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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1983)
i sun ng’s Monday, April 25, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3 Accounting society to sponsor Playday by Stephanie M. Ross Battalion Reporter If you’re an accounting ma jor, you could meet your fu ture employer while handing him a putter on the sixth hole of the golf course or serving the ball to him in a tennis game in the 9th Greater Annual Accounting Playday being held today. The playday, sponsored by the accounting society, con sists of three events: a golf tournament, tennis tourna ment and five-kilometer run. Students, professors and pro fessionals in the accounting field are the participants in the events. The playday will end with the accounting socie ty banquet. In March, invitations to the playday events were sent to professionals and recruiters in the accounting field who come to Texas A&M to inter view students for their com panies. Invitations also were sent to people who graduated from Texas A&M in account ing in recent years. Ronda Steely, accounting society president, said appro ximately 95 professionals will Part of the reason for the playday is for stu dents to meet profes sional accountants and recruiters in a relaxed atmosphere. attend. Fewer are coming this year than in the past, possibly because companies can’t afford to send their em ployees, Steely said. Seventy-nine students, professionals and professors have signed up to play in the golf tournament held on the Texas A&M course. It is clear ly the most popular event, Steely said. Many of the pro fessionals come back every year to defend their titles, or to finally win, she said. Teams are set up according to participants’ average scores, so students and profes sionals may be on the same teams. Part of the reason for the playday is for students to meet professional accountants and recruiters in a relaxed atmos phere, Steely said. It’s a good way to meet the person who may be interviewing you for a job because you get to know a little about them, and they get a chance to know more about you than they could find out in a 30-minute interview. Students who are caddies get a chance to spend a lot of time with the professionals. Steely said that she was the caddy for the man who hired her for the job she has when she graduates in May. MSC expansion planned by Patti Schwierzke Battalion Staff The Memorial Student Cen ter plans to expand certain programs and be more respon sive to students’ needs next year, says Greg Hawkins, newly- elected MSC president. The council has a dual goal to provide programs for students and provide student leadership through programs that allow for student development, Hawkins said. The MSC restructured its ex ecutive branch to focus more on internal areas and to develop long-range planning and exter nal planning in the community, the state and the nation, Haw kins said. Along with the re structuring, the name of the council was shortened from MSC Council and Directorate to MSC. “We can build better external relations by working more close ly with Student Government and other campus organiza tions,” Hawkins said. “We need to coordinate with others so that we can have better efforts. We want students to put an emph asis on their own personal learning.” The new structure is com posed of a president, three ex ecutive vice presidents and nine vice presidents. As executive vice president for administration, Eric Conner is responsible for the financial and operational aspects of the MSC. The 1984 budget for the MSC .is $3.5 million and is di vided into two sections. The program portion is about $2 mil lion, and the operation and administration portion is about $1.5 million. Conner said there is not much student involvement in the operation and administration portion of the MSC. The admi nistration area of the MSC is re sponsible for the MSC Browsing Library, the Rumours snack bar, MSC Box Office, Student Fi nance Center, MSC Craft Shop and the print and copy center. Conner said he hopes to start a program to involve more stu dents in his administrative area of the MSC. “I want to try to make them (the students) part of the MSC union concept,” Conner said. “I want to make the MSC more personable. A lot of students don’t realize that the Student Fi nance Center is the bank for all 800 student organizations.” Denis Davis is executive vice president for marketing and personnel and is responsible for marketing, personnel, fund raising, public relations and stu dent development. Davis said her main goals are to maintain a good image for the MSC, to meet the needs of the student body and to recognize what the community and the campus want the MSC to pro vide in the way of programs. One of her main concerns next year is to create an overall awareness of development and to finance programs, Davis said. “We need to lay the ground work to support the MSC in the future,” she said. “The MSC has been growing stronger and stronger over the years. Now, it has concrete plans that have been benefitting students.” Davis also is responsible for endowments. The more money the MSC raises, the less that will be funded by student services fees, she said. The Enrichment Board for Development, which is com posed of students, former stu dents and administrators, has set a goal to raise $5 million in the next eight years, she said. As executive vice president for programs, Pat Wood is re sponsible for all MSC programs. MSC programs are deficient in international programs and religious programs, he said. Programs also need to be broadened in the educational, cultural and entertainment areas, he said. The educational area can be broadened through such prog rams as the Student Conference on National Affairs, Free Uni versity and Outdoor Recreation Committee. The cultural area can be broadened through programs such as Black Aware ness, Committee for Awareness of Mexican-American Culture and MSC Visual Arts, he said. The entertainment area can be expanded through commercial co-sponsorship to alleviate some of the financial burden. “MSC programs should re flect what the students want and need,” Wood said. “We need to offer programs that students want to come to because we can not afford financial flops.” Pedestrian hit twice by cars MS by Angel Stokes Battalion Staff A College Station man is in jritical condition at Scott and Vhite Hospital in Temple after eing hit by two cars Thursday light on Welborn Road. Calvin Peterson, 22, of Col lege Station, was first hit by a (Ollege Station police car driven ly Detective Mark Langwell. leterson was thrown into ncoming traffic and hit a cond time by a station wagon riven by Leslie Alan Pyeatt, so of College Station. mmM,. The accident occurred at intoshaji ,][ t0 ass i s t j n a disturbance, a thalPii exas Department of Public a mill afety spokesman said Sunday, useofitii cold. ' plainei singourf the Frfj gentintij st-class® fftodos) r on hw down j se 'y tfienitj As he approached the intersec tion at Southland Street, two pedestrians started to cross the street. Langwell braked t and swerved but hit Peterson and knocked him into another lane, where he was struck by the second car, the spokesman said. Peterson was taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Bryan with head and pelvic injuries and was then flown by helicopter to Scott and White Friday night. Langwell was also treated for minor injuries. 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