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enlighten • entertain • inspire Experience The Big Easy ...and All That Jazz! House of Blues The Highway 61 Tour Starring Booker T. Jones John Hammond The Blind Boys of Alabama plus additional artists IMo need to go to The Big Easy for the hottest rhythm & blues, gospel and jazz going down! Hear the New Orleans sounds of blues guitarist superstar John Hammond and Billy Boy Arnold, rhythm and blues great Booker T. Jones plus gospel giants The Blind Boys of Alabama - “The Highway 61 Tour” has it all! MSC OPAS Visit our website at opas.tamu.edu ONE NIGHT ONLY! October 21 at 8 PM • Rudder Auditorium* For tickets, call the MSC Box Office at 845-1234. CAREER COUNSELING & TESTING CENTER FALL I99f> WfoRKSHOPS CH00SIN6 A MAJOR This workshop will demonstrate how to match interests with appropriate academic majors and occupations. A take-home workbook which includes interest inventory results is provided. Requires counselor referral and completion of interest inventory two working days prior to the workshop. Oct. 22 Thurs. Nov. 3 Tues. Nov. 13 Fri. Nov. 23 Mon. 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. finding Your future This interactive workshop is designed to teach participants how to make career decisions. Participants will learn how to generate and explore career opportunities based on their strengths and values. Pre-registration is required. Oct. 12 Mon. 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Oct. 27 Tues. 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Nov. 11 Wed. 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Dec. 3 Thurs. 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. CAREER SAFARI This workshop will provide you with the tools to track elusive occupational information and capture a career that fits your interests and skills. Requires counselor referral and completion of interest inventory two working days prior to the workshop. Oct. 13 Tues. 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Oct. 28 Wed. 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Nov. 9 Mon. 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Nov. 19 Thurs. 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. do What You are This workshop is based on the best-selling book and teaches participants how to incorporate their unique personalities in career planning. Profiles will be provided that include a brief personality description, strengths and weaknesses, criteria for a satisfying career choice, careers to consider, and recommendations for the job search. Requires counselor referral and completion of personality measure two working days prior to the workshop. Oct. 15 Thurs. Nov. 2 Mon. Nov. 17 Tues. Dec. 9 Wed. 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. i STUDENT COUNSELING SERVICE Career Counseling & Testing Center Workshop registration will dose two working days before each workshop. http://WWW.SCS.TAIVIU.EDU .a Department in the Division of Student Affairs COUNSELING & SELF-HELP INDIVIDUAL CAREER COUNSELING Students may schedule an appointment with a career counselor to discuss concerns regarding their choice of major and choice of career. Other issues for exploration may include career planning, decision making, and dealing with family pressure. CAREER PLANNING SUPPORT GROUP This group offers support to students who are experiencing difficulty in making career decisions. Potential group topics include exploring work values, conflict with parents over choice of major, finding alternative career options. Referral by career counselor is required. Group days and times will be determined based on availability of facilitators and first five participants referred. ACE (ACADEMIC & CAREER EDUCATOR) student Volunteers ACE student volunteers assist students in the Career Counseling & Testing Center by helping them explore various academic majors, career options, and career information. No appointment is necessary to speak with an ACE volunteer. DISCOVER DISCOVER is a multimedia career exploration tool in which you will have a chance to take three inventories to learn more about your interests, work- related abilities and values and develop a personalized list of occupations and majors. DISCOVER computer time must be scheduled in advance. Personalized information can be saved to a computer disk. (Bring your own disk.) CAREER SELF-HELP RESOURCES The Career Counseling & Testing Center Library contains a variety of books, handouts, and computer programs on career choice and occupational information that students may use at their own pace. The resources are available for use during regular business hours. No appointment is required to use these materials. HTTP://WWW.SCS.TAMU.EDU Texas A&M University has a strong institutional commitment to the principle of diversity in all areas. In that spirit, admission to Texas A&M University and any of its sponsored programs is open to all qualified individuals without regard to subgroup, class or stereotype. g:\user\meredith\1998 CCTC Brochure and workshops.pmS revised 7/22/98 INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING DISCOVER Workshops TESTING For more information contact the Student Counseling Service, Texas A&M University Rm. 114 Henderson Hall, 845-4427 ext. 108 Page 4 • Wednesday, October 14, A^ggielife Bat PEOPLE IN THE NEWS ‘Ally McBeal’ on real-life side of courtroom drama Heston found the experience fun. “While my back was turned," he recalled,Tfg of the coffee girls behind me say, ‘Oh, nicebd NEW YORK (AP) — Real-life lawyers are taking Calista Rockhart to court. The law firm of Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein and Seitz is suing the star of “Ally McBeal," saying they deserve 5 per cent of everything she earns on the hit show because they reviewed and negotiated the contracts that sealed her deaf with Fox. Rockhart, who plays a flighty young lawyer, agreed to 5 percent, the firm said. As of last week, according to the firm, she earned at least $780,000 and owed the attor neys at least $39,000. “We’ve tried and tried and tried to resolve this ami cably," said Maura Wogan, who filed the lawsuit Friday. “We’ve been paid absolutely no money." Rockhart’s Los Angeles lawyer, Barry Tyerman, said: “I know nothing about this suit. It’s news to me. I know that Frankfurt, Garbus had made some claims, but I