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Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, March 19, 1984 Adoption group fights for teenager’s daughter United Press International FORT WORTH — About 20 members of an adoption rights group demonstrated outside the Edna Gladney Home to protest the plight of a New York teena ger who says she was pressured into giving up her baby. Pat Cora, a member of Sear chline, said about 20 demonstra tors picketed the home for about three hours Saturday. The group which helps reunite adoptees with their natural parents staged the pro test to call attention to the plight of Barbara Landy, 19, of Bronx, NY. The young woman has peti tioned 324th State District Court Judge Brian Carper to nullify papers she signed Feb. 14 termi nating her parental rights to a baby girl born four days earlier. No court date has been set for a hearing on Landry’s request. She has refused to leave the home until she gets her baby back. Landry says the operators of the home never told her she could keep her child. But coun selors and others at the home say both pros and cons of adoption are presented and the final deci sion is left to the mother. The protestors said they will demonstrate periodically until the teenager gets her child back. “What we are fighting for is Barbara Landry and to change the adoption laws in Texas,” Cora said. “There is no cooling- off period, a period to change your mind about an adoption in Texas. "If you buy a car or anything in Texas, you have a period to change your mind, but in Texas, once you make the decision to give up your baby, it’s irrevoc able,” she said. Searchline memers said they feel the Edna Gladney Horne ex ploits unwed mothers. Bookstore changes set for summer By LEIGH FORREST Reporter The lower level of the Texas A&M Bookstore will look different next fall when students return to buy their textbooks. When they walk down the stairs, the students will see an extension of the bookstore into the hallway between the entry and games area. From there, the bookstore will ex tend out to what is now the outside picnic area. This new area will be used solely for trade books and re ference books, leaving the ex isting store for textbooks only. The new trade book store can be kept open even if the tex tbook department is closed. Other changes include adding two cash registers, in stalling new carpet, moving all 16 registers closer to the exit, a new customer service desk and replacing the present 4-_ foot high bookshelves with 5- foot ones to provide 20 per cent more shelving area. The renovation is the second phase of a three-part plan to be completed in five years. Howard L. Dehart, re tail store manager, says the plan began in 1981 with the remodeling of the upper level bookstore and will end about 1986 with the automation of most bookstore operations. ‘‘We’re trying to create something that’s never been He’s shor a little like created before,” Deharts “When this five year) ^“7conn over, I think we’ll have tlit® j eslj jj U t 1 cest bookstore in theseii« es his west " t h t > solitude f he renovation ottic j p a ther 1 began February 15, Dek I s m i r said, but actual workoni cholic Ch lower level renovation win j r j ests r es begin until summer when 50OI majority of the studentst gj exas gone. Dehart, retail stores i s n the work should becompfeP u j e ’ t |jf e g in 120 days without intern ^ nc j ow . lions in daily sales schedii I “jhat’s ] i ling abou minister,” S ALIS helps with library work Papa’s Pizza Welcome Back Special Owned and operated by A&M students We make our dough fresh daily 16” Supreme Cheese w/ 1 item plus 3 free drinks EXPIRES 3/19 846-0079 Hours: Sun-Wed 4:30-12 a.m. Thur-Sat 4:30-2 a.m. 16” Papa’s Deluxe w/ 6 items $10.99 plus 4 free drinks EXPIRES 3/19 By BETH HRDLICKA Reporter If you are having trouble finding an author or title refer ence in the card catalog at the Sterling C. Evans library, go ask ALIS. ALIS is a new computer sys tem to which the library is con verting that will eventually re place the card catalogs. Leila Payne, who is over- Ken’s Automotive Bryan (0 CL 0) cc 421 S. Main 822-2823 “A Complete Automotive Service Center" Tune-Ups „ _ Clutches B^kes Front End Parts Replacement Standard Transmission Repairs GM Computer Testing All American Cars Datsun-Honda Toyota seeing the project, said there are two immediate benefits of the new system. First, the system provides more room for book references. The card catalogs are full, and as the library gets more books there isn’t room for additional references. Second, the system allows stu dents to search references faster and more extensively. Students will be able to look at partial re ferences or long entries, such as bibliographies. A long-range benefit the sys tem will provide is the availabil ity of campus wide use. Payne said she hopes different depart ments, offices and dorms will have terminals that will enable them to dial in and see if the library has a book they need. Switching from the card cata logs to ALIS is a stair-step opera tion. The complete conversion, a total switch with the card cata logs as back-up only, will take several years. ALIS currently handles only author and title references. Sub ject references contain so much information that the system is not equipped for such a big load so those references will stay in the card catalogs, Payne said. However, within the next two years subject references and E rint-out machines are going to e added, she said. Three terminals are available students, but between May ever