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By JAMES WALKER
Staff Writer
Local Republicans celebrated the
campaign season with a banquet sup
per in honor of Representative Phil
Gramm, candidate for U.S. Senate,
at the Brazos Center Tuesday night.
As could be expected, Gramm’s
address included several attacks on
challenger Lloyd Doggett and his
programs.
Amid the typical fundraising con
versation and activity, the purpose
for the fundraiser attending was al
most forgotten until the first speak
ers, one being Gramm’s wife, ini
tiated a short series of discourses
aimed at stimulating the hearts of lis
teners. Windy Gramm, actively
working in her husband’s campaign,
praised contributors for their exem
plary efforts.
Dicky Flatt, a longtime Gramm
protegee, reminisced about his expe
riences in Gramm’s campaign for
Congress in 1978 and encouraged
his fellow “wagon pullers,” a buzz
word for Gramm supporters, to
maintain their efforts and keep pull
ing.
Finally, Phil Gramm, flanked by
his guests of honor, took the podium
and gave an account of his personal
past. He related how his career suc
cess had been made possible by op
portunity in the American system, a
point which Gr^mm often makes in
nis campaign. A former economics
professor at Texas A&M, he became
involved in politics during the 1974-
75 recession when economic condi
tions hit a low point and he felt that
he could improve things.
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said, “I am not interested in debat
ing how we are going to fund their
(the Democrats) programs. I want to
talk about what we have achieved.”
Gramm discussed his sponsorship
of the Gramm-Latta bill calling it the
“greatest nutritional program in
American history.”
He said the legislation was directly
responsible for “seven million peo
ple at work today that were not
working four years ago. And those
people are earning their own income
and feeding their own children.”
His sharpest attack on Democratic
leadership came when he criticized
Doggett and Mondale’s so-called
“fairness” policies as “fairness in
spreading the misery of society to be
sure that we rub everybody’s nose in
it.”
As an alternative to aid programs,
Gramm stated his interest in pro
moting jobs, opportunity, and
growth.
He said he wants to create “a so
ciety where families are limited only
by the size of their dreams.
“I don’t want to go back to the
programs of the 1960s and 70s, I
want to go foward and provide an
opportunity society for our people.”
Gramm expressed this vision as a
new industrial era with rates of
growth “that we haven’t experienced
since the 1870s and 1890s.’’
Further criticism was leveled at
Doggett and Mondale in accusing
them of separating the nation into
various demographic areas.
“They don’t talk about trying to
win the hearts and minds of people
of Texas,” he said. “They believe
that they can break our society and
state into those narrowly defined in
terest groups, and that they can acti
vate these groups politically, and get
them to vote and turn out in massive
numbers, and that way they don’t
have to worry about how the average
citizen thinks.”
Ciramm indicated that the election
will be won or lost by 4 percentage
points, and said currently he is lead
ing Doggett.
Gramm ended his address with a
pledge to put Texas A&M in a
higher priority position for receiving
federal research grants.
“Texas A&M is not in the top 50
universities in getting federal pri
mary research dollars, he said. “It is
going to be my goal to move it to
number one.
“One of these days I am comming
back to teach. And hopefully not in
November.”
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General Meeting
Socie't’jr
Tues., Sept. 11 7:30 p.m.
268 E. Kyle
Bring your I.D.
For information call: Jenny 260-0276
Kelly 696-6125
Crawford Country Club Charted members
wish to welcome their elect new
members from the Class of “88”
New course aimed at preparing
psychologists for the courtroom
A new course, currently being taught for the first time
at Texas A&M, focuses on criminal and civil issues re
quiring a psychologist’s expertise. The course is de
signed to help psychologists and other social scientists
learn to deal with courtroom situations
By SARAH OATES
Staff Writer
A psychologist is on the witness
stand, testifying in a bitter child
custody case. His testimony may
play an important role in decid
ing which parent will get custody
of the child.
The lawyer cross-examining
asks if the psychologist is mar
ried, and if so, if he has children.
The psychologist replies no to
both questions.
“Then how are you qualified to
deal with child custody?!” the law
yer snaps. The psychologist,
caught off guard, is too discon
certed to answer. His reaction
could create doubts about his
credibility as an expert witness.
This scene is fictional, but is
based on a real courtroom inci
dent. Dr. Walter Stenning, an ed
ucational psychologist at Texas
A&M, said Tuesday that court
scenes such as this are common.
