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Office provides l- help for women ■ doing research a F.TEH ROCHi ■lay, I’d haven ve to make on in. districts hax g what’s got to id how much.' osely manaeeJ a relationshif confederacy, receives suit nd it allocates each districts timize thealk- u res,” said tht ial programs rman. Hesaio as designed in :ig and apprt of operatki e 1970s, tht er was reacti- 35 membeis ig will beOtt ding. ) By KIRSTEN DIETZ Reporter Texas A&M women students and faculty members working on special ized research projects can find help at the Women in Development Pro jects Office, says Dr. Elizabeth Ma- ret, projects of fice director. The associate professor of socio logy said about 30 students and fac ulty members from the English de partment, the social sciences departments and the Agricultural Experiment Station have used the office which opened last spring. The office provides help in three main areas: research projects, tech nical projects and the Master of Ag riculture program. Undergraduate and graduate stu dents enrolled in classes requiring research projects on women are eli gible to use the projects office. These classes include Sociology 424, Sociology 689, the 489 Special Topics classes under Maret and classes required for the Master of Agriculture program. “Texas A&M is unique at this point,” Maret said. “It’s one of the few centers of higher education in the world to offer a graduate level program of women in devel opment." Although the use of the office is restricted, she said, “we’ll try not to turn anybody away, but our funding is limited at this point, as well as spa ce." The office will, however, try to help those working on extended projects, such as for a 485 class. In the past, the office provided limited financial assistance for the student’s travel or materials needed in conjunction with the courses. Sometimes outright support is given to students working in the projects office, Maret said. The office also tries to provide funding and internships for grad uate students. Because the program began last spring, students enrolled will not be eligible for internships until next year. The State Department or the In ternational Center for Research on Women in Washington, D.C., and private industry provide internships. Maret said the office also would work with the College of Liberal Arts’ Study Abroad Program to place students in other countries. “Really the possibilities are only limited by the student’s desires," she said. Technical assistance projects are usually projects on the international level, such as in the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa. Women in Development is a priority of the State Department, Maret said. She also is the Women in Development coordinator for A&M. Women In Development comes out of the Percy Amendment to the For eign Assistance Act, a congressional mandate. The mandate emphasizes in creased productivity by the Third World poor, so a university with a strong agricultural program is needed to accomplish the mandate’s objectives, she said. Maret said women and children constitute three-fourths of the world’s poor. Maret is also the coordinator for the Master of Agriculture program. Administered through the sociology department in the College of Liberal Arts, the program combines speciali zations in agriculture with core courses in the social sciences. The program is open to all students. “I think it’s a really innovative and exciting program for students,” Ma ret said. “This offers students an op portunity to take courses in two col leges and a third area of the student’s choice.” She said it is unusual for two col leges to work so closely together. Students in the three areas the Women in Development Projects Office aid can get help from a vari ety of research materials. Films, slides, resource kits, working aca demic papers, newspapers and peri odicals from organizations with women in development divisions or offices are available. These come from Maret’s personal library, the International Center for Research on Women and funded projects. Data archives are being set up for access by a computer terminal. The office has regional, national and in ternational data, such as statistics, concerning the status and roles of women. The Women in Development Pro jects Office receives funding from the State Department’s Office of Women in Development, the Col lege of Agriculture through the Strengthening Grant, the Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the University of Arizona at Tuscon, the College of Liberal Arts and the Brazos Valley Community Action Agency. The office is on the third floor of the Academic Building. It is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings from 9 to noon. Black woman becomes Texas secretary of state United Press International AUSTIN — Myra Atwell McDa niel was sworn in T uesday as Texas’ secretary of state, becoming the highest ranking black in state gov ernment and the first woman to hold the post in 50 years. McDaniel, 51, took the oath of of fice from Gov. Mark White as some 400 people watched the swearing-in ceremony in the Senate chamber. With her appointment by White as the state’s chief elections officer, McDaniel becomes the only black to hold a statewide, although un elected, office. Only one other woman — Ann Richards, who was elected state treasurer in 1982 — holds as high a position in Texas government. “In my term as secretary of state, my aim in office is to be socially re sponsible, to be a public servant in the best sense of that term,” said Mc Daniel, a Pennsylvania native. “In my opinion, to be a good public ser vant is to listen, to be open, to be cre ative...” White, who used his term as secre tary of state in the early 1970s to cat apult him first to the attorney gener al’s office and later to the Governor’s Mansion, joked that McDaniel was “the finest individual available for this post in at least 11 or so years.” He said McDaniel would “bring new hope and new feelings of ded ication to this state.” Bennigan’s will open at 9:00 a.m. on Sept. 22 before the football game. Serving brunch til 1 p.m. or order from our regular menu. 5lUUUIIIIIIIIllllllliimmiimiimi»nniiiiiiiiiiiilllillllliiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiii