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November 8, 1982
nvironmental jobs increasing in Texas
m
'rivate industry
[ills work gap
by Carol Smith
Battalion Staff
rivate industry offers new
■ opportunities to wildlife and
raheries graduates from Texas
University at a time when
^Hnuinlx'! <>! ledcialaiulsiaic
for those giadua'.t^ is de
Hp>g-
Dr. Wallace Klussmann, head
(he wildlife and fisheries de-
rtment, said jobs in ranch
pnagement, environmental
jency consulting and teaching
lye all increasecl while the n a
tional government jobs with
( t jiagtiicies — such as the Texas
HSrksand Wildlife Depart mem.
Bureau ol l and M.mage-
I ^Bpt and the l .S. fish and
SjWildlife Servite — lutve d< -
■picd.
H "The go\t'l nmelll |(ills ei e
^^^Hr backbone
—M|i!ssmann said. “Ten years ago
> by OcuviotJeyemployed just about every-
■e we produced. But, they're
leones in the crunch right
n chataclemilw,and they’re not picking up
ne which jtitMtiany as we’d like them to pick
in the « l|i”
the mostiaml But, the increasing number
Iso was the ■ jobs offered in private indus-
Ihas kept the overall number
jobs from declining drastic-
e a drajj
id some ta
sell was r
orgettabl
personal,
•ughing.
The number ol graduates en-
rjng the ranch management
Id has grown because of the
:reased economic importance
wildlife on ranches, Kluss-
ann said.
The market for wildlife is
jble because prices have in-
eased and the profit margin
isbeen good, he said. Turkey
jddeerare especially valuable
hours, will |the ranch owner,
stales Smjj A ranch manager looks after
ian the, incline, takes care of the habitat
handles all of the hunting
lerations.
IRS:
7:30 p.i
plex
hour t
)f the
Other opportunities have
opened up in the aquaculture
industry and teaching, Kluss-
mann said. The aquaculture
program provides the basic
background in present techni
ques of aquatic animal manage
ment. The conservation educa
tion program provides
approaches for increasing the
general public’s awareness of
the natural resources.
“1 think we turn out the best
high school biology teacher any
where because our people are
field-oriented and have a touch
of reality with the environment
that no other curriculum pro
vides,” he said. In addition to
teaching, jobs also exist in na
ture centers, museums and zoos.
“Any kind of field that deals
with interpreting nature for
people offers jobs,” he said.
Environmental assessment is
important to industries con
cerned with the environment,
such as power companies, water
quality agencies and consulting
firms dealing in environmental
impact statements, Klussmann
said, and wildlife and fisheries
graduates can be a valuable
asset.
“We turn out an individual
who can go into any of these
areas where the need is to take
data from an environmental
standpoint and measure the
changes — be it water, fish or
wildlife,” he said.
Undergraduate enrollment
in wildlife and fisheries at Texas
A&M ranks fifth in the nation
with 235 students, and first in
the nation in graduate enroll
ment with 165 students. A re
cent survey of all wildlife and
fisheries graduates indicated
that 70 percent of them had
found jobs in the natural re
source area, Klussmann said.
Sock-banning
irotest planned
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AUSTIN — Several authors
llread excerpts from “forbid-
n books” next week to protest
“appearance of fundamen tal-
textbook critics Mel and Nor-
Gabler before the State
jard of Education, the Texas
stitute of Letters announced
day.
“An Evening of Forbidden
loks” is scheduled for
dnesday at 8 p.m. at Burdine
iditorium on the campus of
University of Texas. Its
bnsors include the Texas In
lute of Letters and People for
American Way, which have
ptested textbook censorship.
Humorist John Henry Faulk,
Ithor and Texas Monthly
magazine editor Stephen Harri-
gan, novelist Laura Furman and
Rice University author-
professor Max Apple are among
the scheduled participants who
plan to read from books that
have been banned from some
public school classrooms.
The readings — which will be
excerpted from books including
“The Diary of Anne Frank,”
“Catcher in the Rye” and “Huck
leberry Finn” — are scheduled
for the night before the Gablers,
who have been described as the
most influential textbook critics
in the nation, appear at a meet
ing of the Board of Education,
which will adopt new state tex
tbooks.
