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Party welcomes
new students from
across the globe
BY MEREDITH HIGH!
The Battalion
Merengue music, the Backstreet Boys and techno beats all got
equal play Saturday night at the International Student Party held
at the Ramada Inn.
The party, hosted by the International Student Association
(ISA) and the Panamanian Student Association, was an op
portunity to welcome international (as well as American stu
dents) to Texas A&M in a social environment.
Tatsuki Ohashi, president of the International Student Associ
ation and a senior international studies major originally from
Japan, said she saw the party as a good social event.
“It is a way to get everyone together and to meet new peo
ple the first week of school,” she said.
The partygoers, estimated at around 500 to 600 people, were
a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students who hail
from England, Venezuela, India, France, Tanzania and many oth
er countries.
Cayetana Garcia, a senior English major from Tamaulipas,
Mexico, said the party represented a variety of cultures.
“You have all kinds of cultures here, and great music. I can
dance to everything — the merengue, the salsa. There’s also
Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dances,” she said.
Will Hurd, president of the Memorial Student Center and a
senior computer science and international studies major, said
the party was a success.
“It was a great party. No matter where you come from, or
what language you speak, everyone understands the inter
national language of music,” he said.
see Party on Page 2.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Student Life offers
housing discussion
The Department of Student Life
encourages all overassignments and
their roommates to attend the
overassignment meetings to be held
tonight and Tuesday from 5:45 to
6:45 PM in 201 MSC.
Ron Sasse, director of Residence
Life, said the meeting is an open fo
rum to answer questions about the
present overassignment situation.
“We will answer questions and
present the latest general informa
tion,” Sasse said.
Concerns about overassignment
living, such as the location of extra fur
niture, will be covered in the meeting.
“We want to make the situation as
comfortable as possible,” Sasse said.
Students can attend one or both
of the meetings. Refreshments will
be available.
Arizona man believed
owner of ‘Missy’
An Arizona millionaire may be the
owner of Missy, according to a report
by the Austin bureau of the Dallas
Morning News.
Dog registration and other records
point to John G. Sperling, 77, as the
owner of the husky-mix scheduled to
be the first dog cloned.
Sperling, the founder of the for-prof
it University of Phoenix, is believed to
be the donor of $2.3 million to the dog
cloning project at Texas A&M.
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CAREER CENTER
ife after sports
gie athletes take advantage of help for their futures after athletics
BY AMANDA SMITH
The Battalion
ohn Scheschuk has his
set on a professional base-
career after he graduates
i Texas A&M. But the se-
speech communications
:>r and first baseman of the
e baseball team said going
is not his only alternative
i future career.
There are a lot of guys in my
who do not know what
want to do after (college
'tics),” Scheschuk said. “The
er Center is a very good way
d your foot in the door.”
mnifer Bohac, assistant di-
Dr of placement for the Ca-
^ Center, said approximately
f 'ercent of the 450 student-
2tes at Texas A&M hope for
ofessional athletic career,
only about three percent
^andy Ripple make the cut.
ounts flepre#areer Services for Student-
Athletes is a joint effort of the
Career
Center and the Texas A&M
Athletics Department to intro
duce career options to students
before graduation.
Career Services for Student-
Athletes is housed in 206
Koldus, but Bohac said her po
sition is funded by the athletic
department.
“Our goals are all the same
and that is to help the student-
athletes,” Bohac said. “We
work with the coaching staff
and have been pleased with
their support of the program.”
Students and student-ath
letes looking for a career can
enroll in CAEN 102, a course
sponsored by the Center for
Academic Enhancement that is
designed to help students make
more informed career choices.
“The main difference be
tween students and student-
athletes is that athletes come in
with a focus on athletics,” Bo
hac said. “They are in the spot
light and are sometimes held to
higher standards. I start work
ing with the athletes recruited
right out of high school because
we want to try to make it en
compassing for everyone.”
Scheschuk said he took the
career class as a sophomore at
Texas A&M.
“(With athletics) six days a
week, you have to be able to
balance all (academics and ath
letics) together,” Scheschuk
said. “I think the class should
be a requirement.”
Bohac said Texas A&M is
one of the first universities to
include a career program for
athletes.
“We share a lot of informa
tion (about the class) with
schools across the country,” Bo
hac said.
see Sports on Page 2.
Staci Mansel
Teller
A&M Career Center offers
expanded campus services
BY AMANDA SMITH
The Battalion
Aggies are a valuable commodi
ty in today’s job market and the Ca
reer Center is expanding its services
across campus to meet the demand.
