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Challenging the gifted
Class provides education without separation from peers
By Mary McClenny
Reporter
Basic reading, writing and
math are not enough to challenge
the minds of some of today’s
school-age children, a Texas
A&M education researcher and
local teacher says.
The challenge teachers face is
to give these students a curric
ulum that will keep them inter
ested without separating them
from their peers, says Margaret
Bryant, who teaches at South
Knoll elementary school in the
College Station Independent
School District.
Bryant says her idea is to keep
all the children together in the
classroom but differentiate their
curricula through separate
classroom groups.
Through her work at A&M,
Bryant has developed instructio
nal materials designed to stimu
late students who are working
above the typical first-grade level
but have been placed in a class
room with children of mixed aca
demic levels.
“In my 10 years of teaching at
South Knoll, I have always taught
this way,” she says. “I am just for
malizing now. I think this pro
gram increases students’ creative
thinking, productivity, problem
solving and enthusiasm to learn.”
Bryant says working in groups
instead of individually is better
for the students and tor the tea
chers.
The students enjoy working to
gether, Bryant says, and they get
social benefits from working to
gether.
“I see them helping each other
sometimes,” she says. “Sometimes
it’s easier for one child to explain
to another because they are on
the same level about things that I
might go over their heads with.”
The program’s emphasis is on
reading, math and music skills,
and Bryant recently has added an
anatomy section.
“The children are learning to
recognize the different bones and
muscles in the body,” she says. “I
also give them activity sheets and
booklets pertaining to the subject
so they can learn what bones and
muscles are used for different
physical activities.”
Students are moved into
whichever group Bryant feels is
best for them. This approach
benefits the students whose
strengths aren’t evident at the be
ginning of the year but begin to
surface after several weeks of
school, she says.
All the students get a chance to
listen to what other groups are
doing when they are in one class
room, which is a good learning
tool, she says.
“I don’t expect the students to
really absorb everything I show
them,” Bryant says. “I just want to
give them something to build on.”
Group fights ballot proposal for prison bonds
AUSTIN (AP) — The state should not sell
bonds to build more prisons but should look at
punishment alternatives instead, a criminal jus
tice reform group said Monday.
CURE, the Citizens United for Rehabilitation
of Errants, is working against a proposal on the
Nov. 3 ballot to sell up to $500 million in general
obligation bonds for prisons, youth corrections
and mental health-mental retardation projects.
Although supporters have said more prisons
are needed to address a federal court order
against crowding, CURE executive director
Charles Sullivan told a news conference that con
structing more prisons is by far the least effective
method of reducing prison overcrowding.
The state instead should make a commitment
to probation and parole, Sullivan said. Lawmak
ers also should consider setting sentencing
guidelines based on prison capacity, he said.
If Amendment No. 8 authorizing general obli
gation bonds fails, the state can sell revenue
bonds, which were authorized by the 1987 Legis
lature and do not require voter approval.
But Sullivan said the defeat of Amendment
No. 8 would send a message to state leaders that
bonds should not be used for prisons at all.
It is estimated that the state would pay $940
million in- bond obligations by the year 2008 for
$500 million in projects, said Sullivan. Bond pro
ceeds could be used to pay for newly authorized
private prisons, as well as state-run facilities. The
group supports the bonds for youth corrections
or mental health-mental retardation projects.
Nutrition expert:
Diet, not pills, must
provide vitamins
By Tracy Hinton
Reporter
Vitamin and mineral supplements
probably won’t solve most Ameri
cans’ nutritional problems, a nutri
tion specialist for the Texas Agricul
tural Extension Service, says.
“For most people it is unnecessary
to take a vitamin or mineral pill on
the side,” Dr. Alice Hunt says.
Food labels list the nutrient con
tent of food in terms of Recom
mended Dietary Allowance, or RDA.
But Hunt says few people under
stand what RDA measures — it
doesn’t measure the minimum re
quirements, as many people believe.
“The RDA is two to six times
above the average requirement of a
specific nutrient,” Hunt says.
She says the RDA was established
not for the individual but to allow
large groups to plan nutritionally
adequate food purchases over long
periods of time.
The RDA is established by the
Food and Nutrition Board of the
National Research Council, a board
of research nutritionists that reviews
all literature and research concern
ing nutrition.
