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The Battalion STATE & LOCAL 3 Friday, May 5,1989 B-CS hits bottom 10 in income Five Texas areas rank low in ’87 per capita earnings : sour,: it ji he I’i te bit iM.’ iail.’ Si t even tal ca: :yis, ■comm nk m: ; FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS Bryan-College Station has been listed in the bottom 10 regions na tionwide for 1987 per capita income, [ the government reported Thursday. The community, at an average per capita income of $10,688, joins four other Texas regions at the lower end of the income scale. In a report on 1987 personal in come in the nation’s 318 metropol itan regions, first place belonged to the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk- Danbury area of Connecticut, with per capita income of $26,316, the Commerce Department said. Bring ing up the rear was the McAllen-Ech- nburg-Mission area, with per capita income of $7,001. In addition to the McAllen and Bryan-College Station regions, the other metropolitan areas in the bot tom 10 for 1987 per capita personal income: Laredo, $7,035; Brownsx ille-Hai lingen, $7,409; Provo-Orem, Utah, $8,870; El Paso, $9,484; Las Cruces, N.M., $9,578; Pascagoula, Miss., $10,231; Houma- Thibodaux, La., 510,582; and Jack sonville, N.C., $10,668. The first and last areas were the same as in 1986 but the gap between them grew, as the 9.1 percent rate of per capita income growth in the Bridgeport area more than doubled the 4.2 percent pace in the McAllen region. The per capita income gap be tween the two regions w r as $19,315 in 1987, up from & 17,412 a year ear lier. For the nation as a whole, per ca pita income rose 6 percent in 1987 to $15,484, according to the report by the department’s Bureau of Eco nomic Analysis. The study showed income in America’s cities advancing at an un even pace, growing fastest in com munities along the East Coast with Greenleaf, A&M join forces to counsel disturbed students By Sherri Roberts STAFF WRITER Texas A&M’s Student Counseling Service and MCA iughli Greenleaf Hospital are combining their efforts to help alllki A&M students in need of intensive psychological treat ment. Under the terms of a one-year renewable contract between Greenleaf and SCS signed April 17, Greenleaf will accept A&M students referred by SCS who are in danger of harming themselves or others. The contract, reviewed by A&M President William Mobley and ap proved by Vice President of Administration and Fi nance Robert Smith, is the result of a five-year effort by Wade Birch, SCS director of counseling and testing, to secure such a plan. Greenleaf, which has an exclusive contract with SCS, will treat the students regardless of whether or not they have insurance to pay the cost of their stay, Birch said. Student service fees w ill not increase, and A&M will not be required to reimburse the hospital for students who have no insurance. Although the Sancfstone Center psychiatric hospital I proposed a contract similar to Greenleaf s, administra- jtors chose Greenleaf because it has worked with SCS in o Willi I 1 * 16 P ast anf * because it was operating out of its new hos- ndido |P’ ta ’ birch said. Sandstone was in a dispute with a i I builder at the time of the contract’s recommendation, he said. SCS refers some students needing psychological :yis. treatment to the A.P. Beutel Health Center, where they are counseled for an average of tw'o days, Birch said. And although that arrangement is sufficent for the ma jority of patients SCS treats at the center, the center is not a substitute for a psychiatric hospital, he said. “Pulling a student off the lines for a day or two can recharge