“Sometimes you have a civil
case where the defendant ran a
red light because he saw it as
green," Stenning said. “The psy
chologist has to be able to explain
that behavior to the court.”
Stenning said that in criminal
cases a psychologist’s role is to
analyze crimes. The psychologist
also talks to suspects and tries to
determine their motives. He also
must be able to interview wit
nesses and prepare court testi
mony based on professional liter
ature.
A new course this semester.
Special Topics in Forensic Psy
chology, emphasizes developing
communications skills, such as ex
plaining psychological theories in
layman’s terms, he said.
“We have to provide these peo
ple both with practice in speaking
E lainly, and an understanding of
:gal language. They have to
learn how to qualify themselves as
experts for a jury,” he said.
Stenning said he is trying to
prepare his class for the “reali
ties” of the judicial system.
“The criminal justice system
doesn’t always provide justice,”
Stenning said, “that’s the reality.
Also, psychologists have to be re
ady to hear graphic tales and see
graphic pictures.
“They have to learn how to go
through a cross-examination and
accept that they aren’t the ones in
control in court. The judge and
the lawyers are.”
Stenning said a major portion
of the course will consist of guest
lectures by lawyers, such as assis
tant district attorney Jim Kubo-
viak, and psychiatrists specializ
ing in forensics.
“I would like to have a victim
who has worked through the le
gal system talk to the class,” Sten
ning said, “but that’s very tricky.
It would have to be a very calm,
cool person.”
Stenning said he has wanted to
teach the course for “about eight
years.”
“Until recently, people weren’t
aware of the need for this course.
But now the time is right,” he
said. “The department has been
very supportive of it.”
Stenning plans to evaluate and
revise the course this spring. It
will be offered again during the
second summer session.
Children’s trust fund for abuse victims
recommended by aide to governor
United Press International
AUSTIN — An aide to Gov. Mark
White, the Texas PTA and Attorney
General Jim Mattox recommended
Tuesday that Texas establish a “chil
dren’s trust fund” to provide care
and counseling for the victims of
child abuse.
Mattox recommended to the
House Committee on Child Abuse
and Pornography that Texas’ mar
riage license fee be raised from its
current level of $7.50 to “at least
$25” as a means of funding counsel
ing for abusers and abuse victims
and to provide greater support for
community shelters where battered
spouses and their children can seek
refuge.
“In our society we have opted to
preserve the family unit,” he said. “I
think it’s about time you as a legis
lature made a policy decision about
whether we want not to protect the
family unit as much as the individual
members within that family, partic
ularly the children.”
Gerald Hill, White’s top aide, said
there were 60,000 confirmed victims
of child abuse in Texas during 1983.
The greatest number of the cases
resulted from parental neglect, he
said, with the remainder attributable
to violent or sexual abuse.
Hill also said there should be
some system for keeping a record of
child abusers who are given proba
tion, then later apply tor jobs with
state agencies that care for children.
Laura Tynes of the Texas PTA
also advocated a children’s trust
fund, which she said could be used
to fund preventive programs across
the state.
Vanderbilt missing from climbing expedition
United Press International
NEW YORK — Nicholas Harvey
Vanderbilt, an heir to the Vanderbilt
fortune, was missing Tuesday on a
climbing expedition on snow-cov
ered, 14,441-foot Robson Mountain
in British Columbia, a family spokes
man said.
Vanderbilt, who lives in Austin, is
the son of Alfred Gwynne Vander
bilt Sr.
Vanderbilt, 25, and a second
climber, Francis Gledhill, both expe
rienced mountaineers, began climb
ing the mountain in Jasper National
Park two weeks ago.
The climbers were last seen Aug.
21 at the 8,500-foot level. Two
climbers presumed to be Vanderbilt
and Gledhill were spotted Aug. 22 at
the 11,000 foot level.
They were reported missing Aug.
25 when they were overdue at the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s
Balemount Station.
The RCMP launched a search of
the area and was joined by a team of
climbers sent to the area by the Van
derbilt family. A spokesman for the
family said the RCMP informed
them that an exhaustive search
failed to find a trace of the two men
and that the mounties had tempo
rarily called off their search to wait
for warmer weather.
Vanderbilt is an author whose
most recent work appeared in the
August issue of Vogue
Vanderbilt graduated cum laude
from Harvard University in 1980
where he served as president of the
Harvard Mountaineering Club.
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