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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1982)
tmtammaaamaamamamamommmmammmmm mamam KHHttn FLU AND INTERFERON STUDIES local / state Battalion/Page September 22,1! $60 - $250.00 We are planning tests this fall and winter of influenza vaccines] and interferon against a common cold virus (Rhinovirus 13) For more information ^nd blood samples ($5.00) for eligibility] screening, come: Telecommunications lost due to department change Monday-Friday, Sept. 20-24,1982 To: Commons Lounge 9 AM-6 PM Health Center 9 AM-4 PM Dr. John Quarles, 845-1313 by Stephanie Fondy Battalion Reporter The Department of Engineer ing Technology’s telecommuni cations specialization program helped many students find jobs. Now, the six-year-old program is being phased out. Dr. Kenneth Gowdy, head of the engineering technology de partment, said the change is a part of the restructuring of the department’s undergraduate program. He said the restruc turing would give the students better preparation. Gowdy said the department is concentrating on the areas that draw the most students. These include electronic engineering technology, manufacturing, en gineering technology, industrial distribution, and mechanical en gineering technology. He said the department is waiting for approval of the re structuring plan by the Coordi nating Board, Texas Colleges and Universities, and expects approval by the spring semester. The new programs will go into effect in the semester after its approval. “The telecommunications courses will still be available for students interested in them, but the courses will be a part of the electronic engineering technol- ogy program after the approval of the restructuring,” Gowdy said. The department offers five courses in telecommunications for a total of 13 hours. Students in engineering technology are required to take 27 hours in their specialization. Students in the telecommunications prog ram took their remaining 14 hours in electronic courses. Ab out 50 students are in the spe cialization program. Gowdy said about a year ago there were plans to expand the telecommunications program, but the absence of a full-time in structor and the department’s lack of funds to cover the expen sive telecommunications equip ment tabled the expansion. on a part-time basis. William^ wards, a visiting profm* taught the courses from Sprii 1981 until Spring Tebeaux is presently teaclijJ the courses on a part-timebasj “The department would c| tinue to seek a full-time insiin tor,” Gowdy said. He saidil search has been long becauseS culty salaries can’t competes industry salaries and there ii shortage of qualified instrucj in telecommunications. One telecommunications sj dent, who refused to be idenj fied, said he entered theprd ram when the plans for expal Habis Johnson, developer of sion were being made. u N R R E A T I N G ENERGY WE’RE TAPPING NEW ENERGY SOURCES AT MM the telecommunications prog ram, taught the courses from their beginning in 1976 until 1980. Johnson left in 1980 to take ajob with Continental Tele phone in Georgia. The depart ment began the search fern a full time instructor but could not find one. Jene Tebeaux, an em ployee of Houston’s Southwest ern Bell operator services staff, taught the courses in Fall 1980 “Now that the plans been tabled I’m uncertain alx my degree,” the student saidl Another student, whoalsoij fused to be identified, saidlj was dissatisfied with takingelti Ironic courses to fulfill hisi gree requirement. He saidl was not interested in electron! but had no choice since theelj ironies courses were partofilj telecommunications program Smugglers soak| aliens for cash United Press International CORPUS CHRISTI — A woman who identified herself only as “Derta” says she and her cousin Emerita had been forced to pay smugglers and crooked officials $4,000 in dollars, pesos and jewelry to obtain transport from Honduras to Texas, where another cousin lives in Corpus Christi. Police, who thought they were rescuing an abducted woman Monday, found they had discovered a plan to smug gle two Honduran women into the country illegally. Authorities got involved when the Corpus Christi cousin sent a neighbor and his son to pick up the women at a local motel. The men got into a skir mish with the smugglers, who wanted still more money, and finally left with Derta. Someone at the motel told police a woman had been abducted. When police sorted out the smuggling story, they took the two smuggling suspects into cus tody along with the Honduran women. Derta said the twisted tale be gan in Honduras Sept, she and Emerita decided I come to Texas to try togehJ as maids in an office buildini hotel. They left four chidi behind. “We came to work here,’’D ta said, “There are nojobij Honduras now.” The women, along withsevj al other refugees, were tail first to Guatemala then to Ml ico City, where they stayed fi 10 days and had to pay bribes various officials. Most of I group had to wire home I more money. Five of the refugees thentoi the train to Nuevo Lared where smugglers forced them surrender their jewelry. “I gave them my necklad earrings and a ring —jewel which has taken me yeavsto^ It was probably all worth sew hundred dollars,” Emeritasai At Nuevo Laredo, anotli smuggler offered to take I to Houston for $700 and ! they could pay when they; rived. The women then cn tacted their cousin in Corpi Christi and asked for matiev. H-E-B There will be a meeting of the Hurst-Euless-Bedford Hometown Club on Wednesday, September 22 at 8:30 p.m. in Room #302 Rudder. The meeting will last about 40 minutes and will be followed by si get-together at Bennigan’s. W ere Gulf Oil Corporation. And we’II be on campus to look for something very much in demand these days. New energy. Specifically new human energy The fast-changing energy field wifi continue to be one of the most exdting and rewarding places to launch a career. Into the eighties, and beyond. And Gulf has exceptional opportunities for new people with new ideas about solving energy problems. Sign up for an appointment now at your placement office. And pick up some Gulf literature for background information. Because this year promises to be a great year for new energy And we can’t think of a better place to look than here. s> a- u DATES: OCTOBER 26 & 27 Bus. Anal., Comp. 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