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&M professors set up program
o help area minority students
entor plan to pair B-CS sixth-graders with A&M students
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t ofsomeiHcumculum education professors
toreadl! sa > their department has developed
Wvay to try to combat the fact that
the number of minority students is
Bieasing in elementary and sec-
he righli! ondary schools and decreasing in
s Butii!i®her education.
WDonna Wiseman, assistant profes-
to the pc JBL j n educational curriculum and
must pro instruction, said 52 percent of the
iOclainH® den t s * n l exas school districts are
Mw minorities. And another assis-
andotlieMrt professor, Pat Larke, said the
economy may be to blame.
HThe Mentor program, developed
by Larke and Wiseman, will match
'area minority students with Texas
A&M students to help the children
become more aware of opportunities
alailable to them.
■The project is two-fold because
both the children and their mentors
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will gain through the experience.
Larke said she hopes the program
will improve the minority student’s
overall academic performance and
provide, through the A&M students,
a positive role model.
So far, 26 A&M sophomore edu
cation majors have been chosen to
participate in the program. Larke
said the program will help them “to
develop instructional strategies that
would enable them to become more
effective as classroom teachers.”
While the program is targeted pri
marily toward education majors,
Wiseman and Larke hope students
from other A&M colleges also will
show interest in the project because
many minority students already
have definite interests. For example,
a child interested in agriculture
could be paired with an agriculture
student.
The students already chosen will
be matched with 26 sixth-graders
from the Bryan-College Station
school districts sometime this sum
mer. The students chosen showed a
“willingness to work with minority
students,” Larke said. A certain de
gree of commitment, sensitivity and
acceptance of other people were
other encouraging personality traits,
Wiseman said. And the students had
to pass both a written test and a per
sonal interview.
To be chosen, the minority stu
dents had to show a willingness to
work with the project coupled with a
high degree of parental involve
ment, Larke said.
Written communication between
the A&M students and the children
will begin sometime in the next 30
days, Larke said. This will continue
until they have their first meeting at
a picnic in early October. The mi
nority students, their parents and
the mentorship network will attend.
This will be the first of many
planned get-togethers, which will in
clude A&M football games and mov
ies, Wiseman said.
The A&M students will mentor
the same child for three years, earn
ing a total of six credit hours
through a special seminar set up for
the project. This will effectively
carry the child through the sixth,
seventh and eighth grades and the
education student through the end
of his or her college years — some of
the toughest years for both, Wise
man said.
The program’s long-range goals
are to extend the work to include ed
ucation majors working with mi
nority students in the secondary
school system, Larke said. They
hope this will continue and reinforce
the child’s exposure to higher educa
tion, she said.
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High court
rules in favor
of customers
1 AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas
Bupreme Court on Wednesday,
for the first time, applied the the
ory of implied warranty to serv
es such as repairs.
The court said the “caveat
Imptor” — or buyer beware —
rule “as applied to services such
as repairs is an anachronism pat
ently out of harmony with mod
ern service-buying practices.”
I “It does a disservice not only to
the ordinary prudent purchaser
but to the industry itself by en
couraging the purveyor of
shoddy workmanship,” the ma
jority opinion by Justice Franklin
[Spears said.
I The Supreme Court ruled in a
Tarrant County lawsuit filed by
Lonnie and Donna Barnes
against Melody Home Manufac
turing Co.
| The Barneses sued after the
modular pre-fabricated home
they purchased from Melody de
veloped puddles and dampness
over the years. Over two years af
ter moving in, they discovered
that a sink was not connected to
the drain in one of the interior
alls.
Ajury awarded $5,000 in dam-
iges, and the 2nd Court of Ap-
eals at Fort Worth affirmed the
ial court. The Supreme Court
upheld the appeals court.
Parents want in-school tests
after teacher contracts AIDS
MIDLAND (AP) — Some worried
parents want Midland public schools
to arrange district-wide AIDS testing
following confirmation that an el
ementary school teacher contracted
the disease.
But school officials say they have
no plans or money to arrange the
tests, spokesman Becky Ferguson
said Wednesday.
About 200 parents met Tuesday
at an elementary school where a tea
cher voluntarily accepted disability
leave after contracting the AIDS vi
rus.
School officials have refused to
identify the teacher, who received
positive confirmation of acquired
immune deficiency syndrome Fri
day. School board members called a
press conference Saturday on the
matter and mailed letters to all of the
school’s parents and staff members.
