News briefs

Date auction to raise funds for South club

   African American Student Organization (AASO) on South Campus is looking for dates.

   The Date Auction fund-raiser gives students the opportunity to meet new people.

   AASO is seeking participants to be auctioned off as dates. A group representative said they are looking for males and females with great attitudes and vibrant personalities.

   Participants must register by Monday, Oct. 21, with Freddie Sandifer or Annie Dobbins in the counseling center in the Administration Building. Part of the registration process is describing oneself and one’s idea of a perfect date.

   A committee will pick ten men and ten women for the auction.

   Participants must be current TCC students and must be available Wednesday, Oct. 30, from 12:30-2:30 p.m. for the auction. All proceeds will benefit the AASO.

   For more information, contact Freddie Sandifer at 817-515-4744.

Honor students try new foods in taste tests

Free food is available for willing participants at Phi Theta Kappa’s (PTK) Honor Society’s Taste Test on SE Campus, Thursday, Oct. 10, in the North Ballroom.

  “Anyone who comes gets 25 minutes of free food,” Molly Wolfenberger, SE PTK president, said.

  The food will be products not yet on the market. Participants can eat them and give their feedback to the manufacturers, Wolfenberger said.
The Taste Test sessions are 10:20 a.m., 10:55 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:10 p.m., 2 p.m., 2:35 p.m., 3:10 p.m. and 3:50 p.m. Participants must be able to eat salt and not be diabetic.

  All ages between 13 and 65 may participate. Participants 13-17 must have a guardian complete a permission slip.

  The Taste Test is a SE Campus PTK fund-raiser. PTK, a nonprofit organization, will use the funds to send students on educational trips around the country and bring back information pertaining to scholarships, campus life and community improvement, Wolfenberger said.

PTK chapters sponsor seminars on NE, South, SE

   Phi Theta Kappa honor society will sponsor an interactive seminar on diseases on two campuses later this month.

   Emerging Infectious Diseases will feature Dr. Gail Hughes, assistant professor in the department of preventive medicine-epidemiology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

   Topics may include potential health risks in this century, AIDS in other countries, strategies for investigation of infectious diseases, ethical issues and use and overuse of antibiotics.

   Seminars are 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22. South Campus participations will meet in the SUB Forum Room and NE Campus participants in the Student Center’s Center Corner. The NE Campus will repeat the seminar Wednesday, Oct. 23, 12:30 p.m. in the Center Corner.

   Hughes has experience in public health care, community health and health education. Involved with women’s health and minority health issues, she also has developed community health programs and clinics in South America, India, South Africa and Cuba.

   This presentation is the third of a five-part satellite series designed to accompany the society’s 2002 Honors Study Topic: Dimensions and Directions of Health: Choices in the Maze.

Students to learn about transfers, degree planning

   To help students plan their courses to transfer to a major university, Richard Vela and Susie Carranza, academic advisors, will conduct seminars this month on NE Campus.

   “We want to make sure students don’t take courses that will not transfer,” Vela said.

   The seminar will give students information on the degree plans for Associate of Arts and technical degrees. Students can discuss what plan is right for them, and they will also have the opportunity to complete a degree plan, if time permits.

   Students can find out what courses they can take at TCC before they transfer. They can also view catalogs from local colleges and universities.

   The seminars will occur Thursday, Oct. 24, 12:30-1:50 p.m. and Tuesday, Oct. 29, 5-5:50 p.m. in College Hall (CAB 112).