The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 30, 1981, Image 6

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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1981
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Artist stuffs, arranges birds
Wildlife art on sale at MSC
By MARTY BLAISE
Battalion Reporter
Wildlife enthusiasts looking for
that extra special gift may find it at
the wildlife display in the Memo
rial Student Center.
The Texas A&M Poultry Scien
ce Club is selling wildlife art work,
paintings and furniture to raise
money for agricultural scholar
ships.
The wildlife arts display, across
from the MSC Gallery, will be ex
hibited through Nov. 6, and the
items will be on sale through
Thanksgiving, said Bill Lovette,
president of the Poultry Science
Club.
Items on sale include desks —
available in ash, birch or oak —
end tables, sofa tables and domes
or bars with stuffed wildlife
arrangements enclosed in glass.
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Joe Hibler of Kingsville builds
the furniture and raises and stuffs
quail and pheasant, which he uses
as part of the scenery in the glass
domes and bars.
Lovette said the small domes
have from one to three birds,
while the bars may have as many
as seven.
The club also is selling wildlife
paintings by artist David Drinkard
of Corpus Christi.
“There are a variety of paintings
for sale,” said Adele Sosa, chair
man of the Wildlife Arts Commit
tee, “and prices start at $18 for the
unframed 9 x 12s.
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“The paintings are reasonable
as far as students are concerned —
as far as Christmas gifts go.”
Lovette said interested buyers
can pick up the pricelist/order
forms at the display in the MSC, at
a display in the Aggieland Inn or in
418 Kleberg.
Sosa said the art displays and
prints will be delivered between
Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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HALLOWEEN NIGHT!
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Aggies can rodeo, rope
this weekend in Snook
By LAURA WILLIAMS
Battalion Reporter
Any past or present faculty,
staff or student of Texas A&M
can win a keg of beer Friday or
Saturday night at the All Aggie
Reunion Rodeo in Snook.
The Texas Aggie Rodeo Asso
ciation is sponsoring the steer
riding contest to give everyone
on campus an opportunity to
participate, regardless of
whether they’ve ridden or not,
Jane Armstrong, club sponsor
and team coach, said.
“We would like to challenge
sororities, fraternities and any
other group to enter and com
pete,” Armstrong said. “It’s
much more fun than riding a
mechanical bull.”
Armstrong said the team with
the best combined score of
three members will win the
keg.
Other events will include
bare-back, saddle-bronc, bull
riding, tie-down calf-roping,
team-roping, steer-wrestlimr.
goat-typing, girls barrel racing
and break-away roping. Each
event will be held twice nightly
so finals rounds won’t be re
quired, Armstrong said.
“We have two days because
of the large number of people, ”
she said.
“Last year we had over 300
entries and made $1,000.
“We get a little travel money
from the extramural services,
but it costs us at least $7,500 to
put on our collegiate i
the Spring.”
Armstrong said the tcaG|
hoping to be invited totliej
tional intercollegiate
Montana this June.
“Our girls won the won
team award at SouthwestlaJ
Junior College in Uvai
Armstrong said, addihgthatj
men’s team has also wonsevgj
events.
A dance will he
door in Snook’s Starlightj
Iroom both nights,
play Friday, and Vince I
and the Valiants will
Saturday.
Entries will he taken tin
the hall of the MSCandtil
are $3.
The Poultry Science Club holds
monthly meetings and sponsors
speakers and agricultural prog
rams. The club also takes field
trips each year to different poultry
science industries.
The club is an affiliate of the
Southeastern Poultry Science
Club, which is part of the South
eastern Poultry and Agriculture
Association, an organization that
has members in 21 universities in
the United States.
GRE preparatory class
subtracts fear of failure
Jasoi
band
By ERICA KRENNERICH
Battalion Reporter
A preparatory Graduate Record
Examination class will begin Mon
day at A&M Consolidated High
School.
Dr. Ed Guthrie, class instruc
tor and Texas A&M University
assistant director of academic ser
vices, said the class, offered
through College Station Com
munity Education, mainly shows
students how to prepare for the
math and analytical reasoning por
tions of the GRE. Most students
anxieties about the test stem from
the math portion, he said.
Guthrie said he tries to estab
lish a relaxed, friendly tone to
make the class an enjoyable ex
perience for students while he
prepares them for the test.
“The idea is to have fun and
make it enjoyable,” he said. “We
talk an awful lot, in all the ses
sions, about various strategies and
ways to work particular types of
math problems. Everybody
understands there is alvvays more
than one way to approach a prob
lem and I continually learn from
these people about innovative
ways to solve particular types of
problems.
“We start at a very elementary
level and I proceed at a slow, com
fortable pace, taking a sufficient
and necessary amount of time to
answer any questions they might
have. Everybody understands
there is no such thing as asking a
dumb question.”
Guthrie, who taught 12 years in
the Texas A&M math department,
said he discusses necessary math
fundamentals with students and
tries to refresh their memories.
Students practice under pressure
on short, timed tests with ques
tions similar to GRE questions.
The GRE is usually offered five
times a year, twice in the fall and
spring, and once in early summer.
In the past Gutherie has taught
two fall GRE preparatory classes
and two spring classes. The ses
sion, which starts Monday, will be
about his 10th class, he said.
The next GRE testing date is
Dec. 12. Guthrie said the iddhl
time for students to take the GRE
is on the Saturday after their last
Thursday class. The prep class
meets Mondays and Thursdays
from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. for five
weeks. Registration has already
closed.
The GRE is scored simikij;
the Scholastic Aptitude Test
highest possible score is
points, and the test is composilj
math and verbal sections,
GRE grading procedures^
changed this year, Guthrie
“Students will no longer
penalized for guessing, ” hes
“I think this is encouragings!
positive thing.
Guthrie said that students
have taken the GRE and noil
well enough to get into grali
class.
Class size varies, Guthries
Monday’s class has about I
dents. Smaller classes helpper
get the input they need andm
intimidated, he said.
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number of students, say,i Jlvout
more, 1 believe some o(i idT arra
camaraderie and freedomofh
mg might suffer,” Guthricsi
Guthrie, who has adoctonl
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PRES. OF TEXAS ASM
GENERAL MEETING
NOVEMBER 5, 1981
John Snyder
Washington Lobbyist
Vs.
Phillip Zelikow
Houston Lawyer
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$1.00 Non-Students
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