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Do YOU want more high quality programs and services on campus? The Memorial Student Center Council wants to hear your ideas, questions and concerns! Come and join us at the first ever: MSC COUNCIL OPEN FORUM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21st at 5:30 P.M. Rudder 301 4v Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you the best of our abilities. Page 4 • The Battalion Aggielife Wednesday • February 2l The Chosen Ones Fish Camp counselors prepare to welcome freshmi By john LeBas The Battalion !y Libe G he Bate All students, faculty and staff are invited to attend public hearings to discuss an increase of the General Use Fee Monday, February 26, 1996 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Rudder Theatre Tuesday, February 27, 1996 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Rudder Theatre Office of the President, Texas A&M University WANTED!!! Many diverse talents to perform at this year's annual MSC Variety Show on Parent's Weekend, April 12th. Applications are available in the Student Programs Office on the second floor of the MSC in the Variety Show cube. Applications should be completed and returned by Thurs. Feb. 22nd, no later than 5:00 PM. Audition dates are as follows: Tuesday, Feb. 27 6:30 - 10:30 PM 201 MSC Monday, Mar. 4 6:30 - 10:30 PM 201 MSC Tuesday, Mar. 5 6:30 - 10:30 PM 201 MSC Come join in on the tradition of Parent's Weekend!!! For more information, please call 845 - 1515. A new location. Same great quality care. St. Joseph Professional Building 2700 E. 29th St., Suite 330, Bryan David R. Doss, M.D. G. Mark Montgomery, M.D. Royal H. Benson, III, M.D. Betty Gingold Acker, M.D. Fellows, American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology Sue Cote, R.N.C. Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner Linda Kapusniak Registered Dietitian Mary E. Walraven, I.C.C.E. Certified Childbirth Educator BRAZOS VALLEY WOMEN'S CENTER ALWAYS ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS. EVENING HOURS AVAILABLE. FOR AN APPOINTMENT, CALL 776-5602 W here women go for answers BVWC is a member of Blue Choice. Alliance and most other major health care plans. F or many incoming freshmen, the transition from high school to college is over whelming and even frightening. But lest they lose all faith, coun selors for this year’s Fish Camp are already preparing to help ease the process. Fish Camp 1996 counselors were selected Monday. For the next six months, the 828 Texas A&M student volunteers will strengthen friendships and plan activities for their August camps. Robyn Johnson, assistant Fish Camp director and a senior speech communications major, said this year’s counselors were chosen through an application and interview process. The co chairs of the 36 camps picked the counselors from over 1400 appli cants, she said. “We have counselors from the Class of ’94 through the Class of ’99,” Johnson said. Diversity is an important con sideration in the selection process, she said. “The co-chairs want every type of group that’s represented on campus to be represented in their camp, to reach as many freshmen as possible,” she said. Neal Linnartz, a Fish Camp counselor and a sophomore agri cultural engineering major, said the counselors’ job entails just that — reaching the freshmen by creating a welcoming camp envi ronment. He said a welcoming en vironment is the product of coun selor interaction. “We’ll get to know each other so that we’re friends by then,” he said. Friendship among the coun selors is essential to making the freshmen feel comfortable at camp and at A&M, he said. Johnson said that over the next few months, the counselors are required to attend three meet ings, where they will learn how to lead discussion groups and about A&M traditions. She said that throughout the spring and summer, the coun selors will likely bowl, camp or even water ski together — any thing that may allow them to get to know each other better. Rony Angkriwan, TiitBc Amy Rowden, a senior biomedical science major, Maureen Hol\ freshman computer scien< e major, Julie Crowe, a sophomoremal md a le? major, and Kary Hobbs, a sophomore math major, check to seeii they were chosen to be Fish Camp counselors. coming freshmen might be In addition, the counselors will be making camp signs and posters, creating camp yells and spending time with their camps’ namesakes. Mark Lemmons, a Fish Camp counselor and a senior manage ment major, said the strong rela tionships that develop between counselors may occasionally blur the focus of Fish Camp, despite the level of counselor dedication. “In the process before Fish Camp,” he said, “you tend to bond with the other counselors pretty tightly, and you have to remind yourself that you’re there for the freshmen and for their needs,and to give them a positive camp experience.” Melissa Jackson, a second- year Fish Camp counselor and a sophomore business major, said her positive experience with Fish Camp last summer drove her to