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By CHOYCE ELSIK
Reporter
Although most Texas A&M stu
dents are unaware of the Texas En
gineering Extension Service, its ac
tivities are a significant part of the
exas A&M System as well as the ed-
cation process.
“Our mandate,” said the organiza
tion’s director, fames R. Bradley, “is
to provide vocational and technical
training on an extensive basis to the
citizens of the state of Texas.”
Bradley said that all of the courses
by the Texas Engineering
xtension Service are basically for
the employed worker. They were
designed to enhance present skills
and training and to help the worker
keep up to date with changing tech-
dogy, he said.
Although the Texas Engineering
xtension Service is headquartered
in College Station, right in the mid
dle of the Texas A&M campus, more
than 90 percent of its activities occur
ff campus, he said.
Bradley said educational training
is provided through 15 different
raining divisions spread throughout
rlington, Corpus Christi, Floydada
and San Antonio, as well as College
~ ation.
Through these divisions, the Ex
tension Service organization is re-
ponsible for conducting more than
2,300 classes each year, Bradley said.
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The Law Enforcement and Secu
rity Division of the service provides
training in investigative hypnosis,
electronic eavesdropping counter
measures and dignitary and coun
terterrorist training for police offi
cers and other security personnel, he
said.
The largest division in the Texas
Engineering Extension Service is the
Fire Protection Training Division.
More than 18,000 students were en
rolled last year.
This division, which offers class
room education as well as actual fire
fighting exercises and emergency
rescue on a 120 acre training field in
College Station, teaches the latest
technology to firemen from all parts
of the state, said Bradley.
Other divisions which make up
the Texas Engineering Extension
Service include a Telecommunica
tions Training Division, which trains
telephone industry personnel; an
Oil and Hazardous Material Control
Training Division, which trains
workers to handle oil spills; and a
Public Works Training Division,
which trains workers in street con
struction and maintenance.
Bradley said that since the Texas
Engineering Extension Service be-
Physicians
A&M growth reflects need
By BRIAN PEARSON
Reporter
A greater demand for physicians
over the past few years has enabled
the Texas A&M College of Medicine
to squeeze a few more applicants into
its curriculum.
Since 1983, the A&M medical
school has accepted 48 new appli
cants every year. In 1977, it was ac
cepting only 32.
Dr. William E. Ward, the college’s
associate dean of student affairs,
said the medical school has ex
panded to “satisfy the perceived
need for more physicians.”
The increase in class size has been
more cost effective because 48 can
be educated as easily as 32, Ward
said.
Though the number of medical
students fluctuates with the demand
for more physicians, the number of
students accepted is expected to re
main stable for several years, he said.
The total enrollment in the medi
cal school increased from 149 in
1983 to 164 in 1984. The 10 percent
increase was the largest in Texas,
Ward said.
A flood of new physicians in the
future would force the school to de
crease its enrollment. Ward said.
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gan in 1948, more than 50,000 peo
ple have been trained.
“We are a rather unique agency,
in that we are a self-supporting
agency,” Bradley said.
With an annual budget of approx
imately $15 million, 85 percent of
the organization’s revenue comes
from fees and contracts charged to
program participants, Bradley said.
The remaining 15 percent is from
general revenue, he said.
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Rapid loss of coastal habitat is
causing a decline in bird populations
Sn the wetlands, say two Texas A&M
vildlife specialists.
“It’s a very complex situation,"
says wildlife sciences professor Dr.
Keith Arnold, president of the
Texas Ornithological Society.
"If you change the waterflow, that
changes marsh salinities.
"If you change salinites, that
changes water patterns in the estua
ries, and that makes a heck of a dif
ference as to how productive they
are,” Arnold said in an article for
Texas Shores, published by Texas
A&M's Sea Grant College Program.
“A number of organisms clepend
upon the flow of water to disperse
the eggs from where they’re hatched
to where they’re going to mature.
“If they don’t nave that flow, they
stay w here they are and never survi
ve,” he explained.
Dr. Doug Slack, a Texas A&M ex
pert on coastal wildlife said the ma
jor cause of the decline of bird pop
ulations across the board is habitat
loss.
