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Attention Aggies $ Cash For Your Car $ Local Dealer Will Pay Up to $2500“" For Your Mid-80’s Foreign Car 1412 S. Texas in Bryan Ask for Pat 823-2290 YOUR AD SHOULD BE HERE! Call 845-2696 The Battalion Vahakn Dadrian, Ph.D. Sociologist and Author “The Comparative Aspects of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide: A Socio'Historical Perspective” Rudder Tower Room 292-B Tuesday, April 9, 1996 at 7:30 P.M. sponsored by the Armenian Students Association at Texas A&M University and the Texas Armenian American Action Committee NSC Variety Show This Friday!!! Tickets on Sale Now 845-1234 CraftMasters’ Mall 1 1857 Briarerest Drive • Bryan Over 180 Booths of Handcrafted Items )/. • Ceramics f,j • Needlecraft ^ • wooacraits Hi i • — 1 Ceramics Needlecraft • Stained Glass jj • Baby Items • Floral Hi Ar rangements • J ewelry • Woodcrafts • Porcelain Dolls ^ • Collectibles • Aggie Items • Wearable Art f^A&M Coins, Shirts, Commemorative Party Invitations, ji. Stationary & Personalized Collectable Houses l i Local - Out of Town - Out of State Artists • Booths Available For Rental Mon.- Sat. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. rn pm f-m |\* Stop by and get that perfect gift for any occasion. 776-0870a *>l;! JSSicyv s ; |.#! ^ clRtv S). 3'CdxrLT£e^/ ‘Very Personal Investments Attention Students Force Dates for English 210 & 301 The Department of English - Writing Programs Office announces forcing for graduation seniors only for techni cal writing courses (English 210 and English 301) in Blocker 224 on the dates below: Summer I and Fall Semesters Wednesday, May I Thursday, May 2 Summer I Only Friday, May 31 Fall Semester Only Thursday, August 29 Summer II Only Wednesday, July 3 Forcing Hours 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Page 2 • The Baitalion Campus & State Tuesday • April 9,19M 313 B South College Ave., College Station (409) 846-8916 An authorized TAG Heuer dealer. Graduating seniors must bring a signed letter from their aca demic advisor on departmental letterhead indicating the semester of graduation. Seats will be available for the semester of graduation only. The Writing Programs office does not guarantee seats to graduation seniors in any class, including English 210 and English 301. However, we will do whatever we can to accommodate students who come to our office during announced force dates. Once again, we will not be able to force students who do not come in during force dates. No forces will be done during pre-registration. For more information see our Web page at this address: http://engserve.tamu.edu/files/writingprograms/mlesforforcing.html news BRIEFS Korean War veterans speak to Aggies today Several Korean War veterans will be visiting Texas A&M Wednesday to share their experiences and percep tions of the war. They will be speaking at 12:40 p.m. in 108 Harrington Education Center. Dr. Arnold P. Krammer, a history professor, is hosting the veterans to in crease students' knowledge of the war. Student body president accepting applications Carl Baggett; the newly elected Texas A&M student body president, is accept ing applications for positions on his Stu dent Government Executive Council. Applications for executive vice president of administration, vice pres ident for finance, vice president for programming and operations, vice president of communications, and ju dicial board chair will be available at 8 a.m. today in the Student Govern ment Office in the Koldus Building. Applications are due Friday at 5 p.m., and candidates will be inter viewed Sunday, April 14. Students are not required to be up perclassmen or to have Student Gov ernment experience to apply. Sociology prof honored for military service Maj. Harold E. Conway, a Texas A&M sociology professor, was hon ored yesterday at the Sam Houston Sanders Corps Center. Conway is re tiring from the U.S. Air Force Reserves after 41 years of service. Conway teaches sociology courses at A&M, Blinn College and in Texas prisons. Aggie women's groups hosting potluck dinner Texas A&M women's groups are hosting a Potluck in the Park 5 p.m. Wednesday at Hensel Park. The event is to promote understand ing of the diversity among campus women's groups, and all interested stu dents, faculty and staff are invited. Attendees are asked to bring a food dish to share. For information, contact Karen Roedl at 779-6529. Correction A March 22 Page 2 news brief should have stated that Quality Day, April 11, spon sored by several corporations and Texas A&M’s Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, is a separate event from The College of Education’s April 8-10 Seminar on Imple menting Continuous Improve ment Quality in Colleges and Universities. As part of Quality Day, a panel of students from Student Government, the MSC and the Student Finance Center will discuss A&M’s total quality management efforts at 1:40 p.m. in Rudder Tower. All stu dents and faculty are invited. SI programs give help for traditionally tough courses Leaders and students benefit from the study groups By Courtney Walker The Battauon Many Texas A&M students dread the idea of taking a fresh man history or math course more than once. But for some students, repeating courses is a way to help their classmates. Not only do A&M Supple mentary Program leaders at tend course lectures a second time, they endure the exams and lead study groups outside of class. Eric Walker, a junior chem istry major and SI leader, spends 12 hours a week help ing other students master Physics 218. “The program is a good idea because the SI leaders can offer a different view than the in structors and teaching assis tants,” Walker said, “and some times participants can relate better to another student.” Walker and other SI leaders are undergraduate students who have academically excelled in particular courses and who volunteer in subsequent semes ters to lead informal study groups for that course. Brandon Sucher, an SI leader and sophomore biomedical sci ence major, said sometimes stu dents are skeptical because the