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The Battalion
Wednesday, November 2,1988
Halloween is over, so what should we do
for fun? I don’t just want to bury myself for
another year!
How about the MSC
Visual Arts Commitee?
I hear they’re fun, and will even
have a few surprises!
Wednesday
November 2
7 p.m., MSC 145
MSC VISUAL ARTS
General Meeting
(preferred by 4 out of 4 skulls)
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Students get second chance
to learn in alternative school
BEAUMONT (AP) — One of the
most notable things about the Beaumont
Alternative School is the quiet.
At the end of a period, no bells or
buzzers sound. No lockers slam.
No teen-agers loudly hail their friends
in the hall.
Instead the teacher softly tells the stu
dents to get ready.
After all the students in the school’s
five classrooms line up they file quietly
into their next period class in carefully
choreographed transition.
When they arrive in the next class
room, the students pick up their assign
ment folders, sit at a desk and begin
working with little or no prompting from
the teacher.
The loudest noise in the room often is
the hum of the air conditioner, the rattle
of a page turning or a soft whispering as
the teacher answers a student’s question.
The Beaumont Independent School
District set up the school earlier this year
as an alternative to middle school and
high school students who were having
trouble in a regular classroom.
“What we are offering here is a highly
structured academic environment with
no distractions,” alternative school su
pervisor Patrick Thomas said. “When
my students come through that door they
want to come in for the academics be
cause that is all there is here.”
The school has no cafeteria, no pep
rallies and no sports, he said. Because
the school discourages talking among
students, they have little social life at the
school.
Thomas and the staff say they have to
fight the notion that most students at an
alternative school are dangerous.
“I think most people think we have a
bunch of thugs and that it’s a battle
ground here,” English teacher Ginny
Welsh said. “It’s anything but that. I
think it’s one of the safest environments
anywhere in the district.”
Thomas acknowledges the school has
to discipline students at times.
But the structured environment and
small class size help head off many prob
lems.
But Thomas said the individual atten
tion each of the 50 students receives
from the school’s caring staff along with
the school’s emphasis on study provide a
fertile ground for troubled students to
flourish academically.
5 TDC prisoners
to receive master’s
from UH program
ROSHARON (AP) — Earning a mas
ter’s degree usually allows students to
quickly slide into the job market, but five
University of Houston at Clear Lake
graduate students will have to put their
job searches on hold until they can take
their diplomas off their cell walls.
If plans progress as scheduled, the
university will graduate its first master’s
degree candidates from the Texas De
partment of Corrections Ramsey I Unit
near Rosharon in December, more than
two years after the program began.
“We’re extremely proud of our stu
dents for persevering through the clas
ses,” said George L. Trading, director of
the university’s program at the prison.
“Our master’s program is tough ... we
don’t water our classes down at Ramsey.
“It’s the same program we offer to our
students on campus. We don’t offer the
Ramsey students anything special.”
The program is part of a plan by the
Texas Department of Corrections and the
university to enhance the prisoners’
chances of finding a job upon release
“and to stay out of here,” he said.
Nine faculty members are teaching a
record 130 college students this semester
in nine classes, ranging from history to
literature, on weekdays from 6 to 9 p.m.
The master’s program has 54 enrolled in
mates.
The university offers inmates with
clean disciplinary records and 54 credit
hours of college classes a chance to work
toward a bachelor’s or master’s degree.
While Alvin Community College of
fers lower-level college courses to the in
mates, the University of Houston at
Clear Lake offers bachelor’s degrees in
general studies, behavioral sciences and
humanities along with the master’s de
gree in humanities.
TDC will pay for one class per semes
ter for eligible students, but inmates
usually pay their tuition through federal
grants or from their own pocketbooks,
Trabing said.
And to those who say the prison sys
tem is becoming too relaxed, Trabing
said the prisoners are required to com
plete a full day’s work before attending
the night classes.
“There’s nothing wrong with punish
ment, but we need some type of retrai
ning,” he said. “Just locking somebody
up and keeping them from family and
friends is punishment. ’ ’
Only those who have stayed out of
trouble in prison can participate in the
program.
And while the inmates will not have
the option of practicing their chosen
fields immediately upon graduation,
their confinement helps make most of
them better students, Trabing said.
The average inmate has an eighth-
grade education and has had to take re
medial courses from the junior colleges
before being accepted into the advanced
classes. While Trabing said the Clear
Lake students are very serious students,
the inmates quite often score higher on
tests because they have more time to
study.
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The staff includes five teachers and
one counselor. The school offers courses
in reading, language arts, science, math
ematics and social studies. It also has a
computer laboratory.
After evaluating each student’s abili
ties, the teachers develop a learning plan
that lets each student proceed at his or
her own pace, Thomas said. The teach
ers prepare daily assignment sheets for
the students.
Ball said. “They are just doing it»
ferent way.”
