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Guatemalan students form new organization THE BATTALION Tuesday, marcm 6,1979 Page 3 By LORI SHULER Battalion Reporter Guatemala is about 800 miles from College Station, and that’s a long way from home for the 30 Guatemalan students who attend Texas A&M University. Jon Brandt, a freshman agronomy major, is one of those students. Last semester he began the ground work that has now established the Guatemalan Student Association. The group became a University ^Hgnized organization just three peeks ago, but leaders have already begun planning activities and set ting purposes and goals for their or ganization. Bi ndt, who is an American citi zen but a Guatemalan resident, said p iranted to establish the group to bring the students from Guatemala together because none of them knew exactly who else from their country was here. Brandt said he first learned about irustees request final plans Battalion StafT wlh the Soil Conservation Services deadline approaching for im provements at the Middle School, the A&M Consolidated School Board Monday authorized the act ing superintendent and architects to draw up final plans. ^Bie district may lose the funds SCS has allocated to the project if it doesn’t submit specifications by b% h 31. ^■nder the agreement with SCS, Consolidated is responsible for 20 pen ent of the money needed for the improvements; SCS pays the re maining 80 percent. Inprovements at the Middle School, designed to eliminate ero sion problems, will include either layers of top soil or concrete blocks and a new sprinkler system. SCS is responsible for approving the speci fications of the soil or blocks and in stalling the sprinkler system. Improvements at all five cam puses are planned. The district has $125,000 to spend and there is $205,000 worth of initial work to be done. I' The board authorized administra tive personnel to consult with ar chitects Fred Klatt and Michael Murphy to draw up a list of I priorities. | In other business, the board voted to keep the current tax ratio of 80 percent of the property’s market value for the 1979 tax year. liability insurance policy that ■ cover school personnel and, in particular, wrongful acts committed inpood faith by the trustees, was adopted by the board. Jack Woods, school district attorney, who ad vised adoption of the $1,859 policy, said “that’s as far as you can go now in buying insurance.” ^■rustee Rodney Hill reported that the long-range planning com mittee is looking at four possible sites for a new school and a class room addition at the high school. information gathered is not suf ficient to make a decision yet, he said, Bfrustee Bill Wasson suggested the committee should meet to clarify its goals for the next year. SAN ANTONIO HOMETOWN CLUB MEETING WED. 7 MARCH 7:30 P.M. Rm. 109 Military Science Bldg. Plans For Spring Break Party in San Antonio Will Be Discussed Texas A&M when he saw a Texas Aggies T-shirt in Guatemala and also from the many Texas A&M former students living in Guatemala. Unlike most other students, Brandt was able to visit Texas A&M before coming as a student last fall. “The first time almost everyone else comes to A&M is when they come to study, so they don’t know much about it,” Brandt said. He said his group has taken steps to set up correspondence with the guidance office at the American School of Guatemala to help stu dents planning to come to Texas A&M with housing arrangements. The group also wants to give them an orientation when they get here. Brandt said when he goes home for spring break he will take catalogs and applications and he and mem bers of the association will answer questions prospective A&M stu dents have about the University. Many students in the association are from Guatemala City and at tended the American School of Guatemala, which Brandt said is like a high school in the United States. Most of the students speak both English and Spanish fluently and most of them are agriculture or en gineering majors. Brandt said bringing knowledge about Guatemala to Texas A&M is one of the association’s main projects. He said the group would like to expose the country’s culture and native folklore in some form of an art exhibit. The group has also planned a trip to Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington for next month and a “churrasco,” which is something like a barbecue where steaks, beans and tortillas are served. 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