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Texas A&M Christmas catalogs galore A&M basketball team travels to West Virginia see At Ease TEXAS AGGIES umuvvii see page 17 Battalion Serving the University community College Station, Texas Friday, December 10, 1982 Chemistry professor Shapiro resigns as honors director icrowaveora I'ospectiveb percent oned said ttf i appliance p I' the ecom was the iw msumerdi wers, diretn ^ research, if Institute, n s include I r( > iiiiler's tv, price, by Robert McGlohon Battalion Staff Dr. Bernard L. Shapiro has res igned his position as the director of the University Honors Program. Dr. Charles E. McCandless, the vice-president for academic affairs, declined to comment on why Shapiro resigned. “We’ve been very pleased with the work Dr. Shapiro has done,” McCandless said. “He’s done a lot to bring in scholarship students. “Dr. Shapiro asked to be reas signed to the chemistry department in early January.” Shapiro, a professor of chemistry, is ill and not available for comment. Shapiro’s resignation will become effective Jan. 4. Dr. Lawrence Cress, who was recommended for the job by Shapiro and is currently the assistant director of the University Honors Program, will assume the duties of the director Jan. 5. “We’ve had a very amiable relation ship,” Cress said of Shapiro. “I’m looking forward to doing as good a job as he’s done.” Cress, a professor of history, will continue teaching history but will drop his course load to three hours. As the assistant director he taught six hours of history courses. The director of the University Honors Program has two basic re sponsibilities, Cress said. First, he must administer the honors program itself and the honors courses that make up that program. Honors courses are special sections within existing courses that are de signed to offer more in-depth course work for superior students. Honors sections are usually smaller than other sections of the same course. A student must have a 3.0 GPR to participate in the honors program. Second, the director of the honors program is responsible for the selec tion of recipients for the three merit- based scholarships — the President’s Endowed Scholars scholarship, the IVJcFadden scholarships and the Lechner scholarships. Merit-based scholarships are based upon ability alone rather than need, although the President’s Endowed Scholars scholarship also takes leadership into account, Cress said. New graduates face problems Aires the like on l< le: Ding eleiwtj* md ranges. oftener^f 1 I'fLetia ■age ■|v immerf ers said ll* ) asked fo[ diagrams by Alison Cope Battalion Reporter So, you’re finally graduating. It’s taken four or five long, hard years and a lot of worrying to make it, but you’ve done it. If you’re lucky, you’ve found a job. If you’re not so lucky, you’ve at least gone through a couple of interviews and feel confi dent about getting a job. Life couldn’t be easier, right? Wrong. When you find a job, you’re prob ably going to move to a new city. Where are you going to live? How do you get phone and utility service? Do you have automobile insurance? Does your new employer offer health in surance? If not, what type of coverage do you need? If he offers health in surance, are you covered if you don’t start work for a month? You’ll have to solve these problems and more when you leave College Sta tion for your new career. So why not start today? When you find out where your new job will be, get acquainted with the city. Mary Clayton, extension family resource managment specialist at Texas A&M, suggests calling or writ ing the Chamber of Commerce of the city where you will be moving for in formation and maps about the city. From there you can get a good idea of where apartments, single-family homes, bus lines and commercial areas are located. Your first chore will be to find an apartment. Clayton tells graduates to go to the library and read the news paper from the area they are in terested in- The Sterling C. Evans Library subscribes to about 100 news papers from major cities in the Unites States and abroad. Check the classi fied section for the average rent, availibility and location of apart ments. From the classified listings, make a list of apartments you are interested in. If you can, visit all the apartments before making your final decision. If you can’t visit the city, write each land lord. He can send you information about floor plans, deposits, lease agreements, pets and average utility costs. When you choose an apartment, the landlord will ask for a deposit, and usually the first and last month’s rent. If you have a pet, expect to pay an additional deposit. In 1981, the aver age monthly apartment rent in Hous ton was $192; in Dallas, $210; in New York, $215; in Los Angeles, $233. This puts deposits in the neighbor hood of $400. Once you’ve found an apartment, utility hook-up should be your next task. If you’ve never worked with util ity companies, brace yourself. It takes time, patience and money to get water and power pumping to an apartment. First, find out what utility company services your apartment and what uti lities you need. see GRADUATES pagelS p,000 Aggies to graduate tonight, Saturday; 78 cadets to be commissioned