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old proverb says dog is man’s
friend, and in Shelby’s case, a
eyes as well.
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;ver who is being trained as a
dog for the blind,
ieiby lives with Marci Streck, a
omore computer science
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lowed that I’ s and meal across campus,
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mppy to live on campus,
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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.
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