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SPRING SPECIAL Casa Blanca Apartments 2 Bed room, 1 Bath $225/mo. Please call 846-1413 Page 6/The Battalion/Tuesday, January 21, 1986 mmm—mmmmmtrnm Hansen: Liberal arts needed for leadership Can You Worship in Silence? He entered the room and sat in silence. In the encompassing quiet, as the petty cares of the day dropped away, he sought to reach God directly. Another seeker rose and spoke of love, of human cruelty and injustice, of Jesus, of other peacemakers, of things she was deeply moved to say out of her sense of communion with God. His mind enfolded the words, and in the following reverential stil lness his thoughts cleared, his convictions strengthened, his un derstanding deepened. And afterwords, everyone shook hands. There was no creed, no priest or minister, no prearranged order of service. Every Quaker meeting for worship is a quiet search for the peace of mind to hear the message of that still small voice within. Do you, too, suspect that there may be something of God within every person - including you? If so, perhaps the beliefs of the Friends may be useful to you. Call or write: Friends Worship Group of Bryan-College Station 754 S. Rosemary, Bryan, 77802 846-7093 or 846-6856 eve. ‘Faculty Senate can aid chancellor search By SONDRA PICKARD Staff Writer Addressing the Faculty Senate for the first time since its formation, Dr. Arthur G. Hansen, chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, said Monday that senators can be of great help iri the search for a new chan cellor and that any ideas they have will be considered. Hansen also briefly discussed the controversial core curriculum pro posal that has been facing the Fac ulty Senate for over a year, saying that there is no simple way to assess quality in higher education. “The important thing to remem ber is that one cannot tell what as pects of educational training will bring forth leaders,” Hansen said. “Therefore, in designing the cur riculum for leadership, it is essential that not only applied courses be con sidered, but rather a broad educatio nal base including the liberal arts,” he said. Hansen said that those in the aca-' demic community will have more re quests in the future to justify to the public the reasons for what they are doing and where education in gen eral is going. “I don’t know how you’re going to do it,” Hansen said, “but every fac ulty member should say, ‘What are we doing and why?’ ” Hansen also announced recent enrollment forecasts, which put total enrollment at Texas A&M at 40,000 students for the year 1995, a figure Hansen said the University can han dle at this point. After Hansen’s presentation, the Faculty Senate spent over an hour in formal debate on the core curric ulum requirements proposed by a majority of the core curriculum committee. The senators discussed and amended the first of seven require ments listed in the core curriculum proposal. No final vote will be taken on the proposal until all requirements have been amended and motions to sub stitute still other recommendations from various colleges and depart ments have been considered. Under the debated proposal, a student entering the University will be required to complete one course in computer usage unless the stu dent has completed at least one course in computer science in high ail- school or can demonstrate prof ciency in an examination. It also proposes that a student be required to take two semesters of a foreign language unless the student has had two years of foreign lan guage in high school or can demon strate proficiency of a second lan guage. Also, in addition to state and Uni versity requirements, a student would be required to take six hours in speech and writing, math ematics/logic, cultural heritage and social science. The proposal also recommends the student take eight hours of sci ence. Students entering the University before the fall of 1987 would not be affected by the change if the Senate and A&M President Frank E. Van diver should approve the proposal, Vandiver was cited earlier as say ing A&M is one of the few universi ties in the nation that fails to require a broad background in the arts and sciences, which are, he said, “the heart of university education." In other business, the Senatt heard discussion, but took no fuu action, on a proposal to form a fat ulty club. The club would be house on both tiers of the eleventh flooro: Rudder Tower and would provide central location for faculty interat tion, promote discussion groupsanc provide a facility for small Univn sity and community receptions and parties. The faculty club subcommitti hopes to charge a nominated interii board with the duty of drawing ut by-laws and membership requirt ments for the club, which, alongwiti other considerations, must be ap proved by the Board of Regents,tet Senate and Vandiver. Most of the debate on the formi tion of the club surrounded tin question of who would be eligiblefo membership, who would determiir those requirements and whether c not alcohol could be served in tin club. Restoring old houses Fort Worth woman Associated Press There isn’t T- I T“>* tv/Yf: nowr ADS 'C Advertise an item in the Battalion. Call 845 FORT WORTH enough time. Mary Odom of Fort Worth is 61 years old, and she figures she’ll