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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
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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
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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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School Board President Bruce
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Secretary Joe Templeton said
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