Monday, October 13, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5
MONDAY
RETAIL SOCIETY: Greg Milsap, store manager of Dillard's
in College Station, will speak at 7 p.m. in 127 Blocker.
HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTER: will hold Yom Kip-
pur Service at 10 a.m. and “break-the-fast” at 6:30 p.m. at
800 Jersey.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: Debbie Hull will conduct a
writing outreach program on “Designing Effective Busi
ness Correspondence” at 6:30 p.m. in 153 Blocker.
STUDENT AGRICULTURAL COUNCIL: will meet and
have dinner at Dean Sutter’s home at 7 p.m. Maps are
available in the dean’s off ice.
AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: will meet and give square-dance
lessons at 7 p.m. in 225 MSC.
JORDAN INSTITUTE COMMITTEE: will hold a seminar
on American Corporations Overseas at 8 p.m. in 701 Rud
der.
CO-OP STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will sponsor a
workshop on interviewing techniques for internsnips, sum
mer jobs and co-op jobs at 7 p.m. in 701 Rudder. Rep
resentatives from IBM, LTV Aerospace and Defense and
Jet Propulsion Labs (NASA) will be present.
MSC HOSPITALITY: Four winners of the 1986 Miss T'AMU
Scholarship Pageant will perform at noon in the student
the MSC.
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 161
lounge of the MSC.
SIGMA IOTA EPSILON:
Blocker.
TAMU SAILING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 109, Military
Sciences.
BACCHUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 407A-B Rudder.
PHYSICAL THERAPY CLUB: will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 164
Read.
INTRAMURAL-RECREATION SPORTS: entries open for
bowling singles and punt, pass and kick at 8 a.m. in 159
Read.
AGGIE TOASTERS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 342 Zachry.
TUESDAY
WATER SKI CLUB: will meet at 8:30 in Rudder Tower.
Check the monitor for room number.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION:
USAA will present information on careers in data pro
cessing at 7 p.m. in Room 203 of the Ramada Inn.
MILITARY STUDIES INSTITUTE: Peter Vigor will speak
on “The Soviet View of Disarmament” at 7:30 p.m. in 226
MSC.
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: Dr. McCulloch
will speak on “The Companion Animal — Human Bond”
at 7 p.m. in 201 VMS.
HORSEMENS ASSOCIATION: Meg Flemming will speak
on “Musical Dressage” at 7 p.m. in 115 Kleberg.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: Larry Oliver will hold a writ
ing outreach program on the “Resume and Letter of Ap
plication” at 6:30 p.m. in 153 Blocker.
DEER PARK HOMETOWN CLUB: will have pictures taken
for Aggieland 1987 at 6:15 p.m. in the lobby of Zachry.
NUTRITION CLUB: will meet and discuss “Careers in Nu
trition” at 7:30 p.m. in 501 Rudder.
ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA, ALPHA PHI ALPHA, DELTA
SIGMA THETA: will hold a forum on “Black Aggies: A
Struggle for Unity” at 7 p.m. in 201 MSC.
CLASS OF ’87: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
TAMU PALEONTOLOGY CLUB: will meet at‘8 p.m. in 174
Halbouty.
TAMU ONE-WHEELERS UNICYCLING CLUB: will meet
at 6 p.m. in front of G. Rollie White Coliseum.
CIRCLE K: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder.
MANAGEMENT SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 163
Blocker.
AGGIE REPUBLICANS FOR PETE GEREN: will meet at 7
p.m. in 205 MSC.
AGGIE ALLIANCE: (for H E. and P.E. majors) will hold its
first meeting at 7 p.m. in 701 Rudder.
AGGIE GOP AND AGGIES FOR JOE BARTON: Rep. Joe
Barton will speak at 7 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
SPANISH CLUB: pictures will be taken for Aggieland 1987
at 7:30 p.m. in the flagroom of the MSC, followed by a
meeting at 8:30 p.m. at The Flying Tomato.
AGGIELAND ’87: freshmen and sophomores can have their
yearbook photos taken until Oct. 31 at AR Photography II,
7()7 Texas Avenue across from the A&M polo field.
INTRAMURAL-RECREATION SPORTS: entries close at 6
p.m. in 159 Read for flickerball, volleyball, pre-season vol
leyball, horseshoe singles, swim meet and field-goal kick-
ing.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days
prior to desired publication date.
Tutoring given
in some classes
for $3 an hour
By Carol Czyz
Reporter
Students who are having prob
lems with certain math, physics and
engineering classes can get help
from a special tutoring program
that has been operating at Texas
A&M for a year now.
Bill Varvel, a petroleum engi
neering student with a degree in
chemical engineering, says he
started the program to help stu
dents prepare for difficult subjects.
He says the program costs S3 an
hour to make it affordable for stu
dents.
