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iuesday, September 13, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3 fORTHE RTURE-- ttxm IET0R1C. Project Orion guideline approved by council by Kathy Wiesepape Battalion Stall Joals for Project Orion, a new jgram designed to better ac- Jaint freshmen with the Memo- ■1 Student Center organization. Ire approved at a Monday night ■eting of the MSC Council. Vice President of Marketing Personnel, Denis Davis, said program has a double goal. I First, it will enable MSC com mittees to recruit active freshmen Bin retain their involvement in till; program through their years at Bias A&M. |Secondly, it will provide a com plete orientation of the MSC phi losophy, history, goals, structure, policies and procedure. The program will only apply to freshman who already are active in any MSC committee. The pur pose of the program is to train freshman to be the future leaders of the MSC Council. It is an attempt to provide continuity to the management of MSC commit tees and the council. Diane Baumbach, coordinator for the project, said 150 freshmen members of MSC committees will be selected to participate in the program. They will meet for din ner four times during the semes ter and have discussions as well as listen to presentations by various speakers. “Were not going to just lecture to them,’ Baumbach said. “This won’t just be the same dull things that they could hear in some of their classes. ’’ The idea for Project Orion came out of discussions held at the MSC retreat last spring, Davis said. Members moving from committee positions into officer roles did not have a broad understanding of the MSC organization, programs, and policies. Knowledge and experi ence gained by previous council members and chairmen were not being passed on, Davis said. “That paints a pretty grim pic ture internally, I’m afraid,” Davis said. Although the goals for the pro ject were unanimously approved by the council, the budget has not yet been approved by the budget review committe or the executive committee, MSC President Greg Hawkins said. Davis said she expects the program to cost around $6,000. The major cost is $2,400 for the catered dinners. MSC Council Ks speakers ■ I by Kathy Wiesepape Jk I I _ I Battalion StalT J / I Speakers for the Memorial . - Btudent Center Student Con- ^ I Terence on National Affairs, | W | MSC Great Issues, and MSC’ I V# i Black Awareness were ipproved at a Monday night meeting of the MSC Council The topic for SCON A, which dlbeheld Feh. 15-17, is “The Media and Its Influence on Society. ” The speakers ipproved were: Walter Cronk- te, former anchorman for CBS News; Fred W. Friendly, Col iimbia University professor and irnner president of CBS News; Arthur Miller, Harvard University law professor Speakers also were approved for this fall’s Great Issues prog rams. William Samelson, a sur vivor of one of the German con centration camps in World War 11, will speak about citizenship and human rights Charles Clements, an Amer ican doctor who worked with dvilians in El Salvador, will es for taking Hit present his interpretation of led as “prolonged U.S. policy in El Salvador in his wed bv “friction female, dancini ough of a harij lose your eyes ginent. it’s over by thew solitaire, n bassoon, a i bass horn, i superfluous tosii ■ians blow onlvt /ever, there cool in embers to kill els of Russian bn lolitaire also knot t giv lath. lecture entitled, "El Salvador: The Truth. Paul Walker, the director of research for Physicians for So cial Bcsponsibilitiy, will speak alnnit nuclear warfare. His posi tion is strongly against nuclear warfare, and Adam Quarles, MSC Great Issues planning coordinator, said the committee is planning to balance his pre sentation with a pro-nuclear speaker later in the year. James "Bo Gritz, a former Lt.-Col. in the U.S. Army Spe cial Forces, will present evi dence he says shows that Amer ican POW’s are still being held in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Lynn Ashby, editorialist for the Houston Post, was another speaker proposed by MSC Great Issues for approval. Approval for Ashby will be held until a specific speech topic can he agreed on by the executive committee. Charles H. King, director of the urban crisis center in Atlan ta, was approved as a speaker for MSC Black Awareness. Local disputes athletic funding PCPA to prepare ag students for jobs by Linda Griggs Battalion Reporter The fifth Professional Career Planning in Agriculture day will be held Wednesday in the Memo rial Student Center Ballroom. “PCPA is a day set aside to let freshmen through graduate stu dents visit with prospective em ployers about future careers, to learn what is required by that company and how they should prepare their curriculum to meet those requirements,” associate professor Howard Hesby said. PCPA is open at no cost to all students interested in an agricul tural career and to those outside the college of agriculture who might be undecided about a major. “It gives students an idea of the diversity of the agricultural indus try,” co-chairman Leslie Liere said. This year PCPA has expanded the concept of company recruit ment, which has proven benefi cial, because 54 companies are participating as compared to 41 last year. The companies will have booths set up where- students can ask questions and visit with company representatives. “We appreciate these com panies bringing the real world to campus for our students to learn from and plan,” Hesby said. In addition, several companies will interview seniors Thursday and Friday at the Placement Cen ter in Rudder Tower. “PCPA day is more than getting jobs lor seniors,” co-chairman Monty Teel said. “It aids the freshmen in deciding on a major and setting career goals. The College of Agriculture, the Texas A&M student chapter of the National Agri-Marketing Associa tion and the Career Planning and Placement Center are planning PCPA. Company booths will be open from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. primarily for juniors, seniors and graduate students and from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. for all other stu dents. PCPA day will end with a bar- beque at the Brazos Center at 6:30 p.m. Tickets for the Barbeque will be available until Tuesday in the MSC hallway, Kleberg Animal and Food Science Center and the Agriculture Building for $4 . by Christine Mallon Battalion Staff Monday night’s College Station School Board meeting turned into a battle between parents and hoard members, with both sides arguing the age-old question of academics versus athletics. The meeting was a public hear ing on a proposal to increase prop erty taxes by about 5 percent. Proposed budget cuts and addi tions brought up mixed emotions from the unusually large audi ence. Edgar Meyer, of College Sta tion, asked board members why so much emphasis and budget money is alloted for high school athletics instead of high school academics. Superintendent H.R. Burnett assured Meyer this was not the case since there actually has been a decrease in several of the athletic funds in the proposed budget. The most controversial of these athletic fund decreases seemed to he the cutback in the meals that were once provided for varsity athletes who were playing out-of- town games. Athletes had been given a food allowance of $3.75 per road trip express your in ian boots, es] shower. kes; n ™ art, t takes an translate that ■rs are panting id him to the tice to McGove tell Reid lightnin. mds of the 19846 i is scanning thesl >bably wont hit! kind of person - to climb to then e when the blim ie Players offer roles, and behind the scene jobs by Mitch Clendening Battalion Reporter Texas A&M students looking for n outlet for their creative and rtistic talents can audition for Jays with the Aggies Players or articipate in the productions be- lind the scenes. Usually about 100 students au- lition for roles, but the average astsize is 11 people, Robert W. faick, assistant director for the heater arts section, said. Some of he students who fail to land a he said, join the crew and ielp with the sets, lights and cos- said. Theater arts majors will be allowed to participate in the prog ram, but its main goal will be to involve non-majors at the Univer sity, Wenck said. The season’s first produc tion will be “What the Butler Saw,” and will be directed by Wenck. Performances will run from Sept. 28 to Oct. 1 at Rudder Theater. The second play this year, “Summer and Smoke, ” will be the Texas A&M entry in the American College Theater Festival, Wenck said. 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