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    Page 10 • Tuesday, November 10, 1998
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MSC OPAS brings performing arts to A&M
BY NONI SRIDHARA
The Battalion
T he MSC Opera and Per
forming Arts Society began
at Texas A&M University
originally as part of MSC Town
Hall, which brought in a variety
of classical music perforn^ances
to the campus.
Rhandi Selde, director of au
dience education and develop
ment for OPAS and a senior bio
medical engineering major, said
OPAS expanded when Rudder
Auditorium was built and is cur
rently the largest organization
that brings performing arts to the
Brazos Valley.
Selde said OPAS tries to help
make up for the lack of a fine arts
school at Texas A&M though
OPAS programing.
“Our mission at OPAS is to en
lighten, entertain and inspire peo
ple about the fine arts,” she said.
Selde said OPAS usually hosts
10 to 13 big performances during
the year. Selde said the process of
selecting performances starts with
the OPAS board.
“OPAS is run largely by a joint
effort of the students and the
community,” Selde said. “The
board, which is made up of com
munity members and student ex
ecutives, spends all year sifting
through materials from various
agencies to decide what is most
appropriate and cost-effective
for performances for the upcom
ing year.”
Selde said there are approxf-
mately 160 students who are mem
bers of OPAS and are the life-blood
of the organization.
“Students help out in the most
conspicuous ways,” Selde said.
“On the night of the performance
they literally run everything from
ushering the performances to han
dling backstage and even helping
to control the parking garages.”
The MSC OPAS Guild is an or
ganization that was founded in
1973 as an auxiliary organization
to MSC OPAS.
Mary Shutes, president of
OPAS Guild and assistant director
of admissions and records, said
the mission “is to support and en
hance the efforts of the students
of MSC OPAS.” She said the guild
hosts a variety of functions
throughout the year, but have two
main events.
“Our first was a Holiday Kalei
doscope and luncheon that we had
last week,” Shutes said. “We also
have a very big fund-raising gala
where we have brought in big
headliners such as Little Richard,”
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Shutes said the majority of the
money goes toward helping keep the
ticket prices low for OPAS Junior.
Selde said that some of the oth
er services OPAS offers are an an
nual youth arts day and Aggie En
cores. Selde said the youth day
serves to educate the young com
munity of the Brazos Valley about
the importance of fine arts. She
said Aggie Encores is a new service
of OPAS that brings music perfor
mances of different genres that are
not normally seen on campus,
such as a Latin-jazz swing band.
OPAS is presenting a variety of
performance art both on and off
campus this week. One of the fea
tures of this week is the “Al
ways...Patsy Cline” concert. This
Friday, the University Symphonic
Band, University Concert Band
and Dance Arts Society will per
form in the MSC Flagroom from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. OPAS will con
clude its presentations for Arts
Awareness Week this Sunday
night with a concert by Nigel
Kennedy at Rudder Auditorium.
“We want to give people the op
portunity to express themselves
and show what they have to offer,”
Selde said. “Having this at the MSC
will bring together a good cross-
section of students and also help
bring arts awareness into the eyes
of the students.”
Fair provides advice|^
for selecting majors
ece
BY JENNIFER JONES
The Battalion
The Career Center will host
the Academic Major Career Fair
today in the MSC Flagroom
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to help
students identify majors that
will aid them in their prospec
tive careers.
Pat Alexander, associate di
rector of career education at
the Career Center, said the Ca
reer Center is working in con
junction with several Univer
sity departments to inform
students about major and ca
reer opportunities.
“The Career Center, Center
for Academic Enhancement,
General Academic Programs
and Student Counseling Service
are co-programming with aca
demic departments to serve as
a career-information program
for students who are freshmen,
are changing majors or who are
transfer students,” she said.
Alexander said the main fo
cus of the career fair is academ
ic course offerings, but it also in
cludes information a£>out what
students can do with the acad
emics. She said representative:
will be available at the fair
discuss shadowing, summer
job, internship and cooperative
education opportunities.
Alexander said professon
and advisers from the College
of Science, College of Libera:
Arts, College of Agricultureani
Life Sciences and CollegeofEn-
gineering will be among those
available to discuss question;
about career options.
"This way students can tali
more extensively about career
opportunities,” she said.
Alexander said students
can also speak with adviser;
about the job outlook for their
ketable job skills
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