Friday, July 11, 1986FThe Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
A&M emergency mental services cut
By Jean Lennox
Reporter
The director of The Texas A&M
Student Counseling Service says the
counseling service will no longer
provide night and weekend emer
gency psychological services.
It’s impossible to provide psychi
atric treatment 24 hours a day, seven
days a week because patients fre
quently require emergency medical
services that are no longer provided
by the A. P. Beutel Health Center,
says Dr. Wade G. Birch, director of
student counseling services.
“The students need to know that
we can no longer provide adequate
services at night and on weekends,”
he says.
Dr. Claude B. Goswick Jr., direc
tor of student health, says the health
center discontinued the emergency
services in May because the center
was understaffed at night and dur
ing the weekend. Also, he says, the
night and weekend staff had prob
lems getting physicians to work dur
ing the late hours.
Birch says in his 12 years at A&M
he has never been forced to make a
decision like this and hopes that
emergency services will resume in
the fall.
Birch says he never had a problem
with the pyschological counseling
staff providing emergency services,
but wants to provide the right kind
of tools, medical services and facili
ties for his staff.
Sometimes the students who come
to the counseling center in an emer
gency need to be admitted to the
health center for medical attention,
he explained.
Faculty or students who know a
student on campus needing emer
gency psychological services should
call the campus emergency assis
tance operator at 9-911; the campus
police, who will provide transporta
tion; or the student health center at
845-1511.
For off-campus emergency serv
ices, students should call the Bryan
or College Station emergency service
at 911.
Night and weekend emergency
care will be handled by St. Joseph,
Humana or Greenleaf hospitals.
Testimony for Hill Country slavery trial ends
KERRVILLE (AP) — Both the
defense and prosecution rested
Thursday in the organized crime
trial of three men accused of luring
drifters to a Hill Country ranch and
forcing them into slavery.
Final arguments in the case, in
which the state maintains that one
drifter was tortured to death with an
electric cattle prod and then burned,
were scheduled for Monday.
Rancher Walter Wesley Elle-
bracht, 55, his son, Walter Wesley
Ellebracht Jr., 33, and former ranch
worker Carlton Robert Caldwell, 21,
are accused of conspiracy in the
death of Anthony Bates.
On Wednesday, Caldwell’s 10th
day on the witness stand in the 11-
week trial, the younger Ellebracht’s
defense attorney, Ray Bass, asked
him to identify voices on the tape,
played for the first time in court.
“Are you having stage fright?
This is the second tape. You haven’t
even been shocked yet,” said a voice
Caldwell identified as Junior’s.
“You’re not very loud. You know
I like it loud,” the voice repeated af
ter Bates screamed.
“I would die for the privilege to be
here,” Bates was forced to repeat.
Then he begged, “Please Cod. Let
me go, Junior!”
San Antonio will seek
drug tests for firemen
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The
city wants San Antonio firemen to
undergo mandatory drug testing,
lie detector screening and psy
chological examinations as part of
their new labor contract, a nego
tiator says.
Ben Foster Jr., the city’s chief
negotiator in contract talks with
the firemen, warned a similar de
mand will be made when talks be
gin with police officers.
Union spokesman Louis He
bert said the proposal reminded
him of “Nazi Germany.”
Foster unveiled the testing de
mand in a 63-page contract pro
posal presented to the local fire-
fighers’ association during the
second bargaining session
Wednesday.
“We don’t want somebody . . .
driving an ambulance and snort
ing cocaine,” Foster said.
“We’re not saying this is hap
pening,” he said, “(but) just the
mere fact it’s there (in the con
tract) nobody’s going to violate
it.”
Hebert said he hopes the pro
posals are a just bargaining ploy
in the early contract talks.
Hebert, a Beaumont-based
representative of the Interna
tional Association of E'irefighters
who was retained for the negotia
tions, said he will take a “wait-
and-see” position.
The proposals call for periodic
and random urine testing for al
cohol and controlled substance
abuse.
Also, the fire chief would be
authorized to require a fireman
to submit to psychological tests or
treatment at city expense.
In addition, the city would
have the right to ask workers to
submit to a polygraph test at any
time.
The polygraph tests would be
admissible in any civil hearing be
tween the city, the union or em
ployee.
Friday
STUDENT GOVERNMENT: applications for External Com
munications and Public Relations will be available through
the summer months. Please come by 221 Pavilion from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. to pick up applications. For more informa
tion call 845-3051.
MARANATHA CHRISTIAN CHURCH: will present a
“Rock-n-Roll Seminar” today at 7 p.m. in 110 Harrington.
For more information call 693-5611 or 696-2510.
Monday
AGGIE TOASTERS: will meet at 7 P-tm in 120 Blocker. For
more information call Robin, 779-3089.
Tuesday
TAMU SCUBA CLUB: will have a dive planning meeting at 7
p.m. in the MSC by the piano.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de
sired publication date.
Committee to vote on A&M-Golveston
Group advises Sul Ross stay open
AUSTIN (AP) — The Select
Committee on Higher Education,
much to the delight of Sul Ross State
University supporters who packed
the Senate gallery, votecf unani
mously Thursday to recommend
that the Alpine-based school remain
open.
The vote came after the panel lis
tened to more than an hour of testi
mony from Sul Ross officials and
backers.
Vic Arnold, director of the com
mittee staff, recommended against
closing Sul Ross State, The Univer
sity of Texas-Permian Basin at
Odessa, East Texas State University
at Commerce and Texas A&M at
Galveston.
Sen. Carl Parker, D-Port Arthur,
a committee member,said the Legis
lature faces “tough choices” in
higher education funding.
“The battle’s just started,” Parker
said, drawing applause. “It’s not
won. There’s more at stake than Sul
Ross.”
The 1985 Legislature created the
select committee to review public
higher education in Texas. In a July
3 letter to Committee Chairman
Larry Temple, Gov. Mark White
said closing any of the four universi
ties would be a “tragic mistake.”
Although the staff recommended
keeping the schools open, Arnold
said that further analysis of these
and other Texas universities “may
be useful.”
Any talk of closing state universi
ties usually includes Sul Ross be
cause of its small enrollment —2,126
total at its Alpine and Uvalde cam
puses— and remote location in West
Texas.
Temple said the turnout of more
than 1,000 Sul Ross supporters,
many of whom left Alpine at 3 a.m.
Thursday, was impressive and had
an effect on the school’s future.
All four schools fared well on sur
vival criteria set up by the commit
tee.
Sul Ross did not meet the stan
dards for per student cost and en
rollment, but Arnold said those fac
tors were outweighed by the fact that
there is no other state university
within 200 miles.
He also said the loss of Sul Ross’
$8 million annual payroll would be
devastating for the region.
A&M’s Galveston campus did not
meet standards for per student costs
and enrollment, but Arnold pointed
out that it serves a specialized pur
pose — marine studies.
Perry Adkisson, a deputy chan
cellor of the Texas A&M System,
told the committee that A&M’s Gal
veston campus should not be closed,
but expanded and built up to rival
major oceanographic institutions in
the nation.
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