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To The Friends Of Karen E. Miller ’90 Thank you for your gifts, concern and support. Page 4 The Battalion Friday, April 7,1989 Ro6, Kate and Matt AM/PM Clinics CLINICS Our New College Station location offers Birth Control Counseling Women’s Services Female doctors on duty Student 10% discount with ID 693-0202 TAIPEI EXPRESS ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET $3.99 ENTREES START AT $1.80 GREAT CHINESE FOOD WITH AFFORDABLE PRICES! 110 College Main Across from Kinkos 846-9712 ClNEPLEX ODEON THEATRES POST OAK THREE 1500 Ilurvcy Koud 693 2791* CINEMA THREE |315 College Ave. 693-2706 The Dream Team 7:00 9:15 LEAN ON ME(PG-13) 7:00 9:00 CHANCES ARE (PG) 7:10 9:20 FLETCH LIVES (PG) 7:15 9:15 Cyborg 7;30 9:30 BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (PG) 7:20 9:30 Accounting Review for Test #3 Acct. 229 Sun. 8 p.m.-ll p.m. Mon. 8 p.m.-ll p.m. Enph. Rm. 214 $ 9./session Acct. 230 Sun. 8 p.rn.-iiiidnite Mon. 8 p.m.-midnite Enph. Rm. 213 $10./session >rs. ited Sponsored By ENVE PARKWAY CIRCLE Apartments 401 Southwest Parkway Luxury Apartments Spacious, Modem 2 & 3 Bdrm/2 Bath Hot tub, pool, clubhouse, basketball, W/D connections & laundry, on shuttle. Now Preleasing 696-6909 UT, A&M join forces to help disadvantaged children Center helps kids relate to college By Sharon Maberry STAFF WRITER Texas A&M and the University of Texas at Austin have joined forces to show disadvantaged middle-school students that a college education is within their reach. The University Outreach Center, developed by A&M and UT in September 1987, has offices in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and McAllen. The offices serve as a place for staff members to teach students and their parents about university options. The San Antonio and Houston offices have di rectors from A&M and assistant directors from UT, while the Dallas and McAllen offices have directors from UT and assistant directors from A&M. Dr. Sylvia Fernandez, director of the Univer sity Outreach Center in San Antonio, said the center’s goal is to increase the pool of disadvan taged students who are eligible for college. The program targets seventh graders who are academically average, Fernandez said. “We don’t deal with ‘at risk’ or ‘gifted and tal ented’ students,” Fernandez said. “The students we target have potential that hasn’t been tapped. We want to make them feel special. We want to give them a feeling of belonging to something.” The San Antonio office works with three of the city’s 14 school districts whose principals and counselors help the center select students with average academic records who have potential. Those students are invited to a meeting to dis cover what the program has to offer. Students bring their parents to the second meeting so they will be part of the program, Fernandez said. The San Antonio office provides regular activ ities for students, including community involve ment, college campus visits, practicing for the Scholastic Aptitude Test, brown-bag lunches and monthly meetings to discuss different aspects of attending college, she said. Activities also include discussions with college professors and students who talk about financial aid, major areas of study and other topics. Fernandez stressed the importance of reach ing students before high school. “The junior and senior years are too late to start telling kids about college,” she said. “If kids enter high school and don’t take the right courses for college, it’s too late.” The San Antonio office is sponsoring a college fair Saturday for middle schoolers and their par ents that will be similar to college nights at a high school. “I’ve gone to a lot of college nights for juniors and seniors,” Fernandez said. “This college fair will be the same type of activity for middle schoolers. It will be on the campus of Palo Alto College (in San Antonio) where students and their parents can talk to recruiters from A&M and UT as well as some out-of-state schools. “We also will have about 25 professionals in different careers to talk with students about their opportunities to become doctors or lawyers or any other profession they might be interested in. “The college fair will link the community, higher education, public schools and families. I think it will be a big success.” Fernandez said the University Outreach Cen ter in San Antonio has accomplished a great deal during its first year. “We’re on a roll,” she said. “In just a year, we have touched thousands of kids.” Each year, the program will start with a new group of seventh graders, although they also will continue regular meetings with older students in the program, Fernandez said. “We’re going to track students until theygti college, and hopefully all the way throughcd lege,” she said. The director of the University OutreachCe ter in Houston, Beverly Clark, said hero| services 1 1 inner-city schools where the major; of the population is black and Hispanic. The are 260 students in the Houston program. “We go to each school every week and jpa time speaking with the students about cote Clark said. “We’ve taken them to severalcolb campuses on weekends, including A&M, UT^ the University of Houston. “We also do a lot of student motivationalatin. ities. For instance, we have recognition din for students who make the honor rolltotnu.; keep them academically motivated. “We’re trying to keep them interested and» tivated about school. We sell them the id college is an option. We don’t want them to worn about the financial part of attending college.h just want them to prepare and make the grade Clark said the center also sponsors activity for parents encouraging them to becomeactiidi involved in the school process. “The University Outreach Center is not air cruiting tool for either A&M or UT,” Clark sail “We’re simply trying to prepare students font tendance at any college or university.” Fernandez said the centers in all four dm