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of students in need of the HelpLine.
“I know that our numbers
were up last year, we handled
about 900 calls,” she said.
“Several people on their appli
cation said that they had thought
off and on about going through
the training to be a HelpLine
worker, that situations last year,
made them realize that [students
are in need of help].”
Hope said the volunteers who
work with the SCS HelpLine en
joy helping students who call and
usually continue to work at the
SCS past their required two se
mester commitment.
“The thing I’m most pleased
with is the service [and] the way
the student body has reacted to
the service,” she said.
The HelpLine is not available
during University holidays, such
as the Christmas holiday and
Overassignments
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use of bathrooms.
“Because we have suite style rooms, there
aren’t community bathrooms," Woodard said.
“So, we offer bathrooms to them, and our rooms
for a different place to hang out.”
Thomas said the number of on-campus resi
dents, excluding those in Cain Hall and the Corps
halls, is down this year by 2 percent.
“Last year was one of our heaviest years,” he
said. “But this year’s number of overassignments
is fairly close to average.”
BRADLY ATCHISON/Thh: Battalion
Student volunteers for the Student Counseling Service HelpLine and
the Emergency Medical Sercvice handle the psychological and medical
emergencies for Texas A&M.
Spring Break, but a counselor can
be obtained through calling Dial-
A-Nurse line.
The Student Counseling Ser
vice’s HelpLine is available at 4
p.m. and takes calls until the SCS
opens in the morning.
The SCS and the EMS will have
booths at the upcoming MSC
Open House.
Ty to retire Beanies at beginning of millennium
CHICAGO (AP) — The new
millennium may be free of new
Beanie Babies.
The maker of the beanbag
creatures announced on the
company’s Internet site that its
existing plush-covered, pellet-
stuffed animals will be retired on
New Year’s Day.
Oak Brook-based Ty Inc. post
ed the announcement Thesday
afternoon after a listing of new
Beanie Babies it will release next
month.
The message said: “VERY IM
PORTANT NOTICE: On Decem
ber 31, 1999-11:59 p.m. (CST) All
Beanies will be retired... includ
ing the above!”
The news caused a frenzy on
Internet chat rooms and collec
tors’ Websites, but company own
er Ty Warner and top executives
remained mum on the subject.
Employees reached at Ty said
they had only recently been in
formed about the Internet message
and were not able to elaborate.
“We were barely informed
like a half-hour ago,” a customer
service representative, who
would only identify herself as
Laura, told The New York Times
in yesterday’s editions.
Anne Nickels, a Ty spokesper
son, had little to say when
reached yesterday at the compa
ny’s Illinois headquarters. She
said the “newsflash” was posted
Tuesday afternoon and removed
today.
“I think they just wanted to
get it up there and that was that,”
she said.
Nickels declined to say why
the company made the decision
or whether the company would
be making any new Beanie Ba
bies after the first of the year.
“The newsflash is what it was.
We have nothing further to add
to it,” she said.
Ty began selling the toys in
1993. The company has distrib
uted more than 100 characters,
from dinosaurs and teddy bears
to birds and zoo animals.
Discontinued models — “re
tired” in Beanie parlance — are
the hottest sellers for collectors.
Toy industry experts attempt
ed to interpret the announce
ment, saying it was unlikely that
the company would stop pro
ducing the profitable toys com
pletely.
Moore
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of Hispanics, Native-Americans and Asian Amencam
[attending A&M] by utilizing the department's pro
grams and services,” Moore said.
Other duties Moore will be responsible for include
advising students, serving as adviser for the ExCEl
Student Success Program and being a member of the
department leadership team.
“I also serve as secondary adviser for the Prime
Time Posse, a group who performs themed skits to or
ganizations around campus,” he said.
Moore said the skits vary from serious to funny and
can cover things such as encounters of new students
and social concerns such as date rape or health issues.
Moore comes to the position with experience
in both education and science and will be work
ing on his Ph.D in Educational Human Resource
Development while serving as Coordinator of Stu
dent Retentions.
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