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Director: A&M gets
only most qualified
minority students
By Wendy Jackson
Reporter
Recruiting only the most qualified
minority students is the key to Texas
A&M’s success in keeping them
here, said Loyd Taylor, A&M’s di
rector of school relations.
Taylor, whose responsibilities in
clude recruiting black and Hispanic
students, says it’s important to offer
scholarships to students who are se
rious about their education. He said
if they aren’t able to do the work,
they won’t be doing themselves or
the University any good.
To receive a scholarship, he said,
minority students must score at least
a 900 on their SAT tests and main
tain a 2.0 grade-point ratio. Students
in the top quarter of their high
school class must score an 800 on the
SAT to enter the University.
“They must be high achieving stu
dents with a high class rank,” he
said. “We also look at their lead
ership qualities.”
By taking only qualified students,
A&M has achieved the highest over
all minority retention rate among
universities in Texas.
The Texas College and University
System Coordinating Board said in a
report that A&M had an 81.5 per
cent retention of black students and
an 83 percent retention of Hispanic
students. These figures were taken
between the fall of 1983 to the fall of
1984.
The retention rate of white stu
dents was only a little higher at 86.5
percent— also the highest in Texas.
The University of Texas placed
second with 76.7 percent of black
students and 79.4 percent of His
panic students returning in 1984.
Although A&M’s percentages are
higher, A&M has fewer minority
students to lose.
UT enrolled over 1,100 black stu
dents in 1983 and had 870 return in
1984, whereas A&M enrolled 406
and had 331 return.
With total student enrollment
numbers so close between the two
schools, why did A&M have fewer
than half the number of black stu
dents enroll that UT did?
Cilya Frank, a black student here,
offered some reasons.
“It’s hard to stay here because you
feel like you’re not wanted,” she
said.
There is no social life for black
students, she said, unless they like
country and western or rock and roll
— those are the only kinds of clubs
around.
Frank said there aren’t many in
centives for black students or other
minorities to come to A&M. There
aren’t many minority professors or
faculty members for them to talk to
and more importantly, she added,
there aren’t many other minority
students to get to know.
“It really gets lonely sometimes,”
she said. “This is a big place, and the
other black students are dispersed
throughout the campus.”
Frank said there are only a few or
ganizations for minorities to belong
to. Even dating is hard, she said, be
cause there are only a limited num
ber of other minority students to go
out with.
A minority student has to have the
drive and ambition to make it
through, she said.
Frank said she stays at A&M be
cause to graduate as an Aggie has its
rewards.
“In the real world an A&M di
ploma means a lot, ” she said. “A lot
of high-powered businesses are run
by Aggies so they’re going to look at
you more favorably if you’re an Ag
gie.”
Frank said she agrees with Taylor
on the recruiting program. A&M
would only be hurting themselves by
going for quantity instead of quality,
she said. A&M is a difficult school
and a student has to be capable of
doing the work to stay here, she
added.
Dr. Grace Chisolm, an assistant to
A&M President Frank Vandiver,
said the President’s Advisory Coun
cil on Minority Conditions is asses
sing the climate and conditions for
minority students at A&M. When it
finishes its study, the council will
make recommendations on improv
ing the atmosphere.
‘Fatal Vision ’ prisoner gets
transfer to Arizona prison
BASTROP — Dr. Jeffrey Mac
Donald, who is serving three life sen
tences for the murder of his wife
and two young daughters on a
North Carolina Army base, has been
transferred from federal prison
here to a federal facility near Phoe
nix, Ariz.
MacDonald, who had been in
prison here for three years, was
moved in December. The crime for
which he was convicted was the basis
for the book and television serial,
“Fatal Vision.”
Larry Taylor, warden of the Bas
trop prison, said the transfer was
made at MacDonald’s request.
The warden said it is prison policy
to confine prisoners as close as possi
ble to wherever they consider home.
MacDonald’s mother is in a nursing
home in Long Beach, Calif.
What’s up
Tuesday L ^
JPGUSH DEPARTMENT; will sponsor a mini writing iU I'
course “Examining Tone: Open Youi Persona and Say
Ahhh’ 1 at 6:30 p.rn. in 120 Blocker. The imtuctor willbtKr C
Howard Cox. For more information call 845-3452 or stop*/ 1
by 227 Blocker.
GALVESTON COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at L c sl >
7 p.m. in 410 Rudder to discuss an April 18 u ip to New L| U( | t -
Braunfels and bold officer elections. For more miormation L voic
call Danny, 764-7106. a run t;
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN/TAMU A$.fe6-87
S0CIATION OF PROFESSIONAL WOMEN: Charlotte |y
Sutton will speak on “Changing Perceptions of WomenEx-tCandi 1 '
ecutfves in the Last 20 Years” at 7 pare in 206 MSC. id Mlkt '
SOCIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS: Dr. Neiif 1 .
