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By RICKY TELG
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to million dollar-a-year business.
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“We try to put the emphasis on lo
cal topics, because we think that’s
what students want to read,” she
said.
The Battalion depends on the As
sociated Press for national and inter
national news, but because of limited
space, local news gets first priority,
Brockman said.
She said The Battalion is divided
into six independent departments,
each with their own responsibilities.
City desk assigns stories to report
ers; the photo desk handles photo
graphs; and the At Ease department
has control over the Battalion’s
weekly feature supplement.
The night news department puts
the paper together and edits all
material, and the sports desk is in
charge of its own reporfers and lay
outs. The page two editor handles all
editorials.
Because staff positions are not
permanent, Brockman said the be
ginning of each semester is difficult
because everyone is getting used to
his new job.
“It’s hard, because you get a whole
new staff each semester,” she said.
“You can never establish good
(news) contacts like the Eagle does.”
When asked if The Battalion pub
lishes stories just to stir up contro
versy, Brockman said the paper con;
siders all the issues before an article
is published.
“We report what’s going on,”
Brockman said.
Brigid Brockman
If there is something happening
on campus that doesn’t seem fair,
then we’ll have a story dealing with
the issue; in that sense maybe we do
stir up controversy, she said.
Another audience member asked
if the editorials are written to stimu
late student response.
Brockman said they are written to
make students think about the issue.
“I’m glad if it makes them think,”
she said. “That’s what it should be
doing.”
When mistakes are made in the
paper, Brockman said they are not
intentional.
“We try to be as professional as we
can, but we are students,” she said.
“Everything we do and every paper
we put out, we learn.”
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Death Row inmates are filing mo
tions to have all their appeals
dro|>ped and are calling for quick
executions so they can “stop lining
the pockets of attorneys and judges,”
the leader of the effort said Wednes
day.
“To continue to wait here year af
teryear, with the psychological and
physical stress, it’s inhuman at least,”
said James E. Smith, convicted of a
robbery-slaying last year in Houston.
“We will no longer participate in this
obscene exercise. We are demanding
that the courts dismiss our appeals.”
Smith accused lawyers and judges
of making “thousands, if not mil
lions” of dollars by prolonging the
appeals that seek to block execu
tions.
“We’re simply asking that the
court allow the appeals to be dis
missed and the executions carried
out,” he said. “If you are going to
sentence a man to death, then exe
cute him. Don’t torture him for
years and years. Why do we have to
sit here?”
Smith, 33, has been on Death Row
for 11 months. He said he was a na
tive of Louisville and had been in
volved in business in New Orleans.
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Finding answers
Group
By SARAH OATES
Staff Writer
A group at Texas A&M is ded
icated to hearing about students’
problems — whatever they may be
— and trying to come up with solu
tions.
Texas A&M President Frank Van
diver formed the Task Force on the
Quality of Student Life last fall.
Dr. John Koldus, vice president
for student services, said the task
force probably “was generated out
of problems we’ve had,” such as the
Gay Student Services’ fight for on-
campus recognition.
“But when you begin thinking
.about the quality of student life,”
Koldus saief. “you begin thinking
about it for all students.”
The 19-person task force is di
vided into four subcommittees rep
resenting different areas of campus
life: academic, services, traditions,
organizations programs and activ
ities. Committee members are both
students and faculty.
problems
listens to
Koldus, who is chairman of the
group, said the subcommittees are
on a problem search.
“We’re taking a two-pronged ap
proach,” Koldus said. “First, wth’re
going to continue looking, then
we’re going to deal with specific
problems. The Counseling Center
alone gave us a list of 59 things stu--
dents had problems with, such as ad
vising, parking and lack of class sec
tions.
“We’re going to try to address
problems mat aren’t already being
dealt with by other committees.”
The immediate goal of the task
force is talking to students and find
ing common problems.
“The subcommittees have the lati
tude to investigate as they want,”
Koldus said.
Dr. Malon Southerland, assistant
vice president for student services
and a subcommittee chairman, said,
for example, that task force mem
bers may show up at meetings of
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students
campus organizations, or conduct
informal surveys.
Koldus said the task force may
purchase ad space for a survey in
The Battalion.
“You know that with that kind of
thing you will get crank responses,”
he said, “but we want to give every
one a chance to respond.”
Koldus said he has no idea how
long the groups’ research will take.
“We decided not to worry about
time,” he said. “We’re talking about
an on-going process, and we don’t
know how long it will take, but we
hope to have ways of improving stu
dent life on campus.”
Tentative meeting dates have
been set for the subcommittees to
discuss their findings and decide
which problems to work on first.
“Once problems are assessed, we’ll
decide which have merit and assign
them to the subcommittees they’re
most closely related to,” Koldus said.
“Then the subcommittees will look
into resolutions of the problems.
Former student to speak
about entrepreneurship
By SHERRY TOFTE
Reporter
The College of Business Adminis
tration Fellows Program will sponsor
a lecture by John Sackett, a member
of the Development Council for the
business college, about how to suc
ceed in your own business today at 6
p.m.
Sackett, a ’59 graduate of Texas
A&M and former president of
Alamo Iron works, will focus his
speech on the failures encountered
in the business world.
The lecture will be in 156 Blocker.
Sackett said he will approach busi
ness success from a different per
spective, because it is important for
students to see the roots of business
failures in order to understand how
to succeed.
“I’m assuming that many of the
students will be future business per
sons,” Sackett said, “and I want to
make them aware of the pitfalls
which may be encountered that nor
mally would not he taught in an aca
demic environment.”
Dr. Schoenfeldt, head of the man
agement department and director of
the CBA Fellows Program, said
Sackett will discuss two main topics.
First, he will explain how to buy a
company or get involved in an
entrepreneurship. Sackett also will
discuss his experiences consulting
with a company last fall.
“I’m going to approach the topic
from the standpoint of the failures
in a business and illustrate what not
to do,” Sackett said.
Schoenfeldt said a business, fre
quently banks, often will call in
someone to help solve a company
problem.
“I call them work-out artists or
consultants,” Schoenfeldt said.
Sackett began consulting with
businesses after being president at
Alamo Iron Works and is now
looking into starting a business of his
own, Schoenfeldt said.
“His experience (at Alamo Iron
Works and as a consultant) will make
for a very interesting speech,”
Schoenfeldt said. “It will give the
students an idea of what it’s like to
own their owm businesses and will
give them some insight about the
business world.”
The CBA Fellows is a group of
business students w'ho are selected
for their management and lead
ership skills.
“Tne CBA Fellows could be called
the honors program within the busi
ness college,” Schoenfeldt said.