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Y leader heads
next symposium
Phil Rosenfeld, director of the
Student Y Association, will be the
speaker at this week’s Solly’s Sym
posium at 1 1:50 a.m. Wednesday.
Sponsored by Lamba Sigma,
the sophomore honors society,
the symposium is held weekly by
the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue
in front of the Academic Build
ing. The goal of the project is to
improve communications be
tween students and student lead
ers.
Rosenfeld, a former Fish
Camp director, said his speech
will center on the history of the
Student Y and the evolution of
Fish Camp. The Student Y is
Texas A&M’s second oldest stu
dent service organization, pre
ceded only by the Ross Volun
teers.
“I want to give an overview of
Fish Camp and how it’s put toge
ther,” Rosenfeld said. “I’ll also
give an overview of the Student
Y.”
Rosenfeld said he will explain
how employees advance through
the Student Y system. Following
his speech he will answer ques
tions from the audience.
Cap and Gown holds
seminars for seniors
Smoking
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By LINDA SCARMARDO
Reporter
Interviewing skills and graduate
school were the first topics of a two-
part seminar sponsored by Cap and
Gown Monday night in Rudder
Tower.
“We (Cap and Gown) are a service
organization and these seminars are
a good way to give service to the uni
versity,” Melissa Romine, president
of Cap and Gown said. “We get so
tied up in school we don’t think
about what it will be like when we get
out and often it’s a shock.”
Interviewing is one area students
can prepare for after graduation.
“The interview determines
whether or not you are the one who
gets the job,’’Judith Vulliet, assistant
director of the career planning and
placement center said. “You com
pete with others who fit the qualifica
tions on paper. Your job is to sell
yourself, your skills and talents.”
Vulliet said 95 percent of those
who interview make a decision for or
against an applicant in the first five
minutes. “First impressions are very
important,” she said. “How you
dress, the dryness and firmness of
your handshake, the sweetness of
your smile and the social poise you
demonstrate can all make impres
sions.
“The interviewer looks for a well
informed person, with a mature set
of goals established for themselves
and who act as if they want to go to
work for him (the interviewer),”
Vulliet said.
Many of the same skills used in in
terviewing for businesses are used in
interviewing for graduate schools,
Jack Ivins, assistant to the dean in
the graduate school at A&M said.
“Keep the possibility of graduate
school in the back of your mind. If
you have any idea at all that you
would like to go, you should find out
who your graduate advisor is and
ask him about the programs avail
able,” Ivins said.
Ivins said finances shouldn’t be a
deterrent for entrance into graduate
school.
Ivins added that the minimum re
quirements for entrance into grad
uate school at this University are a
GRE score of 800 and a GPR of 2.75
for the last 60 hours.
The seminar will continue tonigh-
tin room 701 of Rudder. The dis
cussion will be on career and family
and personal finances.
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two schools care a whit about the
PUForthe AUF?
Well, for one thing, either univer
sity can help support its library
through the AUF. Last year the Uni
versity of Texas spent $2.7 million
from the AUF to support its librar
ies. Texas A&M spent $800,000.
Dean of Faculties Clint Phillips
says much of the AUF available to
A&M is being spent on buildings to
catch up with the University’s
growth during the past 25 years.
The Texas A&M library hasn’t re
ceived any AUF funds yet this year.
The library receives a spot allocation
rather than an annual stipend.
Hoadley says the allocation of
AUF funds this year have been put
on hold waiting the outcome of the
election. Proposition 2, an amend
ment to the Texas state constitution
which makes changes in the way the
PUF can be used, passed by more
than a 3-to-2 margin.
First, the amendment extends the
bonding rate — that’s increasing the
amount of the PUF that could be
used as collateral to issue bonds. Sec
ond, and of more interest to the li
braries, is that the bonds issued us
ing the PUF" as collateral may be
used for more than just the con
struction it was limited to before.
The bonds may be used for renova-
ters can dial 900-210-KWTF to
receive advice and encourage
ment from people with personal
experience.
