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FRIDAY* SEPTEMBER 26 *1997
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The 1997 Go Shibata Memorial
Judo Invitational will be tomorrow
from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the
indoor soccer courts in the Stu
dent Recreation Center.
More than 200 competitors from
states and Mexico will participate
in the event.
The tournament will be held in
honor of Go Shibata, a Texas A&M
student and judo competitor, who
died April 30, 1996.The A&M
Judo Team and the Department of
Rec Sports are sponsoring the
tournament.
Counterfeit bills
bund in Bryan
Bryan police found two counter
feit $50 bills and four counterfeit
$20 bills circulating in Bryan yester
day.
One $50 bill was discovered at
the Circle K at 300 E. Villa Maria.
The other was found at Norwest
Bank in Bryan.
Sgt. Choya Walling of the Bryan
Police Department said the bills
can be identified as frauds.
“Most $50 bills have a security
thread that you can hold up to the
and see,” he said. “These bills
don't have the security thread."
Walling said Bryan police have
no suspects.
Film encourages racial harmony
By Amanda Smith
Staff writer
A documentary film and forum told A&M
students, Thursday night, people need to be
understanding of different cultures and beliefs.
The MSC and MSC Black Awareness Com
mittee (BAG) showed The Color of Fear last
night in Rudder Theater.
Dessiree Ewing, vice chair of the MSC
Black Awareness Committee (BAG) and a
sophomore biomedical science major, said
the presentation provided students with an
opportunity to learn about themselves and
others around them.
“I am hoping that people will walk away
tonight with a better understanding of who
they are,” she said. “Programs that everyone
can relate to really can help. Relationships are
something that everyone can relate to. Just
because somebody is different, it does not
mean that they are bad.”
The Color of Fear features a group of eight
American men from diverse ethnic and cul
tural backgrounds who participate in a week
end retreat, where they openly discuss feel
ings on racism in the United States.
Lee Mun Wah, the film’s producer and fa-
cilitative director of Stir-Fry Seminars, head
ed the discussion in 1993.
Aliah Majon, the facilitator from Stir-Fry
Seminars, said the film has been shown across
the United States and in Germany and Australia.
“When our company comes on-site, 1 want
people to understand that they are the key,” Ma
jon said. “They are the change agents, not us. I
plant the seeds that grow into flowers of change.”
The MSC, through the coordination of
BAG, coordinated the program to respond
students’ concerns of race relations on the
Texas A&M campus.
Virginia Smith, BAG director of programs and
a sophomore biology major, said students can
benefit from the message presented in the film.
Majon said The Color of Fear offers students
the chance to watch people discussing concerns
about racism. As facilitator, she said she takes the
students’ comments and reconstructs them.
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nducted this year’s Judicial Board
members, six senators and a vice
resident of communications
Wednesday.
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i ach year, the other seven offices
'ere vacant.
Also at the meeting, Curtis
hilders, student body president
nd a senior agricultural develop-
ent major, said Tom Williams, the
lirector of Parking, Traffic and Trans-
rtation Services, agreed to allow
itudent Government to run a lottery
iystem to dismiss tickets. After the
:omputer program is installed, stu-
lents can visit the Student Govern-
nent Web page and enter their tick-
t numbers.
“This is a great plug for PTTS,
jood for Student Government be-
ause students will visit our Web
)age and great for students be-
ause they have a chance for their
ickets to be dismissed,” Childers
said.
He said this would not apply to
students who parked in handicap
spaces or are habitual offenders.
In other business, the Senate
sassed three bills clarifying and re
using Student Government docu-
tients — the Student Senate By-
aws Revisions Bill, the Constitution
Revisions Bill and the Executive
branch Bylaws Revision Bill.
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play top-ranked Tarheels.
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Group aids
job-seeking
grad students
By Courtney See
Staff writer
The Masters Consulting Group
(MCG) gives Texas A&M graduate stu
dents assistance other students entering
the work force might not have.
MCG, an A&M organization, gives
students working on master’s degrees
the opportunity to interact with pro
fessional companies in real-life situa
tions.
MCG was created four semesters ago
by five graduate students in the MBA
program. Although the founders ex
pected about 10 students to attend the
first meeting last fall, more than 50 peo
ple came.
Most of the group’s 70 members are
students from the Lowry Mays Graduate
School of Business at Texas A&M.
Shelley Walls, managing partner of
external affairs for MCG and a second-
year MBA student, said almost any grad
uate student can join the group.
“We’re trying to encourage people
from other majors to join,” she said. “It
helps to have information and skills
from people with different areas of ex
pertise.”
MCG tries to offer professional de
velopment and business experience to
the members.
Walls said the best way for members
to get experience is by working on con
sulting projects with real businesses.
“All other consulting groups on
campus are clubs and don’t actually
work,” she said. “That makes this
group unique.”
The group’s first project was with
Koch Capital Services in Mexico.
Other clients include Bryan Small
Business Development Center, IBM
Global Services, MBA Placement Of
fice at Texas A&M, Zonko’s and Hous
ton Industries, which is a corporate
sponsor of the group and gave MCG a
$10,000 grant.
Other corporate sponsors of the
group are the Center forTeaching Excel
lence and Electronic Data Systems
Dr. Winston T. Shearon, an MBA pro
gram director and an A&M professor of
accounting, is an adviser for MCG.
Shearon said the group has gained work
experience in a variety of areas.
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Yumi Kurosaki, a senior wildlife and fisheries sciences major, paints in her Arts 205 class Thursday.
Weekend rodeo aims to reunite Aggies
By Courtney See
Staff writer
The Texas A&M Rodeo Association is spon
soring its All Aggie Reunion Rodeo Sept. 26-27
to give Aggies and former students a chance to
watch rodeo events together.
