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Page 4B/The Battalion/Thursday, March 31, 1983 ^.iiiiiiiimmiiiimiimiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiitiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu: OFFICIAL NOTICE General Studies Program Students who plan to Pre-Register for the Fall Semester in the General Studies Pro gram are URGED to pick up a Pre registration Form in Room lOO of Harring ton Tower from Mar. 28 thru Apr. 15. Mock wedding brings home realities of marriage to teens iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimmiiiiiiimiiimiiiimiimmmmmimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii United Press International WINCHENDON, Mass. — To the familiar strains of the Wedding March, the radiant bride strolled down the aisle to ward the handsome groom. Flower girls tossed petals. Pa rents snapped pictures. Perrish Kelly slipped a ring on Diane Desmond’s finger. The young couple were pro nounced husband and wife. Two weeks and two “babies” later, the couple cheerfully re minded each other the wedding wasn’t real, their offspring were literally raw eggs and the over whelming responsibilities of marriage and parenthood could wait for now. That’s exactly the conclusion teacher Evelyn Honkala hoped for in initiating a “Marriage and Family” course heavily relying on role playing to dramatize the serious obligations the romantic ceremony incurs. “Some think I’m negative ab out marriage,” Mrs. Honkala said. “I’m not. I just want the students to understand through practical experience what they’re getting into.” The course for Murdoch High School juniors and seniors has become so popular there’s a waiting list. “I never realized what was in volved in organizing a wed ding,” said Lisa Clapp, in charge of the floral arrangements for the nuptials. “I thought it took a week and then you got mar ried.” During the six weeks of pre paration, each female member of the class planned her own make-believe wedding, orga nized the mock ceremony, re searched each detail from the cost of invitations, bridal show ers, rings, photographs, a recep tion and rented formal wear for the trousseau. The males were assigned the task of finding a hypothetical employer for a youth with only a high school diploma and itemiz ing a budget based on the hus band’s salary. The disillusioned teenagers found factory em ployment at low pay was all they would be able to obtain. Since only about 40 percent of the high school graduating class goes on to college and there has been a tendency to marry young in the town, Mrs. Honkala views the course experiences as essen tial. “It’s not that women’s lib pas sed us by,” Mrs. Honkala said. “Young people need and want to discuss male-female relation ships, regardless of when or if they marry. “By the time the five-day- aweek course is over, they know exactly what they’re getting into if they decide upon an early marriage,” she said. “I tell them to continue their education or job training, to get out into the world and refrain from mar- riage until they are really ready. “But nothing actually drives this message home” like the wedding and subsequent unit on infant care, Mrs. Honkala said. The mock ceremony not only 764-8064 |^P CULPEPPER PLAZA HAPPY HOUR — 4 till Midnight WEEKEND HAPPY HOUR — 4 till 1 am Petal Patch 707 Shopping Village 696-67I3 C ollege Station Petal Patch,Too DARK SILKS • SEIDEN BRASS BATTALION CLASSIFIED Call 845-2611 Post Oak Village Hw>. 30 764 0091 College Station the Student Activities Office is having an OPEN HOUSE Friday, April 1 9 a.m.-i2 noon at our new location in The Pavilion Please come by! STUDENT ACTIVITIES OFFICE 208 THE PAVILION 845-1133 Student Government international student Assoc. Residence Hall Assoc. Student Y Assoc. Fish camp Off Campus Aggies captures the imaginations of the students but much of the mid dle-class community of 7,000. The red roses carried by the 17-year-old bride are donated by a local store along with the petals for the flower girls and bouquets for the maid of honor and four bridesmaids. Shopowners also contribute the satan bridal gown, tuxedoes, refreshments and even a beauti- “Some think I’m nega tive about marriage. I’m not. I just want the stu dents to understand through practical ex perience what they’re getting into. ” cian for the girl’s hairdos while a mother of one of the partici pants bakes the tiered wedding cake. Marching from the home eco nomics room to the school audi torium packed with parents, teachers and students, principal William Driscoll accompanied Diane dow n the aisle. A science teacher conducted the cere mony. “It felt so real I was kind of nervous,” Miss Desmond said af terwards. “I never wore a wed ding gown before.” Emphasizing she has no plans of marriage after high school, she said, “I’m going to beauty school college. Marriage can wait.” “At first it started out like any other day,” Perrish said. “Then I heard the Wedding March and got the jitters. “I’m very relieved it w'as a mock wedding,” said Perrish, who intends to enter die armed forces after graduation. “I never realized how expen sive a wedding is until I finished planning my own,” said Wendy Wood, one of the bridesmaids. “I guess we were all pretty rfaive. “But the ceremony