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By MIKE DAVIS
Reporter
j Careers in beer, gas and cal-
blators are just a few of the
Issibilities available to science-
jlated majors.
lAnd Anheuser-Busch Inc.,
pxaco Inc. and Texas Instru
cts are just a few of the com-
Inies that will be represented
[two College of Science career
Jarkshops to be held this week.
[Texas Instruments, Texaco
lc., Pecten International Co.
and the Texas A&M Depart
merit of Physics will participate
in the physics workshop Tues
day at 6:30 p.m. in 105 Helden-
fels.
The biology workshop will
include Anheuser-Busch Inc.,
Texas Department of Health,
the Stehlin Foundation for Can
cer Research and Texas A&M
departments of Educational
Curriculumn and
p.m. Wednesday in 100 Hel-
denfels.
Dr. Ken Poenisch, assistant to
the dean of the College of Sci
ence, says the college is offering
the workshops to help inform
people interested in careers in
science-related fields.
“Students need to have the
opportunity to talk about career
opportunities with people who
Instruction,_ are out there in those various
careers,” Poenisch says.
Entomology, and Biology. The Each two-hour workshop will
workshop is scheduled for 6:30 include five or six speakers,
each giving a 10 or 15 minute
speech about their field. The
workshop will then be opened
for questions and discussions.
“We have people from busi
ness and industry, from re
search and academia — both
higher level and secondary edu
cation,” he says. “(They will)
talk about what kinds of oppor
tunities and what kind of train
ing is need to go into those
fields.”
Poenisch says the workshops
will offer a diverse collection of
careers.
“We’re taking a broad variety
of different career opportuni
ties,” he says. “We are not trying
to focus just on teaching or just
on industry because not every
body is interested in those
areas.”
Poenisch says there is no way
to include all of the career op
portunities in two hours or a
E articular career in 15 minutes,
ut better insight, a new per
spective and more information
are the workshop’s goals.
- “If the person doesn’t even
know that that type of field ex
ists, there’s no way he can pre
pare himself for it,” he says.
The college invited high
school, undergraduate and
graduate students to attend the
workshops to give them the
chance to talk to people who
work in the “real world,” Poe
nisch says.
“When you invite people that
are out there in the real world
you get a different perspective
on things,” he says.
Two of the workshops were
held last week for people inter
ested in math, statistics and
chemistry. Poenisch says
though those departments are
relatively small, each workshop
had a good response.
“I was really pleased with the
presentations and the students’
response,” he says. “I don’t
think things could have gone
any better.”
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» By PATRICIA FLINT
Reporter
Have you ever thought that
alldties look alike?
^Perhaps the last time you got
ost-card from a friend in Eu-
e, you thought your friend’s
[tel looked just like one in Dal-
lChicago or Los Angeles?
Three architects, from
ypt, India and Mexico, are
hting such monotony in ar-
itecture by drawing from
leir cultural roots, their heri-
;esand synthesizing this with
dern building materials. But
js is not easy, for as these
luntries become more techno-
ically advanced, their people
ntto keep up with the Jones’
that is they want their cities
look like Paris, Tokyo and
few York.
[The Rowlett Lecture Series,
nsored by the College of Ar-
itecture and Environmental
sign brought these three
n to Texas A&M Friday un
der this year’s theme of region-
Jsm and international culture,
I to talk about their innovations
iula ' n ' Bd style of designing while
leges ot ^Mowing slides in conjunction
iate ' with their talks,
provided(■•p ie arc hitects, all interna-
yranis. Wpnallv known and widely pub-
uihI for ■ hed> are; Abdel Wahed El
ieM Wakil of Egypt, Charles M. Cor-
teachn. Ja of India and Agustin Her-
n wtth Bndez Navarro of Mexico. In
jvuhi.i.' jiddition Theo David, professor
' alK 1 and chairman of graduate ar-
1 ‘ ,IIC ' ■itecture at Pratt Institure and
)Ster(oll ■rtner in his own architectural
,dl s y ste[ firm, gave a short talk prefacing
lion. the lectures and moderating the
ontinuii. K n el discussion between the
[iers ant d) ree f ore ig n architects at the
for te end.
s whereAt the conclusion David said
that Correa, El Wakil and Her
nandez were all in their own
way responsive to their partic
ular environments, existing
technologies, social needs eco
nomic factors and cultural con
ditions.
