University Republican
Club, his is the first of three
speeches on ecology to be
presented this month.

Mr. Singer is a University
environmental sciences
professor and a former deputy
Secretary of the Interior. He
served as chairman of the
federal study on the
environmental impact of the
supersonic transport plane
(SST).

Speaking in the next two
weeks are Michelle Mitrenka,
assistant to the Environmental
Protection Agency chief, and
William Magruder, special
assistant to President Nixon.

Admission is free and all
students are invited.

AED Accepts Bids

Pre-medical students may
now apply for membership in
Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED),
international premedical honor
society.

Membership in the society is
open to pre-medical and
pre-dental students who have
completed four semesters of
study and have attended the
University for at least one
semester.

Minimum grade
requirements are a cumulative
grade point average of 3.0 or
above and an average of 3.0 or
above in science courses.

Interested students may
obtain applications from Kin,
Hatcher, 40 East Lawn, or at
the AED room in Gilmer Hall.

Foreign Service Recruits

Women students interested
in U.S. Foreign Service careers
may apply now for assignment
to administrative, consular,
commercial and economic,
political, information and
cultural functional fields.

Applications are available
from the University Career
Planning and Placement Office,
5 Minor Hall.

The Department of State
and U.S. Information Agency
are recruiting women for
assignments to embassies and
consulates abroad and in
Washington, D.C. with starting
salaries ranging from $9,000 to
$13,000.

Applications must be
postmarked by Oct. 21.

Tutoring Delayed

The Madison Hall Office of
Volunteer Community Services
(OVCS) tutoring program will
not begin until Oct. 23 unless
students have already been
matched with school pupils
and have contacted them.

All students who wish to
tutor but were unable to
attend the orientation meeting
should come to Madison Hall
on Lewis Mountain Road.

Madison Hall has requested
volunteers to spend three hours
on any day in October to aid
Project FIND, a national effort
to make food assistance
programs available to elderly
people. To volunteer, students
should call Madison Hall,
977-7051.

E-Council Meets

The Engineering Council
will meet tonight at 7
p.m. The meeting is to be held
in the Reading Room of the
new Mechanical Engineering
Building. All interested persons
are welcome to attend.

English Majors Convene

All English majors will
meet tonight at 7:30 in 301
Wilson Hall.

The English department's
undergraduate committee will
elect members. Placement
Office representatives will
discuss career and education
opportunities for English
majors.