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TDC needs major
additions in staff
Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE — The Texas De
partment of Corrections needs an
“astronomical number” of staff addi
tions in order to shape up the the na
tion’s second-largest prison system,
director Raymond Procunier said
Thursday.
Ray Keller of Duncanville, chair
man of the state House Committee
on Law Enforcement, meanwhile,
estitnated it could cost up to a half
billion dollars before the prison sys
tem is put in order.
“I’m pleased with the im
provements,” Keller said after he
and about a dozen other lawmakers
inspected several prison facilities in
the Huntsville area.
Keller’s Law Enforcement Com
mittee and members of the House
Committee on Criminal Jurispru
dence were briefed by Procunier
and other top department officials,
then visited tne Ellis, Ferguson and
Eastham prison units.
“It’s a miracle we have had as few
problems as we have,” Procunier
said. “And 1 know that sounds
strange,” he added, referring to
prison disturbances and hundreds
of inmate stabbings over the past
year.
Procunier, who has been on the
job for about nine months, ex
plained for legislators how he reor
ganized the administration of each
prison unit, how he is reclassifying
inmates so similar prisoners are
housed together, and what chal
lenges faced him when he arrived.
“There was not one department
procedure in a procedure manual,”
he said. Now, he said, 25 training
captains are on the job to make sure
people know procedures.
“We are hopeless optimists,” he
said. “I have never seen a better atti
tude.”
Procunier said the major prob
lem, and the reason he needs more
staff, was the elimination of the sys
tem of building tenders — inmates
who guarded inmates.
“All 1 know is the old system is ille
gal,” he said. “The ‘con boss’ system
is not bad. It’s just illegal.”
The building lenders were re
placed by guards, he said, but ad
ministrators failed to take into con
sideration that the inmate building
tenders were on the scene 24 hours a
day, seven days a week, and each
guard was not.
“Everyone in Texas felt every
prison was maximum security. But
they are really lightweight to me
dium security,” he said. “With the
building tenders, they were maxi
mum security.”
It takes five guards to replace
each building tender, he said.
The staff shortage was so acute in
mates were enroute to the new Beto
I Unit when he discovered not
enough staff was available at the new
prison. Procunier ordered the bus
turned around.
“It’s so frustrating,” he said. "We
were adding facilities to prisons but
no staff. We’ve got gymnasiums in
fallow because tnt
staff.”
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Slouch
By Jim Earle
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academic adviser to see how I could improve my grades.’'
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Jan. 21, 1985
Paid Advertising
by the
College of Business
Vol. 7 No. 4
Annual Business Week set for February
Career Fair Committees 1985
By VIVIAN SMITH
Reporter
The sixth annual “Business Week” in
the College of Business Administration
will “showcase” Texas A&M business stu
dents to 70-80 companies from across
Texas, said Dr. Samuel Gillespie, Assis
tant Dean of the College of B usiness Ad
ministration.
“Business Week heightens campus and
community awareness of the College of
Business Administration, and company
recruiters’ awareness, by getting student-
sand faculty interacting with the iep-
resentatives,” Gillespie said.
Sponsored by the Business Student
Council (BSC), the Week is a student-
managed event. Assistant to the Dean
Lynn Zimmermann said.
BSC is comprised of representatives
from all of the business oriented student
organizations on campus. These mem
bers form committees which organize
and conduct the week’s activities.
“This gives students the opportunity to
plan, manage and carry out major pro
jects using skills they have learned in the,
classroom,” Zimmermann said.
The council began its planning in Au
gust. The week’s activities are fairly con
sistent from year to year, Zimmermann
said.
It opens February 4th with the Retail
ing Career Symposium and representa
tives of all otner industries and business
professions join the fair for the second
clay, February 5th. The representatives
of the companies will be at booths in the
Blocker lobby to talk with several thou
sand students about their respective com
pany.
The representatives also provide fac
ulty with valuable input about classes
needed to properly prepare students for
specific business careers, Zimmermann
said.
