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Weekly forum focuses
on local, world issues
By SELINA GONZALEZ
Of The Battalion Staff
Insights, a MSC Political Fo
rum program, sheds light on lo
cal, state and world issues.
Matt Wood, Political Forum
chairman, said Insights allows
students to interact with faculty
and staff in an informal setting.
Stephanie Schull, director of
Insights, said about 10 to 25 peo
ple attend the discussion group to
become informed about issues af
fecting them.
Participants meet at 1 p.m. ev
ery Monday in the MSC cafeteria
cashier’s room. They will con
tinue to meet until April 23.
Participants include faculty,
undergraduate students and
graduate students, and everyone
is invited.
“We like to address issues that
appear on the editorial page of
The Battalion because that is
usually on the minds of the stu
dents,” Schull said.
Schull said the program, now
in its third semester, is low-key
and differs from other Political
Forum programs.
Various professors have been
invited to suggest topics to dis
cuss.
“Usually, a faculty member will
speak about an issue for about 20
minutes and then we will discuss
it for the rest of the hour,” Schull
said.
In the past, the group has dis
cussed campus racial issues with
Kevin Carreathers, coordinator
of the Department of Multicultu
ral Services.
Schull said the movie “Born on
the Fourth of July” sparked a dis
cussion on the Vietnam War.
Wood said that in the future,
Insights participants will discuss
women in business and race rela
tions with Japan.
Also, participants will focus on
the Bryan-College Station com
munity when a county commis
sioner speaks to the group about
the environmental issue of land
fills, he said.
Journalist shares experiences
By RUSS NEEDELS
Special to the Battalion
Photo by Steven M. Noreyko
Linda Ellerbee
Only dead fish go with the flow,
an award-winning broadcast jour
nalist from Bryan said Saturday.
Linda Ellerbee shared her experi
ences of both career and life at the
20th anniversary of the Friends of
the Sterling C. Evans Library and
the present location of the Bryan
Public Library.
Ellerbee stressed the importance
of change through her five rules of
life. They are:
• Do it your own way.
“Only dead fish swim with the
stream,” she said.
• The best things in life aren’t
things.
“You can always get another job,
but you can’t get another family,”
she said.
• The duty of every citizen is to
keep his or her mouth open at all
times.
“Speak your mind,” she said.
• If you don’t want to get old,
then don’t mellow.
• A good time to laugh is any
time you can.
While reminiscing about her ca
reer, Ellerbee elaborated on what
• , V
kies” in the broadcast industry, or
those people who have “blow-dried
brains, as well as hair.”
She said any person who sticks a
microphone in the face of a victim
during a tragedy should be fired, be
cause, after all, “Isn’t that common
sense?”
I^o it your own way.
The best things in life aren’t
things.
Speak your mind.
—tips from
Linda Ellerbee,
broadcast journalist
The one attitude in broadcasting
that appalls Ellerbee, she said, is the
arrogance of some television pro
ducers who believe that they’re more
intelligent than the viewers.
Ellerbee continued to talk about
her career and the troubles she
faced by explaining one of the most
controversial issues in her career:
why she appeared in the Maxwell
See Journalist/Page 13
Academy teaches English as second language
By PAM MOOMAN
Of The Battalion Staff
Think about spending the summer learn
ing to speak Chinese.
Some foreign students will come to Bryan
this summer with Allen Academy’s English as
a Second Language summer school program
to learn to speak English.
Lynred Hoepfner, headmaster, said that
along with its regular curriculum, Allen Aca
demy offers a year-round English as a Second
Language program, where students in the
first year of the program work on English
grammar and conversation skills instead of
studying English and history.
But on June 4, Allen Academy’s ESL sum
mer program begins. Foreign students come
from many different countries for different
reasons, Hoepfner said.
This year, she said, the academy has stu
dents from Japan and Taiwan. In the past,
many students have come from South Ameri
can and Latin countries.
Often, foreign students come to Allen Aca
demy’s ESL summer program because they
already have American connections, such as
relatives, she said. One student just wanted to
go to an American school, she said.
“They come for different reasons,”
Hoepfner said. “(Often,) they are interested
in enrolling in an American school in the
fall.”
Hoepfner said the ESL summer program
has been offered before, but this year is the
first time that foreign students participating
in the program will be able to stay in dorms
and eat on the Texas A&M campus.
“It’s a benefit for Allen to use facilities at
A&M,” she said.
