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By Andrea Warrenburg
REPORTER
For many students in the Brazos Valley, Texas A&M
s the only school of higher education. But for many
itudents such as freshmen who want the security and
mention a large university might not provide or work-
ng adults returning to school who want the conve-
tience of night classes, smaller is better.
Blinn Junior College has been providing these serv
ices in the Bryan-College Station area for almost 20
/ears.
“We want to give people an opportunity and a chan-
:e,”J.B. Carrington, dean of the Bryan-College Station
Blinn campuses, said.
In Texas, more than half a million people are seizing
he opportunties community colleges have to offer,
flaking them the fastest growing segment in public
ligher education.
“We serve a different clientele than A&M,” Carring-
on said. “About 84 pefcent of our students are full- or
)art-time workers, so we provide large evening classes
or adults going back to school.”
Biinn’s student body also includes those who can’t
fulfill A&M’s or another state university’s entry require
ments and students who fail academically at A&M.
Blinn gives them the chance to raise their grade-point
ratios so they can transfer to a four-year institution.
The spring enrollment of the Bryan-College Station
campuses is about 3,200. Of this number, about 500
students are co-enrolled at Blinn and A&M.
“We work very closely with A&M,” Carrington said.
Harlan Hatter, a 2I-year-old full-time student at
Blinn in Bryan, said, “The counseling they provide to
get students from Blinn to A&M is very cordial. They
make available the transferable courses and help you
schedule those classes that will transfer to A&M.”
The Bryan branch is located downtown in the two-
story Kraft Building at 28th Street and South Main. It
houses 12 classrooms with an average capacity of about
38 students and a biology, chemistry and physics lab.
One of the main problems at the Bryan branch, like
A&M, is parking. Blinn is working to solve the problem.
This summer it will be moving to the Townshire Center
tWiere its floor space will be tripled. The new facility will
house \2 classrooms and greatly increase library and
faculty office space. T he building has about 250 new
parking spaces.
“We hope to be moved in by July 1, in time for the
second summer session,” Carrington said. “And there’s
parking as far as the eye can see.”
The faculty consists of 123 professors, some of which
are teaching assistants and graduate students at A&M.
Hatter said, “Many of my professors have been or are
teaching at A&M. They are very thorough in the way
they present the material and in the way they test. The
quality of education I am receiving is very good.”
Dr. Thomas Kiffe, a full-time associate professor of
mathematics at A&M and part-time professor at Blinn,
said, “It’s quite a change from teaching at A&M. I like
the smaller classes because they make it easier to inter
act with the students.”
Carrington called his faculty the “greatest bunch of
people in the world.”
In addition to night classes and a qualified faculty,
Blinn has many other opportunities to offer students.
Blinn operates a vocational nursing school on Koch
Street in Bryan and by Fall 1989 it will provide a two-
year nursing program for students who want to take the
state test to become registered nurses.
“In this respect, we’re trying to give back to the com
munity,” Carrington said.
Blinn’s Bryan library contains 12,000 volumes. But
with one phone call, a student can have access to more
than 105,000 volumes from the Brenham campus li
brary and have the book delivered by shuttle bus by 5
p.m. that same day.
Blinn’s schedule is arranged so that there are no Fri
day classes.
“Classes are on the same schedule Monday through
Thursday, with an hour and fifteen minute classes,”
Carrington said. “We want them to utilize the tutor and
help sessions on Fridays.”
And of course, Blinn College offers the one-on-one
attention of smaller classes.
“It’s better for students who might get lost in the
shuffle at A&M, especially the freshmen,” Kiffe said.
“There are 80 students in my classes at A&M compared
to 15 students at Blinn. I have a chance to find out what
their strengths and weaknesses are and help them in
that respect.”
Hatter said, “It’s a better climate. You receive more
attention and the professors can be more personal.”
Carrington said, “We’re a public service institution
trying to offer an opportunity for people to establish
themselves in a college program.”
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Groups lobby
to criminalize
spanking pupils
AUSTIN (AP) — Paddling stu
dents is child abuse, said children’s
rights groups and those against
spanking in school, who testified
Wednesday before a Senate commit
tee considering a bill to outlaw the
practice.
“There is nothing good about cor
poral punishment,” said Jimmy
Dunne, a former Houston math tea
cher and current president of Peo
ple Opposed to Paddling Students.
“It’s hurting the dropout problem
and it’s turning kids off to educa
tion,” said Dunne, who carried a
large, wooden paddle to the commit
tee table. “They don’t want to be in
an environment where they can be
hit with boards by their teachers.
“Plus, it adds to vandalism and vi
olence . . . and you’re inviting all
sorts of abuse,” Dunne told the Sen
ate Education Committee.
Dunne told the committee of a re
cently reported beating of a special
education student in Houston, and
two 5-year-old girls in Jacksonville
each of whom got five hard swats for
snickering.
“We think children should have
equal protection under the law,” he
said.
Also testifying in support of the
bill were the Texas Conference of
Churches, the Texas Commission
for the Prevention of Child Abuse,
and the Texas Children’s Rights Co
alition.
Alternatives to hitting, spanking
or slapping unruly students are de
tention, loss of privileges and “asser
tive discipline” by teachers trained to
use measures other than physical vi
olence, Dunne and others testified.
