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CART KEVIN GAMACHE 845-7611 Leadership Excellence Starts Here Monday, January 23,1989 The Battalion Page 5 Freshman seminar teaches leadership Spring registration continues By Juliette Rizzo STAFF WRITER By participating in the Emerging Leaders Seminar, freshmen at Texas A&M have the opportunity to be come more than just fish in the sea of students competing for lead ership positions on campus. Dr. Carolyn Adair, director of stu dent activities, initiated the non credit seminar course 11 years ago to provide entering students with a be hind-the-scenes look at A&M and to promote interest in campus activ ities. The two semester class, which Ad air taught during its first five years, was composed of several outstand ing freshmen, as determined by their respective deans. Meeting once a week throughout the semester, they became familiar with the cam pus and were introduced to promi nent figures. “We started this program to see if this kind of exposure for freshmen would help them become more con fident and successful in the future,” Adair said. “We tracked quite a few students who took the class and have determined that they are the early joiners of organizations and tend to move faster to higher positions within those organizations.” She said the students find the class to be informative and beneficial to their college careers. One student, Kevin Buchman, is currently involved in Student Gov ernment as the Speaker of the Sen ate, and others have gone on to re- cieve Rhodes Scholarships. “Many of them also make the Who’s Who list and win college spirit awards,” she said. The class is offered twice a year. In the fall semester, the class is di rected at those freshmen who grad uate from high school with a strong background of participation in stu dent activities. These students go through a nomination process and are selected to participate in the class by their deans, she said. An additio nal orientation class is offered in the spring to those students who have an interest in leadership on the college campus. “The classes today are more self- directed,” Adair said. “The activities the students participate in are gener ated from the motivation of the class.” Tim Sweeney, associate director of student activities, said the lead ership class is a step beyond Fish Camp. “We want the students to be ex posed to all the resources available on campus and to a variety of people at the University, including the pres ident, the Board of Regents and va rious professors,” he said. “We also teach them about what is available to them as far as leadership possibilities within the Memorial Student Center and Student Activities.” The Student Activities depart ment now offers several credit courses in student leadership includ ing the Management of Student Or ganizations. Adair said the department hopes to start a program in which all the leadership courses will be available on a credit basis to all freshmen. However, she said if a student is willing to devote time to the non credit course, the rewards may be worth more than the credit would, and the student would have a fantas tic head start on those who do not take the course. Sweeney said, “The students get an opportunity to see things on cam pus that most students enrolled for four to five years never even get a chance to see.” For a fee of $10, students can en roll in the course at the Student Ac tivities Office in the Pavilion until the end of this week. Those enrolled will meet with President William H. Mobley in Feb ruary. Fired officers regain jobs at command of arbitrators HOUSTON (AP) — Most Hous ton police officers who have been fired for such reasons as beating prisoners and stealing have won their jobs back by turning to arbitra tors. During a four-year period, re cords show that 19 of 30 fired offi cers who appealed before third- party arbitrators won their jobs back, the Houston Post reported in a copy right story Sunday. Since its inception in Houston in September 1985, the issue of arbitra tion has pitted city management against rank-and-file police officers and firefighters. Police Chief Lee Brown and Fire Chief Robert Clay ton claim arbitrators have wrested away control of their respective de partments and have lowered the standards of morality, legality and efficiency within their forces. “I think it stinks,” Clayton said of the arbitration system. Employee groups, on the other hand, say arbitration is the only fair recourse a disciplined or fired worker has to appeal his case. Arbitrators, who act as judge and jury in the appeal process, charge between $300 and $500 a day for their services, records show. The bills, which almost always exceed $1,000, are paid equally by employee groups and the city. The only other appeal option for fired and disciplined police and fire fighters is the Houston Civil Service Commission — a three-member ap peal board which is appointed by Mayor Kathy Whitmire and con firmed by City Council. Records show that no fired Hous ton police officer has turned to the commission since arbitration was passed into law in September 1985. According to unofficial records at the city Legal Department, 136 po lice officers and firefighters have ap pealed to arbitrators on cases rang ing from one-day suspensions to firings. Out of that number, discipli nary measures and firings were upheld in 48 cases, 55 cases were re versed and 33 resulted in a reduc tion of discipline, the records showed. Another 120 cases are currently scheduled to be heard by arbitrators, records with the city’s Personnel Di vision revealed. According to records, cases in which Houston police officers have won their jobs back — with full pay or after reduced suspensions — in clude: • An officer who was fired by Brown for beating a handcuffed ju venile suspect. An arbitrator agreed the officer was an “unprovoked ag gressor” who did “verbally and phys ically abuse” the teen-ager, but ruled that firing was “excessive.” The hearing officer added “stress” from the confrontation “clouded his (the policeman’s) judgment and adver sely affected his temperament.” • A police sergeant who was fired after he admittedly stole $9.61 worth of produce from a company where he moonlighted as a security guard. Though the theft was small. Brown argued that “stealing is stealing.” An arbitrator disagreed and wrote: “This may have been a situation where a basically honest and nor mally law-abiding man was tempted to pick up a few inexpensive pro duce items for the family . . .” • A Houston firefighter who is back on the job after being fired by Clayton for alleged unethical con duct leading up to the slayings of the firefighter’s estranged wife and the woman’s lover. The firefighter is the prime sus pect in the double slaying, though the case remains open, according to authorities. Officer tries to quiet music, kills man during struggle HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston police officer, called to quiet loud music at an apartment complex, shot a tenant to death after the man at tacked him, police said. Martin Nana, 33, was shot in the chest and right arm about 3:20 p.m. Saturday and died at Ben Taub Hos pital shortly after arrival, authorities said. Nana was shot as he struggled with patrolman Juan Rosario in the parking lot and driveway near Na na’s southwest Houston apartment complex, police spokesman Dan Turner said. According to Rosario, Nana ap peared “highly intoxicated.” The of ficer said when he arrived at the complex, he could hear Nana yel ling, “Jesus is coming.” Rosario said he told Nana to turn down the music, but he refused and went back inside the apartment. Rosario reported that Nana con fronted him two more times, de manding that he leave. When Nana, who outweighed the officer by 50 to 75 pounds, lunged at him, he used his nightstick in an attempt to fend Nana off, but felt he was being over come, Rosario said. The officer said he fired a shot to scare Nana, but that Nana “became even more aggressive” and contin ued to struggle. Rosario said he fired twice more, hitting Nana once. Speed Reading! 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