Wednesday, October, 16, 1985/The Battalion/Page 5
What’s up
KING WOOD HOMETOWN CLUB? is meeting at 7 p.m. in
404 Rudder. AH Kingwood residents are invited to attend.
MSC AGGIE CINEMA: presents “Giant” at 7:30 p.tm in 601
Rudder. Admission is $1.50.
COMMITTEE FOR THE AWARENESS OF MEXICAN-
AMERICAN CULTURE; will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rud
der.
GARLANP-RICHAKDSON AREA HOMETOWN CLUB:
will meet at 7:30 p.m. at 2805C Longraire.
DANCE ARTS SOCIETY: will have beginning and advanced
modern dance at 7 p.m. and intermediate aerobics at 9:30
p.m. in 268 Read Bldg.
HISTORY FILM SERIES: will show “Joe Hill” at 7 p.m. in
113 Biological Sciences Building East.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will have an Aggie supper
at 6 p.m at A&M Presbyterian Church.
TEXAS A&M METEOROLOGY CLUB; will meet at 7:30
p.m. on the 15th floor of O&M Building* v| .
EUROPE CLUB: wilt meet at 9:30 p.m. at the Pizza Pub (for
merly Mr. Gatti’s).
t for lunch
in from of
SE*
teeture, will
View’* at 5
Architecture
er -
at 8:80 p.m.
8:30
H1IXEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTER: will
mth the Rabbi at 12 noon at the MSC.
SULLY’S SYMPOSIUM: will be held at 11:1
the Snl Ross statue. The veil leaders will
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE — E
RIES: Malcolm Quamrill, Professor ol
speak, on “ A View of the Room, a Room w
p.m. in 201 MSC.
A.LA.S.: will meet at 7 p.m on the 4th 1
Bldg, fora portfolio workshop.
LAMBDA SIGMA: will meet at 7 p.m. in
RESIDENCE HALL ASSOCIATION: will
in 301 Rudder.
STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will meet at
p.m. in 504 Rudder.
1986 MISS TAMU SCHOLARSHIP
tions available until Oct. 18 in 216 MSC.
CLASS OF '87: will sell Class of ’87 t-shirts for
the MSC through Oct. 25.
SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURE MANAGERS,
ERS, AND CONSULTANTS: will meet at 7 p
Kleberg. Become a charter member of this new c
majors welcome.
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR METALS: will meet at 7 ~ ™
in 127B Zachry. Mr. Ron Knight from L1*V 4
Defense v* ill speak.
FRESHMAN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY; will meet at 7
p.m. tn 113 Kleberg.
TIttsrjM&flpjr ’ 7' r A ' '
TAMU STUDENT ART FILM SOCIETY: will meet at 5:30
p.m. in the MSC Main Lounge.
AMERICAN HUMANICS: will meet at noon in 504 Rudder
to hear Robert Weiss from the Center for Non-Profit Man
agement.
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS: wit!
at 7:30 p.m in 401 Rudder.
INTRAMURALS: Team captain meeting!
p.m. in 167 Read.
MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: will show
at 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. in Rudder
SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURE MAN,
ERS, AND CONSULTANTS: will meet
Parking Lot 55 to take a field trip to the H.
gin in Milian.
AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY:
103 Zachry.
WICHITA COUNTY AREA Hi
meet at 6:45 p.m. in Zachry lobby to
gieland.
MSC BLACK AWARENESS: will
tier to hear a speaker.
DATA PROCESSING MA3
will meet at 6:30 pin. in Z
pictures and will meet at 7 p.m.
MARSH ALL-HARRISON
CLUB: will meet at 7:30
pictures
intermediate ta
' at 8:30 p.m. in 2 HM ) I
VENEZUELAN STUDENT
8:30 p.m. in 501 Rudder.
CAMPUS CRUS I r if
will show the
Physics Bldg.
TAMU
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the 1985
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Businessman says
entrepreneurship
not easy venture
By SYLVIA PENA
Reporter
“You need to have a rich uncle to
start a business,” a partner in Arthur
Young’s Entrepreneurial Services
Group said Tuesday night.
Robert R. Owen, national director
the group, also stressed that an im
portant key to a successful business
is to have a balanced management
team so that investors can be inter-*
ested.
Owen’s speech was sponsored by
Texas A&M’s Society for
Entrepreneurship and New Ven
tures.
Owen consults with entrepre
neurs about their businesses and
gives them blueprints for devel
opment.
He said he deals with getting small
businesses started and directs the
potential businessmen’s capital, ac
counting services and other financial
matters.
“The key ingredient to starting a
business is to develop a business
plan,” Owen said. “Without this el
ement, you can not go any further.”
Owen also explained that borrow
ing money to start a business is diffi
cult if you do not have a “track re
cord.”
“You have to borrow from friends
and relatives because no one else will
give you the money,” Owen said.
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lifficultu
solve the financial difficulties of a
new venture would be to find a part
ner.
“There is only one problem,” he
said. “You have to know your part
ner.
“Being in a partnership is like be
ing married, you can have problems
in both. But there are certain ways
that you can make up in a marriage
that do not apply in a partnership.
Owen stressed other factors im
portant to starting a business. He
said the businessman must focus on
the special values of the business and
the long-term strategies. Then he
must implement these strategies,
Owen said.
“It is important to figure out
where the product is going and how
that product is going to get a piece of
the market,” Owen explained.
He said there are several disad
vantages to opening your own busi
ness, one of which is the instability of
income.
“Sometimes feeding your business
is more important than feeding your
family,” Owen said.