Sen. Craig Washington, D-Hous-
ton, a committee member and spon
sor of the bill, said he proposed the
measure because he is against cor
poral punishment, by teachers or by
parents.
“I want to make it as difficult as I
can for teachers to hit students,”
Washington said. “If the same con
duct were committed on any of us
standing around here, that would
automatically be a crime.
“But under the law, it is not a
crime (in schools) because we give al
most total authority to the people at
the school to do what they want to
with our children,” Washington said.
An amendment to Washington’s
bill, which was left pending before
the committee, would require par
ents to sign consent forms for cor
poral punishment at school. Wash
ington said teachers’ groups wanted
the amendment before agreeing to
support the bill.
“I think the parents ought to have
to consciously say, do I want Johnny
hit, spanked or slapped at school,”
Washington said. “And I think most
parents are going to say no.”
The bill, which would allow teach
ers or administrators to hit students
in self-defense or to protect the stu
dent or other children from harm,
would be part of the Texas Educa
tion Code.
Each school district currently sets
its own poliies on corporal punish
ment, Washington said. There is no
state law specifically addressing the
issue.
Twelve states have abolished cor
poral punishment in schools, and
the National Education Association,
the American Medical Association,
the American Bar Association and
others are against it, Dunne told the
committee.
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“We’ve tried to accommodate stu
dents by increasing the size of the
class sections,” he said. “One of the
problems we run into there is that
this University does not have a
wealth of large classrooms.
“Another way we’ve tried to ac
commodate students is to increase
the number of graduate assistants
and lecturers available to teach
classes that we don’t have the profes
sors to teach. Even when you look at
all these things we’ve tried to do, you
still come back to the fact that the
budget is less now than the number
of students requiring courses.”
This problem is compounded by
the fact that the liberal arts college
supplies courses across all majors in
the University, Parrish said. The
College of Liberal Arts is responsible
for general core-curriculum classes,
courses to fulfill majors and general-
education courses.
“What this means is that we can’t
only be concerned with students in
our departments, but we have to he
concerned about students from all
other colleges and majors taking
their humanities or general electives
through this college,” he said.
Parrish said students should feel
reassured in that the faculty and ad
ministration are aware of and con
cerned about the problems with
budgeting. He said the big key to
whether the budget problems can be
eliminated is how the next legis
lature handles educational issues.
“The students through student
government and the faculty through
the faculty senate need to address
these issues and be concerned with
how the Legislature handles the is
sue of education,” he said.
A&M offers Fellows Program
to ambitious undergraduates
By Sharon Maberry
STAFF WRITER
Texas A&M undergraduate stu
dents have the opportunity to partic
ipate in a research program similar
to graduate programs.
The University Undergraduate
Fellows Program provides a select
group of students with an indepen
dent research opportunity similar to
opportunities in graduate studies.
“There are a wide range of partic
ipants from year to year,” Honors
Program Director Dale Knobel said
of the program that has been at
A&M for about 20 years. “We have
had as few as 35 and as many as 100.
There is usually an average of 50 or
60.
“Any major in the University can
participate. We have theses on such
diverse topics as Old English litera
ture, microbiology, mechanical engi
neering, physics and accounting.”
Juniors who have completed nine
hours of Honors coursework and
have at least a 3.25 grade-point ratio
are eligible for the program.
The Fellows Program is a year
long independent study comprised
of two 485 courses in which partici
pating students work closely with a
faculty adviser on a research project
which is usually in the student’s ma
jor.
Applicants who are chosen for
mally begin the Fellows Program the
fall semester of their senior year.
“Students applying for the pro
gram find a faculty sponsor they
would like to work with and develop
a research proposal which they sub
mit in late March,” he said. “The
proposals are turned over to com
mittees of faculty specialists who as
sess them. They are evaluated as
much as proposals from faculty
members applying for research
grants.”
We have many
employers coming to us
asking for students who
have displayed special
initiative and dedication. ”
—Dale Knobel,
honors program director
Knobel added that most of the
students who persevere that far
usually present research proposals
that are attractive to faculty mem
bers.
“At this point, they really become
part of a community of scholars,” he
said. “At the beginning of the year,
there is a major convocation where
we talk, not only about the mechan
ics of the program, but about the ex
citement and rewards of research.”
Students are grouped with other
students researching similar topics.
These small groups meet several
times during the year to discuss one
another’s research and to give pro
gress reports.
“In March, students participate in
an Honors Fellows symposium when
they present their formal research
papers, much the same as they
would at a professional conference,”
Knobel said.
A week later, they submit a senior
honors thesis to faculty members in
those specific areas of expertise
which deal with their research top
ics. Those faculty specialists deter
mine whether it meets required de
mands.
At the same time, they select the
best thesis in each research area and
those students receive a medal and a
cash prize of $100. All the theses are
bound and placed in University ar
chives.
Knobel said participation in the
Fellows Program increases students’
job opportunities.
“We have many employers com
ing to us asking for students who
have displayed special initiative and
dedication,” he said.
Knobel called the Fellows Pro
gram the University’s “most presti
gious undergraduate research op
portunity.”
“It is a rare and valuable recogni
tion of a student’s achievement and
is one of the few academic honors
that can appear on a student’s tran
script,” he said.
Juniors interested in applying for
the Fellows Program may attend an
informational meeting on Feb. 22 at
5:15 p.m. in 226 MSG.
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