Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1977)
fllf or place to go after graduation ikav' [ivepla o"^ ■ate 4 ■ct nsij ;nior| itressi in 4 h, they said 'as by «i Center aids job hunter i By KYLE CREWS The 10th floor of Rudder Tower Ifers a spectacular view of campus ad the surrounding area to people joking out the large glass windows. If anyone were able to look from lie outside in, he would see an even lore spectacular sight: hordes of exas A&M students wearing suits nd dresses, hair neatly combed, nd all displaying their best mail ers. These students are not attending leofthe many conferences held in e building. They are using the " as ;rvices offered by the University areer Planning and Placement enter. Personnel at the Placement Cen- r, under the direction of Lou Van 'elt, prefer to visit with students arly in their college careers. Many [imes they can suggest elective arses or types of summer jobs that ould make students more appeal- g to employers after they aduate. Van Pelt said recently that heduled corporate recruiting ac uity for September has increased per cent over last year. There has been an increase in Jemand for all majors this year,” he „ “Of course, the ones who have in 8 ^ ad quite a bit of activity in the past ^ till do. These are the engineering, ut la fki lion roa business and geoscience disci plines. There were 14,107 student inter views conducted last year during the fall and spring recruiting sea sons. Van Pelt recommended that stu dents in certain majors start their job search at least two full semesters before graduation. These include majors in liberal arts and other dis ciplines that do not have a large amount of on-campus recruiting. ‘ \Ve will help these people pre pare a professional resume and compile a mailing list of prospective employers, he said. “If they are early enough in their degree pro gram, we will direct them to take courses that will improve their em ployability. Lisa Martin, a political science major who will graduate in De cember, is looking for a job through the Placement Center. “There aren’t that many inter views open for my major but they do have some and there is a lot of in formation on where you can go for further help, she said. Martin said that the placement annual, a directory of names and addresses of potential employers made available to students, has been very helpful. dis The Placement Center maintains an up-to-date library where stu dents are encouraged to read about opportunities available in a particu lar field. It also includes literature about individual companies. “The library is a tremedous bene fit for someone going through re cruiting,” said senior Robert Speer, electrical engineering major. “The only real problem with the procedure is that students can’t sign up for interviews until 1 o’clock in the afternoon. If you cannot get there at that time, you often miss getting an interview. I don’t know what other way they could do it, though. ” Schedules go out every day at 1 p.m. from which students choose an interview time. These schedules go out two weeks in advance of the re cruiter’s visit to the campus. Steve Kosarek, senior in electrical engineering, said that better adver tisement of Placement Center serv ices would enable more people to use them. Van Pelt said that this might be a valid complaint, but that he has tried to let people know about the services available to them. “We have been in the Battalion, on educational television and we have announcements on every de partment’s bulletin board on cam pus, he said. “We also put a remin der card in every senior’s card packet during registration. This lets them kmow where we are.’’ Van Pelt said that last year he and Malon Southerland delivered 137 presentations to groups in an effort to explain the services offered by the Placement Center. Southerland has served as as sociate director of placement since 1974 and has recently been named director of cooperative education for all participating colleges at Texas A&M. The Placement Center maintains am Educational Placement Service which is under Southerland’s direc tion. This service keeps in contact with public schools and publishes a monthly bulletin listing available positions. John Gudelman joined the placement staff’ at the beginning of this semester as assistant director of placement. He will be in charge of working with agriculture majors but will also assist in all phases of placement-related services. The Placement Center does also works with former A&M students who are interested in changing jobs. Former students request this serv ice 600-800 times each year. Flowers for pix, not for picking gasf Among the rows of smaller signs caring the titles: “Sugar Daddy. "Till Oriental Night,” “Seven Eleven,” erata Pay Dirt,” and “Black Prince, ” lands a larger sign requesting: Take only pictures, leave only lotprints.” The titles are actually the names if flowers, and the request politely kks visitors not to pick the flowers the the Floral Test Garden. The garden, a joint effort between he College of Agriculture and the [rounds maintenance department, located on Houston Street across rom the Educational Television ilding. It was establisht'd in 1968. igf N'alii c san to b ithi In 1969, part of the garden was amed by All America Selections, a jmiit pn-profit organization, as a demon- ||tration garden for growing their elections of annual plants. Later, ra« he garden was designated as a test- ng ground for new varieties of an- mal seeds. Each year seeds received from eed producers and suppliers in this auntry and abroad are planted in he garden. The resulting flowers c (ill re rated from 1 to 10, depending on iow well they’ve grown. The ratings ire then sent to All America Selec tions, which awards the most out standing varieties. These ratings also help the seed producers, for if the plant receives consistently high ratings, it is worth marketing. About 20 to 25 percent of the half-acre garden is devoted to test ing All America varieties, said Eugene H. Ray, the director of the grounds maintenance department. The garden is one of 39 such test gardens in the United States. Other parts of the garden are de voted to growing different varieties of annual plants for the 1 visual enjoyment of visitors, to give them an idea of w hat can be grown in home gardens throughout Gentral Texas. The Floral Test Garden under goes three plantings a year: the first in March, again in late May or early June and a third time in December. Altogether, throughout the year, the garden cultivators plant as many as 1,000 different varieties and up to 20,000 to 25,000 individual plants. “I would like to keep the garden as a green area,” Ray said. “We des perately need a green area going into the campus.” GREAT ISSUES presents ABORTION: Is There An Answer? PRC): Karen Mulhauser - Executive Director, Nat’I Abortion Rights Action League CON: Nellie Gray, Pres. March for 1 I EE , Pres. , D.C. Right to Li fe Coni mt t ee MODERATOR: Dr. David Mumford - Dept, of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine THURS. SEPT. 22 AT 8 P.M. RUDDER AUDITORIUM 150 NONSTUDENT ACTIVITY CARD .50 /tep Into the m/c circle SPECIAL GROUP OF LAMPS 30% OFF! All Other Lamps In Stock 20% off! (Excluding Dazor Lamps) CALCULATORS SR85 Reg. Retail $ 39 95 SALE PRICE $0-| 96, 20°/< TEAL 120PD O off! 826 , Reg. Retail *12 95 / *10 36 SALE PRICE Desk Models 111 120 P Printer Retail $ 139 120 pD Printer/D * s P ,ay Retail $169 $ 135 20 Printer/Display Retail $ 229 MSS 20 123 PD 4 K e y Memory FULL ONE YEAR WARRANTY (Offer Expires Sept. 30, 1977) f: IT. Engineering & Office Supply 1412 Texas Ave. Redmond Terrace Mali College Station 693-9553 402 W. 25th Bryan 823-0939 THE BATTALION Page 7 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1977 LAKEVIEW CLUB are here/ The “Hungries” are here! . . . those devilish little imps from the Taco Villa commercials, forever bonded in lively fiesta colors on party-time glassware. Each week a different glass. Eight different Hungries: Beauregard, Harley, Sigmund, and the whole gang in a wild as sortment of colors. Next time the Hungries strike you, strike back. Grab a tasty Mexican specialty at Taco Villa: burritos, chalupas, guadalajaras, taco-burgers, hamburgers and more. Top it off with a Coke . . . and keep the glass for your own collection. Get all eight . . . or 16 ... or a million . . . exclusively at Taco Villa, where the good times begin. Yes, Aunt Maude, these glasses meet all FDA regulations. sanes you from the ‘HU/ffifflES 614 Villa Maria • Bryan, Texas ©COPYRIGHT. TACO VILLA, INC i a? ^aaa.. r- /UW*