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-
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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
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Preconceived notions ranged
tnywhere from, “They are all
stupid,” to the comment that that
breigners could offer A&M some-
River walks
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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.
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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. But for Un
german, who never even wore
slacks in public until a year ago, pos
ing for the ad was “the time of her
life.”
“A lot of people are surprised I
said yes,” she said. “But inside,
there was a part of me that always
wanted to be Auntie Mame. I de
cided it was time I was free to be
me.”
Ungerman didn’t mention the ad
to her family until she appeared.
The family, she said, went wild.
“Right after, I went to my great-
great grandson’s wedding in New
Jersey. Someone brought a copy of
the magazine. I almost upstaged the
bride.”
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