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Scholarship deadline moved up
Deadline to apply for the Good Neighbor Scholarship has
been changed from April 1 to Feb. 15. The Good Neighbor
Scholarship is available to students who are citizens of the
western hemisphere excluding the United Stales and Cuba.
Recipients of the Good Neighbor Scholarship have their
tuition waived by the state. Recipients are chosen by the
Texas Education Agency in Austin. Students interested can
apply through the Financial Aid Office in 228 Pavilion.
Bank assists in locating financial aid
Students expecting to need financial aid or summer em
ployment can write to The Scholarship Bank for information
about financial aid from up to 50 sources.
Private finacial aid donors consider applications on a year-
round basis, but now is the best time to start looking for aid
for the fall semester, Steve Danz, bank director, said.
For more information students should send a stamped,
self-addresed, business-size envelope to The Scholarship
Bank, 10100 Santa Monica Blvd.,Los Angeles, CA., 90067.
Honor society offers scholarships
National Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society will award eight
$1,000 scholarships and 28 $500 scholarships this year to
seniors who plan to enter graduate or professional schools in
Fall 1984. The recipients are chosen on the basis of scholastic
record, evidence of creative ability, potential success in their
chosen fields and character.
Members of Phi Eta Sigma interested in the scholarships
should contact Dr. Curtis Lard in 113 Systems Administra
tion Building. The National deadline for submitting applica
tions is March 1, but the local deadline is Feb. 23.
International students host art show
The Brazos Valley Art League, the Arts Council of Brazos
Valley and the Texas A&M International Students Associa
tion is sponsoring the Second International Arts Festival
Feb. 4 at the Post Oak Mall.
The festival will include an art exhibit, music show and
booths representing countries from around the world.
Those wishing to participate in the art exhibit or music show
need to contact the Arts Council at 779-2193. TAMU Inter
national clubs who wish to have a booth may secure further
information from the International Students Association on
campus at 845-1825.
To submit an item for this column come by The Battalion
office in 216 Reed McDonald.
Florida stops
use of EDB
United Press International
AUSTIN — The cancer-
causing pesticide EDB is no lon
ger being used as a fumigant on
Florida citrus shipped to Texas,
officials said Tuesday.
“We stopped using it late last
week at the request of your state
government,” said Sal Alfieri,
director of the division of plant
industries in the Florida Agri
culture Department.
Tests disclosed last Friday by
the Texas Health Department
showed high levels of EDB —
ethylene dibromide — in the
skin and pulp of oranges im
ported from Florida and tanger
ines from Mexico.
Alfieri said Texas has re-
? ;uired fumigation of Florida
ruit to kill the Caribbean fruit
fly, but had not specified the use
of EDB.
“We haven’t told them (Flor
ida officials) not to use EDB,”
said assistant Texas Agriculture
Commissioner Ron White.
Alfrier said Florida growers
have switched to methyl bro
mide, which apparently does not
leave a residue in food although
it is considered dangerous to
handle.
EDB, which has been used as
a fumigant in fruits and grains
since 1948, is still being used in
Mexico. It is known to cause can
cer in laboratory animals and is
suspected of being the cause of
cancer in humans.
Tests in Texas during Janu
ary found traces of the subst
ance in numerous food samples,
but there has been no contami
nation of water supplies.
3 counties dropped
from cowboy cose
United Press International
AMARILLO — A federal
judge Tuesday dismissed three
Panhandle counties from a $5
million lawsuit that was filed
against them, the city of Borger
and five officers concerning the
death of a 6666 Ranch cowboy.
James Crandstaff was shot
and killed near his ranch home
on Aug. 11, 1981, when he was
mistaken by officers for a fugi
tive they were hunting. Testi
mony indicated Crandstaff, 31,
had heard some commotion and
gone to help police.
In giving instructions to a
three-man, three-woman jury,
U.S. district Judge Mary Lou
Robinson told them some defen
dants had been removed from
the suit.
Mrs. Crandstaff was advised
she would have to pay expenses
the three counties of Hutch
inson, Gray and Carson had
gathered while defending them
selves.
The Crandstaff family still
deserved $5 million from the
city of Borger and five Panhan
dle officers despite the dismissal
of the counties, attorney Robert
Wallace of the Houston Haynes
Sc Fullwider law office said.
