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Student Counseling Services report shows signifigant growth in tmC ^
of students requesting disability status due to mental disorden,*" 1
BY AMANDA SMITH
The Battalion
The word disability is not confined to de
scribing impairments of the body, Roganne
Thueson, an accommodations counselor of Ser
vices for Students with Disabilities (SSD), said.
Under the jurisdiction of the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990, Texas A&M must rec
ognize a disability as “any mental or physical
impairment that substantially limits one or
more of the major life activities,” including
physical disabilities, learning disabilities and
psychological disabilities.
In Fall 1998, Texas A&M Services for Stu
dents with Disabilities served 486 students,
with the most significant growth in the number
of students reporting a psychological disability,
according to a report from the department.
Thueson said more students are recognizing
psychological problems as a disability because
of increased education on the causes and the
ramifications of psychological problems.
“More and more people are beginning to re
alize that psychological disorders affect major
life activity, particularly in regard to learning,”
Thueson said. “There is a need to help stu
dents, and more and more people need to learn
this.”
Betty Milburn, an associate director of Stu
dent Counseling Services (SCS) said students
must realize that counseling is available for stu
dents who are struggling academically and for
students struggling with relationships, depres
sion and other personal problems.
“If students will take advantage of services,
then it might take care of some of the prob
lems,” Milburn said.
Milburn said most students who seek help
from Student Counseling Services (SCS) do so
because of grade problems or the fear of future
grade problems.
“Most of our students are on probation or
are in danger of being placed on probation,”
Milburn said. “Some manage to fund their way
here themselves, just looking to fine tune the
study skills they have. Sometimes, students are
just not in a good match with their majors and
their academic abilities."
Milburn said after mid-term and end-of-the-
semester grades are posted, more student;
academic counseling.
“We train students to help;
seek
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are beginning to realize
that psychological
disorders affect major life
activity, particularly in
regard to learning”
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Student Counseling Services
Within SCS, four counselors devote 25 hours
each per week to counseling students in acad
emic and career areas.
In addition to the four academic and career
counselors, SCS trains students who have been
academically successful to participate in the
Academic Career Educator (ACE) program.
ACEs receive training to counsel students in the
areas of time management, study skills, stress
relief tactics, choosing a major and choosing a
career.
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ments.
Thueson said the departmeii:
percent of the population,averag
dents each semester.
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with disabilities who do not seek
office.” Thueson said. “Inanygh
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Court clears way for attempted
assassins 5 trips to mental hospi-
WASHINGTON (AP) — John W. Hinckley Jr.,
the man who tried to kill Ronald Reagan, may be
gin to take supervised day trips from the mental
hospital where he has been confined since 1982.
A federal appeals court refused on Thesday to re
consider an earlier decision allowing the trips.
Over opposition from federal prosecutors,
Hinckley won court permission in January for su
pervised trips away from St. Elizabeths Hospital.
But the prosecutor, who said Hinckley remains
disturbed and unpredictable, blocked him from
taking the outings by appealing the three-judge
panel’s decision to the full U.S. Court of Appeals
in Washington.
The decision did not rule directly on the mer
its of Hinckley’s request to leave the hospital but
had the effect of allowing such trips. Hospital of
ficials and Hinckley’s doctors have said that as
part of his treatment he should be allowed visits
off hospital grounds, supervised by hospital staff.
Channing Phillips, a spokesperson for the U.S.
attorney, said he was unsure whether Tuesday’s
decision would be appealed. He said that in a
week, when the appeal court’s decision takes ef
fect, the hospital will have discretion to decide
when and where Hinckley can take supervised
day trips.
Officials at St. Elizabeths were not immediate
ly available for comment.
Hinckley’s lawyer, Barry Levine, said he would
work with hospital officials to arrange a super
vised day trip for Hinckley. Levine said Hinckley
probably would visit with his family and his girl
friend for dinner at a private home in the Wash
ington area. Levine said he expects that trip
would be “a precursor to enlarged liberties.”
‘‘Of course the Secret Service will know wher
ever he’s going, and the public is not at any risk
at all,” Levine said. ‘‘Mental health professionals
who know him are of the view that John Hinck
ley is not a danger to anyone.”
Hinckley’s lawyer, Barry Levine, and officials
at St. Elizabeths were not immediately available
to discuss the case.
Hinckley, 43, has been confined to St. Eliza
beths since 1982, when he was acquitted by rea
son of insanity in the 1981 handgun attack on
Reagan outside a Washington hotel.
Reagan, his press secretary James Brady and
two law enforcement officers were wounded in a
shooting that Hinckley later said was an attempt
to impress actress Jodie Foster.
U.S. Attorney Wilma A. Lewis said Tuesday
she was disappointed with the ruling, which ap
plies not just to Hinckley but to all Washington
defendants acquitted by reason of insanity.
‘‘Despite our disappointment, the public
should understand that today’s court decision
does not allow Mr. Hinckley or any other insani
ty acquittee to come and go when they please,”
she said. “The only time they would leave is
when the hospital issues a pass allowing them to
leave the hospital grounds under hospital super
vision.”
Lewis said if the hospital ever decides that
Hinckley or any other person acquitted for in
sanity is ready for unsupervised visits, the U.S.
attorney and the court would be involved in the
decision.
A federal judge originally turned down Hinck
ley’s request for a Christmastime visit with his
parents and girlfriend in 1997. Hinckley appealed
to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Co
lumbia, whose three-judge panel cleared the way.
Last month, prosecutors asked the full, 11-
judge appeals court to reconsider the case. But the
appeals court on Tuesday let stand the first pan
el’s 2-1 decision.
Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson dis
agreed with the majority decision and said in Tues
day’s ruling that the panel’s decision allowing the
conditional release under supervision of inmates
acquitted because of insanity is dangerous.
“It leaves to hospital administrators, rather
than to judges as the Congress intended, final say
in whether to release among the public members
of what this court has justifiably called an ’ex
ceptionally dangerous class,”’ she wrote in her
dissent.
The appeals panel in January did not rule di
rectly on merits of Hinckley’s request to leave the
St. Elizabeths campus. Instead, the two judges
agreed with Hinckley’s argument that decisions
about such visits should be made by doctors, not
courts. Henderson, the dissenting third judge,
said the courts should be involved.
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