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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1980 Page 3 ocal ewheadinvolved with students No big changes in store for MSC Outdoor Rec to improve equipment by CATHY SAATHOFF Battalion Staff The new director of the Memorial itudent Center plans no “sweeping knges,” but wants to improve what he MSC is doing now. The paperwork says Jim Reynolds ' ookover the reins of the MSC from ayne Stark on April 1. But symbo- . Jy, his new job didn’t begin until ,t ‘ on he MSC Council and Directorate anquet, April 12. He’s still in his old office along the idgeofthe Student Programs Office, inothen ptomalit tfitinll n, y two oil han L-l m bi»| ^ e l ind he’ s still trying to “sense the full ■°^ ange of responsibilities’’ he has in- amtai ier it e H. “Primarily, what we will try to do Is to do those things that the MSC pas historically done,” Reynolds , “and to do a better job of doing [them.” These things include offering ser ies, facilities and programs for the development of students individual ly and collectively, using sound business management at the same nme. I “The better the job we do in hand ling routine business practices, the Jnore time we have to spend in work ing with the students,” Reynolds laid. However, the students are also in volved in the business end. They [handle all the budgeting and public relations for the committees. Reynolds and the staff of advisers are fhere to keep the whole operation in nder. “The MSC has grown substantially |nthe last two years,” Reynolds said, rhis growth has included a bigger [staff and an improved budget, he laid. [ “We have made some significant [strides forward in terms of develop ing the budget and financial proces ses that the MSC operates under,” Reynolds said. In doing this, the staff has im proved its ability to “be accountable :o the administration and students of Texas A&M,” he said. The MSC budget is in “pretty dog- jonegood shape” now, he said, com- )ared to two years ago, when Reynolds arrived here from North- iastern Oklahoma State University become associate director of the MSC. He spent his youth in Roxana, Ill. “I was one of those kids that came nit of high school and went down to inlist in the Marine Corps, because hat was the cool thing guys from my gh school did,” Reynolds said. However, Reynolds tried to sign up during peacetime. “Being 5-foot, 7-inches tall, I was thatTi Mt one of the kind the Marines friflyanted,” he said. This left him with three options: haven llay baseball, which he did for a in the minor leagues, work in j Norh !n °il refinery, or go to college. He wound up studying zoology at iouthem Illinois University, ignor- :e a» iugahigh school counselor’s opinion ind ill!: that he wouldn’t make it. Two years of heavy studying re- ionfivarded him with a GPR of about 3.9. “I achieved some success acade- nically,” Reynolds said, “but one Jay it occurred to me that I really lidn’t know that much about how the Smiif w °rld worked.” The student union provided a place where things seem to “fit ogether,” Reynolds said. “In terms of becoming an edu cated person, I needed something the It Mside the classroom and the lib rary,” he said. “I came very close to ijoring in co-curricular activities. ” Reynolds said he wanted to stay close to student unions when he gra- ifi (bated, but figured he needed to give zoology a shot after studying it for four years. He received an assistantship with E, Raymond Hall, the “godfather of taxonomic mammology,” at the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas. ■nt, bill it me. xans- iresi imeiil 1C! amac sFlf “As fate would have it, my office at the museum looked out over the stu dent union at the University of Kan sas,” Reynolds said. “Every day I’d sit there measuring bat skulls and drawing range maps, and I’d also be watching out of the comer of my eye all those people coming and going from the student center.” After six months, the call of the center lured him to the union direc tor’s office, where he discovered there was an opening for an adviser. He took the job. Experience with student unions at j four universities landed him the! associate director’s job here, but the job wasn’t the only reason he came. “I want to continue academically, ” Reynolds said. He is enrolled in the College of Business Administration as a special student, working toward a master’s degree. He has taken business and educa tion courses here, and said they help him to keep “tuned in” to students as well as forcing him to read and write outside of his job requirements. Otherwise, he said, he would probably just “watch Monday night football,” when he’s not working. Reynolds isn’t taking any courses this semester because, as he antici pated, it has been a “hairy” semes ter. However, he will join the ranks of students again over the summer or by next fall. He said one class at a time is all he can handle mentally and physically. Reynolds’ first business class here was Management 363, a class which he said he stood out in even though it was large, but no one knew who he was. However, he is often put on the spot in his graduate level courses, although he said it is usually in fun. “Occasionally, I have to take the fifth amendment,” he said. “People always perceive that you know a lot more about what’s going on on cam pus than what you really do. ” When he isn’t being a student or directing the MSC, Reynolds takes time off to hunt, fish, ski and play tennis and softball. He is planning on going on a canoeing trip with the Outdoor Recreation Committee this by CATHY SAATHOFF Battalion Staff The MSC Outdoor Recreation Committee plans to improve its equipment despite a proposal by the intramurals department to take over its rental, said Chairman Bryan Hall. The equipment, worth $10,000, was originally purchased with money allocated to ORC from student ser vice fees in addition to revenues it generated. One improvement under con sideration, said Don Rohel, ORC staff adviser, is a roller-skating rink in the Grove and possibly a bicycle rental. However, Dr. John Koldus, vice president for student services, said he is “not interested in further con sideration” of the proposal by the intramural department until it or the ORC proposes a storage facility for the equipment. The present storage area in the Grove is only temporary. ORC members have built shelves, but the recently purchased canoes are presently housed in the snack bar, and must be moved whenever a movie is shown in the Grove. Jim Reynolds, director of the MSC, said the building is not conve niently located and security isn’t adequate. WHAT'S TUE ULTIMATE' 4 LETTER WORD FOR TUG MOWG THAT MAKES you flush before leaving ? Balancing his time between hand ling administrative matters and being with students is a tough deci sion for Reynolds. 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