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Page 4/The Battalion/Wednesday, Movember 20,1985 GO STUDENT ERNMENT TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY Progress Report To: The Students of A&M From: Student Government Communications Re: The activities of Student Government during the Fall Semester The Progress Report will include: 1. A summary of the current status of the committees in Student Government 2. Some projected plans for each committee for the rest of the ’85-’86 school year 3. To be used by the students of Texas A&M as information source on the pro gress of Student Government Executive Branch A. Big Event-A one day event for students at Texas A&M to donate their time and skill through service to the Bryan/College Station Community 1. Current Status a. Now contacting student organizations, dorms, fraternities and sororities to get committments to work b. Working with the mayors and city managers of Bryan/College Station and religious organizations to gather lists of jobs needing the help of students 2. Projected Status a. To gain Texas and national media coverage to help promote the Big Event at other Universities throughout Texas and other states B. Blood Drive-Student Government in conjuntion with Alpha Phi Omega and Omega Phi Alpha, coordinates the blood drives on campus 1. Current Status a. Completed the Traditional Aggie Blood Drive this past week with Wadley Blood Center b. Completed the first Red Cross blood drive in September 2. Projected Status a. To have the students at Texas A&M informed about the benefits you receive by the Wadley Blood Center for donating blood to them-life long blood cover age for you and immediate family, just for being an Aggie. b. To have another successful Red Cross blood drive in April c. To have another successful Wadley blood drive in February. C. COSGA-Texas A&M’s national Conference on Student Government Asso ciations 1. Current Status a. Now contacting over 300 schools nationwide to invite them to send their stu dent delegates b. Working on speaker selection for conference 2. Projected Status a. To host COSGA on February 22-25 D. Election Commission-Coordinates the Fall Freshmen elections and Spring All-U elections for Student Government, class council, and yell leaders 1. Current Status a. Completed Freshmen elections b. Preparing for Spring elections by analyzing past elections and procedures to find areas needing improvement or revision. 2. Projected Status a. Successful Spring election with record student turnout for voting E. Freshmen Programs-Leadership development program for Freshmen 1. Current Status a. Introduced the Freshman to Student Government b. Organized Freshmen into committtees to help them develop leadership 2. Projected Status a. To better acquaint freshmen with the many activities in Student Government b. To encourage the freshmen to take on more challenging positions F. Legislative Study Group (LSG)-To be a professional lobby for the students of Texas A&M in our state’s congress on issues affecting the students 1. Current Status a. Completed a study, Tuition Increase-An Interim Analysis, measuring the ef fect of the recent tuition increase on students, used by the Dallas Times Herald and Houston Post 2. Projected Status G. Muster-Coordinates Muster for on campus and helps Aggies coordinate Muster throughout the world 1. Current Status a. Collecting speaker nominations from the entire student body and former stu dents b. Working with John Adams to help spread the spirit of Muster through his book, “The Voices of a Proud Tradition” 2. Projected Status a. To create more Muster Awareness among the student body this year in addi tion to stressing the true meaning of Muster and its history H. Parents Weekend-Coordinate activities on Parents Weekend, April 11-13, such as the All-U Awards ceremony, RHA Casino Night, MSC Variety shows, Corps Review . . . I. Current Status a. Informing students about Parents’ Weekend and the need to make hotel res ervations now. 2. Projected Status a. A fantastic Parents’ Weekend with a lot of activities for our parents to attend. To see all aspects of A&M I. Traditions Council-Working to keep traditions alive at A&M 1. Current Status a. Finished Switchoff for the Kickoff for the Arkansas game b. Completed the most successful Howdy Week in history 2. Projected Status a. A spring Howdy Week b. A Howdy commercial to help push this A&M tradition II. Legislative Branch A. External Affairs-Issues arising off-campus 1. Current Status a. Setting up the Off-Campus Issues and Grievances panel 2. Projected Status a. Creating a Highschool recruitment program B. Finance-Financial allocation of the Student Service Fees 1. Current Status a. Started the allocation of Student Service Fees in the beginning of November C. Rules and Regulations-Reviewing the rules and regulations of Texas A&M 1. Current Status a. Reviewing the current Senate appointment b. Working on the Student body Open Forum Revision-allow students direct in put, via voicing of opinion into the Senate c. Working