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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1977 Page 7 Redford and Leary possible A&M speakers next spring m Export )ly raise ext year, ie econo lable to l e theypoj here. inci ted le her An* Minded h violating! said Beverly Brown, a 1977 ronglycti > with tlid news coni' nerenipk cl of steal Voni then has niadf tions s in thep lid. “Son believe t! accusatioif iblems "t ition had filed# Stroebel city attonx r, former 1 dman, sail been issi lair retort! ; 1 O’Hair ipment sti d an invest* ucted hut d. •iesofdecn mist obsen stroebel ng whois®^ actual ildren. v declined cs that led the center! Mother, nurse, policeman, confessor. A teacher often has to be many things to stu dents. Beverly' Brown, a seventh grade teach er at Anson Jones High School in Bryan, lec tures her class. Battalion photo by Frank Vasovski Parents, pay attention By FRANK K. VASOVSKI Webster’s dictionary defines a teacher as a “person who imparts in formation or skill so that others may earn, one who teaches. “It would be nice il this was true. In reality, however, an average teacher is much more than that,” graduate of Texas A&M University with a bachelor of science degree in ducational curriculum and instruc tion. Brown, a Bryan resident, is as signed as a reading instructor to Anson Jones School, a seventh grade school on Palasota Drive, Bryan, with an enrollment of about 00 students. Before her graduation. Brown participated in student-teaching at Bryan High School (BHS) for four months under the supervision of a regular BHS teacher and an ob server from Texas A&M. "1 like teaching and 1 am eager to be fully involved in it,” Brown said, “but there are many instances when I have to he a mother, a nurse, a policeman or a confessor to the pupils first and a teacher second. She is one of the 79 new teachers assigned to Bryan Independent School District (BISD) in 1977, one oi 13 Bryan residents. The remain der includes 12 out-of-state candi dates and 54 new teachers from other towns in Texas. C.B. McGown Jr., personnel di rector with BISD, who supplied these figures, said that no statistics were available on how many of the new teachers were Texas A&M graduates. Nobody can prepare you for the experience,” Brown said. “Each day brings new problems call ing for prompt response and a total, personal involvement on the part of the teacher.” ctn Buffet ^ riday P.M’ )lic Brown blames the lack of parents’ interest for the failure of many pupils to reach the required level of knowledge. "Only when the student becomes delinquent or fails to successfully pass the qualifying test is the paren tal interest sufficiently aroused,” Brown said. She feels that a short discussion of school activities between parents and the pupil, each day upon return from school, would improve stu dents attitudes toward the learning process. “There is an urgent need to im prove the reading ability of many students and most of the remedial reading should be accomplished under parental control,” Brown said. Students, in most cases, behave properly. But once during the student-teaching period at BHS, Brown was confronted with a threatening gesture on the part of a student, who immediately apologized for his behavior. Brown offered the following suggestions for consideration by the students and faculty of the educa tional curriculum and instruction at Texas A&M. -Increasing the frequency and duration of student s participation in classroom experience with the local school system. -Giving more authority and re sponsibility to the students involved in the student-teaching at BHS. Under the present setup, the BHS students do not respond in the same way to student-teachers as they re spond to the regular BHS teachers, knowing that student-teachers can not enforce their orders. -Decreasing the amount of train ing in disciplines not directly re lated to teaching proper and replace such a training with additional class room practice. Brown also said she feels that the appropriate state agency should se riously consider an early pay raise to prevent loss of dedicated hut underpaid teachers. “Last but not least, I believe that the parents should do their fair share in the upbringing of their children, exspeeially in regard to the behavior, appearance and study habits, so that the teachers would have more time to instruct and im part information and skill’ instead of being a surrogate mother or father, Brown said. By DONNA SCHLABACH Robert Redford and Timothy Leary are being considered by the Great Issues Committee as possible guest speakers at Texas A&M Uni versity next semester. Lany Rriggs, chairman of Great Issues, said last week that next semester s topic of discussion will concern man s expending of the environment, with emphasis on space and the seas. Redford, a member of the hoard of directors of the 1 Environmental Defense Fund, is a noted environmentalist as well as an actor, li he comes to A&M. Redlqrd will speak on environmental issues, Briggs said. “We invited him (Redford) to speak last year, hut he declined, Briggs said, ‘‘He sent us a letter ex plaining that he* didn t have time due to movie commitments. Leary, probably remembered best for his LSD experiments in the 1960s, is being considered on the basis of his recent involvement with the L-5 project. L-5, a scientific project concerns the colonization and industrialization of.space. “The names being mentioned now are only possibilities, Briggs said. “It doesn’t mean they will or won t come to A&M. It doesn t even mean they will he invited to speak here. No radiation leak from nuclear test in Nevada desert United Press International YUCCA FLATS, New — The United States exploded an under ground nuclear device Wednesday' — the eighth announced test of the year -r- hut shock waves were not strong enough to he felt about 80 miles away in Las Vegas. The device, dubbed “Bobstay and packing a punch of nearly 20 kilotons — the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT — was detonated in a shaft 1,250 feet below the desert floor. No radiation was leaked into the atmosphere, according to a spokesman for the* Energy Research and Development Administration, It was the 480th nuclear device exploded in Nevada since testing began in the desert area in 1951. 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