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Tuesday, June 14,1988/The Battalion/Page 5 Tuesday oiej, vities in 308, ite d. For inert —(Disadvantaged get counseling, raining at A&M iatoat7pj • Mar y’s Su American Car 1, 2J6RW 'Mrundakf, you ask uilit vents andjt,, is/s. There is ; he neivsrooiii VS lobe reports. an apart* district teachers and counselors, where he police he b from five Texas areas: Houston, t a birthdai 1 a field so :m said. He rs as they placed him n began kid from the ar, : her with an k to the vehicle returned the: ;d forwardsic McNeill's left man appm ered piece: ers’ efforts:; bit through the back of said. By Susan Erb Reporter Disadvantaged youths who ontemplate dropping out of igh school are getting counsel ling and training as part of a sum- er program at Texas A&M imed at getting students back on jthe diploma-earning track. Youth Opportunities Unlim ited (YOU), a statewide ork/study program, provides a combination of academic train ing, hands-on work experience and counseling to 14- and 15-year olds who have either low ability or motivation or who have unsup- portive home environments. Dr. Dempsey Seastrunk, head of the A&M chapter of the pro gram, said the selection of partici pants is made through the com- jined effort of local school as well as YOU representatives San Antonio, Austin, Gonzales and Beeville. About 180 pants arrived day and will Aug 6. “The students program partici- at A&M Wednes- here until remain have not car, there dropped out,” Seastrunk said. “They are not special ed. They may not necessarily be the gifted or the talented. They are students who come from family back grounds that lack the capacity, because of financial or other fac tors, to lend support to the stu dent.” YOU’s objectives, Seastrunk said, are to expand the students’ perceptions of career opportuni ties, to give them the motivation to complete high school and to help them realize it is feasible to achieve their career objectives if they try. Seastrunk said the program’s basic concept was designed in 1972 for the entering freshman class at St. Edward’s University in Austin. It was expanded in 1975 to include migrant and seasonal farm workers’ children. The pro gram now is exclusively for high school freshmen and sopho mores. “We try to help the students get a feel for what some of their interests might be that they haven’t been able to verbalize,” Seastrunk said. The high school freshmen and sophomores indicate their career interests on job survey forms filled out as part of the initial ap plication process. These interests, Seastrunk said, are matched with jobs available in the communinty by the host university and local program directors. After the stu dents receive interview-skills training, they apply for three dif ferent jobs, from which they may or may not receive offers. “We are trying to create a real- world work experience,” Seas trunk said. “Just because you in terview for a job doesn’t mean you’ll necessarily get it.” The youths are paid minimum wage for 170 hours of work expe rience and also are paid for 421/2 hours of career counseling. The academic component of the program consists of 200 hours of courses in math, En glish, reading, computer literacy, study skills and tutoring. Eighteen Texas universities will participate in the two-month program this year. Fired worker takes hostages, kills self RICHARDSON (AP) — A fired computer company employee re turned to his offices Monday and fa tally shot himself after earlier hold ing two hostages at gunpoint for much of the day, authorities said. Police spokesman Jim Wheatley said Mervin D. Gilliam, 28, entered Zeus Components of Dallas shortly after 8 a.m. looking for his boss and attempted to take four hostages, but two escaped. One man and one woman were held for much of the day. Donna Dippel, a company secretary in her 20s, was released early afternoon and Roman Gonzales, a Dallas resi dent in his early 30s, was released at about 4 p.m., Wheatley said. Friends said they were shocked by the incident. “He was a very nice guy,” said Greg Foster, pastor of Hamilton Park First Baptist Church where Gil liam attended. “Sometimes something in a per son’s life comes up that you can’t explain,” Foster said. “Mervin wasn’t capable of this. A man who identified himself as a former co-worker of the suspect said the man got along well with other employees. “I’m surprised to see him do something like this,” said Brad Da vis, 36. “I’m really shocked.” The gunman’s brother, Charles Gilliam, and his mother arrived at the offices late Monday morning to help police negotiate, Wheatley said. Another friend, Dwain Thomp son, who described Gilliams as “a very talented young man,” said Gil liam had recently been through a pe riod of depression after losing his girlfriend and his job. Hanna called the suspect “a short- time employee” of the company. * Police were on a direct telephone line with the man when they heard a muffled gunshot and the phone went dead at about 5:20 p.m., said Capt. Joe Hanna. Police entered the building immediately after hearing the shot and found Gilliam dead, Hanna said. Richardson is a suburb on Dallas’ north side. Earlier, Wheatley said police maintained telephone contact with the suspect and that “the man ap peared calm.” The other two hostages, Andy Byles and Bill Pendergrass, escaped shordy after the suspect entered the office, Hanna said. Ex-aide believed book for Wright ‘part of my job’ FORT WORTH (AP) — Working on a book for House Speaker Jim Wright was “part of my job,” said a former aide who added he was not told the project was to be accom plished on personal time. Publication arrangements for the book are being examined in an in vestigation of Wright by the House Ethics Committee. gressional job,” Matthew Cossolotto told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in a telephone interview published Monday. “That was my understanding at the time, and I still think that,” he said. The House panel last week de cided to conduct the inquiry to de termine if Wright has violated rules on ethics and conflicts of interest. 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