Owen is a graduate of Southern
Methodist University and the ad
vanced management program of the
School of Business at Harvard Uni
versity. He is also a certified public
accountant.
No-pass, no-play rule
hurts small-town team
Associated Press
AUSTIN — If worse comes to
worst in Jarrell this week, the high
school football team will be down to
14 players and the junior high team
will be done for the year, with only
10 players still eligible.
This is no-pass, no-play week, and
Jarrell High School’s team is await
ing grades. The school’s Class A
squad has 19 players.
Coach Calvin Ivey said, “I’m hop
ing to lose only two, but we might
lose up to five.”
“We’ve done it before,” Ivy said.
“We finished last year with 15. I
don’t know how competitive we’ll
be.”
Jarrell is a 103-student school
about midway between Austin and
Temple.
The controversial no-pass, no
play rule — a key element in the
C ublic school reform laws enacted
ist year — requires students to pass
all courses to participate in extracur
ricular activites.
The rule affects football season
for the first time Friday.
“With our junior high team — we
already have their grades — it looks
like we’re going to lose four or five
of them and we only had 15. We
probably won’t have a team after this
week,” he said.
Jarrell High, 2-4 so far this year,
was stung by injuries to a running
back and a lineman who played both
offense and defense, leaving them
with 19 players.
Ivey has received weekly grade re
ports on all his players from teach
ers.
He said upperclassmen have done
well, but the no-pass, no-play rule
will cut into the ranks of freshmen
and sophomores.
The coach has encouraged play
ers who were in grade trouble to get
help from tutors, and he urged them
to get their homework and papers in
on time.
Ivey said he thinks the no-pass,
no-play rule is a positive step toward
educational improvement.
Supreme Court to hear case
on public pretrial exclusion
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Su
preme Court agreed Tuesday to de
cide whether the right of the public
and news media to attend criminal
trials over a defendant’s objection
applies to pretrial hearings.
The court said it will hear argu
ments that news reporters and oth
ers were wrongly excluded from a
41-day pretrial hearing for a Califor
nia nurse later convicted of killing
12 hospital patients in 1981.
The closed hearings conducted in
the case of Robert Rubane Diaz were
challenged by the Riverside Press-
Enterprise.
The court in 1980 ruled for the
first time that the public and news
media have a constitutional right to
attend criminal trials. The court said
judges may conduct trials, or por
tions of them, in secret only as a last
resort to ensure fairness and only af
ter telling why such steps are nec
essary.
In 1979, the justices had ruled
that a defendant’s right to an open
trial — guaranteed by the Sixth
Amendment — does not give the
public and press any right to attend
pretrial proceedings. The court left
unanswered whether there exists
any First Amendment right to at
tend pretrial hearings.
The newspaper then carried its
fight for access in future cases to the
nation’s highest court.
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Michener's Texas' emerges as nation's top fiction seller
Associated Press
AUSTIN — James Michener’s
new novel, “Texas,” has soared to
the top of national best-seller lists,
and in Austin, the city where he
wrote it, bookstores report custom
ers buying three, four, and even 10
copies.
Two weeks ago, “Texas” wasn’t on
the New York Times list of best sell
ers.
“In the more than two years I’ve
worked here, it’s created the most in
terest I’ve seen in one particular
book,” said Frank Mesko, assistant
sales manager for a B. Dalton Book
seller store m Austin.
The store has received three ship
ments of the book already and sold
about 900 copies in seven working
days, Mesko said.
Booksellers are predicting that
“Texas” is going to be a popular
Christmas item.
ALPHA TAU
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JOE KING CARRASCO
Y LAS NUEVAS CORONAS •
7:30p.m. Brazos County Ravillion
6.00 pre sale 7.00 at door
also featuring
The Executives o , f
Free Beer • Tickets available in MSC Box Office
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announces the following
Ham
Sandwich,
your choice
of chips
&
medium drink
only $2 29 plus tax
w/ this coupon... $3.20 value
Offer valid until October 27th
Also good for delivery
University Dr.at Northgate 846-6428
Applications Now Available
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A preliminary of
The 1986 Miss Texas
Scholarship Pageant
applications
informational meeting
applications due
meeting for applicants
screenings
216 MSC
Oct. 9 6:00 200 HECT
Oct. 18 5:00
Oct. 23 8:30 200 HECT
Oct. 26,27
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TUDENT
NMENT
U N I V U K S l T Y
Student
Senate
Vacancies
Now is your chance to be a part of a Dynamic Student Voice with Genuine Influ
ence! If you are concerned about the policies that govern your University and your
fellow students, don’t pass up this opportunity. The quality of student representation
at Texas A&M is dependent upon the quality of legislation our senators enact.
Requirements of a Student Senator:
(1) Attend all senate meeting. Fall schedule: Nov. 6, Nov. 20, Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m. 204
Harrington.
(2) Participate on one of five legislative committees (Academic Affairs, External Af
fairs, Finance, Rules and Regulations, Student Services).
(3) Report to a student organization that is representative of your constituency.
(4) Maintain a GPR of 2.25 or higher and post at least a 2.0 every semester while in
office.
Senate Vacancies:
(1) Hobby/Neeley/McFadden/Haas
(1) Engineering Sophomore
(1) Ward IV
OFF-CAMPUS WARD SYSTEM:
WARD III
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Ward IV
WARD II
Applications can be picked up in Rm. 221 Pavilion. If you have any specific
questions about the senate or student goverment in general, please feel
free to call us.
Laurie Johnson, Speaker of the Senate (696-0760)
Miles Bradshaw, Speaker Pro Tempore (696-4387)
Deadline is 5:00 p.m. Friday Oct. 18th