A reception is held on the first evening
arid a career banquet on the second to al
low many students the opportunity to
visit personally with company recruiters.
On tne final evening company represen
tatives take outstanding students to din
ner at a local restaurant.
Zimmermann said he is very pleased
with company response to the Career
Fair. In 1980, the first year of the fair, 27
companies participated. Each year that
number has grown and for the 1985 Fair
75-80 companies are expected.
P
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Companies are paying a higher fee to
participate this year, yet the , tlie number
of businesses attending increased. Gilles
pie uses economics to explain the in
crease: “In economics if you raise the
rice and the demand still increases you
rave a superior good.
“Business Student Council runs a first
class event,” Gillespie said. From com
ments he has received no other program
at any major southern university mea
sures up to the quality and scope of Texas
A&M’s, Gillespie said.
Other activities planned for the week
include: seminars in accounting, market
ing, finance, management, business anal
ysis and retailing.Professors invite va
rious corporate executives to speak to
their classes.
A Women’s Business Symposium will
be held on Thursday, February 7th.
The week concludes with the Masters
of Business Administration case competi
tion. All Southwest Conference schools
send teams to compete in a 100-page case
study of a complex business problem and
offer solutions, Zimmermann said.
One of the features that makes
A&M’s Business Career Fair unique is
the fact that it is entirely student man
aged.
All events held during the week are
planned and run entirely by stu
dents.This is where every student, no
matter what major or classification,
fits in. Any business major can serve
on one or more of the Career Fair
committees. Serving on a committee
gives students a better opportunity to
meet and talk with the representatives
of the various companies. It also gives
valuable experience in the areas of
management, public relations, and
people skills. Many students that have
participated in the past have received
job offers from the compoanies that
they hosted.
If you are interested in serving on a
committee for this year’s fair, there is
still time to get involved. Sign up
sheet s are located in Room 101 of the
Blocker Building or the chairman of
the committee you wish to serve on
may be contacted.
It’s not too late to still become in
volved in one of the biggest events of
the College of Business. The Fair is
only two weeks away, so come on out
and GET INVOLVED!
Banquet— Bryan Griggs 260—
3587 Jim Bohling 696—3528
Booths— Kim Peattie 823—7764
Correspondence— Tia Tomlin
260—1809
Hospitality— Leigh Ann Seeburger
693—1340 Gwen Knebel 696—0339
Publicity— Sharon Howerton
846—9401 '
Reception— Kyle Coldren 696—
6707
Security— Rodger Woika 696—
5650
Tickets— Martin Rimes 693—2520
Welcoming— Wanda Drapela
260—7580
Texas A&M’s Career Fair 1985
Companies planning for Career Fair 1985 booths
By LINDA SCARMARDO
Reporter
The 1985 Business Career Fair offers
mutual benefits to companies, students
and the University.
Seventy - five companies plan to reap
the benefits offered by the 1985 Business
Career Fair, which is sponsored by the
Business Student Council on February
4th - 6th.
The Fair, an annual event, is a major
part of the College of Business Adminis
tration’s observance of “Business Week”
on campus.
Participating companies have the op
tion of attending the Fair/for one or two
days, and have a limited space for booths
in the lobby and hallways of the Blocker
Building.
Booths are not only to display com-
Ticket Sales
Tickets for the 1985 Career
Fair Banquet will go on sale
Monday, January 28th at 8
a.m. in the lobby of Blocker.
Tickets will be $6.50 each. The
banquet will be at 7 p.m. at the
Brazos Center with a Cash Bar
at 5:30 p.m. Seats will each
company will be on a first
come — first serve basis. If you
wish to sit with aspecific com
pany, buy your ticket early.
Sales will close on Friday, Feb
ruary 1st at 5 p.m.
pany information, but also to give stu
dents a casual location to talk with rep
resentatives. While companies have
different ways of presenting information,
their reasons for attending are basically
the same.
“We’re there to meet the students and
to plant seeds of interest in our programs
in the future,” George C. Berger, of
Tandy Corporation/Radio Shack, said.
