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that he also hears a lot about dating
problems and drug problems.
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If a Texas A&M student has a
problem and doesn’t quite know who
to turn to for help, Dr. James Mc-
Neal of the marketing department
may have the answer.
His solution? Talk to one of the
ATMentors on campus, anytime —
day or night.
McNeal formed the organization
in 1980 with 25 other faculty and
staff members. The members will
ingly devoted extra hours to stu
dents who needed to talk about any
thing from grade-point averages to
legal problems, he says.
This year there are 336 ATMen
tors, comprising about 15 percent of
A&M’s faculty and staff.
McNeal says that although not ev
ery department in the University is
represented, he says the goal of the
organization is “to have an ATMen-
tor in every building on campus.”
The name for the organization
comes from Mentor, the friend and
counselor of Odysseus and Telema-
chus. Webster’s dictionary defines
mentor as a wise and faithful friend.
The faculty and staff who make
up the program are “faithful coun
selors, friends, buddies — whate
ver,” McNeal says.
Dr. Michael Trrdson, associate
professor of medicine, joined the or
ganization two years ago. He says he
became a mentor to help students
who might feel lost and lonely at
A&M.
The competitive atmosphere at
A&M puts pressure on the students
to excel, Trulson said, and the pres
sure to excel combined with the
change of leaving home and coming
to a large university can cause prob
lems for students.
The adjustments to university life
make incoming freshmen and trans
fer students feel lost and lonely, he
says, adding that dorm life is very
different from life at home.
Trulson says that he talks to about
15 students on a regular basis and
deals with graduate and medical stu
dents as well as freshmen and trans
fer students.
Many of the problems center
around loneliness, he says, but adds
He adds that the organization is
not a political or religious organiza
tion, but is made up of people who
genuinely want to help students with
any problems they may have.
McNeal says the ATMentors pro
gram is not an officially recognized
part of the University and, as a re
sult, the organization only receives
$2,500 per year from the Student
Affairs Department for printing ref
erence manuals that every ATMen-
tor has. McNeal calls this “thought
ful money” from the University.
McNeal says that it is probably
better for the ATMentor organiza
tion that it is not officially recog
nized by the University because it
gives the organization more flexibil
ity.
Other money for the organization
comes from A&M Mothers Clubs, he
says. The organization recently re
ceived a $3,000 endowment from
the Houston A&M Mothers Club.
McNeal said the reference man
uals list the mentors’ names and tele
phone numbers and the services
they offer. The manuals aren’t avail
able to students because it would cost
too much to print the directories for
A&M students.
However, he says, an abbreviated
list of about 40 ATMentors is on a
“foldout” that is distributed to fresh
men, transfer students and A&M
Mothers Clubs.
McNeal says that mentors have a
sign, or “shingle,” that hangs on the
door of their offices. The shingles
are put up so students will have a vis
ible reminder of which staff mem
bers are part of the program, he
says.
McNeal says the mentors aren’t
trained counselors and do not want
to be — their main goal is to be
friends to students and help the stu
dents be a part of A&M.
Salutes
By Dawn Bute
Ski ft Writer
A&M doctoral student gets
s
A doctoral student in Texas A&M’s College of {'.duration isam J
nine English teachers nationwide to receive writing awards fromM
National C ’.ouncil of feat hers of English. ^
Leslie Patterson, who is completing .i < l< u tot al piograminreadij
and language arts here, won an honorable mention for her arikll
“Becoming a reacher/Researt her: Anothei Avenue to Kxeelbtt'
published by the Council for |unior High and High School
Teachers in their English Journal.
Professor receives research award
A Texas A&M Snead Distin
guished Professor of Transporta
tion Engineering has received the
Distinguished Research Award
from the Transportation Re
search Forum.
The award was presented to
Dr. William J. Harris at the an
nual meeting of the TRF for his
contributions to transportation.
Harris served as vice president
for the Research and Testing De
partment in the Association of
American Railroads before com
ing to A&M in 1985.
Under his direction, the de
partment established a major re
search program that grew from
less than $1 million per year to
more than $40 million.
In 1976 Harris was named the “Railroad Man of the Year’I
Modern Railroad and in 1978 he v\as aw ai ded the 1 listiii^uisludStr
ice Award by the Transportation Research Board of the Slaiional.lt
demy of Sciences.
In 1981 he was invited by the ministry of railroads in Chinatok
a delegation to that round \ to ai range lor coopci alive programs ill
are continuing.
Dr. William J. Harris
Artist creates ‘solar system
spread over central Texas
Trulson says that the advice he
gives to students to work out their
problems depends on the situation
of each student, but says he usually
pushes for self-reliance.
“I try to get them to work it out
themselves,” he says.
AUSTIN (AP) — In artist John
Blum’s solar system, the planet Jupi
ter floats not in oulei space hut in
the frozen food section of an Austin
supermarket. Pluto is in a San Anto
nio motel.
For the past month or so, Blum,
33, has been creating a stale model
of the solar system by using the Ua-
pitol dome to represent tin- sun and
an assortment of properly sized
spheres distributed around central
Texas to mark the planets.
“A lot of people have asked, ‘Well,
why couldn’t you just do the t ale illa
tions and write it up:’
w ho lias a bachelor’s dep
and eight years of gradua
phvsics. “ ‘Why bother?’
''But w hen you arestandira
Blanco County courthouseia
heat h hall that represents New
and von know that the sunisikl
pitot dome in Aiisiin, youbl
get a feeling for how imraeisl
s< »lat s\ stem is.”
Blum has been meticuloussj
call illations, hut he said it waili
to t csist the 11 rge to fudge a liJ
the sake of cosmologicaliiw I
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