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Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, December 13 1985 <#• ^ New and Improved Student Book Exchange In the spring, a listing of all books for sale will be made available free of charge! Come by 2nd floor PAVILLION December 16-20 and January 16-24 and register your books to be sold! A % .4 e \ / <6* & ante 'Hecv 'tycar f S/iaciauG, 1, 2. & 3 ^ediaattt ax tat ettt& & *Dujb, tcx ^4 IReute $250 2c&n<li<!L *7a<y& t5c(/t£Cci /iuto-xa 6}ci’itLevi& l^" C.S. 1 r ..OI c iM(Wian Q2 ' -*• * 693-2f08 ' 693-6505 MONOPOLY’$ Rumours Snack bar to extend hours during finals A/arped By FRANK SMITH Svafl Writer The Rumours snack, bar in the southwest portion of tfie Memorial Student Center, will extend its hours during finals week in response to a Student Government request. Lloyd H. Smith, assistant director of food services, said Student Gov ernment indicated an interest in ex tending the snack bar’s hours so stu dents could eat there while studying for final examinations. Rumours is normally open Mon day through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Smith said the snack bar will be open this Sunday from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. and will be open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Smith said Rumours re-opened for business Nov. 25 after being closed f or renovations. It was closed at the conclusion of the spring semester and the renova tion project started near the end of June, he said. IS1DM0W1S2S OPEN 900-330 MOM FRI & SPECIAL OCCASIONS "The snack bar that * viously in there did not mttii and local health codes. Sow a lot more facilities for food ration (and now haveajbi^ tion.” have you ^ ft F DE.CIDED ON CA fOUR ORDER QU 1ET, 5IR? J PE 1 o meet the health code.j mezzanine floor above the M] paration area has beenseakd no dust can trickle downim area f rom above, Smith < tIn ee-compartment sink il added lot the snack bar,hcs He said the snack bar also |K-t«-d aiid painted. A/aldo "What happened is the mezzanine in there was changed — the location of it was changed," Smith said. "The snack bar underneath that mezza nine was also moved. Hut Smith said thalRunwj has television and a stage fa formers. Smith said the total cosull renovation project has not till (ompleteh tabulated. Pandl cost will Ik- paid for by the Mm Student Center and part wiki by the F<kk1 Services Depaitro-J said. I Hi.' I’F'i THE REPAIRMAN YOU SENT FOR/ y A&M prof uses meditation to build students’ creativity By SANDRA SUTPHEN Reporter When students first encounter Rodney Hill’s unique teaching method, their first question may be where they can go drop-add, Hill says. Hill, a professor of environmental design at Texas A&M, uses a unique form of meditation called “cente ring” to stimulate creativity in his students. "When you center yourself, it gives you access to your whole brain, you have access to all of your know ledge,” Hill says. “It (centering) mainly calms you and opens your mind up; there are no limits; your mind is free to wander, to come up with images and connections.” “When you center your self, it gives you access to your whole brain, you have access to all of your knowledge. ” — Rodney Hill, a Texas A&M professor. their head against a brick* ing up with ideas, and its hi their past educational badgp Hill says. "Public schoolstiii|n rational, logical, sequamil thinking; read, regurgiutr.w SHOE basketball s expects to n gurgitate; but never thiit thinks he’ll r create on their own." champion shi imagining they are the apple. Hill says. Hill says he introduces the stu dents to centering with the apple for a specific reason. Hill begins his first day of classes by bringing apples to class and giv ing one to each student. He asks the students to lie on the desks while he turns out the lights. The students talk about the apple; the smell, the feel, the taste of the apple. The students are then asked to imagine they are the apple. They g° back in time to where they are (he blossom, the limb, the trunk, the roots and the water in the soil. The student continues the 30- minute process with a regression from the water evaporating, becom ing clouds, then rain; then regress to "They have something to hold on to,” Hill says, "something concrete." Hill says a few of his students have a difficult time accepting the “cente