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. the!