their batteries and give them a better perspec tive, but a stay at the center works only if the student is cooperative,” Birch said. SCS is not in the business of doyig long-term treat ment of patients because of the number of A&M stu dents it counsels, he said. SCS treated 2,368 students and had a total of 8,886 counseling sessions in 1987- 1988. During the spring 1989 semester, an average of one patient treated every three weeks probably would have been referred to Greenleaf if the contract had been in operation, he said. Staff members try to determine how likely a patient is to carry out a suicide threat in deciding the course of ac tion taken to treat the patient, he said. Usually patients who have planned how, when and where they will com mit suicide are more likely to follow through. SCS staff members must notify an SCS administrator to begin the referral process of a patient to Greenleaf, Birch said. SCS is permitted to break confidentiality with a pa tient and notify family members and/or authorities if patients are in danger of harming themselves or others, lie said. slow-growth areas concentrated in the oil-producing states. Twenty-three metropolitan areas registered per capita income grow th at least 2 percentage points above the national average of 6 percent. Seven of those cities were in New England; six were in the Middle At lantic region; five were in the South east. Income in 60 metropolitan areas, meanwhile, grew at a rate that was at least 2 percentage points below the national average. The fastest growth rate was re corded in the Visalia-Tulare-Por- terville region of California, where per capita income rose 9.7 percent to $12,968, a level still well below the national average. At the other end of the scale, tw'o regions registered declines in 1987: per capita income fell 1.4 percent in Flint, Mich., to $14,723, and dropped 0.6 percent in Lafayette, La., to $12,363. In addition to the Bridgeport re gion, here are the other metropol itan areas in the top 10 for 1987 per capita personal income: San Francisco, $24,593; Bergen- Passaic, N.J., $23,040; Middlesex- Somerset-Hunterdon, N.J., $22,783. University mergers receive House OK in ‘great beginning’ FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS The House gave quick, prelimi nary approval Thursday to merging several South Texas universities with the Texas A&M University System and others with the University of Texas System in a move lawmaker called “a great new beginning.” "It means that we’re now able to compete,” Rep. Eddie Cavazos, D- Corpus Christi, said. “We re going to be able to com pete, not only for businesses, but in the war against crime and drugs and so forth," he said. “The more edu cated your masses are, the less prob lems you have.” One bill would merge the A&M system w ith Texas A&I University at Kingsville, Corpus Christi State Uni versity and Laredo State University. The measure will go to the governor after a final House vote. Another bill would combine Pan American University at Edinburg, and its campus at Brownsville, with the University of Texas System. Be fore this bill goes to Gov. Bill Clem ents, it requires final House passage Highway ©apartment will extend Villa Maria Villa Maria Road will be ex tended southwest to Jones Road in a construction project to begin around June I and be completed in approximately one year, said and Pu The $1.3 million project will extend Villa Maria by L8 miles and will consist of a .3 mik four- lane section and a 1.5 mile two* When State Highway 47 is completed, it wall intersect the Villa Maria extension and pro vide an additional entrance to Bryan from the west, said Kath ryn Hejl, engineering assistant for the Highway Department. The road is being built, Hejl said, both for the convenience of Bryan residents and to provide access to a school being built in the area. ' • The Highway Department is funding the project and has awarded the contract to Glen Fu qua Inc., of Navasota. and Senate approval of House changes. “Bringing UT to the (Rio Grande) Valley has been a dream of commu nity leaders for decades,” said Sen. Hector Uribe, D-Brownsville. He predicted quick Senate concurrence. Rep. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, said the UT-Pan American bill “means an acceleration of the continuing improvements of higher education.” A measure to establish a graduate school of international trade at La redo State University will go to the governor after another House vote, while a bill authorizing freshman- and sophomore-level studies at Cor pus Christi State University needs Senate concurrence before passing to the governor.' Corpus Christi State University, now an upper-level institution, could not offer the lower-division classes until the Fall 1994 semester under the bill. It only would take effect if the merger becomes law. The only bill that spurred debate was one to establish a law school at Texas A&I University. The measure was tentatively passed with an 88-42 vote and will go to the Senate for consideration if it receives final House passage. “So many people said, well, South Texas is getting too much, too soon,” said Rep. Irma Rangel, D-Kingsville, of opposition to the measure. “But many others have indicated here that South Texas has gotten too little for too long.” Sen. Carlos Truan, D-Corpus Christi, said the House vote “ought to give me in the Senate the momen tum that I’ve needed in order to overcome the opposition of the lieu tenant governor.” But after Truan showed Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby a copy of the House vote, Hobby maintained, “I think there are more important things to spend money on than a new law school.” Annual Initiation Banquet Address “The Pursuit of Excellence” Speaker William H. Mobley President Texas A&M University CHAPTER OFFICERS I98S-1989 Francis E. Clark President David W. Forrest V ice President Jon J. Denton Treasurer Thomas J. Kozik Secretary Virginia P. McDermott Public Relations Officer Shirley E. Bovey Pas t President ^Slmtor J§0ctetg of TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY CHAPTER MOTTO Philosophia Krateito photon 'Let the love of learning rule mankind” COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE & ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS Randy S. Could Richard D. V". Pham John R. Torkelson Michael D. Wells Gary T. Wingo COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 1989-1990 David W. Forrest Jon J. Denton Virginia P. McDermott Thomas J. Kozik Theodore C Jones Francis E. Clark President N ice President Treasurer Secretary Public Relations Officer Past President OUTSTANDING JUNIOR SELECTION CONIMITTEE Virginia P. McDermott. Chair Paulette T. Beatty Paul A. Fry veil Clarissa T. Kimber FACULTY AND STAFF MEMBERSHIP SELECTION COMMITTEE ■ Jitf Thomas H. Welsh. Jr., Chair Sandee Hartslleld Charles R. Schultz OFFICER NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE Margaret B. Thomas Shirlev E. Bovev, Chair Nell \V. Page Patricia A. Alexander Bonnie V. Beaver Kathleen M. Clark Laura M. Addiego Mary A. Alford Shelia C. Baldwin Elizabeth A. Berry Jane B. Burrows Raymond A. Davidson Jon E. Ellery Robert A. Flores Robyn Ford Scott Crimshaw Pamela A. Harris Teresa L. Anthony Juan M. Basomhrio Arthur E. Benzick Sara J. Blanchard Lisa M. Brossmann