Wednesday, September 5, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5
Seniors to vote
‘fiion ’85 class gift
peon,, By MIKE DAVIS
t the Stray R Reporter
‘•ley SPCAp Just as every graduating senior
tonal pr^, class donates a gift to the University,
schools jd the Class of ’85 will be no exception.
In fact, the class has been working
is a respoiuj on its gift for more than a year,
t must realj. The Class of ’85 will have its first
'ttey. A pd, general meeting tonight at 7 p.m. in
501 Rudder to discuss the gift.
a nd Gariys “The main reason to have the
nd unwan, c l ass meeting is to get the ball rolling
teller, rail*, as seniors, and to present to the class
>e, increase as a whole the gift ideas that have
survival, been brought up thus far,” Anne-
es pet Marie Dixon, Class of ’85 secretary,
I leash...!’’ said
t members! Last year, the class officers ap-
SPCAra> pointed Michelle Weishaar, an ac-
ie first Su counting major from Converse, and
ast mom! J a y Cherrington, a business major
an $600 fr° ,n Wichita Falls, to head the class
dip. beaux gift committee.
Sunday Sr Weishaar said gift committee
all from i members have met with various stu
dent leaders and faculty members
during the past year to discuss ideas.
I i Suggestions also were made by the
| +1 ^ u Class of ’85 advisory board.
I IvJf T he advisory board consists of
prominent businessmen from San
Antonio, Houston and Dallas, select
members of the Class of ’85 and Dr.
orn thc$',. John Koldus, vice president for stu-
vill intent dent services. The board advises the
ing forthn. class officers about everything from
ill include i managerial skills to fundraising and
recruiter, legal matters.
5. IfMSFWeishaar said that with the help
II siudentn of ‘he advisory board, the ideas for
involved , the class gift have been narrowed
is doing from 20 to.five.
Several criteria were used for the
e are in weeding-out process, Weishaar said,
a positive c The gift should have permanent va
lue and there should exist a definite
ip isopetuci need for the gift on campus. The
faculty a gift also should be visible,
uretingutoc gift from the Class of’85 to the
ler. campus and to All Ags past and futu
re,” she said.
Weishaar said the five remaining
ideas will be presented at the meet-
I Vrl ing and a class vote will be taken.
The vote will determine where the
son who n c i ass interest lies and will serve as cri
teria for the final decision made by
onmtnr ‘he class council.
Ip*'Mainly what we want at the meet-
s ' ing are pros and cons on the ideas
ms on btoct
■suits in aF
that we have now,” she said. “Not
necessarily new ideas, but how stu
dents feel about the ones we already
have.”
Weishaar stressed the importance
of the class vote.
“It has to be something they want
because they have to raise the money
for it,” she said.
Dixon said the class has set a goal
of $85,000 which she said is realistic
with a class of 9,000 students.
“We’re well on our way,” Dixon
said.
Cherrington added that with such
a high goal, class participation is es
sential.
“We’re going to need a lot of mon
ey,” he said. “We’re going to need
ideas on how to raise it. Even though
we do have some pretty good ideas
so far, participation and their (class
members’) input on how we can raise
more funds is always welcome."
Weishaar agreed. “One of our
main objectives is to get the class in
volved in the gift, since it is their
gift,” she said.
Weishaar also stressed the ur
gency of choosing the gift.
“It is important that we get our se
lection made because once we pick
one, we have a lot of work to do be
tween now and April,” Weishaar
said. “That is, getting All the legal
ends done, working out the exact de
tails and meeting our goals of the fi
nancial dollar.”
The gift will be announced on
Parent’s Weekend next April.
The class meeting also will include
making applications available for
three class council positions, two
communications positions and one
public relations position, and signing
up for various class committees, such
as ring dance, banquet and newslet
ter.
Dixon said seniors who cannot at
tend the meeting but who are inter
ested in participating in class activ
ities should contact one of the class
officers.
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By ROBIN BLACK
Senior Staff Writer
I “It was obvious I was not going to
be able to support myself by working
for a living, so I decided to go to col-
lei;e.”
J3 That's how Baxter Black — au
thor, singer, poet, cowboy extraordi
naire — got his start in veterinary
medicine.
Hi He says.
|g The ex-veterinarian was a guest
Tuesday evening in Rudder Audito
rium at the first meeting of Texas
AX:M’s student chapter of the Amer
ican Veterinary Medical Association.
f| Black entertained the audience
with tales (some could be classified as
optlandish) of his experiences as a
vet (not to mention some stories
about interesting people he’s run
into), told jokes and sang songs.
If “My parents had six kids,” he said.
“Four boys and two dogs. Three of
us are even paper trAined now.”
4 He continued with his childhood
story:
■ “My dad taught us all how to
hunt. He’d take me out in the woods
and give me a two-minute head
start.”
Black went on to talk about what
it’s like to be a vet, stopping every
once in a while to tell a related poem
he had written on the subject.
People will call a vet at odd hours
of the day, he said, frantic for advice
about a sick animal — for instance:
the lady who called in a state of panic
about an ill parakeet.
“The parakeet practice is not high
on the list of requirements in vet
school,” he said. “But they think that
because you’re a veterinarian you
care.” (don’t worry, he said it jok-
ingly).
The highlight of the evening was
his somewhat tongue-in-cheek ac
count of animal rights vs. plant
rights (or how vegetarians can get
too carried away about their plight).
He let it be known that he didn’t
really take the whole vegetarian-ani
mal rights thing too seriously, then
enlightened the crowd on newly doc
umented evidence that plants feel
pain, too. The example he cited was
that of a rutabaga that was violently
hacked to death with a chain saw
while sensitive electrodes monitored
the plant’s reaction.
Black is featured on the syndi
cated radio program “Cowboys and
Sourdough,” writes a weekly column
“On the Edge of Common Sense,”
and narrates the documentary
“Working Cowboy.”
A veterinary graduate of Colo
rado State University, Black prac
ticed for 13 years in the Great Divide
states and now works as a consultant
to Burroughs Wellcome pharmaceu
tical company when not dispensing
Western philosophy drawn from his
years in New Mexico and Colorado.
Black’s appearance was sponsored
by the Burroughs Wellcome com
pany.
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