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local lo What’s Up Tuesday MSC VARIETY SHOW:Applications to perform in the 1983 MSC Variety Show are available now at the secret ary’s isle in 216 MSC. Deadline for applications is Feb. 4. CENTER FOR NUMERICAL AN ALYSISrThe Center for Numerical Analysis, Department of Mathematics, will host an international symposium on Approximation Theory on Jan. 10 through Jan. 14, 1983 at 9:30 a.m. in Rudder. Approximation theory is a part of applied mathematics and includes practical and theoredcal methods for solving a variety of real-world problems, often with the help of computers. The conference will be attended by over 100 mathematicians from 20 countries and approximately 100 lectures by leading experts will be given. STUDENT PUBLlCATIONS:Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate, Veterinary, and Medical students may have their pictures taken between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, at the Yearbook Associ ates at 1700 Puryear Dr. For more information, call 693- 6756 or 845-2611. The Final deadline for pictures is this Friday. No make-ups will be allowed after this date. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS NET- WORK:An effort to resurrect this organization is being made. Students interested in promoting student aware ness of individual rights should contact John Cook at 696-3241. PARENT’S DAY COMMITTEErAggie “Parents of the Year” applications are available now through Friday in 216 MSC. T he deadline for applications is Jan. 25. Around town 'A Friday last day for yearbook picture Friday is the last day to have your picture made for the 1983 Aggieland. If you are a junior, senior, graduate, vet or medical student and if you want to be in next year’s Aggieland, you need to go by Yearbook Associates sometime before Friday at 5 p.m. There will be no makeups and no exceptions. Go by there soon and avoid the long lines. Alpha Zeta sponsors turkey sale Alpha Zeta, the Agricultural Honor Society, is selling smoked turkeys from now until the end of the semester. Proceeds from the sale go to finance scholarships, sponsor trips to Agricultural Convocation, and to fund campus ser vice projects. The price for a 9 pound turkey is $15. An 11 pound turkey costs $18. Persons interested is ordering a turkey for Christmas should contact any Alpha Zeta member or call 846-4539 or 846-9238. Parks department to move office The College Station Parks and Recreation Department is moving into a new office building located at Central Park, on Krenek Tap Road and the Highway 6 Bypass. The mailing address of the department will remain P.O. Box 9960, but the telephone number will change to 693- 7273. The move is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, and the office will be open for regular business on Dec. 20. ’82 Aggielands being distributed The 1982 Aggielands are now available for pickup in Room 216 Reed McDonald. You need to bring your student ID in order to pick up a book. If you did not order one and wish to purchase one, they cost $21 each and are also available in Room 216. Pick up yours before Christmas and take it home to show your parents and friends. Aggie finds ‘home’ in BurnetP a by Kelley Smith Battalion Reporter After traveling through 26 states for 16 years and working odd jobs to make a living, Ben Robertson settled in Burnet four years ago, where he began his education with the help of the community. Robertson, a sophomore animal science major at Texas A&M, never had a permanent home. He traveled with his pa rents until he was 12 when they both died. “I was never used to staying in one place,” Robertson said. Without any formal educa tion, birth certificate or social security card, he continued to travel from town to town on foot or hitchhiking and looking for work after his parents’ death, he said. Robertson, 20, said he went to Burnet because it looked neat on the map, but he stayed be cause of the people. The four years that he stayed in Burnet was the longest he has stayed in one place. “People would usually help me with finding jobs, but they were never jobs I wanted to stay with,” Robertson said. “When I finally got down to Burnet, the people were interested in help ing me with an education and with getting my papers.” Robertson said that in a way, the town adopted him. “I had something to try for,” he said of his educational oppor tunity in Burnet. Before arriving in Burnet, Robertson said he couldn’t read or write well. He received most of his education at the Burnet Public Library. He also went to high school there. Robertson didn’t plan to gra duate but went to school for help with math and English, which he needed to take the Scholastic Apptitude Test. He scored a 1,100 out of a possible 1,600 on the test and was able to pass the General Educational Develop ment test in four months. Although he almost failed a pre-calculus class when he be gan school here, he has learned to keep up with the work, Robertson said. Before he came to Texas A&M, the residents of Burnet had a barbeque and raised $ 1,600 to send Robertson to col lege. He also received a scholar ship from the Highland Lakes A&M Club. While traveling, he worked at variousjobs including fruit pick- 1, rode er, ranch hand, rodeo worker and a fishing guide in Canada. Now Robertson works in the Beef Cattle Center under the work-study program. And when he’s in Burnet, Robertson works with a veterinarian. looking for work and) stay, something akan to work out, Robertsoi “If I was working,! got an apartment or! with someone 1 worWi he said. He would often families that he hitch He rarely had pi people