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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
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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
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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.
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said.
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Foundation, doing odd jobs in the B r yaiw n ’ ( ' < . , | a ||
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the Foundation. Volunteers can workiiB <1 ! ( i
give presentations or work for them® n
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can also become puppy walkers, he said |o r / .
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