“About two years ago, a group of
professors from the math, physics
and engineering departments got
together because they saw a need
for freshmen and sophomores who
had not had any of these subjects in
high school to help them through
those classes,” Varvel says.
Many students who come here
from smaller schools have not been
exposed to calculus or computer
programming, they aren’t ready for
A&M classes, he says.
With the assistance of professors
and other students, Varvel started a
tutoring program that is different
from anv other, he says.
“We are not looking to take any
of the students away from the pri
vate tutor market,” he emphasizes.
“We are here to teach them every
thing in the class they don’t under
stand.
“We are set up into a classroom
situation where we teach them the
basics and everything they learn in
class we go over again.
“A private tutor is for those stu
dents who understand the basic
material but need a smaller amount
of assistance.”
A need for this kind of program
arose from an increase in class size
and the amount of research being
done by professors, he says.
The small class situation, on the
other hand, gives the students the
attention they need if they have
problems understanding the
materials, he adds.
Varvel says that classes meet
three times a week for two hours,
on and off campus.
The classes have 10 to 15 stu
dents, he says.
Tutors must havy done well in
the particular class thaf they want to
teach, he says.
Varvel says tutoring is offered in
Chemistry 101, 102, 227; Math 130,
141, 151, 152, 253, 308; Physics
201, 207, 208; Business Analysis
217; Accounting 229; Computer
Science 110; Biology 113; Mechani
cal Engineering 210, 211, 212, 213,
327.
The program started last year
and has about 450 students, he says.
“We had 175 A’s, 100 B’s, 150
C’s, 25 D’s and only 2 F’s,” he says.
“The students who received A’s
and B’s said that they would not
have made them without the tutor
ing program,” Varvel said.
The program has a 94 percent
pass rate, he adds.
He says he is hoping to expand
the program, but he doesn’t see
that happening in the near future.
Varvel explains that between tu
toring and attending school, he
constantly is. busy and doesn’t have
much time now to work on the pro
gram’s expansion.
Defector said to be official
once in U.S. Communist Party
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Houston cancer re
searcher who moved to the Soviet Union with his family
was an official of the Southern California district of the
U.S. Communist Party in the early 1970s, the Los An
geles Times reported Sunday.
The Times said Arnold Lockshin, 47, who surfaced
Wednesday in Moscow with his wife, Lauren, and their
three children, was district organizer and executive sec
retary of the chapter from about 1971 until at least
1973!
The paper, quoting three unidentified sources, said
Lockshin enjoyed considerable power within the chap
ter, which saw its membership rise during the early
1970s, but that he and his wife were extremely dog
matic on party issues.
At a Moscow news conference and in interviews,
Lockshin denied being a Communist, although he said
he had been a Communist Party organizer at one time.
Lockshin said he moved to the Soviet Union because
he and his family were harassed for political activism,
including opposition to U.S. involvement in the Viet
nam War.
He said he was fired f rom a cancer research center
associated with St. Joseph Hospital in Houston because
of his political beliefs, but the hospital said he was fired
for poor job performance.
The Times said prominent former members-of the
party requested anonymity because they didn’t want to
be linked to Lockshin.
One source, described as a longtime party member
who left in 1973 because of differences with party lead
ership and with the Soviets’ 1968 invasion of Czechoslo
vakia, said Lockshin’s political views were rigid and
without any human feelings.
Another said Lockshin came to Los Angeles from
Boston, and had been a member of the National Com
mittee Against Repressive Legislation. That group ded
icated itself in the 1960s to the abolition of the House
Committee on Un-American Activities, which investi
gated suspected Communists.
Lockshin was a researcher at Harvard in the 1960s
and worked at Los Angeles County USC Cancer Re
search Center in the late 1970s, University of Southern
California officials said. University records show he
stopped his research from 1969 to 1977 while he
worked as a bookstore clerk, a writer and an editor.
Leaky well shafts pose problems
DALLAS (AP) — The possibility
of leaky well shafts allowing oil, gas
and saltwater to seep into streams,
lakes and water tables is growing as
the financially-strapped Texas Rail
road Commission struggles to fill
abandoned wells.
The task of pouring concrete
down a tapped-out well is falling to
the commission as more drillers and
companies are driven under by de
pressed oil prices.
The average well costs about
54,000 to plug, railroad commission
spokesman Brian Schaible said.
“The size of the problem is big in
terms of the number of wells,” he
said. “They’re inactive wells, un
plugged, arid something needs to be
done about them.”
Schaible savs the commission is
not certain how many unplugged
wells dot the Texas landscape, but
some estimates are as high as 50,000.
Schaible says wells that pose an
immediate threat to water supplies
are filled as quickly as possible, but in
most cases the commission first tries
to find out whether the well’s opera
tor has enough money to do the
work without state help.
Date: October 15-17
Time: 10:00 anv4:O0 pm
Place: MSC
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