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3 % I TER ME ire :$ ee sepa y at 8 ax ■vision, la irketine!-] ies. Botfi fficerini inction commuit schedul Wednesday, February 6, 1 . ,e BattaliorvVage 7 The sixth annual Career Fair. pho, ° ™™ONYS. CASPER Career woman challenges to be topic of symposium By KAREN HELLER Reporter The challenges of being a woman with a career will be pre sented in a “Women in Business” symposium to be held Thursday. The symposium, which is pre sented in conjunction with Busi ness Week, is sponsored by Exec utive Women of Dallas. Lynn Zimmerman, the assis tant dean in the College of Busi ness, said the symposium is being held for several reasons. About 54 percent of the students in the College of Business are women, Zimmerman said. Also a large majority of accounting and mar keting students are women. These students will encounter problems when they enter the workforce, and they will need role models, he said. The mem bers of Executive Women of Dal las can provide those role models, Zimmerman said. Two discussions will be in cluded in the symposium: “Face- to-Face: Men and Women in the Workplace” and “Seeking Suc cess: Planning, Risking and Doing.” Four or Five women from dif ferent executive managerial posi tions throughout Texas will con- duct each discussion, Zimmerman said. The sympo sium was organized by Beverly Brooks, the owner of Beverly Brooks an<j Associates, an insur ance Firm in Dallas. The “Face-to-Face” seminar is designed to help both men and women cope with the realities of working together in the business world and the difFiculties of com bining home and career. The seminar will be at 9:30 a.m. in 164 Blocker and at 12:30 p.m. in 161 Blocker. “Face-to-Face” will be con ducted by female executives from various corporations around the state, including a representative from Southwest Airlines. Brooks said she expects the ses sion to cover topics including the problems men have in reporting to women, the stereotypes women have to deal with in the work place, and the personal sacriFices women have made for their ca reers. The problems men and women face when traveling to gether will also be discussed. “Seeking Success” will be in 161 Blocker at 11 a.m. and at 2 p.m. in 307 Blocker. It will focus on the skills necessary for career success and will pay special atten tion to aspects unique to women. The Deputy City Manager of the City of Dallas, Dr. Camille Barnett, will speak at noon Thursday at a luncheon at the * Ramada Inn. Her topic will be “You Are Not Alone.” The symposium will close with a panel discussion about “Oppor tunities and Concerns for Women in Business” at 4 p.m. at the Ramada Inn. A reception will follow. Majority say some practices hazing Survey results released w jf 1 m a sii w h Hi w I L inis ms JN1, in II By MEG CADIGAN Reporter Results of an opinion survey re veal a majority of the Texas A&M students who responded think some Aggie practices could be considered hazing. Results of the survey, which was conducted by Student Government last Fall, were released Tuesday by the Census and Research Commit tee. Of the students who responded to the survey, 52 percent said they con sider Aggie practices such as motiva tional excercises, quadding, and pad dling as the most common types of hazing. Other types of hazing listed by the respondents were standing during football games, bonfire, and the flight of the great pumpkin. The great pumpkin is a Halloween Corps event during which the juniors in one outfit try to get a pumpkin to the south end of the Quadrangle while band members try to stop him by smashing the pumpkin. Because the student and faculty senates were acting on the survey re sponses, the poll results were not re leased until now though the survey has been in since November. The Faculty Senate passed an anti-hazing resolution, said Kim Norris, director of administration for Student Government. The reso lution, however, is just a statement of the Senate’s opinion, she said. The Student Senate did not pass a similar bill, Norris said, because it thought it would be ineffectual. “It would require a major uphea val of the Corps,” she said. The spring survey, which should be out to students by Feb. 15, will probably not continue to discuss the hazing question because the Student Senate thinks it is too late to do any thing about the problem, Norris said. “It’s a case of closing the barn door after the horse has left,” she said. The purpose of the survey is to poll student opinions concerning A&M issues. Transportation was another area covered m last Fall’s survey. When asked if they would take a shuttle bus to football games, 29 per cent of those surveyed said yes, 30 percent said no. Tne question did not apply to 41 percent of those sur veyed. Regarding the grading policy, a majority of students said they do not want the current grading system modified at all, but 17 percent are in favor of changing the system to add plus and minus to each letter grade. Norris said grading policy changes are being considered by a Senate committee. Results of the survey also indi cated that more students consult the card catalogue in Sterling C.. Evans Library before consulting the re cently installed computer terminals. Teacher reprimanded; says tying child to a chair was a ‘mistake’ Associated Press EL PASO — A second-grade tea cher reprimanded by school officials after they learned she tied a student to a chair says she “made a mistake.” Cynthia Goodman, 27, said that list Wednesday and Thursday she tied a 7-year-old pupil to her chair as a “reminder” to sit up straight. “I made a mistake. I should not have done it,” Goodman said Mon day in an interview with The El Paso Times. The incident, however, has led Glen Cove Elementary School offi cials to reprimand Goodman and to assign the student to another class room. The student’s father, Dwight Jef ferson, said he was furious after learning about the disciplinary ac tion from another student’s parents. Goodman said a jump rope was tied around the girl’s waist in a “seat belt-type situation.” “Tnere was not hatred,” she said. “It was not done in cruelty, and not taken (by the children) in cruelty ... It was not that much a disciplinary thing. It was a reminder.” But school Principal Richard Gore said tying children is not sanctioned by the school, and it was “an unfor tunate incident” that will not be re peated. Jefferson said his daughter pre tended to be sick last Friday because she did not want to return to school. He said his wife was contacted Sun day by the parents of another stu dent in Jardine’s class. That child had told her parents that Goodman had tied Jardine to her chair, Jeffer son said. “I found out from other people instead of from the school,” he said. “As far as a little girl being tied in front of everybody, I don’t think that’s right. I’m awfully upset.” Gore said he did not have a clear reason why the teacher tied the pu pil to the chair. “It’s an unfortunate thing that happened,” Gore said. “She didn’t stop to think. It shouldn’t have hap pened, but it did.” Goodman said Gore had her sign a written account of the incident that will be placed in her file. =#= IIMSTY New York - Spring Break ’85 March 10-15 $509 includes: - Round trip airfare - Carnegie Hall performance - 5 nights lodging - City tour/famous landmarks Sign-ups MOW Complete Info MSC 216 (Student Programs Office) MSC TRAVEL 845-1515 4feMSC RECREATION presents; ACU-I QUALIFYING DARTS TOURNAMENT Feb. 6 REGISTRATION: ON SITE $3 4pm at YESTERDAY'S 4421 S. TEXAS AVE. open FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 845-1515 Aaggie CINEMA/ Rosalind Russell in AUNTIE MAME Wednesday, Feb. 6 7:30 pm Rudder Theatre $1.50 Robert Redford THE NATURAL Friday & S aturday Feb. 8&9 7:30pm&9:45pm Rudder Theatre © T$«4 TW-STAtWCTURCS AURIGmS WSERVfO at- I $2 w/TAMU ID HUSH. 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