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Vlgf jpllj irid independt:, •an counlne-j^ ihowed up, Vol. 83 No. 12 CISPS 045360 12 pages :-priori of cer.i |*«P| m T exas A&M w % mm l # The Battalion College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 22, 1987 the natioi l were the I . China, the li idia and Ausie 1 he expectedtj lome to bet lose farther jue blobs wifia .S. helicopter fires n ship laying mines icrallv was f, actual sire, «:3 es where cdwfANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — An Iranian ship sus- eren. That rtlrflBted of laying mines in the Persian Gulf was attacked ness of the by a U.S. helicopter Monday night, the Reagan admin- ^tdon said, and Iranian gunboats ambushed a Brit- ; maps, tf ishfflag tanker leaving one crewman missing, ional 'svsterlshe Iranian ship Iran Ajr was set on fire after the , all iiu U.S attack about 11 p.m. (3 p.m. CST), but the blaze form ison t See related story, Page 8 was extinguished and the vessel was “dead in the wa ter, according to White House and Pentagon officials. Shipping sources and radio monitors said they had heird nothing about the U.S. attack, the first against ■ Iran since Aug. 8 when a Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter IP) S6' f,rei1 IW ° m ‘ ssi * es at an Iranian jet judged to be “hos tile. Both missiles missed. man answering the telephone at the American Support Unit in Bahrain, the administrative unit for the commercial facilities for the U.S. Navy in the gulf, refused to comment on the incident. The attack by a helicopter from the USS Jarrett was described as “defensive” after the Iranian vessel, an am phibious landing craft, was discovered to be laying mines in international waters about 50 miles northeast of Bahrain, said White House spokesman Marlin Fitz- water. Iran says it has sowed mines in the Persian Gulf to protect itself from the foreign warships that are pro tecting commercial shipping, which has become a target in the 7-year-old war between Iran and Iraq. Monday night’s attack was the closest that Iran and the United States have come to combat since U.S. warships started escorting reflagged Kuwaiti tankers through the gulf in July. One of those tankers, the Bridgeton, struck a mine July 24, prompting the United States and other nations to send mine-huntmg vessels and aircraft to the gulf. iP) - Tr< ormed quid i on Sundi remnants of nis moved r. ward its den raster said DT. the cer, ed storm o hurricane s orth lautudt tude, or 180 Barbados. 15 to 20 tup: ained windi ;r gusts in stp t becotnesar. when its md storms be en winds b been just ti storms it tie season, id ends Nov Student Counseling Service waits for service restoration S rs 'ING FOP KETBALL ember 24 By Audrey Cardenas Staff Writer ^■exas A&M President Frank E. Vandiver is waiting to sign a contract with Greenleaf Hospital that would reimplement the Student Counsel ing Service, which provides 24-hour psychological counseling for A&rM students, Dr. John Koldus, vice pres ident of student services, said. ^BTte contract, under consider ation since 1984, was prompted in part by a Faculty Senate emergency resolution calling for the restoration of the service, which was disconti nued last year. Hi he Sept. 14 proposal was pre sented to the Faculty Senate by the Personnel and Welfare Committee to accompany a similar resolution passed by the Student Senate, Dr. Benton Storey, the committee’s chair, said. lilt’s the first time the welfare committee came through so fast,” Storey said. “The Student Senate wanted us to come up with some thing to give them further support for their resolution.” Ko\dus couldn’t estimate when the counseling services would start again, but he said he hopes to get the Greenleaf contract completed and signed by Vandiver by the end of this week. Wade Birch, director of student services, stressed the necessity of the counseling service by citing statistics from last year. In 1986, there were 21 suicide attempts, two suicides, six rapes and four assaults reported to the SCS — and these figures are not complete, Birch said. HDuring the fall and spring semes ters, there are three to five serious attempts per week,” he said. “It can Health Center was forced to discon tinue its weekend and evening emer gency care because the psychological counseling could not be provided without medical backup, Storey said. But the Texas A&M Board of Re gents’ decision to reopen the health center’s after-hours service this fall makes it possible to resume psycho logical counseling. The contract with Greenleaf also is needed, Birch said, to allow the “With all the new stu dents, we’re going to need more of this (student counseling) service. ” — Benton Storey, chair man of the Personnel and Welfare Committee hospital to provide necessary after- hours pyschological and medical at tention to students who have more unmanageable problems. “When a student has a serious E roblem, some are very cooperative, ut others ‘act out,’ ” Birch said. “The health center is not trained to work with that kind of student.” Since the SCS has