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Monday, April 22, 1985/The Battalion/Page 3 QTATF ANn i nr^Ai O A Mm A Amm( /I! iJA-A ter apanese fire a ■ Philipines. the Muster me on April 21 ^lass of '6 best friend, Jk home — alont ar almost ghter live intk ought the otto their mother. r .y, secure wor e born, lived am ea. Some away to attec: families of ol lerstood. people are often die al aids, it’s goo ae Aggie Musw 21,1986. ?nior journalise it city editor It: New council president Davis discusses MSC By CATHIE ANDERSON Staff Writer inh the dent Programs Office in the Memo rial Student Center with Denis Da vis, don’t expect to walk straight through. > Davis, the second female presi dent of the MSC Council within its g A 36-year history, apparently knows Ji, quite a few of the 1,600 students working at the MSC. Davis officially 1^00*/ took over the presidential post Sat urday. “Youjust can’t get away from peo ple up here,” she says. “Sometimes that’s good and sometimes it’s bad.” _ Although Davis’ first name (pro- k nounced Dennis not Denise) is more * ^ than a little misgiving, she says labels and names are unimportant at the MSC. The MSC really plays upon the spirit of being an Aggie. The Spirit runs deep,” she says. “Aggies don’t care where you’re from, your social position, the color of your skin or your sex, . . . and the MSC lives that with its programs and attitudes." She says the organization simply takes everybody for what they are. “Personal imagery isn’t important at the MSC,” she says. “This is a place where anybody can take talent H and their abilities and get a position. We use people here who never would have made it in student-gov ernment-type politics.” The image of the MSC in the past has been one of a group of work horse people, production-oriented people — people who do the best with what they’ve got to develop themselves to their potential, she says. MSC Aggies and Aggies in gen eral do less espousing and more doing. “Aggies are confident, strong, achievement-oriented people who hold their values close,” she says. They’re solid people; they’re not al ways telling everyone about them selves because they know what they are. The success stories that I’ve elderly wona heard from old Ags sound a lot like the steps I want to take.” Davis, who attended a small paro- :hial high school in Houston, says the wasn’t always positive about t\&M, especially since most of her riends were going to Ivy League chools. “But sometimes you need to be rue to your family,” she says. “They her friends) knew that I knew I was in Aggie. I was teased, but they un- “1 knew it was either the East arast or Texas, Texas A&M singu- ar. When I was a sophomore, I ished there were two of me, so I ould put one there and one here. 1 name, andsonfr lon’twish that anymore.” tnd someone n volley splinttit of “Silver Taps' mm. The Mustfl ouncil in 1958. Davis, a 22-year-old agricultural conomics major, is a third-genera- ion Aggie. Her uncle was president if the MSC Council in 1952, and her ather was vice president of the “When my granddad was at chool here,” she says, “there was no ISC, or I have a feeling he would have been a part of it too.” Davis says she became involved in Denis Davis the MSC during her sophomore year through the council assistant program. As a council assistant, Da vis was in charge of the MSC Learn ing Research Library. Then the library only contained a few notebooks, she says. These note books included information about the how-to’s of programming, orga nization and leadership. Davis orga nized the notebooks, and she says that work has paid off because the li brary has picked up a corporate sponsorship from the IBM Corp. Three years later there’s a council assistant still working on the re search library, and she has shelf- space in the MSC Browsing Library and money to buy books for the li brary. Also during her sophomore year, Davis became the chairman of MSC Christmas Programs Committee. “No one wanted to do it,” she says, “and I’ve always been the type of person who picks up stray cats and things, so I decided to apply for the chair of the committee.” That year the committee started the annual lighting of the Christmas tree with the Singing Cadets singing Christmas carols. The committee also started collecting ornaments for the tree from different classes that year. Now the committee has a vari ety of ornaments from all classes, with which to decorate the tree. In 1983, Davis