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RUST WLJtr SL Paid advertising, prepared by the Busines Studenti,; iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiHiMiiiitiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiHiiHiiiiiiiiiiiii Supplement to The Battalion March 1, 1982 — Vol. 5, No. 3 Suppleme of Business Administration, Texas A&M University mi—a<iiiinmmnusiinniaii i 'i hmki—iiwi—inti i«an»i This week is for business at Texas A&M A parade of executives in the business college Monday March 1 Wednesday March 3 Friday March 5 cj* "Japanese Business Behavior" Dr. Yasuo Hoshino, University of Tokyo (Visiting Fulbright Scholor at Rutgers University) 11 - 12am — Marketing 321, A&A room 102 12noon — Marketing 321 class, A&A room 102 1:00pm — Marketing 448 class, A&A room 135 cr Career Fair '82 booths open 8:30am - 4:30pm, A&A first floor hall ways & second floor lobby cr "Business Communications" Dr. Francis W. Weeks, Director of Busi ness and Tecnical Writing, University of Illinois 8-10am — Management 630, A&A room 156 ef "Entrepreneurship" Mr. Greig Placette, President, Chemco, Inc., Flouston Mr. Robert Hicks, President, Hicks En terprises, Bryan 12 - 1:00pm — Management 470, A&A room 164 1 - 2:00pm — Management 470, A&A room 164 o* "Personal and Career Decisions" Ms. Beverly Brooks, Beverly Brooks & Associates, Dallas, Texas 11 - 12am — Marketing 321, A&A 102 12 - 1:00pm — Marketing 321, A&A 102 ^"Effective Business is Successful Busl ines s” Address by Mr. John Blocker, The Texas Business Executive of the Year 2-3:00pm — Management211, A&A 102 (tf "The Role of Marketing Research in Real Estate Investment Decisions" Mr. Scott O. Shaffer, Marketing Analyst, Ben Bergeron and Associates, Commer cial Real Estate Investment and Broker age, Houston 9 - 10am — Finance 675, A&A room 155 11- 12am — Finance 675, A&A room 155 ^Career Fair Banquet and Awards Presentations "Being Successful in Business," Speak er, Mr. Tom B. Fatjo, Jr., Founder and President, The Houstonian 7 - 9:00pm — MSC, rooms 212 - 229 ef "Credit Ratings" Mr. Royce H. Hickman, Jr., VP - Fi nance, and Secretary, Associated Credit Services, Inc., Houston 2 - 3:00pm — Finance 201, A&A 158 3 - 4:00pm — Finance 201, A&A 158 Thursday March 4 Tuesday March 2 ef "Managing Business in the '80s” Mr. C. B. Ingram, President, Baker Pack ers, Inc., Houston 11 - 12.Y5am — Management 363, A&A room 102 12:30 - 1:45pm — Management 363, A&A room 102 ef "Managing Business in the '80s" Mr. J. William Streidl, Director of Man agement Education, Tenneco Inc., Houston, Texas 8 - 9.Y5am — Management 363, A&A 102 9:30 - 10:45am — Management 363, A&A 102 ef "Human Resource Development” Mr. A. D. Scott, Director of Personnel, General Business Group-International, IBM, White Plains, New York 9 - 10:00am — BAna 217, HECC 110 10 - 11:00am — BAna 217, HECC 110 2-3:00pm — Management 422, A&A 164 Information Desk ef "Human Resource Development" Mr. A. D. Scott, Director of Personnel, General Business Group-International, IBM, New York 11 - 12.T5am — Marketing 675, A&A 112 Service to Students by Amy Polk -4U Chemco Sales founder to speak to management classes Greig Placette, founder and president of Chemco Sales Corporation, will be visiting the Texas A&M campus on Wednesday, March 3, in connection with BUSINESS WEEK '82 activities. Chemco, a manufacturers' represen tative and stocking distributor of pipes, valves, gaskets, tubing, plastic pipe and fittings for the petroleum, chemical, and petrochemical industries, is expected to gross $5 million in sales this year. Chem co has two domestic branch offices in Port Arthur and New Orleans, and an international office in Houston separate from headquarters that sells its products in Mexico, Argentina, Singapore, In donesia, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Korea. Placette, who got his B.B.A. in accounting from Lamar University, helped pay for his college by sorting gas kets and doing shipping and receiving for Epsco Corporation in Beaumont, a company much like the one he later founded. Nine years ago, Placette saw an adver tisement in Playboy for a $10 book on "How to Start Your Own Business." He sent in his $10, and learned how to incor porate a business in the state of Dela ware for a registration fee of $100. With another $10, he opened a checking account for his new business, and Chemco was born. In March 1980, Texas Business named Placette one of 25 "Rising Stars of Texas" out of 400 candidates. Placette sits on the small business committee of the Hous ton Chamber of Commerce, and serves on the executive committee of the Mus cular Dystrophy Association. He is also the youngest president ever of the Hous ton chapter of Sales and Marketing Ex ecutives, Inc., which has 42,000 mem bers in 252 cities around the world. Greig Placette will be speaking on en trepreneurship to the Management 470 class at 12 p.m. Do you have questions about the Col lege of Business Administration? Do you want to join a business student group or sign up to work on Business Career Fair? Maybe you should try the information desk sponsored by the Business Student Council. "We have the answers or we try to get them to the person that has the answers," Diane McGIaun, chairman of the information desk, said. The information desk is located in 101 Academic and Agency. "The goal of the information desk is to provide students in the College of Busi ness with a common center for co ordination and information," said De nise Johnson, president of the Business Student Council. The desk is open from 8 a.m. till noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. Members of the Business Student Council staff the infor mation desk, but, "It isn't strictly for the Council," said McGIaun. "If anybody wants to help they can come in and sign