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The Battalion
olume 103 • Issue 27 • 12 Pages
Tuesday, October 8> 1996
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tudents find obstacles in job search
By Courtney Walker
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Texas A&M international
dents are facing a new
allenge as they prepare
leave the University in
irch of a job in the Unit-
States.
The A&M Career Center,
helps students find
and schedules inter
ns for about 300 students
semester, has been ac-
sed of unfairly pre-
eening international stu-
i’ rdsum^s.
International students
required to state their
i
work authorization status
on their resumes to gain ac
cess to career-searching in
formation like company
names and job descriptions.
Rajesh Kumar, Interna
tional Students Association
president and a business
graduate student, said the
added application require
ment is not fair.
“International students
are knocked down during
the preliminary stage so our
resumes don’t even reach
the hands of employers,”
Kumar said.
Leigh Turner, Career Cen
ter director, said the center
informs companies of stu
dents’ work eligibility status
“A lot of compa
nies are not able
to hire interna
tional students."
Leigh Turner
Career Center director
before interviews are sched
uled because some firms
will not hire international
students without certain
permits.
“A lot of companies are
not able to hire internation
al students,” Turner said.
“[Companies] get upset
when they come to inter
view and then find out the
student only has an F-l
work permit.”
An F-l permit allows stu
dents to work in the U.S. for
one year in a field related to
their major. If the company
wants to employ an interna
tional student for longer
than a year, the students
must obtain an H-l visa,
which is extended for up to
three years.
All students using the
Career Center are required
to fill out a form that indi
cates their major, degree
level, graduation date and
work authority.
Students find prospective
companies by accessing the
Career Center web site.
After locating a possible
employer, students send a re
sume to the company. The
company then returns to the
Career Center a list of stu
dents they want to interview.
International students
are required to either add to
the form a sentence stating
they have a restricted work
permit or direct companies
to the International Student
Office or Career Center Of
fice for questions.
Some international stu
dents said the statements
are an added barrier in job
searching.
Patrick Seder, an interna
tional industrial engineering
graduate student, said he re
alizes companies do not
want additional paperwork
and fees, but he is con
cerned companies will not
try to get to know the stu
dents personally.
“If a company sees 50 ap
plications and one has more
questions or says to call a
number, the employer isn’t
going to take the time to
look at it closely,” Seder said.
The Career Center gives
companies a form asking
them to specify what they
look for in students.
Under the work autho
rization section, companies
choose to receive informa
tion on all applicants, those
who hold H-l visas or U.S.
citizens only. Information
on international students
who hold F-l permits is
given only to companies
who request information
on all applicants.
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\ggie mothers from across the
ion will come to College Station
November for the third annual
je Mom’s Fish Camp.
)ebbie Duewall, an Aggie
« m’s Fish Camp co-chair, said
iCamp introduces mothers of
as A&M freshmen and transfer
dents to the traditions and
pts at the University.
(started as an orientation for
Aggie moms who have fresh-
o or transfer students,” Duewall
“It gives new moms a chance
ur the campus and meet Aggie
ms from across the United
es.They can learn what the spir-
Aggieland is about.”
The moms will stay at the Hamp-
Inn for two nights,
nthe first night, the redpots
educate the mothers about
feand all of the work that goes
Mding it.
1 following morning the
b wilt tour campus and then
elunch at the Dixie Chicken.
In the afternoon, the moms will
attend different workshops about
“empty nest” syndrome, the Men
tor program, the Aggie Challenge
and a cadet mom program.
Duewall said an additional work
shop teaches the mothers the pur-
“It started as an
orientation for
new Aggie moms
who have fresh
men or transfer
students.
Mom
Debbie Duewall
's Fish Camp co-chair
pose of the Federation of Texas
A&M Mothers’ Clubs.
“We exist to give back to A&M,”
Duewall said.
Former Student Body President
Brooke Leslie-will be the guest
speaker at a student-mother dinner
in the Memorial Student Center.
On the last morning of Fish
Camp, the moms will participate in
yell practice at the MSC and per
form skits they will make up.
Duewall said they encourage all
students to come to the MSC and
watch the skits the moms create.
Activities will end at noon so
the moms will have the rest of the
day to spend with their sons and
daughters.
Aggie Mom’s Fish Camp serves
to educate mothers of new stu
dents who do not understand all of
A&M’s traditions.
“They can get a feel for what
Aggie Spirit is,” Duewall said. “A
lot of moms really don’t under
stand when their students call
home and talk about Bonfire or
lunch at the Chicken or Silver
Taps. Aggie Mom’s Fish Camp
brings all the traditions to them.”
Two co-chairs organized the
Aggie Mom’s Fish Camp with the
help of the Aggie mom coun
selors. The two co-chairs this
year are Debbie Duewall and
Anita Dolan.
shirts considered dirty laundry
esigns for products with A&M’s name must be approved
By Christie Humphries
The Battalion
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Sanders Letbetter, collegiate li
censing director, said T-shirts resi
dence halls and other student or
ganizations submit will not be
approved if he and his staff find
them “offensive.”
