Thursday, December 5,1985/The Battalion/Page 5 r@n| Weather forecaster predicts old, wet east Texas winter Associated Press LUFKIN — The signs are all line, says YV. Valentine — Unl it h in lor a cold, wet winter, possi- vitj severe as the winter ol 1983, it jot worse. Vilentine, ;t Forester whose hobhy piplicting the weather h\ using im|ils and other signs ol nature, .is taught the skill ol veins ago In Init|icle with more than 120 years ol xptfi iciue in his Family. He was 94, n lldian, and very alert, Valentine lidlaiul wits known as the weathet- imliimong the people in Cherokee ioiitnv. Ill 19‘M, the old Indian, who him- Jltad been Forecasting For 04 stinted showing Valentine the — how the squirrels build their lests closer to the ground when a |i)l(I winter is coming iind the moss . n trees "knots up." - ‘The squirrels will leave the hard- («»s and get into the pines For noie cover," Yhilentine s;iid. He also ,ii between the cit- "It would make the corridor a jus tifiable trading region in the eyes of the world," Cisneros said. Mayor Frank Cooksey of Austin, who attended the session hut was not present For Cisneros’ remarks, said lie would request a meeting with Cis neros to discuss a joint airport. A joint airport has been men tioned For several years as a way to solve crowding problems at Austin’s Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, but San Antonio officials had not en couraged the idea. Although Cisneros had said the joint facility was among his long- range goals, he told an Austin air port task force last year that Austin should not look on a joint airport as a solution to problems at Mueller. He said then that San Antonio would not need a new airport For 25 to 55 years. San Antonio just com pleted a SI 10 million airport expan sion. “The quickest way both of us can overcome our air traffic problems is with a combined effort,” Cisneros said. “In Texas, Dallas is the hub, and it’s dif ficult to get to San Anto nio and Austin, and many corpora tions mentioned that in looking at this area for possible relocation.” Cisneros said San Antonio and Austin need to encourage airlines to provide more direct flights between the two cities and such other major cities as New York, Chicago, Wash ington and San Francisco. toaei i he Van: n defended his d "nothing nbellish reality, not : KKonsoltl nbition in makingli 'in political in ihc ofoundly ’rear in ion in my Films." ! .'.intei bury Tales’ 104 C'.tup and Soil at 7 pan. todayat peaker will give a n e the Film starts mutes long and is in to the movie islitfl What’s up Tiwrscljiy fEXAS A&M EMERGENCY CARE TEAM: is meeting at 7 p.m. in d()4 Rudder, ?HI LAMBDA UPSILON: is meeting at 5 p.m, in 229 Chem istry Building. FAMU STUDENT ART FILM SOCIETY: is showing Pasoli nis "The Canterbury Tates'’ at 7 p.m. in 105 Soil and Crop Sciences Building. ISC TRAVEL: is meeting to have Aggieland pictures taken at 7 p.m. m the MSC lounge. :iETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: is meeting at 7 p.m. i the Zachrv lobby. ►ELTA SIGMA Pi: is meeting for elections at 9 pan. in 150 Blocker. FAMU SYMPHONIC BAND: is having its annual fall con cert at 8:15 pan. in Rudder Auditorium. Tickets are $1 for students and $5 for non-students. INTRAMURALS: there will be an informational meeting for 1 all basketball officials at 6 p.m. in 164 Read. SC CEPHEID VARIABLE: will show the movie ‘Things to Come” at 7:50 and 9.45 p.m, in 701 Rudder. )ANCE ARTS SOCIETY: will take yearbook pictures at 6:50 p.m. in MSC. Wear street clothes, Friday SR VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will have a banquet for graduating seniors at 6 pan. in 206 MSC. Cost is $10. CM>P STUDENTS REGISTRATION: Students scheduled to work on co-op in Spring 1986 must register now lot their co-op course in the Central Co-op Office in 107 Har rington. for students who do not; yet have their co-op job assignments finalized, co-op registration will continue through December 15. Items for What's Up should be submitted to The BaWdion, 2it> Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de sired publication date. Friends A&M Mentors hear student criticism By KAREN KROESCHE Reporter Amidst mounting assignments and n imei ous Frustrations, students call their professors many things throughout the semester, but friend is not usually one of them. The Texas A&M Faculty and staff members of the Mentors program would like to change that. Members hang signs on their doors with the Mentor logo to let students know they are available and willing to talk about anything. “We are Faculty and staff mem bers who would simply like to serve students as friends,” Dr. Jim Mc- Neal, coordinator For the Mentors program, says. f ile group met Wednesday eve ning to talk with students about ways the group can improve its services. Sophomore Camie Erickson, a bi oengineering major, told the faculty and stall members that their major problem is a lack of exposure. “Most people don’t know there's anywhere to go,” Erickson said after admitting that she previously did not know the Mentors program existed. Dr. Bill Bassicnis, an associate professor of Physics, agreed with Erickson, comparing the mentor to the Maytag Salesman, ready to serve people but lacking customers. "A lack of student participation is a major problem for us," he said, “ft's a little disturbing to hear that people don’t even know of our exis tence. Several suggestions were offered by the students who attended, in cluding increasing public relations and informing students of the men tors' Friendship policy. T hat policy, a willingness to listen, is the group’s sole purpose, Bassichis said. The Mentors program orginated in 1980, according to McNeal, with 25 to 50 members. Since then the group has grown to more than 500 participants and has been striving to reach out to the "lost and lonely” stu dents on campus who have no one else to turn to, he said. McNeal, a marketing professor in the College of Business, stressed that the Faculty and staff who volunteer as mentors do not try to act as pro fessional counselors, but rather just make themselves available to stu dents who want to talk. “We’re not trying to take the place of anybody,” he said. “We just want to he a Friend." Mentors have many resources available to them, and one of their primary purposes is to let students know about people or programs that might be able to help them with their problems, McNeal explained. An article in the 1984-85 Enroll, a student handbook, described the group as “only one of many ways that FAMU faculty and staff dem onstrate that they care about Ag- gies.” ' s as you graduate i be ready for busi i/el to meetingsand rtertain yourself, new wardrobe foi aelp you establish ich can help in JO and ask to have it Applicationsenl or one on campus. 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