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THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1978 Page 3 r;$33.25£ ng ^ ;xas ^ sively t0 .inre^ k-iTtf $S .»/S^ what’s up Tuesday PEACE CORPS: The Peace Corps and VISTA will be inter viewing students in the placement office on the 10th floor of Rudder Tower. GROVE: “Romeo and Juliet.” The heartbreaking story of two young lovers separated by warring families. Movie begins at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday SPEAKER: The India Students Association along with the Phi losophy Department will present Swami Chinmayananda at 4 p.m. in the MSC 350. He will speak on Indian philosophy and contemporary culture. Everyone is invited. DANCERS: The TAMU International Folkdancers will prac tice at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC 228. GROVE: “Bugsy Malone.” Jodie Foster stars in this film about a bunch of kiddie gangsters in Chicago during the 1920’s. Movie begins at 8:45 p.m. Thursday ORIENTATION: Texas A&M will hold an orientation for new employees at 9:30 a.m. in the MSC 226. SPEAKER: The Philosophy Department will present John Lachs. Lachs will speak on the “Intermediate Man” at 4 p.m. in Rudder Tower 404. AGGIE PLAYERS: Auditions for the second dinner theatre production, “Pajama Tops” will begin tonight at 7 p.m. in the MSC 231. Auditions are open to students, staff and the community. People interested in working on crews should also attend these meetings. Performance dates for the play will be Aug. 2-5. BAHAT CLUB: Members of the Baha’i Club will meet at 7 p.m. in the MSC 141. GROVE: “Barbarella.” Jane Fonda plays a naive space woman in this bizarre science fiction comedy. Movie begins at 8:45 p.m. Student budgets time working and studying While paying part of their educa tional expenses, many students also turn out their best grades. Is it an effect of better appreciat ing the work required to pay bills, or another factor? Mrs. Donna Beth Thiele of Valley Mills feels it may be something else. The senior physical education major is a student working in the Univer sity Police Department. “I found out that before, when there was less to do and more free time, I wasted time,” she said. “Now I know I’ve only got a certain amount of time to study, and I’d better do it.” Ms. Thiele earned Distinguished Student honors last spring with a 20-hour work week and heavier- than-normal 19 credit hours of course work. Distinguished Student is accorded Texas A&M students who post at least a 3.25 grade point ratio (4.0 is tops) for a minimum of 12 credit hours. It also involved a sharing of housekeeping chores, which her husband, Sam, “is very agreeable about.” Their educational plans are for him to start Spartan Aeronautical School training at Tulsa, Okla., after she graduates. Also a Valley Mills high school graduate, Sam Thiele earlier at tended Texas A&M and now works in a bicycle shop. Their combined efforts allow them a few luxuries. They have a 9-month-old Doberman pinscher named Hitler, and Sam gets in some flying every 90 days to keep his pilot’s license active. A tv set, “watched mostly by Sam,” came on the recent second anniversary of their marriage. “I’d like to watch, too,” the stu dent worker said almost wistfully, but her time is budgeted. Summer studies, for example, keep her in class from 8 to 9:30 a.m. and noon to 1:30 p.m. Work in the police de partment takes the rest of the day until 4 p.m. After doing a few chores and pre paring supper, she said, “it’s time to study.” In addition to dealing with people who come into the police station, “my job also involves filing tickets, typing reports and helping people with directions around the campus,” she said. One of her most unusual encounters involved a woman seek ing a refund on a parking permit. When she told the woman the per mit had to be scraped off and pres ented to her, the woman hurried out. “She came back with a snarl of sticky paper in her hand, and I dis covered she had taken off the in spection sticker,” Ms. Thiele said. “I felt sorry for her. She was in a big hurry and already mad because she had to scrape the permit.” Guitars by: Alvarez Yamaha Ventura # Alvarez, quality the pros use, hut popularly priced! Some Instruments Specially Priced! Baldwin Dealer. KEyboARd Center Manor East MaU Bryan • 779-7080 Randy Sluarl, Owner Opt* 6 D*y* Til 6 PM Tired of all the “plastic” fast-food places? 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Texas A&M Uni versity became the first land grant college in the state at its inception more than 100 years ago. Apart from their teaching facilities, land grant universities also administer research and extension programs. The ag ricultural extension service makes results of its research available to farmers across the state. Miller said that as a land grant col lege, Texas A&M has “a unique ad vantage but an awesome responsi bility. He added, “People trust us. They have faith and confidence in what we say.” Miller believes that the system of education, research, and extension services administered by the land grant universities is the best ever devised for the purpose. “It is a model that should be evaluated for application in other areas,” Miller said. In considering the present state of the land grant colleges. Miller raised some tough questions. “Have we lost our sense of mis sion?” Miller asked. “Are we mak ing maximum use of the resources provided? Are we organized to con duct our programs and services ef- fectively and efficiently? These are the kinds of questions that we as an institution must address . . . quickly ... on a realistic, reasonable, bus inesslike basis.” “I am convinced that the princi ple that undergirds the Extension program — helping people help themselves — is just as sound today as it was 65 years ago.” Miller emphasized the continuing importance of the extension serv ices. “We look at your work as being extremely important in carrying out the total programs of Texas A&M University,” Miller said. BUSINESS CBLlEfrE Inquire About Our Term Starting March 28 Phone 822-6423 or 822-2368 For more information call 822-6423 THE ORIGINAL Armadillos A real Armadillo would never bite your ankle - -it's softly padded from head to tail, inside and out. A real Armadillo will not hide in your closet-it'll keep right in step with you wherever you're off to, because... 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