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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. They said they
were considering the possibility that
Atkins might have been the object of
the shooting.
Sunday, Dallas police Sgt. Pat
Herring said no one had been ar
rested, but refused to say whether
Atkins had been located.
Police said Simpson worked and
lived at the complex.
Bullets shattered the driver’s side
window of the car and struck Simp
son in the chest shortly before 9
p.m., police said. He died 30 min
utes later at Parkland Memorial
Hospital.
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