However, only boys ages 13-18 will be
boarded, although the ESL summer program
is open to all foreign students, as well as mem
bers of the local community, she said.
The foreign students will come to Allen
Academy for morning classes, Hoepfner said,
and in the afternoon will go on field trips to
the Blue Bell creamery, the School of Veteri
nary Medicine and possibly NASA facilities in
Houston.
“(This will) put them in conversational ac
tivities for oral development,” she said. In
other words, they can put in practice what
they learned in the classroom that morning,
she said.
Allen Academy also offers I’20’s to foreign,
non-immigrant students. An I’20 is an en
trance requirement allowing foreign students
to go to U.S. schools, Hoepfner said.
Foreign students attending the first ESL
summer session will arrive on June 3 to regis
ter, and classes will begin on June 4 and end
on June 29. Registraton for the second ses
sion is on July 1 with classes beginning on July
2 and ending on July 27.
Students can choose one of the four-week
sessions, Hoepfner said, or they can attend
both sessions.
Hoepfner said learning English is becom
ing increasingly important in today’s world.
7 T would think essentially our world is com
ing to a global community,” she said.
“One of the ways to do that is to learn the
English language,” she said.
Allen Academy, in Bryan at the corner of
Briarcrest Drive and Boonville Road, was
founded in 1886.
The academy offers co-educational day
classes in grades pre-kindergarten through
12, and it has boarding facilities for boys
grades eight through 12.
Board nominates
students for
editor positions
By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
Editors for The Battalion, Ag-
gieland and Aggievision were
nominated Friday by the student
publications board.
Senior journalism major Mon
ique Threadgill was nominated as
editor for The Battalion during
the 1990 summer sessions.
Threadgill is currently the ma
naging editor of The Battalion.
Beginning May 16, the sum
mer editor is responsible for pro
ducing The Battalion Tuesday
through Friday of both summer
sessions, Wednesdays between
summer and fall classes, and all
pre-printed sections of the back-
to-school issue, which is distrib
uted the first day of school.
Junior economics major Cindy
McMillian was nominated as edi
tor of the Fall 1990 Battalion. Mc
Millian is currently a news editor
at The Battalion.
The fall editor is responsible
for producing The Battalion dur
ing the last week of regular
classes of the spring semester, the
Wednesday during final exam
week, the front section of the
back-to-school issue and all of the
fall semester issues until the last
week of classes.
Senior recreation, parks and
tourism science major Paula
McKnight was nominated as the
1991 Aggieland editor. McKnight
is currently editor of The Aggie
land, the largest college yearbook
in the nation.
Freshman Stephanie Maddox
was nominated as the 1991 Ag^-
gieVision editor. Maddox cur
rently serves as a member of the
AggieVision staff.
Recommendations will be for
warded to Dr. Dean Gage, acting
provost and vice president for
academic affairs, who will rrtake
the final decisions.
Tuesday, April 3
"International Luncheon Series" - presentation by Dr. John Wormuth on Antarctica.
Buy your lunch at the MSC Cafeteria, then join us for the informal presentation.
Everyone is welcome!
Time: 11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
Location: MSC Cafeteria Conference Room 110 (near cash registers)
Saturday, April 7 (Parents’ Weekend)
11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m.: tours of the Jordan Collection of international art objects.
Location: Browsing Library (Room 223 of Memorial Student Center)
2:00 p.m.: showing of "We’ve Never Been Licked”. All proceeds from the film go to
the MSC Overseas Loan Program.
Location: Rudder Theatre
Price: $2.00 (Tickets go on sale at 1:00 p.m. before show.)
Monday, April 9
"Women in Pakistan: A Socioeconomic and Legal Profile". The lecture will be
presented by Dr. Rashida Patel, Advocate on Record Supreme Court of Pakistan and
Advocate Supreme Court of Sind.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
i Location: Room 206 of Memorial Student Center
MSC Jordan Institute for International Awareness
For more information, please call 845-8770.
ATTENTION:
ALL DEC. ’90
GRADUATING
SENIORS
If you are a member of the Class of ’90 and will
graduate in December ’90, you may vote in the
upcoming Class of ’90 Class Agents Election.
Stop by the MSC Student Lounge/Flag Room
Tues., Apr. 3; Wed., Apr. 4; or Thurs., Apr. 5,
9 a.m. - 4 p.m. to cast your vote.
STUDENT ID REQUIRED.
The Association of Former Students will hold
Fall Senior Induction Banquets for Dec. ’90
graduates in Nov. ’90.
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