have to live another 60 years to do every thing she wants to do. What she wants to do is fix up old houses. “I sort of have a maternal instinct for the houses,” said the Waxahachie native, a contractor who specializes in restorations. She has driven down the streets of the Fairmount neighborhood in south Fort Worth, where she’s cur rently working on a project, nearly wrecking her car because she’s so busy looking at all the old houses in need of help. “I want to fix every one of ’em,” she said. “But if I’m gonna fix ’em all. I’m gonna have to live another 60 years.” Meanwhile, she’s doing her part. As the force behind the restora tions, Odom isn’t content with sub contracting and overseeing the re quired labor. So in addition to hiring electri cians and plumbers, she’s there at the site every day, wielding a ham mer and saw and carrying boards. Often she works alone. “I’m stronger than I look,” the 5- foot-2, 106-pound Odom said. “One of the greatest problems I have is getting workers to keep the pace I do. I tell them, ‘You’re half the age and twice the size I am.’ They’d dam sure better keep up.” With the break-up of her second marriage, Odom became a contrac tor and real estate broker in Kansas City, buying, restoring and selling old houses. But her fix-up efforts go back some 40 years, to World War II when it was hard to find workers on the home front in Handley. Excited about her pregnancy, she knew how she wanted the house to look after the baby arrived. “There was a window where I wanted the back door,” she said. “I couldn’t get anybody to do anything for me, so I totally reworked it. I took the window out and framed the door.” She also has painted various tas pa houses she has lived in as well as per forming all the maintenance on rent houses she and her second husband owned. She tackled the rent houses out of “Sheer boredom,” she said. In Kansas City, too, “I wasn’t real satisfied with the way the carpenter was doing the work” on the house she and her husband were building. He made a suggestion: "Do it your self.” She did. Today, she’s undaunted even by houses in such disrepair that most folks think they should be razed. But that doesn’t mean she always knows the solution from the outset. She considers her gender no problem. Most men don’t mind fe male supervision, she said. Only a few object. She fought the term “perfection ist” for some time, but finally con ceded. She does a lot of trim work herself to satisfy this bent. “People say I’m a workaholic, and maybe I am,” she said. “But if you enjoy what you’re doing, it really isn’t work.” New Goddess must wait for fair weathei Associated Press AUSTIN — Texas’ new God dess of Liberty statue will not be ready for her trip to the top of the Capitol in time for the March 2 sesquicentennial celebration. Capitol architect Roy Graham said Monday he wants better weather for the ascent than the old Goddess had for the Novem ber descent which ended her 97- year rooftop reign. The new target date is June. “When you look at March, it’s wonderful historically but it has all kinds of problems with wind and weather problems,” Graham said at a Capitol news conference. The delay also has been caused by “negotiations” concerning what metal will be used to make the new statue. Gov. Mark White will announce that decision Thursday, Graham said. The old statue, worn and bat tered by her years atop the Capi tol, is now in Rhome, Texas, where preparations are being made for a replacement. And now, for $1,836, you can' buy a miniature replica of the ‘ red j statue acknowledged as long on history but short on looks. A thousand of the bronze min iatures will be available, with $642 from each sale going to the re storation projects. Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby said money raised by the replica sales will help pay for the “wave of restora tion that, over the next few years, will sweep over the Capitol ouild- ing and restore it to its pristine grandeur.” The Goddess was removed from the Capitol dome after ex perts determined the statue could crumble and become a hazard. Graham said the oldest inscrip tion on the statue is the name Hugo Wolf. Graham is trying to find out if Wolf was the sculptor. The architect also said he be lieves the original Goddess, when restored, should be brought back to Austin for legal reasons. Groups in Houston and Denton have said they would be inter ested in becoming the permanent home of the original. THE TilDDLE EAST l# M S C S C O N A AGGIES! MSC SCONA 31 is looking for students to rep resent Texas A&M during our annual conference February 12-15,1986 as: • Host/hostess If you are interested in applying for one of these positions, we invite you to attend an informational meeting on Wednesday, January 22, 7:30 p.m. 308 Rudder. Applications are available in the SCONA cubicle 216 MSC and are due January 24,5:00 p.m. These positions are open to all TAMU students. GET INVOLVED! Mark These Dates For Spring Break New York City March 15-19 $435 Cancun March 15-20 $400 Red River March 16-23 $375 .SIGN-UP JANUARY 20-31, 1986 c%m1ct“ms. •1515 MSC-TOWN ■ FT AT,T 7 FEBRUARY 9th 8:00pm G. ROLL IE WHITE COLLISEUM TICKETS ON SALE FEB.25 DILLARDS A1SC Box Office $8.00 General Admission $ 9.50 Reserved Seating For Information 845-1234 A&I gam Lon Hof