The All Aggie Reunion Rodeo is open to A&M
students and their families, former students
and A&M employees.
Jeff Isbell, president ofTAMU Rodeo Associ
ation and a senior business major, said he ex
pects 700 to 900 spectators to attend the rodeo.
“The biggest things we do are the two rodeos
we put on, one in the spring and one in the fall,”
he said. “It provides students with an environ
ment to learn rodeo if they want to.”
Events planned for the rodeo include bare-
back riding, bull riding, team roping and goat-
tying. The Rodeo Association will give away belt
buckles to the winners of each event.
Amy Kemp, vice president ofTAMU Rodeo
Association and a senior agricultural business
major, said she enjoys rodeo even though it
takes a lot of discipline.
“Rodeo has given me an opportunity to set
goals and strive to reach them,” Kemp said.
“Rodeo has taught me a lot of responsibility and
a lot of drive, but then it’s also a nice stress re
liever from school.”
The Aggie Rodeo was one of the first col
lege rodeos in the nation. It started in 1919 as
an animal husbandry fair and developed into
the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Associa
tion (NIRA), which was founded at Texas A&M
in 1949.
Charlie Rankin, the first president of NIRA
and Class of ’50, said he helped establish NIRA
after A&M’s rodeo team began competing with
other schools.
“Because professionals and non-students
were competing in the rodeos, we decided we
needed a national association for collegiate
rodeos to regulate rules, eligibility and the
awarding of scholarships and prizes at college
rodeos,” he said. “It’s the governing body for all
intercollegiate rodeos nationwide.”
The TAMU Rodeo Association is open to
A&M students, whether they are rodeo contes
tants or interested in learning about rodeo.
Members learn how to coordinate a rodeo,
including fund raising and publicity.
Isbell said members of the Rodeo Associa
tion do not have to participate.
“Probably half of the members aren’t even
rodeo participants,” he said. “They come out
because they enjoy rodeo and want to learn
more about it. They’re the backbone of the as
sociation. They help put on out two main
rodeos to help provide funding for the rodeo
team itself.”
Sarita Sullivan, social chair and public re
lations chair for the Rodeo Association and a
junior agricultural development major, said
she was hesitant to join the Rodeo Association
because she was not on the rodeo team.
“I went (to the Rodeo Association meeting)
and it was fun,” she said. “The people were nice
and they needed people to help out with the
rodeo. I knew how to time the events, so I
helped out and have been in the organization
ever since.”
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College of Veterinary Medicine challenges students to excel
DEREK DEMERE/The Battalion
David Hebei, a 4th-year veterinary student, examines
Lacy yesterday at the Large Animal Clinic. Lacy was fit
ted with a trachiostomy tube to cure a swelled larynx.
By Amanda Smith
Staff writer
Only one college at Texas
A&M welcomes cats, dogs,
horses, pigs and exotic ani
mals through its doors.
The A&M College of Vet
erinary Medicine is the
largest veterinary school in
the United States, and the
only one in Texas.
Of the 1,000 students who
applied to the College last
year, 128 were accepted. Al
though class size is small
compared to other A&M col
leges, it exceeds those at the
other 26 veterinary schools in
the United States.
The College of Veterinary
Medicine releases applica
tions in July with an Oct. 1
deadline. In March, the col
lege notifies the students who
are accepted. Classes begin in
August or September.
Dr. Mary Herron, assistant
dean for professional pro
grams at veterinary medicine
and a doctor of veterinary
medicine (DVM), said the se
lections committee looks at
experience and other criteria,
such as a student’s GPA, per
formance on the Graduate
Record Examination (GRE),
leadership positions and fa
miliarity with the veterinary
profession.
“A veterinarian does many
things,” Herron said. “The
criteria gives an overall look
at how the student performs.
We look for people with var
ied backgrounds. We accept
people from programs across
the state.”
Herron said Texas residents
are considered first, but out-of-
state applicants also may be
accepted to the College.
Although veterinary stu
dents are not required to have
certain majors as undergradu
ates, students must take some
prerequisite courses to be con
sidered for veterinary school.
Herron said students
should concentrate on grades
in science courses, but should
be open to new possibilities.
“Continue to explore the
profession,” she said. “That is
the foundation for vet school.
Get some experience working
with animals in a practice.”
Caroline Seiter, a second-
year veterinary student, said she
worked for a cattle clinic in Jack
sonville, Horida last summer.
“I really got a lot of experi
ence there with cattle,” she
said. “If you know that it’s what
you want to do, then go for it.”
Seiter said she spends her
days in lecture and three two-
hour labs.
“I really like being able to
work one-on-one with the an
imals and clinicians,” she said.
She said adjusting to
longer class hours was the
hardest part of her first year at
veterinary school.
First-year veterinary stu
dents spend half a day in lec
ture and the other half in a lab.
Herron said the College of
Veterinary Medicine reorga
nized the curriculum two
years ago to give first and sec
ond-year students more time
to work with animals and
doctors in clinics.
“They begin clinical rea
soning in the first year,” Her
ron said. “The majority of
their day is spent in lecture
and laboratories. While they
are learning the basics of vet
erinary science, they are also
learning the basics of case
management.”
As a part of case manage
ment, Herron said students
can study patients and evalu
ate case histories.
Richardson said she wants
to work with small animals.
She said working in the clinic
with both large and small an
imals during her first year
benefited her.
"Almost immediately, you
get to do a lot of hands-on
things,” Richardson said.
“Everybody learns every
species. It puts things into
perspective.”
Herron said students may
use this experience in the
clinic to plan their final year of
veterinary school.
“The fourth year is a unique
year,” she said. “It is twelve
months long and they spend
the full time in the hospital.
They rotate through clinical
services and they see cases.”
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