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HEART Our Price compare 4,900°° 10,000°° l’890°° 3,000°° 2.19 CtS. 1.37 CtS. emerald cut our Price Compare 6,295°° 12,000°° 4,475°° 9,000°° OVAL Our Price 2,900°° 2,095°° Compare 6.000°° 4.000°° This is only a partial listing. We have many more 3/4 and smaller diamonds in stock. Z> < ■mAb 30-day Money Back Guarantee 404 university Dr. East 846-8905 Business class offers insight into ‘real world’ By Natalie Hedblom Reporter Thursday nights, if you are looking for a free night out at the Chicken Oil Company and a lesson in how to succeed in the business world, the place to be is in Dr. Ella Van Fleet’s and Clayton Williams Jr.’s class in entrepreneurship. Van Fleet, a visiting management lecturer at Texas A&M who de signed the course five years ago, tea ches the theory part of the course. Williams, Class of’54, was listed in Forbes magazine in 1982 as one of the 400 richest people in America. He applies the theories Van Fleet teaches to his own experiences. Van Fleet, who came to A&M in 1977, said she designed the class in response to students’ complaints that their classes were not relevant to the real world. “But it is not an easy course,” he says. For designing the entrepreneur course, Van Fleet was recognized by the Southern Business Administra tion Association’s Innovation Awards Program and Freedom Foundation at Vally Forge, Pa. Van Fleet said the class consists of quizzes each week over the assigned readings. These quizzes are worth 60 percent of a student’s grade. The other 40 percent of the students’ grades consist of an interview with a business leader. These interviews then are presented to the class, she explains. gap be- the real “This class bridges the tween the classroom and world,” she added. Williams says the class is a build ing block for success. “It teaches honesty, integrity, te nacity and balance; it is a broad look at what it takes to be a success in business and be honest and happy doing it,” he said. Williams has been teaching the course for five years but only in the spring semester, because fall is hunt ing season, he explains. He flies in from Midland twice a month in his maroon and white pri vate Jet to talk about his successes and failures. One of Williams’ teaching stategies is to treat his students to beer, burgers and advice after class at the Chicken Oil Company. “With a couple of beers the stu dents feel more relaxed and may ask ? [uestions that they might not ask in ront of the class,” Williams explains. Learning and having fun at the me time is part of Williams’ philos- same ophy. “I like to have fun and you should have fun, too,” he tells his students. “You can make a lot of money and have a good time. Also you’ll get fur ther than if you just work all the time. “I enjoy teaching this class. I feel that I continue to learn and to eval uate my company as I teach the course.” Many students call the class “How to Make a Million Dollars,” but Wil liams has his own name for the course. “Ella will teach the theory and I’ll come in and just shoot the bull,” Wil liams says. “In fact, we will just call this Bullshit 201,” Williams explains. “When the students were back for the second time, a student in the class raised his hand and said, ‘Mr. Williams, we want to change the the name of your course. Your bullshit is so advanced we want to call it Bullshit 489.’ ” Williams, who pledged and paid $2.5 million for the Texas A&M As sociation of Former Students alumni center, which bears his name, says he likes to have enough fun, jokes and humor to keep the students inter ested. “The students need to learn more social skills,” Van Fleet says. “And presenting their interviews to the class is one way of improving these skills.” Even though the course is diffi cult, the instructors like to have a family atmosphere in the classroom. Van Fleet says. Instead of being a regular lecture course, the class is more like a dis cussion among 60 students, she says. Williams says he feels he provides a father image to the students. “We become friends,” he said. Williams explained that he dis cusses his own personal and business problems with his students, which he feels brings him closer to his stu dents. “I have had a lot of failures and I spend a good bit of time talking about these failures,” Williams says. Williams says he wants his stu dents not to be afraid to try. “Failure is okay as long as you don’t continue to fail,” he says, laughing. Williams, who has been called the “ultimate Aggie” — perhaps because of his senior-hoot-shaped swimming pool, the A&M flag that flies over his Midland office building and his ma roon and white cowboy boots — made his fortune in ranching, oil and gas. He also founded ClayDesta Communications, a digital fiber op tic and microwave long-distance net work. Williams has donated more than $4 million to A&M. He said he is “high on his alma mater” because he says he feels this is iwhere it all started. * .! . > It;. “I know no greater honor than having your name on the former students building,” he says. “I was delighted when I was asked and I was delighted when it was paid for.” The love that Williams has for A&M is no secret, he says. Van Fleet says that when she asked Williams to teach the class, she didn’t have to twist his arm to get him to return to A&M. Van Fleet founded the Entrepreneurship Society at A&M in 1980. “I feel qualified to teach this course because of my background,” she says. “I have grown up around this field all of my life. I don’t re member any of my family