have < [erything y |Strieder |y with rni or library iMeakfast fin his office in The terminals have iBie student simple keyboard, simfc® typewriter with a few extol rent floors Payne said. to and September there should be 20 terminals available on diffe- and are fairly easy to ope There are instructions pot ^ the terminals, and refei desk assistants are availab hell) students with probin ALIS is basically j proof.” If one studentnui mistake it doesn’t causeth tire system to malfunct However, if the system down there is microfilm cards for hack up use, Pi said. ALIS cost $300, 1 Sterling C. Evans libran naneed ALIS througl budget. OPT Pc in United Pr J3 CD -o 0> Program helps professiona supplement their knowledggf OPEN SATURDAYS 10% Discount with Student l.D. on parts (Master Card & VtSA Accepted) By Suzy Fisk Reporter Pepe’s Lunch Special Order of Queso, medium and your choice of a Taco, rito, or chalupa coke Bur- for 99 Pepe’s Late Night Happy Hour midnight to 1:30am Taco Buy one Burrito get one Chalupa Free THREE CONVENIENT LOCATIONS 3312 S. College 107 Dominik' . - A Post Oak Mall Lunch Special Only The Office of Continuing Education is the middleman for joining the colleges of Texas A&M with professionals who want to broaden their specific field of business. Continuing education is a postgraduate, non-academic credit program, says Dr. Lee Phillips, Director of Continuing Education. The programs are offered to meet the needs of those who want to upgrade their knowledge of particular field, Phillips says. Continuing education prog rams are attended by more than 50,000 people a year. The prog ram can last from one to three days, although some programs Iasi up 10 ihree weeks, and Vive programs are attended by 10 to 800 people. The programs with 800 participants usually are workshop-type programs. Some of the colleges that give the programs are engineering, medicine, veterinary medicine and business administration. The programs and workshops are taught by professors and doctors within their specific col lege. Each college designs its program any way it sees fit to meet the needs of the profes sionals enrolled in the program. “The colleges are the focal point for the programs,” Phillips says. The law requires the prog rams to be self-supporting, which means that people partici pating in the programs pay a fee or their company does. The office of continuing education answers inquiries about the programs and passes informa tion to the colleges about setting NEW BP embers o Bmmunity, Bnviction c ^>r aggravat lay the vert ■ese-Ameri ■ “sub-citize Dar Vieii Pistol Coun colleagues on the needs olMn for rap pie and programs,” PhilliMvern’s po< Phillips and his colleague re afrait to metropolitan areas s jlpeiid the r< Houston, San Antonio,« and Dallas to tell the pubi out the availability of thti rams at T exas A&M. I (loniinuing educalionl important part of theuni'f because it brings peopleH the json or be up various programs. The ser- mtraliz vice is decentralized to make it easier and iess complicated for vhe continuing education office. Each college is responsible for the amount of work it wants to do, Phillips says. “We tend to work with our Seventeen magazine lookinc; for a 'special' cover model United Press International WAREHOUSE One Week Only March 16 through March 24 Help clean out the Athlete’s Foot Warehouse SAVE FROM 40% to 75% on selected brand names 7 V 0 ' Save big on athletic shoes for just about any sport you can name. They’re on sale right how at prices you’re not likely to see again Athlete's Post Oak Mall, near Dillard’s Open 10am to 9pm daily Ph.#764-1000 - locally owned and operated NEW YORK — A magazine for teenage girls is looking for a special cover model for its 40th birthday issue scheduled for September publication. Contest details are in the re cent issue of Seventeen maga zine, says editor Midge Richardson. The contest is being coordinated through 28 department store groups nationwide. Entry applica tions are available only at those stores. The cover model Alda Mek |e Commiti [oup that b; nts, said, lirtuguese campus and gets them in* qliiie equal with the university, PhilliMmnuinity.” jThey are He says he takes pniBizens,” un working closely with the *eatment u edition of Former Studentlid. cause of its positive attitudt® Silva of the service of continuing tufteira of p 0 i lion and the university, convicted S vated rape One of the main expecia | ot | ier 0 f t the former student’s assodt dol table las lias of the university vYw L was of P lain continuing etiucaW [ Tne two f will enhance their (formet numsenten dents) degrees and their ientandSu velopment as individuals,'! filliam Yot lips says. two deporte I weir senter duled Friday ' Lawyers f vsaid they wo t A second ng evidence Hen charge a pe: John contest is open to all yout pposo.jose women between theagesof I'to Medien and 21. I" 1 d °n’t The grand prize winfl "5 n . ce SIJ will appear on the magafli Sctions,” Me cover and receive a newel Joing to tak< She will he selected fromeigl I Emily Se national finalists, each? Ionian for i whom will win an all-expens Nee, said paid trip to New York in” ® utr age in 1984 tor special phoiogtffi sessions and hair and makfll styling by experts whol clients include top professioj al models and fashion mad Portuguese l “People i Biomedical Science Association topic “The Breeding of Endangered Animal Species by the Application of New Reproductive Techniques’ Dr. S. W. J. Seager, Assoc. Prof. Dept of Vet. Physiology A Pharmacology, College of Vet. Medicine TAMU Reer