During the class period, the
circulate, helping each student
signments. “1 had to invest in
pair of shoes because 1 have to
student to student to student,"
teacher Carla Dunlap said. “Wh;
to find a learning style the childt-
spond to.”
Most students at the school are intelli
gent but lack motivation, study skills or
confidence to perform well in a regular
classroom, Thomas said.
The alternative school helps students
who have been held back two or more
years or who are achieving at a signifi
cantly lower level than their classmates.
It also serves dropouts who want to come
back to school, he said.
They also send home weekly progress
reports, telling the parents their child’s
conduct and grades.
The curriculum closely follows the
district’s.
The school strives to build upikt)
dents’ self-esteem by showing them!
can succeed in school.
“They are doing same thing they
would be doing if they were in a regular
school,” social studies teacher Clydette
“When they understand they
sponsible enough to do the assigd
and not cut up in class and whenfcj
alize they can do this and be succe^ji&brew, onC e p
. . this is a lesson for their otheri Union as a crime,
and for life itself,” science teacher ^official of the 1
McCord said.
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Although the district offers the school
to students who face expulsion, none of
the students this semester fit into that cat
egory, Thomas said.
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Some students will go back to their
home schools, while others may choose
to stay at the school until graduation, he
said.
After school officials refer the student
to the alternative school, Thomas inter
views the teen-ager and the parents be
fore the student can enroll.
Both students and parents sign a docu
ment outlining the school’s procedures to
show they understand what the school
expects. The district cannot force a stu
dent to attend the alternative school, he
said.
French grapes Susj
SHERMAN (AP) — Sherman and
Denison residents recently completed a
“French connection’’ that paid homage
to Texas’ unlikely grape genius.
This year marks the 100th anniversary
of T.V. Munson’s celebrated success in
saving the French wine industry from a
parasite that ravaged vineyards.
A French delegation visited Munson’s
home in Denison in 1887 to leant the
agronomist’s secrets.
Munson had grown grapes in lime
stone soil, similar to that of the French
vineyards.
The roots were resistant to root lice
and adapted well from cuttings.
For helping to save the French vine
yards, Munson received the French Le
gion of Merit in 1888, an honor pre
viously accorded only one other
American, inventor Thomas Edison.
Commemorating the 100th anniver
sary of his work, several Munson rela
tives and interested friends went to the
south of France in October and returned
with glowing accounts of their visit.
“This was a great way to build
Franco-American relations,” John Mor
ris, President and CEO of Associated
Travel, said. “This was a significant oc
casion. The real news happened 100
years ago with Munson and Viala
(Pierre, a major French researcher).”
“I was impressed with the generosity
and warmth of the French people,”
Sherman realtor Ben McKinney said. “I
had the impression that the French were
always cold and rude. This was not the
case.”
The ceremony honoring Munson was
held in the city of Cognac, where an en
tire research center is devoted to viticul
ture (the study of vines.)
The American consul to Cognac
joined in the ceremony along with Pierre
Gaillet, a prominent French researcher.
Dr. Roy Renfro, the Grayson County
College professor who organized the trip
to France, compared Gaillet to Pierre Vi
ala.
Viala’s great-grandson helped unveil a
plaque honoring Munson.
The French still revere Munson’s
memory. A replica of the plaque is dis
played in the T.V. Munson Viticulture
and Enology Center at Grayson County
College.
A French delegation visited GCC in
September to honor Munson.
The trip coincided with the first grape
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ways cold and rude. Thi
was not the case.”
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out to welcome us and really showalps in the case,
some great hospitality,” Renfro ii®ore of those tij
“That was the thing that impressec;l8 to the doorst
the most. It was really nicetosee.’ laCorwin. His fin
Throughout the trip, the Texansjj
sented their French hosts with
lions commemorating the annivetsatjl
Touring Chateau Margaux, the ffij
witnessed the first pressing of the e 7
for the 1988 crop.
Chateau Margaux is famed foritii|
cellent wines.
The group visited all the major vie
yards, which comprise the region’ss
industry.
“It was really fascinating hearing 1
seeing that their very livelihood isii
vines,” said John Morris, whodw
Sherman travel agency. “If the-v;
were damaged or destroyed, a lot»«
be at stake.
While there, the trio was inducted:
the “Commanderie du BontempS'
Medoc et des Graves,” a groupofts
teau-owners who promote their winet
The group has existed nearly:
years, according to Renfro.
“It was like being inducted into!
ternity,” Morris said. “Wearei
members of the most prestigious*
society in France. I’m very proud.”
The visit also reminded Texans k'
dedicated agronomist more than a
tury ago introduced vinegraftinp
France, where for nearly 20 years,
lice had cut vineyard acreage by atK
80 percent.
“I was impressed with all theyk
done,”'Renfro said. “And with*:
they have thought. This event h
100 years ago and the French
member Munson and what he hasdoj
They are still very grateful and
ciate what he did.’’
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