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February 5, 1982
"^Satellite system could be used for forecasting
Student project set to find ‘weather’ or not
by Lisa Thompson
Battalion Reporter
About 40 Texas
A&M
meteorology students will
gather and analyze weather data
this weekend as part of a project
to determine if a new satellite
weather data gathering system
can be used for weather fore
casting.
The students will set up and
collect data from 12 stations be
tween College Station, Corwell
and Menard, Texas and Durant,
Oklahoma. The stations form a
network spread out far enough
to provide accurate and inde
pendant measurements. If the
data were taken from only one
area, the results could be dis-
Financial planning
program to offer
oney matter tips
by Cindy Manicom
Battalion Reporter
Few people become mil
lionaires by promising them
selves: “I’ll start saving ... next
veek.” Next week becomes next
year. Plans to save go ignored.
If this sounds familiar, don’t
iworry — help is on the way.
Vays to plan, organize and suc
ceed in reaching financial goals
will be discussed in a family
jfinancial planning symposium
{‘Money Matters,” scheduled for
"Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The symposium, to be spon-
kored by the Brazos County Ex
tension Service and the Amer
ican Association of University
Vomen, will be held at the Un
itarian Fellowship Hall, 305
Wellborn Road.
A $2 registration fee is re
quired, and refreshments will be
provided.
Programs to be offered in
clude ways to manage credit, in
vestment stategies and a com
mon-sense approach to financial
planning.
Representatives from the
First City National Bank of
Bryan will discuss managing cre
dit and the advantages of con
sumer uses of credit.
Smart investments, tax
advantages and ways to enhance
savings and investments will be
discussed by Rose Van Arsdel,
of A.G. Edwards 8c Sons, a
Bryan financial consulting firm.
The common-sense approach
to financial planning will focus
on the basic building blocks for a
financial plan. Investments and
risks at each level of planning
will be discussed by Patricia L.
Shaughnessy, of Alex Brown &
Sons, a Dallas consulting firm.
Additional workshops on re
tirement planning, banking ser
vices and balancing a checkbook
will be provided.
g Counseling offices
anning merger
by Lori Weldon
Battalion Reporter
The Academic Counseling
js tiasHBEenter will close by September,
0 ther-ftransfering its services to other
joA 'offices at Texas A&M Universty,
)loeia'B Dr - Garland FE Bayliss, director
not ■Sr Academic Services, says.
^ r ' ^ on Lewis, assistant dire
ctor of the Academic Counsel
ing Center, said the Center’s stu
dent counseling activities will
merge with the Personal Coun
seling Service, sharing office
space in the YMCA building.
iThis merger will create a new
2-tof “counseling center that will eli-
ihori minate some confusion that ex-
ssn’tsBisted between the two services.
Lug! Although the three major
■functions of the Academic
i ea[ ,®Counseling Center will be hand-
jMted by other offices, no staff re-
, i|&ductions will result from the
38 2 “^merger, Bayliss said.
The incoming student con
ference, one primary function
there 1 of the Center, will be handled by
mall ' * the Office of Admissions. T he
f anl/Jother two primary functions,
d,itff
o thef
H
to
The Academic Counseling
Center was meant to handle
academic testing and career-
oriented counseling, but both
counseling services have de
veloped similar programs to
meet a wide variety of student
needs. Among the duplicated
services are career counseling,
interest and aptitude testing and
test interpretation. Both centers
also provide individual and
group counseling gnd reference
libraries.
Bayliss said the mechanics
and details of the change in the
center will have to be studied,
since only the basic changes have
been discussed.
Foreign language
certification mven
p, o
by Sheila Frazier
list!' 1.
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M students
Tire^
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w'ith
working skills in French, Ger
man, Russian or Spanish, will
have a chance to qualify for a
certificate of competency in
those languages.
The Department of Modern
Languages has, for the last two
years, offered a four-part skills
test to students, except native
speakers, who wish to broaden
their career opportunities. With
the certificate, the student has
official proof of professional
ability in a foreign language.
Dr. Anne Marie Elmquist,
head of the modern languages
department, said many students
at Texas A&M University have
developed fluency in a lam
guage, but have no official credit
for their skill. The certificate is
designed for these individuals,
she said.
The examinations test ability
in speech, oral comprehension,
reading, translation and writing
a professional essay. In addition
to this test, students may be
tested on translation and inter
pretation of cultural or technical
areas of their field.
Those interested in taking the
test should meet with a counse
lor in the department to learn
the specifics of the exam. No
date bas been set for the exams,
but Elmquist said they probably
will be given in March.
“Mastery of a foreign lan
guage is good for career oppor
tunities,” Elmquist said. ‘There
are several institutions in I exas
offering certificates, and nation
ally there is a real trend in that
direction.”
Once a student has met the
requirements, he will be given a
certificate that will state the lan
guage area, specializations and
exam score. Those who do not
pass the exam may repeat it
once. A $35 exam fee will be
charged.
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torted, Dr. James R. Scoggins,
coordinator of the project, said.
“We’ll be evaluating the
accuracy of the sounding data
that is obtained from the satel
lite,” said Scoggins, also head of
the Department of
Meteorology.
The project, which will be
funded by the National Aero
nautics and Space Administra
tion, will also show relationships
between thunderstorms and the
earth’s environment.
The students will compare
temperature and moisture data
collected from the satellite sys
tem to data collected from
weather balloons sent up to eva
luate the new satellite system for
weather forecasting.
Data collected from a national
weather service station in Texas
will also be used.
The experiment will take
place five times during the
semester. Few faculty members
will be present, making the pro
ject almost totally a student
effort.
Teams of students will leave
for each station site today. Each
team will set up a station tonight.
Data will be gathered Satur
day. After each experiment has
been conducted, the students
will process the raw data on cam
pus. Some students will partici
pate in analyzing the data to
ward the end of this summer.
Students will be well-
prepared for the series of ex
periments, Scoggins said. Many
of them were trained with the
equipment last summer in a
field program in Montana. Se
vere thunderstorms were stu
died in that project, which in
volved about 250 scientists
around the world, he said.
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research, will be transferred to
the Division of Institutional
Analysis and the Office of Plan
ning and Institutional Analysis.
University President Frank E.
Vandiver approved the change
after recommendation from an
ad hoc committee of the vice
president for academic affairs.
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