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A Thursday, April 30, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 7 who either ai ■n lawr washers, ■fit com- S to place with the ation. -r$ wort- supervh working ate ven arepeo- "pie also staff pos. iin behav dividuakl 7 havej now this' tlxiut es j jeraniu® ingisthai unity anil s needs,' o prosnit It disab irselvesot »<>*► mm ge Fit Tab A Into SlotB Paul Brunell, a f reshman computer science major, picks up a broken bicycle he bought as auctioneer Photo by Dino Marcaccio Lloyd Joyce looks on. The bike auction was held Wednesday at Rudder Fountain. SMU drops advisory structure DALLAS (AP) — A Southern Methodist University committee studying the school’s governing structure has decided against the idea of creating an advisory board made up of friends and benefactors of the school. Last month creation of the advi sory board, called the University Board, was suggested by a self-study committee to the SMU board of trustees. However, the committee decided to drop the idea because many in the SMU community said the board’s role was unclear, said chairman Leighton Farrell, senior minister of Highland Park United Methodist Church. “It (the advisory board) seems to be a good idea but it ought to be handled by the board (of trustees) it self at a later date,” Farrell said. The trustees will discuss the com mittee’s Final report at a May 8 meet- ing. The committee’s interim report recommended that the University Board include 28 benefactors and trustees who would probably have stepped down once the board of trustees was reorganized. Creating the board would have given university officials a way to honor benefactors without giving them decision-making powers. Du ties of the board would have been overseeing the trustees, helping to raise money and providing counsel for SMU’s president. “The inspiration for that idea was connected to the legitimate goal of finding a way for people interested in the university, with money to give, to have a meaningful part of things. Nobody has any quarrel with that,” said Leroy Howe, faculty senate president. However, the involvement should be kept separate from university government, he said. AP) - o, Belia rge filled fork gar- of Ma lting oui dump in A&M Consolidated school can handle counselor says suicidal students rnational go,” Boi) iwner o( c barge mal Mi- the IVe» American Tuesdai la, Nortk d Missis- rcept the >n ioldup al ' By Doug Driskell Reporter Despite nationwide concern of uicide among high school students, in A&M Consolidated High School mmselor believes her counselors ire more than apt to handle suicidal students. “Every time we turn around we ire getting a new flier on a new sui- ide workshop. We’ve been innun- lated with information on it,” said airissy Hester, coordinator for the nunselprs in the College Station In- lependent School District. College Station counselors receive ‘Xtensive training to recognize the earning signs of suicide, Hester aid. But all training aside, counsel- irs are still prone to missing that lard-to-read student, she said. There are students who fre- juently come in and express depres- ion with school failure and peers,” Hester said. “We worry about them and talk to them. “But those aren’t the ones you wake up in the night worrying about because you know they are going to be in again in the morning feeling sad. “It’s the ones you have never seen before — the one who drops a poem on your desk about how life is no longer worth living.” Each year, A&M Consolidated counselors have two or three stu dents they are concerned about, Hester said. Counselors also have students who come to them to ex press concern for a friend, which led to the formation last December of a new counseling body made up of student counselors. “We have formed a peer counsel ing group called ‘natural helpers,’ ” Hester said. “They are trained to deal with suicidal threats, talk and behaviors.” The group meets with counselors at the first of every month, Hester said. Since its conception, the stu dent counselors have utilized the school counselors’ facilities. A study conducted by Brookie Pit- cock, a doctoral student at Texas A&M, revealed that counselors in smaller school districts are more aware of suicidal tendencies of their students than larger school districts. “I assume, in a larger school, there’s not much one-on-one be tween students and counselors,” Pit- cock said. Consolidated is a large school. This year is the first counselors have tried to call in every student for reg istration, Hester said. “Registration was usually done in the English classes,” Hester said. “We realized we could increase con tact with students by registering them. “There are students who frequently come in and ex press depression with school failure and peers. But those aren’t the ones you wake up in the night worry ing about... It’s the ones you have never seen before — the one who drops a poem on your desk about how life is no longer worth living. ” — Chrissy Hester, CSISD counselor coordinator r sonic. uratorar State workers accused of taking food stamps stoic tote te ted vith ana- id indudf* -derly «*• New ling Si the child* i a suitc^ ts reverse” iter ra jurnini AUSTIN (AP) — Ten state government em- iloyees have been accused of illegally obtaining ood stamps following an investigation that be ll ianwhen 2,800 state workers applied for stamps n December. State Human Services Commissioner Marlin ohnson says evidence has been turned over to irosecutors in Austin and five other cities. Agency investigators are reviewing additional tasesin connection with the huge jump in appli- ations last year. Evidence of possible violations also has been iresented tea prosecutors in Edinburg, Dallas, louston, Huntsville and Madisonville, officials aid. Some state employees fell within federal food lamp eligibility guidelines when the state payday asdelayed late last year. Instead of getting checks on the last working ay in December, workers were paid on the first work day in January to help ease the state’s cash flow problems. As a result, employees went five weeks without a paycheck, and hundreds sought food stamps. Bill Whalem, an official in the human services department’s inspector general’s office, said 11 1 cases initially were examined by investigators. He said another 127 will be reviewed for possible criminal violations. The initial investigation centered mostly on employees in high pay brackets, and eight of the 10 accused earned $1,969 a month or more, he said. Gordon Hardy, inspector general for the hu man services agency, said investigators checked to verify suspects’ eligibility for food stamps, in cluding such qualifications as their income, household size and assets. The 10 workers could be charged with misde meanor theft because the value of the food stamps they obtained ranged from $35 to $428, Whalem said. They also could face a felony charge of falsifi cation of a government record or securing execu tion of a document by deception. Two of the accused state employees worked for the Department of Human Services, and the others were employed by the Department of Cor rections, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, the Texas Employment Com mission, the Comptroller’s Office, the Texas Re habilitation Commission and the Board of Par dons and Paroles, officials said. Although the names of the 10 state employees haven’t been released, all were given a chance to discuss the allegations with investigators, Wha lem said. Whalem said three of the 10 cases involved workers in Austin. 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