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Board seeks to encourage
diversity across campus
By Brandye Brown
Staff writer
al and artisticie -ampus issues, is comprised of 18 student leaders from
Jse Your Ilhml different A&M organizations.
Curtis Childers, student body president and a senior
isis is only wort agricultural development major, said SLAB, formerly the
ht becauseofti Student Body Executive Council, is concerned about
ampus diversity and cross-organization involvement.
“The best outcome for this year would be that all the
members of our own organizations would have in-
reased awareness of other groups and realize the co-
aperation that is involved as we all sit on a unified
aoard together,” Childers said.
Martin Hodges, Student Government director of mi-
aority affairs and a senior journalism major, said the
diversity of A&M helps create more traditions and a
aroader Aggie spirit. He encouraged SLAB members to
continue to address diversity issues on campus.
“SLAB has the opportunity to set a precedent for
universities across the nation,” Hodges said. “We are
more unified as student leaders. By promoting the di-
tion to rock'm verse interests of the entire student body, we show the
uation that Texas A&M is a world-class university.”
Childers said that in the wake of the Hopwood deci
sion, the issue of diversity requires more than discussion.
“We need to work with Aggie recruitment services
blet future students know this is a state school open
il, rap, altematM to everyone,” he said. “We might not have large offers
lind-numbingpi of money, but we can offer Aggie spirit and hospitality.
This is a big step for A&M’s unity and a tremendous op-
band thatsgfr portunity for the student body.”
Childers said he plans to use SLAB to increase his
exposure to student body opinions.
“First, it will make me more effective at decision
naking,” Childers said. “I will share the information
iiscussed at SLAB meetings with the Senate and the
■ Executive Council. Secondly, we plan to be a proactive
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body. If there is an important issue we feel should be
addressed by the University, we will take it to the ad
ministration or whomever it concerns. Because SLAB
is such a representative group, it will be very influen
tial when we present our opinion.”
Laurie Nickel, SLAB chair and a senior business analy
sis major, said SLAB is backed by enthusiastic and vision
ary student leaders despite being a new organization.
“It is wonderful to see the cooperation between the
student leaders, who have been wanting unity so bad
ly,” she said. “We listen to the challenges of each orga
nization, and we are working together to address these
issues. The student leaders in SLAB are motivated
enough to find out how we can best be utilized to ben
efit Texas A&M students.”
Childers said that SLAB has an important role in
passing on information from the student body to Stu
dent Government.
“The more face-to-face interaction, the better suc
cess we will have in communication,” he said. “We
want student input on all University decisions. Student
Government wants to know what students want. Our
goal is to advocate student opinion, to make sure it is
heard and to hear what Student Government can do for
the students of Texas A&M.”
Alice Gonzalez, speaker of the Student Senate and a
junior agricultural development major, said SLAB helps
her gain insight on the opinions of other student groups.
“It’s easy to get caught up with a small group and not
realize that there are so many other small groups out
there,” she said. “With everyone pulling together to af
fect our campus, it makes for better organizations and
better relationships with other organizations.”
Nickel said the entire quorum of SLAB is available
to the student body president to look to for advice
and support.
“I am amazed and excited about the way we work
together, forgetting our own factions,” Nickel said. “It
is inspiring to see the direction that A&M is going,
which in my opinion is the only way left to go to im
prove the University. Unity of the student body is the
key link that has been missing.”
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David said 31 education stu
dents are taking classes at Crockett
or Rock Prairie this semester; 200
education students are taking the
classes at A&M.
Charity Greer, a senior elemen-
ary interdisciplinary studies major,
as part of the program last spring,
he said the program has helped
er as a student teacher at Crockett.
“It (PDS) has been very crucial to
ny effectiveness as a student teacher,”
he said. “I feel more confident going
into the classroom, and I feel more at
jasewith the leadership role.”
David said other universities of
fer programs in which students go
:o elementary schools two or three
days a week; A&M students are at
the schools five days a week.
“I think we have one of the best
programs because it is so inten
sive,” he said. “I know of no other
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these students to spend as much
time in public schools (elementary
schools) as A&M does.”
David said the program needs to
be approved by some A&M organi
zations and state agencies before ed
ucation students will be required
take education courses at local ele
mentary schools. He said he hopes
PDS will be a part of the elementary
education curriculum by Fall 1999.
Greer said elementary education
students should be required to par
ticipate in the program because it
raises standards for teachers.
“I think this will help teachers in
the long run acquire more respect
because they go through more
training,” Greer said.
Cindy Gordon, a first-grade
teacher at Crockett Elementary and
A&M Class of ’79, said PDS is a good
program because it gives students
more experience in the classroom
before they student teach. She said
she can tell the difference between
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student teachers who participated
in the PDS program and students
who did not.
“Most beginning teachers get
only 14 weeks of experience in the
classroom,” Gordon said. “PDS stu
dents are in the classroom for 14
weeks and then student teach for 14
weeks. These beginning teachers
will have been in a classroom for
over a year (before they teach in
their own classroom).”
Gordon said these teachers are
more confident in the classroom
and know how to discipline stu
dents. She also said PDS students
know what methods of teaching
and discipline work in real life, not
just in textbooks.
She said PDS students help by
giving teachers more one-on-one
time with students.
“I can’t imagine being without the
PDS students,” Gordon said. “I wish
every school would participate in
this program, but I wouldn’t give my
PDS students up to another school.”
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