thought they had been dropped." Garth Brooks gives surprise performance ati BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) —At tention shoppers, Garth Brooks in the rotunda! The country star surprised Trisha Yearwood at the Mall of America on Monday by stepping out of a crowd as she signed autographs and breaking into song. The pair did two duets be fore 5,000 screaming fans. Yearwood has been opening for Brooks, and the two were in town for sold-out shows at the Target Center in nea neapolis. ith, At booksigning, Heston retells story of bearing all BY IV SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — There’s a certain coffee girl Charlton Heston has not forgotten from the 1960s. The 74-year-old actor was asked Monday at a book signing whether he regretted baring his rear end in the 1968 “Planet of the Apes." “No," he said. “Actors have the modesty of mice. In summer stock, you’re always changing your clothes in the wings. Of course, what you do when you’re naked is another thing." Golfer ends 12-year mam „d S 1 LONDON (AP) — Golfer Nick Faldos 12« ® arCh to his second wife ended in divorce Tuesda). A money and property settlement hast decided. Gill Faldo, the mother of Faldo’s threes portedly wants millions. Neither was in court Tuesday. The marriage is not the only recent break: 41. a three-time Masters and British Open dan He disclosed this month that hear:/ pelak were ending their three-year relations! Skin Continued from Page 3 “I play a 45-year-old woman who has been married for 5,000 years,” she said. “You have to let go of all set boundaries of reason, and you have to look at the play as a whole. It is more than just the words but is about morals and concepts. It is something you re ally have to think about. “I just kept thinking, ‘Okay now, what would you do if you were this person? What would I do if I were at home worrying about my hus band who might get caught by the iceberg, or by the flood?'” Guillermo DeLeon, a senior the ater arts major, said he has had an interesting time trying to portray the character George Antrobus. “The play is quite different, and it was kind of hard to play him because of the time phases,” he said. “When I first picked up the script, I was wondering how we were going to do this, but now looking at it is great. The play is really intersesting because it al lows us to do differenttfe audience interaction." Schultz said Wilder novative playwright v play that still relatestoa “When I was reading the script shocked me how true it is to whatis ing now,” he said. “Fifty a man was able to siti write this and have it what is going on. “But he does thisthroi derful writing because he' the normal script and surprise ending.” eer: mber 11 inti iician It is i Iroorr eel ck a few the pi sually Rogers lastei e[|resent JTou c pular Medals Continued from Page 3 It takes a lot of space to house 500 visitors, and those interested are en couraged to sign up in 137 MSC. In contrast to many similar pro grams, MEDALS shows high school students more than just A&M. Military recruiters, representa tives from technical schools and information about how to apply to other universities are also part of the package. “A&M is a good school, but it’s not for everybody,” Taylor said. “Just being a university, it’s not going to be for everybody because their particular interests may not lie in that direction. “If we limit them to that nar row option, they probably won’t be interested in our program, and we wouldn’t be as successful. If we show them the variety of choices they have before them, they may find what interests them and pursue it.” While A&M is not the only choice shown to MEDALS partici pants, those high school students who attend are still left with a lasting impression of the campus and what it has to offer. “A&M actually recruits a lot of new students as a by-product of the MEDALS program,” Taylor said. “While we don’t actually go and tell them to attend A&M, a lot of them still decide to come here. Last year, 37 of the incoming freshmen were people who had attended the MEDALS program.” Even those high school stu dents who do not choose to attend Texas A&M are left more opti mistic about their future. James Henry, a guidance coun selor at A&M Consolidated High School, said the program is very popular with students who attend. “We always try to touch base with the students who attend the MEDALS conference,” Henry said. “Without exception they are pumped up about not only A&M, but the careers ahead of them and the chances for success they have but didn’t really think about.” Using college students as ad visers also has an effect on the event’s participants. “It’s a great thing when a high school student can see others who are about the same age doing all these great things in college,” Henry said. “A lot of high school students approach college with a lot of ap prehension. They think to them selves, ‘Am I really ready for this? Can I do college?’ This program really builds up their confidence and reduces their anxiety about their lives after high school.” MEDALS remains a popular ac tivity in high schools because those who attend readily it to their classmates. W. G. Sennette, these sistant principal at Bry School, said students an 1 lined up to attend. “We started the program; year it was at A&M, andwf 20 to 25 students everyyeJ nette said. “The students whogo: ways excited about it ami they come back they tel 1 body else about how good gram it was.” While there is onlyasi to attend the program,si give up a weekend toatiei “This is a full weekend tivities, and not all ofthenr and games,” Henry said. “This is a chance fora to seize an opportunity! future. The student the one who puts forth diet The reward is worthtti? for those who participate. “My whole expefp taught me that peoplewlm higher positions need to hand to the people whoati gling,” Taylor said.. “Since I’m already it would be easy for me to on with my life. But i see how important an is, it becomes my respi to help others to get right now.” Cass; ini.Kel ggiel, NovaCo In tNe (YlEMORiAl Student Center OcrobER 1618 Con Pass $15 Soane/Games ° CCGs ° SPGs Historical &. Miniatures Gaming Computer Room with tSSmrnmJt I IJUUIXriS* SI 1mm Sponssoned by (409) 764-1136 C.Ot' (tv NOVA =# Visit our web-site at http://novacon.tamu.edu E-mail: taihen(Sjtamu.edu Call us at 845-1515