while Robertson said. 01 by T Robertson lives on a ranch in Burnet when he is not at school. When he was traveling and Robertson, who wai Colorado, said thathei have any relatives. Hod old couple in Austinc&l once and said theywert Battal |The gover new fedei Junt to h mgs and loa with hi ifket func illege State Been reg Tt institui r Tiie mail | the accou ■v^l was to n inves lives. He went toseetklK , ,. , but does not believe there e , MC 'rered acco lated to him. Locally, should Students surveyed like new idea Small business course studied iey mar g to atte avis Me for A.G. th I We have At,” Md nks offer ; 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. by Mark Coppock Battalion Reporter The Texas A&M College of Business is oriented toward cor porate business. However, according to a recent survey of 1,120 students, many would like more instruction on how to start. operate and businesses. succeed in small Ellamaye Van Fleet, a visiting management lecturer, and gra duate student Steve Senia, are interested in how an option or minor in entrepeneurship-new ventures would be received by Texas A&M students. They surveyed 640 business majors and 480 non-business majors from all classifications. Non-business majors included in the survey were majors in agricultural economics, architecture, building construe- Announcing The Grand Opening of tion, civil engineering, compu ter science, environmental de sign, floriculture, horticulture and landscape architecture. Those majors were chosen be cause they historically have en rolled in Management 470, the one course at the University that deals specifically with small busi ness. In the survey, small busines ses were defined as having 100 or fewer employees and less than a million dollars per year in sales. Of the business majors sur veyed, 39 percent say they plan to own a small business someday and 35 percent said they might own a small business. Forty percent of the non business majors plan to own a small business and 36 percent said they might. Bryan-College Station’s Newest Restaurant and Club Located in the 707 Center across from the University Wednesday Dee. 15th 1-7 p.m. Interest in an E-NV option or minor decreased as the prop osed requirements were raised. While 18 percent of the business majors were not interested in the idea at all, 12 percent would have stayed an extra semester to complete the increased require ments. Only six percent would have changed from a business major to the E-NV option. Eleven percent of the non business majors said they would stay an extra semester to be in volved in an E-NV program. However, if an E-NV prog- Champagne - Buffet Happy Hour Free - Pool ingoing to ram could be taken as take it. 1 figi without changing ma pem. they w terest increased. Egkrehe new percent of the businesle' Deposits and 72 percent of tklgulations business majors said t!»B|ks and sa take the option if theycfAnies to of in their major. Brst, the With an interest in ireinstituth about small business: merest rate Van Fleet said she hopeHwas pla more emphasis placed tecounts. T1 the College of Business lent passboc "I believe Texas As Sample of be the number one sch ion. trepreneurship in thettAecil Pete The entrepreneurial Jem in char synonymous with (tkreos Savi Aggie,” she said. mg able tc But where would dg plus for sources to teach small :T“0ur rate courses come from? Nay, but w “It all comes downto®:|ia(i the mi Van Fleet said. “WhatsnJetcrs said, porations would give to w tnarket c versity is pocket c pared to what a large coil tion would.” She also said that: fessors feel that teaching! business courses would i!| too much of their tinifl would deny them the tij f mblish material necessal urthering their careers | Van Fleetsaid progre% made by changing the a# United some business classes. li*j WASH I!' a whole new car::., rena- Couri change from the all-May, uphelc emphasis would helpjijhority in a order chan Drink Coupon Buy 1 — Get 1 Free Dec. 15th to Dec. 29th Day students get their news from the Bait, Bating cil fori Arthu I The jus bf approva Btrict C< Bt were i the voting ] southeastei town. : justice . for the cot (were “a inst th< Now you know United Press International TAMPICO, Ill. — Two busi nessmen in President Reagan’s birthplace are drumming up support for a worldwide petition drive calling on that town’s most famous former citizen to halt the nuclear arms race with Russia. Denny Heller and Neil Robinson said they hope thousands of people in both Russia and the United States will sign the petition in an effort to pressure Reagan and Soviet leader Yuri Andropov into call ing a summit meeting on nuc lear arms. The petition says Reagan and Andropov should “meet in a neutral country and ... negotiate a verifiable agreement which bans all testing and deployment of nuclear weapons.” Robinson, a newspaper edi tor, and Heller, who runs an alternative energy shop, said Thursday they hope to circulate the petitions by mail throughout the United States, Europe, Afri ca, Asia and Latin America. “Maybe even some Russian dissidents will circulate them if we can get some in their coun try,” Robinson said. Take a study break! Get your [rposefu Jut.” |The dis pansion vered th Ipulatior jrders fr it. At the AGGIELAND Taken Photographers from Yearbook Associates, 1700 Puryear Drive, will be taking pictures for the 1983 Aggieland. All juniors, seniors, graduate, medical and vet school students have until Dec. 1 7 to have their pictures taken, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call 693-6756 or 845-261 1. The final deadline for pictures is Dec. 17. No make-ups will be allowed after this date.