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/olunteer work for )rovides on-the-job THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 1977 Page 3 students' training By KIM TYSON On-the-job training is now avail- ble for community minded stu- ents through the University’s Stu- ent Volunteer Services. The service cooperates with busi- esses to find volunteer jobs for exas A&M University students ho want to get involved for career rpersonal reasons, Karen Switzer, ponsor and student development oordinator, said Monday. Presently some 100 students are nvolved in the program. The organization publishes news- etters, finds businesses needing olunteers and notifies individuals nd service organizations of proj ets. “The nice part about Student Volunteer Services is there is no thing demanded except volunteer work,” Switzer said. She explained that there are no meetings or organizational work for th ose who volunteer. A seven- member board, divided into six interest areas and one public rela tions area, runs the organization. “Most people think it’s just hospi tal work. But we re trying to expand it to business, journalism, recrea tion and other areas,” said Denise Prihoda, chairman of the organiza tion. Volunteer work might include processing complaints at the Better look on Blacks of 1800s mi e a an aij to th longi sd 4 \airie View historian wings new perspective Prairie View A&M University’s historian has taken a look leyond the purely black-and-white mtebellum South, and what he has und is a chromatic life in which ee blacks lived freely and fully mong Indians, Mexicans, and lerman and Anglo immigrants. Rock concert hall whata to open in London roceetl United Press International LONDON — Showman Bob jickis reopening the Royalty Thea- er on Portugal street, off central radon’s Kingsway, in late March a rock concert hall. Dick said it will be London’s first nedium-sized concert hall devoted rock. He is calling his venture “Sounds circus” and plans to decorate the heater to give it the atmosphere of circus. The theater will seat more lan 900 persons, have two bars, a lisco-dancing area that will remain ipen until 2 a.m. There will be no embership fee. llebr« Ho« : ersit, te n tit actia i nun 1 * out ed e term 1 Dr. George R. Woolfolk’s find ings have been compiled in “The Free Negro in Texas, 1800-1860: A Study in Cultural Compromise,” a book published this year by The Journal of Mexican American His tory at the University of California- Santa Barbara. Woolfolk, chairman of history at Prairie View A&M and the univer sity’s de facto historian, has pre sented a study of free blacks rarely seen. In doing so, he said, the book attempts to provide historians with a new historical perspective of blacks. Woolfolk first traces the motivat ing forces which brought free blacks into the Spanish borderlands, then examines how the groups worked out cultural compromises to main tain justice and peace. Business Bureau, teaching children pet care at local schools, playing the Easter Rabbit in a city-wide egg hunt and adopting a grandparent at one of the local nursing homes. “Not all the projects last for a semester,” Prihoda said. “Some are one-shot deals like stuffing envelopes for the Easter Seal cam paign.” She added that some volun teer work is seasonal such as coach ing basketball at the Boys’ Club. Although no scholastic credit is given for the work, Switzer said students can be rewarded with ex perience and personal contacts that can help get a future job. Volunteer work also gives stu dents a chance to find out about re lated fields of study, such as anes thesiology, said senior Elizabeth Carter, who works at Bryan Hospi tal . Although Carter said she usually works four-hour shifts, she said she’d hate to see scholastic credit given for volunteer work. She said credit might attract students looking for grade points. Switzer said students interested in signing up for volunteer work can come by her office in YMCA 108. Now is the time to find the largest selection because by the first of the month the board has lined up new jobs, Switzer said. Top of the News Campus AGGIE PARENTS OF THE YEAR applications are available in the Student Programs Office, M SC 216, and are being ac cepted now through March 25. Texas A LUBBOCK representative says he believes a more busi nesslike approach to state gov ernment would be for the legisla ture to meet in annual sessions, restricting sessions in even- numbered years to budget mat ters. Rep. Froy Salinas, D-Lubbock, filed a proposed constitutional amendment yes terday which would set a 90-day budget session in even- numbered years while leaving the regular, odd-numbered year sessions to budgetary and gen eral legislation. ATTORNEY GENERAL John Hill has challenged the au thority of the Water Rights Commission to decide if water will be saved for fish and wildlife or used for irrigation and power plants. Hill filed a motion with the commission contending the Parks and Wildlife Department actually has authority to cut off any surface water users during a drought to protect fish and wild life along the San Antonio and Medina Rivers. Water Rights Commission officials are expect ed to fight the claim in court to re tain their jurisdiction. ATTORNEYS in the murder trial of millionaire T. Cullen Davis have not found a single ac ceptable juror, despite question ing 20 persons in five days. Davis is charged with murdering his 12-year-old stepdaughter, An drea Wilborn. He also awaits trial on related charges of murdering Stan Farr, the lover of his e- stranged wife, Priscilla, and wounding Mrs. Davis and a fam ily friend. STATE COMPTROLLER Boh Bullock says Texas has lost $126.4 million in tax revenue in the past three years as a result of federal regulation of natural gas prices. Since January 1974, when in-state gas prices in creased more than prices al lowed for gas sold interstate, 7.25 billion thousand cubic feet of natural gas produced in Texas was sold out of state, Bullock said yesterdav. SENATOR Jack Ogg, D- Houston, filed a bill to ban smok ing in grocery stores, nursing homes and department stores except in designated areas. “The right of a person to smoke ends when his smoking interferes with the rights of others to breathe clean air,” he said. REPRESENTATIVE Tom Schieffer, D-Fort Worth, intro duced a bill to establish a per manent presidential primary in Texas and let political parties de cide how to take the preference poll. Schieffer, sponsor of legisla tion establishing the one-time winner-take-all primary in 1976, said under his new bill Demo crats and Republicans will have their choice of a straight pro portional primary or a district by district winner-take-all. National THE WHITE HOUSE has received 901 telephone calls from persons opposed to the B1 bombers. The callers, taking part in a call-in rally organized by the National Campaign to Stop the B1 bomber, are upset because President Carter included money for the plane in his new budget. FORMER President Ford ar rived in the Colorado Rockies for a weeklong vacation yesterday and immediately plunged into a hot, whirlpool bath to ease tii ache from a hack muscle pulled playing golf. Ford said he hoped to begin skiing today if he felt well enough. World TENS OF thousands of gen ernment workers booed and jeered Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at a campaign rally yes terday only two weeks before na tional elections. 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