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THE BATTALION THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1981 Page 3 ,ocal ’hone system will require two campus directories By RUTH M. DALY Battalion Reporter In addition to a new telephone tem to be installed this summer Texas A&M University, two npus directories will be printed tead of only one. Bob Sather, University tele- nmunications manager, said >re will be one directory for fa- flim/staff and one for students. Faculty and staff members a list of the new telephone rabers as soon as school starts, her said, but don’t necessarily d the student information ich has held up publication of directories in the past. Student information is not pub- iable until after the Registrar’s ce compiles the 12th-day ros- ’ sometime around the end of ’ ■' -»-ober, he said, its til (jjdjg,. th ere ’ s a “push this ar to get the faculty directory t early because of the change of s from V(| ntil thalj legality d' les, e word i jut of v Jgh; wbl id exists issumesd lephone numbers” that will re- elecfa It from the new telephone sys- niorsare rotobe installed this summer. 1 in fact pi they sk election. D. cards icument seniors y s: 5r liberali ither s| 1, gradui vote in The new numbers have already ien assigned, Sather said, and will be sent in an unofficial form to the departments sometime this summer so faculty and staff mem bers will have a list of the new numbers before the directories come out. An addition to both directories will be a revised general listing section, Sather then added that in addition to the listing of adminis trative and system officials, there will also be one alphabetic listing of all the officials. Sather said the faculty/staff di rectory will be circulated by Oct. 1 and will include everything in the present directory except student organizations’ advisers, who are selected after the semester starts, and the student listings. The student directories should be ready for publication Nov. 1 and will contain student listings in addition to information from the Oct. 1 directory. Changes in the phone system have been in planning stages since 1978 and the new system should relieve the current, overcrowded one, Sather said. The first three numbers for phone numbers in dorm rooms will change from 845 to 260, Sather said, but all other on- campus numbers will keep the 845 prefix. The last four digits of the present dorm room numbers will remain the same, he said. Those University-related of fices with a 779 prefix will change to 845, Sather said. The dorm room numbers will be converted July 18, Sather said, and the remaining numbers affected by the conversion will change Aug. 14. No new numbers will be dupli cates of old numbers, Sather said, to avoid a potentially large num ber of wrong numbers. Directories are published by student publications and printed by the University printing center. Don Johnson, student publica tions coordinator, said 6,000 to 7,000 directories are printed each year for faculty and staff, and 7,000 to 8,000 are printed for students. Production costs for the dire ctories depend on how many books are printed and how many pages are in the books, Johnson ell committee should dissolve. Parsons says By PAMELA EADES Battalion Reporter The Bonfire and Yell Leaders Committee should : results ! [dissolved, the committee chairman said Tuesday, gh, thel! Col. Thomas Parsons said the committee really ne thing# tesn’t do anything but recommend who should be s ter. e head yell leader. That recommendation is sub- ct to the approval of Dr. John J. Koldus, vice esident of student services. In the past, the committee has made recommen- itions about bonfire matters such as a proposal to ive bonfire from Duncan Field to Texas World idway and the decision to allow women into the itting area. These recommendations were made during the ic yell leaders were more involved in directing the infire. In recent years, the role of the yell leader changed; they are no longer in charge of bonfire. Parsons said the committee should be dissolved mse the yell leader adviser could do a better job isn the committee in choosing the head yell leader rnsethe adviser is more.involved with the yell leaders. Parsons has served as the yell leader adviser this year as well as serving as chairman of the committee, e committee of 19 staff members and students is ipointed by Koldus to serve as an advisory body on jell leader and bonfire policies. " As yell leader adviser, Parsons handles all of the ;rs’ arrangements for transportation as well as work orders for yell practice and All-University Night. He also handles their finances. Parsons said he has recommended to Koldus that the committee not be appointed next year. He said the adviser, the yell leaders themselves or the stu dent body should make the choice. Koldus said he has proposed to the executive council of Student Government that the com mittee remain in existence, only to recom mend the head yell leader. Student Government leaders will make recom mendations to Koldus who will make the final deci sion. Koldus said he had discussed alternate means of choosing a head yell leader, such as popular vote, with department heads and student leaders, but the majority of the people he spoke to didn’t like this idea. Mike Thatcher, a junior yell leader, agreed with Koldus. He said the committee is the best way to choose the head yell leader. “The one who gets the most votes is not necessari ly the best man for the job,” Thatcher said. In selecting the head yell leader, committee members interview the senior yell leaders and base their choices on a few minutes of questioning, per sonal feelings and individual judgment about tjie yell leaders. Parsons said. < Parsons said the committee will have its first meeting this year on April 8 to interview the newly elected yell leaders and draft its recommendation for the new head yell leader. raduate students elect 981-82 council officers orne cheap i® ilie which n The Da' ll March 29 it, but ’s the opt ipont, w ain culpi last yeai a. 3 of Chet larallel k 1 the “111 tyAmerii ntinue ® nerica d ture indi urces. Moore By TERRI ZAWACKI Battalion Reporter Hie Graduate Student Council [Texas A&M University elected business computing science gra- « uate student to serve as presi- ent for the coming year during ie council’s meeting March 26. Fred Seals will lead the organi- ition along with Romelia Rivera, i education administration gra- uate student who was elected ice president. David Kee and Maureen Kerri- in were elected carry-over mem- from the current council, icy will be members-at-large in 1981-82 council and will not present a particular college ithin the University. Seals said he intends to lead the luncil in the direction that the ia jority of the council wants to tk »s Aubrey Johnson, an educational administration graduate student who has been president for two years, said the officers and the car ry-over members are elected by the current council to “maintain continuity.” New council representatives will be elected in the 1981 spring election. Johnson said one of the major accomplishments of this year’s council was the creation of a for mal graduate student orientation similar to orientation available to undergraduate students. The council was instrumental in getting the student senate to con sider a bill which created a section in Kyle Field for graduate stu dents, their guests and others who wish to sit during football games. “We are not a major political group on campus,” Johnson said. Johnson also said the council has begun mixers to provide away for graduate students to meet gra duate students from other colleges within the University. The council consists of 25 mem bers. Each college within the Uni versity is represented in the coun cil according to its graduate stu dent population. The purpose of the council is to promote excellence in academic programs for graduate students, provide leadership in regulating activities in extracurricular activi ties and articulate views and con cerns of graduate students before university and student organiza tions. lews paper* raphy clast it tonal malti 300 words e longer, ; for style an i the authof v the addrti •Beer •r’hxed DrinUs ^CHARIAS PUB ^ room TONIGHT LADIES NIGHT fie ARM WRESTLING TOURNAMENT said. Publishing two directories will increase the present produc tion cost about 50 percent, he said. The cost of the directories will remain $2.50 for students, Sather said, and the faculty and staff dire ctory will cost $3.50. Students order their directories at fall pre-registration. Students can get a faculty/staff directory if they want a list of the new numbers a month early, Sather said. Part of the new phone system will provide three optional fea tures for those requesting them, in addition to long distance, for dorm room phones; call forward ing, or programming the phone to automatically forward calls else where, on or off campus; speed calling, programming the phone for frequently called numbers in which you push only one button to dial that number; and call waiting, having a “beep” sound, notifying the person talking on the phone that someone else is calling his number. Phillip Gaston, support center supervisor for General Telephone of the Southwest, said the cost of the services has not yet been de termined, however, because GTE has no idea how many students will request the services. He said touch-tone rather than dial phones will be installed be cause the new system was de signed to handle push-button phones. 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