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Tuesday, February 24, 1987/The Battalion/Page 5 Warped by Scott McCullar me. a umi?w imt SE.IUN6 LIFE. INSURANCE.? H&rt, it!? IPEAU TOfi FOR ZOMBI E5... ...Wt'RE. TIRELESS. RELENT LESS HAVE /VO SOULS, AMP VJE'RE 00R OW/V BEST GRAPHIC VISUAL W (TAKPoN THt E-XRRESSiOAO LIVI/V6, A/Vp I CAN TELL '/6l> GUVS AREN'T PROPERLY comeked... r ...WELL... NEITHER ARE you... Waldo KANT BELIEVE W£ LET THAT 1UTANT SET INTO 'HE MI55 TAMU , jeauty pageant! I DOW? worry! WE'LL F<X IT 50 HE CAN’T W/Nf j JUDGES by Kevin Thomas THIS IS NOT A MEAT-SHOW’/ tudent Locator employees have the Aggies’ numbers iiJHujt By Angie Matocha Reporter ■ beoH What four people receive an aver- e Fme of 600 telephone calls an hour, ^ hours a day, seven days a week, 35 days a year? a) Sports Illustrated’s toll free sub- ription line. b) Four operators on call for the Di. Ruth Westheimer Show. I c) Four operators on duty for the ifexas A&M Student Locator. I The correct answer is “c.” ■ “The beginning of each semester I real, real busy,” says Geneva Brewer, administrative assistant for Blecommunications and key control hiiliS A&M. uliddB The fall semester is especially irsupBusy, with operators laboriously an- pmuBvering phones, sometimes until 5 Evainla.m., Brewer says. I “During football games, it’s really lectic around here,” she says. I For example, Aggie relatives will Bant to find out phone numbers for Students, Brewer explains. the Physical Plant to handle it since they were here 24 hours a day and seven days a week already.” The Housing Office supplies on- campus student information, while Admissions and Records supplies off-campus information. “We are only as good (for infor mation) as the student provides to these two agencies,” Brewer says. \|)iii- 'ellowl et I Student Locator employs 13 oper ators and two student workers. It also serves as the campus operator. m 1 "All telephone information for I the University goes through here,” llBrewer says. AU K The Student Locator service origi- Hlvv Dally was handled through the ||lousing Office. In 1968, the Cen- ftex operation began performing ajorcrcBug-distance dialing for faculty and or tLBtaff, and the official Student Loca- ice to' kingd* tor service began in 1980. | “The Housing Office felt it could le no longer handle the Student Loca tor service,” she says. “So they asked “Housing does not usually send me (information about) people who change rooms and dorms;” At any time during the semester, students can fill out new address and telephone number cards at the Ad missions and Records office, located in Heaton Hall. Students wishing to withhold such information can fill out a hold directory information sheet at the same place, at which time the information will be deleted from the roster. The admissions office then will send Brewer the card notifying her of the change. “Each semester we request a print out from the Student Information Management Systems (SIMS),” Brewer says. “We have to purchase our directories for each semester. We will eventually be on computers — that is our aspiration.” Rosters are not produced until about the 12th day of class, she says. “We’re in a jam at the beginnin of each semester,” she says. “It’s ba on the operators because they are not able to help customers. They have to answer calls even though the old book is no good.” The busiest hours for the opera tors are between 2 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. or midnight. Brewer says the operators con stantly are answering calls. “They (the operators) know some students by name without looking them up,” she says. Sometimes, the operators receive prank calls. Brewer says. “We get a lot of ugly calls from students who are fed up waiting,” Brewer says. “We don’t have to listen to it (the griping) so we just push the position release button.” The operators are reminded to be calm and pleasant with the students. “The students are the reason why we are here,” she says. The Student Locator releases tele phone information but no ad dresses. “We don’t have the manpower, equipment or time,” Brewer says. “Addresses are very time-con suming.” Charlene Smith, a Student Loca tor operator, says the operators are not allowed to give out more than two names at a time. “Oh I love it!” Smith says of her job. “The kids are pretty good.” FORGET IT, NED, I DON’T THINK WET SHOULD ASK HER ABOUT THE MUD- WRESTUNG... ^ AT&T Distance and ORfOMpictures Present A FREE CAMPUS SCREENING "GREAT ENTERTAINMENT... a wonderful, exciting, heartwarming movie.’ S1SKEL N EBF.RT (i THE MOVIES "a wrNrwvR C3vivr nafinv « IWINNER... GYM DANDY.. impeccably e-creation of time and place.." - usatodm ■ 1 -jinf GENE HACKMAN SC Council scheduled to get % hike from student service fees By Carolyn Garcia Stuff Writer The MSC Council will receive a 7 percent increase in student service tees over last year’s allotment, pen ding the Legislature’s action on funding for Texas A&M. Kristin Allen, vice president for fi nance, told the Council that the pa perwork is in the Office of Student Services awaiting the state’s budget ing decisions. Sandra Cocking, chairman of the 32nd Memorial Student Center Stu dent Conference on National Al lans, told the Council that the orga nization will end the year with a $ I,()()() surplus. The money will go into the organization’s budget for next year. T he budget for SCON A is raised by donations and fund-rais ers. “It (SCONA) was a big success,” Cocking said. “We had a lot of for eign exchange students participate this year. At each round table there were at least three or four foreign participants.” Cocking said the only problem SCON A encountered was the loss of a speaker. It seems that the speaker got con fused about the arrangements and took a bus from Houston to College Station rather than meet his ride at the airport. Cocking said. In other business, the Council: Approved Howard K. Smith, former ABC! news anchor, to serve as moderator for the this year’s Wi ley Lecture Series. Approved the MSC Political Fo rum program “The Race for ’88” featuring the Rev. Pat Robertson. No date has been set. Approved 22 of 25 MSC com mittee chairman positions. Announced the Political Forum program on Nicaragua featuring Carl Grossman, to be presented Wednesday. Announced the Great Issues program on “McCarthyism” featur ing John Henry Faulk, to be held on Thursday. ItH go straight to your heart. 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