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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.”
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Course on Saturday. This course may be used to have certain traffic
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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.
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