He added later that they
“understood light, exploited
material and technology, ex
ploited the use of color, the
movements of people through
space, the sense of touch and
probably the sense of smell (like
using a garden).”
Prof, of Architecture Weston
Harper and Prof, of Environ
mental Design Joe Mashburn,
co-chairmen of the series, sum
marized the styles of the ar
chitects after the lectures.
Mashburn said that Hernan
dez who bases his architecture
on Pre-Columbian Mexico,
would take “Aztec forms and
pul then in steel and concrete
and think it’s OK because he’s
only using the forms.”
Harper called Hernandez a
formalist, one who beleives in
“art for art’s sake”, that art
would exist whether people
were there to experience it or
not.
But El Wakil, Harper said
conversely, believes architec
ture has no importance as an
object; its only importance is in
serving people.
Harper and Mashburn be
lieve that Correa is the most
moderate of the three. Mash
burn said that Correa is respon
ding mainly to the climate in his
architecture, but shows an un
derstanding of spatial meaning
as well.
“Too often architects take the
easy answer based on the inter
national style current in today’s
magazines,” said Mashburn.
But these architects make their
own responses in their own
ways in their own cultures, he
said.
Harper said that these ar
chitects work with the climate
rather than creating an artificial
one.
Egyptian architect Abdel Hamed El-
Wakil, Indian architect Charles Cor
rea, Theo David of the Pratt Institute,
Photo by BILL HUGHES
and Mexican architect Agustin Her
nandez Narvarro take part in a cul
ture discussion Friday.
El Wakil said that it is typical
practice in the third world to
day to take ideas and styles
from the west and reproduce
them in a “terrible way” which
he calls “the decadence of
ideas”. He talked about the im
portance of organic architec
ture which blends with the envi-
ronment; he considers
billboards and skyscrapers eye
sores.
“You can see the difference
between those environments
and the environments that were
created in the traditional socie
ties,” he said. “The whole city
acted as one sort of homorphus
honeycomb. There wasn’t the
dislocation of buildings. It
looked all as one.”
His work also stresses the in
terflow of space which he says
existed in traditional architec
ture although many think it
came with the modernists.
Correa talked about the diffi
culty in working toward better
conditions for the poor without
resorting to the international
style that causes cities to look al
ike.
“The people’s aspirations,
what they really want, the
mythic dream of the big city
Bombay — the buildings are
ugly, but to these squatters, to
these construction workers, it’s
a world they will never enter
which they want to enter,” he
said.
He told the story of when the
first hippies (from Europe)
came to India and layed on the
streets looking spaced out, lice
in their hair. The rich Indians
objected, he said, and wanted
them thrown out. Correa said
he couldn’t understand this
when so many Indians were lay
ing on the streets in the same
condition.
Until, he said, one day a
friend told him, “Don’t your re
alize that if you’re a rich Indian
traveling in your cities and you
see a hippie, the hippie is signil-
ing to you. He’ saying, T am
coming from where you’re
going — it’s not worth going
there,”’
Hernandez stressed the mys-
tecism and spirtuality of his
work and his culture.
“The creation of architecture
is the capacity for syntheses and
abstraction of our heritage . .
he said.
Hernandez said that being
able to adapt these forms and
symbols to the necessities of the
present and project them into
the future is of vital importance
in architectural design.
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AUSTIN — A Texas prison
reform group Saturday boned
up on the delegate selection
‘ocess for the Democratic and
ipublican parties in hopes of
mvincing the state and na-
mal conventions to take a
mce against the death pen-
Members of the Austin-based
Citizens United for Rehabilita
tion for Errants went through
the step-by-step process by
which Texas voters become del
egates to the county, state and
national party conventions.
Director Charles Sullivan
said if CURE members can be
come delegates there is a possi
bility ot having an anti-death
penalty resolution at least de
bated at the state and national"
level.
“We felt it would be a very
good opportunity to do some
thing about an issue we feel
strongly about,” he said.
But CURE member Ruth El-
linger cautioned members they
must do their homework prior
to the May 5 precinct caucuses
where delegates will register for
presidential candidates and
consider resolutions.
“It’s going to be difficult to
get anybody’s attention beyond
that (presidential politics),” she
said. “You need to organize
ahead of time.”
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