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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1995)
s Deion Worth It? I Stick to your guns Pretty boys Pro/Con: Should Deion Sanders be able to sell his talents to the NFL's highest bidder? Percival: Concealed handguns will make for safer streets. Sports, Page 7 Opinion, Page 11 Appearances do not matter: To Wong Fu is duller than it seems. Aggielife, Page 3 The Battalio 102, No. 11(12 pages) Established in 1893 Monday* September 11, 1995 lisrupt nature iverability ‘ssed witil pportunity ar player, verned | n not si * >mpetitio| ’olicy said, ker room lid they're back, but prepara season SC, Corps aim to increase Cadet involvement e a great nd if not, ■'e Young ring as a □ The MSC Council and the relations between the two organiza tions, he is encouraging cadet involve- Corps are working to increase ment in activities outside the Corps. i . , K “Every freshman was required to cadet representation in MSC activities. In recent years, participation has been lacking. By Kasie Byers The Battalion Stew Milne, The Battalion na Stub orps Commander Tyson Voelkal and MSC Council esident Patrick Conway are working to increase - del representation in MSC activities. nders is Texas A&M’s Corps of Cadets and MSC Council are making good on a promise from last spring to im prove cadet involvement in MSC ac tivities and organizations. Tyson Voelkel, Corps commander, said that as a first step in heightening attend this semester’s MSC Open House,” Voelkel said. “We’re getting more numbers involved in the MSC and making [cadets] more aware of other activities they can get involved with besides the Corps.” Jonathan Neerman, MSC Council executive vice president of relations, said the Corps has strong roots in the MSC because it was built when all students had to be cadets. However, in recent years the Corps has not shown an interest in the Council, Neerman said. “In the three years I have been here, there hasn’t been much Corps involve ment in the MSC,” he said. “Cadets are so busy with the Corps, they have no time for outside activities. “No concerted effort by either group was made to find common ground. But this year, the communication gap has been bridged with hopes of making progress in many areas.” Voelkel said he views Corps involve ment in the MSC as a means of improv ing leadership among the cadets. “A&M is one large leadership lab,” he said. “And as Corps commander I believe the [Corps] to be the strongest component of this lab as far as student leaders go. “However, I want the Corps to gain outside leadership and let others see we’re students too. We’re not some kind of monsters or skinhead Nazis running around the campus.” Patrick Conway, MSC Council pres ident, said he sees a better relation ship between the two groups this year. “The Corps and MSC will have a strong bond this year due to the indi viduals involved: Tyson Voelkel, Carl Baggett and Marc Mulkey from the Corps, and Jonathan Neerman from the MSC,” Conway said. A total turnaround in relations is already evident, Neerman said. “The MSC Council has always had a place for the Corps commander at its meeting table,” he said. “In the past, that place was always empty, but since Tyson [Voelkel] has become Corps commander, there has been Corps rep resentation at every meeting.” Neerman said this representation makes MSC decisions more complete because the Corps makes up a signifi cant population at the University. he's go- es going; iout the eady for ?n team because : >d win," e can’t j -actions : friends d here. >r hap- TEES awarded grant for research center jThe National Science Foundation Center at A&M will allow engineering jiaduate students to see the (/irect results their research lias on industry. vier Martinez The Battalion The National Science Foundation has warded the Texas Engineering Experi- aent Station $250,000 to establish an Industry-University Cooperative Re search Center for Electronic Materials, Jevices and Systems. The CEMDAS is a joint effort with the Iniversity of Texas at Arlington where complementary experiments will take place. The center will also work with Prairie View A&M University’s NASA Center for Applied Radiation Research. TEES received $50,000 a year for five years for the program. Dr. Raghvendra K. Pandey, an A&M engineering professor who will direct the A&M facility, said the center will help bridge the gap between industry and educational research facilities. “One of the goals of the center is to work in collaboration with industry, government laboratories and private foundations to facilitate information ex change, technology transfer and com mercialization,” Pandey said. Industry advisers will work closely with the universities to help direct specific pro jects with practice industrial applications. See TEES, Page 9 Stew Milne, The Battalion Jason Vrooman, freshman biomedical science major, works out at the Student Rec Sports Center. Club owners remain optimistic despite Rec Sports Center success □ Local health club owners and managers said long lines at the Rec Center and loyal clientele will keep their businesses in shape. By Elizabeth Todd The Battalion Health club management in the Bryan-College Station area have no ticed a decline in business since the Aug. 28 opening of the Student Recreation Center. However, some clients went to the center on the first day of classes, ea ger to try out the new equipment, health club management reported, but they returned the next day to their regular gyms. Don Pietro, general manager of Lifestyles gyms, is remaining objective about the center’s opening. “Anytime you get a new guy in town, it’s going to affect established businesses,” Pietro said. “They built a state-of-the-art facility over there, but we’ve been here for 10 years.” Pietro said he believes students will not settle for waiting in line for a Rec Center workout. While the center does See Success, Page 9 Tim Moog, The Battalion Brotherly love Brett Mendenhall, sophomore business administration major, and Brett Scheleand, sophomore mechanical engineering major, are lifted up by their new fraternity brothers after accepting their bids Friday afternoon in front of the Systems Building. Planning ahead simplifies graduate, professional school application process □ The complicated application process can be alleviated through the help of the Office of Professional School Advising. By Melissa Keerins The Battalion Students who are interested in ap plying for graduate or professional school should start finding out the ad mission requirements now. Dr. Anne Blum, head of Texas A&M’s Office of Professional School Ad vising, said as soon as a student has a notion that they want to go to a profes sional school, they should come to the office and get started. “We have full-time pre-law and full time pre-health advisers on staff,” Blum said. “We also have free medical and law newsletters that students can sign up for.” The office has information about pro fessional schools in Texas and their pre requisites and has an extensive library with information on out-of-state schools. The office provides student work shops that explain the entire applica tion process step-by-step. Greg Ritchie, a student worker at the professional school advising office and a senior biomedical science major, said the longer students wait to the ap ply, the harder it is to be accepted to a graduate school. “People need to get their applications started now,” Ritchie said. “If you wait too long then you will not have as great a chance to get accepted.” Students should start the long appli cation process as soon as they meet all the prerequisites, Ritchie said. “The sooner they get an application sent in, the sooner they can get an in terview from the school and then get accepted,” he said. He advised students to register for the basic workshop and pick up a general in formation sheet as soon as possible. During the application process, stu dents must write an essay, which the office will help edit. Jennifer Pettit, a senior biology ma jor, is applying to dental school and said the process has been easy because of the professional advising office. “They have a time line in the office that tells you where you should be in the application process,” Pettit said. “It tells you when you should take your applica tion test and other important dates.” If a student is interested in graduate studies, many departments offer gradu ate degrees. Students should talk to the departments to which they Eire applying and find out if there are any deadlines. See SCHOOL, Page 9 Graduate students face pressure from committee □ To finish their degree plans, graduate students must have their thesis or dissertation approved by a committee, which some students say is a hindrance. By Courtney Walker The Battalion Graduate students say they face pressure from graduate advisers and committee members who have the power to make or break their chances of getting a degree. Graduate students begin by filing a degree plan and choosing a committee to approve the plan, classes, hours and all details related to their degree plan. Dr. James C. Hoiste, associate direc tor for the office of graduate studies, said every degree plan is different be cause graduate students present their own list of courses and curriculum. “The whole premises is designed to be flexible and meet the students’ See Graduate, Page 9 'pHSmjM si