“At the minimum we will have a very col
orful display booth which shows employ
ment opportunities at Radio Shack. The
booth will be staffed by representatives
from our personnel division, who will
participate in all other functions,” he
said.
Texas A&M Alumnus Rick Philpott,
said Luby’s Cafeteria representatives will
not only attend the Fair but will also in
terview students February 6th and 7th.
“We get good results and quality students
from A&M,” he^said.
Pennzoil will keep it fairly simple, rep
resentative Jackie Birkel said. “Basically,
we will have literature in our booth and
answer questions. We want to try to in
form students early about opportunities
at Pennzoil and about what college
courses they need to be taking,” she said.
Birkel said that their recruiting efforts
are aimed primarily at those in Business
Analysis (BANA).
Pam Estes, from First City Bank in
Houston, said, “We’re conservative. We
don’t really go into all the whoop-la. We
just plan on handing out brochures and
answering questions.”
Whatever companies plan on doing,
Business Career Fair should be an excel
lent opportunity to interact with prospec
tive employers.
Frank Cinatl and Amy Wolan, graduates of A&M, return to Career Fair
1984 as company reps.
By KAREN BLOCH
Reporter
Representatives of 65-70 compa
nies will be manning booths in the
Blocker Building’s first floor lobby on
February 5th and 6th from 8:15 a.m.
to noon and 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The Sixth Annual Business Career
Fair at Texas A&M is sponsored by
the Business Student Council.
The Business Career Fair gives em
ployers an edge in recruiting and stu
dents an edge in job-hunting. Stu
dents can talk with representatives of
any of the companies attending the
fair.
But the Fair is not just for graduat
ing seniors. It also provides a time and
place for freshmen, sophomores, and
juniors to have career discussions with
professionals from many fields.
At the Business Career Fair rep
resentatives of the participating com
panies have the opportunity to visit
informally with students. These infor
mal visits can lead to interviews and
serious recruiting.
Representatives talk to the under
classmen about the company, the in
dustry and their professions. They try
to assist the students in making deci
sions about their careers.
Several companies, including Ex
xon, InterFirst Bank and Luby’s Cafe
terias, will be making return visits at
this year’s fair.
Each company has different rea
sons for returning, but they all enjoy
the contact with the students.
“The Fair is a medium in which we
can get information to students on an
informal basis,” Wayne Tinsley, of
Exxon, said. “We primarily try to get
sophomores and juniors interested in
the company so when they start inter
viewing they’ll want to talk to us.”
Jon Lamb of InterFirst Bank in
Austin, agrees with Tinsley.
“We have the opportunity to visit
with many more students at the Ca
reer Fair than we would normally be
able to,” Lamb said. “Career Fair gives
us a chance to recruit students who
might not think they're interested in
banking.”
Rick Philpott, of Luby’s Cafeterias,
said he likes the public relations as
pect of the Fair.
“The Career Fair is good exposure
for the company,” Philpott said. “We
do some advertising at A&M, but we
like to be able to talk to the students
one on one. That way they can get the
facts from us.”
Since the Fair is planned and man
aged entirely by business students, it
offers the opportunity for valuable
“hands on” experience.
But that’s not all the Business Ca
reer Fair has to offer.
At 9 a.m. on February 4th in Rud
der Tower the Center for Retailing
Studies will present a symposium on
“Careers in Retailing.”
Other seminars will be presented
during the week. Some seminars will
be geared toward undergraduates,
others will focus on interests of mas
ters students. Speakers will discuss the
careers that are available to students
majoring in business analysis, market
ing, management, finance and ac
counting.
The highlight of the Fair is the an
nual banquet at which academic
achievement awards are presented to
students. The Banquet is at 7 p.m. on
Tuesday February 5th at the Brazos
Center.
A special feature of the Fair is the
“Take a Student to Dinner” program.
This is a special opportunity for re
cruiters to select specific students to
be their guests at dinner on Wednes
day evening.
The Fair opens on Monday Feb
ruary 4th with a reception for recruit
ers and student leaders.
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