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Page 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1981 Student government does it better in committees By DENISE RICHTER Battalion Staff Which Texas A&M student organization is involved with reg ulations and refrigerators, tenure and textbooks, fees and football tickets? Only one campus group deals with this wide assortment of topics — the Texas A&M Student Gov ernment. The Student Government, an advisory body, is divided into three separate branches: the ex ecutive, judicial and legislative. Its executive powers are vested in the executive branch, headed by the student body president. The judicial branch of Student Government consisting of the University Judicial Board meets to hear appeals of election commis sion rulings and cases involving interpretation of the student body constitution. All legislative powers of Stu dent Government are vested in the student senate. The senate is made up of 40 senators elected by college, 30 by living area and five from the freshman class. It also includes the following officers: speaker of the senate; speaker pro-tempore; parliamen tarian and vice presidents for academic affairs, external affairs, finance, rules and regulations and student services. 0 I ■coupon* Open Again For Fall 25c Off On Each Entre Offer good through Sept. 30 Mon.-Fri. The Original area Potato House one two potato... The committees and their re sponsibilities are: Academic Affairs “This year, my committee will be focusing on the teaching and re search issue and trying to find an effective method of professor eva luations,” said Vice President for Academic Affairs, Kathy Barth olomew. “We re going to be looking into the teaching and research issue and try to come up with a solution to alleviate the problem of te nure,” Bartholemew said. “One thing that will help us will be the professor evaluations that we re working on. “In the past, the professor eva luations weren’t uniform. This year, we re going to have one eva luation form that will be used by the students, deans and depart ment heads. Then we ll compile the answers and print them in a booklet for the students.” External Affairs Improving communications be tween Texas A&M and the Bryan and College Station city councils will be the main priority for the external affairs committee, said Blaine Edwards, vice president for external affairs. “We already have a liaison with the College Station City Council and our main priority for this year is to establish a liaison with the Bryan council,” Edwards said. “By attending the meetings of the councils and building up the liaison positions, we can establish a rapport with them so we will be able to talk with them about issues that directly affect students.” Finance The Finance Committee is re sponsible for allocating the stu dent service fee to various campus groups such as the Memorial Stu dent Center Council and Directo rate, the Personal Counseling Center, Student Publications, Student Activities, the A.P. 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Rules and Regulations Main priority for the Rules and Regulations Committee will be establishing the Free Speech Forum, said Rhonda Rhea, vice president of rules and regulations. “The forum will be held every Wednesday from 10 to 2,” Rhae said. “Anyone who wishes to speak is invited to come in and get a time slot, and they’re guaran teed a minimum of 10 minutes. During this time, they can talk about any subject they want to — there’s no limit on the topic they choose.” The forum will be held at Rud der Fountain. Any student with a STUDENT an ERNMENT A&.IM UNIVERSITY any faculty during the valid I.D. card member can speak forum, Rhea said. Student Services Issues that the student services committee will be focusing on this year include the fraternity- sorority recognition issue and the Living Bank, said Chris Langford, vice president for student ser vices. “A committee has been set up by the student senate to study the issue University recognition of fraternities and sororities,” Lang ford said. “We’ll be studying that issue throughout the semester.” The committee is also in clap of coordinating the Living Bani an organ donor bank establish last year in conjunction will j. blood drive, Langford said, “The program started Is semester and was very suw fill,” he said. "This year, web By DE B Getting i idents am ntatives oi i!Po goals c M Stude ident B< nson. “To be e iment ha: idents wl ters as a id Johnsor momics hes. “It’s ink we c going to try to double or tripleOne way number of donors and exp Bryan-College Station ani other universities in Texas. Texas A&M leads nation in distribution study program :ouponi A talent pool of graduates capable of selling high technology indust rial goods coming out of Houston and Dallas — two of the largest centers is the nation — is being created at Texas A&M University. One of only a handful of distri bution-oriented studies offered by American colleges, Texas A&M’s program has an enrollment of more than 450 students, making it the largest. Students get a large dose of salesmanship and marketing, accounting and finance, manage- W A PLC ment and data processing, all from a wholesale distribution slant. They also must learn the basics of metallurgy, fabrication, electro nics and fluids transmission. That means operating lathes, pouring castings and welding materials in lab classes. The program is headed by Dr. Don Rice, a master electrician by trade who worked six years in the Texas oil fields, didn’t start college until he was 26 and then in rapid succession earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. “Distribution is a service indus try,” Rice said, “and since we deal in technical products, it helps a salesman to solve customer prob lems if he or she knows how a casting is made, how a valve is machined, something about the materials that go into thepacb; how it might be welded ii line and something about the® rosive fluids that might ti| pumped through it. “A marketing degree doesn’t supply that capability, explained. Rice said 51 companies annoili contribute cash grants to tbepw mt plans dback is t ssing prog “Once a n lestionnair ;ues,” Johi ;-area sen. •dooraskir ink about iis questio hocus-]: ithematicE ith survey; iople, gett I think w Ive a stroi iit with a ik the s are positiv nt govern i represenl Johnson sa ram for lab equipment, scMt ! lssues " ships, grants and endowment The program boasts an ment fund of $650,000 and lie hesegrou] has set a goal of $1.5 million, kwecogn The largest donation $300,(XK) from J.R. Thonp * ars ''’ J ohr president of Warren Electric & in Houston. In recognition fork generosity, the new engineer® technology complex was nine: J.R. Thompson Hall. :ention dui Fraterniti itM camp IIII1I I JEWISH STUDENT CENTER The Marine Corps will give you the opportunity to attend training next sum mer for 6 to 10 weeks, depending on your year in school, at Quantico, Vir ginia. 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