His comments came in closing
arguments after the jury re
ceived more than 50 pages of
instructions. Attorneys for Bor
ger, four Borger officers and
one Hutchinson County deputy
have denied responsiblity for
the shooting.
“Nobody thinks they went out
there to kill James Crandstaff.
This is about anybody shot down
in their front yard,” Wallace
said. “The training of these
officers broke, they opened fire.
“Mr. Crandstaff was trying to
guard his children from the
fugitive,” he added, saying the
city of Borger was to blame for
giving the officers guns and
badges.
“Borger sent them out there
to do that. Borger approved
what they did and Borger hasn’t
changed to this day,” Wallace
added. “Borger never asked
who shot James Crandstaff and
why did it happen.”
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For liberal arts graduates:
good news on the job front
United Press International
t, leajiieJ ■
1 host Tee Jobs besides those of taxi
ontest ; driver, window washer and
first hall! checkout clerk are out there for
4-4 recort English, art, music, psychology,
-0, but It history and other liberal arts ma-
as yet. jors.
, i That word comes from com-
s ‘ pany chieftans who huddled
7 rcc !: with college officials at Prince-
11 ton, N.J., cogitating about how
wet j to get word around that corpo-
j 0 ac • rate America’s putting out the
fl0S welcome mat for liberal arts gra
duates.
i “The sixty participants
J agreed that the study of such
|§ subjects as languages, literature,
’ history, philosophy, compara
nd qua® tive religion, ethics, and the his-
7 points ii tory, criticism and theory of the
at a 58-4! arts can provide knowledge and
ansas Cif® ve l°P skills necessary for suc-
iroughtl*j cess in the business world,” a re-
aredsev® potion the conference said.
irka21'lfl| The conference was spon
sored by the Association of
:t basket* American Colleges and the Na-
ie Kjnpf honal Endowment for the
minutes' Humanities.
enafi^l “There is a place and a central
-out-^l ^ ace — ^ or Humanities and
the sea# l ^ e liberal arts graduate in busi-
^jiess,” said Charles L. Brown,
^ jjjchairman of the board, Amer-
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ican Telephone ad Telegraph,
opening the conference.
“That’s the good news. The
bad news is that the good news is
not better known.”
To get word around, a copy of
proceedings of the conference
just has been sent to chief execu
tive officers of hundreds of cor
porations. The covering letter
was signed by Brown and James
L. Ferguson, chairman and
chief executive, General Foods
Corp.
In the letter, Ferguson and
Brown go to bat for liberal arts
graduates, long poor relatives
along the academic trail as a re-
sult of heavy demand for
wizards in engineering, busi
ness, computers, math and sci
ence.
“We write to call your atten
tion to the findings and recom
mendations of an important
conference on connections be-
tween the study of the humanP
ties and careers in business,”
they said.
Among vignettes in the re
port:
• Chase Manhattan Bank dis
covered in a recent study of com
mercial banking trainees that
those with only bachelor’s de
grees developed stronger tech
nical banking skills than those
with advanced degrees. Appro
ximately a third of those with
bachelor’s degrees majored in
the humanities and over two-
thirds in liberal arts.
• American Telephone and
Telegraph found in a study of its
managers that humanities and
social science majors were prom
oted more rapidly than technical
graduates. After 20 years, 43
percent of the liberally educated
managers had achieved the
fourth level of management — a
sign of considerable success —
compared with only 32 percent
of the business majors and 23
percent of the engineers.
How does the study of the
humanities — fields like music,
English, history, philosophy,
psychology and foreign lan
guages — build such a strong
foundation for a career in busi
ness?
The answer, from the report:
“It develops strengths that sci
entific or technical training
alone seldom provides —judg
ment, an historical sense, know
ledge of other languages and
cultures, recognition of ethical
issues, interpersonal abilities,
communication skills, intellec
tual flexibility, a capacity for in
terpretive and creative thinking.
“In a complex, changing busi
ness environment, an invest
ment in these qualities can offer
important long-term returns.
“Students in the humanities
are well advised to acquire basic
business skills — in accounting
and finance, for example. But as
broadly educated graduates
they are better prepared for a
lifetime of work than are stu
dents who have narrowed their
studies to secure a first job.”
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