ever work ing for someone else.” Van Fleet says she feels the most important thing about the class is not making money — it is that the stu dents should be happy with what ever they are doing. What s Thursday INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM: will present the film “TheFig^ Food" at 7 p.m. in 601 Rudder. SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: will have a speaker and ice creamj p.m. in 105C Zachry. AGGIE SPACE DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY: Bill Agosto, president of Luim dustries, will speak on lunar resource utilization at 7 p.m. in 410 Rudder. ALPHA EPSILON DELTA/PRE-MED HONOR SOCIETY: will have a gu« speaker at 7 p.m. in 302 Rudder. SOCIETY OF ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS AND FREETHINKERS: will have open discussion on religious factors and influences in 1988 politics at7p.iM 604A-B Rudder. All society officers should attend. ECUADORIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will present a popular art expositj and a popular band from Ecuador at 7 p.m. in 228 Rudder. AGGIELAND: will have an informational session for prospective photograph; at 7 p.m. in 014 Reed McDonald. TAMECT: will have a general meeting at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder. INTRAMURALS: will have an innertube water-polo captain’s meeting at5p and a volleyball-triples captain's meeting at 6 p.m., both in 167 Read. TEXAS GRASS ROOTS COALITION: will meet at 7 p.m. at 205-1 Si Springs. This is an informative Christian political organization designed toirf, ence the Texas government by prayer and constituent input. NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS: will have a general meetirs 7:30 p.m. in 308 Rudder. WALDC TO F 5TARF- Friday LATTER-DAY SAINTS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Institute Director Edg Wolferts will speak during the sandwich seminar at noon at the Institute Bw ing. There also will be an LDSSA Council meeting at 3 p.m. in the same buiMm; Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 ReedMcDvi no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only put* the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What's it a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions art on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If. have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315. Weather Watch umn K.y: £ m Lightning — - Fog ft - Thunderstorm • • - Rain ★ * - Snow ? y - Drizzle - Ice Pellets • ^7 “ Rain Shower • - Freezing Rain Sunset Today: 6:29 p.m. Sunrise Friday: 6:39 a.m. Map Discussion: The low pressure system and associated front off the Caroiiri Coastal area will move offshore with high pressure being the dominating influence from the Eastern Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast. The pacific frontfrm the Western Great Lakes to El Paso, with a wave (Low pressure center) over Western Kansas, will produce a significant snow event for the Central Rockies: into the Central Plains today, tonight and tomorrow. The far west will have afar weather under the high pressure system over Oregon while the next Pacificlror approaches the Washington and Oregon coast. 1 Winn |md the [Corpor; Jngs we Sutherl; ending |he A&I Forecast: Today. Partly cloudy and warm. High near 80. Winds will be southerly at 10 gusting to 18 mph. Tonight. Fair and mild. Low temperature 51. Winds will be from the south atW to eight mph. Davie mginee Iryan, ’ ana M jhnd, r farship. Marti Friday. Increasing cloudiness and windy in advance of the approaching coldIr High 77 with gusty south winds. Weather Fact.The outlook for the weekend is for cloudiness, cooler temperate and a chance of showers and/or thundershowers. Co Prepared by: Charlie Brer. Staff Meteoroid] A&M Department of Meteon Council members upset over raises for mayor’s aides HOUSTON (AP) — Several City Council members are questioning Mayor Kathy Whit mire’s promotions, with $10,000-a-year raises, for two of her top aides after having promised to abolish staff pay boosts. council members said Tuesday. Whitmire has claimed the promotions were unrelated to the reorganization, and were due to the departures of two aides who held the jobs. DAL stung b *300,00 eb of v ourt pi ayroll ays. Levi 1 he 10l on’t k ayroll ave gc ut beir The two P r days after Whitmire won shaky council approval for a reorganization of her office and promised she wouldn’t use it to give staffers pay raises, “Our options were to hire someone from the outside to fill those positions or to promote expe rienced employees from within, and that’s the option we chose, just as many of our departments do,” she said. “Right now, the only time anybody is ever to get more money in any department, incli mine, is when someone leaves and there's) 1 cancy at a higher level, and then someoneii to be promoted into it,” she said. Some council members were not convincd “The mayor was clearly untruthful whet told council members the reorganization not result in any pay raises for her employ raton Councilman Dale Gorczynski said. Juditl nd staf been re Welcome to Zain’s Indian Restaurant announces Family Buffet Saturday and Sunday 11:30 am-2:30 pm All You Can Eat includes 4 different entrees, dessert, salad. Naan and Rice. $5. 95 $2. 95 % Children under 12 jP |> Friday and Saturday ^ join us for exceptionally special entrees! 3 blocks North of Campus 313-A College Main E 268-1414 f(m\ BREAK INTO FUN!! t>A> 'O But... WATCH what you drink!! Be RESPONSIBLE! Center for Drug Preuention and Education 845-0280