Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1984)
Page 2E/The Battalion/Monday, August 27, 1984 MATTRESS SET $79.75 Present this ad and get $10.00 off on any mattress set purchase one cou pon per mattress set. Bed frames $15.00 Texas Furneture Outlet 712 Villa Maria ■ssssssrj ©2S, -m • Delicious Hamburgers made to order •Ice Cold Beer Including Imported Brands •Country Atmosphere complete with pool and games A place you’ll want to come back to... 3600 South College Bryan 846-3306 —p 3 Bdrm. Duplexes $515 • Only Vi mi. from campus' • 24-Hr. Emergency Maintenance • Covered Parking • W/D Connections • On Shuttle Bus Route Aurora Court College Station 693-6505 YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE TO EAT OUT? Check the Battalion ads! Student teaching a combined effort By SUZANNA YBARRA Reporter The Texas A&M College of Edu cation prohibits its seniors from tak ing more than one class during their final semester, and strongly discour ages them about holding a job. As far as the College of Education is concerned, these seniors have a full time job: student teaching. Texas A&M is one of the few uni versities that requires its student tea chers to teach the whole day for an entire semester, says Dr. Timothy Blair, the coordinator of field expe riences at Texas A&M. A teaching program like Texas A&M’s requires a lot of cooperative effort from the school districts and the University, Blair says. Students can only student teach in cities the University has contracts with. Director of Program Services for the College Station School District, Sharon Colson says about 72 student teachers will be teaching in Collegd Station alone. "It takes a lot of planning,” Colson says. “In terms of numbers, there’s quite an impact. ” Once students are placed in a classroom, sometimes as far away as Houston, they are assigned a super visor who regularly checks with the students and their cooperating tea cher. Blair says the cooperating tea cher is the most important person in the student teacher’s semester. Not every teacher who wants to be a cooperating teacher becomes one, Blair says. The cooperating teacher will mold the student more than any one else, so it takes a special person, he says. Maria Catalena has been a cooper ating teacher for Texas A&M for the past nine years. She says it’s hard to give her class to someone else, but she remembers the teacher who did it for her. When a student teacher is having problems, Catalena says she often wonders if she should have done something differently. “Maybe you didn’t tell them the right thing, maybe you didn’t give them the right feedback,” says Cat alena, who is a graduate of Sam Houston State University and of Texas A&M. But she says most prob lems can be worked out. Make-up culprit in acne attacks photo byPETER ROCHA Construction continues on the Hilton Hotel. Building underwit on Hilton Construction continues on i Hilton Hotel and Conferenced ter in College Station. The conn located on the corner of Unicj and Fedmart, is expected to bej pleted in May 1985 at an csti® cost of $17.8 million dollars. The strange looking t-slsji crane which can be seen fromt Texas A&M campus will run »f{ front of the building. Later, ih aid in construction as an dtij shaft to get equipment up to t- ers, Ron Jackson, president ofl! belt Hotels Inc. and one of the* ers of the I lilton, said. | Future University activities expected growth of industry inf > area influenced the decision toki | the hotel, he said. "We just thiol) market is ready for a high qualtij cility, Jackson said. “Well havet finest facilities in the area.” The 11-story building will b 302 rooms, eight suites, seven M suites, an outdoor pool and a lib bar. Other facilities at the Hiltont include a 130-person capacity?:, food restaurant, a 120-pe’rson Ii | mexrestaurant calk'd the PlazaG i and as 300-seat Las Vegas-type 1 if. named Sundance with liveclutadi [ The hotel also will have a 1,3 | person capacity ballroom, an anji 1: theater with projection equips and ten other meeting rooms. United Press International Come fall, stress of returning to school will cause acne to stage new attacks on male and female adoles cents, says the president of the American Academy of Dermatology. But the new twist to the acne bat tle, claims Dr. Richard L. Dobson, is that more and more young women — in their 20s and 30s — are being struck by acne for the first time ever. He said a contributory cause may be oil-based cosmetics that clog pores, a condition that can be complicated by hormonal imbalance. Dobson, chairman of the depart ment of dermatology, Medical Uni versity of South Carolina, Charles ton, made both points when asked in an interview how goes the battle against acne. “Acne’s extremely variable,’’ he said, noting that in summer the ma jority of adolescents seem to im prove — because of sun and lack of stress — while some patients get worse for unknown reasons. “Once students return to school usually acne will flare — due to lack of sun as they move into the class room and stress,” he said. Speaking of the increase of acne on the faces of young women, Dob son said: “New acne definitely is more prevalent in those in their 20s and 30s. It may be due to oil-based cosmetics being layered on and it may have something also to do with hormonal imbalances.” On treatment, Dobson said the most exciting development is the way Accutane prescription medi cine, a derivative of vitamin A, seems to be effective in 90 percent of cystic acne patients given it. “But Accutane is not for pregnant women,” he said. “There have been more than 20 cases of really severe birth defects linked to use in preg nancy. Misshapen heads, faces, ears and malformation of internal or gans. ” Dermatologists say acne is a skin condition that afiects four out of five people at some time in their lives — usually during the teenage years. It consists of pimples, blackheads, whiteheads and, sometimes, deeper and more serious blemishes called cysts. They also tell what acne is not. To wit: Acne is neither caused by nor worsened by what patients eat, so far as is known. There’s no proof that specific dietary habits affect it. Acne is not infectious. It cannot be passed from one person to another. Nor is it triggered by poor hygiene or dirt on the skin. Too much