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Wednesday • Aprils
Secretaries' Day poses
new job dilemmas
(AP)-lt is the eve of Secretaries’ Day
and Barry Blystone is worried. Lowering
his voice, he confesses that he still can
not figure out what to do for his office as
sistant.
“What do you do? Is it insulting or is it
courtesy to get something?” asked Bly
stone, the training director at Siemens
Power Transmission and Distribution
plant in Wendell, N.C. “It’s a dilemma.”
Armed with computers and needed
more than ever in downsized workplaces,
secretaries do not pour much coffee any
more.
“Many of our members are trying to be
thought of as valuable team members,
and it’s awkward to be singled out this
way,” said Rick Stroud, spokesman for the
40,000-member Professional Secretaries
International.
Now, the association wrestles with
whether Wednesday’s event is an outdat
ed idea. It will even vote this summer on
whether to change its name to the In
ternational Association of Administrative
Professionals.
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points based on their
achievements at the events. An
overall winner will be decided
by the highest point total and
trophies will be awarded for
1st, 2nd and 3rd places.
Kristi Jones, a junior ac
counting and finance major
and a member of the Delta
Delta Delta sorority, said her
favorite part of Derby Days
is the involvement among
the sisters.
“It’s good sisterhood,
good for Sigma Chi and also
Children’s Miracle Network,”
she said.
Robin Foster, a sophomore
community health major and
Delta Delta Delta sorority
member, said she enjoys the
game day event.
“It’s so much fun to partic
ipate with my sisters and it’s
good public relations for the
Greek system,” she said,
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minors to purchase alcohol, 35 were successful
and resulted in criminal offenses
Selling alcohol to a minor is punishable by
a $100 to $500 fine and jail confinement of up
to a year.
Sgt. Lobano Tascono of the Bryan division of
the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said
program efforts have been successful.
“We have noticed that when we do these mi
nor sting operations, then we have been able to
see the percentage of alcohol sales drop,” Tascono
said. “It helps keeps alcohol sales people and bar
tenders alert. When we first started the program,
the percentage ratings of selling to minors were
higher than they are now. We need to make peo
ple aware of the program.”
From Sept, of 1997 to April 1998, the depart
ment channeled efforts toward improving re
sponses to loud party calls.
Newton said increasing the staff available to
respond to loud party calls increased efficiency.
“Increasing the size of the staff helped officers
to respond to calls,” Newton said. “The Bryan-
College Station community is growing. The big
ger you get, typically the more problems you
could get.”
In his experience with loud party response
calls, Newton said most loud party calls are re
sponses to local college students.
The department responded to 717 loud party
calls and other related incidents that resulted in
167 citations and 253 warnings. An additional 40
charges included violations of “disorderly con
duct” and “possession of controlled substance.”
Disorderly conduct is punishable by $157
for the first offense. Additional charges of dis
orderly conduct can add up to $500 and an ar
rest can be made.
Newton said students can have a good time
but need to be respectful of their neighbors.
“Everybody likes to have a good time,” Newton
said. “You need to consider your neighbors. Ask
you friends to respect your neighbors. Next door,
you may have a family or students that have to get
up and go to work or to school the next morning.”
The College Station Police Department plans
to submit a request for a fiscal year 1999 budget
increase to continue increased efforts to respond
to loud party calls.
“We are going to try to deal with the calls more
effectively,” Newton said.
Newton said residents who have ongoing
problems with disruptive neighbors should con
tact the police department and talk to the land
lords or owners.
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