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THE BATTALION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 1979 Page 3 18,19' rok abo !re most ft ling, uggesttlie 1 ita same oded j n , mgandadji ' w °rdstoil overt . ® r ^ysterid Hi iche s 1; ice for it in the Si ‘rise, letu ‘ey desem n.iMiik IE baekgro: re import js made! the tim . Theyb the t esident, gh to mJ Group seeks volunteer workers By SHERIE KELLER Battalion Reporter Student Volunteer Services is looking for special people — people who are willing to give the time, ex perience, and love that is needed to help others. Helping others is what SYS is all about. The Texas A&M University organization acts as a referral center between student volunteers and 15-20 Bryan-College Station organi zations that need help, said Janet Cooper, chairman of SVS. Some of these organizations in clude the Boys Club of America, March of Dimes, Sherwood and Crestview Nursing Homes, Bryan Hospital, Head Start and Planned Parenthood, the senior plant sci ence major said. All of the services SVS provides are free. It was started about three years ago by the University’s De partment of Student Affairs. It has since become a separate student or ganization, but the office is still lo cated in Room 216 of the MSC, she said. The work the volunteers do dif fers with each assignment. In nurs ing homes, the duties include writ ing letters for and visiting with the Satellite benefits still increasing United Press International WASHINGTON — As you read this, the telephone conversations of 10,000 people around the world may be going through a satellite thousands of miles high. Millions of others may be watching television via satellite. In addition, these same switch boards in the sky can relay digital data across oceans and continents carrying electronic mail, transfer ring funds, reporting stock market activities and connecting networks f computers. New jobs for communications satellites are developing as more and more people have access to them. The Comsat Corp., for exam ple, announced a few weeks ago that f was considering using satellites to learn pay television directly to roof-top antennas on subscribers fomes. Communications satellites were the earliest and remain the largest commercially successful offspring of the nation’s space program. “Certainly, no effort in the U.S. ipace program has yielded more di rect and obvious benefits, and none ias had more international in- rolvement than satellite communi- rations,” Comsat vice president Burton I. Edelson told a congres- iional subcommittee last week. The International Telecommuni cations Satellite Consortium, which 'managed by Comsat, now has 11 operational or standby satellites in rbit to provide a global capacity of 50,000 telephone circuits. The United States also has three lomestic satellite systems in opera- ion as well as commercial satellites OU$° provide service to ships at sea. Canada has its own domestic sys tem, as does Indonesia. Other na tions are planning domestic or re gional systems. Besides expanding international communications. Burton said Intel sat has significantly reduced the cost of overseas phone calls. He said In telsat’s charge for a telephone cir cuit is 18 percent of the original charge in 1965. “Moreover, Intelsat is profitable for its participants,” he said. “From its revenues of almost $200 million this year, it will pay about 14 per cent return on investment to its members.” Intelsat, which has 102 member nations, is tied together by a net work of 250 ground stations in 103 countries. A telecast two weeks ago from Cuba to Yugoslavia marked the entry of Cuba into the system. The first commercial communica tions satellite was the little Early Bird, launched in 1965. It had a telephone relaying capacity of 240 circuits and equaled at the time the combined communications capacity of all transatlantic cables. The largest satellites now in the Intelsat system are five known as In telsat 4A models. Each can handle as many as 6,000 simultaneous tele phone calls. Burton said an even more power ful Intelsat spacecraft scheduled to be launched early next year will have twice the capacity of the Intel sat 4A. As satellite power increases and the size of space antennas goes up, ground stations have been able to use smaller and less expensive an tennas. Connally criticizes lawsuit d against Philadelphia police White ) the a' i politics d point: II United Press International DALLAS — Republican presi- rtpensatl fential contender John Connally Monday angrily criticized the Jus- ntareusl t' ce Department’s lawsuit against Philadelphia police for alleged brut- ce theyk illy as an attempt to appease “an happens anti-police constituency.’ In a tough law-and-order speech to the International Association of Police Chiefs meeting in Dallas, Connally said the Justice Depart ment action was “an unwarranted and outrageous abuse of federal egal authority. “One has difficulty in not conclud- ion kno«" ing that its themes and actions are )-Mass„«i motivated more by a desire to ap- race agas pease a small but vitriolic anti-police constituency than they are by a real desire to obtain the truth,” he said. Calling such persons “politically muddled do-gooders” who make up a “fashionable special interest group,” the former Treasury secre tary said Philadelphians “are per fectly able to look after themselves. They do not require the Justice De partment’s sledge hammer ap proach.” Connally also said he favors: —“A nation of the old fashioned values in which police departments are respected, not made hostage to ideological inquisitions and political kangaroo courts. ” —Reinstatement of capital punishment. —Restoring voluntary prayers in public schools. ty d from appliand icrg ;ss has s, refle >r its con made p.' hortel YAIRI by Alvarez The finest in handmade guitars Layaway Terms Ask to see them as they are stored safely away from display KEyboAnd Center Baldwin Pianos. Organs, Fun Machines, Player Pianos. 7 Manor East MaII Bryan • 779-7080 Randy Stuart, Owner OpeN 6 Day* Til 6 PM | Your Favorite 1 | Songs in Easy I Play Speed Music.l elderly. At the hospital, volunteers can be nurse’s aides or they may plan parties for the children’s wards. At the Head Start, the students are teacher’s aides and help babysit, said Karen Joiner, one of the SVS directors. “I worked as a volunteer at the child care centers last year before becoming a director. It was fun and the kids were great,” she said. Big Brother-Big Sister and the Boys Club of America were also in volved with SVS. But Bob Bowen, another member of SVS, said that last year work with those programs did not work out as well as hoped. “We had plenty of volunteers, but not enough kids. We are hoping in the future that the Big Brother-Big Sister program can become a chap ter on its own and work more with the kids. Bryan-College Station needs an organized chapter,’’ Bowen said. SVS members say the response has been better this year than last. “In the health field it has been bet ter than we thought,” said Mary Or tiz, director of that area of SVS. “In the past volunteers have not asked to work in the nursing homes, but this year they are specifically asking to work there,” she said. "Students in the health fields usually are the most interested. Pre-dent and pre-med students can obtain valuable experience and ref erences through this work,” the junior bio-chemistry major said. But students in those programs are not the only ones who can gain experience. For instance, the Boys Clubs of America program is looking for coaches. A PE major could gain valuable experience there. Cooper said. “Volunteer work is very satisfying to me. In a small way I can help in the community,” Joiner said. There are a lot of areas that people can work in with this program, so any one can help, she said. Besides providing and referring volunteers, the organization takes on several projects during the year. One of these projects, an Agency Fair, will be held Oct. 3. This fair will consist of 15-20 organizations seeking to create more interest in their service programs. “The purpose of the fair is to in troduce more people to the agency (SVS) and the organizations,” Cooper said. “We hope more stu dents will learn what we are doing and hopefully they will want to help.” 9AT 9FPT 99 BRAZOS VALLEY PAVILLION TABOR RD. ADVANCED TICKETS AVAILABLE RAY WYLIE HUBBARD AT THE OX ROAST ALL THE BEER YOU CAN DRINK BEER & BBQ 6:00-8:00 (7.50) BEER 9:00-1:00 (5.00) BRYAN, TEXAS FOR INFO CALL 846-3123 Touch Colling available in most areas. Empress — Rotary and Touch Calling. Chestphone — not available in Rotary. HIS&HERS His, an elegantly carved chest with a hidden treas ure. Hers, a flowery phone from the past that keeps right on blooming. Both, designed for the eye as well as the ear. 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