not yet been re stored, students with serious psycho logical problems now are taken to Greenleaf for treatment at their own expense. The A.P. Beutel Health Center doesn’t offer psychological counseling services now because of lack of funding, Birch said. In 1986, the SCS, located on the third floor of the YMCA building, consisted of 18 full-time staff mem bers including 10 counseling psy chologists and four counseling psy chologist interns. Eigh tty percept of SCS funding was provided through student serv ice fees with the remaining 20 per cent coming from state support. The $24,000-per-year contract with Greenleaf will be funded through SCS reserve funds, Birch said. Birch said the Student Counseling staff would like to be able to provide night and weekend counseling, but there aren’t enough funds to pay them for the extra hours. “The staffs salary, particularly in counseling, is really low,” Birch said. “The problem is if the University pays us for coming out at night, then is it going to pay the Memorial Stu- 'dent Center workers or the Intra mural workers who work at night?” Storey said student counseling should be a higher priority at A&M. “Most other campuses have better student counseling services than we do,” he said. “Ours doesn’t stack up and is not as well funded. With all the new students, we’re going to need more of this service.” Dr. Claude Goswick, director of the health center, agreed that the SCS should be restored. But he be lieves it is unnecessary for the health center to remain open after mid night. “It (patient load) is not a bit differ ent than it used to be,” Goswick said. “We do feel the center’s hours could be curtailed after midnight.” However, the health center’s af ter-hours physicians help the coun seling service provide immediate medical intervention to students when they need it, so the health cen ter will remain open for emergencies on evenings and weekends. “One of the main concerns during a crisis is to get them (students) somewhere where they can get taken care of,” Birch said. “A lot of times our work is done better the next morning after the patient has calmed down. m a mmm Ifpt iSii wt ||#» its fit That’s the ticket Officer R. Schlechte tickets an illegally-parked ve hicle in lot 62 behind Kyle Field Friday. Placing Photo by Andy Alexander the ticket on the windshield, he said, “Of the 25 tickets in the book, about half will be dismissed.” Car-train collision leaves student dead; driver remains hospitalized By Clark Miller Staff Writer A Texas A&M student was killed when the vehicle he was traveling in collided with a train Saturday af ternoon. Martin Joseph Bottoms, a 21-year-old A&M student from Amarillo, was killed when a northbound train struck the passenger side of an orange Volkswagen driven by Angela Kay Temple. The collision happened at the Wellborn Road and EM 2818 railroad crossing at about 1:20 p.m., Lt. Irvin Todd of the College Station Police Department said. Temple, 21, also from Amarillo, was taken to the in tensive care unit of the Brazos Valley Humana Hospital in College Station. She was moved from the intensive care unit to an other room of the hospital on Monday. According to a witness, the warning signals at the crossing were flashing and the train’s whistle was blow ing. Todd said the car did not stop, but the department still is investigating the cause of the accident. The last available information on Bottoms reports that he was a sophomore mechanical engineering major during the spring semester of 1987. happen any time.” chologists and four counseling psy- our work is done better the next The collision happened at the Wellborn Road and The last available information on Bottoms repor The counseling services were chologist interns. morning after the patient has EM 2818 railroad crossing at about 1:20 p.m., Lt. Irvin that he was a sophomore mechanical engineering maj< stopped when the A.P. Beutel Eighty percept of SCS funding calmed down.” Todd of the College Station Police Department said. during the spring semester of 1987. Regents favor plan to cap freshman enrollment he Texas A&M Board of Re- The upper 10 percent of hig^^^l^'Scttres j f f W W\S? U%!* I j :§ ie agains! 26 at the t CaiTlpU Uphe Texas A&M Board of Re- Jrant, gents approved a plan to cap fresh- man enrollments at 6,600 for the 1988 Fall semester. :fThe plan is designed to produce an'enrollment at A&M of 41,000 by 199.1 |||rresident Frank E. Vandiver said the enrollment management plan will help solve the immediate prob- d on Sept lem of increased freshman enroll- i register W ment - ® ut sa *d the plan also will St is $5 00(0H P ‘ ncrease graduate enrollment at llinic is linPl Texas high school students in the top 10 percent of their classes still ■iWUl need no minimum Scholastic jINNEFL Aptitude Test score to enter A&M. isic knots But scores for students in the first, /stems and iSecond > an( ^ third quarters of their i , ,,‘'Hpses will have SAT scores raised umuecno ^ 100 to 200 ints above 1987 _ 1988 levels. ISISnnnAlW^ 16 new P°^ c y a ^ so attempt K increase the graduate