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By CATHY KIRKHAM
Battalion Reporter
The 666 new women’s dorm spaces under construction on the
northside of campus will be completed as scheduled for the 1979 fall
semester, Ron Sasse, associate director of student affairs, said
Monday.
|H|asse, Sandy Hood, assistant area coordinator, and Tom Murray,
area coordinator, explained plans for the renovated Legett Hall and
the new modular dorms. The blueprints and color schemes for the
dorms were displayed. About 300 female residents attended.
||§The prices for the dorms are still unknown,” Sasse said. “How
ever, we do have a breakdown.” In order of expense, the Commons
type dorm was listed first, followed by the modular type, Legett, the
bEdeony type and the corp type.
He explained some of the pros and cons of the different types. One
advantage of the modular type, for example, is that it was built with
economy and noise reduction in mind. Each room has two walls and
an air space separating it from the next room. Also all rooms are
carpteted.
.Sasse explained the physical characteristics of the new dorms and
outlined the necessary procedures for securing an assignment in one
of the dorms.
Bglf there are more requests for rooms in the new dorms than there
are rooms, a lottery will be held,” Sasse said. “In none of the three
dorms do we want to have women of all the same class. We think this
is the fairest way to prevent this. Twenty percent of the spaces will be
reserved for freshmen and the other 80 percent will be allocated to
female students currently living on campus.”
The drawing of all housing agreement cards requesting the new
dorms will begin at 5 p.m. on April 2 in A-l Lounge,
fe&asse said mutual roommate requests will be honored in the lot
tery.
If a women does not get the room she requested in the new dorm,
her previous reservation will stand, Murray said.
' Asked about the parking situation, Sasse classified it with others
“up in the air unsolved problems.”
Increase in recruiting creates^ need
Career center adds interview rooms
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The success of the Texas A&M
Career Planning and Placement
Center has caused 11 pre-fabricated
rooms to be constructed on the sec
ond floor of the Rudder Tower near
Rudder Theatre.
Louis Van Pelt, the center’s di
rector, said the center’s 22 inter
view rooms on the 10th floor were
inadequate due to the increase in
corporate recruiting and the
number of students using the pro
gram. Van Pelt said the 11 extra
rooms enabled 2,700 more inter
views to be held.
Mexico study
says women
smoke more
United Press International
MEXICO CITY — Women
smoke more than half of Mexico’s
annual consumption of 50 million
packs of cigarettes, according to a
study by the Mexican Social Secu
rity Institute (IMSS).
Dr. Jorge Yarza Carreon said peer
group pressure, glamorous com
mercialism, emotional stress and
the quest for maturity all contribute
to the high number of smokers
among Mexico’s female population.
Only a few years ago cigarette
smoking was regarded as taboo for
most Mexican women, he Said. Now
women smoke more than men, and
they begin at an earlier age, he
added.
More than 475 major corporations
conducted 13,000 interviews for
students last fall through the center.
In the fall of 1977 there were 9,964
interviews, and the annual total of
interviews held was 19,453. There
were 2,229 students who registered
for interviews.
Van Pelt said the 11 new rooms
are only temporary; a more perma
nent system will be found to deal
with the increase in growth.
The placement center is designed
to provide employment assistance to
students and former students of
Texas A&M University. In addition
to interviews and job referrals, the
center has an extensive career coun
seling and employment library.
Students can find help and advice
on letter writing, resumes, ethics
and principles of interviewing, sal
ary, job market prospects in their
fields, and many other aspects of a
job search.
Also in the library students can
find information on all companies
interviewing, national salary sur
veys and posting of vacancies of
available jobs.
The staff also lectures to student
professional societies, classes, hon
orary organizations, meetings and
faculty workshops. They also ar
range for employers to speak to
these groups. This helps provide for
successful student use of their serv
ices, said Van Pelt.
A staff of 22 mans the office from
8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Recruiters seem to agree with
Van Pelt’s assessment that Texas
A&M’s “facilities and organization of
the center are some of the best.”
Don Boozer, regional manager for
Kentucky Central Life, which has
offices in 46 states, said, “I’m
amazed with the attitude and the
quality of students at A&M. They
seem to have a lot more direction
than what I’ve seen at other schools;
whoever is working with them is
doing and exceptional job.”
A representative from Aurthur
Young and Co., a public accounting
firm, says A&M is one of his com
pany’s prime sources of employ
ment and the facilities are excellent.
lonsol board favors more
econdary elective choices
By KAREN ROGERS
Battalion Staff
Students at A&M Consolidated
ligh School may have a wider
hoice of elective courses if commu-
lity support for the curriculum
dy hanges can be solicited.
y ' Charles Greenawalt, principal at
shot school, presented nine
ion 11 l | ! r0 P 0St,< l changes to school board
, trustees during the regular meeting
;d and Monda y- , , ,
g ne jf Among the proposed changes are
, advanced courses in health, biology,
, S( , )W . history and art. Beginning guitar
I md English as a second language
would also be offered.
Board members were enthusias-
1 tic, especially about the art and
11 ^ guitar classes.
“Bight now, we re so deficient in
of the Hie arts,” said Trustee Rodney Hill,
iwards “It’s an area that really needs to be
»get in built.”
’ 'f A 6 Trustee Lambert Wilkes said, “I
al was Blink the guitar is great. It’s some-
hing the kids can do individually.
Viter all, what do you do with a tuba
rhen you’re home by yourself?”
Under these recommendations,
reshmen and sophomore students
vould be offered a study hall as an
(ption to taking a sixth academic
ubject. These students are now re-
i and a juired to take six subjects, said
Iranian Hreenawalt, and some parents have
led and :omplained that it is difficult for a
reports veaker student to take that many
aid the pisses.
jesmen Greenawalt explained that the
ase-fire mlylexpense to the district if the
gymen .hangcs are approved would be the
Iranian liring of an instructor to teach
ineinis English as a second language and an
tide to monitor the study hall.
Because the changes are based
inlylon community input, board
president Bruce Robeck said, “I
a police would like to see some systematic
the ne« attempt to get community input.”
oization Greenawalt suggested that the
her the April 5 preregistration period at the
]es east high school cafeteria would be ideal.
In other business, Ken Broach,
the district’s gasoline supplier, in
formed the board that gasoline for
the buses will be available on a new
allocation system.
The yearly allocation will be
based month-by-month on the
amount of gasoline the district
bought between July 1977 and June
1978. These amounts will be dis
tributed monthly.
For example, the district pur
chased 5,092 gallons of gasoline in
March 1977, so the allocation for
next March will be the same
amount.
Although Broach assured the
board that schools have special
priority should gasoline become
scarce, Wilkes urged the adminis
tration to formulate contingency
plans.
The board also approved an aver
age 10 cent hike for school meal
prices effective April 1.
Olie Grauke, assistant superin
tendent of finance, said the original
prices had been unchanged since
the 1975-76 school year and that the
district was losing an average of 14
cents per lunch.
Board members also approved
the 1979-80 school calendar. Classes
will begin on Aug. 30 and end on
May 29, allowing 175 days of in
struction and five days of teacher in-
service.
Following executive session, the
board announced that the special
education staff and counselors,
teachers and aides at the junior and
senior high schools would be reem
ployed for 1979-80.
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