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Conroe Texas Benefiting the Friends of Conroe nter Liberal Arts Career Discovery Night A workshop designed to help you explore the different career paths available to Liberal Arts students. Tuesday, Oct. 17 6:30-9 p.m. MSC 224 Page 6 CAMPUS riHirs(.lay, October iT f THE BATTALION Thursd; Storyteller emphasizes necessity of bilingualism By Kristin Rostran The Battalion Se habia espanol. Seventy-seven percent of the Texas A&M student body is white, and only nine percent is Hispanic. Though A&M’s Hispanic popula tion is small compared to the statewide population, the Hispanic population of Texas is expected to become the majority by 2015. In celebration of Hispanic Her itage Month, the Just Peace Institute, a local service organization, and the Department of Multicultural Ser vices brought Joe Hayes, a bilingual storyteller and author, to A&M to promote bilingualism and multicul- turalism and share cultural issues. “It’s really a shame that we do not promote bilingualism more,” Hayes said. “We hardly teach kids whose first language is English to speak an other language.” He added that not only does bilingualism spread cul ture and understanding, but it is also helpful in the work force. Hayes shared Mexican folk sto ries in Spanish and English at Rud der and two classes on Tuesday. Hayes said he began story telling because he enjoyed his chil dren’s reactions to his stories and decided to make a career of it. Now, storytelling has become a way for him to bring together His panic and American cultures through the retelling of Mexican folk tales in both languages. He uses repetition, facial expression and gestures, so his audience is able to understand the parts of the story not in their native language. “A storyteller like Joe Hayes re ally celebrates multiculturalism,” said Cecilia Hawkins, Just Peace Institute chairwoman. "By telling stories in two languages he creates a community.” The effects of a bilingual com munity are not seen only at the sto rytelling level. As Steve Oshewsky, an A&M accounting professor, said, “If my students could speak Spanisti,I would triple their job opporttEi ties. They could look for jobs. just here, but anywhere inti world. Speaking one language!* its their job opportunities.” As part of his trip to A&«| Hayes visited elementary sctioJI that have large populationso|H:l panic students. "Anytime you don’t understalf what is being said, it can make;® uncomfortable, but that is notff.I son to limit a language,” fe| said. “You can see a physic® change come over [Spanish-speaii ing students] when 1 start totij Spanish. They feel such pride,if gives them a real sense of impoil tance with their peers becausetki are able to translate for tkij! friends around them.” Marco Portales, an Englishpref lessor, said the more languages ok knows, the more ways there are! look at the world. T( ra in A] Al quarte for nc Cc Fire Continued from Page 1 television stations, will broadcast an alert signal at 7 p.m. Wednesday to remind families to practice their es cape plans for their homes at that time. This year will be the 50th year that the Fire Safety Expo, a joint venture between the Brazos Coun ty firefighters and Bryan and Col lege Station fire departments, Humphreys said. “The Fire Expo exhibits fire trucks, ambulances, and we’ll have our ‘Haz ard House’ — a mock house that dis plays fire hazards like frayed exten sion cords,” Humphreys said. “We’ll let people try fire extinguishers, and we’ll also have a bucket brigade to al low kids to see what it was like to light tires before we had big engines and had to move water by hand." BED and CSFD will also be making presentations to local pub lic schools. "We’ve done three different tours a day this month, where we go to schools and talk about fire pre vention," said Warren Fowler, pub lic education officer for BED. “We are taking the fire safety house out to different area schools this week. The fire safety house is a travel trailer specially built and made to look like a house. We put theatrical smoke in there, and it shows kids the importance of crawling There is also a hot door, so theyc check to see if the room is onfii This gives kids the chancetosl how smoke and fire reacts.” Fowler said the most rewardia part of his involvement with Fa Prevention Month is watchingrp schoolchildren respond to the info mational programs that the fired partrnents sponsor. “When you tell, show and act ally have [kids] participate.theyit tain that knowledge better, al hopefully, they retain that fora! time,” he said. Humphreys said A&M stufc should find two ways out ofeva) room in an apartment to escape safe! - THIS IS YOUR MISSION IF YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT... SAY CHEESE. ST. JOSEPH CAlHOllC CHURCH • GIR1S CLUB OfITOM scrapi tation Apple orado Browi fore k Ap had be startec two fc 12). 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