To The Friends Of
Karen E. Miller ’90
Thank you for your gifts,
concern and support.
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UT, A&M join forces to help disadvantaged children
Center helps kids relate to college
By Sharon Maberry
STAFF WRITER
Texas A&M and the University of Texas at
Austin have joined forces to show disadvantaged
middle-school students that a college education is
within their reach.
The University Outreach Center, developed
by A&M and UT in September 1987, has offices
in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and McAllen.
The offices serve as a place for staff members to
teach students and their parents about university
options.
The San Antonio and Houston offices have di
rectors from A&M and assistant directors from
UT, while the Dallas and McAllen offices have
directors from UT and assistant directors from
A&M.
Dr. Sylvia Fernandez, director of the Univer
sity Outreach Center in San Antonio, said the
center’s goal is to increase the pool of disadvan
taged students who are eligible for college.
The program targets seventh graders who are
academically average, Fernandez said.
“We don’t deal with ‘at risk’ or ‘gifted and tal
ented’ students,” Fernandez said. “The students
we target have potential that hasn’t been tapped.
We want to make them feel special. We want to
give them a feeling of belonging to something.”
The San Antonio office works with three of
the city’s 14 school districts whose principals and
counselors help the center select students with
average academic records who have potential.
Those students are invited to a meeting to dis
cover what the program has to offer. Students
bring their parents to the second meeting so they
will be part of the program, Fernandez said.
The San Antonio office provides regular activ
ities for students, including community involve
ment, college campus visits, practicing for the
Scholastic Aptitude Test, brown-bag lunches and
monthly meetings to discuss different aspects of
attending college, she said.
Activities also include discussions with college
professors and students who talk about financial
aid, major areas of study and other topics.
Fernandez stressed the importance of reach
ing students before high school.
“The junior and senior years are too late to
start telling kids about college,” she said. “If kids
enter high school and don’t take the right courses
for college, it’s too late.”
The San Antonio office is sponsoring a college
fair Saturday for middle schoolers and their par
ents that will be similar to college nights at a high
school.
“I’ve gone to a lot of college nights for juniors
and seniors,” Fernandez said. “This college fair
will be the same type of activity for middle
schoolers. It will be on the campus of Palo Alto
College (in San Antonio) where students and
their parents can talk to recruiters from A&M
and UT as well as some out-of-state schools.
“We also will have about 25 professionals in
different careers to talk with students about their
opportunities to become doctors or lawyers or
any other profession they might be interested in.
“The college fair will link the community,
higher education, public schools and families. I
think it will be a big success.”
Fernandez said the University Outreach Cen
ter in San Antonio has accomplished a great deal
during its first year.
“We’re on a roll,” she said. “In just a year, we
have touched thousands of kids.”
Each year, the program will start with a new
group of seventh graders, although they also will
continue regular meetings with older students in
the program, Fernandez said.
“We’re going to track students until theygti
college, and hopefully all the way throughcd
lege,” she said.
The director of the University OutreachCe
ter in Houston, Beverly Clark, said hero|
services 1 1 inner-city schools where the major;
of the population is black and Hispanic. The
are 260 students in the Houston program.
“We go to each school every week and jpa
time speaking with the students about cote
Clark said. “We’ve taken them to severalcolb
campuses on weekends, including A&M, UT^
the University of Houston.
“We also do a lot of student motivationalatin.
ities. For instance, we have recognition din
for students who make the honor rolltotnu.;
keep them academically motivated.
“We’re trying to keep them interested and»
tivated about school. We sell them the id
college is an option. We don’t want them to worn
about the financial part of attending college.h
just want them to prepare and make the grade
Clark said the center also sponsors activity
for parents encouraging them to becomeactiidi
involved in the school process.
“The University Outreach Center is not air
cruiting tool for either A&M or UT,” Clark sail
“We’re simply trying to prepare students font
tendance at any college or university.”
Fernandez said the centers in all four dm
have limited staffs and welcome volunteers!!
help run the program.
“We would love to have volunteers from Aid
during the summer,” she said. “Collegestudeas
mean so much to these kids because they a
really relate to them. If any A&M students**
to be mentors to middle-schoolers, thiswc
a great place to do it.”
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ALVIN (AP) — A councilman
who says she did what many women
do — lie about their age — faces pos
sible legal charges after she listed
her altered age on a sworn candi
dacy application.
Loyce Crouch, who knocked 11
years off her age when she filled out
her sworn candidacy application, has
turned in her keys to City Hall, say
ing she never will return.
Crouch, 59, gave a brief explana
tion at a City Council meeting Tues
day night on why she lied.