have limited staffs and welcome volunteers!! help run the program. “We would love to have volunteers from Aid during the summer,” she said. “Collegestudeas mean so much to these kids because they a really relate to them. If any A&M students** to be mentors to middle-schoolers, thiswc a great place to do it.” Councilman caught lying about age Classics scholar, modern studen square off in 4 Another Antigone Warped HELLO, TOPM W #KIVG TO THE WDEKf/ PAI//TB fogy, WHO... Dll VEAKS AGC Waldo WALbO HAS WSC0VERE AMKlTER SERVICES Cl HAS fmiCEb COfIPU FOR STUDENTS DE: CHARGING A FEE TO MAXIMUM" SUPP0R- ALVIN (AP) — A councilman who says she did what many women do — lie about their age — faces pos sible legal charges after she listed her altered age on a sworn candi dacy application. Loyce Crouch, who knocked 11 years off her age when she filled out her sworn candidacy application, has turned in her keys to City Hall, say ing she never will return. Crouch, 59, gave a brief explana tion at a City Council meeting Tues day night on why she lied. “Since I was divorced 13 years ago, I have consistently knocked 10 years off my age, along with every other woman in the United States,” said Crouch, who acknowledged misrepresenting her age ever since she first won election in 1979. She said she stated in her candi date applications that she was born in 1940 although voter registration records showed that she was born in 1929. Brazoria County District Attorney Jim Mapel, who was not amused by her explanation of the discrepancy, said he plans to present allegations to a grand jury that Crouch com mitted perjury as soon as he obtains the necessary documents. “If knocking 10 years off my age constitutes perjury in the eyes of those people, well, then this evi dently is not the nation that I re vered,” she said. City Attorney J. Kay Gayle says the problem is not that Crouch lied about her age, but that she falsified a public document and swore that the information included in the docu ment was correct. Crouch claims the matter was brought up because some other members of the City Council don’t want her there. By Cray Pixley ENTERTAINMENT WRITER A classics professor caught up in the world of Greek tragedy and a young Jewish student solidly anchored in the nuclear present clash in the Aggie Players’ produc tion of “Another Antigone.” The A.R. Gurney Jr. play run ning through Saturday in Rudder Forum pits Professor Henry Harper against his student, Judy Miller, in a fascinating battle that has many lay ers. Harper’s academic principles, Miller’s adamant stance on her right to adapt the Sophocles’ myth, “Anti gone,” and accusations of anti-Semi tism combine to form a plot that would be interesting even if only be cause of the generation gap between student and professor. Harper is horrified at Miller’s ad aptation of “Antigone,” which places the myth in the nuclear arms race, with the two pivotal characters mod eled after Ronald Reagan and Jane Fonda. Harper tells Miller he has no time for her “juvenile polemic on current events” and that she should stick with the assigned topics. One can’t help but agree with Harper. Miller’s stubborn refusal to obey the lesson plan indirectly leads to Harper’s self-exile from teaching and throws all the characters lives into a whirlpool of tension. Steven A. McCauley is excep tional as Harper, the passionate clas sics scholar forced into abandoning his principles after refusing to grade Miller’s version of “Antigone.” McCauley’s Harper goes through life quoting Greek verse like a char acter out of one of his beloved trage dies. The scenes between Harper and Danyah Arafat’s Miller are a meeting of the classic vocabulary and trendy-yuppie speech. Harper is easily an everyman’s idea of an English professor closeted away with his classics. Harper’s life is rooted in ancient Athens, which is glaringly obvious when he is inter acting with Dean Eberhart, played by Mary Ellen Brennan. Eberhart and Harper have a relationship that might have been more serious but never developed. Eberhart still cares for her professor but understands that he can’t live in the real world, unshrouded by Greek tragedy. Brennan is wonderful as the frazzled but understanding dean who must smooth the ruffled fur be tween faculty and student. McCau ley and Brennan’s scenes together are among the best in the play. Arafat plays a stubborn and driven Miller, but it is difficult to truly understand Miller’s position and actions. That fault lies in the play, because the character is not as clearly drawn as Harper and Eber- hart’s. Miller’s character switches — from dedicated, upwardly-mobile undergraduate to a radical studeii! — are difficult to understand. J. David Roberto is warm and sei- sitive as Miller’s boyfriend, who* dedication and zest for Greek liten ture is as strong as Harper's. The end of “Another Antigone is thought-provoking and will lean spectators in discussion as they lean the Forum. First-time director Troy Herbon has done an excellent job with and play. Rick Boultinghouse’s scene dc sign is a remarkable fusion betum the ancient Greek and the contem porary, which also mirrors the flict between Harper and Mil ler. The action takes place in act* bled, neo-classical Greek forum ft nished by a coffee maker and Harp er’s new leather briefcase. Futuna music blends in to smooth over tit transitions from scene to scene. “Another Antigone” continuesifr night and Saturday at 8 p.m.Tickti are $2 for students and senior dia zens and $3 for the general and are available at Rudder Box Of fice. Brazos Animal Shelter sponsors dog dip The Brazos Animal Shelter will be having dog dips April 8, 15, and 22 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the shelter parking lot at 2207 Finfeather Road in Bryan. A bath and a dip costs $6. Dog owners must bring their own tow els. All dogs must be on leashes and proof of rabies vaccination is required. 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