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Preserving baseball
tradition vs. breaking new records.
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, Tarleton graduate
a foot ahead of most soldiers,
Volume J 56, No. 2
TAC
Tarleton State University
Weekly News
A Member of The Texas A&M University System
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Stephenvilfe and SPA
present the Dixie Cadillacs.
Texan Stars get all
wet for new fundraiser.
WELCOME TO THE VIRTUAL BAR
by Greg Krauss
Staff Writer
Soon, students at Tarleton
will get a chance to drink as
much alcohol as they want, free
of charge and see the effects of
alcohol as they attend a party
and allow people to drive home
drurtk. What's the catch?
They will do it all without
taking a sip of alcohol or ever
attending a real party.
The University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign has put out
an interesting interactive pro-
gram that teaches students, or
whoever uses it, facts about
alcohol and teaches the nega-
tive effects of drinking heavily.
Tarleton H.E.A.T. — Helping
Educate All Texans — works
closely with student counseling
to use the program in order to
educate students about the neg-
ative aspects of heavy drinking
and drinking and driving.
Users are first greeted by a
wisecracking lava lamp named
Norm. This bizarre host asks
factual information about the
user, such as age, weight and
sex.
After this infprmation is
gathered, the user then moves
on to a virtual bar where he or
she can sip, drink, or slam a
variety of popular drinks, such
as beer and wine coolers. The
program records the user's
blood alcohol concentration
during this exercise.
After drinking as much vir-
tual alcohol as they want, the
user is then taken to a party,
where he or she can mingle
with partiers.
As the user clicks on various
parts of the party, alcohol relat-
ed stories unfold covering such
subjects as sexual abuse while
under the influence, drinking
and driving and actual inci-
dents of death from alcohol
poisoning.
The user learns many facts
about.drinking and its effects
on the human body during the
virtual party.
Larry Long, student counsel-
ing center director, said he fore-
sees many uses of the program
to educate students.
"We can use it with the dean
of residents," Long said, "to
educate students who have got-
ten in trouble with alcohol."
Students would be required
to go through the program as a
corrective measure.
Long also foresees using it
with athletes and fraternities
and sororities, to educate stu-
dents before a mistake concern-
ing alcohol can be made.
At the end of the program,
the user will be shown what
parts of the program he or she
missed.
Statistics concerning alcohol
will also be included.
Student counseling hopes to
work with Tarleton H.E.A.T. to
promote the program during
such times as National
Collegiate Alcohol Awareness
Week, a national event targeted
at educating college students
about alcohol.
For more information, con-
tact Larry Long in the counsel-
ing center at 968-9044.
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ing I 1/2 years ago when his parents bought him a guitar for his birthday. He took guitar lessons for a little over a
month during the summer, but he is primarily self-taught. He enjoys playing the blues and old country music.
Yellow brick road?
Tarleton Street
closed as workers
pave new sidewalk
By Greg Krauss
Staff Writer
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Stephenville and Tarleton are working together to provide a sidewalk for stu-
dents to,walk on and to remedy the water drainage problem on the south side
ofTarleton Street to St. Peter Street.The sidewalk should be
completed in two to four weeks.
Plans between Tarleton and the city of Stephenville are cur-
rently underway to construct a sidewalk and improve drainage
problems on the south side of Tarleton Street to St. Peter Street.
There are two main reasons the changes are taking place. One
reason is inadequate water drainage.
After heavy rains the streets become very flooded. The other
reason is to give students a sidewalk in order to go to classes.
"To fix this," said Joe Standridge, associate vice president of
physical facilities, "we had to go to the city." Because the area of
the street to be fixed belongs to Stephenville, Tarleton had to
work with the city to fix the problem.
"It is not the first time we have worked with the city,"
Standridge said, "but it is the first time we have gone to the city
to fix a specific problem."
Under the new construction plans, the curbs will be rebuilt in
order to allow the streets to drain adequately into Lillian.
"With the new sidewalk," said Standridge, "students don't
have to walk on the street to go to the business and hydrology
buildings."
The project should take about two to four weeks to complete,
and Tarleton Street would be closed.
However, students will still be able to use the street to get to
classes until the new sidewalks can be used. The project is
expected to cost around $13,000.
Standridge said that Tarleton is working together with the city
to pay for the project.
"It is good that the city works together as much as they can to
address these problems," Standridge said.
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By Janice Irons
Nurse Practitioner
AIDS Resources
for Rural Texas is
offering free HIV
testing on the first
and third Thursday
of each month. The
testing'is anony-
mous.
When you come
in to the Health
Center, all that's
required is your first
name and birthdate
on the card. Your
visit will not be
entered on the
student chart.
It is only a finger
prick for a blood
sample, and the
results will be given
the next visit
Thursday.
The next visit will
be Sept. 17, and the
next will be Oct. 1.
For more
information, contact
Janice Irons, director
of the Tarleton
Student Health
Center arid nurse
practitioner, at 968-
9272, or visit the
office in the upper
level of the Student
Development Center
Rm. 212.
September 10, 1998
Lack of
student
interest
sets tone
of forum
By Kisty Hoffman
Editor in Chief
Tarleton administrators held
a forum Monday night in the
Student Development Center to
ajlow students to voice their
concerns over the Hastings
Bookstore issue.
Aside from five J-TAC mem-
bers, the student government
president and vice president
and three student government
members, no students attended.
No Hastings representatives
were present; however, a second
forum between students,
administrators and Hastings
■ representatives is being dis-
cussed.
Mike Moser, associate vice
president for business affairs,
led the forum.
Jerry Graham, vice president
of finance and administration,
Wanda Mercer, vice president of
Student services, and Rusty
Jerglns, dean of students, were
present to help answer ques-
tions and discuss concerns that
attending students had. '1
Students seemed concerned
with the limited amount of time
Hastings had to prepare for this
semester.
Tarleton's hasty decision to
let Hastings take over the cam-
pus bookstore was questioned.
Moser defended Tarleton's
decision by recounting the bid-
ding process and dates of the
meetings between the bid com-
mittee and representatives from
Hastings, Wallace and Follett.
Moser said that Wallace's con-
tract was up on June 30.
The contract was extended
until July 31 because the com-
mittee had to meet with repre-
sentatives from each company,
conduct negotiations and have
the choice approved by Dennis
McCabe, Tarleton president,
Barry Thompson, chancellor of
the Texas A&M University sys-
tem.
It was difficult to get all the
committee members together,
Moser said, because they all had
different schedules.
Another concern students
had was the unavailability of
books.
There were 1,000 books
ordered that had not arrived by
the time of the forum; however,
as of Tuesday, Hastings had
received a new shipment of 116
used beginning Spanish text-
books and a shipment of new
nursing, government and
Spanish books.
Moser also addressed the
burning question on students
minds—book prices.
^ He attributed the seemingly
higher prices to the lack of used
books available.
Ten percent of the textbooks
at Hastings were used. The
higher percentage, of new books
made prices seem higher, he
said.
Hastings is shooting for a
goal of 50 percent used text-
books for next semester.
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