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Voyager 2 discovers
10 arcs around Uranus
Associated Press
PASADENA, Calif. — Voyager 2
has found 10 arc-shaped pieces of
rings around Uranus in addition to
the 10 full rings encircling the
planet, a scientist said Sunday as ge
ologists studied the planet’s cratered
moons and their mountains, valleys
and strange squarish features.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory scien
tist Arthur Lane said, “To date,
we’ve got approximately 10 of these
arcs.”
He said the arcs are about 30 to 36
miles long, all outside the nine rings
discovered from Earth in 1977 and a
10th ring whose discovery by Voy
ager was announced Saturday.
Burton Edelson, associate admin
istrator for space science for the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration, said earlier that
Voyager “found evidence of 10 ad
ditional rings . . . with indications of
many more to come.”
But Lane said scientists don’t
know yet if the arcs extend around
the planet as complete rings.
The arcs were invisible to Voyag
er’s television cameras but were de
tected with a device called a photo-
polarimeter, a light-sensing device
that measured changes in starlight
when the rings and arcs were be
tween the spacecraft and a distant
star. The technique allows the detec
tion of fine, dark particles.
Incoming pictures of Ariel, Obe-
ron and Titania — three of Uranus’
five largest moons — showed broad
valleys, a mountain four miles high
and numerous impact praters.
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“They said that I was being assigned to a very convenient parking lot,
so why did they give me a map to find it?”
Challenger’s liftoff delayed because of bad forecast
Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A
gloomy forecast prompted NASA to
scrub Sunday’s shuttle launch send
ing schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe
into space, but the sun shone after
all and Challenger could have lifted
off, officials said.
The launch, already postponed
once because of bad weather, was re
scheduled ’for Monday, and Mrs.
McAuliffe, the first private citizen
named to a shuttle mission, spent
part of the morning riding a bicycle
instead of a rocket.
Shuttle managers had received a
forecast that called for rain and
thundershowers at liftoff time and
decided late Saturday to postpone
the launch.
But the unexpected formation of
a low pressure system over Georgia
held up the weather front by several
hours, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration officials said,
so the sun was shining on Challeng
er’s launch pad at the scrubbed lift
off time.
Launch director Gene Thomas
said, “Conditions were good for
launch this morning; it looks like we
could have made it.”
The launch was rescheduled for
9:37 a.m. EST Monday. Officials
said the front should have moved on
by then, leaving behind acceptable
weather conditions.
McAulif fe, 37, a high school tea
cher from Concord, N.H., and crew-
mate Greg Jarvis were spotted by re
porters t iding bicycles on one of the
main roads at the Kennedy Space
Center Sunday morning.
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Paid advertising,
Monday January 27,1986
Volume 8, Number 2
Ih * BUSINESS
Monthly Newsletter of the students of the College of Business Administration. Texas A&M University
Supplement to the Battalion
Paid advertising, prepared by the
Business Student Council of the
College of Business Administration.
Business College Enters
Global Economy
By FRANK SMITH
Business educators at Texas A&M
will be placing added emphasis on
international business aspects, infor-
mation management and
entrepreneurship and new venture
managemant, according to Dr. Wil
liam H. Mobley, dean of the College
of Business Administration.
Dr. Mobley said the emphasis on
international aspects will be stressed
to business students both as they
take business courses and as they
choose their electives.
"We'll be encouraging students to
do more with their non-business
electives, to look at things that help
them understand and will help them
in the future understand the world -
comparative economics, compara
tive political systems, history of dif
ferent regions, and foriegn languag-
es," Mobley said. "Without
question- it's not a trend anymore,
it's a fact- we are in a global econ
omy.
"TheUnited States is going to have
to be much more aggressive and ef
fective in competing for world mar
kets and we need more college grad
uates who really do understand
what's going on in the world...
that's imperative. It's imperative for
our nation. It's imperative for indi
vidual careers."
Mobley also said the business col
lege will continue to use more com
puter-oriented analytical tools and
place more emphasis on the general
theme of information management.
"We are in the information era,"
he said. "We're well into it. And a
challengr for all managers and suc
cessful individuals is going to be the
ability to manage information.
"There's so much information
available. How do you distill it? How
do you keep it up to date? How do
you focus it to be relevant to specific
decisions?
"That's a challenge that's going to
be showing up more and more in
our curriculum. So students are
going to be learning more about
managemertt of information-
whether it's financial information,
market information or personnel in
formation."
Mobley said the importance of
entrepreneurship and new venture
management is another topic which
warrants attention.
"New job creation in this country
is coming predominantly and over
whelmingly from small companies,
new ventures," he said. "Business
schools historically have focused on
larger organizations, larger corpora-
tionws.
"And we will continue to focus on
that. But we need to strengthen, im
prove and ensure that the graduates
have an understanding of the entre
preneurial process- issues associated
with flew venture management- be
cause that's where a lot of growth is
going to come from."
Equation For Success
Organizational Roles
Plus Good Grades
By MOLLY PEPPER
Manyof the students in the College
of Business Administration find
ways outside of the classroom to
learn skills that will be helpful in the
future. These students serve as stu
dent leaders on the Texas A&M cam
pus.
Keith Komfuehrer said one of the
most important things that his lead
ership position provides is the op
portunity to improve his interperso
nal skills. In today's business, he
sais, your interpersonal skills will be
your advantage or disadvantage.
Lisa Rutherford, president of the
Marketing Society, said she wanted
to become involved in activities
other than school work because she
wanted to appear different to her
perspective employers than the ma
jority of A&M graduates.
