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Thursday, September 20 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 Koldus talks to small crowd at Sully Symposium By PATRICIA FLINT Reporter The function of Student Govern ment is to represent student opinion md to link the student body to the administration, Dr. John Koldus, vice-president of student services, isaid Wednesday. But most people don’t utilize this resource as well as the many others iavailable to them, the guest speaker of this week’s Sully Symposium ex plained to a small audience of 35 in front of the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue'. Sully Symposium is a series of weekly talks by student leaders to improve communication between the student body and student lead ers. The symposium is sponsored by Lambda Sigma, a sophomore honor society and service organization. First joking that students are used to seeing evangelists lecturing in the place where he was speaking, Koldus spoke about the different services available to the students. Some of those services include: •The free lunch program, dur ing which Koldus shares ideas and opinions with different students and faculty over lunch every week. •The legal services program — free to any student on campus and any student group. •The A.P. Beut,el Health Center. •The student counseling service, which handles personal counseling and academic skills development. •The Memorial Student Center, which has approximately 22 commit- )t$ ’ head spin- Great B\it- dral. Allol :cause dip our* . cathedrali m surev doubt w ies. e, I waso I lines dt ipward i me. Mon buttress! i commot solution. .(, one dial te longest e most ini' brines,tk >st impre tie place. [(youra 1 est of,tit y column-1 /tinin Editor ard tor editor tor itor ■ Editor idle PtW :yk, Laun Reese s Tingle II Hughes gel Stokes dike Lane in Hallen •en Bloch Pahnieic' » neK/sp a P t ' f ,inrf V' leoflli'W ilyrcprex? tcuhy or W uspapo'ft* tpny da 5 * 1 clsinW 1 ! cn fori 1 !' 11 min 2 ust indo* j-'riday dt> r ' fioliday 11 " -ear- jialdB"?, 77«WW- Idi'enisinf _X 77W.C A8cM to host program for impotency study By CATHIE ANDERSON Reporter A program for diagnosis of im potence in men will begin soon at Texas A&M under the direction of Dr. Joseph LoPiccolo, psychol ogist, and Dr. Richard Morgan, nephrologist. A National Institute of Health grant will provide the means for the researchers to study impo tency, LoPiccolo said. Tests will be done not only on healthy men who have a psychological problem but also on those males who are medically ill. Diabetes and kidney failure can cause impotency, as can certain medication for both high blood pressure and heart disease, he said. The medication can change the pattern of blood circulation, thus eliminating the necessary rush of blood to cause an erection, he said. “Ultimately you’re talking about a life-threatening problem,” said LoPiccolo, who was director of the Sex Therapy Center at the Slate University of New York at Stoney Brook. “A good percent age of men stop taking blood con trol medicine because they aren’t able to have sex. They say, ‘If I have to choose between sex and living, well Doc, sorry, but life isn’t worth living without sex.’ These gu^s are desperate; they need LoPiccolo said he remembers one man, about 40, who came in with a hlood pressure reading of 190/150 because he refused to take his medicine. “I’d rather die than live like this,” LoPiccolo re membered him saying. Diabetes also “causes damage to the vascular (circulatory) system, ... again not enough blood flow to the penis,” LoPiccolo said, “and another symptom is deterioration of the nervous system.” Even though researchers do not know why men who suffer from kidney failure often are im potent, LoPiccolo said that hor mone abnormalities such as a lack of the hormone testosterone may be the cause. LoPiccolo said he wants the program to be both a laboratory where answers to these problems can be found and a place where the old hypotheses are tested. “I would hope it would be well-- accepted,” LoPiccolo said. “It’s not like we’re doing research on por nography or something.” Morgan, who will help LoPic colo, will give the patients a com plete physical examination before they enter the program. Morgan and Dr. David Brannon are co medical directors of the Bryan Nephrology Center, a kidney di alysis center. / Serving Luncheon Buffet Sandwich and Soup Bar Mezzanine Floor Sunday through Friday T1 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. OPEN PRIOR TO EACH FOOTBALL GAME UNTIL GAME TIME t. Delicious Food Beautiful View OPEN TO THE PUBLIC "Quality First" MSC Amateur Radio AN AGGIE TRADITION SINCE 1912 PRESENTS GPS - NAVSTAR. SATELLITE BASED NAVIGATION SYSTEM Thursday 20th 7:30 p.m. 140 MSC RECREATIONAL PROGRAMS for info 260-2240 tees offering recreational programs for students. •The Student Activities Office, providing leadership training pro grams outside of class and regular student activities. •Student financial aid. “Although we have a lot of things going on it is hard to get information out to everyone,” Koldus said. A student from the audience — which began as 10 or 12 and grew to almost 35 people — asked for stu dent input in decisions that affect the entire school, adding that he felt there was no student input in the de cision to construct the bell tower. Koldus said that recommenda tions by student groups reach the administration through Student Government. He said students should tell Student Government how they feel about anything they are concerned with, and then the student leaders can make recom mendations to the administration. Koldus has dinner with student body leaders every other Thursday night. They tell him what’s going on around campus and he tells them what’s going on in the administra tion. Koldus said that A&M is a partici patory institution in which the stu dents are very active, and he wants that to develop even further. He of fered the students an open invitation to talk to him any time he can be of help. “I think this is an excellent pro gram and I think it will catch on,” he said of the symposium. “I congratu late the group for putting it on. “One of the things I attempt to do is to make contact with the students any and every way possible,” Koldus said after the talk. “This thing just created another