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OPEN HOUSE & TOURS
of the newly renovated
Michel T. Halbouty Geosciences Building
Saturday, October 10, 1987
11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. before the Univ. of Houston Game
Sponsored by: Department of Geology
Department of Geophysics
See the restored exterior, main lecture hall and lobby along with the totally
renovated remainder of the building.
Is Your Room Still Lacking That
Little Something Extra?
How About Some Plants.
Come to the FOH
Plant Sale
Saturday, October 10,1987
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
At the Floriculture Greenhouse
(Across from Heldenfels between the Commons and the Library)
ROCK & ROLL and MOVIE
POSTER SALE
ALL THE LATEST POSTERS
Rock and Roll:
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The Cure
REM
Pink Floyd
New Order
other British bands
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Joe Transfer by Dan Baric
A&M Younglife group
sponsor area students
Youths can find friends, emotionol suppoi
By Mary McClenny
Reporter
A group of Texas A&M students
helps junior and senior high school
students in the Bryan-College Sta
tion area obtain emotional support,
unconditional understanding and
friends through involvement in the
A&M Younglife group.
“Our First requirement to the kids
is that we are their friends and we
earn the right to tell them the gospel
of Christ,” says Rick Schroeder, a se
nior environmental design major
and president of the Christian-based
organization. “If they don’t accept it,
you never leave them as a friend.
You are always to be their friend
first.”
In the fall semester of each year
Younglife meets on campus every
Sunday night to sing songs and dis
cuss the gospel, Schroeder said. The
group also organizes retreats and
brings in speakers throughout the
semester, he said.
“Meetings are pretty basic in the
fall,” he said. “We mainly want stu
dents to get to know each other, and
we want them to have a place where
they can rest and listen and be fed
spiritually by speakers.”
The spring semester brings a dif
ferent light to the group, he said.
This semester is an intense training
time for prospective leaders of the
junior and senior high school groups
and consists of roll calls, weekly as
signments, mini-tests and group re
treats. These are all designed to
bring the group closer together and
help them to understand the pur
pose of Younglife, he said. The
training is a way to see who really
wants to be involved and help the
kids, he said.
“We have them (prospective lead
ers) look into current events to see
what is happening with the ‘kid cul
ture,’ ” Schroeder said. “We want
them to be aware of what’s going on
— child abuse, drugs on campus,
teen-age pregnancies and teen-age
suicides. Through this, they can see
what’s going on so they can know
“We mainly want students
to get to know each other
and we want them to have
a place where they can
rest and listen and be fed
spiritually by speakers. ”
— Rick Schroeder,
president of Younglife
what they are up against and what
the kids need.”
Once Younglife members have
successfully completed the training
semester, they are eligible to become
volunteer junior and senior high
school leaders. They are placed in
area junior and senior high schools
in teams, whose number depends on
the size of the school and the degree
of need.
The groups are supervised by
area directors on the Younglife staff.
A&M Younglife leaders, overseen by
Wayne Smith, the organization’s
Bryan-College Station area director.
work with students from Ai!
nior High School, A&M &
idated High School, AllenAol
Bryan High School and Step
Austin Jr. High School. Tk?
help Navasota High Schools®
and are overseen by Scott ^
Navasota area director.
Schroeder said there is noli
monitoring done by the
They are mainly a sotwt
guidance for the leaders.Hit
tors also get to know theju® 1
senior high school students,
The leaders get involved^
student body by visiting tit
during lunch and going to
events and the places where
congregate after school.
Laura Raffety, a senior
education major and leaderrf
High School, said, “You
stupid and nervous at first ^
just have to be bold and tall®"
It’s hard to talk to the
and it takes time to beco#
friend, hut they knowyoa 111
Younglife leaders and so tl® 1
pretty comfortable with yo«
The weekly high school® 1 ®
are for Christians and no®
tians and consist of songs, ^
noucements and fellowship
students involved with thef*
“We try to see how the ^
doing from a Christian asp 111
it’s low-key enough so h " l ’
over the non-Christians
Raffety says.
Raffety said the meet®?
had large turnouts and the
come back from week to wee
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Women’s studies program
may become formal mind
By Holly Becka
Reporter
A formal minor in women’s studies at Texas A&M
may be approved this fall, said Dr. Harriette Andreadis,
associate professor of English.
Andreadis founded the interdisciplinary Women’s
Studies Program at A&M in 1982. Although it is five
years old, A&M’s program still lags behind women’s
studies programs at other major universities, she said.
A&M’s program has core classes, but it cannot be
considered a formal program until it is approved by the
Liberal Arts Council, she said.
Andreadis heads the committee that recently pro
posed women’s studies be formalized by the College of
Liberal Arts, since it already had some main classes.
Guidelines for the program have been written to con
form with other interdisciplinary programs in the lib
eral arts college, she said.
Once the program is approved, a formal minor in
Women’s Studies will be available and within the next
two years, Andreadis said, information about the wom
en’s studies minor should be printed in A&M’s course
catalog.
T he catalog listings will include an introductory class
in women’s studies, guidelines for the minor and an exit
course — which will be a senior-level class emp^
the student’s particular field.
There are already women’s studies courses a';
for interested students, such as English 374,'
Writers; History 473, History of Modern A® (J
Women; Political Science 317, Women in P 0 ^ 1
Sociology 424, Women and Work in Socie"
classes are open to both men and women.
Andreadis said the Women’s Studies Progn® '
ported by a large number of male faculty menit®;''
that many men attend the classes. But of the tot®
her of men at A&M, only a small percentage^ 1
en’s studies courses, she said.
Women’s studies give all students a broaden' 1
spective on society, culture and ways ol thiiw 1 ;
has enormous practical application to everyday®'
dreadis said.
There are many benefits for the men "
since the roles are reversed and they are
what it’s like for women in history, politics of ■'
she said.
Andreadis said she thinks more students will*
the classes as the program becomes better known
'ho
able 1