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.
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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.
Brandt said the group is charging
dues of $5 per semester and will
submit a budget requesting funds
from the University to help finance
other activities and projects.
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