washing, in fact, can dry out the skin. Since acne often blossoms at the same time as adolescent sexuality, speculation holds acne somehow may be linked with sexual activity — : or inactivity. But dermatologists have found no link between acne and sex. What does cause acne? A combi nation of factors, the experts claim. Included are hormones, heredity, effects of bacteria normally found on skin and in pores. Dr. Alan R. Shalita, chairman, de partment of dermatology. State Uni versity of New York, Downstate Medical Center, told about new drugs and therapies for acne. “Products introduced to combat acne in recent years have contrib uted greatly to the types of therapy dermatologists may provide for their patients,” he said. “The types of acne treatment available today are more effective than before, offering significant help for the masses of acne sufferers and even for those who previously fell into the hopeless category. “We still can’t say a cure exists for acne, but new treatments provide the means to effectively control the disease.” One treatment is acne surgery. It involves removal of blackheads, opening of closed pimples and drainage of infected acne cysts. Der matologists describe it as an impor tant step in acne treatment. Prescription products for acne in clude Isotretinoin Capsules. This vi tamin A derivative — chemically 13- cis ritonic acid — was developed to help the approximately five percent with severe, recalcitrant cystic acne. It is used when patients do not re spond to other treatments. Side ef fects include drying and cracking of lips and area around them, which af fects about 9 out of 10 taking this medicine. A small percentage have joint pain, muscle aches or changes in blood lipid levels. Not for preg nant women. People who take it must not donate blood. Survey says U.S. teens main own decisions about live: United Press International PORTLAND, Ore. American teenagers feel they have a stronger role than their parents in making de cisions about their lives, according to a psychology professor who has studied 15-year-olds in rural towns in the United states since 1967. Norman Sundberg of the Univer sity of Oregon also has studied 15- year-olds in India and Australia and said it is “quite clear that Americans saw themselves as the primary deci sion makers at age 15. ” Australian youth are fairly indepen dent but teen-age Indians leave most decisions to their parents. “We asked them to indicate who made the decisions in their lives on about 40 different items: what clothes you wear, what occupation you should go into, who you should marry, what friends you should have, things like that,” Sundberg said. U.S. boys and girls, on the aver age, said they made the primary de cisions in 25 of the 40 areas, al though a statistical breakdown by category is not available yet. Boys said their mothers were the boss in eight of the 40 areas and fa thers had the say-so in just five areas, while girls designated mothers in 10 areas and fathers in only three. Australian teens also possessed a strong sense of independence, al though not as much as American 15- year-olds. In Australia, boys said they made their own decisions in 17 areas and girls said they were inde pendent in 19 areas. In India, the father and mother were seen as the primary decision makers, Sundberg said. Boys made their own decisions in just 11 of the 40 areas and girls were self-reliant in 13 areas. “In India, marriages are arranged for and occupations are pretty-well decided by the family,” Sundberg said. Teenagers in one Oregon town, Lebanon, were studied over a 12- year period and, not surprisingly, they became more independent over that span, he said. The suspected reasons for greater teen independence in the United States and Australia than in India range from the frontier mentality and the decline in nuclear families to stronger peer pressure and increas ing affluence, Sundberg said. “The culture of the United States emphasizes individuality and self-re liance, he said. That’s someti; we learn as kids, we’re suppo* he independent and tfrowupto) care of ourselves. “The culture of India is ooel which one relates to ones familf one s group and sees oneself# important than in the lit States. ” Religion is not necessarily i strictive factor in India because Hindu belief is accepting of otk ligious observances, he said. In the town of Lebanon, ike I year comparison showed an im in divorces that “suggests tbe may be on his or her own morel may be expected to take more is pendent action,” Sundbergsaid "Also, I think there is proki some increase in affluence. ! tend to have more things. The) go out on their own and have) available to them or their friends. The 12-year comparison i showed girls indicated a skit ward more traditionally mascui occupations. They saw themselves being lawyers or physicians,’ hesai But American teenagers are necessarily the most indepea young people in history, acwti to the professor. Beauty: Merle Norman 5E The Varsity Shop 5E Beverages: Dr Pepper..... 3E Campus Organizations: Campus Crusade Churches: First Christian, Bryan 2E St. Mary’s, C.S 6E Cleaners: Rainbow Cleaners 6E Computers/Calculators: Hewlett-Packard 10E Texas Instruments 2E Yes Computers 4E Copying/Duplicating Service: Kinko’s 5E Advertising Index Section E Credit Union: Brazos Valley Schools CU 1E Dance Instruction: Dance Centre 10E Department Store: Ardans 1E Educational Services: Educational Testing 6E Entertainment: Shooters 6E Furniture: Texas Furniture Outlet 4E Medical Service: Parkway Medical Center ....2E Office Supplies: Discount Office Furniture 6E Manicord Office Products 5E Pet Store: Animal World & Property Management: Metro Properties... Rentals: U-Rent-M Restaurants: Billy Jacks .... Chichen Oil Dixie Chicken Michaels Paddington Pizza Shoe Store: David’s Shoe Box Specialty Store: Barineaii Monogram. •- Pets Are Our Pride At AOTMAL WORLD CULPEPPER PEA/A 693-5381 M-F 10—7 SAT. 10-6 OPEN SUNDAY 1-5 .MANOR EAST MALE 822-9315 M-F 10-8:30 . SAT. 10-8 CLOSED SUNDAY We’re also your #1 headquarters in dog grooming! Guaranteed for life. Tested 327 ways. And available for most computer systems. 3M diskettes. One less thing to worry about. $ 19. limited offer 5% Cash or check discount on all purchases Computers 2553 Texas Avenue College Station 693-8080