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Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, October 10, 1983 Classes to apply to careers Department plans changes by Kellie Dworaczyk Battalion Reporter The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences has prop osed changes in its curriculum to include an emphasis on business management and to allow stu dents to choose classes that app ly to their career goals. private companies than are working for state and federal agencies. The proposed curriculum changes have been approved by the College of Agriculture and now are waiting for University approval. The changes will better pre pare students to face the job market of the next decade, De partment Head Dr. Wallace Klussmann says. According to a departmental survey of the 1978-81 wildlife and fisheries sciences graduates, more graduates are working for The changes do not constitute a new program, and therefore don’t require the approval of the Coordinating Board, Kluss mann said. Under present and proposed curriculum guidelines, the stu dents — after a year and a half of standard courses — choose either an aquaculture, wildlife ecology, fisheries ecology, natu ral history, museum science or teaching option for their degree emphasis. If the proposed curriculum changes are approved, the natu ral history option will emphasize continued education, Dr. Richard L. Noble, wildlife and fisheries sciences professor, said. According to the study, which was conducted by faculty mem bers, about 20 percent of the wildlife and fisheries sciences graduates take the history op tion. Continued education in cludes graduate school, law school and vet school, Noble said. The other five options will focus on students who want to go to work after receiving a bache lor’s degree, Noble said. Graduates are working in many different fields, he said. For example, consulting firms, zoos, youth camps and utility companies are hiring wildlife and fisheries sciences graduates. If approved, the new curricu lum would require business management, computer science and technical writing classes in the five options emphasizing undergraduate work, Noble said. Classes specializing in marine fish, fish nutrition and diseases found in captive fish are in cluded in the curriculum changes. “Courses will be allowed to be come more specialized,” Noble said. This allows for more hands-on, field experience, he said. The department also is revis ing its approach to student advising, Noble said. There will MSC Cafeteria Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. 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One of the new courses will be an introduction class for fresh men which will explain the wild life and fisheries sciences op tions and introduce professors. The proposed curriculum in cludes an internship course so that students can “spend time working in real facilities learn ing day-to-day operations,” No ble said. There will be a freshman adviser and curriculum coun selors for each option in order to meet the students personal career goals. be a freshman adviser and curri culum counselors for each op tion in order to meet the stu dents’ personal career goals, he said. Klussmann said the proposed changes probably will not be approved in time to meet the 1984-85 undergraduate catalog deadline, but will be in the 1985- 86 catalog. He said students can organize their courses to fit the new curriculum for Spring 1983. Professor has art exhibited by Leslie Yoder Battalion Reporter An extensive An extensive painting a drawing collection by Alan Stacell will be display and lan L. played through the month of Octo ber in the gallery on the second floor of the Langford Architecture Center. Stacell, an environmental design professor, says he hopes the exhibit will focus attention on the talented peo ple within the College of Architecture and Environ mental Design. Future exhibits including works by other architecture professors would serve as an inspiration to students and bring more recognition to the college, he says. Stacell’s collection of 48 paintings on exhibit in the gal lery took him almost three years to complete. Stacell’s interest in art be gan as a child. He began by drawing dump trucks and dogs, he said. Now, the major ity of his artwork is doneim I — a medium he has t*i working with for the years — because thetechn is so versatile, he said, Stacell attributes his try to being able to see, by M Bal ree T e that icntal Ail :ms is to n “I paint from the jot heir opin havingeyes,”hesaid.“It'sei]ijed the enough to take the factthu ,lace, can look at our surroundnfl for granted.” i feconoi Stacell said he consMteven N. ^ himself a “hit and run"anjan O. R< because he paints whemljifnce prc he has a chance to—usual lernstein on weekends at his studio jil a iK l ot h “Paintingis moreofaniilf been < cation than a vocation tonkgf he said. Stacell’s studio, whidl positioned under a larges tree, adjoins his house, T| light that comes intothesi dio is beautiful,” he said." sanctuary, a playroom.” Any of his Stacell’tnai!i| purchased during theexk:|| Unite<1 A price list of his paiminji available in the collegedaiH^ ship Vest Gern row, a hi office. 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The bodies of three of the men were found Saturday night underneath a small pile of car pet and the body of the fourth man was discovered near the doorway of the small tin shed, about 35 feet from the others. was shot twice in the lower If T and the other three hadtl Whal lx*en shot at least twice head, possibly with a .22-d®> weapon. w togethe He said nine .22<alibenBf 0 , cases were found at (he >,&ttluen indicating the weapon "i not do automatic. No weaponWiB > » recovered, however. mPa t. Authorities identified the vic tims as Deputy Sheriff Phillip Good, who had been with the department only eight days; for- mer Sherman policeman Ronald Mayes; Bob Tate, the owner of the B&B ranch; and Jerry Brown. Driscoll said the men K ” planned to meet withafife|M«l “we identified person at the our deveh located about five miles: nic stabilit) east of Sherman, to discussB'We wis sale of an ultralight plane Ipuse we' Buse it's i Driscoll said officialswtitl ■us),” vc :ws confei vestigating a white 1981Sii:fv on Sta( . that was found at the scent y est Q ern Grayson County Sheriff E.L. “Jack” Driscoll said Mayes, who apparently had tried to escape, Christmas in October? See owur preview—before you say “Bah, Humbug." §CCCUTxt (3vU/lxJv 708 Eisenhower College Station, Texas 77840 (409) 696-2317 GAMMILL & MURPHY Bryan-College Station’s most interesting store is bringing you Christmas in Octo ber so you can leisurely preview our new decorations — before the Christmas rush. Plan your purchases ahead to make more time for family fun as the holidays approach. We’ve been preparing all year to bring you the best Christmas ever. 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