ring” exercise in the beginning. “Usually by the end of the third week, if 1 get busy and miss a session, I get bitched at by the students, be cause it’s really addictive,” Hill says. Hill says his goal with “centering” is to enhance creativity in his stu dents. “We get students in their fresh man year.” Hill says, "and we tell them their grade is going to be based on creativity, motivation and coming up with original ideas." “For a lot of them, it’s like beating Unfortunately, Hill sa)t pi ofessors inhibit creativity. "There are 10 times ait things you can do to inhibiuttp than you can do to enhanceiu says. “Usually by the endofm the students are in a modeol do I do with all theideaslytd Wliic li one should 1 pick:» the iK-gitming they weresani I (ome up with an idea?’ II I Hill says this form of lens laxation is not new, because[i with high blood ptessureot|i who have had heart attacks s exercise. Hill says athletesba:' Imagine towerii using similar forms of exert , a |i s and medieval about 10 years. rm0 r and silk, pa You know just before'( ront of imposing sleep at night, you get thisb heir king, ideas, and you can't go (tost; Tot ( a y arld Salu it all sort of flushes Oili; utl j, ese visions vvill Loco By KRIS SI Repot centering state," Hill says ltageCentc , r Thea K. . IC /Vts.its -1 thde -S. brain is open, and all c )erfonriance of ..-j you’ve been generating all were blocked, because you* der stress or tension, comep' •py le p| a y f ocuses elatibnship betwee f England and his Babysitter receives life for scalding child tsr H e„, y f Associated Press DALLAS — A man who posed as a woman babysitter and plunged a 4- month-old baby into a pot of scald ing water will serve at least 20 years of a life sentence handed down by a Dallas jury Thursday, prosecutors said. 29- Richard Arthur Gilbert, a year-old transvestite, said he acci dentally spilled hot water on the child. The jury, which deliberated less than an hour, fined him $10,000 and convicted him of injury to a child. Gilbert testified Wednesday that the scalding was not intentional, and said, sobbing, that he was “hysteri cal” after the child was hurt. But prosecutors relied on the tes timony of three doctors. They said forced-immersion burns, such as those,on the Baker baby, look differ ent from those of accidental splash burns. Scott suggested in his final argu ment to the jury that the scalding may have been prompts)I bert’s desire to coyer anoW to the child. He hasbeeniii’ a separate case on charges* ually assaulted a 2-year^ while babysitting in East Dal* reak and inef fectu Jurors and State District Judge Jack Hampton ruled that scalding water is a deadly weapon and or dered Gilbert to serve at least 20 years, or one-third of the sentence, Scott said. The baby later died of his injuries. Gilbert’s attorney, Russ Henrichs, said the verdict would be appealed. The seven-man, live-woman jury found Gilbert guilty of holding the infant in scalding water at the home of Vera and Andrew Baker. The Bakers have declined to com ment on the trial’s outcome. Investigators and the Bit 1 Gilbert identified himself* Gilbert" and posed as a m®* ing the three months he»« the Bakers’ home. wnot s up Friday PUERTO RICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: I: 7:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder. MSC VARIETY SHOW: audition applications are now* able in 216 MSC. Saturda 1 FOURAKER BREAKERS: Fisft Camp is meeting at 6 pt Mama’s Pizza for a Christmas dinner. CLASS OF ‘88: will sell class t-shirts from 10 a.m. to4pf the MSC. SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS wii boxes in 216 Reed McDonald for 25 cents each tostttf who are moving. Call H45-3315 for more t H M NORTHWEST HWY. AND ABRAMS BEHIND ARBY'S DALLAS, TEXAS' (214)696-3720 xmnrmLX How to Prevent... Ho-Ho-Ho-Oh-No-Crash-Boofl # Prior to a party designate a person to drive who will not be drinking. # Leave your keys with the host. * Decide how many alcoholic drinks yc will have before going to a party. * Know your limit. # Call a friend or taxi if you've too much to drink. * Show friends you care by taking awj their keys if they drink too much. * Consider having non-alcoholic drinks after you've had a few alcoholic dri* 1 # If your hosting a party be sure to supply plenty of snacks. Alcohol Awareness Program Department of Student Affairs 84B-. C<