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Page 4/The Battalion/Thursday, September 25, 1986
Libraries fear U.S.
policy changes
may hurt services
By Mona Palmer
Senior Staff Writer
The U.S. Department of Com
merce may propose a change in the
structure of the National Technical
Information Service that could af
fect Texas A&M libraries.
The possible changes in the NTIS
structure are in keeping with the
Reagan Administration’s philosophy
that the government should not per
form functions that the private sec
tor can do itself, said David Gay,
A&M’s U.S. documents librarian.
Susan Tubs, chairman of govern
ment documents at the University of
Virginia, explained that the depart
ment has two options — it could let
the NTIS become a private corpora
tion or it could structure the service
as a government corporation.
Janet Swanbeck, head of docu
ments at the Sterling C. Evans Li
brary, said that A&M spends
$30,000 a year for the research in
formation collected, printed and dis
tributed by NTIS.
She said research libraries are
concerned that a private corporation
would publish on a for-profit rather
than a need basis. If the corporation
publishes for profit only, then librar
ies will end up paying more for the
service, she said.
Gay added that the data published
by the NTIS is generated for the na
tional good and for basic research —
there is no money in generating this
kind of information.
Swambeck said librarians also are
concerned that a private company
won’t keep the back files that the
NTIS keeps.
She explained that when the
N'l IS publishes research material it
is always available and never goes
out of print. This is important to re
searchers so they can see the results
of specific research and won’t dupli
cate what’s been done, she said.
Information from the NTIS
shows that the agency’s collection is
approaching 2 million titles and all
of these remain permanently avail
able. Between 70 and 80 publica
tions are added annually and over
2.5 million reports are distributed
each year.
On July 30, about 100 people
gathered in a meeting called by the
Department of Commerce to discuss
the proposed changes in the NTIS.
Tubs said that no one spoke in
support of complete privatization of
the service and that private, for-
profit information companies rep
resented also spoke in favor of re
taining some government role in the
service.
Tubs said if the service became a
government corporation it would in
crease its administrative and legal
flexibility. She added that a dual cor
poration between private business
and government would also main
tain the NTIS backfiles.
Texas efforts help plant
rose as national flower
TYLER (AP) — An intense East
Texas lobbying effort on Capitol
Hill, which included giving a rose
bush to every congressman, helped
plant the rose firmly as the nation’s
official flower, a lawmaker says.
The House, after just two minutes
of discussion, approved the Senate-
passed bill Tuesday. The measure
now goes to the White House, where
President Reagan is expected to sign
it next week.
U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall, D-Rockwall,
lauded Tyler rose bush grower
Larry Burks and other area resi
dents for their energetic lobbying.
“It couldn’t have been done if
Larry Burks hadn’t spent a great
deal of time, effort and money on
this bill,” Hall said. “He really
camped out up here.”
In Tyler — home of a nationally
recognized rose festival, the world’s
largest municipal rose garden and a
major rose-producing area — Burks
said the bill makes the self-pro
claimed rose capital of the world the
home of the national flower.
Hall said lobbyists distributed rose
bushes to every one of the nation’s
senators and congressmen during
the campaign.
“It had a lot of impetus behind it,”
Hall said. “They took the roses
around and reminded them (the bill)
was in the hopper. Of course, this
isn’t Gramm-Rudman or Ways and
Means, but it’s important to our area
because of the attention it will get for
the rose industry.”
Burks said passage of the bill
stemmed from a three-pronged co
operative effort between profes
sional cut-rose and garden-rose bush
producers and amateur rose enthu
siasts.
What’s up
OKAY, C
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HUSTLE
Thursday
AGGIELAND ’87 f Recognized student organizations
pick up yearbook contracts in their Student Finance
noxes. Contracts are due T uesday. Class pictures fo
nior, senior, graduate, medical and veterinary
students w'ill be taken through Friday at AR Phot®
II at 707 Texas Ave., suite 120B.
STUDENT ENGINEERS COUNCIL/PLACEMENT
TER: nationwide company representatives will be oi
second floor of the Memorial Student Center from
to noon and 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. to speak with
about employment opportunities.
TAMU CIVIL LIBERITES UNION: Frank Wilkinson
speak on “The First Amendment vs. Repressive lg
lation: Past and Present Conflicts” at 7 p.m. in 102Zad?
Wak
CAMPUS CRUSADE: will co-sponsor, along with three
organizations, “The Middle Ages” at 12:30 p.m.inl
Sterling Evans. This film is the second in a 10-pansc
“How Should We Then Live.”
