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Take a Free Test Drive LSAT*GMAT •GRE*MCAT 4 The Battalion £JL \J XJ } fj JL I JT Hi Page< Tuesday • November 5,19Si If you took the test today how would you score? Come find out. School of design - or 3-hour test, proctored like the real Architecture students from Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M are working with children to build an ideal middle school ive computer analysis of your test-taking strengths and weaknesses. from Kaplan teachers that will help you ace the real exam. out on this cost-free, risk-free opportunity. Call 1 -800-KAP-TEST to reserve your seat today! November 9th @ 9:00 a.m. • Blocker 105 By Shea Wiggins The Battalion KAPLAN S ixth-grade students at a middle school near Prairie View A&M want a swimming pool in the middle of their school. Archi tecture students from Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M want to build a middle school that will enhance education. In a new project, the students have joined together to create a model for an ideal and innovative school. OffGami ipusjrissies free Too<£ j | <Prizes Meet TeopCe November 5, 1996 8:30 p.m. 201 MSC 843-0688 Architecture students and faculty and the colleges of education from Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M are working with the ad ministrators and students of H.T. Jones Inter mediate School in the Waller Independent School District to design a new model of the school. The project is giving architec ture students a realistic environ ment in which to design educa tional facilities. The project is supported by the Ray and Jerry Coy Founda tion through the A&M College of Education. Dr. Alice L. Manus, program coordinator for the College of Ar chitecture, said the four colleges at the two universities work side by side. (AP) — pealed for by taking “They have helped us to understand hojeconomy the building will educate,” Chaffe said. Dr. Dean Corrigan, a professor in educ, tional administration and the director ft the Commission on Leadership and Inte “ We want to create and design a school that is going to serve the students passing through the doors but also the community itself.” D F Dol Dr. Alice Manus program coordinator for the College of Architecture special to The Battalion David Laycock, a fifth grade student from H.T. Jones Intermediate School in Prairie View, presents his idea and model to Bonnie Chaffe, a junior architecture student. “People are learning to get along with one another and to find commonality,” Manus said. “We want to create and design a school that is going to serve the students passing through the doors but also the community itself.” Manus said the project is a different ap proach to learning. “This is my first time as an educator that I have seen anything like this emerge,” she said. Architecture students from both schools have visited the H.T. Jones Intermediate School to learn from their ideas. Bonnie Chaffe, a senior architecture ma jor, said the fifth- and sixth-graders are the clients for their project. “The students and the H.T. Jones ad ministrators are our clients,” Chaffe said. “In the same facet, the different colleges are our partners.” Chaffe said the children are articulate about what they want. “The students brought models to show us,” Chaffe said. “They wanted football fields, swimming pools and a huge cafeteria. They were very enthusiastic.” Amy Klinkovsky, an information represen tative for the College of Architecture, said one student drew a school surrounded by a football field, and others had various fast food restaurants inside the school. Chaffe said working with the College of Ed ucation helped her see the building differently. professional Education, said the studem have an opportunity to deal with an actii- situation instead of a theory. “It is a more realistic way of learning Corrigan said. “It is the kind of things grich, on th should be doing in more of our programs. Whitney Willeke, a senior environment; hand his g design major, said it is a challenge to woti with the children. “It is good to see a different perspecti instead of thinking architecture all ofthi time,” Willeke said. Willeke said she has pulled eightall nighters in the past two weeks workingo: the project. Christopher Garcia, a junior environ mental design major, said the quality their work will reflect in the qualityo the architecture. “People will look at the building andsai ‘Aggies did that,”’ he said. George Mann, a project coordinator am a Ronald L. Skaggs Endowed Professori: the architecture school, said the mode school is concerned with educational am social needs. given four better off s on election tered that ing ethical “America d Control stake, too, to cast hallo tial election had the up against Do candidate publicans their House “I’m no tional basis tial race,” s Chairman would be Dole can p House confidence rats come J “I’m cu what we’ll c jority,” Gin paigned ba Still, stra said doze close to pre day of a ca a referendt Democratic publican Cc ■ “There a close races said Repub mittee Chai Given t “It is the integration of full-service cor ► The poll cepts ... health, family, and social services ■ Mann said. “In our education system, U can’t just look at reading, writing and aritll metic; you need to look at the total context. 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