became the exec utive vice president for marketing and personnel, a position she has kept until now. As EVP for market ing and personnel, Davis performed image and demographic surveys to see what people thought of the MSC and who the MSC audience was. Da vis says these surveys help MSC com mittees know what kind of public re lations they should use to sell their programming. While surveys came second, Orion was one of Davis’ first accomplish ments as marketing and personnel executive vice president. During the summer of 1984, she and Greg Hawkins, who was vice president of student development, brainstormed for ways to attract students to the MSC during their freshmen year. “One of the biggest problems of the MSC was that people didn’t find this place until their sophomore year,” Davis says. “Freshmen some times randomly found us, but the damaging effects of not having freshmen in the MSC were begin ning to show up in the number of people we had to apply for lead ership positions. “Greg and I were wondering why is it that the MSC doesn’t attract highly motivated high school stu dent types. We finally decided that it was because the MSC is a very com plicated organization. You can tell someone is going to be intimidated.” Orion was created to nurture someone’s interest in the MSC, Davis says. The MSC wanted to let fresh men know that it cared enough about them to establish a program to teach them what a union is all about. Davis had to pause and think to remember her accomplishments at the MSC, and she says she is not the type of person who revels in her ac complishments. “I’m not the type of person to sit down and tell myself, ‘You know, Denis, you done good,’ ” she says. “Besides it’s difficult to get a grasp on how good of a job you’re doing around here because everyone else is doing so good a job around you. People are always achieving some thing. Why, if you put a WLS, Wylie Lecture Series, up against Orion, you can see.” Davis says it’s difficult to sit down and list what four years of her life has meant. But the MSC is really what Davis defines college to be. At the MSC students pick up a disci pline that challenges them, meet new people that can introduce them to new ideas and partiepate in extra curricular activities that coincide with their majors, she says. They have the chance to play out academic knowledge in programming. “People joke that we’re (A&M) a cultural wasteland,” she says. “I think that without the MSC, A&M’s perspectives would be a lot more narrow.” Davis says she is more organized and more emotionally-balanced be cause of her experiences at the MSC. “I used to ride such an emotional roller coaster, but I’ve learned matu rity in my emotions,” she said. “I’ve learned not to take myself too se riously but also to take my job more seriously. It’s like no other lead ership position I’ve ever had.” The MSC is “a real attitude place,” Davis says. MSCers, as she calls them, can make a positive attitude out of just about anything. And she says the MSC is going to turn the state’s fiscal difficulties into an op portunity. “We just don’t have as much room to make as many mistakes,” she says. “We’ll have a marginal decrease in the amount of programs produced, so we’ll just have to include more people. And our programming will have to be more developmental, fis cally sound and needed. “The council has changed a lot.” She says that at one time the MSC’s Fall Leadership Committee served to get Aggie student leaders acclimated to metropolitan life. But this function cycled out, she says. There is a natural cycle to things, and if the MSC has lost some com mittees, Davis says she believes it is because of this cycle. Perhaps the appointment of an other woman to the MSC presidency foreshadows a new beginning in the natural cycle at Texas A&M. Students: action still pending against Austin police officers ning ” Look, he sa)i pitahaf thewon ted States is lk_ By KIRSTEN DIETZ Staff Writer erkan Tomal I Two Texas A &M students struck ! uTS bv AUS tin police after the Texas ink with tner i&M-University of Texas football the top of F® ame Dec. 1, say action against the l largest corpofl dicers still is pending, iree times larjf George Clendenin, a junior envi- 'ordine industrf )nmenl;a l design major, says he was some cocaine* 5 t in th " h f ad w,th a sdck ; r 1 hii! d ^ eve ^‘ e dg e . a senior electrical o on a LolonP ]gj neer i n g major, says he was it value of the® ruck several