THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1979
Page 3
Blackbelt tries
hanging image
By DOUG GRAHAM
Battalion Staff
Free University is a series of
inrichment courses offered to stu
dents under the auspices of the
^Memorial Student Center Directo-
ate. Many of the courses are crea-
ive, involving pottery, macrame, or
■ ither crafts.
I Then there’s the Free U. course
■that teaches people how to deal with
Iiullies and other undesirables.
I Second degree blackbelt Phillip
l^ong, 19, a sophomore from Col
lege Station, will teach a course in
Idapkido, a Korean martial arts dis
lapline practiced by the presidential
■body guards in the Republic of
I Korea.
I Long, a management major, says
fcthat Hapkido is the art of managing
phings such as the strengths and
■weaknesses of oneself and an oppo-
Inent. Weaknesses are things like
Ibeecaps which bend only one way
land are easily destroyed by a judici-
|)usly placed kick.
Hapkido is not, he strongly em
phasized, shattering cement slabs,
wo-by-fours or plate steel with
me’s head, hands, or feet.
| He described Hapkido, which
louse ab sv °l ve ^ i n the Korea’s past, as a
Jn t are (IK menta l an d physical discipline,
m House: ^ on 8 sa ^ he i s teaching the
:ourse in part to debunk the “Kung
Fu” macho killer cliche that sur
rounds the martial arts,
ter willt "I want to break a stereotype. You
n gouta(D bow the stereotype. It’s breaking
use boards, throwing the kicks. That’s a
hard image to break.”
Hapkido practitioners learn to ex-
cercise a sense of truth, duty, jus
tice, or, wisdom, and courage, he
said.
“After a while a person will even-
j tually absorb it (the code of be-
jhf) havior). He’ll learn how weak he is,
^ and how weak everyone else is.
He’ll also learn his and others’
! concen )| strengths.” he stressed.
v e totah 1 The Hapkidoist learns pressure
at you ca» ! points, joints, and anatomy to use in
, “150 Of- a style of fighting that involves
enyoui^ tra P s > kicks, parries, and punches.
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Persons taking the Free U. course
need not be wealthy nor jocks to
participate. The course, which starts
Oct. 1, will run Monday, Wednes
day, and Friday nights from 5:30 to
7:00.
There will be some physical train
ing involving stretching and limber
ing up. Long said. Classes will be
disciplined because Long said he
hopes to have the aspiring martial
artists ready when his master, or
teacher, visits the Texas A&M Uni
versity campus later this year.
Women are especially welcome to
the course because self-defense will
be emphasized.
“You don’t have to be an athelete
to learn the basic moves,” he said.
“First we 11 be building confidence.”
The oriental art of martial disci
pline leads some fighting styles and
philosophies to use “katas” which
are stylized dances or repertoires of
moves against an imaginary circle of
foes.
Hapkido does not use katas. It
uses combination, or series kicks.
“When you’re doing Hapkido and
teaching in the classroom, it’s fun
and it is art,” Long said. “But when
you are fighting on the street or in
combat, it isn’t art — it is do or don’t
do.”
Consol provides
for handicapped
By SANDRA SEFCIK
Battalion Reporter
All students in the A&M Consolidated School District are given a
chance to receive an education, even if they cannot learn at a normal
rate.
The A&M Consolidated District supplies special educational pro
grams to 425 students. Children from the ages of 3-18 are taught in
these special educational programs, Phyllis Perkins, director of spe
cial services, said.
The State of Texas mandates that all children between the ages of
3-21 who are unable to learn in regular classroom situations be taught
in special education programs.
Special education is provided for all students with learning dis
abilities. These include mental retardation, learning and speech dis
abilities, autism (not relating to one’s environment or to people),
emotional disturbances, visual and physical handicaps, health prob
lems (cancer) and multiple handicaps. The A&M Consolidated School
District has no deaf children enrolled in classes, Perkins said.
Each special education student has an individualized education
plan, Perkins said. This plan is developed by an admission-review-
dismissal committee. The committee is made up of administrators,
regular teachers, special education teachers and the parents of the
child.
The committee draws up long-range and short-range objectives for
each child and adds to the student’s plan as he improves.
Regular teachers are included in the committee because a special
education student may spend from 40 minutes to five hours a day in a
regular class. The regular teachers must be prepared to receive the
special education student in his class.
In severe cases, the classmates and the teacher may be briefed to
prepare them to receive a special education student, Perkins said.
Special education teachers, unlike regular teachers, must able to
teach all subjects. In addition, special education teachers must hold a
generic degree in special education, Perkins said. There are 24 such
teachers in the special services at A&M Consolidated.
Because special education students are put into regular classes,
regular teachers must have one day each year of in-service, Perkins
said.
Texas law mandates the in-service day, Perkins said, and it is up to
each district to set up the in-service day. A&M Consolidated will split
the session into two days, separating the secondary and elementary
teachers because of different needs.
Special education teachers and regular teachers work together to
bring new techniques and materials into the classrooms, Perkins said.
In addition to the special educational services, the school must
provide related services to enable a child to function in the special
education program.
Student
plans to
senate announces
televise A&M-Tech
By ELLEN EIDELBACH
i Battalion Reporter
The Texas Tech-Texas A&M foot
ball game will be broadcasted over
closed-circuit television, a student
government senator said Wednes
day.
Aston-Dunn senator Jim Barolak
said tickets to watch the closed-
circuit television game are $3 for
students and $5 for non-students.
Tickets for the game may be pur
chased at the athletic ticket booth in
the front of G. Rollie White Col
iseum from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on
weekdays.
The Texas Tech-Texas A&M
game will begin at 7:30 p.m. Satur
day, Oct. 6.
Closed-circuit television is also
planned for the Houston-Texas
A&M football game even though the
game will be played in Kyle Field.
Barolak said the reason for this is
the stadium’s limited seating capac
ity.
Students will have an option
when they go pick up their tickets,
he said; they may get a ticket to sit
inside the stadium or to watch the
game on closed-circuit television.
Student groups wanting block
seating at future Texas A&M foot
ball games can expect new
guidelines by Nov. 24, Barolak an
nounced.
Block seating is where a section of
seats are set aside and those tickets
are sold as a group.
Another action student govern
ment is taking is sponsoring a blood
drive from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on
Oct. 9-11 on the second floor of the
Memorial Student Center.
People who plan to give blood are
asked to sign up on the main floor of
the MSC on Oct. 2-4.
Off-campus graduate senator
Janet Golub said the blood drive
goal is 2400 pints.
“The best blood drive we ever
had — we got 1200 pints of blood,
she said. “That’s pretty sad out of
30,000 students.
, Plans for freshmen elections were
also made. Freshmen who want to
run for student government posi
tions may file for elections on Oct.
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Easterwood Airport has been
awarded a $25,000 grant from the
Texas Aeronautics Commission to
help finance construction of a new
parking area for airplanes.
Gerald Turner, chief airport en
gineer for the TAG, said the grant
represents the state’s share of
matching funds for the project,
which is estimated to cost $218,000.
The Federal Aviation Administra
tion has contributed $175,000, and
the remainder of funds will be
provided by pledges from Bryan,
College Station, Brazos County and
Texas A&M University.
Turner said the construction is
needed because “there is no place to
park the airplanes.”
Harry Raisor, airport manager at
Easterwood, said the airport cur
rently can park about 60 airplanes,
but the growth of the University-
owned airport makes the construc
tion necessary. He said the project
is in the planning stages and he
could not confirm a starting con
struction date.
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