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February 28, 1983
A&M mentors advise
students needing help
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by Brigid Brockman
Battalion Reporter
Do you have problems that
ibody seems interested in?
The professors and staff
irkers who are involved in
Texas A&M Mentors
ogram are interested and
"ing to listen.
The mentors, who are
nply “wise and faithful
unselors,” counsel students,
:ect them to programs that
n help with specific prob-
nsand inform them of ser-
;es offered at the Univer-
Assistant professor Dr.
rley Black, who took over
program in 1981, said the
ogram is more than a conn
ing service. Many students
m't talk to a mentor because
students think their prob-
ns are too trivial, but she
d that students should al-
ivs feel welcome.
“They can come to us with
all their little gripes,” she said.
The program can be a way
for students to communicate
with their professors. Black
said. The number of profes
sors involved in the program
has doubled since it first be
gan. There are more than 250
faculty members who double
as mentors.
She said there are many
professors doing research
work who don’t get to talk to
students as often as they
would like. These professors
are asking her to direct stu
dents to their offices.
The program has received
positive response from the
students. Most students want
to know their professors, sfiCy
said, and want to be more than
an identification number.
“Students like to have that
small college feeling even
though the University is grow
ing so fast,” she said.
A program is also being de
veloped for secretaries to help
inform students where they
can go to get help.
Students soon will be able to
pick up brochures which list
the mentors for each college
at the University. The
brochures will be in dormitor
ies and the Off-Campus
Housing Center.
To help let students know
who the mentors are, most of
the mentors have “ATMen-
tors” signs hanging on their
office doors, Black said.
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Lobbying tactics debated
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i rate case opposed
by Kimberly Hix
Battalion Reporter
Students from the University
of Texas at Arlington say stu
dent government will be effec
tive only if universities join
together when lobbying in Au
stin.
The Texas A&M Legislative
Study Group disagrees.
UTA is represented in Austin
by the Texas Student Associa
tion, which also represents many
other Texas universities.
Legislative Study Group dire
ctor Mike Lawshe said students
need more personal representa
tion.
“TSA can’t be effective,” he
said. “It works for too many uni
versities to be truly representa
tive of the students. Students
need more than a voice in Au
stin, they need to be informed
on state-wide issues that will
affect them.”
The Legislative Study Group
researches current issues, then a
recommendation is made to the
Student Senate based on this re
search.
“The research is two-fold,”
Lawshe said. “The students’ best
interest and how issues will
affect them is our first consider
ation. Then we consider what
the students want.”
Group members attend orga
nizational meetings and talk
with students discussing current
“TSA can’t be effective.
It works for too many
universities to be truly
representative of the
studen ts, ” Legisla tive
Study Group Director
Mike Lawshe said.
issues and possible effects of
these issues,he said.
Fred Billings, associate dire
ctor, describes the research as
coming in the back door.
“It is gathering opinions,
finding out how the students
feel and then following through
with what they want,” he said.
“This is the only way anyone is
truly represented.”
Lawshe said this is the job of
the Student Senate.
“Technically the (Student)
Senate should find out what the
students want,” he said.
“However, very little of this
takes place. As a group we must
work with the (Student) Senate.”
The Texas Congress has com
mended the Legislative Study
Group on its representation of
Texas A&M and has cited it as
an example for other universi
ties to follow.
UTA Student Government
has chosen not to follow this ex
ample.
John Gross, UTA Student
Government treasurer, said that
by joining TSA and interacting
with other universities, common
problems can be solved.
“There are certain general
problems that all universities
have,” he said. “TSA is a way to
solve them. As students we have
very little power. Collectively,
universities can have an impact.
“TSA is a vehicle for making
life easier for college students. If
it doesn’t work, sell it and buy
another,” he said.
The UTA Student Govern
ment has tried lobbying without
TSA.
TSA has spent money for lob
bying that UTA’s Student Gov
ernment felt was not important.
Gross said. Many of the issues
were not vital to all the students
in Texas, and the organization
lost its influence.
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United Press International
JSTIN — There would be a
us conflict of interest if
ney General Jim Mattox is
ed to intervene in a tele-
iccompany rate case bef ore
ublic Utility Commission, a
lawyer argued Friday,
ara Cristol, of the PUC’s
ral counsel, joined lawyers
General Telephone Co. of
louthwest in opposing Mat-
request that he be allowed
present residential custom-
i the company’s $85.5 mil-
mlrate increase case.
Beneral Telephone lawyer
Id Wueste Jr. noted that
atiox’s office is already repre
senting the PUC in a prior Gen
eral Telephone case that is on
appeal.
“Our position is that it simply
takes away the due process we
have,” he said.
PUC Examiner Angela Wil
liams said she will decide early
next week whether to grant Mat
tox status as an intervener in the
rate hearings scheduled to begin
April 18.
Amarillo attorney Eric Wol
fram, who represented Mattox,
said the attorney general has au
thority under the Texas Consti
tution to be made a party to PUC
•proceedings as an advocate of
the public’s interest.
But Wueste said the constitu
tion provides that the attorney
general must represent public
interests, claiming the represen
tation of individual consumers
would be private interests.
Wolfram countered that the
number of residential customers
is large enough that they take on
a public interest aspect.
Even though the PUC’s gen
eral counsel represents all clas
ses of customers, Wolfram said
residential consumers have no
“specific advocate” during rate
hearings.
“He (Mattox) has no right to
tell us what residential custom
ers’ rights are,” said Cristol.
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