Wayne Terrell, associate director
of the Career Center, said the center
questioned colleges across campus
to determine whether they wanted
a career adviser.
“These (colleges) are looking for
expertise in the areas that we have,”
Terrell said. “The idea is to get some
body closer to the students, to dis
cuss their career paths, to network. ”
The Career Center, located in 206
Koldus, is divided into three sec
tions: placement, co-op education
and career education.
Through an extension of services
offered by the Career Center, career
advisers will be placed in the College
of Liberal Arts, the College of Busi
ness and the College of Life Sciences.
An additional adviser will serve stu
dent members of the Corps.
Applications for these positions
are currently being reviewed and the
administration has already ap
proved the placement of career ad
visers, Terrell said.
Depending on the demands of
the colleges, advisers may work
part-time or full-time.
The specialized career advising
stems from services provided for
student-athletes, a joint effort be
tween the Texas A&M Athletic De
partment and the Career Center.
Jennifer Bohac, assistant direc
tor of placement for the Career Cen
ter, said the program has been suc
cessful and she supports expansion
to other groups on campus.
“My goal is to help every student
that needs help,” Bohac said. “I am
glad the Career Center is moving in
that direction. ”
A&M profs to address
Congress on Medicare
Thomas Saving, a distinguished pro
fessor of economics and director of the
Private Enterprise Research Center at
Texas A&M, and Andrew Rettenmaier,
an associate research scientist in the
center, will present a Medicare reform
plan to the National Bipartisan Com
mittee on the Future of Medicare at the
U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. Saving and
Rettenmaier’s proposal replaces the
present Medicare system with a plan
that requires workers to invest part of
their income to cover medical insur
ance and treatment costs once they
leave the work force.
College of Education
offers ‘Dean for Day’
Tickets are now on sale for a chance
to become “Dean for a Day” in the Col
lege of Education. The second annual
event will benefit the Peggy Ritchey En
dowed Scholarship Fund. Tickets are on
sale in all the college’s departmental
main offices for $1 each or six for $5.
The drawing will be held at the Develop
ment Council Awards Breakfast Sept.
25. The winner will be Dean for a Day on
Oct. 2. This fund-raiser is open to all stu
dents, faculty and staff members in the
College of Education.
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BY MELISSA JORDAN
The Battalion
all Interfraternity rush has begun, and with it comes
?ek of varied activities for hundreds of Aggie men.
•utside the MSC today, individual fraternity chap-
will have information tables set up near Rudder
atain for prospective members to find out more
M lit their chapter and the activities they will be hold-
/^throughout the week. Men who have not regis-
d for rush will also be able to sign up to partici-
-Bm in rush week activities.
■EOE STA^ameron Ingram, vice president of the Interfrater-
l Opportunity^ council and a senior finance major, said rush is a
It T/fttive event for men.
ft III ^^Riisjh events are an alcohol-free environment that
ng men can come out and meet other young men
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Open House
Campus organizations display themselves at MSC
BY NON! SRIDHARA
The Battalion
Swarms of students flooded the MSC
Sunday for the fall semester Open House,
where they got a chance to preview the var
ious organizations and clubs at Texas A&M.
Student government, religious associa
tions, international associations, service or
ganizations, honor societies, sports and
recreation, dance and music and academic
organizations were among those represent
ed at Open House.
Recruiters at each table handed out flyers
that gave students a brief description of their
organization and their mission and goals.
While some students chose to sit down
and mark the places on the maps of the
booths they were going to visit, others chose
to roam the two floors of the MSC to dis
cover new things.
Tyler McCullough, a junior chemical engi
neering major, said he discovers something
new each time he attends Open House.
“This is my third year to be doing this,
and every time I come I broaden my hori
zons just by walking around. It’s neat to
have such a wide range of choices. You can
go from the traditional clubs such as MSC
Class Councils to the more eclectic such as
Academie Vampirica,” McCullough said.
For those wanting a break from the
crowds, there was a medley of entertain
ment both inside in the MSC Flagroom and
outside by Rudder Fountain. Performance
groups included Ballet Folklorico Celestial
and the TAMU Women’s Chorus. Students
could also register for door prizes sponsored
by the MSC Bookstore that were being giv
en away every hour throughout the event.
Mike Fuentes/The Battalion
Aggie Wranglers perform Sunday at the MSC Open Flouse. The dance
group performs at various campus events during the year.