into services lets so il> £( learly 2,000 graduates and the com- cestheme v/ _ ju gra missioning of 78 cadets will be held this weekend in G. Rollie White Col iseum. All graduate degree candidates d undergraduate candidates in the blleges of agriculture, architecture, ’business and geosciences will gradu ate at 7:30 tonight. Texas Tech Uni versity President Lauro F. Cavazos 0 off $ iftot by Patrice Koranek Battalion Staff Commencement ceremonies for will be the commencement speaker. At 9 a.m. Saturday, undergradu ate degree candidates in the colleges of education, engineering, liberal arts, science, veterinary medicine and candidates from Texas A&M Univer sity at Galveston, will receive their di plomas. Speaker for the Saturday morning exercises will be Deputy Chancellor for Engineering John C. Calhoun Jr. Seventy-eight cadets will be com missioned as second lieutenants into the U.S. Armed Forces at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. The director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, Adm. Kinnaird McKee, will be the special guest at commissioning. Thirty-eight cadets will be commis sioned into the Army; 23 into the Air Force; 11 into the Marine Corps and six into the Navy. The Doherty Award, a $3,000 check and a plaque, given each year to a cadet who has accepted a contract and who has an outstanding academic and leadership record, will be pre sented at the ceremony. Because of the weekend’s activities, area hotels are full, except for a few spaces that are open because of can cellations. Most reservations for gra duation weekends are made a year in advance. One hotel already is full for the May commencement ceremony. inside Classified 8 Local 3 National 10 Opinions 2 Sports 17 State 4 What’s up 16 forecast ol Today’s forecast: Overcast with a high in the mid 50s. Winds from 5 to 10 miles per hour. Seventy per cent chance of rain today, 40 per cent Saturday. Underclassmen face finals through Friday Dead Week is just about over, com mencement exercises are only hours away and final examinations are looming ahead. Finals start Monday and the last exam will be Friday morn ing. All finals are scheduled to last two hours, with a one-hour break between exams. this is the schedule for next week’s finals. Monday Classes meeting MWF 7:30 or 8, final is at 8 a.m. Classes meeting MWF 12:30 or 1, fin al is at 11 a.m. Classes meeting TTh 7:30 or 8, final is at 2 p.m. Classes meeting MW 4:30 or 5, final is at 5 p.m. Tuesday Classes meeting MWF 8:30 or 9, final is at 8 a.m. Classes meeting MWF 1:30 or 2, final is at 11 a.m. Classes meeting TTh 8:30 or 9:30, final is at 2 p.m. Classes meeting TTh 4 or 5, final is at 5 p.m. Wednesday Classes meeting MWF 9:30 or 10, fin al is at 8 a.m. Classes meeting MWF 2:30 or 3, final is at 11 a.m. Classes meeting TTh 10 or 11, final is at 2 p.m. Classes meeting TTh 2:30 or 3:30, final is at 5 p.m. Thursday Classes meeting MWF 10:30 or 11, final is at 8 a.m. Classes meeting TTh 1 or 2, final is at 11 a.m. Classes meeting TTh 11:30 or 12:30, final is at 2 p.m. Classes meeting MWF 11:30 or 12:00, final is at 5 p.m. Friday Classes meeting MWF 3:30 or 4, final is at 8 a.m. Special prosecutor Jaworski dies of heart attack after cutting wood United Press International WIMBERLEY — Leon Jaworski, who began his legal career defending a bootlegger and ended it as the Watergate prosecutor who drove Richard Nixon from the White House, has died of an apparent heart attack. He was 77. Jaworski had been chainsawing firewood at his Circle J ranch in cen tral Texas Thursday and was stricken about 3 p.m. as he and ranch foreman Jon Clayton loaded the wood onto a jeep. “He was loading firewood. He just kind of leaned up against the back of his jeep and collapsed,” said Clayton, who happened by shortly before Jaworski was stricken. “I was standing there beside him. I caught him and let him down to the ground. There was never an expression of pain and fear or anything like that. “We were about three quarters of a mile from the house. I administered CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and yelled for help and hoped that someone would come. I stayed with him for about an hour and a half, administering CPR and yelling for help. Then I realized no one could hear me.” Justice of the Peace Sonny Gold, who arrived at the scene about 5 p.m., said Jaw T orski apparently suffered a heart attack. Gold said he ruled the death was from natural causes and did not order an autopsy. Jaworski and his wife of 51 years, Jeannette, had driven from Houston Wednesday to the ranch located in the central Texas Hill Country be tween San Antonio and Austin. Clayton said the couple spent two or three weekends a month there, usually arriving on Thursday. He did not know why they came early. staff photo by Jorge Casari Treetop glistens Christmas lights shine from a 35-foot Christmas tree — the first annual community Christmas tree — at the northeast edge of campus at Texas Avenue and University Drive after the lighting ceremony Thursday night. Each of the 2,500 lights on the tree represents a contribution of $10 or more to the Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Center. The tree will be lit every night until Christmas.