Harold M. Buckner Kelly I Chaffin Subir Chhikara Michael D. Conway Juan C. Coronado Rachel Cowan Kyle T. Crowley Marlon D. Doerre Rick E. Erickson Jason L. Frazier Christopher M. Gilstrap Steven T. Greiner FACULTY AND STAFF Ronnie L. Edwards Carl P. Gahhard Charles E. Gilliland Mary A. Herron George P. Peterson GRADUATE STUDENTS Tsz-yik E. Hui Turi Hegg Scott C. Holden William R. Lemmons, Jr. Tanya L. Long Caroline Luttbeg Robert Murry Lisa M. Pell Suzanne R. Pesl Michael Reed John B. Rodden Anna Rosenthal Joseph C. Scanlan Alvaro A. Sotomayor William T. Stamps Christine L. Tetzlaff Mark Thallman Beth A. Toppert Daniel P. V'rudny Montza Williams William Zartler COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE Karla J. Hollingsworth Cvnthia S. Jensen Beth E. Jez Kathleen A. Jones Keri E. Keilberg Jennifer R. Kessinann Sharon L. Maherry Kimberly A. Marek Alan T. McDaniel Kevin M. McDonald Michael D. Mead< >ws Brad J Moyer James K. Muckelroy Karen A. Orgeron Thomas C. Page Shelly L. Patterson Daniel T. Price Delia I. Quintana Chazalu F. Rahman Rayanne Regmund Stephen M. Schley Manisa J. Shah Richard J. Shaw Coin Shorter. Ill Bruce A. Storts Patda M. Stoudt Scott D. Syamken Leigh A. Tolar Cail M. Turchi James C. Van Antwerp Cem N. A. Var ' Neil A. Waer Donna J. Wallace Linda Ann Batker Leanne Blankenship Julie B. Boecker Brad A. Carlow Pamela K. Conner Bryan M. Cox Stephen W. Davis Michael R. Descheneau.x Michael A. Dion Tracy J. Dullock Alan C. Duncan Edward F. Fugger, Jr. Angela D. Funk Karen L. Gilbert Wendv R. Green Donna E. Aamoth Laura L. Appelt Jeannine Aristeguieta Kelley L. Arnold Leslie A. Babin Virginia L. Bass Laurie K. Benihard Paula K. Blacksher Rebecca L. Burghardt Jennifer A. Cangemi Victoria M. Darden Laurie A. Davis Lisa K. Devaney Jennifer S. Dycus Shelli K. Easley Pamela J. Evans Janies J. Alspaugh Maria C. Asensio Jacqueline F. Bay s Joe M. Beck Joseph E. Bishop Thomas M. Blinn Jonathan A. Block Cay L. Bonorden Jeanette E. Breton Stacey D. Brown HaryautoT. Budiman Brian C. Burdorf Rosendo Cantu Alan M. Chiou Marantha Chung Daniel M. Clark Thomas D. Clark Gregory W. Collins Craig M. Conway Berry T Cox William D. Cramer Steven M. Croniser Wally H. Cushman Janies J. Dale Kenneth C. Debes Daniel Devos Timothy D. Doniey Matthew G. Dougherty David C. Dowell Bryan F. Dulock James D. Epperson Debora A. Fairbrother Vance A. Fairchild Steven E. Cahanin Lisa A. Fahlquist Philip L. Hall Elmer W. Herndon Timothy J. Hill Wendy R. Hinkle Lisa D. Jones Michael A. Kincaid Carol J. King Lance R. Larison Sylvia S. Leong Shelly M. Logan Susan M. Lohmer Karen P. McDermott Jamie D. Meachen Hasmik Melik-Hovsepian Sanjaykumar R. Patel Carol M. Reinemund Sharon L. Rockwell Ann Marie Rushlow Bettie L. Russell Jennifer L. Sanker Kevin L. Sink Janna L. Smith Ron Alan Stepp Robin S. Summers Deborah A. Swanson Tammy E. Teel Mark D. Tjernagel Michelle L. Zixik COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Kimberley A. Harsch Barbara J. Hees Tracey D. Hendley NitaJ. Hensley Sara L. Kingsley Ritta D. Litzenherg Lillian R. Marek Cheryl W. Martin Hope E. Martin Margaret L. Maxwell Lisa C. Mcalpine Kimberley A. Meyers Melinda J. Moore Sally J. Moore Suzanne P. Owen A lane E. Petroski Kristi L. Prevette Ladot B. Schoenberg Shannon L. Shiller Cherie L. Shockley Janet E. Smejkal Mary L. Smith Trudy K. Sdiston Lisa L. Supercinski Susan K. Tatum Cheryl M. Vacek Audrey D. Vaclavik Diana Vrooman Teresa A. Walker Elizabeth L. Whitcomb Patricia D. Wise Kristin F. Wilson Denise A. Acebo Tiana J. Faultry David A. Oakes Larry C. Await Eric A. Fisher Andrew H. Pendleton Carolyn A. Baugh Gregory D. Freed Van T. Pham Mark