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Monday, March 9,1987/The Battalion/Page 5 Warped by Scott McCullar ropean- the Me- I Scholastic probation hits t students for many reasons T11 Bad choices commonly bring low grades ■esenta # 7 ^ ^ MSC. ■ CARATS FOR SALE A Diamond Of A Carat Or More Is One In A Million We have only listed diamonds of a carat or more, of course, we have many more smaller diamonds in stock. Our prices are low, never a sale just wholesale to you! 2.05 CARATS ROUND Compare at $13,500. OUR PRICE $7250. 1.40 CARATS ROUND Compare at $7,100. OUR PRICE $3,600. in H5 jarkine eld. p.m.at ■ies for e water 17 p.m. p.m. in : tenta- in the YMCA udenta, irsdays ■et at 7 Faiths ttaiion, g dsn By Debbie Jensen Reporter ■ Emerson Sox, a Texas A&M ju- Bor, vigorously punches numbers ■to his calculator. A thick physics Bxt hides the face of a clock, which ays it is well past midnight. B Sox says he studies over six hours every night because he must get off t scholastic probation. B “I made some bad choices my freshman year,” Sox says. “I didn’t know how to get out of the hole once I got on probation. I’m still trying to Brrect mistakes I made that first year.” B Candida Lutes, associate dean in ffiie College of Liberal Arts, says each college has different rules to deter- Biine which students are put on Kholastic probation, but most get Hhere because they made bad choices — not because they lack intelligence. ■ “There are a lot of reasons stu- Bents go on probation,” Lutes says. ■Some students have one reason. Some students have 12 reasons. Most kids get on probation for a rea son other than low intelligence. A lot of very bright students end up on probation.” ■ Some of the reasons students end up on scholastic probation are finan- rial problems, poor study habits, ' family problems, personal problems and low self-esteem, she says. P Tve seen so many kids who al most have their self-esteem tied up in their grades,” Lutes says. “They’re terrified at some level that they’re really not very bright, even though they had been getting good grades before they got here. “They come to A&M and the first time they take a test they weren’t quite prepared because they weren’t really studying. “They didn’t have the chance to learn all the material so they didn’t do well on the test. “I made some bad choices my freshman year. I didn’t know how to get out of the hole once I got on probation. I’m still try ing to correct mistakes I made that first year. ” — Emerson Sox, junior. “The people who already believe they aren’t very smart think, ‘Here is the proof.’ “Then they have a choice. They can try to work hard and have it con firmed that they’re not smart if they don’t do well or just sort of goof off and say, ‘Gosh, I failed because I wasn’t doing my studying.’ ” Lutes stresses that students should go to the dean’s office as soon as they realize they are having grade trou ble. “We can’t provide long-term counseling in this office because we’re not staffed to counsel,” she says, “but we do know what re sources are available to help stu dents.” Counseling resources available to students include the Student Coun seling Center, the psychology de partment’s clinic and the Educatio nal Psychology Services. “These resources can help stu dents with test-taking skills, test anx iety, career counseling and personal counseling,” she says. “All three of those provide . . . good services that are totally confidential and do not go on a student’s record.” Other options available to stu dents include the Financial Aid Of fice and the Off-Campus Housing Center. The Financial Aid Office does make limited funds available to stu dents who are on scholastic proba tion to lessen the financial anxiety of some students and allow them more time to study. Lutes says. The Off-Campus Housing Center provides roommate counseling, roommate-matching assistance and legal advice. “It’s important for students in trouble to know that if they work carefully to correct the things that they’ve been doing wrong, they can turn it (their academic careers) around,” Lutes says. Clements says newspaper stories on SMU football scandal correct DALLAS (AP) — Although he still refuses to name names. Gov. Bill Clements says media reports on the Southern Methodist University pay- for-players scandal are accurate, his press secretary says. “The governor has been reading the media stories with great interest and finds that all the pertinent as pects in the stories are accurate,” Clements spokesman Reggie Bashur told the Associated Press Saturday night. Clements said last week that while he was chairman of SMU’s board, he and other board members knew the payments continued after 1985 when the NCAA ordered them stopped and put the Southwest Con ference school on probation. SMU board members have flatly denied Clements’ claims and de manded Friday that he get specific on who he was talking about. Mean while, the Dallas Times Herald has identified one former and four cur rent board members as being in on the affair. “The governor wants the individ uals involved to come forward and identify themselves on their own,” Bashur said. The Times Herald reported that Board of Governors members Ed win L. Cox, Robert Folsom, Robert Dedman and Paul Corley knew about the payments, as did former board member Robert Stewart III. Cox, Dedman and Folsom denied the reports and have demanded that Clements personally name names. Stewart, a former trustee and board member, has acknowledged know ing about the decision, but said he did not participate in it. The Times Herald also has re ported former SMU President L. Donald Shields knew about the pay ments that ultimately led to the In Advance and and h an Music program to feature U.S. works A pianist, a soprano and a clar inetist will perform works by a va riety of American composers in Rudder Theater tonight at 8. The works will include “Rhap sody In Blue” by George Gersh win, “Songs My Mother Taught Me” by Charles Ives and other songs and arrangements of Ste phen Foster, Eubie Blake, Scott Joplin and John Philip Sousa. Pianist and Houston native John Ferguson, who has per formed widely throughout the United States and Europe, has a masters degree from the Univer sity of Texas and has studied at Carnegie-Mellon University and Jaqi zerla Geneva, Switzerland. Soprano Rebecca Francis tea ches voice at the University of Texas and has performed with the Early Music Institute of Texas and the UT Early Music Ensem ble. She has appeared through out the United States and Can ada. Clarinetist Martha MacDonald recently received her doctorate in music from UT. She is a scholar of Dutch chamber works and toured Austria and the Nether lands with the Austin Chamber Ensemble in fall 1986. NCAA’s harshest penalty ever against a football program. Revelations of $61,000 in continu ing payments between September 1985 and December 1986 prompted the NCAA to cancel SMU’s 1987 football season and limit the 1988 season to seven games, all on the road. Times Herald Executive Editor Larry Tarleton said the newspaper stands by its story, published Friday. Man driving car of SMU star shot in Dallas DALLAS (AP) — Jeff Atkins, for mer star running back for Southern Methodist University, was registered as the owner of a car whose driver was shot to death, police said. A gunman opened fire on David Simpson, 31, Friday night as he was driving Atkins’ sports car into a parking complex, police said. Police said Saturday they were try ing to find Atkins. 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