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Class of '92 celebrates senior weekend
Turning of Aggie ring symbolizes graduation, passage into "real world 7
By Sharon Gilmore
The Battalion
Texas A&M students will be coming togeth
er for the last times during Senior Weekend
'92. The events for the weekend began last
night with the Senior Bash at the Texas Hall of
Fame.
Class council members said the events are
meaningful and special.
"It's our last event as a senior class," said
Travis Burleson, a senior speech communica
tions major.
The Senior Banquet will be held Saturday at
the College Station Hilton.
Fred McClure, class of '76 and former leg
islative aid to George Bush will be speaking at
the banquet, said Tonya Yurgensen, senior
banquet bash director.
"It is such tradition," Yurgensen said. "It's
the last big bang of your senior year."
The Ring Dance, which is also Saturday,
will be at 9 p.m in the Memorial Student Cen
ter and Rudder Complex. At the Ring Dance,
seniors will perform the traditional ring turn
ing ritual.
Price said, when passing through the ring
replica, seniors turn their ring around so that it
faces out for everyone to see what year they
graduated.
"The turning of the ring is a symbol of go
ing out into the real world," said Stephen
Dommert, a senior animal science major and
Senior Weekend '92 committee member.
Instead of attending the events, some stu
dents just get the traditional ring picture taken,
committee members said.
"There are a lot of students who go and get
pictures taken and don't go to the dance,"
Price said.
Students are encouraged to get their Ring
Dance pictures taken during the day when the
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Because of numerous prob
lems encountered by placing
zero limits on all Spanish 101,
102, 201 and 202 classes taught
in the FALL SEMESTER, the
Department of Modern and
Classical Languages has decid
ed to open these classes to ev
eryone on a "first come, first
served" basis.
On April 14, all Spanish 101,
102, 201 and 202 classes will be
open for telephone registration
until the sections are filled to
capacity. Once limits are
reached, registration will end.
Please know that if an that, bi
has already signed his or this poi
name on a waiting list, heotfl; Gag*
still must telephone regisienal, an<
get into the class since all pr;versity
ous waiting lists will be; In tl
carded. some c
This open registn: writing
applies only to the had up
semester; all summer Sprfered tl
classes remain restrict 1991.
graduating seniors, aBCag'
students must come ti vvorkin;
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May graduates hurry
to complete resumes
By Jayme Blaschke
The Battalion
Graduation is only a month
away, and many seniors are find
ing themselves scrambling to put
together a resume at the last
minute.
Many students put off writing
resumes as long as they can, and
seniors aren't the only guilty stu
dents, said Amy Petrik, desktop
publisher with Kinko's Copies in
College Station.
"We've got a lot of seniors
coming in now, needing resumes
before graduation," Petrik said.
"We also have juniors and sopho
mores coming in, trying to get re
sumes in time for co-oping, intern
ships and summer jobs."
"We also get a flood of stu
dents in whenever there's a career
fair on campus," she said.
Waiting until the last minute is
not the most productive way of
putting together a resume, said
Ron Winn, associate director in
Placement Services at Texas
A&M's Career Center.
For the best possible results,
students should start thinking
about their resumes the day they
step onto campus, not the day
they step off.
^Most problems in resumes
come from the quick fix," Winn
said. "Students can go to the
bookstore and get a book on re
sume writing, but the examples
given in the book look just like the
examples in all the other books.
"The real key is self-study and
soul searching," he said. "The re
sume is the student on paper and
is a key marketing tool."
When a student is preparing a
resume, the first thing they should
ask themselves is why they have
chosen their major, and what they
have done to prepare for it, Winn
said.
"Students should think about
their academic preparation and
how that fits in with their career
goals," he said. "This is important
because resumes are put together
to give potential employers a rea
son to invite the student to join
their company."
Another important item on re
sumes is the job objective, Petrik
said. Several years ago, objectives
often were ignored but now are
receiving more attention from po
tential employers.
"The objective has become
much more important and is now
much like a thesis to a term pa
per," she said. "Employers are
now looking for a well-defined
objective more and more."
Petrik said students can in
clude anything in their resume
that sets them apart such as com
puter or photographic skills.
"Include your skills even if it's
not directly related to the job be
cause employers want to know
what you can do," she said.