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATIOl
will meet at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: will meet at "dj:
103 Zachry.
VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATE
will meet at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
FISH CAMP: C lamp Hansen will hold a reunion witha
show and video at 7:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
POSSUM KINGDOM HOMETOWN CLUB: will met:t
p.m. in 507 Rudder.
GUATEMALAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: willmee
p.m. in 401 Rudder.
BRAZOS DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB: invites stui
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Male
faculty and any beginners to come at 7 p.m. on Thus;
at College Station Community Center.
RHA CASINO: applications for subchairman aredueO
Applications are available in 215 Pavilion.
TAMU MEN’S RUGBY: holds practice ever) Tuesdai
T hursday at 6 p.m. on the rugby field. Formoreinfa
tion call Mark, 846-97 7 2
ASIAN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will hold a Bibles
at 8:30 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT: filing for freshman ete {n Tihe i
has been extended through today at 5 p.m
Friday
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: Paulfc
will discuss “Spiritual Gif ts” at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
LATTER DAY SAINT STUDENT ASSOCIATION:'
Lee Miller will speak on the changing structureoftlii!
ter Day Saint Church at noon in the LDS Buildingot
E. Dexter.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will hold a Bible®:
6:15 p.m. at the A&M Presbyterian Church.
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN: will hold initiation at 4:i
Louis Pearce Pavilion. An initiation dance will be
8:30 p.m. at Shiloh Mall.
CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will tneei
p.m. in 161 Blocker.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES: "T he University Rulesandfe
lations," “Student Organization Guide” and the Fall
All-University Calendars are available in 208 Pavilion.
COOKE COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB: anyone inert
in forming a Cooke County Hometown Club cal)
268-4292.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The to-
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working
prior to desired publication date.
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University Plus classes filling quickly
By John Jarvis
Reporter
Classes are filling fast for the arts and crafts,
business, aerobics/dance and special interest
courses being offered by the Memorial Student
Center University Plus Craft Center this semes
ter.
The classes, which are open to the public,
range from aerobics to bartending to Appala
chian basket weaving, and include almost every
thing in between.
Forty-eight courses are schedxded for this fall,
including 65 separate classes.
Pat Garrison, assistant supervisor of the MSC
University Plus Craft Center, says registration
will continue for each class until it begins or fills.
The starting dates ranged from Sept. 16 for two
beginning aerobic exercise classes to Dec. 9 for a
three-hour interviewing course.
Garrison says University Plus, a combination
of the old After Hours Free University Commu
nity and the MSC Craft Shop, has existed for one
year.
The name was changed, she says, not only be
cause of the merger, but also because University
Plus offers more than just craft courses.
peopl
stude
University Plus classes are students, Garrison
says. However, she adds, the ratio of students to
non-students varies from class to class.
Cost for the classes ranges from $5 for a three-
hour interviewing class to $36 for a four-and-a-
half week bartending class.
A special feature University Plus offers this se
mester, Garrison says, are the business section
courses. The classes are new and include such
topics as interviewing, resume writing, and in
vesting.
Advertising and marketing strategies for small
businesses also will be included in the new pro
gram.
Garrison says the aerobics courses are the most
popular. She says that five out of eight aerobic
courses offered are full, and spaces in the others
are filling fast.
About half of the people who teach University
Plus courses are students, Garrison says. The stu
dents are hired not because it’s more convenient
to use them, but because they have proven them
selves as being able to teach the courses, she says.
Garrison says the classes offered are a result of
people’s requests for them. However, some of
the classes requested can’t be offered
they're “just too strange," she says.'®
one request that comes to mind,"shesa«
Not all of the courses offered are®
campus. Garrison says. One off-campiisS
Texas Hall of Fame for country-west®
courses. The reason, she says, is that tl* 1
enough campus space to handle allthedi
fered. However, all of the arts andcrafe;
are taught in the University Plus Crf
she says.
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Garrison says that in addition to tk
that are offered each fall and spring/
the center also offers special O'
workshops to help people make
Christmas holiday season. The registn 1
this mini-session begins Nov. 3. The^
meet from Dec. 1 to Dec. 11 for this null'
University Plus Craft Center is op®
public seven days a week. Hours
through Friday are 10 a.m. to lOp.m^
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, 1pm®
For more information on classesand® :
the University Plus Craft Center at 8P
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