Tuesday, February 24, 1987/The Battalion/Page 5
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JUDGES
by Kevin Thomas
THIS IS NOT
A MEAT-SHOW’/
tudent Locator employees
have the Aggies’ numbers
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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.
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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-
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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.”
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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.
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