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Topics covered by our resources include the following: Test Anxiety, Academic Stress, Studying, Time Management, Procrastination, Improving Memory, Motivation, Concentration, Effective Reading, Note-taking, and Math Anxiety. Preregistration is not required. 'Ci'Cs MBTI-Types for Learning Styles Feb. 28th Tues. 4-5p.m. Testing for Learning Styles Workshop must be completed by Wed., Feb.22nd. Preregistration will close 2 days before each workshop. Call one working day before the scheduled workshop to confirm the workshop has adequate enrollment to be presented. Walk- ins are welcome, but will be limited to available seating. Individual and Group Counseling Students may schedule an appointment with a counselor to discuss academic difficulties they are experiencing. ACE Student Volunteers are also available to discuss academic concerns on a drop-in basis. Weekly Support Groups: Stress Management Thesis/ Dissertation Survival After Midterms Single Parents Academic Brown Bag - Lunch Workshops Learning Skills Center The Learning Skills Center has a mission of assisting students in developing knowledge, skills, and attitudes which will enhance their study and test-taking abilities, while decreasing anxieties related to academic performance. Hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday - Thursday and 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Friday. An appointment is requested for the weekly evening hours of 5 to 7 p.m. Preregistration for workshops, counseling, and evening hours is requested! If you have any questions about the Learning Skills Center services, please contact Lyle Slack (845-4427) at the Student Counseling Service, Henderson Hall. Tuesday • February 28,199) Big 12 athletic directors meet □ University presidents have final say major issues though. KANSAS CITY(AP) — De termined to maintain their fragile unity, athletic directors and women’s administrators will meet for two days this week to review the many issues still to be resolved by the Big 12 Conference. The presidents of the 12 schools, who will make the ulti mate decisions on all major is sues, will not attend the meet ings in Kansas City on Tuesday and Wednesday. The sessions will focus on re ports from committees that have been studying revenue distribu tion, scheduling, academic re quirements, championship loca tions and a Big 12 football playoff. The Big 12, which has still not hired a commissioner, plans to begin business officially on July 1, 1996. “Above all, we’ve got to work to make decisons that are in the best interests of the conference,” Missouri athletic director Joe Castiglione said. “That has to clearly remain our focus. We need to build the engine and the interior before we decide what color to paint this new car.” Nevertheless, signs of tension have been growing between the original Big Eight schools and the four newcomers from Texas — Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Bay lor and Texas. Many officials in the Big Eight are miffed at talk coming out of Texas that the Big 12 offices could be headquar tered in Dallas. Since 1907, the Big Eight and its precursors have been located in Kansas City. Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams noted his displeasure recently when asked about Kansas athletic director Frederick being a candidate for Big 12 commissioner. “I don’t want him to leave. But if he does get the job think he will remember we were the Big Eight and we were doing pretty doggone well,’ 1 Williams said. “And we invited these four schools to come in. Now I read that it seems like we were the ones who were suffering, and those four Texas schools with their great care sort of took us in. It’s hard for me to under stand how that happened. “We’re going to move the NCAA office, the Big 12 office, the officials’ office, the BCA of fice, the Alvamar Golf Associa tion office down to Texas be cause that’s the only place left in the United States of Ameri ca. I get sick of hearing that garbage.” Reserves: Gaining experience despite limited playing time Continued from Page 9 other great Lady Aggies. “Hopefully, I will be remem bered as one of the good post players here,” Helvey said. “One who helped lead us to a championship. ” Lake is another Lady Aggie out of a traditionally successful high school wom en’s basket ball program. The Dun canville prod uct lettered three years for the late coaching legend Sandra Meadows. Lake is one of three Duncanville Pantherettes on the basketball team, joining Mc Clelland and guard Lana Tuck er. Lake said having them on the team helped her in her deci sion to attend A&M and has helped in her playing perfor mance. “They have helped me adjust here,” Lake said. “Just having some familiar faces has helped me out in order to get things go ing.” Harvey said Lake has been a great asset to the team. “Lake has pro vided us with some leadership at the backup point guard,” Harvey said. “She’s a great defensive player and she gives the team an addi tion that they did n’t Lave last year.” Lake said this year has been a learning experi ence for her. “Right now, I am learning a lot from the upper players that have been here for a while,” Lake said. “I just hope to keep improving so that one day I can contribute and help out.” Learning Skills Center Springl995 Services Rockets: Defense the name of the game in 86-78 victory Continued from Page 9 but it was not a bad game,” Williams said. “If we’re close in the fourth quarter we bother a lot of teams with our style. We’re missing a lot of key guys and we have to play slow and deliberate. The opposition doesn’t like that. I think it’s smart basketball.” “The key to the game was we missed the open shots at the end,” said Danny Ferry, who had nine points for Cleve land. “When you’ve got the screens and you’ve the pass, you’ve got to hit the open shot.” The first half was low- scoring with the Cavaliers holding a 38-36 lead despite shooting just 34 percent. Three-point shooting was abysmal for each team. Both the Rockets and Cava liers, whose 40 percent 3-point shooting is tops in the NBA, were l-for-8 from behind the arc in the first half. For the game, Houston connected just three of 16 3-point attempts, while the Cavaliers were 4-for- 16. The Rockets played most of the second half with just eight players. Carl Her rera was scratched just before the game after aggravating a hamstring injury. Then start ing forward Robert Horry took himself out four minutes into the third quarter after he re injured his back. The muscle injury forced him to miss five games earlier this month. Montana calling it quits SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Kansas City quarterback Joe Montana plans to retire before the NFL draft in April because he doesn’t think the Chiefs have a chance to win the Super Bowl, the San Jose Mercury News reported. In Sunday’s editions, the newspaper quoted sources as saying the four-time Super Bowl winner with the San Francisco 49ers is calling it quits “because he knows Kansas City isn’t going to the Super Bowl. (Chiefs president) Carl Peterson ap parently doesn’t want that to be used as an excuse for Joe retiring.” “He’s going to retire whether he uses the knee as an excuse or not is Joe’s right,” one source told the newspaper. The Contra Costa Times reported that Montana had scheduled knee surgery last week that would force him to retire. The surgery was not performed, although Mer cury News sources told the paper it is scheduled later this year. “These stories are planted by somebody,” Chiefs spokesman Bob Moore told The Associated FYess. “As to why, I have no idea. Some body has their own agenda. “I’m getting kind of tired of it because it’s every week. It’s always some source, then it’s another source. Who the hell their sources are I have no idea.” Montana was traded to the Chiefs in 1993. He missed five games that sea son due to injuries, but was healthy for most of last sea son, which ended with a playoff loss to the Miami Dolphins. : / jl: ’ fill;/ "A I RESTAURANT 1 s ■ iliiM ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET Lunch & Dinner • 7 Days a Week • Banquet Room • Mixed Drinks i i i i i i i i 2232 Texas Ave. S. 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