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Out On A Limb
Photo by Marie McLeod
Mike McDowell, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from
Houston, takes a look at a tree at Big Bend National Park during
spring break. McDowell was part of a group of A&M students who
wanted to avoid the usual spring break spots. Their solution was a trip
into the West Texas desert.
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The Texas A&M Outdoors Pro
gram provides opportunities for stu
dents, faculty and staff to enjoy out
door life.
The program offers equipment
rental and resource information
through the intramural office, as
well as outdoor clinics and trips and
information and suggestions about
various parks, lakes and rivers.
Equipment can be reserved with
full payment two weeks in advance
of a trip and isn’t available on a First
come, first serve basis.
The program was started by Patsy
Greiner, coordinator for outdoor
recreation and coordinator of indi
vidual and dual sports for the intra
mural-recreational sports depart
ment.
The Outdoor Clinics, Greiner
says, are designed to promote confi
dence as well as teach a specific skill,
such as rock climbing, and usually
are taught through day-long ses
sions.
Training clinics aren’t required,
but are strongly recommended for
beginners planning to attend an out
door trip, she says.
TAMU Outdoors sponsors about
two or three trips a month, and
Greiner says they are scheduled as
all-day or weekend events. However,
she says, more backpacking trips are
offered during cooler weather and
more water trips are scheduled din
ing the spring and summer.
“Trips are great,” she says. "Our
age range on one trip was from 18 to
71 years old. Once, on a rock-climb
ing trip, we had a student’s dad, who
was 65 years old, go with us. It was
really neat teaching him how to
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The distribution of students and
faculty on each trip is usually half-
and-half, she says.
Before every overnight trip, she
says, a pre-trip meeting is scheduled
for the participants, giving them a
chance to meet each other as well as
the trip leaders.
“Hopefully, this meeting will in
still some confidence in the first-time
participant,” she says.
The organization’s upcoming
trips are publicized in The Battalion
and on fliers around campus,
Greiner says, and anyone interested
in embarking on a trip should sign
up early to be assured a spot on the
list.
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BROWNSVILLE (AP) — Learn
ing to tell a story comes naturally for
most children, but for the students
at Regional School for the Deaf, tell
ing stories requires much more phys
ical involvement.
“Their form of communication is
body language, facial expressions
and sounds. It’s nice to sit and watch
them tell a story . . . it’s almost a form
of mime,” says Annette Humphreys,
instructor at Egly Elementary.
Some children speak clearly and
easily, depending on how well they
can near. Others use sign language,
sounds or writing to communicate,
she says.
In all, there are 93 students who
are involved in the Brownsville In
dependent School District’s Regional
School for the Deaf, which has been
in existence since 1975. Three local
schools host the program, including
Egly, Oliviera Intermediate School
and Homer Hanna High School.
A staff of eight teachers and 12
teachers’ aides handle the 67 deaf
for the event and learned to dance
by counting beats and responding to
hand signals.
Anson Coy, their instructor, says.
“Their form of communication is body language, facial
expressions and sounds. . . . It’s almost a form of
mime. ”
— Annette Humphreys, instructor at Egly Elementary
students at Egly, who travel from cit
ies throughout the Valley.
A major project this semester was
a special dance for the Charro Days
Fiesta Folklorica. Sporting Brazilian
outfits, the deaf students from Et'
danced to the musical strains of “1
Bamba ” for an appreciative crowd.
They spent one month preparing
“We’ve worked really hard. Two
years ago, we rehearsed, costumes
were purchased by the parents and
Parent Teacher Association and ev
erything was prepared, then it was
cancelled due to the rain.”
There was no such disappoint
ment this year, and the children en
joyed their performance.
“It takes a lot of patience teaching
these children,” Coy says. “Handling
the organization and short attention
spans are other problems . . . but you
have to remember we’re dealing
with children between 4 and 13
years of age.”
An ordinary day in the program
begins at 8 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m.
The schedule includes breakfast,
reading, spelling, science, social
studies, mathematics, lunch, physical
education and art.
Humphreys says,“The majority of
our deaf children are taking some
form of speech therapy; some are
mainstreamed into regular classes at
Egly, and depending on the class,
theater arts and music are offered.”
Classroom participation outside
of the school is also stressed. Chil
dren frequently take field trips to the
weather station, police station, zoo,
plant nurseries and farms outside
the area.
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