Pete Domenici: “The Department has many plans to emphasize the Character Counts Program by promoting the messages on the university…”

“The Department has many plans to emphasize the Character Counts Program by promoting the messages on the university arena message boards for the men's and women's basketball games, putting the message on marquee boards on our major highways, and through public address announcements at the basketball, baseball, and softball games. A letter from Janice Argabright, the teaching principal of the San Antonio Elementary School, who said: We stress a family atmosphere at our school where we all help each other. Many of our students are farm/ranch kids, who have many chores to do after school. We would like to continue to instill these values. We recently began the Character Counts Program in our school. The parents and students applauded this action. Our Social Studies teacher has been going over the six fundamental core elements of good character. In fact, the students do character analysis on certain prominent people and TV role models. They found out that Bart Simpson isn't so cool after all. Moreover, the San Antonio Elementary School incorporated this Character Counts in the DARE program and as the principal said, the students saw the words every day and practiced them and they came to ``understand the meanings and the traits that show a person of character.''”