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
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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 .
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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-
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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
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simple keyboard, simfc®
typewriter with a few extol
rent floors
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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duled Friday
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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
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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
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