up to work." Some of the services that the informa tion desk provides include: — information about the departmental societies such as what they do, how to join and what recent events they will be sponsoring -- a monthly calendar of events hap pening in the business organizations and the university "We're trying to get company files set up with annual reports and other litera ture," McGIaun said. This would mean that students would be able to come to the information desk to search for infor mation on companies and career oppor tunities, McGIaun said. Hands-on learning for business faculty, students by Cheryl Maynard LOUPOT'S BOOKSTORE Alfredo's Tacos A1 Carbon See OF Army Lou for: Happy Hour! ★ University approved Used Textbooks ★ ★ Complete calculator headquarters ★ 2 - 6pm Everyday! ★ T shirts ★ Veterinary supplies ★ Conveniently located 99<t pitchers of Lowenbrau & Miller Lite 990 orders of Nachos Best Mexican food South of the Border at Northgate 335 University Drive 713-846-6312 Supporting ''Business Week" Free Coke with this Ad "Supporting Aggie BUSINESS WEEK" The Behavioral Sciences Laboratory helps make Texas A&M competitive with other major colleges of business, said Dr. Howard Chamberlain, associate professor in the management depart ment and coordinator of the CBA Be havioral Sciences Lab . The lab, located on the third floor in the Academic and Agency Building, allows the faculty and students within the College of Business to teach and learn with "hands-on" experience in a controlled environment. With the lab, such processes as innovation, decision making, conflict resolution, and con sumer behavior can be taught and stu died. "The lab is the equivalent of an en gineer's or physicist's science lab," said Chamberlain. The lab contains a large classroom, a central control room, six small rooms,including a marketing taste-testing room, and audio/visual equipment. Cameras, microphones, and two-way mirrors are installed in each small room. They can permanently re cord or send pictures live to other groups in the lab area. "The lab should allow us to do re search that can be converted into know ledge of how people conduct business, and then how they can do it more effec tively," said Chamberlain. Presently, in structors need only to reserve the room, then provide their own help for research since there are no regular lab assistants. In his Marketing 435 course. Dr. Charles Futrell, associate professor of marketing, used the lab to simulate typical sales situations. Futrell recorded the situations and allowed his students to watch their own actions. "At first, some of my students were shy or didn't want to come to class the day we did the experiment, but once they saw themselves on film, they real ized they looked better than they thought they would," said Futrell. The lab has also been used for training workshops and executive development workshops. Chamberlain said he expects the lab will be in a high level of use by the end of the year. Much of the lab's equipment is awaiting installation scheduled for next month. Efforts are underway to make the lab's capabilities well known to facul ty and students. In the future, Chamberlain said he would like to see a computer system for decisionmaking research and physiolo gical testing. For example, a computer could measure various body reactions to stressful situations. Help for students returns by John P. Lopez A program designed to provide pie with answers to questions coi ing tax returns will be available ii Memorial Student Center during three weeks preceding the Aprij deadline for the returns. The accounting national honor nity. Beta Alpha Psi, will sponsoi event for the fourth consecutivef The program will be free of charge John Porter, vice-president of Alpha Psi, said the program is oj most interested persons, but is toward students and low-income lies. "We don't do any self-employedl turns or business returns," he said President of Beta Alpha Psi, Mann, said students who think easier to fill out a short form mig making a mistake. "Students might be able to itemize 1 ductions and save money," he said, might be able to find (tax) breaks thal average person might not think of One such tax break, Mann said, suits from one of the new tax laW effect this year. "The percentage levels that a pfl will have to pay have been brouj down," he said. The tax rate reduction, however, probabably the only new tax law will affect students, Mann said. "I don't think too many students have to worry about the other change* the tax laws," he said. Another reason a person might W to itemize. Porter said, is if theye* stocks, trusts, or a home. "We want to take a person's finairt 1 information and find out which waf best to fill out his tax form," he sat "Most people can't decide whethef : itemize or not." Also, since most people are ini dated by the tax form, Mann saidj program could possibly make a perse more confident about the way theyf out their return. "Most people feel better when hear someone say 'You're doing right thing,"' he said. Studer by Pam If you thir future, the interest in t nistration's Student Cc The Cou tween the A&M Univ tration, an, also tries tc ness studei on oportu; skills pertai The Cou: dent from t mental stuc lege: the / Managemei Association Managemei Analysis), elects four each classil senior. EacI also appoin Each of I Alpha Psi The Busines No. 3 “The Business Business Student students and sh Business Admini is financed by vol activities of the l ness” office is loc Agency (A&A) b This special edi WEEK, and is pu lion. Advertising edition is entirely Staff Editor, S Student Editor, l Advertising Dim Ad Assistant, Ah Council President Council Staff Adi Dean of the Colk iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiniiiiimiiiiiP iimiiiiiiiiimiiimiii