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By Mark Figart
Reporter
The Texas A&M Department of
Student Affairs is offering a class
rext fall designed to produce more
tnowledgeable and higher-quality
esident advisers.
Nyla Ptomey, housing programs
uperyisor, says the one-credit-hour
tlass, Sociology 489, Student Devel-
ipment Issues in a Residence Life
ietting, will be required for all stu-
lents who want to become resident
idvisers.
rer to the
“By training students before se-
ecting them as staff members, “we
o,accomplish two things,” Ptomey says.
^v.^uJHFirst. it gives the residence life pro-
led. They bjBfessional staff a better opportunity
ter smurfstr,Bo get to know the candidates. It also
we perfectbt^Miminates the six-week joh-orienta-
gone. Bion course tfiat has normally taken
bunch tothl: place after their job has started.”
le Easterbuigl In the past, she says, students
,dwegavetbcBeeking staff positions were first in-
illege Static Hei viewed by a board of resident ad
ders and a head resident. The
card would determine which candi-
ates qualified for an interview with
Brea and assistant area coordinators,
who are professional staff members
;ot quilt: Bill the department.
Shaw aid B “Typically, we might have spent
issibilitvofc Mqnly an hour and a half with each
rom theAi'lBandidate,” Ptomey says. “It is im-
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well in such a short time.”
Selected candidates previously
were trained through an orientation
course that typically did not begin
until the third week of school. By re
quiring the new class before the se-
“Before, all an applicant
had to do is fill out an ap
plication, go through an
interview with RAs . . .
then go through another
30-minute interview. This
is going to change the
whole screening process. ”
— Wes Holloway, Walton
Hall resident advisor
lection process, Ptomey says, staff
members are better prepared to
handle any situation.
Wes Holloway, a resident adviser
in Walton Hall, thinks the class is a
great idea.
“Before,” Holloway says, “all an
applicant had to do is fill out an ap
plication, go through an interview
with RAs — 20 minutes, maybe —
then go through another 30-minute
interview. This is going to change
the whole screening process to
where someone will be able to eval
uate a candidate’s personality for a
whole semester before they go on
the job.
“This semester we had an RA
drop out, and we had to replace him.
This system might keep things like
that from happening.”
But, Holloway says, resident ad
visers have wanted a similar class in
the past for other reasons.
“RAs at other schools are required
to take a class, and they get credit for
it,” he says. “Since we have to go
through the same training, we
wanted t.o get credit for it also.”
Residence life staff members will
teach the course, with each assigned
one class to coordinate and attend.
Class participants will meet twice a
week, once for a lecture and once in
a smaller discussion group.
The class will introduce partici
pants to human and community de
velopment, including values, help
ing skills, role identity, and time and
stress management.
There are no prerequisites for the
class, Ptomey says, and anyone who
wishes to be a Resident adviser but
doesn’t want to pay the tuition can
participate in the class without re
ceiving academic credit.
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By Angie Matocha
Reporter
In the past decade, there has been
Jrz increase in the number of young
iomen facing the dilemma of un-
jwanted pregnancy. The Good Sama-
itan Pregnancy Service is here to
obablvano | help young females in such predica-
irbeachtvT ments. I
I “We try to take the girl in and
show her some compassion right
from the start,” says service director
Jeannie Searcy.
I The pregnancy service offers free
iregnancy testing, counseling, do
nated maternity and baby clothes,
and referral to and assistance with
appropriate agencies.
^ “We refer girls to maternal clinics,
WIC programs and organizations
that can lend financial aid to girls
who show the need,” she says. “We
Tre averaging 40 pregnancy tests a
month. That doesn’t count the girls
Who come in for the baby and mater-
ijity dothes.”
Searcy says most of the girls who
Borne in are between 18 and 24,
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Protestant, single, and white.
The service is a non-profit organi
zation funded with donations and by
local churches, organizations, and
the Catholic Diocese of Austin.
“We get what (donations) we can
— that’s why our office and furni
ture is so meager,” Searcy says. “Eve
rything is free. We are non-political.
We’re not allowed to participate in
any political activity. And we are also
pro-life.
“In counseling, we are non-
judgmental. Not all services are like
this. The girls have to make their
own decisions.”
The service tries to educate
women on a baby’s development and
offers abortion counseling.
“We emphasize these two points,”
she says.
The service’s staff consists of four
volunteers, two of whom are stu
dents. Searcy is the only paid em
ployee.
David Stasny, a College Station at
torney, chairs the service’s nine-
member board of directors.
“Dr. Steve Braden is our medical
Loopholes in law let illegal aliens
carry U.S. voter registration cards
LUBBOCK (AP) — Thousands of illegal aliens may
carry voter registration cards because of loopholes in
the law that make it difficult or impossible to determine
a person’s true residency, state election officials said.
Although voter registrants could be charged with a
Felony if they perjure themselves on application forms,
: there are no standard provisions for followup checks by
officials to certify the applicant’s information is accu-
ate, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported Mon
day.
“In Texas, you may apply for a voter registration
:ard by mail,” said Mark Jordan, assistant general coun-
el for the elections division of the Secretary of State’s
Office. “There is no opportunity to question someone at
ill about residency. There isn’t much we can do unless
the law is changed.
“And if the law was changed, I’m fairly certain the
U.S. Department of Justice would object.”
Election officials say they don’t know how many
aliens have voter registration cards, but believe thou
sands may trek to the polls next year for the general
and presidential elections.
And, ironically, illegal aliens may use their voter reg
istration cards when applying for legalization under tlW
amnesty provisions of a sweeping immigration-reforn
act, officials say. The measure allows them to begi
seeking U.S. citizenship during a one-year period th
starts May 5.
“We have no way of knowing how serious the prJ-
lem is, but I would tend to say that it likely is verye-
rious,” said Randy Erben, assistant secretary of state
Jordan said he has no idea how many illegal a-ns
may have received voter registration cards.
There are no provisions in Texas law requiringf>pli-
cants for voter registration cards to prove to voter^gis-
trars or county clerks they are bona fide reside-s, he
said.
The only time a voter’s qualification would Lely be
challenged is after the fact in contested races here a
candidate might choose to go to district court intend
ing he was defeated by unqualified voters, Jorcto said.
The most recent test of that came in Februa' when a
candidate challenged enough ballots in Fagrrias in
Brooks County to make up the difference, heaid-
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doctor on the board,” Searcy says.
“We do have some medical aid
through his assistance. The girls
have to have some financial need for
him to help them.”
The board also has two volunteer
psychologists — Dr. Art Roach, a
Texas A&M professor of educatio
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Dresser, a psychologist from St.
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“The Good Samaritan Pregnancy
Service has been around for six
years, at least,” Searcy says. “We are
an affiliate of Alternatives for Abor
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pretty much on our own with our
board of directors.”
The service was started by a group
of people in the community who fa
vored the pro-life position.
“We get most of our support from
the Catholic church,” she says. “But
now we have a broader base of
help.”
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