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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.
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Looking for fire in all the wrong places
by Cathy Saathoff,
Bill Robinson and
Phyllis Henderson
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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
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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
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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.
It could replace The Rocky
Horror Picture Show as a cult
film, but it does not compare the origins of intelligent life on
with P001 or Star Wars like the earth were extinguished by this
ads say it does. trip up and down the evolution-
Our hopes for an epic about ary ladder.
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