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[By MICHAEL CRAWFORD
Reporter
Visiting “The Emerging China”,
Id comparing its culture with
erican culture was how four stu-
lents began preparing for the thir-
th Student Conference on Na
nai Affairs.
“The Emerging China” is the
pic of the 1985 conference.
“China is a collective-oriented so-
ty where the sum is greater than
e individual, while here the indi-
idualis important,” SCONA Chair-
anCid Galindo said.
“The Chinese are in awe of all
ings new,” said Galindo, a senior
:onomics major. “Americans are
Ibjects of fascination; even the
lount of money we spend, al-
lough it seems trivial to us, is in
edible to them.”
Galindo was one of four SCONA
presentatives to visit China May
|7-30.
“Free ideas and their exchange is
lhat SCONA is all about,” Galindo
aid, “so when funding for the trip
lecameavailable, we went.”
As part of their five-city tour the
[roup visited Peking University.
“It is not like A&M, where you see
[tudents milling around,” Galindo
aid. “The guides told us we were at
he university, but I couldn’t tell a
Bifference. Their campus is very dif
ferent.”
Galindo said academics at Peking
University seemed very limited in
[cope and student activity was less
nan at American universities. Gal-
ndo added the group only spent
line day on the campus — one would
nave to stay there much longer to get
a better understanding of the uni
versity.
“Apart from just seeing the coun
try, we had the goal of getting
Chinese students to come to A&M
for the SCONA conference,” Gal
indo said. “If we get delegates to
come from China, then it was un
questionably a success.”
To help with the arrangements,
SCONA members enlisted the aid of
Li Keqiang, secretary general of the
All China Student Federation. “If
you are a student in China, you are a
member of the federation,” said Gal
indo. Their Chinese hosts seemed
receptive to the idea of sending a
delegation, Galindo said.
SCONA sponsors an annual con
ference each spring on a topic con
sidered by the committee to be of na
tional or international importance.
Once the topic is selected SCONA
invites approximately 250 people
who, Galindo said, would not other
wise be at Texas A&M. Delegates
discuss the topic for four days with
speakers and professionals in the
field.
The Chinese trip was the first ma
jor trip for SCONA, Galindo said.
The MSC Travel Committee offered
the trip for $2,100 and SCONA
raised money to send a delegation.
Galindo said the trip probably cost
more than the $2,100 but the
Chinese government might have
subsidized part of the trip’s expense.
Repayment of the loans will go to
a travel fund for SCONA members,
Galindo said.
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Steve Cross, a senior mechanical engineering major from proper method for chopping down a tree. Cross and Joeris
Pearland, demonstrates while Karl Joeris, (far right) a senior taught safe cutting procedures in the first cutting class Mon
building construction major from San Antonio, explains the ^ a y evening at the Grove.
loung businesses, part-time employees common
Translation companies in transition
United Press International
NEW YORK — The translation
business shows all the signs of being
lindustry in transition. Most of the
lompanies are new to the game, and
most of the employees are part-
timers.
The Corporate Word, a Pitts
burgh-based translating company,
[recently conducted a survey on
[translating businesses throughout
ihe country and found the majority
less than six years old, with nearly 90
percent having formed since 1970.
International trade always has
been important to American busi
ness. But the demand for translating
business documents is picking up be
cause foreigners now expect to see
correspondence and documents in
their native language, said Gregory
Zaretsky, Corporate Word presi
dent.
“The French, for instance, are
very proud people. Usually they
want to do business in the language
in which they’re most comfortable,”
he said. Some Arab states have laws
requiring that correspondence com
ing into the country be written in Ar
abic, he added.
The infant industry may be due
for another shakeup soon as compu
terized translations become more so
phisticated. The Corporate Word is
developing a system, for instance, in
which documents can be phoned
into a computer, translated, and
then edited by a native speaker.
About 100 translating companies
out of 900 contacted responded to
The Corporate Word’s survey. They
reported having an average of only
three full time workers and about 22
part-time employees.
The industry rule of thumb is that
it takes one person-hour to translate
a page of text — about 250 words.
The average national price, Zaretsky
estimated, is about 17 cents a word,
although charges range from 40
cents to 6 cents.
Police beat
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were
reported to the University Police
Department through Monday.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A black Takara 10-speed bi
cycle was stolen from in front of a
student’s apartment on Jones
Street.
• A maroon clutch purse was
stolen from a seat on the west side
of Kyle Field during the A&M
Consolidated High School foot
ball game.
• Fifty dollars in cash was sto
len from a wallet left in the first
floor restroom of Moore Hall.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• Someone broke the passen
ger-side window on a 1981 Ford
Mustang in Parking Annex 30.
• Someone damaged a 1982
Toyota parked on Jones Street by
walking across the hood, roof and
trunk.
TERRORISTIC THREAT:
• An A&M Consolidated High
School student working for the
KANM-FM radio station on cam
pus reported she received a call
from an anonymous man who re
quested she play different types
of Nazi songs. She made a remark
over the air about the request.
The man called back and said he
was going to come down to the
station and “get” the people
working there.
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