Hope Slaughter and Norma
Ladd, parents of students at the
school, said they will press school of
ficials at their next meeting to ar
range for AIDS testing of all stu
dents. They said they also want
annual tests for AIDS on teachers
and cafeteria workers.
“My child has cried several days
over this,” said Slaughter, who said
her 13-year-old son Tony was in the
teacher’s class last year. She asked
the school board to arrange and pay
for AIDS testing.
But board president Fred New
man said the district cannot afford
to test its 18,000 students, faculty
and staff members.
“Why would my (tax) money set
your child more at ease than your
money? he said. “If you’re worried,
have it (the testing) done.”
Ferguson said Wednesday the
AIDS-afflicted teacher will not re
turn to teaching next year and will
continue on medical disability leave.
She said AIDS testing probably
“I’m concerned simply be
cause I don’t think anyone
has enough knowledge to
make policies concerning
(AIDS). Until they find
out, I think they should
treat it like leprosy. ”
Jerry Norman, parent
would not be on the school board’s
agenda when it meets next week.
Two Midland physicians joined
Newman at Tuesday night’s meeting
to answer questions about the dis
ease.
Many parents in attendance were
afraid their children could have
been exposed to AIDS.
“I’m concerned simply because I
don’t think anyone has enough
knowledge to make policies concern
ing it,” said Jerry Norman, whose
two children attended the school un
til January. “Until they find out, I
think they should treat it like lepro-
s y-”
There is virtually no chance any
of the students or staff were exposed
to the AIDS virus, said Dr. David
Snyder, a Midland oncologist, and
Dr. James Humphreys, executive di
rector of the Midland City County
Health Department.
“Hospital workers don’t even get
AIDS from patients,” Humphreys
said, adding that hepatitis B, a virus
with the same high risk groups as
AIDS, is “1,000 times more conta
gious.”
Bill Morrow, a Midland attorney
whose wife, Sheila, teaches at the
school, urged school board members
to adopt a workable policy for deal
ing with AIDS before the start of the
next school year.
Newman said he has asked school
district attorneys to study the issue
of AIDS in the school system and
draw up potential AIDS-related
school policies. Newman also invited
input on the policies from teachers
and parents’ organizations.
The school district’s sole health-
related hiring policy relates to tuber
culosis: under state law, anyone
hired by the school system must
show a negative result on tests for
that disease.
\
im some
Clements gives OK to eight anti-crime laws
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Bill Clements signed
eight bills into law Wednesday that he says are
tv is not’! g ()() d news for citizens and bad news for law-
surely it‘Beakers.
preside^ The legislation was passed by the regular ses-
(omestojsion that ended June 1, and Clements’ office said
ereabo'iK e ta ^ e effect in 90 days,
ntaboull “I want to emphasize that this is, in fact, a very,
,. Bry important and comprehensive crime pack-
1IS ..nr age that has been passed,” Clements said.
11 “These bills are good news for Texans who de-
,r 1110111 mand safe streets and protection for their fami-
ninistel lies and property,” he said. “Conversely, these
renters 1 bills are bad news for those who refuse to con-
ratioii" ’ form to the established rules of society.
“The effect that the criminal element has had
st Ifrilff’ 1
i tic ciicei inai uie ciiimi
J on our society is staggering.”
Among the bills that were signed are measures
that will:
• Lower the amount of “good time” prison in
mates can receive and require that to earn certain
reductions in their sentences they participate in
educational, industrial, agricultural or vocational
programs.
• Create regulations on the sale and transfer
of chemical components of controlled sub
stances.
• Allow for an extension of time under the
speedy trial act when the prosecution requires
scientific analysis of evidence such as drugs.
• Allow the state to appeal criminal law rul
ings of trial courts on legal issues that terminate
the case. Sponsors said the bill will, for the first
time, give equal access by both the prosecution
and defense to judicial review.
• Permit the transfer of certain delinquent
youths from the Texas Youth Commission to the
Texas Department of Corrections.
Rider Scott, the governor’s general counsel,
said the legislation signed Wednesday “is going
to make a difference for the citizens of the state
of Texas, for law enforcement, for prosecution
for years to come.”
“These are some compelling and sweeping
changes,” he said.
The bills were an outgrowth of an anti-crime
task force’s recommendations, and task force
chairman Charles Terrell of Dallas said further
recommendations will be forthcoming.
“We’ll have a lot more in the future because
we’ve just started,” he said.
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