apply again this year. She has remained friends with several freshmen and other counselors from her camp, and she is encouraged by the trans formation of her “fish” from wide-eyed freshmen to involved and confident college students. “It’s really neat to know that I helped them, in part, become the people that they are now at A&M,” she said. Although Jackson said she worried last summer that being only a year older than the in- tines ele: “This mything | a Pulp F found i feet,” Bie First-- lenior c a awkward, she younger age to be beneficial "I think they felt like}a be more of a friend than® one they had to look up to,’a j “fj y said. “Also, I had just(jj Sov through everything they*" about to go through within past year, so I really relate! how they were feeling. Johnson said students!! interested in becoming invok with this year’s Fish Camp apply for Fish Crew, theboi: cam P us tality committee of Fish Cam; She said Fish Crewisans cel lent opportunity to inters with freshmen. Lemmons said anyone i ested in preserving the trai: tions of A&M should consiai sualizal becoming a counselor. “As a counselor, you can sonally see to it that the fi men understand our traditia and what they mean,” he sail Johnson said Fish Camp an embodiment of Aggie and an invaluable learning perience. “It binds so many differe; groups of people together, they all have one common gt to help ease the transition freshmen from high school seni® to college students,” she said. “I feel that I learn as i from the freshmen as till! learn from me.” ey r. com lut bank: the pa here sh iher McC e to fi a devic e who e world Add a acked s< eated t nuch lik mthor W Jay B Via c< wrote an the eigh for their Filmi ambitioi son and their fac “Our help us come ba Most graduat arts, wh them ar “Peop ment,” 1 Inste rials to investee After bought film. The owneqr Buyi the two withotl AGGIES WITH KIDS We Want Youi Opinion Texas A&M University is creating an on-campus child care center which will be located in Research Park (off Raymond Stotzer Parkway) and which will accomodate approximately 100 children, ills possible that a second center will also be established which will address part-time or flexible chilli care needs. Students, faculty and staff are eligible to use the center(s). Your responses to this sur vey will help us assess your child care needs and expectations related to the design and operation of this center. Please complete this survey if you HAVE children or are EXPECTING a child, and if you MIGHT BE INTERESTED in using a Child Care Center at Texas A&M University. Complete this survey once. Thank you in advance for your valuable input. SURVEY DEMOGRAPHICS: 1. Are you (please check all that apply): Faculty Staff *Student: Undergraduate Graduate/Professional 2. Are you: Married Single If you are married, is your spouse employed by TA MU. Y E S _ NO 3. Ages of your children for whom you would want child care services? Age Birthdates Due date, if pregnant 4. Do you currently have Child Care Management Systems (CCMS) funding? YES NO CHILD CARE SERVICE PREFERENCES: Please list the DAYS you would need child care services?(Please check ALL that apply) Monday ^Thursday Saturday Tuesday Friday Sunday Wednesday Please list the HOURS you would regularly use child care services? (Please check ALL that apply) ■ 7 to 8 a.m. 12 to 1p.m. 5 to 6 p.m. ■ 8 to 9 a.m. 1 to 2 p.m. 6 to 7 p.m. - 9 to 10 a.m. 2 to 3 p.m. 7 to 8 p.m. .10 to 11 a.m 3 to 4 p.m. 8 to 9 p.m. .11 to 12 noon 4 to 5 p.m. 9 to 10 p.m. cut this out and drop it off at locations listed CHILD CARE COSTS: 1. How much do you currently pay for child care services for each child? $ per hour (number of children $ per week (number of children $ per month (number of children $ other - please specify: 2. Would you consider paying more for child care than you currently pay, provided the TAMU Child Care services better met your expectations? YES NO GENERAL CHILD CARE SERVICE EXPECTATIONS 1. What would you look for in an on-campus child care center? (Please state as many expectations as you wish i.e. availability, curriculum, sick children services, infant care) 2. Would you seriously consider using the on-campus child care center at Texas A&M University? YES NO, probably not Please return this survey by Thursday, February 29, 1996. You can drop this survey off at the following locations: SURVEY DISTRIBUTION & DROP-OFF LOCATIONS: • Student Life, 112 John J. Koldus Bldg. • Student Activities, 125 John J. Koldus Bldg. • Financial Aid, 2nd Roor Pavilion • Memorial Student Center, front desk • Wehner Bldg., 1st floor entrance/exit closest to Bio Bl(ft • Memorial Student Center, Student Programs Office • Veterinary Medicine Bldg., Rm 81 VDM (or BIMS Deans Office) • Vice President for Student Services, 10th floor Rudder or send it via CAMPUS MAIL to: Mary Miller Associate Vice President for Administration Child Care Center Advisory Committee Chair Campus Mail #1247 845-0555 just ask any University office to include it in their outgoing campus mail!! Tx fi. *■
