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Page 6 • Tuesday, September 21,1999
Fresh Start on health
BY STASIA RAINES
The Battalion
When Kelli Simmons, was a biol
ogy major her sophomore year at
Texas A&M she decided to try a pro
gram at the Student Recreation Cen
ter titled Fresh Start.
“Before this program, I had only
done my own thing with fitness,
nothing too consistent.” she said.
Today she is a senior exercise
technology major, an aerobics in
structor and a firm believer in the
Fresh Start program.
“I am motivated to take care of
myself,” Simmons said. “This pro
gram turned the way I live around.”
The Fresh Start program will be
held tonight and tomorrow night
with a health assessment and infor
mational meeting from 7 to 9 p.m.
in room 134 of the Student Recre
ation Center.
The program consists of five es
sential parts, contained in the
acronym FRESH: fitness, recreation,
education, stress management and
healthy eating. The participants start
with a fitness assessment given by
the Fit Life trainers from the health
center.
“It tells them their weaknesses so
that those can be a focus point of the
program even before they start,”
Woosley said.
She said the assessment consists
of many tests including flexibility,
cardiovascular and body fat compo
sition analysis. After the assessment,
the participants have a choice of two
different Fresh Start tracks.
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The six-week track is a self-mon
itoring program in which partici
pants monitor their behavior by
recording it in a log book.
The 10-week program consists of
weekly group meetings for discus
sions, question and answer sessions
and personal workout times.
Woosley said both programs are
very affordable — the six-week pro
gram is $12, and the 10-week pro
gram is $25.
Woosley said the vision for this
program began when the Rec Cen
ter first opened. She said she felt a
need to start something that would
give students a program to last the
rest of their lives.
Jennifer Gonzales, a nutrition
graduate assistant at A.P. Beutal
Health Center, said the Fit Life pro
gram is held in conjunction with the
health and kinesology department
and the University health center.
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• Tom Petty performs to a sold-out crowd Sunday night in Ho
Petty is touring in support of his latest album, Echo.
College of Education
holds open house
BY JEANETTE SIMPSON
The Battalion
The College of Edu
cation will be hosting a
graduate studies open
house today from 2
p.m. to 6 p.m. in room
224 MSC, for students
interested in pursuing
a graduate degree in
education.
Dr. Becky Carr, as
sistant dean for acade
mic affairs, said stu
dents have a hard time
getting everything they
need because it is not
all in one place.
“Many times those
who come back for
their graduate degree
are not on campus
everyday, which makes
it hard for them to get
everything they need,”
she said.
“We hold this open
house to answer ques
tions and bring every
thing together for the
prospective students.”
For the past three
years, the College of
Education has assem
bled representatives
from the Office of
Graduate Studies, Stu
dent Financial Aid and
the Department of Stu
dent Life into one
room, allowing the stu
dents to pick up appli
cations where the dif
ferent representatives
would be on hand in
order to learn more
about the graduate
programs available to
them.
"This open house is
held to bring all of the
information together in
one place, and it shows
how flexible we are in
working with our grad
uate students,” Carr
said.
There also will be
current graduate stu
dents on hand, as well
as staff and faculty, to
talk to the potential
graduate students and
help them get a feel for
the different programs.
Carr said the open
house gives interested
students an opportuni
ty to get first-hand in
formation from gradu
ate students.
“It is really impor
tant and helpful for the
potential students to
be able to talk with the
graduate students so
they can get a feel for
what the classes, staff
and what the different
programs are like,”
Carr said.
“Many times, the
current students can
answer questions and
provide insight that a
faculty or staff member
cannot. ”
Creamery may return to A&M canif
BY MATT LOFTIS
The Battalion
After watching the build
ing slated to house the new
creamery be constructed over
five years and then see it sit
unused for another year, Dr.
Nathan Bauer, Department of
Pathobiology and class of ’75,
was tired of waiting for the
dairy treats he loved and
missed so much.
He was buying Blue Bell
ice cream one day when he
was told the creamery would
not be opened after all.
“Many former students
fondly recall the days when
they could stop by the cream
ery and eat ice cream made
on the Texas A&M University
main campus,” Bauer said.
“Texas A&M closed its cream
ery several years ago, and
lovers of French Silk Ice
Cream [and other flavors]
haven’t been the same since.”
For almost a century, Ag
gies have had a creamery of
some sort, whether it was
butter churns or other hand
tools or machinery.
In the 1950s the creamery
on West Campus was closed
to move to a new facility next
to Sterling C. Evans Library
on main campus.
This creamery was opera
tional until 1992 when it was
closed due to the construction
of the Sterling C. Evans Li
brary Annex, with the under
standing that a new facility
would soon be built.
Dr. Ronald Richter, a dairy
science professor, said the
lack of a creamery for five
years has created an inconve
nience with research projects
and the teaching of some
classes.
“Following the demolition
of the older creamery, A&M
began construction afterward
on a new building for the An
imal Science Department
Dairy Science program, de
signed to house the new
creamery that had been
agreed upon,” Richter said.
“We were looking forward to
having [a creamery] some
day. It’s been a long time in
the process.”
The building cost an ap
proximate $3.5 million and
was completed in the fall of
1998.
“We were looking
forward to having
[a creamery]
some day”
— Dr. Ronald Richter
Dairy Science professor
The facility sits idle and no
machinery or equipment has
been moved into the new
building.
Dr. Bryan Johnson, an an
imal science professor and
head of the Department of
Animal Science, said a lack of
money is what kept Dairy Sci
ence from opening the cream
ery. Equipment from the old
er creamery was deemed
unusable by risk-assessors,
therefore the use of the out
dated equipment was pre
vented. He said because new
equipment was never fac
tored into the cost for the
building, bids were collected
and the cost of new creamery
equipment was calculated.
New machines |
equipment weree®
$300,000, but the an
ence department was
to cover the cosier
pected expenses, tt
necessary apparatus
there was no mtoi
into the buildiit'/pe
them.
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with the acflUSM
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building ended isp
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department. After si:
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grams.
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issue will be settled
next year and fundswi
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WHO’S WHO AMONG STUDENTS
IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGE 1
1999-2000
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
Who’s Who applications are now available for both
undergraduate and graduate students in the following location^
Commandant’s Office (Military Sciences Building)
Student Programs Office (Second Floor MSC)
Student Activities Office (125 John J. Koldus Building)
Sterling C. Evans Library
Office of Graduate Studies (125 Teague)
Office of the Dean of each College
Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs (10th Floor Rudda
Completed applications must be received by the Student Actid
office no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, October 1, 1999. Theyntf
hand-carried to the Student Activities office, sent through Caul |
Mail (MS 1236), or sent through US mail. (See the applicatiof
addresses.) Questions may be addressed to Sandy Brier; J
Student Activities (845-1133).
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