There are RDAs for 17 nutrients,
Hunt says, but the list of RDAs isn’t
complete because about 40 nutrients
are required for good health.
“A lot of the nutritional problems
Americans are faced with today
aren’t related to a deficiency of vita
mins and minerals,” she says, “but
instead with problems of overcon
sumption of total calories, too much
fat and sodium and not enough
fiber.
“A single vitamin won’t solve this
nutrition problem. It won’t provide
all the nutrients that are essential for
good health. You can’t get them all
in one supplement.”
A balanced diet from a variety of
foods provides all the nutrients nec
essary for good health, she says, and
so-called health foods are just a mar
keting tactic. There is no legal defi
nition of health food, just as there’s
no definition of junk food, she says.
People also should concern them
selves with maintaining a healthy
weight, she says. Obesity increases
the risk of high blood pressure,
which is related to heart disease and
diabetes.
Besides controlling one’s weight,
she suggests limiting the intake of fat
and sodium. Too much fat in the
diet also can increase the risk of
heart disease and cancer.
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High School Career Day ’87
Recruiting future Aggies
By Becky Black
Career Day ’87 will give thousands
of high school students from across
Texas the opportunity to visit A&M
on Oct. 31, and investigate the
many career choices available to
them.
Business Student Council is in
charge of introducing high school
students and their parents to the
College of Business. Annette Bird-
well and Randy Johnson, Career
Day chairmen, said they have
many activities planned.
Two sessions '{9:30 and 10:30
a.m.) will be held in which Dean
Cocanougher and Dr. Sam Gilles
pie will welcome the students and
their parents and tell about the
business program here at A&M.
Nathan McClellan coordinated a
slide show on what the CBA has to
offer which will be followed by stu
dents from each major who will
give more specific information on
each field of study. The student
speakers are: Kirby Johnson, ac
counting; Michelle Rambo, busi
ness analysis; Mike Brennan, fi
nance; Rusty Schaefer,
management; and Greg L.
Leissner, marketing. In addition,
Pat Sullivan from economics will
speak.
High school students may then
take part in continuous tours of
Blocker Building, led by students
in Halloween costumes and talk to
faculty, advisors, and students
from each major. A picnic lunch
will close the sessions and enable
the students and their parents to
talk with business students in an in
formal setting.
Bird well said, “A&M is expect
ing around 4,000 students, so
we’re expecting a great turnout in
the CBA. It should be exciting. If
you have a brother or sister com
ing up, bring them to Blocker
Building.” The students can then
get into the Aggie spirit by attend
ing the Corp of Cadets march-in
and the Texas A&M v. Louisiana
Tech football game.
Coming February 8-10...
Business Career Fair 1988
Career fair week ’88 plans are under way. If you are Interested In serving on a committee and have not signed up, stop by
the BSC office (101 Blocker) and see what committees are still open. Invitations to companies have gone out, and BSC is
expecting more than 80 companies to recruit at this year’s career fair. Career fair week is scheduled for Feb. 8-12.
Double major—Double the work?
By Becky Black
Earning a double major or dou
ble degree brings visions of being a
fifth or even sixth year senior to
many student’s minds. However,
the set up of course requirements
in the College of Business Admin
istration makes earning one of
these, especially a double major,
fairly easy. The key is to plan
ahead.
“As soon as a student knows he
wants to double major, he should
come in (to the CBA office) and
work out a degree plan,” said
Lynn Zimmermann, CBA advisor.
Students in the CBA are not nor
mally required to file a degree plan
because the catalog a student en
ters A&M under is considered the
degree plan. However, those stu
dents who want to earn a double
degree or a double major must file
a special degree plan in the CBA
Undergraduate Advising office.
“The first four semesters of all
five business major fields are iden
tical and the remaining four semes
ters include several common
courses, which makes them all
Business Edae: October 27, 1987.
Vol.ll, No. 2.
Published by the Business Student
Council as a newsletter for students in
the College of Business Administration.