L. Bennett Verna S. Freeman Amy E. Popejoy Paige L. Black Tracey J. Hamm Justin J. Presnal Jennifer L. Bobbitt Wendy L. Hendricks Karen K, Quach Gina D. Boone Stephanie P. Hinkle Carol M. Reumont Kevin E. Buchman Jeffrey A. Jordan Nancy E. Reucher Brenda K. Byrd Jacinto P. Juarez Diane L. Robinson Tamara J. Cannon Kenneth P. Kidvvell Kristi L. Scales Cindy L. Carmack Jay L. Laengrich Robin L. Seay Bryan J. Castleberry' Diane L. Leach Laura L. Shackelford Jeffrey C. Champ Kerrie L. Leach Ronna R. Steele Jaleh M. Dashtizadeh Patricia Leech Deidi A. Strickland John P. Davis Celeste D. Livengood Margaret L. Stephenson Christina R. Deleon Monica S. Marek Elizabeth K. Stepp Elizabeth H. Drushel Laurie A. Miller Laura L. Webb Michael A. Dunn Mark E. Miller Donald A. Whatley Boyd L. Dunphy Kristen L. Moore Dorothy E. White Susan B. Erb Debra D. Mosely Susan L. Whiting Laura A. Faries Todd A. Murray Christopher M. Wohleb Lane P. Farley Susan L. Neitsch COLLEGE OF SCIENCE Nancy M. Bertsch Christian B. Helm Russell S. Rowe Daniel C. Bovvers Timothy L. Jones Tab A. Stephens Polly K. Dinsmore Kimberly P. Mayfield Paula D. Swift Robert S. Eckert Brent R. McQueen Peter N. Svvischiik Robert E. Garza Shawn D. Murphy Mark A. Wessels EricJ. Geiger Rakesh N. Nathu Joseph B. Williams Jane A. Hammack Shanna L. B. Rilfe Simon T. Wong COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE Leanne Chapman Amy R. Denning Alexander H. Hatcher Jill R. Johnson Glenn L. Lawrence Anthony Macaluso. Jr. Maria K. Montemayor Pamela J. Nutting Sharon R. Pair Trisha A Prejean Larry W. Schock Stephanie S. Smith Cherxl L. Stanlev COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Adam V. Floy d Arthur E. Forral Sudhir Giri Laura L. Golla Samuel T. Goodlier James C. Cray Michael D. Hatfield Jorge L. Hernandez Elena F. Hinojosa Eric A. Holloway Jeffrey P. Hoogendam J Brockton Howe Robert Hughey Todd E. Hunter David E. Hurst Roliert A. Irion Sherril ]. Jarrell Troy T. Jonas Rodney H. Jones Daniel B. Kelly Karl A. Kent John K. Kittrell Denise M. Krause Sally S. Kwan Joseph G. Land Gregory L. Lastrapes Munchee K. Lee Peter F. Lee Kafai Leung Laxvrence C. Lubrano Paul D. Macek Bryan Marge Scott E. Martin David E. McCough Kenneth E. Mclntush, 11 Creg McKuskie Kristen L. McNerney Michelle S. Miller Eric J. Xelkin Elizabeth A. Nowak Henry B. Ohme Sharon J. Oslxirne Ann V. Phan William J. Rafferty Timothy H. Raines Prasad Rahiudran Carla C. Reasons Todd W. Reck Ronald W. Reiger Ginger L. Sackett PaulE. Schank Bruce R. Shaw Tara L. Simons Simon C. Smith Richard W. Stonebraker Samuel H. Tao Nancy K. Tsai James K. Turner Brandon T. Waldo Mark M. Weissenberger Vachel Weldon Fermin S. Wong Kelly L. Wooters Way E. Yong HONORARY ACTIVE FOR LIFE MEMBER W’illiam H. Mobley OUTSTANDING JUNIOR AWARDS Tammy K. Rooney, College of Agriculture Sharon L. Joyce, College of Architecture and Environmental Design Leanne Blankenship. College of Business Administration Kristi Prevette, College of Education D. Brian Kelly, College of Engineering Eric J. Nelkin, College of Geosciences David A. Oakes, College of Liberal Arts Brent R. McQueen, College of Science Brett A. Moran, College of Veterinary Medicine NATIONAL PHI KAPPA PHI FELLOWSHIP NOMINEE Delmar Janke, Chair Donald C. Barker Margaret R. Reitmeyer, College of Science INITIATION BANQUET COMMITTEE Paul Harms MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE COLLEGE OF GEOSCIENCES Gregory E. Jackson Susan L. Neitsch David VV Forrest, Chair Steve K. Alexander Robert D. Chenoweth Davis A. Fahlquist Delmar Janke John D. McCrady Paul Parrish Kenneth R. Poenisch Dan Robertson Dwayne A. Suter William E. Ward Walter Wendler { ft