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MBA/Law Committee
to sponsor symposium
By BRANDI JORDAN
Reporter of THE BATTALION
The Memorial Student Center's
MBA/Law Committee will spon
sor a day-long symposium for
Texas A&M University students
and former students who are in
terested in law and business.
The symposium will be held in
the Memorial Student Center and
Rudder Tower on Saturday, Sept.
26.
Tickets to the symposium may
be purchased for $10 in the
Zachry Engineering Center,
Blocker and the Memorial Student
Center through Wednesday, Sept.
23. The ticket price includes
lunch.
When students purchase their
tickets, they will be preregistered
for the symposium and may pick
up their symposium schedule at 8
a.m. in MSC 292 Saturday, Sept.
26. The symposium will be held
from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Students wishing to pick up
the symposium schedule prior to
Saturday may pick them up at the
MBA/Law Committee tables in
Blocker, the MSC and the Student
Programs Office.
The symposium will feature
discussions, presentations and in
teraction between current Texas
A&M students, former students
and other leaders in business and
law.
Planned discussion topics in
clude: co-op opportunities, inter
national business and law,
preparing for graduate school, mi
norities in business and law, spe
cial options for students with
technical backgrounds and study
abroad opportunities.
The symposium will feature
two keynote speakers: William A.
McKenzie, a Dallas attorney, cur
rent member and former chair of
The Texas A&M University Sys
tem Board of Regents; and Ed
mund Solymosy, former senior
U.S. Defense Department repre
sentative in Greece and current
president of Global Project Man
agement in Houston. Each will
speak on experiences and oppor
tunities in their fields.
Texas schools address corporal punishment
Districts consider ban on paddling
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT WORTH — More Texas school districts are
considering dropping the longtime disciplinary practice
of paddling, which some parents and educators say
leaves emotional as well as physical bruises.
For years paddling has been the accepted way Texas
schools kept order: Kids misbehaved, they got "licks."
In fact, the U.S. Education Department's Office of
Civil Rights said of the more than 1 million students
paddled at school nationwide last year, 260,386 were in
Texas.
"Schools are supposed to motivate kids and build up
their self-esteem, and paddling does the opposite of
that," said Jimmy Dunne, president of People Opposed
to Paddling Students, or POPS. The Houston-area
group is working for a ban on corporal punishment.
"It leaves them depressed and humiliated, and that's
not something schools ought to be doing," Dunne said.
The Texas Association of School Administrators
leaves the question of corporal punishment up to indi
vidual school districts. Spokesman Jack Campbell said.
According to the state penal cod<<: "The use of force,
but not deadly force, against a student is justified . /. to
the degree the teacher or administrator reasonably be
lieves the force is necessary to further the purpose of
education or to maintain discipline in a group."
Parents and community groups helped persuade the
Austin school board in May to ban school paddlings.
Mansfield in Tarrant County also has banned the prac
tice.
"As educators, we're being taught to provide a qual
ity school, where kids are motivated to learn in an envi
ronment of caring," said District Spokesman Jeff
Prescott. "You can't motivate children in an atmosphere
of fear and violence."
Paddling has been outlawed in 23 states and Wash
ington, D.C. State Rep. Mike Myers wants Texas to join
that list. Seth Winick, an aide for the Galveston Democ
rat, said Myers has agreed to sponsor a bill in the next
session that would outlaw or at least restrict corporal
punishment.
"We just feel like there's got to be a better way than
the way things are being done now," Winick said.
Arlington lawyer Paul Kendall said Texas' law
leaves too much discretion to campus administrators.
"There are no legal limits on the size of the instru
ment which can be used to beat a student; there is no
practical limit on the amount of force that can be used;
and there is no limit on the number of times a student
can be hit," Kendall said.
"Convicted felons have more protections from the
use of force by prison guards than young children have
with respect to schools," he added.
Dunne said POPS has documented cases in which
children were spanked for kicking a ball without a gym
teacher's permission, or underlining — instead of cir
cling — arjswers on a paper.
But one child-discipline researcher thinks corporal
punishment has its place.
"Certainly it gets misused, both in school and at
home," said Robert E. Larzelere of Boys Town in Ne
braska. "My differences with the anti-corporal punish
ment people is that they say do away with it altogether,
while I say, let's discriminate between different kinds."
LaMarque in Galveston County has decided against
an all-out ban on paddling after a survey showed 61
percent of the district's parents approve of the practice.
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