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and encouraged young journal
ists to start freelance reporting
as undergraduates.
“You don’t have to wait until
u have a degree to be pub-
shed by a paper. What news
papers want is clear writing and a
good story, regardless of the age
of the writer or if he or she is still
in college,” South said.
The Dean of Student Life and
the Master of Ceremonies for the
event, Dave Parrot, concluded
the conference.
“One of the goals of the News
Makers and News Breakers con
ference was to increase greater
understanding between student
journalists and student leaders. 1
lelieve we’ve succeeded in that
goal,” Parrot said.
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had the opportunity to sit down
with him, and he’s a man of in
tegrity. He’s going to be great
to work with,” he said.
A resolution welcom
ing Bresciani to the Univer
sity was passed unanimously
without debate.
The Senate also passed the
Constituency Report Removal
Bill, which was intended to sim
plify the Senate by-laws and im
prove constituency relations.
The Senate passed the Open
Forum Bill with one dissent
ing vote. The bill intends to
extend the practice of allot
ting time at the beginning of
meetings for constituents to
speak to the 57th session.
Renfrow said the bill repre
sented the Senate’s commitment
to be a voice for students.
“The bill allows students to
directly engage their student
representation,” he said.
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military voting record,” Glueck
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reappropriations bill. He doesn’t
have the ideals that the country
needs at this time.”
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a good suicide prevention program.
Hope said that despite the success of the
HelpLine, SCS implemented a new program
in the past year, the Question-Persuade-Refer
(QPR) program, to further aid in suicide preven
tion. Hope said SCS implemented the program
before the first suicide happened in February.
“We initiated QPR already before the suicides
started occurring,” Hope said. “We thought we
needed to do more than just the HelpLine. What
we needed to do was to get everyone involved.
We had already initiated the QPR program, and
then (the suicides) started happening, and we
(thought), good thing we got a start on this.”
Hope said the QPR program is a national pro
gram that trains people on suicide prevention.
The 90-minute program teaches how to look for
signs of suicidal thoughts, how to talk and ques
tion those with suicidal thoughts and where to
refer them afterward. Those who complete the
program are called ‘gatekeepers.’
“The QPR program is so in line with Aggies
caring about Aggies,” Hope said. “If someone
can give 90 minutes of their time, we can teach
them what to watch for, what to say, what to ask
and what to do.”
Hope said the QPR program would be benefi
cial in preventing suicides at A&M.
“QPR ... takes the number of eyes and ears out
there to help prevent suicide, and multiplies them
five-, 10-, 20-fold and that’s what we need to help
keep A&M’s suicide rate low,” Hope said.
Dr. Betty Milbum, associate director of Coun
seling and psychologist, said that by increasing
the number of gatekeepers on campus, she hopes
earlier intervention can be made.
“Often there’s a sense of isolation (among
those who commit suicide),” Milbum said.
“Their safety net is not that big. But with more
people that are aware of what might be some
signs and having the tools to speak with the per
son in a non-judgmental, non-threatening, very
compassionate way, the safety net widens.”
Hope said QPR has already gotten positive
feedback from students, faculty and staff and is
in its third week of activity at A&M.
Kevin Jackson, director of Student Activi
ties, was one of the first people to become a
gatekeeper.
“We work with students all the time, and 1 felt
like it was the kind of training that would help us
do our jobs better,” Jackson said. “We did find
(the QPR program) very beneficial, and we re
ally thought it was helpful.”
Jackson compared the QPR program to CPR
training on a psychological level and said the
QPR program helped him to identify warning
signs of suicide, to ask the right questions and to
refer suicidal students to the right resources.
“1 would recommend every individual go
through QPR training,” Jackson said. “The more
people who go through QPR training, the better
our community will be at helping someone in a
psychological crisis.”
Hope encouraged students, faculty and staff to
request QPR training by filling out a form on the
SCS Web site.
San Antonio professor carves
niche in terrorism law
By T.A. Badger
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN ANTONIO — Four
years after he retired as an Army
career officer, law professor Jef
frey Addicott is on active duty in
the war on terror.
Addicott, director of the
Center for Terrorism Law at St.
Mary’s University, has made
himself a go-to guy for TV
news shows on legal issues that
keep popping up in Iraq, Af
ghanistan and even at home.
Should accused terrorists be
tried openly or before military
tribunals? What if those ac
cused are American citizens?
Can a president, in his role
as commander in chief, au
thorize torture of prisoners
during wartime?
Could the United States
have legally assassinated Sad
dam Hussein?
Addicott, former legal advis
er to the Army Special Forces,
hasn’t hesitated to weigh in on
these questions.
“It’s a brand-new area of the
law, and we’re really forging out
on our own,” he said. “Most law
schools wouldn’t touch this with
a 10-foot pole — they don’t re
ally have the background in na
tional security law to deal with
these kinds of issues.”
John Norton Moore, who
heads the Center for National
Security Law at the University
of Virginia, said the 6-month-
old terrorism law center in San
Antonio fills a void shaped by
the Sept. 11 attacks.
He also praised Addicott as
the right choice, citing a 1980s
program Addicott devised for
the Peruvian military, then in the
midst of a protracted fight against
the Shining Path guerrillas.
“In my judgment, it was one
of the most effective programs
on rule of law and humanitar
ian training ever run by the
U.S. government,” said Moore,
who earlier had Addicott as a
law student. “It really turned
around the very bad practices
of the Peruvian government.”
Addicott, 50, said his back
ground as a soldier gives him a
different worldview from most
others on law faculties.
“My premise is that we’re at
war as a nation,” he said. “This
not an academic exercise and I
don’t care about trying to be neu
tral. I want us to win, but I want us
to do it under the rule of law.”
Earlier this month Addicott
was on MSNBC to discuss the
case of Army Capt. Rogelio
Maynulet, charged with mur
der in the shooting of a badly
wounded Iraqi insurgent at
point-blank range.
Maynulet contends it was
a mercy killing, hut Addicott
dismissed that defense. The
American military, he said, has
to be held to the highest stan
dards of conduct.
“This is how we got into
trouble at Abu Ghraib,” he told
MSNBC host Dan Abrams,
referring to the Baghdad
prison where U.S. soldiers
abused Iraqi prisoners. “This
guy committed murder. ...
There’s no doubt he has to be
convicted for this.”
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