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Monday
CO-OP CAREER FAIR: booths for students interested in co
oping for the Summer and Fall 1987 semesters will be set
up in the lobby of Zachry Engineering Center from 8:30
a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
TAMU JAZZ BAND: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Commons
west piano lounge. Musicians are neeaed.
AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: will meet and hold square dance
lessons at 7 p.m. in the Pavilion.
SIGMA IOTA EPSILON: will meet at 7 p.m. in 151 Blocker.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 204 Harring
ton.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: J.J. Dent will hold a writing
outreach session on “Applying for a Job: Writing the Right
Letter” at 6:30 p.m. in 105 Blocker.
INTRAMURAL RECREATIONAL SPORTS: entries for
wrestling and table tennis doubles open at 8 a.m. in 159
Read. '
TAMU CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: Dr. Hickman will dis
cuss the implications of the McCarren-Walter Act of 1952
. at 7 p.m. in 203 Zachry.
Tuesday
DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND
THEATRE ARTS: John C. Redmond, president of GTE
Lab. Inc. will speak on “ISDN — What it is and what it
does” at 7 p.m. in 206 MSC.
COWBOY CHAPTER FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN
ATHLETES: will meet at 7 a.m. at the International House
of Pancakes.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: Karen Forrest will hold a
writing outreach session on “Applying for a Job: Writing
the Resume” at 6:30 p.m. in 105 Blocker.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING: Dr. Mark Holtzapple
will hold a review and help session on chemistry at 6:30
p.m. in 103 Zachry.
STUDENT Y ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in 225
MSC.
STUDENT Y — AGGIE FRIENDS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 410
Rudder.
AGGIE DEMOCRATS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
MSC HOSPITALITY: will hold a spring fashion show featur
ing the Miss TAMU Pageant contestants at noon in the
MSC lounge.
ALTERNATIVE CINEMA: will show the French film “La
Bete Humaine” at 8 p.m. in the auditorium of Langford
Architecture Center.
ADVERTISING ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in 127
Blocker.
STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: students interested in studying
abroad should meet at 11 a.m. in 251 Bizzell West.
CIRCLE K INTERNATIONAL: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in
501 Rudder.
TAMU ONE-WHEELERS: will meet at 6 p.m. in front of G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
SPANISH CLUB: will meet at 8 p.m. at the Flying Tomato.
HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in 115
Kleberg.
TAMU PALEONTOLOGY CLUB: will meet at 8 p.m. in 174
Halbouty.
AGGIE PARTNERS FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS: students
interested in helping with Special Olympics may sign up
through Wednesday in the MSC.
CLASS OF ’88: gift ideas are due by March 13 in the Class of
’88 cubicle in fne Student Programs Office in the MSC.
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.
A&M center
finds markets
in agriculture
By Tom Hamiter
Reporter
Texas A&M is home to a center
that helps Texas farmers develop
products and identify or improve
the markets for those products.
“Markets are not static,” Texas
Agricultural Market Research Sc De
velopment Center Director Robert
L. Branson says. “They are con-
stantlv shifting or dying and new op
portunities are being opened up that
would help agribusinesses capture
new markets.”
Branson, a professor in the agri
cultural economics department, says
the center works on research pro
jects with many departments in the
I'niversity.
The center, established in 1969,
has an operating budget, but much
of its funds come from agribusi
nesses that want a particular type of
research done and from other de
partments in the University that join
in the research, he says.
A major concern of the center, he
savs, is the fact that Texas exports
very few processed goods to other
states and to other nations.
The center identifies these weak
nesses and attempts to promote the
installation of more processing
plants in Texas, he says.
Producers do not have the time or
the resources to determine how to
improve markets or to identify po
tential new markets, Branson says.
These people are affected by the
t enter through various producer or
ganizations and interest groups,
such as the American Dairy Associa
tion. Texas Rice Growers and the
National Cattleman’s Association, he
savs.
Dr. Lonnie Jones, also a prof essor
in the agricultural economics de
partment, says that agriculture’s
share of the state’s gross national
product is onlv about 9 percent. On
the national level, agriculture’s share
is about 20 percent, he says.
The center can improve, or at
least maintain, agriculture’s share in
the state's gross national product by
identifying areas of agribusiness
with the highest potential for adding
value to agricultural products made
in the state, Jones says.
Another way the center can im
prove agriculture's share, Jones says,
is by identifying and increasing ac
cess to international markets.
Branson says that since the center
was created, land grant colleges in
Florida and Massachusetts have de
veloped similar centers.
The Massachusetts center is more
consumer-oriented than its Texas
counterpart because that state is not
as dependent on agriculture as
Texas, he savs.
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