x MSC • TOWTM ♦ HALL 2 TIME TONY AWARD WINNER JOHN CULLUM Cvrano ./de Bergerac / tale of October 21,1985 8 p.m. Rudder Auditorium 845-1234 Visa/MC Page 4/Jhe Battalion/Tuesday, October, 15, 1985 Director of student affairs resigns post after 12 years By MARYBETH ROHSNER Stuff Writer Former Bryan Mavor Ron Blatchley left his position Mon day as Texas A&M director of student affairs after 12 years with the University. He is leaving the University to own and operate a McDonald’s restaurant in southwest Houston. “I’ve been in higher education for 20 years now," Blatchley said. “(Mv wife and I) wanted to try our hand at owning our own busi ness before we got too old and de crepit.” est thing that ever happened to Blatchley said he has always l>een involved with young people and he hopes to continue that in volvement, especially with Ag- gies. Wat haviM sot Uj iN^f •I want the students to knm I’m not turning my back on them," Blatchley said. “I hope we’ll still see a lot of the students.' Ron Blatchley Blatchley saitl he plans to open his restaurant Nov. 1. As director of student affairs, Blatchiev was responsible for on- campus housing, the Off-Campus Center, disciplinary actions, stu dents withdrawing from the Uni versity and a number of other programs. Blatchley said that al though he is ready to move on, he will miss A&M. Before coming, to AM, Blatchley was the director of sin-1 dent activities at North Texas State University in Denton. Whit I he worked for A&M, Blatchletj was involved politically in thtl area. He first served as a dts I councilman and then as mavor. I ByJ “1 couldn’t imagine being around a greater st .idem body," he said. “Texas A&M is the great- Ron Sasse, associate directordl student affairs, will serve as an mg director of student affain. Workshop will help liberal arts majors By SCOTT SUTHERLAND Stuff Writer A career workshop to help liberal arts majors compete in the job mar ket will begin Tuesday at Texas A&M. The four-part program will focus on where liberal arts majors can find jobs and what skills wotdd increase their marketability. Judy Vuillet, associate director of the placement center, says compa nies that interview at the University are usually seeking students with business and technical majors. The placement center often takes the blame when liberal arts majors are unable to find jobs, Vuillet said. “The rap we usually get is,There is nothing there for us,’ ” Vuillet said, “but there is good information here for everybody." Vuillet also said the quality of the graduates isn’t the reason why com panies don’t hire A&M students. “Companies who want to hire 300 electrical engineering majors and 20 personnel people will recruit their engineers here hut not always their personnel people,” Vuillet says. "We want to help liberal arts students make themselves more available to these companies." Vuillet says job opportunities for lil>erul arts graduates have been pri marily in sides and service work. But Vuillet hopes the conference will encourage more liberal arts ma jors to interview with different com panies. "We want to say to a liberal arts major, that if you want to go to work for a hank (hat is looking tor some thing that you’re interested in, or have taken some courses in, then let us know, we ll try and get you an in terview,'’ Vuillet says. Danny Parsley, assistant for liberal arts programming, says a decreasing demand for liberal arts majors has made for intense competition in the job market. “It takes a little more initiative by liberal arts students,” Parsley says. Parsley says he hopes the workshop will encourage liberal arts majors to come to the placement center and get help seeking a job. Vuillet says turnout for past workshops has been low, but the placetnent center is counting on an advertising blitz for a record turn out. Parsley has l»een working with assistant deans in the College of Lib eral Arts with a direct mail-out to all liberal arts majors. “We'll have some fun things like balloons around campus advertising each workshop,” Parsley says. Ifthel males y» phone w; ing Giei oiler an ii Km rep Texas AH Departmi bewail ih mester Ik "We're hoping for a great lint I dents net out." he says. I he four-part series will indiiii I meetings every Tuesday night It tween Oct. 22 and Nov. 12. Each meeting will focus on ent topics, including: • Advice on getting into gradni school. • The hunt for the job. • What the liberal arts major do with the rest of his life. • What the outside world isra like for lilxeral arts graduates. The Nov. 5 session will for employers who will tell studs what they are looking for in Bh sll,ll | 1 h re arts graduates. weeks ant The oi At the Nov. 12 session, fora G1 || s i,,,,), students will offer advice on hot find jobs. 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