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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1981
Local
Classical quintet lulls audience
By RUTH M. DALY Mozart, Bartok and Schumann in
Battalion Reporter Rudder Theater while the Charlie
An audience of more than 300 Daniels Band whooped and hol-
hundred people politely tapped lered in G. Rollie White Coliseum
their fingers to the sounds of Thursday night.
The Lyric Art Quintet, five fa
culty members from the Universi
ty of Houston, hypnotized the
crowd with three classical num
bers in the two-hour long per-
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Come dressed os a character
F€B. 27 8 p.m.-3 a.m.
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Review
formance presented by the MSC
Opera and Performing Arts
Society.
The group gave a flawless recit
al for the well-behaved Aggie
crowd.
From the beginning of the prog
ram, the musicians held the atten
tion of the crowd, which came
dressed in its Sunday-best.
And, believe it or not, no one
whooped at the end of the prog
ram, although someone did say
bravo a few times during the five-
minute ovation.
Perhaps the best thing the quin
tet did for the crowd was make the
composers’ music come alive in
the minds of the audience.
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forms in 201 MSC beginning at 8 p.m. Admission is $3.50and
includes admission to the All Nite Fair. Tickets available at
Rudder Box Office.
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CEN-
will begin at
HIP: Will meet in the
er ‘‘Saturday Night Live” stars
Belushi and Dan Aykroyd stage a benefit concert to raise
for a needy orphanage, highlighted by their unique blues
le. 8 p.m. and midnight in Rudder Theatre.
HOUR”: Will be presented at 8 p.m. in
r orum. Tickets are available at Rudder Box Office or at
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ASSOCIATION: The Catholic Graduate
students host a Mardi Gras Parade and Dance(costumes option
al) at 8 p.m. in the St. Mary’s Student Center.
SATURDAY
BAKE SALE: The Brazos Valley Food Co-operative will hold a bake
sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at their store located at 4405 Old
College Main, Bryan(across from Grins). Proceeds will help de
fray operating expenses.
WATER SKI CLUB: Will have an outing at Pecan Lake Park on
Lake Somerville from 8 a.m. until dark. Non-members are wel
come. Maps are available in the cubicle, 216 MSC.
CATHOUC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Work Committee will
have a project at St. Mary’s Student Center from 9 a.m. until
noon. Lunch provided. Coffeehouse, with refreshments, games
and free entertainment will be held from 8-11 p.m. in the student
center.
MSC ALL NITE FAIR: Will be held in the Memorial Student
Center from 8 p.m. to3a.m. Dress as your favorite Oz character.
MSC BASEMENT COMMITTEE: The Eric Johnson Band per-
CLASS OF ’82 BALL DECORATIONS COMMITTEE: Meets
from 10a.m. to 2 p.m. in I^ounge D between Dorms 6&8 towork
on decorations.
JUMP ROPE FOR HEART CONTEST: Will be held from 10a m
to 1 p.m. at the Pemberthy Intramural Center fields to benefit
the American Heart Association.
RUGBY CLUB: Will play the Houston Heathens at 2 p.m. on the
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“Most departments have a in
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TAs,” said Dr. George Kunze,
dean of the graduate college. Both
the departments of chemistry and
English have training programs
and the Department of Educa
tion, Curriculum and Instruction
has an analysis course in college
teaching, he said.
A graduate student can work in
any of three areas: research, lab
preparation or teaching.
Students working on research
projects are called graduate assis
tant researchers, GARs. They are
paid by research grant. A graduate
assistant non-teaching, GANT,
does research with a professor in
lab as well as preparing the labs
and grading papers.
The graduate student who
teaches is a graduate assistant
teacherj, GAT, also called TA.
TA applicants are screened by
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mic credentials and confidence.
Applicants must have a combined
graduate record exam score of 800
on the verbal and quantative sec
tions and a grade point ratio of 3.0.
Kunze gives the final approval on
the departments’ choices.
According to figures from the
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Analysis, TAs made up 28 percent
of the teaching body at Texas
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A TA workshop on teaching
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Dr. Glenn Johnson, coordinator of
the graduate program in the edu
cation department. “The work
shop is strictly volunteer. It gives
the graduate student a chance to
whet his appetite.”
A workshop is also held for TAs
in the English department.
Before every semester, faculty
and TAs meet and discuss
teaching methods for composi
tion, said Dr. Forrest Burt, direc
tor of graduate English programs.
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Communication with theTAsis
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adviser, come to me or bring it up
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teaching composition,’ he said,
Most departments do not lei
TAs teach without guidance. They
are given a syllabus to follow ami
are supervised by a professor.
“We are given a syllabus to fol
low in lab that corresponds with
the lecture,” Tim Bundy, a plants
and physiology TA, said. “And
there is always a professor around
in our labs.”
Dr. Larry Peck, lab coordinator
of the Department of Chemistry,
makes sure that every lab TA has
an advising faculty member
assigned to him. “Some faculty
work with the TA verbally and
others by use of the syllabus," be
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All TAs must have at least some
background, if not a degree, in the
department in order to teach init
In accounting, a TA is not allowed
to teach unless he has had 15to20
hours of accounting, said Dr. Gan
Shugart, department head. “We
do not give a TA a class unless we
are confident he can teach it, he
said. “But if we get one bad stu
dent evaluation on a TA, we take
him out of the classroom.”
Regardless of the amount of
training and preparation a TA has.
there will still be questions he can
not answer. “Sometimes a TA
doesn’t have all the answers, but
neither does a professor,” Bundy
said.
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