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RANDY SIMS Bar-B-Que House FAMILY PAK SPECIAL-TO GO $9.99 Indues 1 lb. of beef, 1 pint of beans, 1 pint of potato salad, 4 pieces of garlic bread, sauce, pickles and onions. (Feeds 3-4 people). Monday thru Thursday 4:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. 3824 Texas Ave., Bryan 846-8016 Culpepper Plaza Cnear Hasting’s) Phone No. 696-1827 Jewelry Limited High quality 20 pt. diamond set in Aggie Ring $ 185 00 Any watch battery $3°° • Ring stripping available A104 Physical Education My first time tutoring was a night to remember. Mv student was some thing called Bone Crusher Rtcd, a.k.a. Billy Jo, defensive tackle for the foot ball team. I had the shock of my life when he answered his dorm room door. He was about six foot seven...in diameter. And when he shook my hand, I thought Id never get it back. So there I was, face-to-knee with the big man on campus, wondering how I was going to relate American Literature to The Hulk. But then he pulled out a can of Orange Cappuccino. I was shocked! Could it be that this tough jock liked its delicate taste? And when Bone Crusher brought out the bone china, I was beyond belief Reading the expression on my face, he said, “What can I say? I like it. The Cafe Francais is pretty good, too.'’ Well, who’s going to argue, I thought. As we sipped our Orange Cappuccino, I discovered that Billy Jo loves reading novels; his only problem was poetry. So I gave him tips on reading Emily Dickinson, and he gave me a copy of Ann Beattie’s “Falling in Place.” All I could think was. Dad’s never going to believe this! General Foods® International Coffees. Share the feeling. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SPORTS OFFICIALS ASSOCIATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION PRESENTS GM GMAC 1 FINANCIAL SERVICES © 1987 DATE: MARCH 8 . .. . ..Vv ,,,^.11 — PLACE, RUDDER FOUNTAIN AREA — — mm "mr . TIME: 9:00 A.M. - 3:Of Jfc ■ ‘w! mmmw jit* ■ - : , Si.;.: wrnmmif* ■• ; / ;'4 , Wk £ fa. '' '■I! fit 1 11 '' * ■'Ju ’'■ffiyi}?' 1) ▼ T — HOW TO WIN: By attending your school’s GM/GMAC Auto Expo event, you can be eligible to win one of two $500 grants toward your tuition expenses provided by GM and/or GMAC. While attending the Expo, just fill out an entry form and drop it in the convenient entry box. The two winning entry forms will be drawn at the end of the GM/GMAC Auto Expo event. No purchase is necessary to enter or win and the winner need not be present. Good luck! General Motors..'.’sharing your future” IM/REC SPORTS AUTO EXPO Page 6AThe Battalion/Monday, March 7, 1988 n Advance Visiting author looks into male mind By Mercedes Salinas Reporter Why are men so afraid of com mitment? For starters, most men’s primary fantasy is still, un fortunately, access to a number of beautiful women. For men, com mitment means giving up this fantasy. Most women’s primary fantasy is a relationship with one man who either provides economic se curity or is on his way to doing so. For a woman, commitment to this type of man means achieving this fantasy. So commitment often means that a woman achieves her pri mary fantasy, while a male gives his up. . . Why can’t a man be a friend before a sex partner? Why do so many women give so many mixed messages? What do women really want? — from “Why Men Are the Way They Are” by Dr. Warren Farrell. These questions and many oth ers will be addressed Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Rudder Theater when Farrell visits Texas A&M to discuss his book. Farrell, whose visit is being sponsored by MSC Great Issues, also wrote another book called “The Liberated Man.” “The key to my lecture, ‘Men: The Untold Truth,’ will be con centrated on role reversibility," Farrell said in a Battalion phone interview Friday. “1 will present the opportunity for both men and women in the audience to ex perience what the other sex goes through on a date.” Farrell said he will ask each member of the audience to go through a carefully structured simulation of the socializationol the other sex, or to play the role of the other sex in a series of role reversal exercises. “I will also talk about men the questions that women as! about them, such as, ‘Why worn men listen?’ and ‘Why are men egos their second most fragile iir strument?,’” he said. The audience will learn whv people’s expectations of what will happen in a relationship are rar ely fulfilled, he said. Farrell lias spoken at several college campuses across the na lion and has found that the col lege audience, both mitle and fe male, is confused. “The average student still tends to think that marriage is the answer to his problems,” Farrell said. “1 hey convince themselves that they won’t have the problems of some of the bad marriages they’ve witnessed. This isn’t so There are going to be problems and they have to realize it.” A biographical sketch on Far rell said that Farrell’s book, “Whv Men Are the Way They Are,"has been critically acclaimed as the most brilliant and original bool ever written about men. Farrell was chosen by President Johnsoc in 1965 as one of the nation’s out standing young educators. Farrell is the only man to have l>een elected three limes to the Board of the National Organiza tion of Women in New York Gin Farrell has appeared seven times on Donahue, and has also ap peared on. The CBS Morning Slews, and Tomorrow. Farrell is now teaching at the School of Medicine at the L’nivet- sity of California at San Diego. University program teaches students safety education By John Curry Reporter Buried in the basement of the Teague Research Building, the little- known Safety Education program E rovides Texas A&M students with a etter understanding of safety. “We hope to provide a positive understanding of safety, since there is no set list of rules and regulations, so that the students can have a better and more enjoyable life,” Dr. Mau rice E. Deunis says. Dennis, coordinator of the Safety Education program in the Industrial Vocational and Technical Education Department, says the program has three missions — formal education, research and service activities. Although safety education offers classes at both the undergraduate and graduate level, only those stu dents at the graduate level can ob tain a degree. The graduate level contains a master’s and a Ph.D program from which graduates can enter several Fields, Dennis says. Some graduates become profes sors and teach safety education, oth ers are hired as safety engineers by private companies and still others proceed to work for the government in programs such as traffic safety. Endorsements are offered for un dergraduates, Dennis says. An endorsement is supplemental to an education major and requires three, three-hour courses, two of which are in driver’s education classes. “This gives the student an extra field to go into and teach,” he says. He says many students with en dorsements teach drivers’ education classes in addition to holding an other job. The most popular undergraduate class in terms of enrollment is a gen eral safety class. The class is an introductory course to safety education and inves tigates possible countermeasures to prevent accidents, lecturer Terry Kline says. In research, the second ingredient of the safety education program, the department bids on and conducts projects concerning safety for the government and occassionally for private enterprise, Dennis says. Projects, such as helping police of ficers identify intoxicated drivers, are awarded based upon a bid’s tech nical merit and its budget. In addition, graduate students in a contracts and grants management class work on these proposals to fur ther their education about the proc ess, Dennis says. Brazos County with several class and programs. “We conduct a driver’s educatie class for A&M Consolidated si. dents who do not have to provide car or any other equipment,” Demfl says. The driver’s education progr; also serves another purpose. 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This program helps a company lower insurance rates and avoid lawsuits, Dennis says. The third phase of the safety edu cation program provides a service to Another service in the program: an alcohol education class forpeo] convicted of driving while intos cated. “In terms of enrollment, theD" class is the most popular,” Den® says The total number of undergrai] uates enrolled each year in classes 150. Graduate students total al 30-40 per year. Enrollment in tl DWI course is close to 500 peo| each year. “DWI classes are the toughest teach because the people have real choice about being there,"Dtt nis says. “The choice is either give upyot license or attend class,” he says. Regardless, probation officer D< vid Dee Stout voluntarily teackf | some of these classes because hesa' | he is convinced the class is theft j mary reason the rate of recidivism repeat DWI offenses — has d ( creased. “You can’t walk away from tl | class without learning somethin} Stout says. The DWI classes support all th® missions of the safety education gram, Dennis says. The classes are service orienti they help people understand about alcohol. Students often research tl classes to determine which prograi within the class work effectively. Students also fill the educatioi role by learning how to run tltf types of programs, he says. Dennis says he hopes the safe education program one day willd pand to become a safety educatf center. “I’d like to see the program come a comprehensive safety edm lion center covering industrial,hi] way, home, radiology at specialized safety,” he says. “The nous components for such a cent 1 already exist here. We just needi funding. DAL based c reject a lican Pa English Texas a Spea includii Force Langua Dallas-1 that the an attac the Spa The will op] or legis English gnage. If ap lution c similar the Tex said at t Dalla releaset tnovem consens sense < pose” i going st all