BSC office in Blocker 101, telephone
409/845-1320. Editor, Becky Black;
Asst. Editor, Everett Hurst; President,
Rona Davis; Vice Presidents, Daniel
Williams and David Clark; Treasurer,
Nathan McClellan; Secretary, Dianne
Blackwell; Advisor, Lynn Zimmer
mann; Dean of College, Dr. A. Benton
Cocanougher.
very compatible,” Zimmermann
continued.
The process of planning a dou
ble major is quite simple. The advi
sor first needs to know what cata
log the student is under and which
major (accounting, business analy
sis, finance, management, or mar
keting) is his primary choice. In the
second step, the two major’s plans
are compared to see what courses
they have in common and how the
courses of the second major can be
fit into the first. A degree check is
then done to see what courses the
student has already taken and
what is needed to finish.
“You want to save the free elec
tives that are planned into the
sophomore and junior years for re
quired courses in the second major
that are not required by the first
major, ’’Zimmermann said.
Accounting and finance are the
most compatible of the five busi
ness majors. It takes about nine ad
ditional hours (past the 133 re
quired for one major) to get a
double major of accounting/fi
nance - depending on the catalog
the student is under. Management
and marketing double major takes
around 15 additional hours, and
business analysis with a second
major takes a bit more.
The required course content is
essentially the same for a double
major or a double degree. The pri
mary difference is that to receive a
double degree, the student must
have 30 hours above and beyond
the total required for a single de
gree.
“As a general rule, you can dou
ble major in one extra semester or
a semester and a summer.” Zim
merman also noted, “If you
change fields and bring in extra
hours that don’t count toward ei*
ther business major, then a double
degree might be preferred because
those extra hours can count to
ward the thirty required to get a
second degree. ”
In .today’s competitive job mar
ket, a double major or degree can
open more career opportunities
and make a student more flexible.
Cathy Frederick, a recruiter with
Deloitte, Haskins, and Sells, agrees
that earning a double major or a
double degree is valuable.
“It (a double major) shows me
that you went above and beyond
the call of duty.” Frederick said. “A
double major also shows you have
an in^rest in a wider field and
opens i. • u” areas to you. ”
NABA:
A welcomed addition
The TAMU Chapter of the Na
tional Association of Black Ac
countants has been officially recog
nized this fall. The purpose of
NABA is to encourage black mi
nority students to enter the ac
counting profession. There are
professional chapters in thirty ma
jor cities and over seventy student
chapters including chapters at
Texas Southern, University of
Texas, Praire View A&M Univer
sity, North Texas State Universtiy,
and University of Houston. How
ever, the organization is open to all
business and economics majors.
The advisors for NABA are Dr.
Joyce Holley and Professor James
Flagg of the accounting depart
ment.
1987-1988 TAMU Chapter ol
NABA officers:
Denise Buffins-President (Co
founding member)
Marie Perry-Vice President (Co
founding)
Theresa Wilkerson-Treasurer
(Co-founding)
Ellecia Robinson-Secretary (Co
founding)
Pamela Evans-Historian
CBA current events
Business Career Week ’88
Hospitality committee
meeting - Nov. 18
6-8 p.m. Blocker
Alpha Kappa Psi:
Nov. 3 - Speaker-Dean Whitter
Nov. 6 - Austin Field trip: tour
Xerox, IBM, and First Repub
lic Bank
Nov. 10 - Alumnus speaker
Nov. 22 - Initiation
Dec. 4 - Christmas formal
Accounting Society:
Oct. 27 - Office visit meeting
Field trips: Dallas Nov. 2-3,
Houston Nov. 9-10, San Anto
nio Nov. 12-13
Advertising Association:
Oct. 29 - Houston field trip
Nov. 3 - general meeting:
7 p.m. Blocker 153
CBA Honors:
Nov. 6 - San Antonio field trip
IBA:
Oct. 27 - general meeting:
6:30 p.rr Bl -« cr
Marketing Society:
Oct. 30 - Halloween party
Nov. 14 - speaker: Coca Cola
Brand Manager
(check board for more details)
Speech Communications:
Nov. 3 - general meeting:
7 p.m. Blocker 158
Nov. 5-7 - San Antonio field
trip
Retailing Scoiety:
Nov. 17 - general meeting:
7 p.m. Blocker 153
Jan. 2-6 - San Francisco: con
tact Jerry King 845-0325
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