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[Area school children can get immediate
elp with their homework beginning
Wednesday by dialing the Homework Hot-
Tie.
Hotline coordinators are looking for vol-
nteers to answer phone calls.
“Our goal is to have approximately four or
ve volunteers taking calls,” David Srygley,
blunteer coordinator for the Boys Club,
iiid.
Srygley said he hopes Texas A&M students
om various majors will answer the phone
ies so questions on any subject can be an-
ered.
There also will be a teacher, a former tea-
tve been il ier or a l° ca l professional acting as supervi-
or veanfr ranc l l°r the volunteers,
xu . Homework Hotline will have five phone
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lines and will operate from 4 to 8 p.m. The
number available presently is 822-7526.
He said some organizations already in
formed about the hotline include the Texas
Student Education Association, MSC Hospi
tality and Alpha Phi Omega, a coed service
fraternity that already helps the Boys Club.
“You do not have to be a member of a
club,” Srygley said. “We would love to have
anyone come out who would be interested in
working with children and teen-agers or be
ing involved in the education aspect.”
The hotline will be based at the Boys Club
of Brazos County.
The hotline was recommended by the
Drop-Out Task Force of Making the Grade,”
which is a community-awareness program
sponsored by the Brazos County Extension
Service.
“Making the Grade” has a task force for the
following youth problem areas: functional il
literacy, substance abuse, teenage pregnancy,
juvenile crime, youth unemployment and
school dropout.
According to an A&M research collabora
tive, the 1988-89 drop-out rate for Bryan In
dependent School District for grades 7 to 12
was 6.51 percent, or 285 students.
College Station’s drop-out rate for the
same period was 2.16 percent, or 47 students.
Judith Arnold, chairwoman of the Drop-
Out Task Force, said the group decided to
adopt and adapt the hodine after hearing
about a program being initiated in Detroit.
“The Homework Hotline will enable stu
dents to call someone right away and get help
immediately,” Arnold said. “It’s just a little
Band-Aid. But it is another avenue we have
opened for these students to get the help they
need.”
In addition to volunteers who will answer
phones, other on-call volunteers will help stu
dents, Arnold said.
If a student’s question cannot be answered
by someone at the Boys Club, the student’s
name and number will be given to a volunteer
who specializes in that subject, she said.
“Hopefully there will be someone right
there on the phone, or at the center to answer
the student questions,” Arnold said. “But we
want to make sure we can answer any ques
tions any student may have. And that is where
the on-call volunteers come in.”
The kick off for the program will be
Wednesday at the Boys Club’s open house
from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The Boys Club is at 900 William J. Bryan
Parkway. Anyone interested can come by or
call 822-7516 for more information.
Individuals
wanted for
theft by check
Crime Stoppers needs help locat
ing the following five individuals
wanted for misdemeanor theft by
check:
• Ferguson, Julie —
DOB: 11/13/58
• Ghazaleh, Luai M. Zuhdi —
DOB: 04/05/63
• Hall, Cheyenne —
DOB: 04/30/56
• Jenkins, Mary —
DOB: 02/03/61
• Race, Nadine Alma —
DOB: 08/19/54
If your information leads to the
arrest of any of these fugitives.
Crime Stoppers will pay you $50 for
each one for a total of $250 for all
five.
Call Crime Stoppers at 775-TIPS.
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drops usual ribbon-cutting
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
College Station Mayor Larry Ringer and Bryan Mayor Marvin
Tate celebrate the opening of the Golden Corral Restaurant.
By ISSELLE MCALLISTER
Of The Battalion Staff
Bryan Mayor Marvin Tate was
victorious over College Station
Mayor Larry Ringer in a friendly
“sawing of the horns” contest at the
Golden Corral family steakhouse.
The steakhouse, which celebrated
its grand opening Monday, is on
University Drive across from the
Hilton Hotel.
The mayors participated in a
horn-sawing competition which re
placed the traditional ribbon-cutting
ceremony, general manager Michael
Wuich said.
After the contest, the mayors
shook hands and wished the restau
rant success.
A coat-and-tie-clad crowd of
about 80 attended the ceremony and
sampled the restaurant’s fare.
“I’m surprised at how big it is,”
one guest remarked about the res
taurant’s size.
College Station’s Golden Corral is
one in a chain of more than 500
across the United States and seats
about 450.
He said the restauranteurs de
viated from the green and red color
scheme of the chain’s other restau
rants and opted to decorate in ma
roon to honor Texas A&M.
“We wanted to show support for
Aggieland because it will support
us,” he said.
The Golden Corral was in plan
ning for three years, Wuich said, be
fore builders began construction
more than three months ago.
“In any case, we’re happy to fi
nally be here,” he said.
Spanish-language newscast
must educate about services
DALLAS (AP) — It was meant to
be a routine report: Go out and talk
to Spanish-speaking people about
the 911 telephone emergency sys
tem.
Instead, the simple assignment
was yet another eye-opening experi
ence for Teresa Quevedo, who also
doubles as co-anchor for the station’s
evening newscast. “They hadn’t
heard of it. The ones who knew
about it didn’t use it. A woman said
she didn’t call because she thought
no one would understand her.
“We knew we would get some re
sponses like that,” she continues.
“But our reporter found it was most
of the people we talked to. It was in
credible.”
The news deeply disturbed Que
vedo. It had been only weeks since
she was named news director of the
area’s only Spanish-language news
cast. But eight years ago, she — like
many of the people who watch her
station — was a new immigrant in
the United States.
It’s an injustice, she says, that peo
ple don’t know about basic services
most of us take for granted.
“Our station has a responsibility
that’s much greater than the English
channels’,” Quevedo says. “We have
to start at the bottom. The 911 story
is just one example. It makes me sad
and angry to see ignorance among
people. We have to educate people
about the services that are available.
Not that we’ll fix all the problems,
but it’s a small point.”
It’s not difficult to determine why
Quevedo takes her job seriously.
About 500,000 Hispanics live in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area. And there
are estimates that up to half of these
Hispanics arrived in the United
States in the last decade.
“Channel 23,” she says, “is the
first station with Spanish news. A lot
of people don’t talk English and
don’t watch English TV.”
Quevedo came to KUVN last Sep
tember as a reporter. When she was
promoted in July, she became the
only female news director among
Dallas-Fort Worth TV stations.
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