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THE BATTALION Page 3 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1979 campus ounceLine now available By BETSY HESS Battalion Reporter Students experiencing depression used by grades, studies or choice careers may not realize how easy it is to get help through the ademic Counseling Service at xas A&M. CounseLine is one of two new rvices which were started in Sep- mber. Students who are finding it d to cope with a particular prob- ] m — it doesn’t have to be I ademic — can pick up the phone, I al 845-6826, and ask to hear a tape Jmcerning their specific problem. I There are 48 tapes ranging from liendship building and self- ■nfidence to academic concerns. The tapes are about five minutes f ng. They define the feelings you may be experiencing, such as de pression, and offer suggestions on how to deal with them. “We basically deal with academic and career concerns and whatever personal problems are related to them,” said Betty Mayfield, one of four psychologists on the staff. The center will sponsor a career planning clinic at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 17, in 209 Harrington. Suggestions on how to choose a career will be of fered. There also will be a discus sion on choosing a career. The service also offers occupa tional information. They send out surveys to A&M graduates asking about the job market and what kind of personal characteristics are help ful in certain occupational fields. On Oct. 24th, there will be a basic study skills clinic at 6:30 p.m. in 209 Harrington. “We get a lot of students who made good grades in high school without having to study much at all, ” said Mayfield, “They get down here and really don’t know how to study.” The service also counsels students who are on scholastic probation, and those having problems with time management and lack of motivation. A reading room is also available in room 107 of the Academic Building where students may look at books or get cassette tapes with imformation they want without having to see a counselor. Motorcycle pose adds pizazz to life of Dallas woman, 70 a jKggie poll studies ny foreign biases By DOUG GRAHAM Battalion Staff I “Can Americans learn anything from foreigners?” was a question that bothered Mehmet Sahinoglu, ■ resident of the Europe Club. He started wondering about the ms doesiKtJattitudes Texas A&M University fact thattlir | s tudents have toward foreign stu- the I'nive: [ dents. 3W York,oi ■ Sahinoglu, a graduate student in •atistics from Turkey, decided to ofbuildif Iput together a poll which other ihysicalawl I foreign students helped him ad- i is entire!) lininister. opriateasto I “We have always asked for things, iced by tl*! I thought we could give some- growsfrom phing in return,” he said, om another ■ The gift is the poll and Sahinog- In’s statistical analysis of the results. ;ss whichii ■ Assistant Director of Admissions Texas Aiitl Hfiarvey Striegler, who has been on he job for just a few months, said he Europe Club’s survey will be of nterest to him. The poll revealed a curious con- radiction: while 58 percent of the Iggies said they had preconceived titativeand lotions about international stu dents, 89 percent answered that if buildings hey thought other students at Texas hat limit is A&M had preconceived notions. ic park-lie dingstaim ieen recon- itus. These rved notes ngs, Guion inadequate odernized, molish the We do not cost of the mount and exas A&M ped into® is entire!)’ reflect the d pinstripe in a Brooks judged bv cture, epthe best dale Preconceived notions ranged tnywhere from, “They are all stupid,” to the comment that that breigners could offer A&M some- River walks called boon for downtown M Univer- Got a dying downtown? A Texas &M University researcher has a rescription that may bring it back :o life. Add one river; throw in the over helming support of the eommu- ity; pump in lots of money and ears of planning and development nd, voila, you’ve got a river walk hat is not only a lifeboat for a decay ing business district to cling to, but cultural and aesthetic asset as well, explains Clare Gunn. The prescription is not entirely utrageous, for the nation is ex periencing a renaissance of the rban river, he said. Gunn, a 30-year veteran of ourism development research, said relatively small amount of water an quickly become a powerful so- ial force in a community. Easily the most successful example of the in fluence of a small urban river is the prototype of river walks, the San Antonio River Walk. Throughout the United States, urban rivers have been used and abused, Gunn said, but now they ublewitb» are on the way back. Several Texas has no!<b cities are now waist deep in plan ning their own river walk develop ments, including El Paso, Austin, Laredo, Waco and Jefferson. Instead of considering a city river only good for waste removal, city planners are trying to em phasize the cultural amenity as pects, the things that make life worthwhile,” said Gunn. are-assocf .eonardon, 'j .. stl half years ot be son)’ tion of ntt' e of camp*' alls before* 'dally alW mg distal m si _ n” \vithllll {, in v. I called ll* 3 GTE did* 1 to the t up will 3ell! A. Muff. 1 BLENDS OF GIF I-GIVING I 36Q9^1ace E. 29th - Bryan PrioriTEAS fits you to a tea! Teapots and Tea Sets from A to Z SI t n ^OCUS thing, “as long as they stay off the (MSC) grass and take baths!” Not all answers were in that vein. One respondant said, “I try very hard not to categorize people at all. Barriers are always going to exist to a certain extent between persons with different backgrounds, regard less of what country they are from. ” Sahinoglu compared the the 334 respondants to the survey to aver age age and sex of the A&M student body. “The averages were close,” he said, “and that made the figures good.” One of the more in-depth ques tions was a series concerning what Aggies felt were barriers between them and foreign students. Roughly a third said past experience, differ ent education, economic disparity, and inborn feelings constituted bar riers; 42 percent said foreign stu dents have divergent interests from themselves, and that these interests were yet another barrier. A little more than 50 percent of those who filled in the 26-question form said they feel it is rude for others to speak a foreign language in their presence. One person replied, however, that it would not be rude, “unless I’m feeling insecure any way.” One question was whether the re spondent would date a foreign stu dent. The answers were varied, though the ratio was 75 percent for to 25 percent against. “Yes, if she was good looking,” one replied. “My wife would kill me,” ex plained another. “Depends on the individual,” an swered still another. United Press International DALLAS — Seventy-year-old Edith Ungerman didn’t have much pizazz in her life. But she solved the problem spectacularly. You can see Ungerman in three magazines, her gray hair blowing in the breeze, swathed in a jazzy lynx coat and clinging to a Hell’s Angel lookalike on a big motorcycle. The ads are sponsored by a local furrier who claims his products could “change your life.” True, it’s only a pose. 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