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The Battalion Tuesday, Nov. 1
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Self-help tapes offer advice to students
By Fiona Soltes
Staff Writer
Everyone needs advice some time
or another.
For some, it may concern handling
stress. For others, it may concern de
pression, homosexuality, death, self-
awareness and building friendships.
But for all of these problems and
many more, help is available through
the Counseling Self-Help Tape Pro
gram, operated by the Student Coun
seling Service.
Dr. Maggie Olona, counseling psy
chologist and assistant director of the
student counseling center, said any
one can call the program number,
845-2958, weekdays between 8 a.m.
and 5 p.m. to request that a tape be
played.
“Sometimes people just want to lis
ten. Sometimes it’s good to hear what
the tapes have to say to help assess
the situation before talking to a coun
selor. And sometimes counselors
suggest the tapes to students.”
The subjects of the three- to five-
minute tapes include problems in un
derstanding jealousy, dating skills,
marital problems, burglary preven
tion, suicidal crises and also general
information, such as how to choose a
major and guidelines for Q-dropping
courses. There are currently 64 tapes.
Olona said there is a numbering
system to the program, but students
can call in and request a tape by sub
ject name. Lists of the tape subjects
and numbers are available at the cen
ter, located on the third floor of the
YMCA Building, she said.
She said the program is used con
stantly.
“Since October began, we’ve had
about 50 callers,” Olona said. “Sur
prisingly, there have been more
males than females this month. There
hasn’t been a particular pattern, but
the most common tape has been
‘How to Say No,’ which is generally
self-assertiveness training.” Olona
said the tape covers everything from
refusing to let friends borrow things
to drugs and alcohol.
The callers remain anonymous, but
Olona said the date, time of call, gen
der of caller and tape number are re
corded.
“We just like to keep up with
which tapes are being used most often
and by whom,” Olona said. “All
tapes aren’t used equally, and we
need to know when to check if a tape
should be replaced because of overu
se.”
Olona said the cost of the calls is
covered by the student services fee,
as are all the services at the center.
“The students ^>ay for the system
and should have first access to it,”
Olona said. “If there’s a need in the
community and there’s time left over,
that’s fine. But the students are our
first priority.”
Olona said the program, started
about eight years ago, adds tapes as
necessary.
“Some of our tapes have been pur
chased from other counseling centers
and some are made here at our cen
ter,” Olona said. “If this area has a
particular concern, we would make
the tape ourselves through a commit
tee of the center’s psychologists.”
Olona stresses that students should
not give up if they hear a busy signal.
“Only one phone is used for the
system,” Olona said. “But we’ll help
as soon as we can.
“We will expand the program as
need warrants. So far, there hasn’t
been the need for more than one
phone. But we want to be sure the
students are getting the best service
we can give them.”
Help tapes
Following is a list of some self-
help tapes and their numbers. To ac
cess the tapes, call 845-2958 week
days between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.:
1 Friendship Building
9 Understanding Jealousy
10 How To Say “No”
18 Dating Skills
30 Anxiety and Possible Ways To
Cope With It
35 Building Self-Esteem And Con
fidence
38 Coping With Stress
160 Early Signs Of An Alcohol
Problem
161 Responsible Decisions About
Drinking
432 How To Deal With Depression
491 Suicidal Crisis
550 How To Choose A Major
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By Fiona Soltes
Staff Writer
A utility plant is under construction
behind the Military Sciences Building to
serve the new residence halls being built
on the south side of campus.
Keith Chapman, manager of construc
tion at Texas A&M, said the mid-cam-
pus site was chosen from several possi
ble locations for economic and aesthetic
reasons.
“We considered many places, includ
ing the parking lot between G. Rollie
White Coliseum and the television sta
tion (KAMU) and the present site of
Mount Aggie,” Chapman said. “It was
quite a controversial issue.”
Chapman said the cost of building
lines to carry chilled water to the halls
was a major factor in the decision, as
was the way the plant would fit in with
the design of the rest of campus.
“We are putting a lot of effort into
making a utility plant that doesn’t really
look like a utility plant,” Chapman said.
“It’s kind of the same philosophy we
used with the parking garage. It will be a
brick structure, pleasing to the eye.”
Chapman said that construction on the
plant is on schedule and will be complete
by Fall 1989. The plant must be com
pleted on time because the residence
halls it will serve will be open for occu
pancy at that time, he said. The plant
will hold electrical switches and chillers
Accused trucker jailed
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“We are putting a lot of
effort into making a util
ity plant that doesn’t
really look like a utility
plant.”
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for air-conditioning the halls, and will
have the capacity to hold domestic hot
water boilers, which will be added as
need arises, Chapman said.
Funding for the plant came from the
University’s Utility Reserves. About
$5.27 million was allotted for the general
contract and $1.7 million has been set
aside for equipment. Chapman said the
equipment and the contract funds are
separate because of timing concerns.
SIERRA BLANCA (AP) — Officials imposed a virtual
news blackout Monday in connection with a trucker who went
berserk Sunday on Interstate 10 in far West Texas, ramming
cars off the road and shooting a sheriff’s constable in the face.
Denver Jerome Burrell, 30, of Anderson, S.C., was being
held Monday in the Hudspeth County Jail in lieu of $400,000
bond on charges of attempted capital murder, involuntary
manslaughter and driving under the influence of drugs, police
said.