on the student Legislation System Bill-allow a student to draw up and introduce a bill themselves d. Working on Dead Week Revision Bill Student Service-relating to on campus issues 1. Current Status a. Passed the “Book Exchange Re-organization Bill”-to computerize the Stu dent Government book exchange b. Passed the “A Bill to Create Row Designation Signs in Major Parking Lots on Campus Bill” c. Working on “Bicycle Regulation Bill” E. Student Service 1. Current Status a. Working on the “Ashbury Street Lighting Bill” Liberal arts grads ‘advance farther’ in corporate world Warped By JUNE PANG Staff Writer Liberal arts graduates: If you know what you can offer the com pany you want to work for and are not afraid to learn, you have a great future in front of you. That’s the message the associate dean of liberal arts, Dr. Candida Lutes, wants to send out. Lutes said many liberal arts grad uates are frustrated when they start looking for a job. “It takes longer for liberal arts students to find jobs and it’s likely they have a lower (starting) salary than students of technology,” Lutes said. However, Lutes said, in the cor porate structure, liberal arts stu dents fare better than the average technical graduates over the course of their careers. Lutes said liberal arts careers pay well and are highly satisfying. She said the chairman of the board of di rectors of Xerox, IBM and AT&T are all liberal arts graduates. “That’s typical if you look at the major corporations,” Lutes said. The reason for this phenomenon is that liberal arts students have more flexibility and better commu nication skills than technical stu dents, Lutes said. “Technical people stay in the same kind of work while liberal arts graduates change jobs,” Lutes said. “They learn at various jobs what technical things they need. They are seen by corporations as flexible peo ple.” A report by Dan Fallon, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M, written in 1981 while he was dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Denver, reveals a recur ring pattern for liberal arts grad uates: a difficult initial search for a first job, followed by several more or less unrelated job shifts, and then an unexpected opportunity that leads type sale: to a successful career. A report by Chase Manhattan Bank says 60 percent of its most suc cessful managers have liberal arts degrees. A survey by AT&T revealed that 43 percent of its employees with hu manities and social science degrees had reached top-level management positions. Thirty-two percent of the employees with business degrees and 23 percent with engineering de grees had reached a similar level of corporate success. Judy Vulliet, associate director of A&M’s placement center, explained that although liberal arts students don’t have specific skills required by companies, they generally have good communication skills. They are more creative and flexible, she said. According to Vulliet, the main ses of jobs for liberal arts include: les, marketing, public relations, community relations, technical writ ing, administration and specialist training. Most of the jobs are related to business, she said. Liberal arts graduates are also needed for gov ernment positions, but the need is not as strong as before, Vulliet said. Referring to employment recruit ment, Lutes said more companies come to campus to recruit technical students than liberal arts students, because companies have specific needs for students with technical training. Liberal arts graduates have to take the initiative and find what skills they can offer companies, she said. There are 76 career-related lib eral arts skills which can be catego rized into nine groups, she said. These nine groups are: informa tion management skills, design and planning skills, human relations and interpersonal skills, management and administration skills, valuing skills, personal/career development and learning skills, research and in vestigation skills, communication skills and critical thinking skills. Slouch PAUL on 105T By Jim Ealfrsf 1 HIND, THAT WHI I/REDLALING Wf ROMANTIC FALL “ This student wanted to know if I had heard that all classes wouldM i he held on Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Have you heard urn- thing about that?" By KAREN Rep 1 As president o lent Apartment can wants to w< ier for his neig Dean and his lone of the 720 [white, barrack-lil uthside of camp The Deans are ents who are ti Bents. Most of prking on docto Group to hold amateur n video exposition Thursday By SANDRA SUTPHEN Reporter Students and faculty can see origi nal works done by their peers at an amateur film and video exposition sponsored by the TAMU Art and Film Society at 7 p.m. Thursday in 155 Blocker. Seven videos, which average about 5 minutes, are scheduled, said Grover Wu, president of the club. Wu said six of the videos were made by students and one by a professor. The differences between a film and a video are the increased amount of time and techniques used in producing a film, Wu said. Program to prove Aggies are