Cigarette smokers, who rep
resent only one-third of the pop
ulation, account for about 82 per
cent of all cases of lung cancer,
according to a recent American
Cancer Society press release.
Lung cancer is the number one
cause of cancer death among
men, according to the cancer so-
Drinking
(continued from page 1)
behind stiffer DWI laws for the last
two years.
“We’re in full support of efforts
other than raising the drinking age
to fight DWI,” he said. “We want to
have positive DWI legislation ready
to go in January so legislators won’t
just be voting against the 21-year-old
law.”
Sean Royall, Texas A&M faculty
senate student representative, said
student government is interested in
looking into the issue, but hasn’t
taken a position on it.
Two Boston researchers have sug
gested raising the drinking age has
no effect on decreasing traffic acci
dents or fatalities.
Ralph Hingson, of the Boston
University school of behavioral sci-
tion of buildings and of most interest
to Hoadley — for library books.
Proposition 2 also sets up another
fund for the benefit of other state-
supported institutions of higher
learning. The boards of regents of
Texas and Texas A&M both favored
this proposition. Both boards feared
possible litigation —the same type of
litigation that allowed Texas A&M a
piece of the PUF pie in the 1930’s —
that could increase the number of
schools that would benefit from the
PUF, thus reducing each school’s
share of the kitty.
Though Proposition 2 passed,
says Bill Presnal, executive secretary
of the Board of Regents, the library
still may not receive a larger share of
the PUF.
“The library will continue to get
formula funding from the state leg
islature,” he says. “It depends on the
situation. If the formula funding
doesn’t keep up, it (issuing bonds)
will be possible supplemental fund
ing.”
If the library is forced to rely only
on formula funding it will never be
able to develop more than a minimal
library program, says the Chapman-
Cook internal self-study of the li
brary.
Though $5 million of the library’s
$5.9 million of funding in 1982-83
came from formula funding, the in--
ciety. In several years, lung can
cer is expected to surpass breast
cancer as the number one cancer
killer among women.
The money spent on health
care combined with the cost of ac
cidental fires and lost work days
attributed to smoking costs Tex
ans more than $1 billion per year,
according to an article in Texas
Medicine magazine.
To people who want to quit
smoking to avoid the risks and
costs involved in the habit, the
ence, said in a phone interview Fri
day that although “teenagers are dis
proportionately involved in these
accidents, so are 20 to 25-year-olds...
“It’s easy to point the finger at
teenagers, but it’s a society-wide
problem.”
With his partner, Robert Smith,
Hingson compared the number of
fatal crashes in the three-year period
after Massachusetts raised its drink
ing age from 18 to 20 with fatal acci
dents in New York, which did not
raise its legal drinking age.
They found there was no reduc
tion in crashes involving 16 and 17-
year-olds, the age group targeted by
the new law. Hingson and Smith also
found that New York fatalities de
clined almost as much as fatalities in
Massachusetts.
ternal self-study says it pays just for
basic services.
“Generally speaking, the state li
brary formula is a maintenance stan
dard which allows no additional
funding for catch-up from past neg
ligences, nor additional class offe
rings,” it says.
The library formula is based on
the number of credit hours offered
by the University broken down by
undergraduate and graduate classes.
So as the University’s growth slows,
most likely, so will the amount of
formula funding.
“The library may not now be in a
crisis situation,” Hoadley says, “but if
the level of funding stabilizes or de
creases, we would have problems.
And if we get less money, then we
really have problems.”
Phillips agrees that more than for
mula funding is needed.
“We have to keep chipping away
at doing more than formula fund
ing,” Phillips says. “I hope the day
will come when we can devote a lot
more to the library.
“There’s light at the end of the
tunnel for the constant construction.
But, the AUF is committed for many
years — to pay off the bonds for
buildings already built.”
So with the AUF committed to
other projects or possibly disrupted
through court action, the library
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Up.
