THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1981
Page 5
Local
Aggies not eligible for publications
Photo by Beth Gibson
Sandy Batson, a Bryan High School senior, puts the finishing
touches on the Agricultural Communications Department’s
latest issue of “Improve Your Farm Fish Pond,” one of
thousands of publications available from the department.
By MELANI BAYLESS
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M University stu
dents, as well as students enrolled
in other land-grant colleges
nationwide, are legally ineligible
for programs, publications and re
search information provided by
the extension service.
The Extension System, set up
under the federal Smith-Lever
Act of 1914, attempts to serve as a
link between research, its practic
al application and the general
public.
The Texas A&M University
System, designated land-grant
college for the state, administers
the Texas Agricultural Extension
Service.
Under the 1914 Act, however,
these services are limited “ ... to
persons not attending or resident
in said land-grant colleges.”
Dorothy Holland, acting editor
and head of the Department of
Agricultural Communications,
said that the extension system is a
federal, state and local partner
ship which is primarily funded
federally.
“We can’t spend federal money
for expenses incurred by college
courses of instruction,” she said.
“Our function is to help people
who have no opportunity to learn
in classrooms.”
She said federal auditors close
ly check the distribution of exten
sion publications.
Daniel C. Pfannstiel, Texas
Agricultural Extension Service
director, agreed.
“Because of limited funding
and strict federal audits,” he said,
“problems would arise if profes
sors started sending their students
out, 30 to 40 at a time, for free
extension service publications.”
However, Pfannstiel said
County extension agents don’t
generally monitor citizens re
questing information, so Texas re
sidents can go to their county ex
tension office and usually obtain a
free copy of the desired publica
tion.
The central distribution office
for extension service publications,
in the Reed McDonald Building
on campus, follows a more discri
minating policy when it comes to
giving out publications.
An employee of that office said
that there is occasional confusion
about the University’s role regard
ing the extension service.
“We have had instructors send
their students over here for infor
mation,” she said, “and we just
have to refuse them.”
She said that instructors who
want to use an extension service
publication in their class may
order and pay for the publication
in bulk, and then disperse them
among their students.
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Free publications, from “Dried Bean Soup” to “Texas Fruit and Nut
Production Statistics,” are available to Texas residents through the
Texas Agricultural Extension Service and the Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station.
Collectively, the extension service and experiment station offer
almost 4,000 different publications statewide — usually through coun
ty extension offices.
Although Texans may only obtain five different titles at one time,
they are entitled to one free copy of each publication.
From progress reports on “Perennial Warm-Season Grasses” to
leaflets entitled “Pistols in Texas: To Carry or Not to Carry,” the
publications are designed to cover a cross-section of interests.
While the extension service literature is targeted toward commun
ity education and “helping people help themselves,,” the experiment
station publications focus primarily on research.
The central distribution office for extension service and experiment
station publications is in the Reed McDonald Building, Texas A&M
University.
5 RHA director spots
open at meeting
By BERNIE FETTE
Battalion Staff
The Residence Halls Associa
tion will begin accepting applica
tions for the five director positions
created under their organizational
restructuring at tonight’s RHA
meeting in 204 Harrington at 7
p.m.
The restructuring proposal was
passed last week by a two-thirds
majority of the members.
RHA President Sherrie Balcar
said the deadline for applying for
these positions is Feb. 17. Appli
cations can be picked up either at
the meeting tonight or the RHA
cubicle in the Student Programs
Office.
Hie association will also discuss
the upcoming Texas Residence
Halls Association Convention
being held from Feb. 23 to March
1. Deadline for signing up for that
event is Feb. 13, Balcar said.
Northgate Area Coordinator
Tom Murray will speak to RHA
members on a re-evaluation of
policies of the Judicial Board. Bal
car said the policies adhered to by
some residence halls are not con
sistent with others and that Mur
ray hoped to remedy this.
The recent on-campus housing
dispute concerning fifth-year
seniors and graduate students will ■
be a major topic at the meeting,
Balcar said. A report will be given
by an implementation committee
on the present status of the issue,
she said.
Balcar said that the RHA plans
to work along with the Off-
Campus students to aid the fifth-
year seniors in their transition to
off-campus living when the new '
rule takes effect in the fall.
She said the bill now before the
Student Senate concerning the
housing issue will be discussed
also.
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