If a student needs assistance in
putting together the resume, there
is help available for them, Winn
said.
Placement Services, which is
under the Career Center, offers
advice to students who are unsure
about the resume building pro
cess.
"We provide resume work
shops several times a year at the
career center, and students don't
have to be seniors to attend," he
said.
"The student should get in
volved as early as possible, be
cause good resumes help in get
ting internships and summer jobs,
which in turn help in landing a
permanent job after graduation,"
he said
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Dance Arts Society
presents
"Destination Dance"
Tickets:
$2. students
$4. non-students
Friday,
April 10 th
8 p.m.
Rudder Theatre
Tickets available at the door
Budget forces class cuts in English
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By Karen Praslicka
The Battalion
Department head appraises impact
on teaching quality, required courses
The number of class cuts for
the fall has not been finalized,
but one department head is con
cerned about the potential effect
the cuts could have in his depart
ment.
Dr. Larry Mitchell, English de
partment head, said the depart
ment faces cuts in the number of
sections for some courses, which
also affects teaching quality.
"There will be drastic cuts in
all of our service courses unless
we can get help from some
source to recoup the losses we
suffered in the current budget
cuts," he said.
Mitchell said he has given an
impact statement, which states
the class cuts and how the de
partment was affected by the
budget cuts, to administrators.
"I know they're concerned
and will try to help us in any
way," he said.
Dr. E. Dean Gage, senior vice
president and provost for aca
demic affairs, said however, that
no cuts are final yet, and he still
is meeting with deans from all
colleges.
"We have some projections,"
he said. "But we're working
with the deans at this point to
look at making adjustments and
shifts to at least get as close as we
can to offering the same number
of courses as last fall. The sum
mer will have a few reductions,
but not any major ones."
Mitchell said this academic
year was the first that the depart
ment was able to accommodate
freshmen students who regis
tered for English 104, required
freshman English, and students
required to take ENGL 301, tech
nical writing.
However, during the summer
and fall of 1992 the department
will have enough sections of
these courses to do so again, he
said.
"We tried to protect freshman
English and technical wrili:l
but we're at the bottomofia
barrel," Mitchell said. "Werfl
bad shape."
In addition to 130 secfal
various service courses
the number of teaching assi
has been reduced from89toJ
for the fall.
Gage said there are somecl
demic departments showingil
ficulties in offering thesial
number of courses that they
last fall, mainly in the Colley
Science and Liberal Arts.
These difficulties have
determined using a prelims)
budget proposal, and there;-
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Program to feature noted Jungian psychologist
Lecture series to focus on dreams, dreamers
By Matari Jones
The Battalion
Myths and dreams are voices of nature in
which nature tries to become conscious of it
self, said an internationally known analytical
psychologist and guest lecturer visiting Texas
A&M.
"Dreams are private myths, and myths are
public dreams," said Dr. Anthony Stevens, an
analytical (Jungian) psychologist and author
from England. "In our dreams we are speak
ing to species, and the species answer back."
Stevens will be lecturing this weekend at
A&M about the natural world of the dreamer.
The natural world of the dreamer is really
the archetypal world, he said.
"Archetypes are innate structures that guide
us through the various stages of life," Stevens
said.
They are the basic and fundamental pat
terns of behavior and conscious experience, he
said. The characteristic behavioral actions be
tween mother and child such as smiling and
playing are examples of archetypes.
"Every night when we go to sleep, we enter
the archetypal world," he said.
Stevens said what happens in our personal
lives and the collective life of the species comes
together during sleep.
Animals update their strategy for survival
during sleep by drawing on the collective wis
dom of the species, he said.
Also the fetus in the womb spends most of
its time in the womb dreaming, Stevens said.
This can be verified by rapid eye movement
(REM) or an electroencephalogram (EEG).
Stevens is sponsored by the Carolyn and
Ernest Fay Lecture Series in Analytical!
chology.
The organization seeks to further the
of the late C.G. Jung and enhance scholar!
tivities related to analytical psychology,c
nizers said.
The lecture series begins \ofa\mdccntii,
ues through Sunday. Tickets forthektaie
ries are now available at the UniversityCenl
Box Office.
For more information on tickets contactt|
psychology department at 845-0477.
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