opportunity.” Personal contact is the best way to have a feel for the regular pulse of the campus, he said. Robert Beard, public relations coordinator for Lambda Sigma, said that he thought the symposium was a success because it exposed many students to the various services avail able on campus, but said he would always be happier with a larger crowd. “I’m pleased that we have some one like Dr. Koldus on campus who’s really accessible to the students and whose main purpose is to benefit the students,” Beard said. The symposium is held every Wednesday between 1 1 a.m and noon in front of the Academic Building, next to the Lawrence Sulli van Ross statue. Next week’s speaker is Student Body President David Alders. The speakers scheduled for the seven weeks following Alders are Corps Commander Chuck Rollins; senate speaker Diane Baumbach; football players Ken Reeves, Rod Bernstein and Todd Howard; Bat talion Editor Stephanie Ross; the yell leaders; President of the MSC Pat Wood; and Phil Rosenfeld, director of Fish Camp 84 and president of the Student Y Associaion. Marketing society to offer scholarship with money from Star Tel, MCI sales By JODI FELTON Reporter A Marketing Society scholarship will be awarded for the first time this spring, Dr. Larry Gresham, Market ing Society adviser, said Tuesday. The money for the scholarship was raised by Marketing Society stu dents who sold MCI and Star Tel long-distance services in the Memo rial Student Center and the Blocker Building the first two weeks of the semester. “We’re not sure of the profit from MCI yet, because MCI pays on usage customers,” he said. “Tnat means we don’t get a commission until the peo ple we signed up actually use the service, receive a bill, and then pay the hill.” The society sold the MCI service to 728 people, the adviser said, and it receives $5 for every person who uses the service. “Assuming that ev erybody uses the service, and that’s not a good assumption, then we’ll get $3,640,” he said. Out of that money, the Marketing Society members that sold the serv ice will get $1 apiece for each service they sold, Gresham said. “Then we will quite likely put at least $1 out of each of those sub scriptions in the scholarship fund,” he said. The society also sold about 1,200 Star Tel contracts this semester, he said. Star Tel will pay $4 for every contract sold. “But part of their agreement with us was to match dollar-for-dollar any money we put into the scholarship fund, up to $1 per contract sold,” he said. “That means they are already committed to putting $1,200 in the scholarship fund if we’ll match it with another $ 1,200.” The $ 1,200 from Star Tel is in ad dition to the $4 per contract sold, he said. “One of the things we do with the money is supplement the activities of the society,” Gresham said. The rest goes into an endowment set up last year by the society, he said. The endowment was started with $ 1,500 from the sale of the MGI service last year, he said. With an endowment, you only can use the money earned by the inter est, he said, and therefore this year’s scholarship will be about $150. “The nature of an endowment is such that it’ll be not this coming spring but the next before we can award a scholarship from the money earned this year,” Gresham said. “The criteria for selecting the recipi ents of the scholarship is at the pre sent resting with a subcommittee of officers and former officers of the Marketing Society. They are decid ing what criteria to use and the mechanism for awarding the schol arship. “The subcommittee will bring the list of criteria to me and we’ll submit it to the society members for a vote. I’ll leave the decision up to the stu dents because the society is a student organization.” Musical groups looking for instrumentalists By LINDA SCARMARDO Reporter The MSC Madrigal Dinners will hold auditions for instrumentalists during the first week of October. The Madrigal Dinners, scheduled for Dec. 5-9, needs vocalists, string, brass and woodwind players and anyone who can play an instrument from ancient times, says Patty Flei- tas, artistic director for the Madrigal Dinners. “We’re trying to get musicians out of the woodwork,” Fleitas said. “We don’t have an organization on cam pus for string players, and I think it’s important for them to have a place to use their talents.” Fleitas said talented community members also are encouraged to au dition. People selected from the audi tions will re-enact a Renaissance Christmas feast with light, romantic songs called madrigals, and a cast of jesters, mimes and musicians, said Cynthia Kintigh, committee adviser. This will be the fourth year for the Madrigal Dinners. “The Dinners are a lot different than other MSC programs because we produce as well as present the program,” Kintigh said. “We have something for everyone.” The committee also needs people to help with costumes, food service, set design and construction, public relations and group sales. Rehearsal times for the Madrigal Dinners will be set by the instrumen tal director and the musicians cho sen in auditions, Fleitas said. Vocal ists will practice one-and-a-half hours, twice a week, she said. Fleitas said that the Madrigal Din ners program is voluntary and no cost is involved. A general committee meeting for people interested in Madrigal Din ners production is Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. in 230 MSC. For more information about spe cific audition appointments contact Fleitas in 003 MSC. The Brazos Valley Symphony Or chestra also will hold auditions for instrumentalists during the first week of October. The Brazos Valley Symphony Or chestra will give five concerts begin ning Nov. 1 and ending April 25, business manager Lori Proudfoot said. The Nutcracker will be per formed Dec. 1, and a special concert of the Brazos Pops is scheduled for March 30, she said. Proudfoot said rehearsals for the symphony already have begun. “We rehearse every week, usually on Tuesdays,” she said. ome 4 Help lie Celebrate 3 r - Year in College Station ! ^ uur 3- Tear in college Annual Storewide Cl l earance Through Saturday, we’re clearing our store 4 warehouse of all excess stock Our Annual Sale is a great time to pick up items for yourself or gifts for friends. Be sure to stop by for savings in every department. 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