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Center encourages 'natural high'
Organization offers drug prevention, education presentations
By Sharon Gilmore
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Center for
Drug Prevention and Education
provides students with service
programs for drug prevention and
education and encourages them to
"celebrate life through natural
highs."
Dr. Dennis Reardon, coordina
tor for the center, said counselors
use communication as their main
tool.
"Students are welcome here,
we are happy to talk to them, eval
uate their situation, educate them
or assure them that they don't
have a problem," Reardon said.
"Some people come in scared and
we can set their minds at ease."
The center provides directional
and service programs for preven
tion by going out to student orga
nizations and also through out
reach efforts, he said.
"Faculty, staff or other students
who notice inconsistent behavior
among friends can contact the
center for advice in talking with
them," Reardon said.
As a licensed chemical depen
dency counselor, Reardon diag
noses students who come in for
evaluations, and he also does fol
low-up work with them. Reardon
also speaks to classes about pre
venting drug use.
"I am more than willing to talk
about drugs and alcohol as a topic
of interest or as part of a lecture,"
he said.
Reardon, a member of the
Board of Directors of the Council
on Alcohol and Substance abuse,
also teaches a class in risk man
agement for students in responsi
bility positions.
The center, part of the Depart
ment of Student Affairs, was es
tablished in January 1988 with the
passage of the federal Drug-Free
Schools and Campuses Act, which
states that universities accepting
financial aid must have a drug
and alcohol prevention program.
The center is funded through stu
dent services fees.
The center also offers interven
tion and referral, research and
evaluation, training and consulta
tion and materials from their re
source library. Interventions and
evaluations conducted by the cen
ter provide assessments of stu
dents' problems with drugs or al
cohol.
The center sponsors annual
events like the National Collegiate
Alcohol Awareness Week in the
"Some people come in
scared and we can set
their minds at ease."
Dr. Dennis Reardon, coordinator
for the A&M Center for Drug
Prevention
fall, the National Collegiate Drug
Awareness Week in February, the
TAMU Health and Wellness Fair
in the spring and Safe Break be
fore spring break.
Students committing alcohol
violations are referred to the cen
ter, which offers two programs on
alcohol education.
Alcohol 101 is for students with
minor infractions. The Alcohol
Education Workshop is more seri
ous. This workshop is for people
who have been identified as hav
ing a problem and are worked
with more intensely.
Graduate students present
many of the drug and alcohol pre
vention programs to residence
halls, student organizations,
sororities and fraternities. Many
student service organizations ad
vised by the center's staff work
with drug and alcohol prevention
on campus and in the community.
The Designated Driver Pro
gram operates in the Bryan-Col-
lege Station area and encourages
groups to use designated drivers
so members will get home safely,
Reardon said. Aggies Advocating
Designated Drivers also works to
see that students have rides when
they have been drinking.
^We are basically the hub of
that program," he said.
Another organization. Lights,
Camera, Action, consists of a
group of students who perform
skits dealing with drug and alco
hol situations and perform them
on campus and at area schools.
Some groups help others deal
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Program puts forth
student perspective
to 'potential Aggies'
By Matari Jones
The Battalion
A new program designed to
showcase the best the Texas
A&M Honors Program has to
offer will also assist high-
achieving high school seniors
by presenting information
about classes, scholarships,
leadership roles and extracur
ricular activities.
The Honors Invitational Peer
Leadership Program — known
as HIP — offers potential Ag
gies a student perspective
which is more accurate and
more direct, executive commit
tee member Daniel Olson said.
"This is the first year that
HIP has been implemented on a
a full scale and at this intensi
ty," he said.
Olson said he expects over
1,000 high school seniors-to-be
to visit Texas A&M and partici
pate in one of the five two-day
long Summer Honors Invita.
tionals held in June and July.
"HIP is an extension of (lit
Summers Honors Invitational
program whose duties were
originally held by orientation
leaders," said Dylan Stafford,a
staff assistant and advisor to
the committee.
Skits about college life, pre
sentations on housing, tours of
the campus and a mixer will i
highlight this summer retreat
The students will be housed in
Lechner Hall.
There also will be a question
and answer session that
provide an opportunity for
more interaction with thehigli
school students, Olson said.
Applications for leadership
positions still are availablein
Room 103 of the Academi;
Building.
Military Weekend includes sessions on sexual harassmeu
By Gina Howard
The Battalion
Cadets from military institutions
aropnd the country will discuss sexual
harassment and cadet discipline systems
in the military at a four-day conference at
Texas A&M.
A&M's ninth annual Military Weekend
involves over 50 cadets — one-third of
them women.
The event, which runs today through
Saturday, was planned by cadets from
A&M.
In the past, the weekend has attracted
representatives from all over the country.
This is the first year that all service
academies and all institutions with seven-
day uniformed cadet programs will at
tend the conference, said senior cadet
Scott Phelan, chairman of the Military
Weekend Committee.
"Cadets who were seen as the sharper
ones were chosen, especially those with a
special interest in the subjects. I think
most schools picked their delegates the
same way."
"There is a pretty even male-female ra
tio, plus some plain cadets," he said.
Lt. Col. Michael McDannel of the U. S.
Military Academy will moderate the
weekend's round-table discussions.
Sessions on sexual harassment and dis
crimination start at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 27.
Discussions on cadet discipline start at
9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28. Smaller
discussion groups will also be held
throughout Thursday and Friday.
Other activities for the weekend in
clude a welcoming reception, campus
tours, demonstrations by various special
ty units from A&M's Corps of Cadets,
and several social events like the "Combat
Bash" and the Military Banquet and Ball.
A military review will be held Satur
day afternoon on Simpson Drill Field, if
weather permits.
In the case of rain, the review will take
place on Kyle Field.
Colleges and universities expectei
participate in the Military Weekend;:
elude Texas A&M, the U. S. Milit
Academy, U. S. Naval Academy, l 1
Air Force Academy, U. S. Merchant 11;
rine Academy, U. S. Coast Guard Acai
my, Virginia Military Institute,
Citadel, New Mexico Military Instite
North Georgia College, Virginia Polytec
nic Institute, Norwich University, Aul
University, University of Notre Dame
the University of Puerto Rico.
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