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
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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.
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The Chosen Ones
Fish Camp counselors prepare to welcome freshmi
By john LeBas
The Battalion
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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.
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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
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