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Page 2 • The Battalion • Monday, June 10,1996
Co-enrollment an appealing alternative
Many A&M students co-enroll at Blinn to avoid A&M's high costs, hassles
By Tauma Wiggins
The Battalion
A growing number of A&M
students this summer are
choosing to “follow the blue
footprints”, a phrase students
heard when registering at
Blinn College.
Students list a variety of rea
sons for attending Blinn class
es, including cheaper cost,
smaller class size and student-
to-teacher ratio.
Blinn credits transfer as
hours, not grades, so many stu
dents enroll at Blinn to keep up
their A&M GPR.
Kelly Heinen, a senior ele
mentary education major, said
she is taking classes at Blinn
this summer because A&M was
unable to force her into classes
she needed.
Heinen said another reason
she enrolled at Blinn was to
keep her GPR up.
“In the Fall, I’m applying for
the early childhood program and
I have to have a good GPA,”
Heinen said. “Fm working hard
to get an A (at Blinn), but I don’t
want to take the chance of get
ting a C (at A&M).”
"Blinn has a smaller set
ting and is more attentive
to the students."
— LISA GONZALEZ
senior business major
Lisa Gonzalez , a senior busi
ness major, took a class at Blinn
last semester.
Gonzalez said she took the
class at Blinn to save money and
to reduce the stress level caused
by larger A&M classes.
“A&M classes are so depart
mentalized and non-personal,”
Gonzalez said. “Blinn has a
smaller setting and is more at
tentive to the students. I don’t
have to compete with 500 other
students.”
Gonzalez said several A&M
classes she has taken have
been unnecessarily difficult and
many tests have been unreflec-
tive of the course work, a prob
lem she has not run into at
Blinn College.
“It wasn’t like the Blinn class
es were easy, but the tests were
over what we studied in class
and the averages were where
they should be, not in the 30s or
40s,” she said.
Emily Shields, a senior
speech communications major,
said she co-enrolled at Blinn af-
Recruiting
Continued from Page 1
they are recruiting.”
Members of the company wear
their uniforms to class once a
week, as opposed to every day
during fall and spring semesters.
Kyle Sparkman, Recruiting
Sergeant and a junior biomed
ical science major, said this
helps maintain a visual pres
ence for provisional students as
well as incoming students and
visitors to A&M.
The cadets are required to
man recruiting tables, prepare
“fish holes” (dorm rooms) and at
tend various recruiting functions.
Every Monday and Wednes
day of orientation, incoming
freshmen attend a meeting to
learn about different campus
organizations. This “Convoca
tion” allows the Recruiting
Company to show its stuff.
Sparkman said the Convoca
tion plays a vital role in the re
cruiting process.
“This is one of our primary
means of making an impression on
all the fish that go through sum
mer conferences,” Sparkman said.
Steve Foster, Corps Comman
der and a senior political science
major, said there are usually sev
eral signees during this meeting.
“We get as many as four to
10 students per Convocation to
actually sign with the Corps,”
Foster said.
Karl Koehler, Recruiting Of
ficer and a senior education
major, attended the Convoca
tion at his summer conference
before coming to A&M.
“Chills went up my spine af
ter hearing the ‘The Spirit of Ag-
gieland,’” Koehler said, “and I
realized then what kind of orga
nization it was and the impact it
would have on my life.”
Larkin volunteered to head
the company this summer in or
der to continue what he learned
previously as a member.
“I want to see the Corps grow,”
Larkin said, “The Corps doesn’t
function without the fish. They
are the ones that make the Corps
what it is.”
Clinton
Continued from Page 1
workers in Texas alone.”
Clinton endorsed the V-chip,
saying it allowed for more
parental supervision of what
their children
watch on tele
vision. She
also praised
the increased
enforcement of
child support
payments.
The first
lady insisted
the nation
continue to re
new its
schools. She
commended
CLINTON
Head Start as a program which
provides “every child a chance at
a good beginning.”
She also promoted her hus
band’s newly-created Student
Loan Program. “Democracy
depends on a strong public edu
cation system,” Clinton said.
“There should be no financial
obstacle to students wishing to
continue their educations past
the 12th grade.”
“The Student Loan Program
will lower interest, increase the
repayment rate, expand Pell
Grants and tuition tax reduc
tion,” she said. “Education
must not end with the 12th
grade but continue through the
13th and 14th grade levels.”
The first lady’s address
showed much of her husband’s
characteristic verbosity. She al
lowed few interruptions of ap
plause, rushing through her
speech as though she were
ready to leave Dallas just as
soon as she arrived.
The Texas delegation enthu
siastically cheered her presence.
Gary Mauro, Texas Land
Commissioner, said Clinton’s
attendance at the convention
was “living proof of the impor
tance of Texas in the upcom
ing election.”
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ter a negative experience in an
A&M math class.
“My professor didn’t teach the
regular Math 141 curriculum,
and everyone was getting 30s
and 40s,” she said. “I was going
in every day after class and get
ting tutored, and my professor
said ‘there’s nothing you can do.’
So I Q-dropped it but didn’t
know that in that class a 30
equals a B. I was failing miser
ably and would have had a B!”
Shields said the main reason
she is taking classes at Blinn is
to preserve her GPR at A&M.
“Math and Spanish aren’t my
strong suits, and I didn’t want
these classes to affect my GPR at
A&M,” she said. “I’m thinking of
going to law school, and I know
Blinn classes count, but they
aren’t as effective as A&M grades.”
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