made ev erything we’ve studied seem so relevant,” she said, referring to the earlier class sessions on dat ing, standards for selecting a spouse and financial responsibi lities. Since all 35 students want to be in the wedding party, the 1 1 key spots are distributed at ran dom by draw. The other youngsters, like Miss Clapp, are involved in the organizational aspects. “The impact of the ceremony isn’t just centered on the bride and groom,” Mrs. Honkala said. “It affects them all.” There’s no letdown after wards, with the class immediate ly involved in parenthood pre paration, prenatal care and birth in anticipation of the obli gations soon to descend upon them. “I wanted to come up with a way to make the responsibilities of parenthood real, not just academic,” said Mrs. Honkala. a Mis and United Press In mother of four from K# KANSAS CI1Y N.H. Muri, whose agi “At first I thought of Amy traditional each student a plant, buujl-ain and livesto |me the new win United States, stat |av. Right now N could better demonstrate! fragility of a newborn dim) egg?” ' Mrs. Honkala distributed eggs, informed each newp Ickin the pack cl of the sex and instructed la for the No. 1 class to “keepthebabieswiib|ine production 24 hours a day.” "just like real babies,thee enter the world nameless, clot lied and defenseless,”| Honkala said. “It’s uptotliij las designated in rents to provide names, thing, shelter and safety." l o get into the spiritol| iissouri. Today assignment, the studentsdi rate their eggs with faces; Td for the south hair, pick names and makfj thing, such as tiny coverlets bonnets. All are requiredtoj s ide a carrier, such abassin cradle. Some become soeit turn of the centc die other way arc When the Ai out 35 miles we Ja’s first Viticulti tnct, there were mid four more a Bun. Not only is t (fineries increasii |ose already esta nding. One en F supply tinyb^ason is simple: ' don’t think lere,” said Brtu e extension si siastic they and rattles "This is just what I’ve Ardcularly in a waiting for,” said Corml] fmy, if profita sey, looking affectionately wide-eyed egg sr her. “i didn’t learn postnatal care lor nothing,' “Each student must also! a diary concerningthedailjf of a real baby,” Mrs. Hoij said. I lie youngsters soonj balancing their books, eggi c radle through the cmi hallwavs isn’t easy. And ted Firr an eve on junior durine In ■ , and gvmis so difficult then I cut " 01 ^ P ° -egg sitters." leas of industry Immigration recommends tennis star be denied asylun United Press I NEW YORK - ncellation — c g a loud nois< l oblem noise - United Press International LOS ANGELES — The com missioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service has recommended denying political asylum to 19-year-old tennis star Hu Na, but Attorney General William French Smith is ex pected to reverse the decision, it was reported Wednesday. However, a decision will not be announced until after House Speaker Thomas O’Neill and other congressional leaders end an official visit to China Sunday, the Los Angeles Times said. The newspaper said Reagan administration officials have predicted the recommendi In Alan Nelson will be) turned by Smith. The Times said theoffi| ined to be identified^ lave," he said. ^ Bund wave is jmdspeaker anc me wave cor I It’s a technolc I, utilized so fai lory only by a 1 id Dr. William lund and vibr I’m Gull Oil Corj: The technolc possible without Imputer and tf Ir, he said. I “A microproc lund wave frc Tialyzes it and n equal but a t m CAMPUS LOUPOT'S BOOKSTORE Walk, Cycle, or Shuttle. It’s only 8 Blocks. 3902 COLLEGE MAIN country place apartments 846-0515 of the “sensitivity” of the application Miss Hu defected to did ited States during the Fed tion Gup TournamentinS Clara, Calif., eight months: China has asked thatsheb turned, and the controvert put further strains on all tense relations Washington and Peking. The officials said N negative recommendation fleets a clash between theii ration service and State Dei ment over whether thede] ment has till recommending that asylm granted. machine, cancel mg the overall r I “It’s a job we [he Occupatio ealth Adminis rated that nois merican indus B year in work ’lone.” Physicians ha jor such health jiach ulcers, igh blood pr urnish teas# 0 r e ’ deafne u Scientists h coustics in con; ustry throughi I n Miss Hu’s case, thei Department first recommei last November she be allow) RL1B.0S remain as a political refuget' then simply reiterated tlm week, reportedly v spending to questions from' son about the reasonsf commendation. Another department off contended that Nelson'sr«J mendation for denial to “having your cake andfi it too,” in that the commissi would be expressing hisdis[l sure with the State Depart without sending Hu Nat China. WOMEN IN TRANSITION A Workshop for Future Professional Women % Special Guest Speaker: Ms. Pam Schauer, Personnel Administrator for Texas Ir ments in Austin, will speak on "Women in the Busines World". TOPICS Women in Business Women's Self-Image Assertiveness Future Issues for Women Career/Family Relationships Psychology of Women Thursday, April 7, 8:30-3:30 $7 Fee includes Luncheon Register at the Student Activities Office Before April 1 Student Activities Office 208 The Pavilion 845-1133 A 1 MS t