student population to 25 percent, leaving 75 percent of student enrollment for . ^undergraduate students. Currently, A&M graduate stu dents make up only 16 percent of to tal enrollment while undergraduates comprise 84 percent of the students. H’We’re trying to squeeze down the undergraduate enrollment and let the graduate enrollment grow up,” Vandiver said. “That’s not easy to do. TpYou can’t do that like you can with undergraduate enrollment. ♦ Scores for high school stu dents m -.the fourth quarter of ♦ Students ranked in the II F percent to 25 percent range of their class will need an SAT score of 1,000 and 24 on the American College Test. Formerly, students in that ranking needed 800 on the SAT and 18 on the ACT. jj • Students in the second quar- ;ter of their class now need an YT score of 1,100 and 27 on the CT. The old requirements were . scores of 950 and 21, respectively. Wl • The third quarter require ments go from 1,100 on the SAT automatic admission require ments still will have a chance. The special evaluation will consider proposed major field of study, extracurricular activities, lead ership experience, high , school curricula, letters of reference and • Second quarter require ments are- 950 (SAT) and. 22 (ACT)- • . . * Third and fourth quarter re- quicements are 1,100 for the SAT and 27 on the ACT. Regents approve budget, master’s degree program > the Uni- exas sare “We could let 5,000 more under graduates in — we could do that. But to say we will let 5,000 more graduate students in — it doesn’t work that way. “We must have flexibility so we can play with those upper and lower sides of the University .” Dr. Perry L. Adkisson, chancellor of A&M, said the higher enrollment standards may actually attract more students to the University. “Historically more students apply to a university when the standards are raised,” Adkisson said. Vandiver also said tougher stan dards will eventually cause the en rollment problem to surface again. “I predict that this will hold for a little while, like the last (increased standards) held,” Vandiver said. “But the higher standards bring in more students,” he said. “Good students want to come to good universities that are tough to get into,” he said. “What then happens is they’re good —- so they don’t flunk out,” he said. By Lee Schexnaider Staff Writer The Texas A&M Board of Re gents approved several measures on Monday including the 1987-1988 budget for Texas A&M University and a new master’s degree program in philosophy. The board also heard a presenta tion concerning minority recruit ment and a possible land purchase for Texas A&M at Galveston. The budget for A&M in College Station is set at a total of $454.9 mil lion. Prairie View A&M University is slated to receive a sum of $49 mil lion. Tarleton State University’s new budget is $20.8 million and Texas A&M at Galveston will get $8.8 mil lion. Dr. William Merrell, president of Texas A&M at Galveston, proposed to the board the possible purchase of the property and buildings adjacent to campus owned by Western Geo physical. Merrell said the land includes a dock area and several buildings that could be used jointly by Texas A&M University, the University of Texas and Texas A&M at Galveston. The land and facilities have yet to be professionally inspected and ap praised. “We think that, should we be able to get the property, it would be a first-class operation,” Merrell said. “If we got this (property), we would have the premier operation in Texas or anywhere. Anywhere.” He said while A&M and UT would use one of the buildings, A&M-Galveston could use the other, larger building for a gym, research offices and lab space. Jerry Gaston, associate provost for A&M, said the numbers of minority students attending both the under graduate and graduate programs at A&M has increased. “Last fall we had 175 new black students,” Gaston said. “This fall we have 268, which is a 53 percent in crease. In the Hispanic category we also have a 53 percent increase but the numbers are different, 397 for last fall and 608 for this fall.” Gaston said A&M is starting a new program to attract more minorities to A&M. “The Office of Student Relations will be able to appoint recruiters that would be permanently located in Houston, Dallas-Ft. Worth and San Antonio,” he said. “The idea is they would be avail able as recruiters particulary in the public schools in the highly pop ulated areas,” he said. “And conse quently they can work with school counselors to get the students to ap ply themselves toward higher educa tion in the first place, and Texas A&M in the second.” The new master of arts degree program in philosophy adopted by the board will offer specialized train ing in applied philosophy. The curriculum will require a stu dent to take an internship in a field such as medicine, law, business, en gineering, education, agriculture or the military. In other business the board also approved $670,625 worth of gifts, grants, loans, scholarships and be quests to Texas A&M University. The largest amount was $50,000 from Tenneco Incorporated.