Jefferies, of the Center for Manufat tui iug Tethnoloey.ff
and Ron Ellis will speak on “What is Happening in CAD-R
/CAM” at 7 p.m. in 305 Fermier. oj
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR METALS: I).. W. Bradiywilp
speak on “Case Histories in Failure Analysis” at 7 p.m. in idem sf
127 B Zac hry. Finali"!
RHA FRESHMAN LEADERSHIP: Dr. Koldus will speaiu ^ ‘‘ re ■
7:15 p.m. m 308 Rudder. Mams-
MSC VARIETY SHOW: will be held Friday at 7:#pjB.inOa
Rudder Auditorium. Tickets are available now at Kudder lLi.i
Box Office. i osl 0 f
ST, JOSEPH HOSPITAL: is offering < xm, .s<- classes torprt-
gnant women. Classes will be offered from 4 p.m. toSp.ni y
and from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. every Monday and Wednesday, nfSt
and from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday.
Preregistration is required. For further information andt
registar, contact Dixie Lyon, RN at 776-3777, extension*) Si
40.
ADVERTISING ASSOCIATION: will meet at 5:30 p.m.in;
163 Blocker. PioN' i
TAMU HORSEMAN’S ASSOCIATION: will meet St 7 p.m. jrinent
I; in 115 Kleberg. Mussed
COLLEGIATE FFA: will elect officers at 7:30 p.m. in 20? R
Senates. 4 he e
MEXICAN AMERICAN ENGINEERING SOCIETY: will F* ^
elect officers and discuss San Ahtonio trip at 8.30 p.m. in lj amt . s ]
416 Rudder. ftoc,
MSC GREAT ISSUES: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 350A MSC. b faen
AGGIE DEMOCRATS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 305 Rudder Ip P
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: will meet at' B L fore
p.m. in 201 Veterinary Medical Sciences. ^ gii
SPANISH CLUB: will meet at 8:30 p.m. at the Flying To->rt' Hoc
mato.
By
Wednesday
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT: will sponsor a mini writing
course “Enhancing Stvle: Using Sentence Ciombining’’at
6:30 p.m. in 126 Blocker. The instructor will beJoeGra
ham. For more information call 845-3452 or stopbv22;f
Blocker.
SHAKESPEARE LECTURE SERIES: will hold a discussion |
on “In Service of New Ideologies: Shakespeare in Twen-Mcbat
tieth Century German Adaptations” at 8 p m in 111 111
Blocker. Admission is free. awas tw
PHILOSOPHY CLUB: will discuss “Are We Morally Obfi- J n °M h n e
gated to Obey the Law?” at 8:36 p.m. in 501 Rudder.
HISTORY DEPARTMENT: will show the film “Go Tell the Davul
Spartans” at 7 p.m. in 105 Harrington. iiohas p
MODERN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT: will show the atomi c
film “Las Palabras de Max” at 7:30 p.m. in the LangfordP 1 * 011
Architecture Center Auditor ium. Admission is free. ‘ambers
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: will rneet^P^ i,
6:36 p.m. at the Brazos Center for the FCA Brazos Valley |j et | (ll(
Spring Banquet. Tickets are $5 each. For more informa
tion call jenda, 260-0846. 1
MSC AGGIE CINEMA: will show at8:45 p.m.ai lhe
The Grove. u llI)U
EUROPE CLUB: will meei at 9:30 p.m. at the Pizza Pub. |. a i
I.Jim Si
MSC COMMITTEE FOR AWARENESS OF MEXICAN- Hieme,
AMERICAN CULTURE: will meet at 7 p.m. in 502 Rud
der.
RHA favors using dorms for summer storage
By Sonia Lopez
Reporter
The Texas A&M Residence Hall
Association has passed a resolution
that advocates allowing residence
halls to use dormitory facilities for
summer storage.
Final approval of the resolution is
pending with the Department of
Student Affairs, said David McDow
ell, chairman of RHA’s facilities and
operations committee.
Student Affairs Director Ron
Sasse said he doesn’t know when a
decision will be made on the issue,
but the department will try to look at
the resolution by the end of the se
mester.
Sasse said if the student affairs de
partment does approve the resolu-
“The idea is a valid one, however, there will be difficul
ties in dealing with space and organization. ”
— Ron Sasse, director of student affairs.
tion, it probably would not go into
effect this summer.
“The idea is a valid one,” Sasse
said, “however, there will be difficul
ties in dealing with space and organi
zation.”
McDowell said the resolution was
formulated by the facilities and op
erations committee as part of a resi
dence hall improvement program.
The resolution is written vaguely,
he said, so that each dorm will be
able to write its own proposal deal-
has
ing with the storage space it
available.
“Each dorm will have 100 percent
freedom to do whatever they want
and to find solutions to any prob
lems that might arise withifi their
particular dorm,” he said.
Providing summer storage to on-
campus residents is not new to the
A&M campus, Sasse said.
Several years ago, the Quonset
Huts were used as a sort of mass
storage facility for dorm students!
said.
Local storage facilities managt
are split as to how this resolution*
affect their businesses if approved
Bryan Mini Storage ManagerBi
erly Melrose said the resolution
have a definite impact onhersii
mer business.”
But other storage facility mil
agers said the resolution would»|
affect their business becausette
a tremendous demand for stout
facilities locally.
McDowell said, “Hopefully, 4
resolution will save dorm reside!
both time and money when ll*
leave for the summer.”
Each dorm would be free
charge for the storage if it wai
he said.
AG CONVOCATION and PICNIC
Saturday, April 12, 1986
5:00 p.m. Systems Bldg. Lawn
Tickets $4 at the MSC Box Office
For more info, call 845-3711
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