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Lending an ear
Free faculty assistant program offers help to A&M staff
By TAMARA BELL
Sta// Writer
Faculty and staff members who
need psychological advice can
participate in a free faculty assis
tant program.
The program, which has been
available since September 1983, is
provided by a faculty assistant
committee made up of faculty
and overseen by Dr. Candida
Lutes, associate dean for the Col
lege of Liberal Arts.
Lutes, who is the committee
chairman, says a Bryan psycholo
gist is paid a fee to see staff mem
bers.
“The staff member can visit the
doctor up to six times a year for
free,” Lutes says. “Usually six vis
its aren’t even necessary. The
program isn’t for faculty or staff
with deep psychological prob
lems, it’s for those people who
need practical advice from some
one not connected with the Uni
versity.”
Lutes says people visit the doc
tor to discuss marital and other
“The program isn’t for
faculty or staff with deep
psychological problems,
ifs for those people who
need practical advice from
someone not connected
with the University.”
— Dr. Candida Lutes,
dean of College of Liberal
Arts.
family problems. T hey also can
discuss now to tell a colleague that
he’s driving them crazy or tell a
department head that they are
being treated unfairly, she says.
The idea for the program,
which is funded through Presi
dent Frank Vandiver’s office,
came from articles published
about faculty burn-out, Lutes
says.
She savs the A&M administra
tion was becoming aware that the
faculty and staff were facing
these problems.
Lutes says about 150 faculty
and staff members used the pro
gram the first year and 280 mem
bers used it last year. She says she
is uncertain of the number of
people using the program this
year but says it has increased.
Faculty and staff members find
out about the program by word-
of-mouth, she says.
Nuclear engineering head named
University News Service
[ Dr. Lee Peddicord has been
named the new head of Texas
A&M’s Department of Nuclear En-
(gineering, announced Dr. Herbert
[H. Richardson, vice chancellor and
I dean of engineering.
Peddicord succeeds Dr. Carl Erd-
jman who was recently named asso-
Iciate dean of the College of Engi-
j neering.
“Dr. Peddicord has the vision and
I intellect to lead the nuclear engi-
| neering department to a premier
[position among its peers, building
Ion the excellence which has been de-
Iveloped in recent years,” Richardson
[said. “We are fortunate that such an
[outstanding person within the de
partment has accepted this challenge
[and responsibility.
I Prior to joining the A&M faculty
as a professor of nuclear engi
neering in 1983, Peddicord taught at
Oregon State University. He also has
been a visiting scientist at the Joint
Research University in Ispra, Italy
and a research nuclear engineer at
the Swiss Federal Institute for Reac
tor Research in Wuerenlingen, Swit
zerland.
Peddicord’s research interests in
clude the behavior of nuclear fuels,
reactor heat transfer and fluid flow
He is co-author of a forthcoming
book “LWR Nuclear Fuels,” to be
E ublished by the American Nuclear
ociety. Peadicord has served as a
consultant to Los Alamos National
Laboratory and Battelle Human Af
fairs Research Center.
A registered professional engi
neer, Peddicord has received several
teaching and research awards, in
cluding the Lloyd Carter Award for
Outstanding and Inspirational Tea
ching at OSU (1978).
He was the keynote speaker at the
Fifth International Seminar on
Mathematical/Mechanical Modeling
of Reactor Fuel Elements held in
Harwell, England last August. Ped
dicord’s professional associations in
clude American Association for the
Advancement of Science, American
Society of Mechanical Engineers,
American Society of Engineering
Educators, National Society of Pro
fessional Engineers. He nas been
particularly active in the American
Nuclear Society (ANS), where he is
currently secretary-treasurer of the
Materials Science and Technology
Division, a member of the division’s
executive committee, and is a chair-
elect for 1987-88.
Defector
to dance
in El Paso
Associated Press
EL PASO — When D’mitri Koro
beinikov danced “The Nutcracker”
last year with Ballet El Paso, it was as
a guest artist from the Ballet Nacio-
nal de Mexico.
This year, he again will dance in
the Christmas special — but as a So
viet defector to the United States.
Korobeinikov, 22, was granted
f olitical asylum last week by the U.S.
mmigration and Naturalization
Service after formally defecting
Sept. 6.
Korobeinikov, who trained for
eight years in the Bolshoi Theater
Scnool of Dance, said he arrived in
Mexico four years ago after he met
and married Natasha Lagunas Wolf-
man, dancer and daughter of a Mex
ican diplomat in Moscow.
“The Russian government could
not legally deny a passport to the
spouse of a foreign national,” he
said. “It’s in the Helsinki accord.”
Korobeinikov, who speaks better
Spanish than English, said that al
though both he and his wife were
memoers of the Ballet Nacional de
Mexico, he was the only one invited
by Ballet El Paso last year to perform
in “The Nutcracker.’'
“But after the performance, the
university’s International Student
Services arranged for me to con
tinue staying in El Paso with a stu
dent visa.” he said.
Korobeinikov explained that a
problem arose when he had to re
turn to Mexico because his permit
expired and had to be renewed. He
said the Mexican government de
manded he sign a labor contract
proving he worked eight hours a
day, 40 hours a.vyeek in Mexico.
‘‘But the Mexican immigrations
inspectors, like the Russians, do not
know what it is to be a dancer,” he
said. "There is no way we can work
under a contract like that. Also, Fm
a Russian and my wife is supposed to
live where I am, not I where she is.”
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