“All products bearing A&M
trademarks must be approved and
licensed,” Letbet
ter said.
Underwood Hall
residents asked
Letbetter’s permis
sion to use the Uni
versity’s name on
their T-shirts, call
ing themselves the
“Darling Devils.”
Letbetter said
the name negative
ly represents the
University and he
would need a de
tailed description
before approving
the design.
Ryan Rogers, The Battalion
Thea Smith, a junior biochem
istry major who lives in Under
wood Hall, said Letbetter did not
approve the T-shirt.
“After describing the design to
Letbetter, he said that we were not
authorized to use the University’s
name on the T-shirt because it
was not in good taste,” Smith said.
Letbetter said he rejected the
shirt’s design because it featured a
female devil with horns and a
pointy tail, which gives the
“wrong impression.”
“That is not a shirt you would
want your little brother to wear to
his school for people to think that
A&M promotes devils and the
like,” Letbetter said.
The “Darling Devils” of Under
wood Hall will be wearing T-shirts
this semester with the word “Ag-
gieland” printed on them instead
of the University’s name.
See T-shirts, Page 9
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Opinion, Page 11
The Texas A&M International Office is
working with Grace Bible Church in Col
lege Station to help international students
feel welcome in Aggieland.
Deb Howard, of the international stu
dent department at Grace, said many in
ternational students are overwhelmed by
A&M when they first arrive.
“Our goal is to prepare them for what
will occur in Aggieland,” Howard said.
Howard said a language barrier some
times makes the transition difficult.
The international friends program aims
to make the obstacles a little easier to over
come, Howard said.
The program pairs an A&M student with
an international student. The A&M student
commits to mentor the international stu
dent for at least one semester.
“Many international students adapt
very well to the U.S. and to A&M,” Howard
said. “Often times, however, they have
trouble in lecture classes at first because
they are not familiar with the English lan
guage and our method of note taking,”
Howard said. “We want to help. That is the
purpose of the international friends pro
gram — to help the international students
succeed at A&M.”
Volunteers first meet their international
student at the airport when they arrive in
College Station.
Howard said volunteers often invite
students into their homes until they are
able to find housing.
“We want to give them (international
students) the opportunity to get into
homes and see what is going on,” Howard
said. “We have learned to give help when
and where it is needed.”
Howard said host students sometimes
help international students find apart
ments and shop at discount stores and
garage sales for furniture.
“We try to set them up with the minimal
basic necessities for minimal costs,”
Howard said.
Host students sometimes help interna
tional students apply for a visa and look for
jobs, Howard said.
“We basically want to help the interna
tional student get whatever [they] need to
be successful here at A&M,” Howard said.
Tropical storm Josephine
attacks Horida Gulf Coast
ST. MARKS, Fla. (AP) —
Tropical Storm Josephine
began lashing Florida’s Gulf
Coast Monday night with
65-mph winds and high
surf, spawning tornadoes
and dumping up to 5 inches
of rain across the state.
The storm moved ashore
just before midnight at the
peak of high tide, pushing a
storm surge of 6 to 9 feet
over a swampy, lightly popu
lated area near this remote
fishing village 30 miles
south of Tallahassee.
Josephine failed to reach
hurricane strength, but was
packing considerable mois
ture. Forecasters said it
would dump rain on south
eastern Georgia and the
Carolinas, then stay inland,
bringing rain up the Atlantic
Coast.
“The winds will go down
very, very fast once it hits
land,” said Max Mayfield, a
hurricane specialist at the
National Hurricane Center.
Still, residents scrambled
Monday to secure their
homes and boats. More than
3,000 people in the three
hardest-hit counties spent
the night in shelters after
evacuations were ordered
for beaches and barrier is
lands.
Udo Heinz, 66, said he
lost his mobile home in
March 1993, during the no
name “Storm of the Centu
ry.” This time, he joined
about 100 people at the Tay
lor County High School
shelter.
“I was wiped out in storm
of ’93,” said Heinz, who left
his 35-foot trailer in Keaton
Beach, where the strongest
winds and highest storm
surge was coming ashore. “I
got a bigger trailer but I
know that there’s not too
much you can do in 10-foot
waves.
At the Shell Point Marina
near St. Marks, boaters
struggled in gusts and dri
ving rain to double up their
mooring lines as the storm
approached, and worried
about the storm surge.
“This could be seri-
Tropical Storm Josephine
Tropical Storm warning
Hurricane warning
Conditions as of
Monday 2 p.m. EOT
28.3N, 85.9W
Sustained winds: 70 mph
Wind gusts to: 85 mph
Moving: NE at 23 mph
Little River
Inlet