“And in coastal environments,
habitat loss is advancing at a rather
rapid rate,” Slack said.
Biologically, birds are one of the
earliest indicators of changes in the
environment, according to Arnold.
“Along the coast, when you put in
a development, you lose your shore-
birds that nest on the open beaches
or vegetation areas,” he said.
“You will not have colonies of he
rons and egrets nearby unless devel
opers maintain adequate feeding
and resting sites in nearby marshes
— which is very rare.”
Texas has the largest bird popula
tion in the country. Slack said.
University News Service
TEMPLE — More cases of mul
tiple or “split” personality are being
documented than ever before, and
such disorders may be tied to child
abuse, says a psychologist with Texas
A&M’s medical school.
Many people are aware of mul
tiple personality disorders through
the widely publicized cases of “Eve”
and “Sybil,” subjects of books and
films.
But psychiatrists are just now
coming forward to report docu
mented cases of multiple personali
ties they have seen, said Dr. Joseph
Rickard, chief of psychology services
at Teague Veterans Center here and
one of the few professionals in
Texas to observe a case firsthand.
Until now, he explained, most
psychiatrists either didn’t believe
multiple personalities existed or they
felt the disorder was caused by the
incompetence of the therapist. Many
professionals are still wary.
Perhaps the most significant de
velopment of pioneer researchers in
the field has been a possible link be
tween child abuse and the onset of
multiple personality disorders,
added Rickard, a Texas A&M pro
fessor of psychiatry and behavioral
It is believed that children “split”
into personalities as a mental de
fense against sexual, physical and
psychological abuse, Rickard said.
Some may have one personality
where all stress and anger is filed
away, effectively blanking the inci
dent out of the patient’s normal
memory.
Long-term psychotherapy lasting
at least six to eight years is required
for the patient to recognize the dif
ferent personalities, to integrate
them into one and “to teach them
new methods of living without
blanking out,” he explained.
Slowly growing acceptance of
bona fide multiple personality disor
ders is so new that no universal
agreement of the disorder yet exists,
Rickard said.
However, it is recognized and de
fined in the most recent diagnostic
manual for psychiatric disorders.
Multiple personality patients,
most frequently young females, ap
pear marked by distinct personalities
— usually at least one each to ex
press repressed anger, sexual feel
ings or the childish side, Rickard
said.
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What he knows will keep you talking for days!
National Agri-Marketing Association
&
The Society for
Entrepreneurship and New Ventures
Present
the fourth annual
CARL STEVENS
Professional Development
and Selling Seminar
January 25-27, 1985
115 Kleberg Center
Texas A&M University
The Seminar
The Carl Stevens Professional Development and
Selling Seminar Is a 16-hour lecture seminar comprised of a
series of intensive sessions emphasizing personal'
development and involvement, it is an opportunity for
students 5o build and enhance communication and
selling ski!!s--skills that are essential lo entering and
progressing in today's business world.
The ability to sell yourself and express your ideas is
seldom learned in the college classroom. Texas A&M
students now have the opportunity to participate in the
Stevens seminar, which will be conducted January 25
through January 27. 1985.
Schedule
Friday. January 23
noon-1 pm -- Registration
1-5 pm - Introduction and Concepts
Saturday. January 26
8 am - 5 pm - 7 Steps to Selling
Sunday. Januray 27
Sunday. January 27 1-4:30 pm -- Seven minute presentations
plus lecture on memorization, interviewing techniques,
resumes, etc.
* All sessions will meet In 115 KJeberg Center.
Cost
S 5 preregistration fee (remaining S35 at door)
or
S40 in advance
or
S45 at the door
The Carl Stevens Selling Seminar
Registration Form
(please print)
School Mailing Address:.
Major or Department:
Phone:
-Zip:—u__
.Class) rieulion:-
Check One:
8 5 preregistration fee (remaining S35 at door)
_S40 in advance
_S45 at the door
Make cheeks payable to NAMA. (fee Includes IOC page workbook)
Please deliver to:
Dr. Howard Meshy
Rtn 129 Klebc-rg Center
845-7616
CARL STEVENS
Professional Development
and Selling Seminar
Securing your college investment by strengthening your
interpersonal communication and selling skills.