“Since I was divorced 13 years
ago, I have consistently knocked 10
years off my age, along with every
other woman in the United States,”
said Crouch, who acknowledged
misrepresenting her age ever since
she first won election in 1979.
She said she stated in her candi
date applications that she was born
in 1940 although voter registration
records showed that she was born in
1929.
Brazoria County District Attorney
Jim Mapel, who was not amused by
her explanation of the discrepancy,
said he plans to present allegations
to a grand jury that Crouch com
mitted perjury as soon as he obtains
the necessary documents.
“If knocking 10 years off my age
constitutes perjury in the eyes of
those people, well, then this evi
dently is not the nation that I re
vered,” she said.
City Attorney J. Kay Gayle says
the problem is not that Crouch lied
about her age, but that she falsified a
public document and swore that the
information included in the docu
ment was correct.
Crouch claims the matter was
brought up because some other
members of the City Council don’t
want her there.
By Cray Pixley
ENTERTAINMENT WRITER
A classics professor caught up in
the world of Greek tragedy and a
young Jewish student solidly
anchored in the nuclear present
clash in the Aggie Players’ produc
tion of “Another Antigone.”
The A.R. Gurney Jr. play run
ning through Saturday in Rudder
Forum pits Professor Henry Harper
against his student, Judy Miller, in a
fascinating battle that has many lay
ers.
Harper’s academic principles,
Miller’s adamant stance on her right
to adapt the Sophocles’ myth, “Anti
gone,” and accusations of anti-Semi
tism combine to form a plot that
would be interesting even if only be
cause of the generation gap between
student and professor.
Harper is horrified at Miller’s ad
aptation of “Antigone,” which places
the myth in the nuclear arms race,
with the two pivotal characters mod
eled after Ronald Reagan and Jane
Fonda.
Harper tells Miller he has no time
for her “juvenile polemic on current
events” and that she should stick
with the assigned topics.
One can’t help but agree with
Harper. Miller’s stubborn refusal to
obey the lesson plan indirectly leads
to Harper’s self-exile from teaching
and throws all the characters lives
into a whirlpool of tension.
Steven A. McCauley is excep
tional as Harper, the passionate clas
sics scholar forced into abandoning
his principles after refusing to grade
Miller’s version of “Antigone.”
McCauley’s Harper goes through
life quoting Greek verse like a char
acter out of one of his beloved trage
dies. The scenes between Harper
and Danyah Arafat’s Miller are a
meeting of the classic vocabulary
and trendy-yuppie speech.
Harper is easily an everyman’s
idea of an English professor closeted
away with his classics. Harper’s life is
rooted in ancient Athens, which is
glaringly obvious when he is inter
acting with Dean Eberhart, played
by Mary Ellen Brennan.
Eberhart and Harper have a
relationship that might have been
more serious but never developed.
Eberhart still cares for her professor
but understands that he can’t live in
the real world, unshrouded by
Greek tragedy.
Brennan is wonderful as the
frazzled but understanding dean
who must smooth the ruffled fur be
tween faculty and student. McCau
ley and Brennan’s scenes together
are among the best in the play.
Arafat plays a stubborn and
driven Miller, but it is difficult to
truly understand Miller’s position
and actions. That fault lies in the
play, because the character is not as
clearly drawn as Harper and Eber-
hart’s. Miller’s character switches —
from dedicated, upwardly-mobile
undergraduate to a radical studeii!
— are difficult to understand.
J. David Roberto is warm and sei-
sitive as Miller’s boyfriend, who*
dedication and zest for Greek liten
ture is as strong as Harper's.
The end of “Another Antigone
is thought-provoking and will lean
spectators in discussion as they lean
the Forum.
First-time director Troy Herbon
has done an excellent job with
and play.
Rick Boultinghouse’s scene dc
sign is a remarkable fusion betum
the ancient Greek and the contem
porary, which also mirrors the
flict between Harper and Mil
ler.
The action takes place in act*
bled, neo-classical Greek forum ft
nished by a coffee maker and Harp
er’s new leather briefcase. Futuna
music blends in to smooth over tit
transitions from scene to scene.
“Another Antigone” continuesifr
night and Saturday at 8 p.m.Tickti
are $2 for students and senior dia
zens and $3 for the general
and are available at Rudder Box Of
fice.
Brazos Animal Shelter sponsors dog dip
The Brazos Animal Shelter will
be having dog dips April 8, 15,
and 22 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in
the shelter parking lot at 2207
Finfeather Road in Bryan.
A bath and a dip costs $6. Dog
owners must bring their own tow
els. All dogs must be on leashes
and proof of rabies vaccination is
required.
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Planning for Retirement
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Eating Right on the Run
Massage
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Interior Decorating
Antiques
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Drawing
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