The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 16, 1996, Image 10

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    TEXAS A&M FOOTBALL
12th Man/Walk-On Tryouts
MANDATORY
Organizational Meeting
Ttiesday, Feb. 20,1996
5:00 p.m.
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• Must be enrolled in 12 hours
• start College after Fall ‘92
• MUST ATTEND MEETING
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MONDAY, FEB. 19, 10:15 - 11.00 AM
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FRIDAY, FEB 23, 3:00-3:45 PM
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845-0544
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Education
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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
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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
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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.
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