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B H' Chri: up tc Sund Oiler Bi dre I gam€ Page 2 • THE BATTALION Wi ■- Wednesday • September.jp[ CS( lay * ^J^HE y^ATTALION A&M student serves as puppy walker to help visually impair! By Amy Lee The Battalion When Jesse Czelusta got his first puppy as a child, it wasn’t for the holidays and his parents didn’t even want a puppy. It all began with a wish to have a dog; and for a good reason. Czelusta is a member of the Southwest Guide Dog Foundation in San Antonio, an organization that raises and trains puppies to help the visual ly impaired. When Czelusta was 12 years old, he found out about the Foundation in his 4-H club’s newslet ter. He went to his dad with the idea. “I said, ‘Hey, it’s community service,”’ Czelus ta said. “My dad said ‘OK and maybe it will help you get into Texas A&M.’” Czelusta, a sophomore pre-veterinary student, was the Foundation’s first puppy walker. A puppy walker gets a puppy when it is around 12 weeks old. The person then raises the dog until the puppy is about one and a half years old. A puppy walker is responsible for the dog’s food and grooming. Another responsibility that comes with the job is socializing the animal. The puppy walker puts the dog through real life situations that blind people face such as reasons why people raise puppies.” Czelusta went to Oregon recently to see Bubba, the last puppy he raised, graduate from the North western Guiding Eyes school. “The Southwest Guide Foundation didn’t have a trainer,” Czelusta said. istics are noticed so that the school car. match with a visually impaired person. The school gives the dogs to active The den [ivershy P c 8 Sep restaurants, the gro cery store, the mall, and out in public. “It was a great expe rience for me,” Czelusta said. “Not many people get to take their pet to Dillard’s and shop with their dog.” Debra Baker, vice "And the Northwestern Guiding Eyes didn’t have any puppies, so Bubba went to school there.” Until the Southwest Guide Dog Foundation has a trainer, the}. Sophomorepre-vetennary major give their dogs to other schools. At the schools, "I said, 'Hey, it's community service/ My Dad said 'OK and maybe it will help you get into Texas A&M." —Jesse Czelusta, president and co-founder of the Foundation, said she thinks Czelusta was a good choice for the Foundation’s first puppy walker. “A lot of times we have people who would like to have a dog around, but not for the next ten years,” Baker said. “It is also a real hands-on type of community service. Those are the two the dogs are trained formally for six months. There the dogs learn to watch for overhead ob structions and traffic, to help their visually im paired owners. Baker said that after the dogs are socialized with the puppy walker, they then receive formal training. During the training, the dogs’ character- Breast Cancer Continued from Page 1 “It’s really not that big of a deal,” Jessup said. “First of all, only five to ten percent of women with breast cancer have a family history. Also, if you find out you carry the gene, what are you going to do about it? You can’t change anything.” Jessup said she is pleased that the gene isolation may lead to clues about prevention, however. “It may eventually help with gene manipulation in order to prevent the development of breast cancer,” she said. “I’m glad it’s going that direc tion, but it’s only one brick.” Transfers Continued from Page 1 on their reasons for being in college. “Coming here is not a guess,” he said. “Students have an advanced notice of how difficult college can be.” Southerland said the Uni versity benefits greatly from the broader perspective that transfer students bring. Transfers experience the services and different environ ments of other universities and can share their likes and dis likes with A&M and its stu dent leaders, he said. Over the last two years, it has become increasingly diffi cult to transfer to A&M. Due to enrollment management and fixed resources, the Uni versity can only accept a cer tain percentage of qualified transfer students. “How conducive to learning is sitting on the floor?” Good man said. The hard work and added difficulty to get to A&M makes transfer students more com mitted, she said. Laura Terry, a transfer stu dent and biomedical science major, said A&M provided a high respect for traditions and the best standard of curricu lum for her major. “I wanted a home, not just a place to go to school,” Terry said. A&M offers opportunities for transfer students to get introduced and involved in the University. In 1987, a group of stu dents decided to organize a way to recognize transfer students. This became the first T-Camp and to program continues to flourish. “T-Camp is very important in giving you background infor mation to start at A&M, and you make several good friends,” Terry said. pie, like students and business , ... said. Czelusta said he is now a volunteerk. v or y| Foundation, doing odd jobs in the B r yaiw n ’ ( ' < . , | a || Station area. H 1 / T w - He said there are many roles for stiicB/' ( V , • J the Foundation. Volunteers can workiiB <1 ! ( i give presentations or work for them® n Off campus students and community can also become puppy walkers, he said |o r / . Baker said the Southwest Guide Dogiir' kl nl ’ ' ; tion is always looking for puppy walkers, st? Y eK> s , (, i ' Foundation is trying to expand in the Bn® 1 1)11 ^ ( ( ' lege Station area. They expect to havealr, ‘ ", ! in January. , iaM t , ia . “We’re real happy with the support ft® lc ’ wl /| ) , u Bryan-College Station area,” Baker sa::B re f ) , t ’ < / have had excellent dogs from that area. , e '"/Vr SI? 1 a lot of community support there, and t ®^ ( | a[K | ta { ■nty Jail. 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