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THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1978 Page 3 High school students on campus for annual journalism workshop By SCOTT PENDLETON Battalion Staff More than 300 high school students are participating in the annual Texas A&M high school communications workshop this week. The students, representing more than 50 Texas high schools, have been attending lectures and workshops conducted by profes sional journalists in yearbook, newspaper, news magazine, and photography fields. Though the workshop is in tended to instruct beginners in basic skills, many of the students return year after year, noted Paula LaRocque, workshop di rector. Students began the workshop learning tips for writing copy, headlines and dummying pages. But the highlight of the confer ence is doing actual projects such as yearbook page layouts and newspaper layouts that will be judged by the instructors. An awards ceremony will be held Friday morning to an nounce the winners of the com petition. ( While the students’ activities are planned during the day, they are free to take advantage of entertainment on the University in the evening. Sometimes they make their own entertainment. The annual shaving cream fights and wrap ping of rooms in toilet paper are all part of the students’ night life on campus. And the eighteen dorm proctors assigned to the students are charged with keep ing the peace. However, not every bad situa tion can be avoided. One student tripped and reportedly broke her arm while crossing the campus Sunday night. Nevertheless, she was in higfi spirits and attended the lectures Monday morning. Asked how he liked the con ference so far, one student said, “Fine, but sitting for three hours can get boring.” Another com mented that he had attended a communications conference at Southern Methodist University last summer but that “it wasn’t anything like this.” He thought that the program offered at A&M was far superior. The students are being housed in Keathley and Fowler and eat in the MSC cafeteria. The workshop, sponsored by the Texas A&M Department of Communications, has been held almost every year since the 1950. It is open to students from any high school in Texas. High schools that were represented at last year’s workshop and those in large metropolitan areas were notified of the workshop by mail. The workshop was also adver tised in Scholastic Editor, a magazine received by almost every high school communica tions department. Irving High School student Daisy Dillon inspects a roll of negatives in a photography workshop being held on campus this week as part of the annual Texas A&M High School Communications Workshop. Battalion photo by Scott Pendleton ocal business lompetition me factor (Continued from page 1) In January 1979 the minimum age will go up to $2.90. The inimum wage on campus will go Ip this September. Clerk I will be (aid $2.90 an hour, a 25-cent raise om the present hourly wage. The problem again is with the lerk Hs,” Armstrong said. “Their ages will only go up to $3.12 an our because the University had to ut most of its money for salaries to the bottom salaries to raise t! em up to the legal minimum age. Armstrong said she does not iticipate much problem in keeping lerk III positions filled because eir pay will be raised to $3.82 an [our, which she feels is competitive ith the local labor market. To combat this problem of exces- ve vacancies, Armstrong and the ersonnel department have worked ^ut an extensive program to inform eople of the jobs that are available a campus. One service the department of- rs is the 24-hour Dial-A-Job line at people can call to get a com- lete listing of positions open on impus in less than three minutes. This service is especially conve- Jient for people living out of town or [for handicapped people because ey don’t have to make a special ip to the University to find out out these jobs, Armstrong said, e estimated the Dial-A-Job line ts about 2,500 calls per month. Armstrong also places ads in the cal newspapers, on the local radio |ation and in area papers. The ads re run both in English and panish. “We are trying to recruit all the pplicants we can, and we are espe- ally interested in minorities, she aid. One problem with recruiting orkers from out of town is that ley usually find it is not worthwhile o commute for the salary that is of- :red, Armstrong added. Recruitment begins in the Vo- ational Office Education classes at he local and area high schools. Armstrong visited these schools and [ave the typing and math tests to tudents who were interested. 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