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IT WILL BECOME A CLASSIC.’ NEIL SIMON'S Mew Comedy ALPHA KAPPA PSI National Professional Business Fraternity Presents DR. TOM CANNON Department of Business Studies University of Stirling Stirling, Scotland to Speak on International Business Zachry 342 8:30 - 9:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, 1985 Business Attire r CLIP COUPON ~\ PIZZA Save up to $14 !! j With purchase of . any medium or large pizza (pick- , up orders only, and one item larger than free pizza. Not good Fridays. “The Hometown Favorite” CLIP COUPON 693-5533 315-A Dominik College Station Open Mon.-Fri 5 p m.-12 midnight Sat 12 to 12 Closed Sunday $3.00 ANY LARGE SUPREME PIZZA Good on deliveries OPAS season coming to on end Warpe Promotional poster unveiled I fy/HAT'5 V F\ "this? phi By REBECCA DE LONG , Reporter MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society unveiled its new promotional poster during a reception Wednes day night honoring the poster’s art ist. be displayed on everything it possi bly can. The reception marked the end of another season for OPAS, while al lowing members to introduce next year’s new promotional gimmick to guests. About 300 of the 750 invited guests, including student body offi cials, student organization chairmen, community leaders and season ticket holders, were present for the recep tion. Lucy Peterson, the director of stu- dent development for OPAS, said she hopes the poster becomes syno nymous with the 1985-86 season. Pe terson said this is only the first of many annual promotional posters OPAS plans to use. From now on the unveiling of a poster will become an annual event. Also present was the poster’s art ist, Bryan resident Margit Uika, who signed and sold limited editions to the guests. Uika, who had just re turned from an exhibit in Houston, borrowed some of her works sold to private collections and displayed them during the reception. Uika expressed her enthusiasm and said she was proud to be the first artist to do a promotional poster in the Bryan-Gollege Station area. When traveling around the United States this year for exhibits, she will carry copies to sell. Boarnet said that this will be good public relations for Texas A&M. OPAS will use the poster through out the 1985-86 season on such things as programs, tickets, ads and mailouts. Jody Boarnet, director of public relations, said the poster will OPAS contacted Uika about a year ago to do the poster, but the actual work began in November. Uika used a local dancer, Susan Doerge, as the model for the poster. Following the reception, the Houston Ballet performed “Mixed Repertoire.” The company will per form “Swan Lake” tonight at 8 in Rudder Auditorium. Photo by FRASKim Artist Margit E. Ilyka signs some of the posters designed for the 1985-86 OPAS season. Specialist gives cool advice for lowering high energy bills By BRENDA NEEPER Reporter that air infiltration is one of the lead ing creators of high energy bills. Consumers won’t have to “sweat it out” when summer cooling bills ar rive if they start planning now. Spring is the best time for consum ers, especially apartment dwellers, to Shear said. begin preparing their homes and pocketbooks for the summer heat. “Thirty percent of the load placed on the heating and air conditioning system is due to poor caulking, weather stripping and air infiltra tion,” Shear said. ter, can increase operating costs by as much as 11 percent,” Shear said. Shear also suggested turning the air conditioner thermostat up and using a fan at the same time. If a person doesn’t want to pay any cooling bills this summer. Shear suggests the open window technique. “The problem with apartment dwellers is they don’t want to spend a lot of money on enhancing their building to make it more energy effi cient,” said Charlie Shear, College Station energy specialist. Another way to save money is to keep the thermostat at 78 degrees Fahrenheit, he said. However, Shear said an apart- ;d and ment could probably be caulkec weather stripped for less than $50. If a person wants low-cost or no-cost insulation, taping around windows and stuffing things into cracks are solutions, he said. Consumers should keep in mind “Some of these apartment com plexes put in cheaper air condition ers with a lower energy efficiency ra tio, so it costs the students more,” Shear said. “So students need to watch for that.” Opening the windows halfway on the windward side and all the way on the leeward side will create a slack affect and actually make more wind than is actually blowing. Using white shades on windows will reduce the amount of heat coming through the windows. A clean air conditioning filter also can help save money. “White $50 a yea bill,” Shea shading could save you on your air conditioning r saict. “A 10 percent reduction in air supply, which is not a very dirty fil- Consumers do not have to spend a lot of money on curtains — any kind of white shading device will work, he said. Aggies manufacture and sell wooden toothpaste gadget By MELINDA MURPHY Reporter Each semester, Texas A&M students enrolled in In dustrial Education 137, Manufacturing, design, pro duce and market a product. The project this spring is “The Toothpaster,” a wooden