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DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY 707 South Texas Ave., Suite 101D College Station, Texas 77840 1 block South of Texas & University Saturday 7:30 & 9:45 _ Rudder Theatre * QhUdretiofa $2.00 WILLIAM HURT MARLEE MAT LIN Friday & Saturday midnight Rudder Theatre $2.00 THINK ABOUT IT You may very well go to Europe someday — but how many chances will you have to visit the Orient Now is the time — come find out about exciting opportunities Friday Oct 23 1—2:30 p.m. 701 Rudder Study Abroad Office 161 Bizzell West Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, October 22, 1987 A&M seniors find job hunt process akin to Greek rush By Cindy Milton Staff Writer Graduating seniors looking for jobs may find the job-hunting proc ess similar to Greek rush, said Jean Ricciardello, president of Beta Al pha Psi, the accounting honor so ciety at Texas A&M. Ricciardello, a senior accounting major, said big companies, especially the “big eight” accounting firms, make a tremendous effort to im press students looking for jobs by “wining and dining them.” “They have receptions so they can et to know you, and after they’ve ad an interview with you, and if they like what you have to offer, they might call you the next time they come to campus and invite you to dinner,” she said. “Everything you say and do counts.” Randy Mays-Knapp, recruiting coordinator for Arthur Andersen & Co., a Houston-based accounting firm, said a major recruiting budget is available specifically for impress ing students the firm interviews. Arthur Andersen and other big firms host presentations and recep tions to educate students about what the firm has to offer, Mays-Knapp said. These gatherings, she said, give both the firms and the students an opportunity to meet before an inter view takes place. Food and drinks at these gather ings, she said, make a nice atmo sphere — something less structured tnan an interview and more relaxing for everyone involved. Firms want to recruit people who can handle social situations well, she said, and during the presentations there are a variety of the Firm’s per sonnel to meet. “You never have a second chance to make a good first impression,” Mays-Knapp said. “We’re very peo ple-oriented, and the receptions and presentations let us see communica tion skills before we get the students in an interview.” D’Ann Wheeler, administrative secretary at A&M’s Placement Cen ter, said most big firms, not only the accounting firms, hold receptions and similar gatherings before they interview on campus. For example, Wheeler said, Mobil Oil Corp. recently held a job fair where they saw more than 5,000 stu dents. The corporation served pizza, handed out T-shirts and gave away other small gifts, she said. The larger companies and firms that recruit at A&M normally an nounce their receptions and job fairs by placing advertisements in The Battalion or by dispersing fliers around campus. Ricciardello said they also send messages to the clubs and honor so cieties related to a certain career. Dr. Stanley Kratchman, faculty vice president of Beta Alpha Psi, said the larger firms use receptions to make their businesses more success ful. “They believe in doing things in a first-class way,” Kratchman said. “It’s really competitive out there, and the companies and firms are very careful ahout who they select to work for them. They want people who are strong not only in grade point averages but also in commu nications.” Students hear debate on raising standards for admission to A&M By Jenny Hynes Reporter About 250 students took part in an audience-participation debate conducted by the Texas A&M De bate Society Wednesday concerning raising Texas A&M’s admission stan dards. The debate, which combined speeches for each side of the ques tion with audience comments, dis cussed the resolution, “Resolved: That Texas A&M should substan tially increase its admission stan dards.” Following discussion the audience voted on the question. The result? A tie of 126 to 126. Ellen Bristoll, a junior finance ma jor, spoke for the “pro” side of the question, citing three reasons for raising the standards: • To improve the quality of cam pus life. Bristoll cited lack of enough on- campus housing to accommodate an increasing student enrollment as an area that would be improved. Direct ing students not qualified to attend A&M to other schools was men tioned as another improvement. • To increase the student’s learn ing experience at A&M. Bristoll said classroom standards would be heightened by raising ad mission standards. “The professors are going to real ize that we’re here to learn and they’ll teach us at a better level,” Bristoll said. Bristoll said tougher admissions also would draw better professors to the University. • To improve the marketability of graduates. Comparing graduates from Ivy- league schools with those from less- respected colleges, Bristoll said em ployers would choose someone from the more-respected school, even with a lower grade-point ratio. “They know that the student worked hard to get into the (re spected) university and to graduate with a degree,” she said. “The GPR of a 3.97 from Southwest is not quite the same as a GPR of a 3.97 from Yale.” Tiffany Sunday, a junior speech communication major, spoke against the resolution, citing three reasons against raising admission standards: • The Scholastic Aptitude Test is unreliable. Sunday contended that the SAT is biased in favor of male and middle- class students, and that it does not measure a student’s intelligence. “I think the SAT is really teaching us how to take tests,” she said. • Attitudes at the high school level create pressure to score well on the SAT. Sunday mentioned parental pres sure on students to excel on the test. “The parents say ‘I’m a former Aggie, you’re an Aggie, you hit 1,000 on the SAT or else,’ ” she said. • Pressure to score well on the SAT leads to cheating on the exam. Paying other students to take the exam is becoming more common as the importance of SAT scores in creases, Sunday said. “It is relatively easy for anybody to walk in (to the SAT) and pass for an other student,” she said. After Bristoll and Sunday spoke the audience had the opportunity to discuss the question. Participants were encouraged to signify a change in opinion by moving from one side of the room to the other. Wednesday’s program was the second in a series of open debates sponsored by the Department of Speech Communication/Theatre Arts and Student Activities. The first debate, held in September, con cerned affirmative action. A Nov. 12 debate will discuss fundraising by television evangelists. Students may audition to speak on this issue at 7 p.m., Nov. 5 in 608M Blocker. $400,000 advertising blitz launches for supercollider AUSTIN (AP) — A $400,000 ad vertising blitz for the supercollider bond proposal was launched Wednesday, uniting such traditional rivals as the presidents of the Uni versity of Texas and Texas A&M. Political foes — including Sens. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, and Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas — also are fea tured in television commercials that begin airing Friday. “The point is that this is a project that’s so important to Texas that ev erybody across the whole political spectrum and outside the political world . . . thinks it’s a good thing for Texas,” said John Deardourff, polit ical consultant who helped create the commercials. The commercials tout the employ ment and educational benefits of bringing the supercollider — the na tion’s largest scientific research pro ject— to Texas. They also urge Texans to ratify Proposition 19, a proposed constitu tional amendment to issue $500 mil lion in bonds to make Texas a more attractive site. The $4.4 billion supercollider, a 52-mile-long underground atom- smasher, will be used in high-energy physics research. Nearly 24 states are competing for the federal pro ject, which backers say will bring thousands of jobs and enormous sci entific prestige to the winning state. 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