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local Battalion/Page 5 April 16, 1982 eniors prepare to face outside world Pressure, stress and responsibilities all part of the fun by Beth Gibson Battalion Reporter fith that shiny Texas A&M ring comes a couple of His diseases, one known as Senioritis and another fondly as Senior Panic, [enioritis comes first — a gid- tixture of plan-making and imn associated with im- ling graduation. Symptoms ide class-skipping, lots of aiming and Frishee- iving. fter Senioritis comes Senior c — realization of the enor- is responsibilities and press- >, ranging f rom concrete to Biological, which combine to t unbelievable stress on the luating senior. The first of a number of sures involves final grades. Sjipurient University policy au- an encl-of-semester §pn exclusively for graduating Jois, but several restrictions : the exam procedure, niversity regulations specif y Hat an end-of-semester exam: • Must be scheduled to comp- y%ith the registrar’s schedule photo by Gabridi' 0r submission of graduating leniors’ grades; pare for a i! I Must be given during a reg- jlar class period, and should not K;:a direct substitution for the [inal exam; • May only include material P*fevered since the last major dents. Must be announced by the “We’ve tried to tell students instructor at the beginning of not to tell prospective employers the semester. they’re bombing out in a See Focus for Senioritis A graduating senior’s aver age, without the final exam, counts as his final grade. If a student’s grades do not meet graduation requirements, he can take the regularly scheduled final exam in any course in which he wants to improve his grade. If the grade on the final exam meets graduation requirements, he will receive his degree the next time degrees are granted. It is the student’s responsibility to notify the instructor of his in tention to take the final exam. If the grade doesn’t meet gradua tion requirements, the student will have to retake the course. Associate Registrar Donald 1). Carter said if a senior already has a job secured, the registrar’s office can send a letter to his em ployer saying he has completed all the requirements for a de gree. “ I his is an official letter from the University and will help the student keep his job,” he said. Lisa Colson, alumni secretary for the Placement Center, also has some advice for these stu- course,” she said. “They’ll never see your transcripts after they’ve hired you. “You can tell them you want to take a break — maybe a little vacation after four years ... of school. Then you can retake the course and graduate the next semester.” More pressures are created by responsibilities — which start with payment of a $15 gradua tion fee and then application for a degree in the Registrar’s Office. This should be done 90 days before commencement, but Carter said those who miss the deadline may apply late. “Up to a certain point, we can let them apply late, but after that, it’s too late,” Carter said. ‘They’ll have to graduate the next time around. “We make a great effort to help the students, though we feel it’s really their responsi bility.” Pressures continue to mount for the graduating senior as commencement approaches, along with thoughts of leaving Texas A&M to go out into the crueL cruel world. Dr. Paul Bradbury, assistant director of the Texas A&M Per sonal Counseling Service, said the most obvious pressure on graduating seniors is the move from a protected environment to the outside world. “Some people think of college as an extension of adolescence,” “Some people think ol college as an extension of adolescence. To some extent most students still have some financial and emotional support from their families. The amount a student has supported himself in college will decide how well he will adjust. ” — Dr. Paul Bradbury, assistant director of the Texas A&M Personal Counseling Service. Bradbury said. “To some extent most students still have some financial and emotional support from their families. The amount a student has supported himself in college will decide how well he will adjust.” Bradbury said more self- discipline might be necessary to make up for the change from the gentle prodding of the Uni versity — schedules, grades, professors’ warnings — to the cold indifference of the open market. “Let’s face it, the comforts just won’t be there,” he said. “You’re taken care of a lot better now than you will be out there.” He said having to end com fortable friendships and re lationships is a big lump in the throat that gets in the way of starting over. “We promise ourselves we’ll keep these friends forever,” he said. “But we just can’t keep up. We have to adjust to the loss, brush of f our old social skills and learn new ones for a new circle of friends.” Bradbury said the unpredict able economy is another source of stress. When students are unable to secure jobs fresh from gradua tion, Bradbury said they must view the situation as temporary and try to support themselves until something acceptable com es along. “You’re going to feel cheated when this happens,” he said. “You’ve spent four years getting good at something and the world says, ‘We’ve got a whole lot of those.’ “View this as a means to an end — you’re not going to be stuck there.” Once that elusive job is land ed, the pressure is on again to succeed. Students climb down from the ivory tower of learning and find they have to apply what they’ve been stuffing in their heads for the past four years. “It doesn’t matter what you know in your head, it’s how well you can apply it,” Bradbury said. He said colleges need to move from a book-oriented atmos phere to one with more actual experience. “People get out and say, ‘All that stuff I learned in college is great, now I have to learn to do my job,”’ he said. “Cooperative education makes the transition easier and less stressful.” Starting a new job, being up rooted, having to reset bearings and adjusting to a completely different lifestyle can be stress ful for anyone especially for graduating seniors at Texas A&M. After all, four years in Aggie- land can be addicting. iale totaled ided to spcni n paperback k “ Donahue, H it librarian,said exhibits schtdul .ibiarv Week x and hobbvdLj, nan eniploymg| i a c Looking for fire in all the wrong places by Cathy Saathoff, Bill Robinson and Phyllis Henderson ' • Battalion Staff ollectionolW^uest for Fire was definitely tiforms, and worth the price. We were guests .S.\ posters. Thursday night at the opening 1 Library Week! oiPlitt Cinema III in Post Oak Mall. •rative etforiuB The theatre is nice and slier.s, librarians generic-looking, down to its keeps the pro;ii mandatory gaudy curtains. And the auditorium floors were aid that lexav dean, something you may never National I get to see because the preview occasionally (tifiidience already messed them and l ( .)60s, M ic program a meii up. B Quest For Fire is a generic caveman movie with better- than-average caveman effects. Hbt-headed cavemen battle over a hot commodity — fire. I The Ulams and the Waga- bous are the warring factions, as says Review we learned in the end credits. I The Ulams are hot under the pelts because the Wagabous hoisted their fire. It’s a cold, cruel world without the light of their lives. |v Three cavemen — we named them Curly, Moe and Larry — set out across the wilds of three le. we face continents in search of the lost catching up id leaving their tribe shiver- /e aredelw ‘ n S * n t ^ le middle of an Ice Age >ver the liiiwf e - and S# During their quest the leader gets his flame lit by a mud- striped siren who shows him more than one way to light a fire. She’d get a merit badge for her fire-building method, but her Other techniques would get her licked out of the troop. I It’s another boy-meets-girl 1 being knud * Soviets,’’he s inlets are gel ir media —id his of the null d States than e Soviets. we ps story — sort of an Ice Age End less Love. Quest For F7recould be realis- . . . ‘Quest for Fire’ could be realistic, but no one alive today knows for sure. It’s another boy- meets-girl story — sort of an Ice Age ‘Endless Love’. tic, but no one alive today knows for sure. The stooges eat their way through a tree while waiting for denture-wearing lions to quit drooling over them. Then they make friends with a herd of elephants wearing tusk-to-tusk carpeting. The special effects efforts ob viously are directed toward the human actors. Bare bottoms, barbecued arms and bashed heads are displayed prominent ly throughout the film. The cavepeople had no con cept of the social graces. Some in the audience thought Quest was disgusting, but some parts were so funny the gore was almost bearable. The acting is superb. After all, not many people can act so primitive. The entire film is grunted in strange tongues cre ated specially for it by Anthony Burgess. But spears speak louder than words. They had no trouble with inter-tribal communication. The action is messy, the story old, the make-up wonderful. Taken all together, it’s funny. 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