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Page 11 Thursday • September 5, 1996 HELP YOURSELF & MOM AND DAD Page mber 5,195 ner lemselves« do. And hig aeople can dty rather tl Campus logg Corp.,1 it of Agriculi . 1965 and 1! rom zero to food. A he! our or less. :s scored be ind 5 percec of poorbla ly whites. , have been 'Everybody nted in thee rat people ere the new ent whitest from four to tudent eeing guides dog by Laura Oliveira The Battal ion old proverb says dog is man’s friend, and in Shelby’s case, a eyes as well. id 20 perceri ie iby [ s a 4-month-old golden ;ver who is being trained as a dog for the blind, ieiby lives with Marci Streck, a omore computer science r. She accompanies Streck to lowed that I’ s and meal across campus, n poorblacb fog lives with Streck in Wells )n campus. jt Shelby is not the first guide- mppy to live on campus, idence Hall Association dent Jesse Czelusta first to five. estaurant contact Bob at 822-52 ).m. Club: Prac 4-6 p.m. at reryone is experience Id Hendreks rmation attalion serti fit student and activit submitted Jays in adv d run sadlines events and lat’s Up, If >ns, please 845-3313. actually fa! fo a guide-dog puppy named ler on campus last year. He billing to cut through the red for other eager participants, reck said Czelusta’s success the program made it easier to ' Shelby to campus, or dinner go be University had such a pos- response with Rudder usta’s dog),” she said. “They no problem deciding to bve another dog.” s Associatk (er i earn i n g about the on- Marys Cnu )US p r0 g rarn from Czelusta, :k called the Southwest Dog Foundation in San mo. From there, she was put on a waiting list and her application and interviewing process began. Her desire to train a dog, though, came early on. “1 was interested in doing it before,” Streck said. “And when I found out you could do it on cam pus, I was really excited.” Dogs are donated and must be golden retrievers, Labrador retriev ers or German shepherds. A strong physical condition and a calm tem perament are required. Shelby will be with Streck for a year and a half, during which she will learn obedience and ways to act in social situations. Shelby will then attend another six-month training session. A third session will follow, where the dogs will be tested with the blind in different situa tions. If all goes well, Shelby will be given to a compatible user to serve as a seeing eye dog. At a special graduation ceremo ny for the dog, Streck will present Shelby to her new owner. Streck said she has mixed emotions about giving Shelby away. “It’s good because she’ll be able to help someone, and to know I actually trained her will be reward ing," she said. “But it’s bad because I won’t see her anymore.” Rachel Redington, The Battalion Shelby, the guide puppy, and Marci Streck, a sophomore comput er science major, will spend the next year and a half together for training. Shelby lives in Wells Hall with Streck. &M prof uses unusual teaching methods Kratchman is showing his educational novel he 3nt of a picture of himself dressed as Elvis. Dave House, The Battalion co-wrote. Kratchman is standing By Melanie D. Smith The Battalion Accounting may be a mystery to non-business majors struggling through Accounting 209, but even future CPAs are sure to find Dr. Stanley Kratchman’s supplemental textbook a little puzzling. Educational accounting information is subtly laced throughout the action-packed mystery novel Deadly Art Puzzle: Accounting for Murder. The plot demonstrates a variety of scenarios that a profes sional accountant may encounter. Kratchman co-wrote the novel with Louisiana State University’s Dr. Larry Crumbley. The book is Crumbley’s sixth instructional mys tery. He said his original idea was to publish a novel for the general public, but it evolved into a teaching tool by accident. “I had heard that everybody has a book in them,” Crumbley said. “I knew about taxation, so I wrote about a special agent of the Internal Revenue Service. It’s very difficult to get published for the general public, so I decided to turn it into an instructional novel.” Crumbley chooses a co-author for each of his educa tional novels to provide detailed information for the tar geted subject area. Kratchman’s love of murder mysteries and expertise in advanced accounting made him a perfect co-author, Crumbley said. Crumbley said Kratchman’s unconventional teaching style, including teaching class dressed as Elvis, makes the professors compatible as innova tive educators. Kratchman said he hopes the book will help students improve their communication skills. “It is impossible to be successful in the business world without good communication skills,” Kratchman said. “The back of the book offers both multiple choice and discussion questions. I am assigning the discussion questions and group work from the book.” The main character in the book is a part-time profes sor and accountant named Larry Cramer. Crumbley uses forensic accounting in his novels, an uncommon type of accounting used to dig into infor mation and expose crimes like fraud. In the novels, Cramer lectures, works on exams, deals with records, consults, testifies as an expert witness in the courtroom, and testifies before Congress about accounting issues. The variety is meant to demonstrate accounting’s many uses. This technique also helps bring educational aspects into the novel. Kratchman said writing the novel was exciting. “This is the most enjoyable thing I’ve ever done,” Kratchman said. “I have been teaching for 25 years, and I hope I can make an educational contribution and have this much fun.” Crumbley’s instructional novels have been adopted by more than 100 universities. us your Classified Ad 845-2678 nclude Visa, MasterCard, scover or American Express umber and Expiration Date for FAX orders The Battalion 015 Reed McDonald Bldg. !a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday Call 845-0569 for more info r MSC Informational Night ★ September 9, 1996 ★ 7:00 p.m. ★224 MSC ★ Learn about over 25 MSC Committees UC Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our abilities. 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