Warp
American Cancer Society offers
these suggestions:
• Throw out all cigarettes by
either breaking them in half or
putting them in water.
• If you get the urge to smoke,
take a deep breath, hold it for ten
seconds and release it slowly.
• If you are tempted to reach
for a cigarette, think of your
worst memory connected with
smoking —maybe the time you
burned a whole in your best suit.
• Reward yourself with oral
substitutes in the same way
may have used cigarettes. Sug I
arless gum, lemon drops, pump^
kin or sunflower seeds, apple I
slices, carrot sticks and popcorn
all make good substitutes.
• Eat three meals. This main
tains constant blood sugar levels
and prevents smoking urges.
• Change your daily routine ]
Don’t do things you usually con
nect with smoking. For example,
avoid sitting in your “smokingch-
SHOf
Their research included an opin
ion survey. Based on the answers,
they concluded that “punitive legis
lation” may only cause people to ig
nore the law.
“We may be creating a generation
of lawbreakers,” Hingson said. “This
is not a black and white issue. The
goal is to reduce all deaths, so you
can’t just target teenagers.”
Hingson said raising the drinking
age to 21 would reduce fatal traffic
accidents by 2 percent or 1,000 lives
a year.
Hingson said the researchers
question the study used by Congress
in drafting the law. That study used
at statistics from nine states that had
raised the legal drinking age. It
found a 28 percent reduction in
nighttime, single-vehicle crashes, the
type most associated with drutill
driving, but only an 11 percent re f
duction in overall crashes.
“That evidence is suggestive, kl
not conclusive,” Hingson said.
He said legislatures should m l
crease DW’I penalties.
“In Massachusetts, only 25 per
cent of drunks arrested are convit
ted,” he said. "Most just go throit^
driver education programs and havt
their sentences dropped.”. . .
Hingson said legislatures also
should push for passive restrain
laws. The mandatory seat-belt and
airbag laws, which Congress has de
ferred until 1989, would reducetra
file fatalities by 15 to 30 percent,or
about 15,()()() to 20,000 lives a year,
he said.
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funding will also be necessary, and
efforts are already being made in
this direction, the most promising of
which is the foundation of a Library
Development Council,” says the self-
study.
About $200,000 has been ob
tained in gifts since the Library De
velopment Council was formed less
than two years ago.
Library Development and Promo
tion Coordinator Charlene Clark
says all the activity of her office is
coordinated through the Texas
A&M Development Foundation, the
primary University agency to solicit
funding.
“A library —just like most every
thing else at a state university —
seems to go on an idea of state fund
ing.” Clark says. “In order to achieve
its goals of excellence, the library
needs outside funding.
“That’s not a unique situation
here. A library is a very complex and
costly operation.”
In a presentation before the
Board of Regents in the summer of
1984, Phillips said the University of
Texas library received $4.2 million
from gifts and other sources, and
Texas A&M needed to pursue the
same types of funding.
And money is needed for boil
books and staff, Hoadley says.
Donald Dyal, in charge of special
collections at the library, agrees.
“The library is not selling theusc
of books,” he says. “It’s selling infor
mation for term papers, for Nobd
prizes. A library is in the senict
business.”
It’s kind of like a supermarket of
information, he says.
“When you go to the grocery sioit
and buy Del Monte peas, the M
cents you pay is not just for peas,boi
actually for a whole lot of services-
marketing, transportation, pad
aging,” he says. “A library isjustliltl
that. The actual cost of a bookisihc
smallest part of the cost of gettinj]
the book on a shelf ...
“Books don’t magically show T _
cataloged and on the stacks. Its i
business function. It requires staff;
time, staf f expertise. ”
The fosts of running a lihniv.T'
like that of keeping .i < .u in runniafl
order, are both readily apparent ana I
somewhat transparent. Sure a 71
Ford Pinto will get you where youf
need to go most of the time, but if I .
the University ever wishes tohavea| |
library that does more than getthe j
job done, faculty and administrator
seem to agree, funding for the Inf
brary must be increased.
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