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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.”
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Blatchley said he has always
l>een involved with young people
and he hopes to continue that in
volvement, especially with Ag-
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them," Blatchley said. “I hope
we’ll still see a lot of the students.'
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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
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“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.
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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.
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