University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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by LAURIE ROSENBOWER To keep up with the needs of an ever-changing student body, the Texas Union committees underwent some changes in the 1985-86 school year. After a two-year evaluation process of the existing committees, the Program Council of the Union, with the approval of the Texas Union Board of Directors, revised the existing program committee system to include an Arts and Humanities committee, a Campus In- teraction committee and an Ideas and Issues committee. Two new committees will be added including the Interna- tional Awareness and New Technologies Committees. The Union developed these commit- tees to Provide educational and social Liberal arts sophomore, Kevin Lewis, who will take over the Ideas and Issues committee next fall, gets hands on experience in the graphics lab session. Photo by Kevin Gutting TEXAS UNION FEATURE New committees alter program programs for campus, said Carol Prior, assistant program director for the Union. We are teaching life skills, helping with a person ' s development and growth, to more adequately meet the needs of the student body. The two new committees were a result of a perceived shortage in areas growing in popularity. There was a big hole in the area of technology such as new medical advances, computers and space travel, said Prior of the New Technologies Committee. She said there will be many engineering and pre- medical students that this will be of in- terest to. Another new committee, Interna- tional Awareness, was planned to help in understanding the cultures of other people, said Prior. There are many people on this campus from other coun- tries, and the world in general is becom- ing multi-cultural, Prior said. The remaining three new committees were to be combinations of existing committees. Arts and Humanities will be a combination of the former Fine Arts and Theater committees. This group will broaden to include fine arts, literature and philosophy. It will broaden in scope and take on theater also, said Prior. Some of its activities will include art exhibits and the Madrigal Dinner, said Beth Collier, publicity assistant for the Union. Another new committee was to be a combination of the Special Events and Special Programs committees. The Campus Interaction Committee was to be in charge of Friday Gras and Cupid Connection, things that are more campus-wide versus a specific area. Ideas and Issues, an extension of the former Ideas and Interactions commit- tee which brought in speakers on social and political issues with an emphasis on local issues. The committee ' s emphasis would be on ideas and issues important to students. At a meeting of next year ' s committee chairmen, Lois Poe, Beth Collier and Jacqueline Souroujon discuss graphic techniques. Photo by Kevin Gutting Texas Union Feature 215

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i TEXAS UNION BOARD Policy makers incorporate creative methods by SHERRI EVANS Contriving new ideas and innovations was the forte of the 1984-85 Texas Union Board. Among the more creative ideas devised by the Board was the in- troduction of the TUX card. This card, which would be available to all students in the fall of 1985, would act as a Texas U nion credit card. Students would deposit an amount of money at the Union and then receive their card, which could be used for all Union ser- vices and functions, including the Varsi- ty Cafeteria and the MicroCenter. The Board, which was the policy making body of the Texas Union and was made up of six students, three faculty members and three non-voting members, planned to continue making advancements into the next academic year. Aside from putting the TUX card program into operation, there were also plans for remodeling the Varsity Cafeteria and the Quadrangle Room. Perhaps more important, however, the major goal for next year, said Laurel FIRST ROW: Darrick Wayne Eugene, Dave Alan Steakley, Laurel Ann Baumer, Frank B. Bartow. SECOND ROW: Mark Thomas Mitchell, David John Drum, Astrid Marie Cosper, Michael Lee Meadows. Photo by Robert Cohen Baumer, business senior and chair of the Board, will be to target freshmen and make them aware of the Union and what it has to offer. Baumer also said the Board hoped to provide more learning experiences, to increase communication with students, and to increase services the Union offers to students. One of 20 donated Macintosh computers from Apple, Inc. is used by Laurel Baumer in an effort to facilitate her duties as Board President. - Photo by Marci Doane 214 Texas Union Board

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TEXAS UNION PROGRAM COUNCIL Committee chairs join forces to create ' Total Union Concept 9 by INGRID WIETING The main goal of this year ' s Texas Union Program Council is to provide diverse and quality programming for the student population at the Universi- ty, said Darrick Eugene, chairman of the council. The TUPC was composed of the chairmen of all the Texas Union program committees. It met every other week and worked to facilitate the func- tioning of the program committees. One of the major concepts governing 1985 ' s TUPC was the Total Union Concept. Eugene described this idea as the goal to bring all the components of the union the committees, the staff, and the administrators together as a unit rather than as independent entities. The highlight of this year ' s TUPC, Eugene said, were the training workshops which occurred in September and February. Members of all Union committees attended a general orientation session and then broke up into smaller group workshops. Through programs such as these, the TUPC worked together to benefit all aspects of the Union. FIRST ROW: Sandra Ham, Anne Miya Buxbaum, Mike Ramirez. SECOND ROW: Jacqueline Nicole Souroujon, Lisa Anne Weathereby. THIRD ROW: Anne Margaret Beauregard, Mark Barr Mc- Clellan, Sarah Dorothy Gish. FOURTH ROW: Bradley S. Sloan, William Douglas Duncan. FIFTH ROW: Heather Gayle Edgley, Carol Horan Reifsnyder. SIXTH ROW: Darrick Wayne Eugene, Jack Richard Jackson, William King. Photo by Joseph Jaworski Emphasizing a point at the March 27 meeting of the Texas Union Pro- gram Council, Darrick Eugene, government senior, refers to Ronnie Taylor, communications senior, and Mike Grant, accounting senior, while planning the annual Texas Union banquet in which Neal Hartman, assistant director of admissions was the keynote speaker. Photo by Doug Layton 216 Texas Union Program Council