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THURSDAY
August 4, 1994
Vol. 93, No. 183 (6 pages)
“Serving Texas A&M since 1893"
|y Tracy Smith
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Texas A&M students can expect
wer parking tickets in coming
ears as the University increases
le number of parking spaces on
ampus and encourages students to
|de University buses.
Construction may begin as early
Is Summer ‘95 on a new parking
arage near the library, and A&M
puttie Bus Services are planning
|ve new on-campus routes.
Tom Williams, director of Park-
g, Transit and Traffic Services,
id the number of parking tickets
[as gradually declined over the
past five years because more spaces
are now available to the students.
“For many years, there were no
parking garages on campus so the
number of spaces where students
could park was limited,” Williams
said. “The number of parking tick
ets started going down as the park
ing garages were built and parking
lots expanded.”
Williams said the University re
ceives $900,000 a year for parking
violations, but are trying to de
crease this amount.
“All the money does go back into
the University system,” he said.
“PITS uses the money to build new
parking garages and keep parking
facilities running smoothly.
“The Board of Regents recently
approved a new parking garage by
the library, which will have ap
proximately 650 spaces.”
Williams said he is working in
conjunction with Student Govern
ment to get the student’s opinion
on the parking and bus systems.
He wants to offer incentives to stu
dents who have bus passes.
“Buses are convenient for the
students and don’t saturate the
roads,” he said. “It would be better
for 50 people to ride a bus, than
have 50 cars out on the road.”
Woody Isenhart, Texas A&M co
ordinator of Shuttle Bus Services,
said more people are riding the on-
and off-campus shuttle buses, but
they expect the numbers to in
crease.
“We are in the process of plan
ning five new on-campus routes to
better accommodate the students,”
Isenhart said. “These should help
get students where they need to go
faster than before.”
He said he sees a trend toward
fewer tickets as more students be
gin riding University buses.
“We encourage students to leave
their cars at home and ride the
bus,” he said. “Getting parking
tickets on campus can be easily
avoided with simple precautions.
But, sometimes it takes more
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Texas A&M’s Department of Small Animal
ledicine and Surgery and the Brazos Animal
|helter have started a joint venture to help save
limals’ lives.
In a summer pilot program, senior veterinary
Indents spay and neuter 12 animals from the
|razos Animal Shelter one day a week.
Kathy Bice, executive director of the shelter,
jsaid the venture adds flexibility for the animal
shelter.
“Since our policy is that no animals leave
lere without getting spayed or neutered, having
n area of conceU animals a week ready for adoption really
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“It has allowed us to save lives twice, here
and at A&M, and saving lives is what we are all
about.”
The Brazos Animal Shelter has attempted to
start such a program since 1989, but Bice said it
did not actually start until a couple of months
ago.
“The program has been so successful that we
have agreed to continue to do this on a long
term basis - 48 weeks per year,” she said.
Dr. Lisa Howe, clinical assistant professor of
Veterinary Medicine, said the program will be
come a permanent one.
“There are details to still work out, but it ap
pears that the program is a success and will be
come permanent,” Howe said.
She said the experience will be an asset to
the teaching program at A&M.
“It provides a day of intensive surgical expe
rience under the supervision of a surgeon,” she
said, “plus, when we go to the shelter to re
check the animals, it gives the students a
chance to see how an animal shelter operates.”
Dr. John August, head of the Department of
Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, said the
idea for the project came from the department’s
long association with the humane society of
Austin.
“We wantedKo do a similar thing with the ani
mal shelter here,” August said. “We had quite a
few meetings to find a way for A&M to help with
out interfering with- the relationship between the
adopted animals and local veterinarians.”
Please see Pets, Page 2
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Academic Building and the Cushing Library to
save it from oak wilt disease. The fungus in
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Other universities model
programs after Fish Camp
I must be on the front row
Marcella Pauli, an ‘84 graduate of A&M, runs the bleachers of
Kyle Field Wednesday afternoon. Pauli, who is a Certified Public
Accountant in College Station, began running again yesterday af
ter recovering from a knee injury.
