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I Through a big sister program, the
Delta Sigma Theta sorority at Texas
■&M is totally changing a group of
Kung girls’ lives.
■ The service sorority, made up of
‘cross-bleellf black women, was chartered in
n started (the spring of 1984, and 13 of the 18
female t.Bomen are involved in the big sister
blood do rogram.
re needle ■ Carol Murphy, assistant principal
le dorms ■ A&M Junior High School, started
n donatinifte program that has been in effect
ay, the g fdi'about three weeks. Murphy says
) the girls she had been having problems with
Be predominantly white faculty
party willflimmunicating with some of the
mg nialei-iblack students.
top donatiEf Murphy hired Patricia Larke, as-
r than lifflstant professor in the education
op organizlftirriculum and instruction depart-
members pent, to come and conduct
, have bftporkshops with the faculty to teach
eir bloodipiem how to get along with the slu
rs, donate; dents.
last year I Murphy says she also wanted
; of ‘'Colltl||)me positive role models for the
jpoung girls.
I There were some extreme be-
■avioral problems among a small
Kroup of girls — mostly fighting,”
Bte says. “I felt they were throwing
§heir education away. They had
onderful potential for leadership
les but they were using negative
ays.
felt they could profit from a big
Ister program if they could see the
I dlah yv' :o PP ortumt ' es available to them
CsvenJ 1 ™^ P os ' tive ro ^ e models. That
’ was when Dr. Larke said she knew of
d inefoB soror ' t y at t * ie University that
Ul ai-irB^ld help.”
in thecoj There are 13 junior high girls in-
ai h ojolved and each girl has a big sister,
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groups,” she says. "I even asked kids
who were sent to the office, who they
thought were leaders among them
selves.”
The big sisters must act as positive
role models, she says. They must in
crease the girls’ positive attitude, act
as tutors or counselors when needed
and visit them in class one hour per
week.
Gayla Lottie, chairman of the big
sister program and member of the
sorority, is surprised at the success of
the program.
“The young g^irls see Murphy as
the ‘white prejudiced woman,’ ”
“I felt they could profit
from a big sister program
if they could see the op
portunities available to
them through positive
role models. ”
— Carol Murphy, assis
tant principal at A&M Ju
nior High School
Lottie says. “She couldn’t commu
nicate with them; they would just
have heated arguments.
“Since we started, it seems like the
girls worship us. Now you aren’t
anyone at the junior high school un
less you have a big sister.”
Only two rules must be followed
for the girls to remain in the pro
gram. They must maintain a 70-per
cent average or better in their classes
and they must not fight.
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The girls get only one chance,
Murphy says, and if they mess up,
they are out of the program.
“There are so many other girls
“I began by asking students who who want to get into the program,
they thought were leaders in their they’ve begun to consider it a pri
vilege,” she says. “I don’t think any
one would dare throw it away.”
Lottie says the girls have stop
fighting and have begun to put
an effort toward school and toward
life.
“My sorority sister, Michele, had
the biggest troublemaker of the
group,” Lottie says. “The young girl
was in the principal’s office, about to
get suspended from school, because
she wouldn’t serve detention in the
afternoon. Just as Michele was arriv
ing at the school for her one hour a
week, she learned what was happen
ing, so she went to the young girl,
took her into the hallway and talked
to her. The girl turned right back
around, walked into the office, and
Murphy almost fell on the floor.”
Since the young girls have begun
to know and respect the big sisters,
Lottie says, they try to act older and
more polite.
“One girl got real upset when she
came home and overheard her mom
telling her big sister about her past
stunts,” she says. “I guess they try to
lie about their behavior to their big
sis because they’re embarrassed.”
Lottie says this isn’t the first orga
nization to offer these services.
There was a similar program of
fered by the Aggie Christian
Fellowship, but because of the sepa
ration of church and state laws, the
school district wouldn’t allow the
continuation of the program.
Murphy and Lottie both agree
that there should be an expansion of
the program to include other sorori
ties and fraternities. They also want
more children to be able to join, in
cluding boys and girls, black or
white.
“We plan to write letters to other
organizations to encourage them to
get involved because the kids really
love it,” Lottie says. “I think it’s made
a big difference in their lives.”
Three injured in Texas City Refinery blaze
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| TEXAS CITY (AP) — One man
was critically injured and two others
were hurt during a fire at the Texas
pty Refinery Tuesday, fire officials
laid.
| Miguel Cerna, 35, was taken by
LifeFlight to John Sealy Hospital in
Galveston, where he was in critical
condition, hospital spokeswoman
Mary Stark-Lobe said. She said he
had burns over 85 percent to 90 per
cent of his body.
Two other men working at the
plant — Albert Jones, 50, of Texas
City, and Don Williams, 41, of Alvin
— were treated and released from
Danforth Memorial Hospital in
Texas City, hospital spokeswoman
Beverly Boas said.
Jones was treated for a neck in
jury and Williams for first- and sec
ond-degree burns to his hands and
backs, Boas said.
Texas City Fire Department dis
patcher Allen McWhirter said the
blaze was a crude oil fire.
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