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TEXAS A&M FOOTBALL 12th Man/Walk-On Tryouts MANDATORY Organizational Meeting Ttiesday, Feb. 20,1996 5:00 p.m. FOOTBALL LOCKER ROOM • Must be enrolled in 12 hours • start College after Fall ‘92 • MUST ATTEND MEETING FOR MORE INFO 845-1235 STUDY ABROAD AT SANTA CHIARA! INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS - 358 BIZZELL HALL WEST MONDAY, FEB. 19, 10:15 - 11.00 AM TUESDAY, FEB. 20, 3:00 - 3:45 PM FRIDAY, FEB 23, 3:00-3:45 PM STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS 161 Bizzell Hall West 845-0544 Page 10 • The Battalion Education Continued from Page 1 without formal educations a supply of basic information. Davis Mayes, agricultural communications specialist, said the department wanted a program that would help im migrants with some of the ba sic problems they are facing. “We wanted to present a program that gave people some help in solving some of the practical problems in their life,” Mayes said. “We made it in an enter taining format that was also portable and allowed one to learn at one’s own pace.” Mayes said a main goal of the program is to help immigrants with cultural assimilation. “These people are often new to this country and coming from harsh conditions,” Mayes said. “There are some great differ ences people have just adjusting to the culture and understanding where help is available.” To this end, the program pro vides information about parent ing and money management. Ida Dromgoole, county ex tension agent for Family & Consumer Sciences with A&M’s Agricultural Extension Service in Hidalgo County, Conflict Continued from Page 1 community college. She said the experience led to her current interest in improving team communication by reducing conflict through negotiation. “I am primarily interested in communication aspects of how teams can improve their communication during a con flict situation and how can they avoid escalating the con flict,” she said. Putnam received the Wool- bert Award for Innovative Re search in 1993 for an article she wrote about interpretative research in organizational communication. Dr. Charles Conrad, A&M professor of speech communica tion, said Putnam has taken a Campus Friday • February 16, said the program helps young families become self-reliant. “CD-i has been a really im portant part of helping people to change their own feelings and attitudes about education and helping them deal with life skills,” Dromgoole said. The program, which is in its infancy, has received positive feedback so far. Because the program is still in its development phase, Mayes said he is not yet sure how effective it will be, al though he is optimistic. “We don’t know if this is go ing to work or not but we have good feelings about it,” Mayes said. “We’ve done some field testing, and think it has some really good possibilities.” Mayes said he was concerned people might not welcome the strange, new technology, but because they were already ac customed to television remote controls, it was easy for them to adapt to the CD-i program. “People were very familiar with using remote on televi sions, so it wasn’t a hurdle for them,” Mayes said. Beals said the program probably will be extended into the public school systems. “We are taking the program into public schools to try to lower high pregnancy and drop-out rates,” Beals said. unique approach to organiza tional communication. “People used to look at situ ational factors and the out comes, but ignored what was actually said during the con flict,” Conrad said. “Linda’s work has fundamentally changed that.” Putnam has served as the president of the International Association for Conflict Man agement and is a fellow of the International Communication Association. Scott Poole, A&M professor of speech communication, said Putnam’s work has brought a unique perspective to the field of conflict management even on an international level. “She has been a leader in the international scene in re search and practice and has brought a unique and helpful interdisciplinary perspective to that field,” Poole said. Mediation Continued from Page 1 water contamination and over whelming animal odor. In a Jan. 23 letter to Gov. George Bush, Schaffer expressed his community’s concerns and asked Bush to intervene. Residents wrote Bush and state senators and legislators a year ago, too. Thus far, Texas legislators have not intervened in the dispute. Etta Ruth William, a Brushy Creek resident, said she desper ately wants ASTRECtobi banned from her community. “All we want is peace, hap piness and good health,' Williams said. “If they build here, then even tually it will cause pollution ani contamination in the water.” But Beverly and other Uni versity officials have said repeat edly that complete scientifit evaluations indicate it is safe to place ASTREC in Brushy Creek. The complex is scheduled to be completed in the sum mer of 1997. Amy Browning, The Baitauon PLAY SOME SKYNYRD! Joel Phason, a senior mechanical engineering technology ma jor, takes advantage of Thursday's beautiful weather to play guitar for his friends in front of Moore Hall. NETWORK Saturday, February 17th 8:00 p.m. Rudder Theater Call 845-1234 for ticket information Call (800) 592-2121 ext. 341 to enter USA UP ALL NIGHT COLLEGE COMEDY TOUR Presenting FREUDIAN SLIP Sponsored by the Memorial Student Center Presented in part by ■HSypW CABLE TV yc Eacl pffices onigh Meml mnity andide onight iamu-: KAM olitica Mich< he Bat unning irms ai The ( os Vail rs, will five pi rogran Janel loyee a aid the iditical “It’s r vhere (< or and 1 Pauli ions of !0S Cou s< Osti in sn I'oun gene Profc By Ke The b D e : MSC hona A&M their her tc and s jar, si are o ttiosit c ans i “Ji