MSC College Bowl “The Varsity Sport of the Mind 99 Registration Closes Friday, Sept. 21st 5:00p.m. Applications are still available in Room 216 MSC For more information, call 845-1515. Wednesday, September 19, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 Around town Who’s Who applications available now Applications for Who’s Who Among Students in American Uni versities and Colleges are available at boxes located in the Comman dant’s Office, MSC, Student Activities Office, Zachry Engineering Center, Sterling C. Evans Library, Kleberg Center, the office of the dean of Veterinary Medicine, and the office of the vice president for Student Services. Completed applications must be returned by 5 p.m. Sept. 28. Students must meet requirements for grade points and com pleted credit hours. From the qualified applicants, 55 students will lx* selected to Who’s Who by a committee composed of faculty, staff and students appointed by tne vice president of Student Services and the student body president. Any questions should be directed to Chris Carter in 110 YMCA. Big Event job requests accepted now Job requests are now being accepted from the Bryan-College Sta tion community for projects for the Big Event. Student organiza tions wishing to volunteer for this 4-hour service project are encour aged to pledge. Deadline for organization pledges is Nov. I. Job requests will still be accepted after that date. Contact Mark Maniha at 696-5930, or Maritza Pena at 764-0770. Driver safety course begins Friday The TAMU After Hours Program will sponsor a Driver Safety Course on Saturday. This course may be used to have certain traffic violations dismissed and to receive a 10 percent discount on auto mobile insurance. Registration is held f rom 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday in room 216 MSC. For more information, call 845- 9352. Bizarre Troupe uses black lights to create optical illusions By ROBIN BLACK Senior Staff Writer Bizarre. The Black Light Theatre of Pra gue, sponsored by the MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society, was bi zarre. The program opened OPAS’ 12th season Tuesday night in Rud der Auditorium. The crowd’s reaction was mixed as the Czechoslovakian troupe used black lights — hence its name — to create convincing optical illusions. Dressed from head to toe in black, the actors performed in front of a black backdrop, manipulating va rious phosphorescent-coated props that seemed to come to life under the black light. The group opened its perfor mance with three short introductory acts that gave the audience an idea of what was to come. The most entertaining of these was titled “Lamps.” In the short pro duction, a somewhat inebriated man has an interesting encounter with two street lamps that join him in a dance of sorts. The main story — “A Week of Dreams” — started off strange and got stranger. The theme of the story revolved around a taxi driver who dreamed about a particular passen ger he had carried that day or some object a passenger happened to leave behind. The best of these was Tuesday’s dream “Magician.” A passenger leaves a walking stick in the cab, and the driver dreams it’s a magic wand that enables him to perform various tricks. The performance lagged for a while, however, especially during the spider-and-fly dream sequence. T he sequence was somewhat hard — ! to follow, and at one point there was a great deal of symbolism that weighted down the idea as a whole. But, it was quite a change from the typical OPAS season, and not a bad one. A noticeable portion of the au dience left during the intermission, probably because the show was so off-the-wall. _ OPAS should bring more things like this to the University to break up the drudgery that can develop dur ing the typical season. Muhammed AM victim of Parkinson’s disease United Press International BRUSSELS, Belgium — Former world heavyweight champion Mu hammed Ali suffers from Parkin son’s disease, his doctor said Tues day. Dr. Martin D. Ecker said the dis ease could reasonably have been caused by beatings on his head f rom his boxing career. Ali, who had been on tour in West Ciermany with Dr. Ecker, said, “I al ways feel very tired, but I don’t feel no pain. I don’t know what it is. I will have to take this patiently, which is not very much my habit.” Ecker, in an interview on the Lux embourg radio station RTL, speci fied that Ali had undergone tests at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York that revealed Ali had symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Ali reportedly was returning to New York for treatment. Parkinson’s disease, a chronic and progressive disorder of the nervous system, is marked by a tremor and a weakness of the muscles. ^UWWIWVUIWIWW off any mum!' ■floral Concessions I I Try onr new I Dutton Mums! I $3.50 A UNIVERSE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. FEATURING SONGS BY BLACK SABBATH BLUE OYSTER CULT CHEAP TRICK DEVO DONALD FAGEN DON FELDER GRAND FUNK RAILROAD SAMMY HAGAR JOURNEY NAZARETH STEVIE NICKS RIGGS TRUST A UNIVERSE OF MYSTERY. A UNIVERSE OF MAGIC. A UNIVERSE OF SEXUAL FANTASIES. AUNIVERSE OF AWESOME GOOD. AUNIVERSE OF TERRIFYING EVIL THURS. SEPT. 20 7:30 & 10:00 pm RUDDER THEATRE $1.50 presented by: MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE SCANDALS NIGHTLY SCHEDULE Sun. Wet T-Shirt Contest Swimsuit Contest 7-10 p.m. 50$ Bor Drinks 75$ Beer all nlte Wed. Thurs. Air Vocal Contest $75.00 - $50.00 - $25.00 prize money * 7-10 p.m. 50$ Bar Drinks 75$ Beer all nlte. LaBare Women only ’till 10 p.m. Four for One at 7 p.m. Free Champagne for Ladles after 10 p.m. Comedy Workshop Professional comedians from around the country 2 great shows 9:30 p.m. & 11 p.m. 4 for 1 drinks - 7 p.m.- 8 p.m. “An Aggie Tradition”...4 for 1 at 4 p.m. 4 for 1 at 7 p.m. Double size drinks every night after specials (The Right Club) 1401 FM 2818 College Station, TX 77840 (409) 693-2818 NO COVER with this coupon (on any night except Wed.) Hey Freshmen! Get Involved As A Senator or Class of ’88 Officer Your Class Will be Electing 8 Freshmen Senators (At Large) Class of’88 • President • Vice President • Secretary • Treasurer • Social Secretary Filing ends Friday at 5 p.m. In the Student Government Office 214 Pavilion TUDENT RNMENT UNIVERSITY