places, also with a i — five tiniest ght stick. J Since the incident, Clendenin says. I has filled out an affidavit and failed it to the Austin chief of po- : equipment. ■' annot help bull 1 Clendenin says he was contacted >ney Dealers® i° ut 10 ^ a Y s a S° an officer in and deliver it'J in Bahamian s and then ha't cally, back to iring is not ne comes 30,000 cash foi ,i y salespersons 51 the Austin Police Department’s in ternal affairs division. The officer said he wanted to meet in the Col lege Station police station with Clen- dinin and witnesses to the incident, Clendenin says. However, Clendenin says he has not heard from the internal affairs division since that first contact. “We’re not after any monetary compensation,” Clendenin says. “All I’m after is to put it (the incident) on was his (the officer’s) record. I don’t want his badge or anything.” Sledge says his main problem has been a lack of communication with his lawyer this semester. “I never hear from him,” he says. Sledge’s first court date was scheduled for the same day as a final exam last semester, so his lawyer put his case on a deferred status. Sledge’s lawyer told him that his arrest probably was a mistake, and the only way the charge can be put on the officer’s record is to put the officer on the stand and force him to testify, Sledge says. Sledge says the police have two options. They can erase all evidence that an arrest occurred, such as mug shots and finger prints, or they can note on his record that he was ar rested and acquitted. Sledge says he and his lawyer be lieve it will be decided that the case is not worthy of a trial and will be dis carded. 1984-85 season comes to an end r Texas A&M’s Century Singers lys'cheerfully ? ad Florida By TRENT LEOPOLD Staff Writer he Century Singers performed tir final concert of the year Satur- urous spirits 1 ' f night in Rudder Theater before the line.” Soi* 1 audience of about 225. me for aviationf The audience began applauding >rs and othertlij ^ es i n g ers to °k their positions on ig, it is safe to* 3 LP latform u in f i° nt of a P ur P le t, L i Mropatabout 8 p.m. who compare.' 1 > atr j c j a p — - the rooffel 1 Fleitas, the group’s con- tor, wearing a white dress, took a the line: That* iple of minutes to tell about the it was a frontjj htury Singers before the first se- itier. It isthe" 1 * ,on > “Awake the Harp” from wears a sleeved N n s “The Creation” was per med. , bitas said the Century Singers :olumnist fot^ Pyed their past season. She said I of the highlights of the year in cluded their peformance of Haydn’s “The Creation” in Rudder Audito rium with the Brazos Valley Sym phony Orchestra and choirs from the University of Texas. The concert Saturday night con tained four parts. Highlights of the first two parts of the program included an a cappella performance of “Jesu Dulcus Mem- oria” and a beautiful rendition of Handel’s “And I Will Exalt Him.” Part two of the program included a pleasing performance of Amy Grant’s “El Shaddai.” Jeff Wright, pianist for the Century Singers, played excellently — as usual — throughout the concert, but his per formance on this piece was excep tional. themselves the “Madri gal Group” then sang three a cappella selections including “Weep O Mine Eyes.” Flei tas did not conduct the group, but returned after a 15-minute intermis sion to conduct “An American Trib ute,” the opening piece of the final part of the program. American Triubute” in parts from famous pieces “An eluded such as “Oh Shenandoah “Look Away Dixieland.” and “The Century Four” then took the stage with their bright red cumber- bunds and comical attitude to per form several pieces including “Yes Sir That’s My Baby.” NOTICE The College of Engineering will initiate an Enrollment Man agement Program effective fall semester 1985. Each cur rently enrolled eligible freshman student must apply to be considered for admission to the major degree sequence in the engineering major of his/her choice. Applications are available in the Engineering Program Office, room 141, En gineering Research Center, or in the Engineering Depart ments. FISH RICHARDS HALF CENTURY HOUSE Introduces: “POOR RICHARD’S REVENGE” Join us, among friends in our atrium-like plant filled lounge for: HALF PRICE DRINKS FREE HORS D’OEUVRES LIVE PIANO MUSIC Poor Richard’s Revenge, M-F 5:00-6:30, 696-4118 Avoid the traffic, located just south of Jersey on Wellborn Hwy. 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