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By BRIAN PEARSON
Reporter
Ja program that helps new stu
dents adjust to life at Texas A&M
has added three new activities this
year: campus tours the night before
summer conferences, movies at the
Grove and “parents’ socials,” where
peer advisors answer questions for
parents.
l;|The Peer Adviser Program is de
signed to answer the questions of
new students during the summer
orientation programs. Kathy Cal-
zone, coordinator of the Peer Ad
viser Program, said the program has
;panded to satisfy the needs of the
increasing number of incoming stu-
:nts and is large compared to those
at other universities.
"We are here to show the new stu-
llnts the ropes of the campus,” Cal-
me said.
1 During the orientation programs,
students are divided into groups of
six to 10 and are taken for a tour
around the campus by two peer ad-
sers.
“Everyone knows what a fresh
man goes through and I like to help
make the transition from hign
jhool to college a smooth one,” said
advisor Leo Grumulaitis, a
sophomore electrical engineering
major. “The most important issues
for a peer advisor to convey to new
students are the unique aspects of
Texas A&M.”
Grumulaitis, who has been a peer
advisor for about a year, said he en
joys taking new stuaents to the Aca
demic Building.
“The Academic Building is the
center of campus and is the location
of my favorite tradition, Silver
Taps/ he said.
Calzone said the peer advisors an
swer questions about Texas A&M so
cial life, but they do not provide aca
demic counseling.
“As far as I know, other universi
ties with similar programs lean more
toward academics than our pro
gram,” she said.
Applications for peer advisors are
being accepted through April 12. To
be an advisor, a student must have at
least a 2.0 grade-point ratio, must be
willing to volunteer time during the
summer and be able to communicate
well with people.
Students can fill out applications
and sign up for an interview in 108
YMCA.
Calzone said the program takes all
applicants who fit the criteria.
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NEW BRAUNFELS — David Port had been
repared a week for the worst — a long prison
entence for murdering a Houston mail carrier,
[ defense attorney Jack Zimmermann said.
■ A state district court jury on Saturday sen
tenced the 18-year-old Houston resident to 75
ears in prison and a $ 10,000 fine for the June 7
slaying of Debora Sue Schatz, 23.
1 The same jury had convicted him of murder
die day before.
| Port will have to serve at least 20 years before
he will be considered for parole, prosecutors
said.
1 Zitnmermann said the turning point in the
case was Judge I.D. McMaster’s decision to allow
a policewoman to testify Port confessed to the
crime while she was driving him to police head
quarters last June 8.
“Ever since the confession was ruled admissi
ble, he (Port) was prepared for a verdict of guilty
and life in prison,” Zimmermann said Saturday
after deputies had handcuffed Port and taken
him to the Comal County Jail.
“Now you understand the gravity of the error
that was made,” he said.
Life was the maximum prison term the jury
could have recommended.
Zimmermann indicated he would ask McMas-
ter for a new trial, “but I don’t think he’s going to
change his mind.”
He characterized the judge’s decision on the
confession as a new interpretation of the law.
“It’s not the law in Texas and hasn’t been for 100
years,” Zimmerman said.
Jurors were asked to meet with Zimmermann
after the trial. Most of the panel refused com
ment after they were dismissed, but the attorney
said they told him “the evidence with the confes
sion was overwhelming.”
“We have no quarrel with the guilty being
found guilty,” Zimmerman said. “What bothers
me is that someone was convicted not in accord
ance with the law.”
During the trial, policewoman Irma Sauseda
testified Port told her he forced Schatz upstairs at
his home at gunpoint.
Port said the letter carrier struggled with him,
then fell, Sauseda testified. Port told her he then
opened fire on the woman and later stuffed the
body in the trunk of his car and drove to a bayou,
where he dumped the body, the officer testified.
Police found the body in a field several miles
from the spot Port designated.
Testimony indicated at least six shots were
fired from the murder weapon, three of them
hitting Schatz.
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