gadget shaped like an Aggie thumb which holds a toothbrush and makes it easy to squeeze the toothpaste tube. “The Toothpaster” was designed by James Odom, a student at Texas A&M. Stephen Egger, a graduate assistant, teaches the manufacturing class, which is open to all students. “The purpose of this class is to teach leadership and management skills to the students,” Egger said. “The class is set up like a small business with elected officers, and we use various government manuals like the Small Business Manual.” Lectures on managemeat are given the first six to eight weeks of the semester. Students are required to write a paper about a famous entrepreneur, stressing the process by which the entrepreneur succeeded. For the remainder of the semester, the students de termine the direction of the class. They begin by form ing and naming a small company, and electing the com pany’s officers. This semester, the company is Aggie Manufacturing Company, AMCO. Each student is required to generate five ideas for projects the company could manufacture. A market survey determines which product would sell the best, and that product is produced and marketed. Funding tor the project comes from stock that the students buy for $ 1 a share. The profits from the pro ject are divided in accordance with the number of shares each student owns.. “The profit is really a miniscule part of the course,” Egger said. “The students learn many skills not found in a normal class.” After the market survey is completed, a breakeven chart is drawn to determine how many products should be made. Production begins next. “Production is time consuming and the amount of work is really determined by the attitude of the stu dents,” Egger said. “A lot of time outside class is requi red.” Most products are related to A&M, and some past products have been copyrighted, Egger said. “We are ready to begin marketing this semester,” said Greg Hunter, the Marketing Manager. “Each stu dent will probably have to sell about ten products. It’s been hard this semester because there are only eight in the class. The product this semester will probably cost $2 to make and sell for $5 or $6.” Class size, which varies each semester, determines the amount of work each student must do. “The class tries to assimilate what happens in a real business,” Egger said. “You can go out to the mall and just watch businesses fail. This class hopefully prepares the students and keeps them from making common mistakes that small businessmen make.” People interested in purchasing “The Toothpaster” should contact Hunter at 260-2049. RA adviser applications available By CHOYCE ELSIK Reporter \ Applications are now being* cepted by the Department offc dent Affairs for anticipatedsut mer openings in head resides and resident adviser positions. The words ionjure up visi< dents going to t However, fi leconie a prev; ducal ion. Pr< trips give the real w dge they can’t Many prole equired field buses. I Dr. Arnold professor of | I quires his stud Rme of four I during the set His students ItSdiool, the A Bthe Giddings S Hie for the pc State School. LeUnes sai< hange in stud lentally retar rips. They a awareness abc fues, he said. “You can tal blue in the fac he students dc een it. A picl and words.” LeUnes sau trips mandato dents would i jrips weren’t, ’dents are eitl Nyla Ptomey, housing pro grams supervisor, said theapplj cations are for anticipated s»| mer positions only. There is®! guarantee that any positionsacro; ally will open, she said. Although current residentU co . i W ‘| U1 , ° staff members get first prionti e <lu e I H< F Ptomey said, anyone interested!! a position as a head resident# resident adviser still is urged I apply. Also, although anyone can ply, the Department of Studem Affairs does prefer that appl: cants have previous residence tal experience (though not necessat ily at Texas A&M), aswellasaii interest to work with studentsaml some type of leadership expen ence such as hall council, Ptome said. Both positions involve admi®; trative tasks, programming- counseling, disciplinary actio# and general overall residence hai management, she said. Wl Buy Get fi U.S.TRE WHOLE TOT Applicants must meet the mini mum grade-point ratio and classi fication (jualifications, she said. Head resident applicants mus! have a minumum GPRofU They must be a graduate student! because of the extra responsibili ties involved. T he qualifications for reside# adviser are a minimum GPRot 2.25 and at least a sophomort classification, she said. Although both resident advis ers and head residents receive) salary, Ptomey said head resi dents do receive a free room be cause of the extra duties involved Anyone interested in applying for the positions can pickupan application at the Central Are) Office in A-2 Lounge; the Nortli Area Office in B-l Lounge; tht Commons Area Office; or the Corps Area Office in theTrigon. The deadline for all applica tions is April 19 at 5 p.m. A TUXEDOS • TUXEDOS • TUXEDOS April 12th Deadline for Weekend of April 27th . i, ; 'V. H- . .. '-7 X' 10% discount to all students w!valid ID during April 900 Harvey Rd. College Station, TX 900 Harvey Rd. • Post Oak Village Open 10 a.m.-7 p.m. M-F & 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. Acre