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Around town
Peace Corps to recruit on campus
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today through Thursday to conduct interviews with seniors
and graduate students interested in joining the Peace Corps.
Persons who wish to sign up for an interview may do so in the
Placement Center in Rudder Tower. A Peace Corps table
will also be set up in the MSC to distribute literature concern
ing the various programs of the Peace Corps.
Off-Campus Aggies to meet tonight
Off-Campus Aggies will meet tonight at 7 p.m. in 301
Rudder Tower.
All members are encouraged to attend. The agenda in
cludes: the re-scheduling of the OCA street dance, planning
the Christmas dance, and discussion of an OCA reception
for area apartment managers.
Committee plans group airline fares
The MSC Travel Committee has arranged for group fares
on Rio Airlines to Houston and Dallas for the Thanksgiving
holidays. The flights will fly into DFW airport in Dallas and
Intercontinental airport in Houston.
The cost for these roundtrip tickets will be $39 to Houston
and $54 to Dallas. The planes leave Nov. 24 and will return
Nov. 27.
The deadline to sign-up is Nov. 9. For more information
or to sign-up go by Room 216 MSC.
Absentee voting for faculty senate
Absentee voting for ratification of the proposed faculty
senate’s constitution will continue through Friday. All facul
ty who will be unavailable to vote in the regular election
should come by Room 204CA Sterling C. Evans Library
between 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Harvard physicist to lecture here
Harvard University physicist Dr. Howard Georgi will pre
sent lectures on Thursday and Friday on the grand unifica
tion theories—those which try to explain a common origin
for the basic forces of nature.
Georgi will speak on “Grand Unification and Proton De
cay” at 4 p.m. Thursday in Room 146 of the Physics
Building.
Friday, he will speak at 3 p.m. in Room 410 Rudder Tower
on “Monopoles in Grand Unified Theories.”
The lectures are open to the public.
Comptroller to interview on campus
Representatives of the Comptroller of Public Accounts will
be on campus today to interview December graduates in
terested in careers as tax auditors.
College and university graduates with a minimum of 24
hours in accounting, including six hours of intermediate
accounting, three hours of advanced accounting and three
hours of auditing are encouraged to make interview
appointments.
Salaries range from $ 17,500 to $20,000 a year, depending
on location assignment, and some travel is involved.
Further information may be obtained by calling the Place
ment Office at 845-6551.
Pi Tau Epsilon hosts convention
The Texas A&M chapter of Pi Tau Epsilon, the mechanical
engineering honor society, will host the national convention
here on Nov. 5-7.
For further information contact Saleem Karimjee at 846-
2705.
WICI sponsors publicity workshop
The Texas A&M chapter of Women in Communications,
Inc. is sponsoring a publicity workshop Nov. 13 from 10 a.m.
to 3:30 p.m. in Room 014 Reed McDonald Building.
All organizations and individuals interested in learning to
promote ideas, programs and activities are encouraged to
attend. There will be five sesssions dealing with public rela
tions, press releases, graphics, advertising and media re
sources.
The cost is $7 for each organization or individual. For more
information contact Jane Brust at 260-5351 (evenings) or
Sandra Utt in the Department of Communications at 845-
5667.
Mormans to sponsor Earth Fair
The Church of Latter Day Saints is sponsoring its third
annual Earth Fair, Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the
corner of Dexter and Jersey Streets.
The fair will consist of 17 booths ranging in subject from
food storage and cheesemaking to edible plants and bee
keeping, as well as other subjects studied by Mormans.
Admission to the fair is free and there will be hamburgers
and hotdogs available.
If you have an announcement or interesting item to submi
for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reec
McDonald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611.
Sherrill advocates
open door policy
by Beverly Hamilton
Battalion Staff
It’s best to have an open-door
policy with the media, Texas
A&M’s athletic director and
head coach said Tuesday.
“The players themselves have
to have an ability to answer to
the media,” Coach Jackie Sher
rill told an audience attending
his discussion of press relations
sponsored by the Texas A&M
chapter of the Society of Profes
sional Journalists.
“The more they (the players)
are exposed, the more they have
an opportunity to speak in front
of different groups,” he said. “If
he (an athlete) has not had that
opportunity to be in front of
people and express himself,
then he does not do a very good
job of relating what kind of per
son he is.”
He said he warns the players
that what they say could appear
in “bulletin board” talk.
“They are responsible for ev
erything they say,” he said.
Quotes from one team or
player about their opponents
often are posted on the oppo
nent’s locker room bulletin be
fore a game, he said. This can
help “fire up” the opponents, he
said.
“It should teach them to
think before they speak,” he
said.
Sherrill said he thinks it is
wrong for some coaches to only
let particular players speak to
the press.
“If you only allow certain
players to speak, you’ve seques
tered them to say only the good
things about you,” Sherrill said.
But Sherrill said his open-
door policy with the media does
not extend to what he says to his
team or pre-game practice in
formation.
“What goes on on the practice
field is not reportable,” he said.
“We do a lot of things that is
private information.
“That’s something a lot of the
press doesn’t understand.”
Although he deals with an av
erage of about five to 10 repor
ters a day, Sherrill said he
doesn’t get tired of the talking to
the media.
“But when a writer calls or
the media calls and says, ‘I’m on
my way over to your house,’ I
think that’s going a little bit too
far.”
He said he is most impressed
by a journalist who comes to an
interview prepared.
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