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Page 10/The Battalion/Tuesday, November 25, 1986 Presents Randy Travis in concert Wed., December 3 doors open 8:00pm-Midnight Tickets: Adv. $12. 50 include reservation Door $14. 00 Order 6 or more tickets and we'll deliver them Minors Will Be Admited Thanksgiving Holiday Sale Starts Tuesday STORE! on Eweryfbing in the Storei IpR Hi’-i * wmm v - >?'' ■, ^ ■ - Entire Stock of SPORTCOATS OR1G. PRICE: 85.00-100.00 CURRENT PRICE: 69.99 LESS EXTRA 20 Entire Stock of SOLID SHAKER SWEATERS ORIG. PRICE: 26.00 CURRENT PRICE: 19.99 ,* LESS EXTRA 20 & T: Regent praised by Vandiver for contribution By Mona Palmer Assistant City Editor Texas A&M President Frank E. Vandiver on Monday gave special thanks to Regent Royce Wisenbaker for the $100,000 contribution he made Sunday to a graduate fellowship fund. Vandiver delivered his special re port during the final meeting of the Board of Regents. He added that Wisenbaker was the “father” of the President’s En dowed Scholarship. “He’s a man who puts his money where his heart is,” Vandiver said. “This is a marvelous example of en lightened generosity.” Wisenbaker commented, “Frank, all of that wasn’t necessary but, really, you said just what I told you to. “For many, many years the only scholarships we had were for poor boys — that’s all that came to A&M.” The first scholarship that ad dressed this need was the President’s Endowed Scholarship, which is based on scholastic ability rather than financial need, he said. Wisenbaker added that the fellowship, which is slated for engi neering graduate students, needs a total of $200,000. At 7 percent inter est, $200,000 generates $14,000 per year, which is enough to support a graduate student for a year. He added that the University has to have graduate students and if it wants the best ones, it will have to pay for them. After Vandiver’s presentation, the board reconvened and gave final ap proval to items proposed by the hoard’s committees. The Committee for Academic Campuses proposed the establish ment of an Institute for Pacific Asia. Since virtually all of the institutes for Asian studies at U.S. universities concern themselves almost exclu sively with culture, the A&M insti tute is unique in its focus on science, technology and economic devel opment, Vandiver wrote in the pro posal. The institute will fully support it self within three years, but the board appropriated $120,000 from the Available University Fund to cover the costs associated with the estab lishment of the center. The board also approved a propo sal to establish a Center for Environ mental Research in Austin. The center is designed to fill a gap in existing environmental manage ment technology and will be jointly established with the University of Texas and the City of Austin. Pack Your Trunks Stephanie Schulze, a senior from Lexington, dresses in style for the cold, wet weather of Elephant Walk Monday. Register (Continued from page 1) The board also approved: • an appropriation of $418,000 for renovations in the ceiling of the Memorial Student Center. • an appropriation of $70,000 for a preliminary design for the Chemistry Building renovations. The renovations are scheduled to begin in Spring ’87. The renovated building will be used to accommo date the needs of several senior fac ulty members. • an appropriation of $40,000 for a preliminary design for the ren ovations scheduled for the Langford Architecture Center. Those renova tions will include the repair of prob lems in the heating-ventilating-air conditioning system and several in terior modifications. to have information showing the peak times of registration and be lieves that making this information available to students also should help reduce the time it takes to register. Brigham Young University is us ing the phone registration system, and has found a solution to the problem of having the system avail able more days than it’s really needed by requiring a $100 deposit to preregister. This gives university officials an idea of how many students will be preregistering in each classification. From these numbers, they decide how much time to allow for each classification. This possible solution was dis cussed at A&M, but as yet has little support, Ritchey says. Dropping and adding courses also may be difficult on the new system, Ritchey says. Although the phone system easily can drop a course and allow another to be added, it has a problem with changing sections of the same class, he says. Students now cannot add a section of one class until they have dropped the previous section. This does not allow students to compensate if the preferred section is closed. By the time they return and add the old sec tion, that one may be closed, too. Ritchey says by this time next year, “The system should be able to add a second section of the same class long enough to determine if the new preference is open.” if it is, the old section auioi illv will be dropped, he s Otherwise, the student willreca in the first-choice section Terminals will Ik* availablehtc ning Jan. 7 in the Pavilion anil Remote Computing Center for dents who need to changesectioi a course. Another problem students find with the new system isthat though it is possible to registerk I c lass without proper prere(|uisE ® once in that class there is nothir; keep the instructor from dropft t he st udent. “Although the phone systemw| ue magnify this problem,” RitchepB|) "it's not a new problem." ‘ a " Ritchey says it is possible for; system to check for prerequisites: C it would he too time-consuminji p costly. ■ The biggest source of discomfi seems to be having to deal svi machine directly, without through a human go-between ft k?, 0 he says. “There was a little buffer inti and we have definitely removedtl buffer,” he says. The new system was testedonl students in each summer session! 50 students registering forthi Ritc hey says the overall r&E from the tests were positive. Ritchey says that preregisi students should read throught rec tions and prepare the worlsk provided in the class scheduleW picking up the phone. ■ A&M Post Oak Mall 764-8195 flBreHRnim What is ash. ’;Vaik. fOur p Redstone on Bartholow? It’s the best apartment buy in Aggieland. We're so sure that we have the best apartment complex in town, well give you a FREE VCR if you sign up for the spring before Christmas. If you sign a 1-year lease, you can choose to have your apartment redecorated by Christopher Designs. Redstone on Bartholow is one mile from campus, on the shuttle bus route and next to Kroger and 14 restaurants. Redstone on Bartholow has the best rate on 2-bedroom apartments. Some have washer/dryer connections and all have lots of closet space. Redstone on Bartholow has a volleyball pool with sun deck, basketball court, brand new jacuzzi, 24-hour maintenance and security patrol. 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