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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.”
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Miller praises ag extension
By SCOTT PENDLETON
Battalion Staff
Several forces are threatening the
work done by land grant universi
ties, Texas A&M University Presi
dent Jarvis Miller told 1,000 staff
members of the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service.
Land grant universities receive
federal funds for research and other
opportunities. Non-land grant uni
versities criticize this as being pref
erential treatment. Miller said.
The press, consumer groups, and
environmentalists have criticized
land grant universities increasingly
as well. Many critics of land grant
universities don’t understand the
system. Miller said.
A land grant university is one
which received land from the fed
eral government to establish an ag
ricultural college. 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-
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the kinds of questions that we as an
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... on a realistic, reasonable, bus
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“I am convinced that the princi
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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
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extremely important in carrying out
the total programs of Texas A&M
University,” Miller said.
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