Thursday, June 16, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3
Orientation sessions begin
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Freshmen invade campus
by Joe Tindel Jr.
Battalion Staff
'The process of creating new
iggies begins again on the
lexas A&M campus.
®he first summer orientation
onierence for this fall’s fresh-
nen began June 2. It is the first
f |14 such conferences and
iJe transfer student confer-
nces to be held here this
urainer.
In all, about 5,900 incoming
eshmen are expected to attend
ie orientation conferences, Jan
Ini ford, assistant director of
tudent Affairs, said Tuesday,
ich conference is designed
indie 450 future students,
aiford said, but that num-
been exceeded,
ach conference begins with
by examination tests given
ie first morning. The
d morning, students are
given a welcome and placement
tests, which are designed to re
veal areas of interest.
Also included in the morning
activities is a program for pa
rents designed to answer ques
tions they might have concern
ing academic matters. Topics
range from how many hours a
week a student spends in class to
how the grading process works.
The conferences also offer
parents an afternoon program
dealing more with the extra
curricular side of college life, in
cluding discussions about the
transition from high school to
college.
Among afternoon activities
for incoming freshmen is a stu
dent life presentation for non-
Corps students as well as their
parents. Winniford said the
program introduces students to
the many organizations and acti
vities available at Texas A&M.
The conferences also include an
orientation for incoming mem
bers of the Corps of Cadets.
A newer feature of the con
ferences is the resource tables,
located in the Rudder Center
exhibit hall, where incoming
freshmen can ask questions and
obtain information about such
programs as Cooperative Edu
cation, the Corps of Cadets,
food services, the A.P. Beutel
Health Center and the honors
program.
Resource tables also will have
information concerning Fish
Camp — the orientation prog
ram held in August at Lakeview
Methodist Assembly near Pales
tine. Fish Camp, sponsored by
the Student Y Association,
serves to help freshmen meet
friends and student leaders, be
come familiar with Aggie tradi
tions and learn about campus
life. Incoming freshmen may
sign up for one of four camps at
the resource table.
A housing orientation prog
ram is another afternoon session
offered during the conferences.
The program is divided into ses
sions for on-campus students,
off-campus students who have
housing and off-campus stu
dents who don’t have housing.
Among other features of the
conferences is the popular Peer
Advisor program, in which stu
dents meet in small groups with
two upperclassmen who share
some of their experiences at
Texas A&M and give advice on
various aspects of college life.
Evening activities include a
Traditions Program, presented
by the yell leaders, and a mixer
for the new Aggies in the Memo
rial Student Center.
g economist believes farmers
ore involved in marketing
by Angel Stokes
Battalion Staff
lexas farmers are becoming
acre involved in the marketing
f their agricultural products,
liticaladntys an economist for the Texas
i a dialog gri'"Itural Extension Service
rs, andht ■ exas A&M.
. there has been a
leaden#!' increase in food prices,
I ■Dr. Forrest Stegehn, the du-
’ P, ^Ince between what farmers
' * ie CE |i vec i an< d vvhat consumers
I for food rose 5.1 percent in
Si. Stegelin says this differ-
las m.: (j Ce known as the farm to retail
UhiteHo#e spread, indicates food in-
retary-ilulry charges for hantlling,
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processing and retailing farm
food products.
Because more money goes
into the marketing of farm food
products, farmers have been en
couraged to become more than
just a production person, he
says. By becoming involved in
other aspects of farming and
agriculture and following the
product one step forward, he
says, farmers can increase their
farm-share.
Also, because fewer sons and
daughters are going back to the
farm, more students have be
come interested in the agri
business or marketing side of
farming.
“Industry wants a combina
tion of agriculture and busi
ness,” he says. Because of this,
agriculturalists are entering
areas never before called agri
culture.
While Stegelin says the farm-
share of retail costs is increasing,
it’s not keeping pace with mar
keting costs.
Stegelin said that although a 5
percent to 8 percent increase in
consumer food expenditures is
expected for 1983, marketing
costs are expected to increase 5
percent to 6 percent while farm
value will increase only 2 per
cent to 3 percent.
This results in overall food
price increases being influenced
more by food industry costs than
by farm prices, he says.
According to Stegelin, the
spread will continue to happen
for the next four to five years as
the food industry strives to put
the food on the grocery shelves
that the consumer public wants.
The marketing and proces
sing costs continue to increase
because the consumer wants
more convenience type foods to
be available, he says.
A nice long talk
staff photo by Peter Rocha
Incoming freshmen and freshmen
peer advisers relax on the lawn in
front of the Academic Building and
discuss student life. Peer adviser
sessions are scheduled on the first
day of freshman orientation
conferences and give freshmen the
chance to ask questions of students.
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