Democrats, too Btes, Dean says. I Also, Dean say: residents are inte lom countries si Ban, Africa, and 1 ■ One of Dean’s luncil be more This exposition is the first piiBe international: by the club, formed this semejl “We need to I Wu said, but members exptoH n( i 0 f things th have a festival every semester.lifted in,” Dean sa future, the club also wants tohaftj 0 towa contest, he said. ft^ji w ju S p 0 ns< T here are no requiremenisft nerin March . the films entered, Wu said, ftp w ii| gj ve ea( “We are trying to encouragt|iP pie to make their own videos,"* said. T he videos are made by amatfl so they are not expected to beta feet, he said, but they are very i:*| esting. One of the videos which nil! shown is basically made upofsil Wu said. | ByJOBETI Rep< ISC Overseas ts the opport they can ti to vor By KELLI THOMERSON Reporter “The purpose of Aggie Heritage is to say that Texas A&M comes from a long line of Aggie Demo crats, and they aren’t liberal,” John Hatch, president of Young Demo crats, says. “That’s my goal for this year.” Aggie Heritage, which is spon sored by Young Democrats, consists of newspaper advertisements and fliers that familiarize students with well-known Aggies who are also Democrats. “What we’re going to do, on a two- week basis, is highlight a different Aggie that everyone knows by name, or should know by name, and ex plain what that Aggie has done and why he was great for A&M, and then of course somewhere it will say he was a Democrat,” Hatch says. This semester Aggie Heritage is highlighting Aggies who are promi nent in A&M history, such as Law rence Sullivan Ross and James Earl Rudder, Hatch says. Hatch says he hopes the program will cause people to say, “Oh I didn’t know that about Sully,” or tell them that James Earl Rudder led an attack force of rangers in the D-day inva sion. He says he also hopes it will make those who read the fliers start won dering who will be the next promi nent Aggie profiled. “In the spring we are going to run more current people like Chet Ed wards and Henry Cisneros, and then try to get them to come on campus at one time so students can meet them. “We want all the students to meet them, not just Democrats. “The idea is that sometime in the spring we will run one final article and have everyone’s picture in it that we have profiled, and then reveal that all of them are or were Demo- cause they may have had a ‘R’ or ‘D’ by their name, and I think that’s wrong. “If you noticed the ad about Law rence Sullivan Ross, it never said anything about him beingpro-Dj octal or anti-Republican. Allii was what he was — a Confedt general, president of the collegt a Democratic governor.” crats.” Aggie Heritage also helps the Young Democrats’ goal of keeping students from being close-minded, he says. “We want to show students there is a full spectrum to the Democratic Party and not to follow anyone blindly,” Hatch says. “Aggies are known for their knowledge. We are pretty sharp in every field, and I just want to see us carry that knowledge over into the field of politics. “I want students to be able to look at two issues and say one’s right, one’s wrong, or maybe there can be a compromise. But at least they’re thinking about it and not listening to someone else tell them how to vote.” Making students aware of the Democratic Party is another purpose of Aggie Heritage, he says. . “The students have stereotyped Democrats after Walter Mondale or l ip O’Neill, and yet the irony of it is that at the same time they model themselves after Democrats and don’t actually know it,” he says. “It bothers me that there have been some great people who have done a lot for A&M, and students have turned their backs on them be- Student Senate to vote on revised dead week bill By FRANK SMITH Staff Writer will vote on a bill intended to dis courage faculty members from vi olating a University regulation concerning giving tests during dead week, the week preceding final examinations. of the long semesters be used lit instructors as a review for the fi nal exam. The Senate also will consideri revised version of the bicycleH introduced at the Oct. 23 meet The regulation in question says during the fall and spring semes ters no examinations shall be given during dead week. How ever, exceptions to this rule apply for courses carrying one credit hour of theory or practice, labo ratory credit hours, optional tests for special credit and make-up tests. The bill, introduced at the Oct. 23 Senate meeting, has been re vised to include a recommenda tion that the last regular class pe riod of a course taken during one '"K- . J 1 he new version of the bill® courages the riding of bicyclesoi the sidewalk area from M Walk to Spence Street. The nal bill encompassed a mucl larger region including the side walk areas through muchofiln central part of campus. Another bill up for vote for additional lighting for Askr Street. It recommends the ment of lights on both the corner of Milner Hall and tht east corner of Sbisa Dining Hall. 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