105 YEARS AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
MONDAY
July 19, 1999
Volume 105 • Issue 171 • 6 Pages
College Station, Texas
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■ Beginning this fall, the Career
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Department will be renamed the
Experiential Education Depart-
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■th both cooperative (co-op) ed-
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reed tr njties in one location,
ed inteBJennifer Humphries, assistant
s and Ri S^ector for the cooperative educa-
KLAat.»n department, said that in the
naataniMst, students who wanted work
■ Silva, Bperience prior to graduation had
number■ go to several offices to find all
le available opportunities,
h KFOR* Humphries said she often en-
nedc counters students who are looking
• areab foi work experience prior to grad-
is.”ltsi»tion but are not aware of exactly
1 region what type of experience they want.
I “We will be able to let these stu-
rbs \u: jfpnts know about many of the pos
sible opportunities as well as help
them decide which program,
whether co-op or internship, will
best suit what they want to do,”
she said.
Humphries said co-op opportu
nities and internships both offer
their own distinct advantages and
disadvantages.
Cooperative education is an
academic program that allows
students to work with a company
for a minimum of two semesters.
Students receive co-op pay and
have full-time student status. The
student’s academic credit for the
term is determined by a Universi
ty co-op adviser, comments from
the student’s respective employ
er and a technical report filed by
the student.
Internships generally offer the
students one semester of work ex
perience that may or may not pro
vide students pay, academic credit
or full-time student status; but of
ten offer a more diverse selection
of opportunities that do not require
a two-semester commitment.
Humphries said along with the
integration of co-op and internship
opportunities, the department will
also be receiving a computer up
grade, which will allow students
easier Internet access and more in
formation about work experience
opportunities than the current data
operating system.
“For example, employer’s now
only have six lines of text to give vi
tal information like job descrip
tions and contact information,” she
said. “With the new system, they
will have almost unlimited space.”
Martha W. Boerema, associate
director of cooperative education,
said the department will also be
focusing on developing new in
ternational connections and pro
grams such as one currently in
volving seven construction sci
ence students in Moscow. These
students are working with the
H.B. Zachry Company to revamp
the U.S. Embassy there.
Humphries said these programs
will help give the students a “glob
al perspective” that will aid them
later if they enter into a multina
tional company. She said this will
force the students to deal with peo
ple of other cultures on a profes
sional level.
Boerema said the department is
attempting to obtain a wider vari
ety of employment opportunities
that will include more positions for
non-technical majors such as liber
al arts.
“We always have a good num
ber of positions for engineering and
science majors,” she said. “But we
feel it is also important to open the
door of opportunity as widely for
the non-technical majors.”
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CHANGES TO
THE CAREER CENTER
FOR FALL 1999
• The Career Center’s Cooperative Education
Department will be renamed the Experiential
Education Department
•The department will also be focusing on developing
new international connections and programs.
•The department is attempting to obtain a wider
variety of employment opportunities that will include
more positions for non-technical majors.
•The department will receive a computer upgrade
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Harold Presley (foreground), of College Station, sings the song One More Angel in Heaven while rehearsing Sunday for
“The Broadway Cabaret.”
Theater groups to present revue
BY MEGAN E. WRIGHT
The Battalion
Residents of the Brazos Valley will
have the opportunity to experience
various musical performances this
week at the Brazos Valley TROUPE
and MSC Opera and Performing Arts
Society’s presentation of “The Broad
way Cabaret,” a musical revue.
The selections to be performed
were taken from musicals and shows
that are scheduled for the upcoming
1999-2000 OPAS season. Selections
have been taken from musicals such
as Annie and The King and I.
The Brazos Valley TROUPE, a the
atrical organization composed of lo
cal children and community mem
bers, held auditions earlier in the
summer for performers. The group
has been in rehearsal arid making
preparations for the event over the
past three weeks.
Jeremy Byrd, OPAS chair and a se
nior psychology major, said this
week’s performances will highlight
not only the musicals but the local
talent.
“This is an opportunity for people
in the area to see some great per
formers and to preview some of the
great shows that OPAS has lined up
for this season,” Byrd said.
