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By MARY ANN HINNANT
Battalion Reporter
Anyone who thinks he knows a
[lot of trivia now has the chance to
(prove it. The MSC College Bowl
[Tournament, Texas A&M’s favo-
jrite brain game, begins Oct. 1.
Much like a TV game show,
[College Bowl lies somewhere be-
[tween “Family Feud’ and
j “Jeopardy.’ It can be a lot of fun
[but the questinos are tough, and
[they cover anything from art to
j zoology.
For example, last year’s con
testants were asked to name the
'most recent Broadway musical to
win an Academy Award for best
[picture, the names of the
j Hawaiian Islands, and the second
\ longest river in the world.
Teams of four students face
leach other as they wait for the
question to be asked with their
fingers nervously resting on an
electric buzzer.
Every question answered cor
rectly helps the team to win the
game and move up the tourna-
! ment ladder.
j Although the final winning
team doesn’t receive $10,000, as
on the f College Bowl” television
j program, it does get to compete
against other college teams at the
[ Regional College Bowl Tourna
ment to be held at Texas A&M
| next February 7 and 8.
The winning team from the re
gional tourament advances to the
National College Bowl Tourna
ment which is tenatively sche
duled for March although specific
date and time have not yet been
decided.
This is only the second year for
A&M to particiapte in College
Bowl, but tournament chairman
Paul Fisher expects more stu
dents to compete in this year’s
tourament.
“We had a good tourout of 16
teams entering last year which
made the first year of College
Bowl at A&M successful,” Fisher
said. “This year, we expect about
32 teams to enter the tourament. ”
Kathleen McElroy was a con
testant in last year’s tourament
and plans to enter again this year.
“It’s such an exciting game be
cause your brain is functioning so
fast and your finger is just waiting
to hit the buzzer,” she said. “The
adrenalin really gets going.
“Although our team didn’t win,
I still had a fantastic time. There
are things in your head that you
didn’t know about until you’re
forced to remember them,” she
said.
Although there isn’t much of a
way to prepare for the tourament,
McElroy hoped that glacing
through an almanac might help.
The tourament will be held ev
ery Wednesday night from Oct. 1
to Nov. 1.
‘Global village ’ coming
Int’l exchange pushed
By JULIE STANDARD
Battalion Reporter
The Texas A&M University International Services
Office may be “foreign” to most Aggies.
But Dr. Donald Boucher, director of international
services, plans to promote the involvement of more
domestic Aggies in what he calls an “overseas experi
ence.”
“I want to see our students at Texas A&M going out
and experiencing things around the world,” Boucher
said.
Boucher has replaced the former director of interna
tional services, Dr. P. Wayne Gosnell, who resigned in
August.
Formerly the vice president of the U.S. Sports
Academy in Mobile, Ala., Boucher assumed his duties
in Room 256 Bizzell Hall two weeks ago.
The International Services Office helps to orient in
ternational students in their new home and promotes a
voluntary cultural exchange between Texas A&M’s
domestic and international students.
None of the previous programs in the office are going
to change, Boucher said, but more emphasis will be
placed on cultural exchange.
Naming several programs the office is already in
volved in on an international basis, Boucher said he
would act as a catalyst in encouraging these programs
and starting new programs for more student involve
ment overseas, including athletic competition.
“I will do everything I can to promote international
experience,” he said.
Boucher said he is a “believer” and “fanatic” on the
advantages of foreign travel, study or jobs.
“It changes the way you perceive the United States,”
Boucher said, adding, “it aids us in looking at
ourselves.”
Some of Boucher’s former positions include being a
volunteer and director of the Peace Corps in several
different countries, adviser to the minister of education
at Guatemala, the administrator for the coaching staff of
the 1976 Saudi Arabian Olympic team and the executive
dean at World University in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He
has lived outside of the United States for a total of 12
years.
Because of the international students who come to
Texas A&M to study and then return to their native
lands, Boucher said the University has a well-respected
reputation around the world.
However, by promoting overseas activities, he said
Texas A&M could also be known for providing its
domestic students with an international experience.
“Aggies have a lot to offer these countries,” he said.
Eventually, Boucher said he would like to see Texas
A&M campuses in other countries.
