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Halbrook
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of the cute, blue Izzy, the mascot would be a
sweaty redneck cowboy named Tex wearing
rhinestone-studded chaps, cooking a pot of chili
over the Olympic torch, and knocking back a
bottle of Wild Turkey big enough to fill an
Olympic-sized swimming pool.
It would be patriotic and sickening at the same time.
Olympic visitors to College Station would certainly
aim their scrutiny and cameras at A&M. But they would
n’t be interested in hearing how A&M is recently becom
ing more committed to increasing diversity and getting
away from its traditional mostly-Anglo, agriculture-and-
engineering stereotype. They’d want to see the traditions,
the way it was back in Ol’ Army. They’d focus on the
Corps and the Chicken — not on the big picture that also
includes neat stuff like risque-yet-artistic photos in the
Forsythe Gallery and Brown Bag sitar concerts.
You could show visitors the statistics everybody here
knows, the ones that say A&M ranks fifth in National
Merit Scholars and first in undergraduate enrollment.
But tourists would be too busy snapping pictures of Sul
ly, Rudder, Kyle Field and the MSC grass to listen.
This Texas Olympics idea is a long way from actu
ally being implemented; Texas hasn’t been chosen
yet, of course.
But before we think about clamoring for the
Olympics ourselves, we might want to think about the
short- and long-term effects the Olympics would have
on Texas.The Olympics are great to watch, but the
best seat to watch them from might be the one in
front of the TV.
Justice department settles
ith N;
case wit hN asdaq dealers
Class
Shannon Halbrook is a Class of ’98 English major
WASHINGTON (AP)
— Two dozen Wall Street
firms agreed to settle a
price fixing investigation
on the Nasdaq Stock
Market that requires
them to install expensive
monitoring systems to
ensure brokers aren’t sti
fling competition or
padding trading profits.
Attorney General
Janet Reno said Wednes
day that the Justice De
partment’s antitrust in
vestigators found Nasdaq
dealers engaged in a
widespread practice of
quoting stocks in a man
ner that resulted in
“many millions of dollars
manipulated from the
pockets of consumers.”
Reno referred to a
longstanding custom on
Nasdaq to quote stocks
by rounding off prices to
the nearest quarter of a
dollar. “Dealers in
creased their profits at
the expense of in
vestors,” Reno said.
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fast meeting via video. Dur::^
this video meeting, they
change research and expenr
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press release from the Depiv
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Velasco said the classw'
prepare students for the futc;]
of technological communicatior
"This class gets students -
think about the future — abtS SCOTTJ
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“It’s something we could:! ato p fi 00 r
think of doing before,” StaKkj me 0 f the
said. “But with the technolol ■ “perhaps
we have now, we can comnmmj iere
cate ideas graphically. k’stiM. us y 1 i n g e
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out of it. Baused tb
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Vasquez de Velasco in theDt us t might 1
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“We had
Birds
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the Physical Plant.
Liza Gonzalez, a senior mat
agement major, said althoup
the Physical Plant tries to help
she still finds the problem “ree
ly annoying, because it smellss ■
bad.” She has to wait at thebij
stop at the intersection
Spence and Ross streets for tk
Rudder bus.
“It’s just reeks. It’s real!
nauseating,” Gonzalez said.
The birds return to somed
the same locations every year
but sometimes they roost ran
domly. Ross Street is one ol
those areas.
Arnold said they return t(
the Red Lobster area at 701
Texas Avenue each year
Arnold and area owners have
been working together to re
locate the birds.
Goldwater said they nevei
know from year to yeai
where the birds will decidf
to roost. Wherever there are
trees, the birds may roost. 1
there are not enough trees tt
accommodate all the birds
they relocate to an area wit!)
more trees. They roost to
gether to create warmth.
Although many A&M stu
dents may disagree, Arnold said,
“It’s really not bad at all right
now. Wait until you get a couple
of million birds here.”
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Teaching
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Cooner said. “It’s not just fora
project for a class.”
She said A&M students learn
by doing; for example, they
learn how to use assessment
tools like the rubric, a tool
teachers use to check students'
writing progress.
“They read about something
and immediately do it,” Coon
er said.
Leanne South, communica
tions coordinator for the College
of Education, said in a press re
lease A&M student interns were
trained to score writing sam
ples, which gave them experi
ence and took some of the work
load off the teachers.
Cooner said A&M students
appreciate the student intern
program at South Knoll.
“We had 45 applicants last
year and we can only accept 20,'
Cooner said.
The program is currently
funded by a grant from the De
partment of Education.
“We hope to restructure
funding for schools like this,”
Cooner said.
Cooner said she hopes re
search will provide support
ive evidence showing the
program is a better way to
prepare teachers.
“When the grant runs out, we
will need money,” Cooner said.
“We want to show people it’s
worth their money.”
The next student intern pro
gram begins in Spring 1997.
Marion Peraz
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