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OUR COLLEGE MAN
Wednesday, September 11,1985
By JEF RAY
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By DAVID HOWARD
Center helps NT students
adjust to university life
By JOHN VAHLENKAMP
Staff Writer
Shelter program seeks volunteers
Most of the students who go to the NT Counseling
and Testing Center for help are those who would need
help whether they were attending college or not, said
Dr. Tom Overton, director of the center.
Overton said that school often tends to complicate
problems that a student already has.
The center provides free psychological services for
up to 100 students per week during fall sessions, Overton
said. He said a variety of students with problems including
depression and isolation come to the center each week.
Many of those students, he said, come for counseling
more than once.
Overton said there is no one type of student who needs
counseling more than others. Ten percent of any group
on campus will probably need counseling, he said. The
center helps students of all classifications and backgrounds.
“It’s interesting that the smallest number (of students)
we see are freshmen,” Overton said.
There is no specific way to keep a student from having
trouble adjusting to campus life, he said. “There are
some who come to college feeling isolated.”
Overton said students who are having a hard time
handling college cannot easily be picked out of a crowd.
“There are a lot of people who look like they are having
fun but are not,” he said.
Finding a group or clique, he said, could help a new
student adjust to the unfamiliar surroundings of a college
campus. "Gradually they will be oriented to things they
have in common with other people,” Overton said. He
said it takes at least a semester for new students to figure
out where they fit in socially.
A new student can help cut down anxiety by becoming
part of a group early in a semester, but groups cannot
be considered the only answer to a student’s problems,
Overton said. In some cases, he said, a student tries so
hard to become part of a group that it causes trouble.
“If there”s such a great need of social contact, it cuts
down on the student’s work,” he said.
Some students, Overton said, do not need groups.
“Some isolated individuals are doing very well in school,”
he said.
Membership in a group that forms before the beginning
of the semester can give a new student plenty of time to
adjust to school, Overton said. A student in one of these
groups, like marching band, has a chance to meet other
students with interests similar to his own.
Overton said that the counseling center will probably
begin to see a steady flow of students once the confusion
of the new semester is gone.
The Counseling and Testing Center is in University
Union 321. It is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
By ANGIE ALVARADO
Special Writer
Because rape and family violence increase during the
fall months, volunteer counselors are needed at a Denton
shelter that is home to such victims.
Stephanie Frogge, coordinator for the rape crisis shelter,
said the Denton County Friends of the Family shelter is
accepting volunteers to be trained to counsel rape victims.
Frogge said that last month the shelter received 141
general crisis calls, 25 rape calls and 58 family violence
calls.
Victims call the shelter through a hot-line number and
can receive immediate counseling, Frogge said.
The training program, which begins Sept. 28, will
instruct volunteers on how to provide counseling to both
rape and abused victims.
Volunteers who complete the six-session training
program can begin working with children who have been
traumatized either physically or sexually, Frogge said.
Clerical work is also available for volunteers who do
not complete the training.
The only qualification for volunteers is that they be
over the age of 16. Frogge said volunteers should be
“people that are interested in what we do and that can
commit the time.”
The training program will be at the First United
Methodist Church at 201 Locust St. Those interested in
volunteering should call the shelter at 387-5131.
Houstonite finds bodies in trash bags
Texas Board of Corrections elects chairman
HOUSTON (AP)—Investigators said
they have no clues in the gruesome
discovery of three trash bags filled with
body parts along a rural road in northeast
Harris County.
The discovery was made Sunday by
a Houston motorist who saw a dog
pulling what he thought was a dead
animal.
“I stopped the truck, and when 1
looked, I saw it was a female head,”
Weldon Dobbs said. "When 1 saw the
head, it made me sick. I covered it with
a work shirt I had in the truck.”
“There's no new leads,” J.F. Ebdon,
an investigator for the medical examiner
said.
HUNTSVILLE. Texas (AP)—Austin
businessman Alfred Hughes was elected
chairman of the Texas Board of Correc-
tions on Monday, succeeding Robert
Gunn, who quit last month after com-
plaining about political interference
from Gov. Mark White.
Hughes’ election came on a unani-
mous vole of the prison board after the
eight members discussed the election
during a closed session. Joe V. La-
Mantia was elected vice chairman and
James Parsons was named secretary.
Hughes. 44, was appointed to the
board by White in February.
“I don’t have a lot of expertise,”
he said. “My strongest point is in regard
to construction — getting the job done
quickly and economically.
“This will challenge all of my abili-
ties.”
The prison system is embarking on
a crash building program to comply with
federal court limits on population during
a time of explosive growth.
“My biggest challenge is to get the
facilities up and on line,” Hughes said,
so an inmate classification program can
be completed and the more violent
inmates can be put in the most secure
institutions.
“We need some cells for the real
hard-core cases,” he said.
Gunn, a Republican, was appointed
by former Gov. Bill Clements. The
60-year-old Gunn has said he plans to
campaign for one of White’s political
rivals, Rep. Tom Loeffler, a candidate
for the 1986 GOP gubernatorial nomina-
tion.
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the right cheek and near the right eye.
An autopsy was scheduled for Mon-
day, officials said.
Phillips estimated that the bodies had
been dumped less than 48 hours before
they were found. He said the bags could
have gone unnoticed because “this is
a normal dumping area."
A lack of blood at the scene suggested
that the bodies were dismembered some-
where else and then dropped in the rural
area, Sgt. Rickie Williams said.
After finding the head, Dobbs flagged
down another motorist and instructed
the surprised but cooperative man to
guard the grisly find while he called
police.
While waiting for the police. Dobbs
said he spotted several large, green trash
bags lying near the head. He said he
didn’t touch them.
“I didn’t want to mess with it,” he
said. “The head was enough for me.”
Ten deputies searched for almost four
hours in a square mile area near the
site for more body parts or weapons,
but found nothing.
Ebdon said one torso and legs ap-
peared to belong to a woman in her
20s.
Detective Ronnie Phillips Sr. said the
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