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Friday, March 9, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 rwl and s lion Fori| Awry sf], wnted. [Job placement, recruiting goals of MBA program 4m davj, xmber' ’bruary were' ■ lOuicirtvit i case ® a'ber, By REBECCA DIMEO Reporter Dan H. Robertson has two Jtoals for improving the mas ters in business administration program he look over in Jan uary: to increase job opportu- liites and to recruit more stu dents. Robertson, formerly head of [he marketing department, is korking with the Placement tenter staff to better coOrdi- Jiate the interviews there. To- Jelher they want to discourage ■indents from interviewing for [practice,” he says. However, Robertson’s office floes not keep any statistics on the number of MBA graduates who find jobs through the Placement Center, a policy he hopes to change. Robertson says more compa nies would schedule interviews at Texas A&M if they knew that only qualified students will sign up for them. However, employ ers are coming here with out dated visions of an MBA de students receiving MBA de grees has increased ten-fold in the last 10 years, up to an esti mated 60,000 nationwide in 1982. gree. “There is a great deal of con fusion among students and pro spective employers as to what is an MBA,” Robertson says. The problem, as he sees it, lies in the changes the MBA curriculum has undergone in the last 10 years. To begin with, the number of r Mattox’ lawyer motions )»■ M for indictment dismissal shaving t said, “Ho»| know," mg up on h| curse. I didn’t I commit I United Press International n inierviw AUSTIN — A lawyer for At- omey General Jim Mattox filed 5 motions Thursday asking a ken morei t0 dismiss aI1 indictment barging Mattox with a felony nt of i ake sure ne out." lad no ides slent to sett: .'onsiderinj rules chi ounl of commercial bribery. The motions, which will be onsidered at a pre-trial hear- Jl ag March 22, allege, among >le as an a nhe,- things, that the indict- nent charging Mattox is uncon- ■arly pul to d. “My nw he” and wat .) has said ind what i Boff said, s just whs r that won Junior Highs abusing UIL rules be a regist United Press International AUSTIN — The director of e University Interscholastic .eague, which previously gov- rned only high school sports, 7 yearsanc [aid Thursday the UIL decided ncoherent: to I area telen sday nighi with Anita 52, died ifferingak ,vhen she mce, the stitulionally vague and fails to allege a crime. Mattox is accused of threat ening to harm the lucrative public bond business of a Hous ton law firm unless an attorney in the firm dropped attempts to question his sister in connection with a civil lawsuit against Mobil Oil Corp. Mattox was originally in dicted last September, but a sec ond indictment was issued a in regulating junior high ithletics to correct “abuses" in- finging on academics. The rules adopted by the JILwill become effective in the “There were a lot of things our school people did not feel was educationally sound, such as playing on Monday and Thursday nights where some of the road trips would necessitate leaving during the school day at 10 (a.m.) in the morning and getting back at 1 or 2 (a.m.) the next day. “We fell they could schedule these things on a Friday or Sat urday and not be involved on a school night.” ici mother 984-1985 school year. They di allow junior high students oplay in only one athletic con- Dallasgroc^ est per week and banned antes or contests during the hool day. Other rules required athletes how she t o pass at least four subjects, havingak orbidstudents to miss a class in vhich they were failing to travel o an out-of-town contest and lecreased the number of games ind tournaments in individual ports seasons. “The decision (to regulate ju- tior high activities) was made lecause there seemed to be lome abuses on loss of school ime and things of this nature hat were occurring in some of ihelocal areas,” saicl UIL Direc tor Bailey Marshall. If you havcift gof U . you haven’t gol it! And it’s free! Here it is! The complete, unexpurgated, official Two Fingers Handbook. The straight scoop, the final poop behind Two Fingers — the premium tequila. Forget about your other “little black books!’ If you haven’t got this one — you haven’t got it. V Punch up your party with TVo Fingers! Want add a little punch to your good times? Two Fingers is all it takes — along with the great tasting recipes you’ll find in our “punchy” new handbook! 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Now the MBA pro gram is aimed at those from non-business undergraduate majors — about 80 percent of the 214 MBA students at Texas A&M. “Today’s MBA is a broad program not designed to con centrate the student’s education in one business,” lie says. The degree that fits the old concept of an MBA is currently a master of science. The mas ter’s program is shorter, provid ing the student with a specified area of study such as a master’s in taxation offered through the accounting department. Robertson stresses the need for prospective employers to re alize that not all MBA degrees are alike. For example. South ern Methodist University offers a one- year program without electives or a thesis. The MBA students all take the same courses. The MBA program at Texas A&M falls somewhere in the middle of the available ones, with 48 credit hours and no the sis required. MBA students here take courses in all five areas of business: accounting, business analysis, finance, management and marketing. Included in those hours are 12 credit hours of electives, something students usually don’t choose wisely, Robertson says. MBA programs at other schools may run two to three years and include a thesis. Robertson’s second goal, to increase student recruitment, will depend on the success of his first one. The more the job placement goes up, Robertson says, the more students will come to Texas A&M. He is striving for 500 MBA and 150 master’s students by 1990 — numbers roughly twice the cur rent enrollment. i- tej s- short lime later to correct a spelling error. A third indict ment was issued last month af ter Mattox’s lawyers said pros ecutors failed to allege how the threat against Fulbright 8c Jaworski was conveyed. The indictment was re-issued to specify that threat was alleg edly made over the telephone. Under slate law, Mattox must approve all governmental bond issues. 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