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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1981
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Students
By NANCY FLOECK
Battalion Reporter
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It doesn’t seem like a classroom — nine stu-
bnts sitting around a conference table enthu-
^ (iastically discussing the future of the Brazos Val-
ey Museum of Natural Science,
oney ^ now some people don’t even know the
H? 1 ;* :! l razos Valley Museum exists,” David Vela, a
1 ■ ^ ijunior recreation and parks major tells the other
tudents in Recreation and Parks 485 and 685.
These two classes, composed of recreation and
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r ^ jiarks and wildlife and fisheries majors, are devot-
, ing the spring semester to developing a five-year
'•y will 6),master plan for the museum.
. butitnji objective of this plan is to discover what
t totiesti Bryan-College Station community needs and
wants in a natural science museum and develop a
coordinated plan for directing the museum’s
yowth in those areas.
And to find out what the public wants, the
(Students are doing a phone survey.
get credit forBrazos Museum plans
“We’re all committed to giving a block of time
to the project and getting the best possible re
sults within that block of time,” Dr. John Hanna,
instructor of the classes said. “We will probably
develop it this term ... and then it will be the
museum’s responsibility.”
With the students’ help, the plan will cost
$2,200 to implement. Done by professionals, it
would cost over $10,000.
Hanna said his students’ interest in the plan is
growing.
“It’s been kind of funny,” he said. “The enthu
siasm has been growing — we seem to pick up
momentum with each meeting.”
The beauty of the plan lies not only in helping
the museum, but in giving students the oppor
tunity to work as a planning team and experience
real-life situations in their fields, Hanna said.
“And that’s what it is — a planning team,” he
said. “Yes, they’re getting college credit for it,
but they’re not spending time reading books and
studying for exams.
“It’s a very real problem in our field. How do
you get programs under way? It’s training in how
decisions are made.”
The plan will be detailed at first, to the point of
describing short-run activities, like how the
director should set up a certain display, Hanna
said, but it will also include long-range projec
tions and recommendations for growth, funding
and other vital aspects.
The 20-year-old Brazos Valley Museum is lo
cated in the Brazos Center and concentrates on
natural science.
In the museum, there’s a display of stuffed
aquatic birds enclosed in a glass case, a stump
with a brown pelican on top and a beaver lying on
the table below. There’s three glass cases con
taining snakes, an exhibit on fossil mammals of
Brazos County and, against one wall, an un
finished display left by a graduate student whom
director Dale Bode said didn’t have the enthu
siasm of the 485 and 685 students.
“They’re doing an outstanding job,” Bode said
of the students. “By May, I see a masterplan that
I can take anywhere.”
Bode said the plan will provide the recognition
and direction the museum needs in order to grow
and gain support. Donators like to fund some
thing concrete and tangible, he said, and the plan
will provide a blueprint for those funds.
Donations of both artifacts and money are the
mainstay of the museum. Membership and prog
ram fees, gift shop and bird seed sales and grants
make up the rest of the museum’s budget.
Bode said one of the the museum’s biggest
problems is that people don’t take it seriously.
“People familiar with the museum feel it can
operate on a shoe-string budget,” he said.
Another misconception is that the county sup
ports the museum because it is located in the
Brazos Center, Bode said. The museum, which is
a non-profit organization, receives no federal,
state, county or city monies.
In addition to displays and exhibits, the
museum also offers classes in natural science.
The classes are held for one and one-half hours on
three consecutive Saturdays in the spring and
fall.
During the summer, the museum offers sum
mer nature camp for children between 4 and 12.
Bode said organizing the museum around the
master plan will be like starting the museum from
scratch. But, he said, he is confident the results
will please the community and offer it more than
it has in the past.
He said he befieves Bryan-College Station
needs and enjoys this type of museum.
“After all, twenty years of existence says some
thing,” he said.
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By DAVID CALVERT
Battalion Reporter
Altering parking stickers to obtain a better parking spot is not a
novelty at Texas A&M University. The people who do it, however,
niakesS :|lsua ^y not realize the seriousness of their actions.
Campus Police Chief John R. McDonald said people have been
altering parking stickers for several years. He said the most common
i infraction is to buy a sticker for the fall semester for $15, and cut a hole
tfre permit so it looks like the permit is legal after it expires,
t foracak A legal sticker will have only one shield-shaped hole along the right
te, atUei edge, according to how much the sticker cost. A sticker for the entire
y, assiste school year costs $27.
ary to tk “We have caught 15 offenders so far this semester,” McDonald said,
d Howti flMost of these people have altered their permits to include the spring
crbusins and the summer.”
McDonald said one student made his own permit in 1979. He said
lie student made a copy of a staff permit and placed it on the bumper of
iis car.
F Another infraction is to steal a permit from the rear window of
mother car, or to place a lost permit on another car.
[ “Many people will tape the permit on the window of their car
rithout removing the sticker from its plastic wrapping,” McDonald
aid. “If they leave the car unlocked, someone can steal the sticker and
n to youe use it on another car.”
icgin real McDonald said altering a parking sticker constitutes theft of service,
all over tk is covered by sub-section 31.04 of the Texas Penal Code. The offense is
a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of no more than $1,000.
Investigator William Scott said the offense could technically be tried
as a Class B misdemeanor, but the charge is usually reduced if the
thepeop.'boffender cooperates.
McDonald said students aren’t the only group of people guilty of
any other Jterin g permits.
’....j “We get just as many cases of staff offenses as we do student
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rouldco* McDonald said an infraction committed by staff members is to buy a
Ameriffl u P'* cate P erm ft an d sell it to someone else. Duplicate staff permits are
ill we k ^ witb the stipulation that both cars displaying the sticker not be on
^mpus at the same time.
McDonald said a vehicle is towed when an altered permit is found
situation: 1 m it. He said charges are usually not pressed against persons who alter
pray. I® lieir permits as long as they agree to buy the correct permit and pay
e had to ll heir ticket. The offender is also responsible for paying the tow charge,
e felt tkj McDonald said, however, charges are usually pressed against those
, That who sell duplicate staff permits and those who use a stolen or lost
h other ttexinit from another car.
“People don’t seem to realize this is a crime,” he said. “With towing
barges as high as they are (A-l Wrecker Service charges $25), it’s just
ot worth it. ”
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