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J page 4 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1981 Local Unclaimed items auctioned today A lost and found auction sponsored by Texas A&M’s MSC Council is on tap today in the MSC main lounge. Items being auctioned are lost and found items which have remained in the MSC and have not been claimed. The auction is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. and will continue throughout the afternoon. Items up for auction include calculators, books, clothes, hats, caps, jewelry, key chains, records, blankets, headphones, film and cameras. Also glass cases, engineering kits, notebooks, sporting goods, shoes, three new pairs of boots, umbrellas, coats, jackets and shirts will be sold. Cash is all council members will accept for items bought; no checks will be accepted. Records help with student tracking Council discusses personnel files By NANCY FLOECK Battalion Staff Creating personnel files on stu dents involved in MSC Council and Directorate activities was the main topic of discussion at Mon day night’s council meeting. Greg Hawkins, assistant for student development, said the files, which would contain stu dents’ names, addresses, ID num bers and career goals, would assist the council in recording growth and distributing information to members. The files would also provide input from students, he said. These files would be revised when students graduate, Hawkins said, and would assist the council when seeking donations and assistance from former MSC Council and committee members. All information in the files would be optional and records on students would not be compiled without permission, he said. Several council members ex pressed concern on the accessib- lilty and confidentiality of such files, since ID numbers, marital status and other personal informa tion would be included if the files are compiled as presented. MSC Council President Doug Dedeker asked that these opin ions and questions be put in writ ing in order to ensure considera tion. In other business, the council approved changing the Base ment’s name to Rumours. The Basement, which reopened last week after having undergone re novation for more than a year, now has a snack liar and video screen and is open during the day. Anne VVindhager, coordinator of prog rams, said the facility needed a new name to go with its new role. The council also approved transferring $945 from the dire ctorate reserve fund in orderi help Texas AAcM delegates pay* gistration fees to the 1981^2n gional Association of Collcgelir ions International Conferem which will be held on campi Nov. 6 through 8. Thirty-five4 legates from the MSC Councilc Directorate will attend theconfe 12 per and th each will pay $27 and the rema der will come from the fund. Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society Dorms getting trees, shrubs SOPHOMORE GIRLS: If you have an overall GPA of 3.5 or higher, you are eligible for membership in Alpha Lambda Delta. Come to initiate’s tea Oct. 20 #145 MSC 6:30 p.m. Aggieland pictures will be taken. WOMEN STUDENT ORGANIZATION MEETING Wednesday, October 21,1981 • Aggieland Photo • Women professors to speak on Women’s by MARTY BLAISE Battalion Reporter After standing on bare, treeless ground for over a year, two Texas A&M University dormitories are soon to be landscaped. Trees, shrubs and an irrigation system will be added to the grounds around Hobby and Neeley halls. Gene Ray, director of grounds maintenance, said the irrigation system is being con structed to allow water run-off. He explained that a certain amount of money called “site” money is used when a dormitory is in need of landscaping. This site money also is to be used to build irrigation channels under side walks, he said. Irrigation channels at Hobby and Neeley are a preliminary step before grounds maintenance can pour concrete mow strips, con crete bands used in planting areas that can make sidewalk edging an easier process. “I think we’ve probably got ab out 50 percent of the mow strips completed over there,” Ray said. “It costs a little more per foot, but in two or three years it pays for itself in labor savings.” Several ground cover plants, medium-size shrubs and a few trees will be planted in the Hob- by-Neeley area. The dorm landscaping project will lie complete once a water sprinkling system is added and grass is planted. Ray expects the project to be complete this winter. Grounds maintenance has separate departments to handle different landscaping. “We have what we call a land scape construction irrigation divi sion in the department, and they handle the irrigation and pre liminary work,” Ray said. "We also have a landscape maintenance section that takes care of things after that construc tion is completed, he said. Before 1974, some of the grounds maintenance work was completed by outside contractors. he said, but now everything done in house by Texas AWi grounds maintenance i ment. Current grounds maintena! projects include landscaping lb parking lot t.\ the post ofo • Houston Street, irrigation on the outside of Undcrwoodi Clements halls and irrigationnd | outside of the Academic c Agency Building. Ray said he hopes toseetha projects tinished by winter, h completion will depend on weal cr conditions and available ie- power. ] Rover may be a homebody Pet names often express an ex pectation by the owner which is sometimes naive or unrealistic, an expert on animal behavior says. Dogs and cats that substitute as children or other human forms of companionship usually receive a human name, while elegant names are given to pets which satisfy a status-conscious ego trip for their owners, Dr. Bonnie Beaver, a Texas A&M veterinary courses offered at A&M. Room 204C Library « NEXT AGGIES! Douglas Jewelry 10% AGGIE DISCOUNT anatomist, said. Just as often, she said, trouble some pets receive derogatory names like Stinky and dogs purch ased for protection arc given tough names such as Sarge or Killer. Pets sometimes don't live up to their names, and Beaver said it is important to study such relation ships because the attitudes of owners often show up in veterin ary clinics as problem cases. According to surveys of pet owners, only 17 percent of people with dogs classify themselves as "enthusiastic, meaning they act responsibly and have a strong affection for Fido, she said. Fully a fifth of all dog owners said they were “dissatisfied” while a fourth explained they had obtained a dog merely for proti tion. Of cat owners, six in 10 said M maintained a "low involvemof in the day-to-day care and psych logical needs of their pets, Beat said. D. peop three teste meta Part of the problem in studa owner attitudes and pet probles is that no profile of a typical cmw exists. Beaver said. A conum bond appears to be childra however, and children s attitude toward their pets can change the young owners themsel* grow up. More than half the homes America have a pet, and than a fourth of all dogs and percent of all cats come as gc she said. (A 3k O % o ON ALL MERCHANDISE WITH STUDENT ID (Cash Only Please) We reserve the right to limit use of this privilege. Downtown Bryan (212 N. 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