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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.
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tion at Southland Street, two
pedestrians started to cross the
street.
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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.
While the accident was being
investigated, a third car driven
by Linda K. Johnson hit a Col
lege Station patrol car parked at
the scene. Johnson was arrested
for driving while intoxicated
and taken to St.
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