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Up against the wall!
JOSEPH GREENSLADE/The Battalion
Paul Field, a freshman biology major from Waco, leaps head first
onto a velcro wall near Rudder Fountain. The wall is part of the
Intercollegiate Health and Fitness Fair.
Building needs name: Koldus?
By JULI PHILLIPS
The Battalion
The new Student Services
Building should be named after
someone who has dedicated his
life to students, such as Dr. John
Koldus, said the new speaker of
the Student Senate on Wednes
day.
Russell Langley said since the
building has been partially paid
for by and dedicated to students,
it would be appropriate to name
the building for the retiring vice
president for student services, he
said.
Langley said the administra
tion should see this as a way to
honor Koldus.
Last week, the Student Senate
passed a resolution asking for the
Student Services Building to be
renamed after the vice president.
After the resolution passed
unanimously, Koldus half-joked
to the Senate that naming build
ings is a good fund-raiser, and he
did not have enough money to
have a building named for him.
Even though the bill easily
passed, senators voiced skepti
cism that anything would ever be
done as a result of the bill.
Brooke Leslie, an off-campus
senator and former speaker pro
temp, said, "Dr. Koldus is a great
man and we will surely miss him.
We know that this will not hap
pen immediately, but we can
hope that with the help of Brian
Walker (the new student body
president) and (University Presi
dent) Dr. Mobley, something will
be done."
So far, no apparent action has
been taken by the University to
rename the building.
Sahaj Marg offers meditation: yoga of the mind
By BELINDA BLANCARTE
The Battalion
Reaching complete oneness
with God is the goal of people
who meditate through Sahaj Marg
— yoga of the mind, Rama
Devagupta, a chemistry graduate
student, said Thursday.
Devagupta will discuss Sahaj
Marg at 7 p.m. Saturday in Room
145 of the MSC. The free seminar
will include an informal
discussion of Sahaj Marg and a
question and answer session.
Sahaj Marg means "the natural
path" and is used to achieve
spiritual evolution, Devagupta
said. "It utilizes the power of
thought to recognize that divinity
is within our hearts," she said.
Sahaj Marg includes two
periods of half-hour meditation —
the morning and evening. The
morning meditation helps one
create a sense of peace within
themselves, Devagupta said.
"As we practice it more and
more, we experience the presence
of divinity in the heart and in all
human beings," she said. "It leads
to the tolerance of all humans and
to the breaking down of barriers."
The evening meditation is
called cleaning, and its purpose is
to release one's self of the day's
tension, Devagupta said. "It
removes all the unwanted
tendencies of the mind," she said.
Sahaj Marg is open to people of
any religious denomination and
allows for people to have any or
no belief in God, Devagupta said.
"The system thinks of God as
nameless and shapeless," she
said. "It does not come in conflict
with any religions and any person
of any religion can do it. We're
saying it's natural for human
beings to be with God.
"God can be seen as our
internal nature," she said.
"Essentially we talk of God as
infinite love."
Devagupta said that although
oneness with God is the ultimate
oal, other benefits can come from
ahaj Marg.
"The least benefit it has is less
anger, less frustration," she said.
"Even under stressful situations, I
can feel a sense of peace and
harmony within myself. I do
believe that I am a better person
than I was yesterday."
During the meditation, the
people sit in a comfortable
osition with their eyes shut,
hey then recite in their minds
that the divine light is in their
hearts, she said.
"We treat other thoughts like
uninvited visitors," Devagupta
said. "It helps us concentrate so
our minds don't jump around like
monkeys."
Devagupta said people
beginning Sahaj Marg must
continue meditation for three or
four months to notice any
changes. Though, she saia,
people are not pressured into
continuing Sahaj Marg and can
stop at any time.
"It's like going to aerobics to
lose weight; if I go just two days,
nothing happens, sne said. "One
has to practice only because they
want to do it. They can leave any
time. There are no fears. We never
try to force anybody."
Sahaj Marg was founded in
1945 by Shri Ram Chandra in
India.
Aggie Moms' Club to inaugurate 51st leader
By CHERYL HELLER
The Battalion
Margaret Freeman, a member
of the Kerrville and Brazos Coun
ty Aggie Moms Clubs since 1971,
will be inaugurated Saturday as
the 51st president of the Federa
tion of Texas A&M University
Mothers' Clubs.
Freeman, a six-year federation
member, will hold the office for
one year.
"I had hoped I would be cho
sen, and I'm very pleased and
proud," she said. "I plan to do
everything I
can to make
this year a suc
cess/'
The installa
tion ceremony
will be held in
Rudder Theater
at 9:30 a.m. Sat
urday morning,
and a coffee for
Aggie Moms
attending Parents' Weekend will
be held in the lobby from 8:30-
9:15 a.m.
Mildred May, a San Antonio
Freeman
Aggie Moms Club member and
former Federation president, will
conduct the ceremony assisted by
Jane Buck of the Kerrville club.
The Aggie Moms provide sup
port for Texas A&M students and
the University. Last year, the
club raised over $140,000 for
scholarships and campus organi
zations.
The Aggie Moms Club was
founded in February 1922 when
Ada Peoples of Dallas and 11
Texas A&M mothers organized
the first club.
This year marks the 65th an
niversary of the Aggie Moms
Federation, which was formed in
1928 by the eight clubs then in
existence.
Today, there are 87 Aggie
Moms Clubs throughout Texas
with a membership of over 6,000
mothers.
The first international Aggie
Moms Club, the Koriyama chap
ter, was installed Wednesday at
Texas A&M, and a Pike's Peak
chapter for mothers of students
from Colorado will be installed
Friday at 2 p.m. in Duncan Din
ing Hall.
Factories need humanization, prof says
Former Harvard educator suggests
change necessary in manufacturing
Dr. Wickham Skinner
By TODD STONE
The Battalion
The fate of U.S. manufacturing
industry rests on the ability of in
dustrial leaders to humanize the
factory, said a retired professor
from Harvard Business School at
Rudder Tower Thursday.
"We have to do a much better
job with people in our factories,"
said Dr. Wickham Skinner.
"Somehow our factories have to
become more humanistic in the
sense of what we value in our so
ciety if we're to make them the
real strong leverage we so desper
ately need in our economy."
Skinner said manufacturing in
dustries, more specifically the fac
tory, have lost value to society.
This is a contradiction because
manufacturing jobs create three
times more gross national product
than a service-related job.
"We have a post industrial so
ciety," Skinner said, "but we have
a neo-industrial world - where
the world is living in industrial
terms."
In 1960, 33 percent of the
world's manufacturing came from
the United States, Skinner said.
Today, only that percentage has
fallen to 10 percent.
With 75 percent of U.S. jobs in
service-related industries, econo
mists and other researchers have
said the United States has moved
from an industrial to a service
economy.
Skinner disagrees because 18 to
25 million service-related jobs are
dependent on the manufacturing
sector.
Distributors, sales personnel,
telecommunications, consultants,
accountants, advertisers all de
pend on the manufacturing sector
at various levels.
"Don't let anyone tell you this
is a service ^donomy, and don't let
them tell you we don't need to
something about manufacturing,"
he said.
Because of this dependency,
Skinner said a healthy U.S. econo
my will depend on the success or
failure of top leaders in U.S. man
ufacturing.
These 5000-7000 managers will
make the decisions about product,
quality, research and people that
will have "enormous implica
tions" on the
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