leaders are undergraduate stu dents, but after one session, they are usually impressed. “Last semester a guy came up to me after a session and said he wasn’t sure about com ing, but now he would be there every time,” Sucher said. SI is a national program that originated at the Universi ty of Missouri Medical School in Kansas City. Sessions are free and open to all students enrolled in the course sections. Attendance is voluntary. Leaders must have at least a 3.0 grade-point ratio in the courses they are teaching and a 2.7 overall. All SI leaders attend their designated courses, take notes, read assigned material, work closely with the professor and conduct one-hour study ses sions three times a week. Sucher said he has enjoyed being a SI leader so much that he is considering teaching uni versity-level chemistry. “1 started last semester when a friend in my physics lab told me about it, and I de cided to do it to help master my premed MCAT exam,” Sucher said. “But I got such personal satisfaction out of helping people, I decided to keep doing it.” The SI program is coordinat ed by the Center for Academic Enhancement and is designed to target historically difficult freshman- and sophomore-level courses, such as accounting, biochemistry, biology, chem istry, economics, genetics, his tory, math, physics, political science and psychology. Colleges and departments assist selection of the course sections targeted by SI leaders. Catherine Toler, program coordinator for the Center for Academic Enhancement, said the SI program is different from traditional tutoring pro grams because it focuses on difficult courses instead of at- risk students. “A history class of 300 can be very intimidating for a first-se mester freshman,” Toler said, “and the SI program helps them make the transition.” Juliette Ferguson, an SI leader and junior elementary education major, said she likes the SI program better than tra ditional tutoring centers be cause SI groups meet regularly throughout the semester. “At the other places you can go the week before a test, and they cram all the material in stead of starting from the be ginning,” Ferguson said. Although the structureot each study group varies the leader, discussion us centers on concepts and ries discussed that week. Walker said that a with sharing ideas and lem-solving strategies, k gives his physics study { extra problems. "The best way to learn is to teach." -BRANDON SUCHEB SlUt “In physics or any oilier: math-oriented course, you ban to practice problems or you doiit know what to do,” Walkersaii For his Chemistry lOlses sion, Sucher said he makesiif his own problems and testques tions, then gives mock exams. Another strategy Sucher uses is making students explain rail' cepts to other group members. “The best way to learn is teach,” he said. Before each semester starts, leaders take part ini two-day training session con ducted by the Center for Acai emic Enhancement. Durin| training, SI leaders learn ire structional strategies. Walker said many students who made C’s on their tests finished the semester with A’s after participatingii his study group. The key to being a successfti SI leader, he said, is listenin,' to students and finding what they like to do andv helps them learn. “The students know w they need, and the onlywaytt find out is to listen and Walker said. When A&M started tl program in 1992, it includedonlj four course sections. The pre gram has expanded to 52 cours sections with 9,000 participants TUESDAY April 9, 1 996 McQuay receives strict parole terns 77?c molester will live in a locked facility and will he supervised when oulsitk SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A child molester la beled “public enemy No. 1” who warned he would strike again if he got out of prison essentially was returned to jail Monday after his release from a psychiatric penitentiary. Larry Don McQuay, who has asked to be cas trated in hopes it would stop his urge to molest, agreed to what officials called unprecedented pa role restrictions. “This self-described monster is not going to be on the streets of San Antonio,” said Larry Fitzgerald, spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. A former school bus driver who claims to have molested 240 children, McQuay must follow more than a dozen special rules that include living in a locked facility, reporting to four parole officers and being accompanied by security officers on all out side trips such as work. He also cannot have any contact with children 17 or younger. Any violation could return him to prison, said Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles chair man Victor Rodriguez, who called McQuay “public enemy No. 1.” McQuay also must undergo sex offender treat ment. McQuay was in two sex offender program while in prison but failed both, Rodriguez said No other parolees have been placed in a cured facility without first violating or beings pected of violating terms of their release,! driguez said. He also said the 24-hour a day pervision has not been done before. McQuay, 32, was transferred from a psycP prison in Rusk to the privately managed CenW Texas Parole Violator Facility. He arrivedaW 3:15 p.m. wearing handcuffs, a gray andwki* striped shirt and a solemn expression. Heft speak to reporters as he quickly was escort® McQuay will be kept under lock andkeyd private cell, will be under 24-hour surveilft and must wear an electronic monitor on h officials said. In addition, he must! prospective employer about his history of ab® 1 children and can’t have any contact with chilft McQuay, who has served six years of and?! year term, qualified for mandatory release ft state law. He was imprisoned for a 1989 at! ; on a 6-year-old San Antonio boy. s * fflf mmmm . Going home this summer? Take some courses at SWT while you're there. Session I: May 29 - July 1 Application deadline: May 1 Session II: July 5 - August 7 Application deadline: June 15 It’s easy to apply - call Janet at 512-245-2755 SWT Office of Admissions Southwest Texas State University 429 N. 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