She said she realized everyone
was going to come out of A&M with
a good degree and she wanted to
make herself stand out. She said she
believes the organizations she has
been a part of will reflect her person
ality to her perspective employers.
Shelli Shivers, president of the
American Society of Personal Ad
ministration, said she wanted to join
an organization in order to gain ex
perience dealing with people.
In her career field. Shivers said
she'll need the leadership skills she's
learning from her position. She
hopes to work with personnel, she
said, and she'll need the skills to mo
tivate people to work together.
Grades are an important part of
most any student's life and student
leaders are no acception. Korn-
fuehrer said the skills he can learn as
a student leader could give him an
edge in his job sometime in the fu
ture. Grade-point ratio is important,
but a person with leadership skills
will be more valuable in a job situa
tion, he said.
He said he believes he has an edge
over someone with the same GPR
who has not held a leadership posi
tion. His first priority is always
school work, he said.
Shivers aggreed that her grades
were more important than her posi
tion, but said losing a tenth of a
grade point because of her position
wouldn't make a very big difference.
She said she believes the skills she is
learning as a student leader will
mean more to a perspective em
ployer than perfect grades.
"If you have a 4.0 that may indi
cate that you haven't gone out and
learned to deal with people," she
said. "You would tend to be looked
on as a bookworm type.. .If you have
a good GPR and you've been in
volved in some organizations it
shows that you've learned about
other people and know how to deal
with them."
Rutherford said that her grades
have not dropped since she started
getting involved in things outside
school work. She has learned good
organization skills to stay on top of
all her activities, she said.
During her freshman year, Ru
therford said she wasn't involved in
anything except a church group. She
has held several leadership positions
at A&M. Besides being president of
the Marketing Society, she is also
Student Government liason to the
Status of Women in the University
Faculty Senate Subcommittee and a
student worker for the Board of Re
gents.
"Anything you can do outside of
the classroom is going to help you
see yourself and realize what you're
good at and what you're not good
at," she said. "It can help you direct
yourself."
Joining organizations and taking
on leadershiproles has been a grow
ing experience and has made her a
more roundedperson; It has also
made college more fun, she said.
Rutherford would advise fresh
men and sophomores to get in
volved. In the beginning it will seem
a bit intimidating, she said, but no
one should be afraid to check into an
organization and ask questions.
Business
Career Fair
Gains in
Popularity
By RODNEY RATHER
Since a solid beginning in 1980,
Texas A&M's Business Career Fair
has maintained steady growth and
success as an annual event held by
the College of Business Administra
tion.
The fair, which comprises two
days of the college's six-day Busi
ness week, gives students a chance
to ask questions of representatives
from companies across the nation
and to get information about possi
ble future careers in those compa
nies.
During the fair, representatives
from various companies run booths
in the Blocker Building as conversa
tion stations for students. A banquet
also is held at which students have
the opportunity to sit with represen
tatives of the company in which they
have an interest, to talk about possi
ble job opportunities.
The dean of the CBA in 1979, Dr.
William Muse, and the president of
the business student council, Willie
Langston, talked about holding a ca
reer fair at A&M.
"Willie, Dr. Muse and I gotr to
gether to discuss some of the details
and decided we'd do it, we'd try it,
so we had Business Career Fair in
April of 1980 - our first fair," accord
ing to Mr. Lynn Zimmermann, As
sistant to the Dean in the CBA.
The first fair lasted one day during
a weekof activities which consisted
of seminars, receptions and ban
quets. The project was very success
ful, he said.
"The week itself won an award
from the Southern Business Admin
istration Association," Zimmermann
said. "It won an award as the most
outstanding, innovative student
program on careers. They (the asso
ciation) gave us a check for $500 to
use to do the same thing again next
year."
The week is planned almost en
tirely by the students, Zimmermann
said. About 200 students volunteer
to join committees which mail invita
tions to companies, reserve locations
for banquets and receptions, plan
seminars and organize the week's
overall calendar.
"That's one of the unique things
about the career fair at A&M," Zim
mermann said. "It's the fact that it's
a student-run project."
"One of the things we try to do is
be sure that the students have the re
sponsibility. And that's different
than other schools."
The high level of student involve
ment in the week's activities has
been a prominent factor in attracting
more companies than the previous
year.
"We had 27 companiesat that first
fair," he saud. "In 1981, we had 32
companies. For 1986, we have 75
commmitments and we're not
through yet. There'll be more, I'm
sure."
More companies came each year-
despite the economic slump of the
early 1980's, when students were
straining to find jobs and companies
were laying off employees.
The program became so popular
that for the past three years compa
nies that have not been invited have
asked to be put on the invitation list
for the following year.
"About half a dozen companies
will call every year and say, 'We're
not on your list, but we've heard a
lot about A&M'sfair and we want to
be invited,'" Zimmermann said.
Business Week will be held Feb. 3-
8, with the Business Career Fair tak
ing place Feb. 4-5.
BANQUET TICKETS ON SALE
Seventh Annual Business Career Fair, Banquet and Awardspresentations,
at the College Station Hilton, 7pm on Tuesdat, February 4th. $8.00 per per
son. Now on sale in the Blocker Building, until January 31.
Sign up to sit with the Company of your choice.
Keynote Speaker: Ms. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
“The Business" is published by the undergraduate Business Student Council
of the College of Business Administration, Texas A&M University, College
Station, Texas 77843; telephone 409/845-1320. Editors: Pam Bolting and
Kenneth Dornak. Business Student Council President: Doug Boughton.
Council,Advisor: Lynn Zimmermann. Dean of the College: Dr. William H.
Mobley.
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