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The TAMU After Hours Program will sponsor a Driver Safety
Course on Friday and Saturday. This course may be used to have
certain traffic violations dismissed and to receive a 10 percent dis
count on automobile insurance. Registration is held from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday through Friday in 219 MSC. For more information,
call 845-9352.
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Dean Fletcher named engineering fellow
Dr. Leroy S. Fletcher, associate dean of engineering at Texas
A&M University, has been elected a fellow of the American Society
for Engineering Education.
The honor is one of several presented to Fletcher in recent years,
including appointment as a fellow of the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers and the American Association for theAdvance-
ment of Science.
Fletcher was recognized for his “prolific contributions to engi
neering education through leadership.”
He came to Texas A&M in 1980 from the University of Virginia
where he was a professor of mechanical engineering.
Driver education services available
Students who have the need for a Defensive Driving Course will
have an opportunity to complete the course today and tomorrow
from 6 to 10 p.m. The course satisfies the legal requirements for per
sons with traffic tickets who have the option of taking the class or
paying their fine. It also entitles one to a three year insurance dis-
count.The course fee is $20.00 and students may pre-register or sign
up al the door between 5 and 6 p.m. today.
The course will be held at 1806 Welsh St. in Collge Station. Call
693-0086 for reservations.
English 660 offered 2nd summer session
English 660-Tec finical Writing for Publications will be offered
during the second summer session. The course, which had been
scheduled for the first summer session and was cancelled because of
low enrollment, was rescheduled after a number of students ex
pressed an interest in taking the class. English 660, taught by Dr.
Guinn, will meet Monday through Friday from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in
room 201 Milner.
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Spanish
United Press International
Linguistic experts say Spanish is rap
idly becoming the second language
of the United States — and also the
most mispronounced — but help is
on the way.
Dale Walker, director of news and
information at the University of
Texas at El Paso, has released a 16-
page handbook for American broad
casters that gives a brief pronuncia
tion guide and the phonetic spellings
of 500 of the most common Spanish
names.
The booklet is being distributed
free of charge to radio and television
stations throughout the nation as a
public service of the university.
Walker said the project came
from his annoyance at hearing Span
ish names botched over the air.
“I cringe every time I hear some
national sportscaster like Howard
Cosell and others butcher Spanish
names,” Walker said. “Spanish is the
language of the fastest-growing eth
nic group in the United States and it
ought to be pronounced correctly.”
Walker said national broadcasters
are making an attempt to correct the
pronunciation of foreign cities in the
news.
“All of a sudden and contrary to
virtually every modern dictionary,
broadcasters are saying Bay-ZHING’
instead of Pee-KING’ and COBBLE,
for the capital of Afghanistan, in
stead of Kuh-BOOL’, Walker said.
“Somebody seems to have discov
ered something closer to the native
pronunciation of these names-in-
the-news and has defied convention
to be more accurate.”
But Spanish names. Walker la
mented, are still grossly mispro
nounced, even though Mexico is our
neighbor and there are an estimated
18 million Hispanics living in the
United States and Puerto Rico.
Walker presented the idea of a
pronunciation handbook to Drs.
Richard R. Ford and Richard V.
Teschner of the UTEP Department
of Modern Languages, who devel
oped the list of names and pronun
ciation guide. Dr. Haskell Monroe,
president of UTEP, was enthusiastic
about the project, Walker said, and
promised to fund the booklet. The
first thousand copies are being
mailed out this week.
A busy broadcaster, Walker said,
operating under the pressure of a
deadline, often does not have time
or sufficient knowledge of Spanish
to correctly pronounce such names
as Cesar Ybanez, Josefa Izquierdo or
Luz Saenz.
“Hopefully, with this booklet,
we’ll be hearing the correct Spanish
pronunciation of names,” he said.
“A man’s name is his most precious
possession, and it ought to be pro
nounced right.”
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