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Around town Bank helps seniors establish credit The Bank of the Southwest in Houston has developed a program to help graduating seniors acquire credit without meeting the usual stringent requirements. The program includes a VISA card and a personal check credit which gives students overdraft protection and allows a student to write his own loan. Students also can get a low cost checking account and an American Express Gold Card ftuth the approval with American Express. Dirk Smith, of the Student Government student services committee, said the Bank of the Southwest will have repre sentatives in the Memorial Student Center on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to assist graduating seniors in estab lishing a credit program. The Bank of the Southwest also will assist young profes sionals in establishing their credit with the Credit Bureau of Greater Houston, Smith said. “The most important place to build your credit is with the credit bureau,” Smith said. “Once you’ve established your credit there, they can refer you elsewhere.” Hansen named to Texas committee Texas A&M University System Chancellor Arthur G. Han sen is the new chairman of the Texas Committee for Em ployer Support of the Guard and Reserve, announced Sec retary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Secretary Weinberger’s announcement of the appoint ment of Dr. Hansen cited the continuing need for support of Texas employers on behalf of the their employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserve Forces. Dr. Hansen assumed the chancellorship of the Texas A&M University System July 1. Before coming to Texas A&M, he was president of Purdue University for 11 years and previously served two years as president of Georgia Institute of Technology. In-state tuition offered to students The Academic Common Market is helping students in the south cut the costs of undergraduate and graduate study at out-of-state institutions. This arrangement among 13 south ern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennes see, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia) allows participating students to pay in-state tuition while studying outside their home states. There are only two requirements: 1) acceptance in a prog ram to which your state has made arrangements to send its students; and 2) proof that you are a legal resident of that state. To participate in this program, write directly to the insitu- tion for admissions information. After you’ve been accepted, write to: Frances Phillips, Director Senior College Programs Coordinating Board Texas College and University System Box 12788, Capital Station Austin, Texas 7871 1 For information on the programs and schools available, write to the Southern Regional Education Board, 1340 Spring Street, N.W., Atlanta Georgia, 30309. Study abroad to be discussed The MSC Travel Committee and the Study Abroad Office are sponsoring a seminar to make students aware of the study abroad possibilites available from Texas A&M. The seminar will be held Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in Room 205-206 MSC. Custodial employees honored here Seventeen intermediate-level custodial employees recently completed an advanced custodial training program at the Texas A&M University Physical Plant. Graduating in the program’s first class were Doris Work man, Esterline Leaks, Almarie Williams, Mae Hopkins, Georgia Franklin, Verdine Bright, Berrie Ellison, Ladelle Smith, Lola Lister, Jettie Mae Foster, Cruz Narro, Minne Eastep, Patricia Hamilton, Deloris Hill, Victoria Quintero, Lenora L. Hedge and Flossie Poole. Besides attending seminars and workshops during the five-month program, the women took six finals on job- related subjects such as chemical mixtures and powered equipment. The graduates were recognized at the November Custo dial Quarterly meeting. Also recognized at the meeting were outstanding workers for September through November in each of the 15 custodial crews. If you have an announcement or interesting item to submit for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611. A small space in the right place makes. .. A BIG SALE! BATTALION ADVLRTISING CaU 845-2611 local / state Battalion/Page 4 November 29,198! / Prof says Texas, Kuwait alike S 1 by Tom Dobrez Battalion Reporter On the surface, it may appear that Texas and Kuwait have lit tle in common, but one visting professor says the two are quite similar. Dr. Da wood El-Sayed, an Egyptian who was head of the English department at Kuwait University, came here to com plete research on a comprehen sive dictionary of linguistics. He brought his wife and daughter with him. He has had no trouble adapt ing to life in Texas. “Both countries are very simi lar,” El-Sayed said. “The climate is the same. Both countries are experiencing booms in the oil in dustry. And both Kuwait and Texks are growing very fast. There are so many things in common.” The two universities also are similar, he said. Kuwait University is growing as fast as Texas A&M, and both are conservative, El-Sayed said. El-Sayed is complimentary of Texas A&M. “The library is great and so HAVE A REALLY JOYOUS HOLIDAY SEASON LOSE OPTO 1 are all the people who work there,” he said. “The students are also great. They are so se rious about their work; it’s terri fic. They have a good degree of respect for their professors and themselves. I think that’s great.” But at least one thing about the University needs to be changed, El-Sayed said, and he said he is trying to change it. “I would like to start a prog ram to teach students how to teach English as a foreign lan guage,” he said. “This way a stu dent could get a (master of arts) and go to Kuwait or another Arab country and teach English. There is a very lucrative market for any young American. “Right now, this university doesn’t teach Arabic. Tm look ing forward to the day when they teach the language and cul ture of my country. They teach the European languages, so why not Arabic. I am willing to help in any way I can.” El-Sayed already has spofa with the administration aboui such a proposal. “Although they have im started developing anythin™, their minds are open and tliti are listening,” he said. El-Sayed is confident actiot will be taken. “It’s very possible thatifthei expand linguistics heretheyril teach Arabic,” he said. “It'spos sible it will happen in thenes two years.” El-Sayed may be the catalra for such a course, but heproli ably won’t be around to seen materialize. El-Sayed will l* leaving either at the endofthi semester or the next. He said that his research comes firstani that by May 1986, hisdictionan will be complete. But for now, he and hisfamili will continue living in C(% Station — substituting Agy* football for Kuwait soccer. r< Unii HOL women and me homele sidents say dies cpmp b reside n handou help th Ten < 7A DONNA VAN DAME LOST 52 POUNDS. 30 POUNDS IN 40 DAYS. 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United Press International RICHMOND — A 27-year- old drifter remained jailed with out bond on charges in the death of a Sugarland financial consul tant, authorities said Saturday. Fort Bend County Sheriffs Deputy Roger Pavelka said Lar ry Truax, 27, was charged with the Nov. 22 killing of Paul Michael Sherman, 34, of Sugar- land. A magistrate denied bond for Truax. Authorities found Sherman dead in his home in Sugarland Nov. 22 after the man’s parens reported him late in arnvingat their Connecticut homefortlr Thanksgiving holidays. Investigators said Sherman,); financial consultant, had slashed in the throat. Pavelka said Truax w; charged in the killing after lav officers in George West caugbi him driving Sherman’s late- model car. Unite HOUS Amoco 0 was arres sending Amoco’s' ! 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