Byrd said a number of A&M stu
dents tried out.
“There are quite a few Aggies who
will be performing in the Cabaret this
year,” he said.
He said “The Broadway Cabaret”
is in its third year and will continue
to be a tradition in the Brazos Val
ley.
Available seating is limited; tickets
can be purchased though the MSC
Box Office at a cost of $5 for students
and $7 for non-students. Performances
will run on Tuesday, Wednesday .and
Thursday at 7:30 at the College Station
Conference Center .
OPAS Schedule
1999-2000
•Don Cossacks of Rostov (Sept. 30)
•Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Oct. 29)
•The King and I (Nov. 7)
• The Nutcracker (Dec. 3, 4)
•The Music of Andrew Lloyd
Webber (Jan. 22, 23)
•Romeo and Juliet (Feb. 25-27)
•Spirit of the Dance (March 4)
•The Barber of Seville (March 21,22)
•Annie (April 11,12)
Searchers zero in
on distress signal
JFK Jr., passengers still unaccounted for
AQUINNAH, Mass. (AP) — Searchers
looking for John F. Kennedy Jr.’s plane ze
roed in on a spot at the bottom of the sea
after picking up an automatic emergency
signal yesterday, while Americans griev
ed over the almost certain deaths of
Kennedy, his wife and her sister.
A sonar-equipped ship was sent to
the spot off Martha’s Vineyard where
debris from the plane was found earlier.
The Kennedy family spent a second
anguished day awaiting word along
with the rest of the nation, as federal au
thorities set up a top-level command
center to oversee the search.
The glamorous, 38-year-old Kennedy,
his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, 33,
and her older sister Lauren Bessette
were feared dead after the single-engine
plane he was piloting went down in the
waters off Martha’s Vineyard on Friday
night en route to his cousin Rory’s wed
ding. The Saturday wedding was post
poned, and the family held Mass to pray
for the missing.
In Washington, President Clinton
offered the prayers of a nation, saying
the Kennedys “have suffered much
and given more”' as a family over the
past 40 years.
“At this difficult moment, we hope
the families of these three fine young
people will feel the strength of God, the
love of their friends and the prayers of
their fellow citizens,” Clinton said.
More than 300 people, including
Coast Guardsmen and members of the
Air Force and National Guard, concen
trated on a 600-square-mile area off Gay
Head, on the southwestern edge of
Martha’s Vineyard, using ships, heli
copters, planes and all-terrain vehicles.
Coast Guard Rear Adm. Richard M.
Larrabee said searchers heard an under
water signal yesterday from an emer
gency locator transmitter near where de
bris from the plane was found. It was not
certain whether the signal — detected by
an Air Force plane — came from
Kennedy’s aircraft, the Coast Guard said.
“I would caution you that this was
only one transmission,” Larrabee said.
A sonar-equipped National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration ship,
the Rude (pronounced “Rudy”), was dis
patched to the place where the beacon
was heard about 4 1/2 miles southwest
of Gay Head, in about 80 to 100 feet of
water, Lt. Gary Jones, a Coast Guard
spokesperson, said.
see JFK on Page 6.
The numbers game
Officials consider changes to student IDs
BY CARRIE BENNETT
The Battalion
The possibility of changing Texas
A&M students’ identification numbers
from their Social Security Numbers to a
random number generated by a com
puter may become a reality.
A committee composed of members
of several departments on campus, in
cluding Payroll Services and the Fi
nance Department, has been organized
to determine the feasibility of making
the change, which is being examined
because of safety and confidentiality
concerns.
Dr. Rick Floyd, chair of the commit
tee and associate vice president for fi
nance, said the question of privacy as
sociated with the use of Social Security
Numbers has always been present.
Steven Pace, a member of the com
mittee and Aggie Card administrator,
said the committee is still discussing the
manner in which the number on the stu
dent ID cards will be changed.
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY GUY ROGERS/The Battalion
“It might be difficult if the entire
campus changed all at once, but if we
started with incoming students and
moved throughout the rest of the cam
pus it might not be as difficult,” Pace
said. “We are still at the planning
stages, and these issues will be dis
cussed.”
see Cards on Page 2.