The trucker is accused of shooting a Hudspeth County con
stable in the jaw and running at least nine cars off westbound
I-10 between Van Horn and Sierra Blanca. One woman died
when her vehicle flipped off the road. The constable, Sonny
Hillin, was in critical, but stable condition Monday in El
Paso, a spokesman said.
Department of Public Safety Trooper Bob Newman said
Sunday that it appeared Burrell was under the influence of
drugs when he was arrested after the 70-mile, 50-minute ram
page that ended at 11:19 a.m. Sunday.
On Monday, Newman and officials at the Hudspeth County
sheriff’s office referred questions to Gonzalo Garcia, the 34th
judicial district attorney assigned to prosecute the case. Gar
cia, citing concern that publicity could damage prosecution of
the case, would not comment on whether any drugs were
found in the truck’s cab.
Newman said Monday he was told that some kind of drugs
were found in the tractor trailer, but he didn’t know the type or
amount recovered. He said no alcohol was found in the cab.
Results of drug and alcohol tests had not been determined
by late Monday afternoon, and Garcia said such information
would not be made public at least until the case is presented to
a grand jury.
Burrell was charged with involuntary manslaughter in con
nection with the death of Sharon Marie Agutter, 48, of El
Paso. The Ysleta High School counselor died after her blue
Bronco was forced off the interstate and flipped end-over-end
in a field 11 miles west of Sierra Blanca.
Garcia said he expects the involuntary manslaughter charge
to be upgraded to murder after police review statements from
witnesses who said Burrell’s truck forced Agutter’s vehicle
off the road.
Police said Burrell ran at least eight other vehicles off the
road, including a recreational vehicle driven by Raymond
Price of Los Angeles. Price, who was rammed from behind,
pulled back on the road and chased the truck,officials said.
Price said he saw Agutter’s Bronco forced off the highway.
Police said Burrell tried to pin Hillin against his car the first
time the constable stopped the truck. The second time Hillin
stopped the truck, Burrell stood up inside his cab and shot
twice through his own windshield, hitting Hillin in the back of
the jaw with the second shot. The bullet exited through his
chin.
1988 Page 3
U.S., Soviets
exchange
nuclear plans
DALLAS (AP) — An exchange of de
sign drawings from Texas’ first nuclear
plant and a plant in the Soviet Union is
the first step toward U.S.-Soviet cooper
ation to improve safety and public confi
dence in nuclear power, officials said.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com
mission is trading information about the
South Texas Project, built by Houston
Lighting & Power Co., for Soviet plans
of its most technologically advanced
power plant in the Ukraine.
“We felt very honored,” Graham
Painter, HL&P spokesman, told the Dal
las Morning News. “The NRC could
have selected any of the reports on the
110 nuclear plants in the United States
now operating, and they selected this
one. They have told us they chose the
South Texas Project because this one is
the newest and it represents the state of
the art in American nuclear technology.
And so we’re pleased to participate.”
The U.S.-Soviet agreement for in
creased cooperation was signed Aug. 31
by NRC chairman Lando Zech and his
Soviet counterpart Alexander Protsenko,
chairman of the State Committee on the
Utilization of Atomic Energy.
The 20-volume Final Safety Analysis
Report for the South Texas Project will
be sent to the Soviets after details of the
agreement are worked out in the next few
days. The report contains a discussion of
how the plant is designed and includes
drawings of safety systems and how they
work. Painter said.
“It does not contain security informa
tion related to anything sensitive to the
plant,” he said.
The Soviets will provide information
on Zaporozhye nuclear complex at En-
ergodar, a small Ukranian village near
the Dneiper River, about 300 miles
southeast of Kiev. The Chernobyl acci
dent on April 26, 1986, occurred at Pri-
pyat, about 80 miles north of Kiev.
The Zaporozhye nuclear facility con
tains four pressurized reactors each pro
ducing 1,000 megawatts of energy.
The first reactor was finished in 1984,
and another unit was completed in each
of the succeeding three years.
A fifth and sixth unit still are under
construction.
The South Texas Project contains two
Westinghouse-built pressurized water re
actors, each producing 1,250 megawatts
of energy.
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Howdy Week Oct. 31~Nov.5
Traditions Council thanks the following
businesses and individuals for their
help in keeping the Howdy
tradition alive at A&M!
Dr. Carolyn Adair
The Aggie Club
A&PI Steakhouse
Bennigan's
Bombay Bicycle Club
Corn Dog T
The Cow Hop
The Curiosity Shop
Dirty Juan's
Dixie Chicken
The Edge
El Chico
Emilio's Sub Shop
Fajita Rita's
Flying Tomato
Frank's Bar & Grill
Hullabalooo T-shirt Shop
K-Bob's
Dr. John Koldus
Lifestyles Fitness Club
Long John Silver's
Luby's Cafeteria
Plazzio's
Mostly Yougart
Peanut Shack
Pet Emporium
Pro
Rainbow Store
Regis Hairstylists
Schlotzsky's
Seasame Hut
Coach Jackie Sherrill
Shipley's
Sonic
Subway
Texas A&M Bookstore
3C Bar-B-Q
Wagon Wheel
Say Howdy to a Traditions Council
member and win free prizes I
Be eligible for grand prizes - drawing
will be held Friday, Nov. 4 at 4:30 in front of Sul Ross Statue.
Juniors, Seniors & Grads...
GIVE YOURSELF
IS0ME CREDIT!
APPLY NOW FOR YOUR VERY OWN..
CmBAMO
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• Bring a photocopy of
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