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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.
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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
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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. Those workers were turned
over to the public integrity unit of the Travis
County district attorney’s office.
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