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Page 12/The Battalion/Wednesday, November 13,1985 ’85 Texas Teacher of the Year instructs computer literacy (continued from page 1) students, Morgan said she aims to inspire her teenagers to work hard ana develop a sense of responsibil ity. Those adolescent years before high school are tough, she said, and her students need to understand she’s both their teacher and their friend. “I feel like I’m constantly being watched,” Morgan said. “Everyday I’m a big influence in their lives. I’m a big role model.” She establishes standards in the classroom right away, she said, and that usually prevents discipline problems from ever arising. “A lot of it comes from rapport with students,” Morgan said. “They can tell that I like them.” Consequently, students are willing to work for her, she said. Arithmetic isn’t as popular with her pupils as computer literacy, she said, so Morgan tries to relate math skills to everyday life. When students ask her why they must learn to solve these matn problems, she refers them to a chart on the back wall enti tled “When Will We Ever Use This Stuff.” If the student wants to be a waitress, Morgan said her chart points out how math can be used in a waitress’s future. Morgan also dares to reach out in the community, she said, and this role has expanded in the past year to speaking at universities, confer ences, business groups, parent-tea cher associations, and serving as a representative of the district on seve ral occasions. When speaking to tea cher groups, Morgan said she em phasizes the importance of being professional. But if her audience is businessmen, Morgan simply tries toteach them what teaching is all about. lltyririrk-irtctricirkirlck+iii if Football Weekend < *- * JjNeed a place to staf * ••693-1005 ing that the girl probably wanted an “A” in the class. After two years as an accounting major at A&M, Morgan said she switched to education. The prompt ing of a former teacher in her home town of Madisonville coupled with her love for math, motivated Mor gan to designate math and science as her two teaching fields, she said. Morgan said A&M gave her a head start. CHIMNEY HILL BOWLING CENTER 1 “The education department is su perb,” she said. “I had to student teach one semester. No other college reauired that. It prepared me so well.” 40 LANES League & Open Bowling Family Entertainment Bar & Snack Bar 701 University Dr E. 260-918t Morgan said she also makes sure her students are aware of another important fact: she is a 1978 grad uate of A&M. While working with computer graphics, one student re ly made a large A&M symbol it, Mo cently with hearts on i [organ said, add- Report: NutraSweet may trigger epilepsy (continued from page 1) food additive prior to its approval in history.” Wurtman, a physician at Massa chusetts Institute of Technology, has been a frequent critic of aspartame since it was introduced in 1981 as the tabletop sweetener Equal. Now it is used in dozens of products, includ ing pudding, chewing gum and diet soft drinks. Wurtman agreed that the appar ent association he reported could have been coincidental. But he said doctors should question patients with unexplained seizures about then' use of aspartame. “It may turn out that when enough doctors ask enough ques tions, there’ll be no correlation,” he said in an interview. Heyhach speculated that the sei zures of the tnree noted cases might have been triggered by drinking such large amounts of fluids. He said there have been reports of peo ple suffering seizures after con suming large quantities of water. “I imagine it’s possible that there may be individuals who are sensitive to aspartame,” he said, “although there is no documented evidence of even a single individual having a clear-cut adverse reaction associated with aspartame to date, despite the fact that hundreds of millions of people use the product on a regular oasis worldwide.” One of the main ingredients of as partame is the amino acid phenylala nine. Wurtman suggests that con suming lots of aspartame can raise levels of phenylalanine in the brain. Clinic counsels students (continued from page 1) anxiety, came to the clinic for help. “He considered all his options and the best one (at the time) was just to kill himself,” she says. “So we saw him on an intensive basis.” She says the student is still under going therapy. “With every symptom you have, you have to explore many different possible causes,” Hughes says. “It’s really very complex and time con suming.” She says patients with severe problems often receive therapy for months. Currently, the clinic is working with a group of adults that have been convicted of sexually molesting a child and are on probation, Hughes says. “Fart of the terms of their proba tion include that they participate in psychotherapy,” she says. , Hughes says the clinic also has a computerized vocational guidance program that she says “college stu dents should be very interested in.” The clinic serves about 60 pa tients, about 40 percent of which are A&M students, Hughes says. The clinic, a non-profit organiza tion, is subsidized by the University and also uses the money received from patients. She says she believes the services are successful, but it is difficult to tell in some cases. “You have a family problem and perhaps you’ve resolved some of their issues and maybe there’s some what less conflict in the home,” Hughes says. “But is that a cure?” 71 Copy quality so good you can’t tell it’s a copy Clean, clear, crisp copies from our new Kodak copier-duplicator. Plenty of free parking, fast service. Try us >oday! Revel for 'se KWkkOPY PRIN’ISO ■ 3832 S. 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