Calling the world a global village, he said, “We have
no choice. We re going to live in a world that is going to
be affected by things outside the United States.”
The world can be better understood, he added, by
people learning other languages, customs, ideas and
points of view.
Anyone interested in an overseas experience is en
couraged to come by the international services office,
Boucher said.
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'ravel Emphasis Week explores world
By VENITA McCELLON
Battalion Reporter
■The Memorial Student Center
may look like a giant travel brochure
this week.
Rind, like a travel brochure. Travel
Emphasis Week, sponsored by the
MSC Travel Committee, shows
Texas A&M University students the
travel opportunities available to
them.
Rixhibits, slide presentations and
travel information will be set up in
the main hall of the M SC from 9a.m.
to 4 p.m. today through Friday.
Travel Committee members will he
at the tables to answer questions.
EfTravel Emphasis Week is a week
where we promote travel in gener
al, said Debra Lanham, chairman of
the committee. “We try to come
jacross as fun and informative.”
■nformation is available through
the handouts about committee-
sponsored trips, the Overseas Loan
Fund and the Adventure Series, a
group of lectures on travel.
The committee will be sponsoring
four major trips during the year, said
Theresa Chiang, program adviser for
the committee. A trip to Ireland and
a Caribbean cruise are scheduled for
spring break, and a tour of Europe
and a trip to Mexico are being plan
ned for the summer.
“These are four expensive trips
that people need advance notice on, ”
Lanham said.
The Overseas Loan Fund is avail
able to students interested in travel
ing abroad for either educational or
cultural purposes. The committee
administers interest-free loans to
screened applicants.
“It doesn’t mean we want to supp
ly somebody with a big chunk of
money,” said Chiang. “It’s more
moral support.”
Students are also encouraged to go
to banks for financing for their trips.
Interviews for those interested in
the fund will be held in November.
The Adventure Series will consist
of two lectures, one at noon on Tues
day and another at 11 a.m. Wednes
day. Both will discuss work/study
programs abroad, said Beth Polak,
who is in charge of the series.
“The Adventure Series is pretty
much a unique experience,” she
said. “We’ve had (in the past) a man
come in from Houston and talk on
safaris in Africa, and someone who
was living with Indian tribes in South
America. It makes it more interest
ing to someone who might never
have the chance to do something like
that.”
Results from the week are usually
good, said Melanie Campbell, direc
tor of special projects for the com
mittee.
“It usually stimulates a lot of in
terest in work/study abroad and
traveling abroad,” she said.
Sign-up sheets will be available on
the tables for people interested in
going on any of the committee’s
trips.
“Something that gets lost some
times when people think about the
MSC Travel Committee is they think
all we do is run group trips,” said
Lanham. “We’ll be giving out infor
mation to help them run their own
trip.”
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pood center gets new home
:o expand facilities, services
By KATHY O’CONNELL
Battalion Reporter
Hhe Food Protein and Development Center has
Bnd a new home on the West Campus because the old
C> building had outlived its usefulness.
'I X L^Ull Relocation of the center, which does research in de-
|elopment of food ingredients and products from low-
©t protein sources, was made because of the need to
g to the atoremc fejpand its services and facilities.
means “Nuclear ; The center evolved from the former Cottonseed Pro-
alarmed. You»Wets Laboratory located on the corner of Ross and
Ireland streets.
)y way of pointint new center has the facilities to handle all prob-
le name “Stealth. ems re l atec l to processing and utilization of protein
pources such as peanuts and soybeans.
, the thing that iBluilding construction manager John Merchant said
il is the fact thatiti'F e new center was part of a two-phase plan,
apparently refers ™
e’s furtive quality
Phase one, he said, included construction of a re
search annex located near Highway 21. Actual construc
tion cost of the annex was $478,000, he said.
Construction of the center’s offices and labs, located
on the West Campus, was phase two of the plan. Build
ing costs for that phase, completed in May, amounted to
$1,918,850.
He said another reason the old laboratory was de
molished was to expand the central power plant, which
is located on Ireland Street.
Merchant said expansion of the plant is necessary to
accomodate the addition of two women’s dorms and the
Administrative Services Building.
Water cooling towers are being built at a cost of
$2,077,413, Merchant said.
Estimated completion date for the power plant expan
sion is set for Febuary 1981.
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