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A&M grads benefit
from travel growth
by Carol Smith
Battalion Staff
The travel industry in Texas
continues to grow despite the re
cession, and Texas A&M recrea
tion and parks graduates are
taking advantage of the jobs the
trend is creating.
“It is probably the only seg
ment of the economy that con
tinues to grow, particularly in
the South,” said Dr. Clare Gunn,
a recreation and parks professor
at Texas A&M.
Last year, total industry re
ceipts for Texas travel increased
from $ 10 million to $ 12 million.
One segment of the travel in
dustry that is increasingly inw
portant is tourism, which in
cludes commercial resort man
agement and recreational travel.
The tourism specialization
offered by the recreation and
parks department emphasizes
development, management and
expansion of commercial resorts
and travel destinations for tour
ists and vacationers.
The department has offered
classes in tourism for 15 years at
the undergraduate, graduate
and doctoral level, Gunn said,
but only in the last year has the
department started to empha
size tourism, especially at the
undergraduate level.
“We’ve always offered tour
ism but were conservative in
promoting it because we weren’t
sure if we were giving enough
hands-on training, especially at
the undergraduate level, for
specific jobs,” he said.
But graduates started to get
jobs in tourism fields (restaurant
management, airline ticketing
or hotel management, for inst
ance), Gunn said. The depart
ment found that if a stident is
given a basic background, he can
learn specific skills while work
ing at different jobs.
The emphasis on tourism
hasn’t changed the basic curri
culum, Gunn said. Elective
hours are added in business,
accounting, political science and
marketing to strengthen the
management and development
aspects of the program, he said.
When a student graduates,
he may find ajob in the public or
private sector. Public jobs are
those relating to municipal, state
and national recreation and
parks departments. Private sec
tor jobs are attractions that are
owned and operated by a private
enterprise, like Six Flags Over
Texas in Arlington.
“The public sector jobs are
not drying up and blowing away
because of the poor economy,”
Gunn said.
Recreation and parks bridges
the gap between the public and
private sectors because many of
the public areas, especially the
national parks, are operated on
a concessions basis, he said. For
instance, Trans World Airlines
operates hotels in Yellowstone
National Park, and Music Cor
poration of America operates
hotels in Yosemite National
Park.
“Public sector opportunities
are increasing because travel is
continuing in spite of all the eco
nomic problems,” he said.
Infant cases linked to VD rise
2 Houston newborns die
United Press International
HOUSTON — Twenty-two
cases of congenital syphilis, in
cluding two deaths, have been
reported among newborn in
fants in Houston so far this year,
health department officials said.
“This is a very serious prob
lem, but one that is totally pre--
ventable,” said Martin Gold
berg, administrator of the
venereal disease control prog
ram of the city health depart
ment.
Goldberg said the 22 cases of
inherited syphilis found among
infants represented an increase
over 19 such cases reported last
year and eight in 1980.
The increase in congenital
syphilis is linked to a 42 percent
rise in infectious syphilis in
Houston in 1981 and what
appears to be a 30 percent in
crease in the sexually transmit
ted disease so far this year, Gold
berg said.
Of the 22 infants born with
syphilis this year in Houston,
eight suffered central nervous
system deficits, eight had en
larged spleens and possible liver
damage, nine had body rashes
or lesions and seven had bone
defects which appeared in x-
rays.
The two deaths included one
infant who was stillborn and
another who died soon after
birth from multiple complica
tions of the venereal disease.
The majority of the mothers
with affected infants had not re
ceived any prenatal care during
their pregnancies and only one
of the five women who had pre
natal care was given a blood test
which could have detected
syphilis late in her pregnancy.
Health department officials
announced Thursday the for
mation of the Congenital Syphi
lis Impact Group to conduct a
massive public and physician
education program to help stop
the increase in cases of congenit
al syphilis.
Goldberg said when syphilis
is diagnosed early during a pre
gnancy, penicillin treatments
can prevent most problems for
newborns.
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