By Brian Coats
The Battalion
Large universities interested
in starting camp-style freshman
orientations are taking notes on
Texas A&M’s Fish Camp, an off-
campus summer program for in
coming students.
Fish Camp consists of five
four-day sessions held in August
at Lakeview Methodist Confer
ence Center in Palestine. It is
designed to teach freshmen
about A&M traditions, provide
an opportunity to meet other
freshmen and upperclassmen,
and ease the transition between
high school and college.
Mike Knox, director of Fish
Camp ’95, said schools across
the nation have called him
wanting information about Fish
Camp.
“Other schools call all the
time,” he said. “Four or five
schools called this year wanting
information. Purdue and Okla
homa State came to camp last
year, and Arizona and Oklahoma
are coming to observe this year.”
Within the last year, Purdue
and Auburn Universities have
started off-campus orientations.
The University of Texas will be
holding the second “Camptexas”
August 22 to 23 and 25 to 26 on
Lake Travis.
Although some Texas stu
dents said the camp is modeled
after Fish Camp, Kristen Henry,
student relations coordinator for
the Texas Ex-Students’ Associa
tion, said it is different.
“We looked at programs
which help students bond with
their university, like Fish
Camp,” she said. “We created
our own programs and activities
though.”
Many Fish Camp staff mem
bers said Camptexas doesn’t
compare with Fish Camp be
cause A&M’s program is com
pletely student-run, while
Camptexas is run by adminis
trators and the Texas Ex-Stu
dents’ Association.
Camptexas is only open to
250 freshmen, while Fish Camp
serves over 3,500 A&M fresh
men.
Chris Cole, an associate direc
tor of Fish Camp, said Aggies
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By Stacey Fehlis
The Battalion
A Physical Plant program de
signed to help its employees
learn literacy and math efficien
cy skills has expanded across
the Texas A&M campus.
Gene Voelkel, training man
ager for the Physical Plant, said
the program was designed to
help employees qualify for other
types of training that allows
them to progress or possibly
qualify for other positions above
entry level.
“If an employee is hired at en
try level and then is not offered
an opportunity to compete for a
chance to be promoted, that em
ployee has been done a great in
justice,” he said. “Sooner or later
it will result in an unhappy or
unproductive worker.”
Voelkel said a GED (General
Education Development) pro
gram, which enables individu
als to earn their high school
equivalency certificate, was
started in 1986 for Physical
Plant employees.
"If an employee is hired at entry level and then
is not offered an opportunity to compete for a
chance to be promoted, that employee has
been done a great injustice."
— Gene Voelkel, Physical Plant training manager
Soon after, three other pro
grams were added when the de
partment realized not everyone
could start out at a high school
learning level.
“Many people are not ready to
pick up learning at a high school
level,” he said. “So the Adult
Basic Education (ABE) program
was added to help those with
grammar school and junior high
educations, as well as a program
called English as a Second Lan
guage (ESL) for those who do
not speak English fluently and a
one-on-one tutoring program
with Literacy Volunteers of
America.”
Voelkel said the Physical
Plant ran these programs for
two years when, in 1988, the
GED program was adopted cam
pus-wide.
“The president of the Univer
sity found out what success we
were having with our programs
and decided to adopt the GED
program campus-wide,” he said.
“Since 1988, the Physical Plant
still runs the ABE, ESL and the
one-on-one tutor program, but
the Human Resource Depart
ment has taken over the GED
program.”
Gib Sawtelle, senior training
and development specialist for
the Human Resources Depart
ment, said the main reason the
GED program was adopted cam-
pus-wide is because people are
hired at different levels and
some need the opportunity to
further their education.
“Human Resource’s main goal
is to help people develop to their
fullest potential,” he said. “Our
main resource is our employees
and the GED program gives us
an opportunity to help provide
better opportunities for them.”
Michelle Kinney, training and
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