ampus medical help not far away
Texas A&Mstudent volunteer team treats emergencies
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 0, 1980
Page 7
State prison inmate
killed in escape try
By MARK TRIESCH
Battalion Reporter
Standing over an injured player,
referee calls time-out. Two
ite-jacketed Texas A&M
Emergency Care Team members are
luickly on the scene to treat the in
jured student.
IlTAMECT is a group of Texas
A&M students interested in
emergency medical care. They
jplunteer their time and expertise to
ian a University-owned ambulance
id provide emergency care person-
Ifor a variety of campus activities.
TAMECT president Andy Gray, a
aduate student in pre-med, said
e group provides personnel for
rodeos, concerts, club activities,
Aggie bonfire and football games
payed at Kyle Field.
I “Anytime there are a lot of people
mthered in one area or an activity
las an element of danger,” Gray
liid, “we try to have our people on
luty there.”
Any group which would like to
lave TAMECT personnel at their
|nctions should fill out a request
6rm two weeks in advance. Forms
ire available in the TAMECT room,
in the basement of the A. P. Beutel
llealth Center. All TAMECT ser-
Mces are free of charge.
pTAMECT has over 100 members,
.Mid all are trained in some level of
Photo bv|i ^lergency care. Gray says that ab-
illects Tans out one-third of the members are
writings,| Emergency Medical Technicians,
* other one-third are Emergency
e Attendants and the other mem-
are trained in standard first-aid.
s stressed |
ape I
TAMECT member Judy Bruce, a
senior community health education
major from Irving, says that becom
ing qualified in these emergency
care areas is time consuming.
“To become an E.M.T. requires
140 hours of classroom work and 40
hours of practical emergency room
training,” she said.
Gray said that TAMECT members
come from many different majors
and academic backgrounds.
“There are no requirements for
membership other than a certifica
tion in some level of emergency care
and a desire to help people,” he said.
Gray said he feels the University-
owned ambulance, which TAMECT
operates, is the most visable and gla
morous function that the group is
involved with.
“We’ve made 57 ambulance runs
since school started,” Gray said.
“We’ve handled everything from
heat exhaustion to football injuries to
heart attacks.”
Besides the Texas A&M campus,
TAMECT also operates in Bryan. A
city ordinance in College Station
prohibits them from making runs in
side the city limits, unless they are
responding as a back-up unit.
“We try to work closely with the
other ambulance services in the area
because we’re all in this for the same
reason - to save lives,” said Bruce
Crooker, a senior micro-biology ma
jor and a TAMECT member.
TAMECT has also contributed
manpower to help in emergency
situations outside the Texas A&M
community.
United Press International
SUGAR LAND — A state prison
guard Wednesday shot and killed an
inmate trying to escape by running
through the main gate of the Central
Unit of the Texas Department of
Corrections, a spokesman said.
TDC spokesman Rick Hartley said
inmate David Allen Scott, 26, serv
ing a two-year sentence out of Harris
County for possession of a controlled
substance, was shot about 7:25 a.m.
after he disobeyed orders to halt.
Hartley said Scott left his work de
tail and hid near the front security
gate. When the gate was opened to
allow someone to enter, Scott darted
around a building and ran.
“Scott was shot after he failed to
follow instructions from an officer
working the front tower of the unit,”
Hartley said.
Hartley said Correctional Officer
Donald W. Schorn, 32, fired one
warning shot and ordered Scott to
stop. Scott kept running and Schorn
fired three more shots. Scott was
pronounced dead at the scene.
Sophomore Vance Riley of the Texas A&M
University Emergency Care Team tends to
Staff photo by George Dolan
Rick Colwell, who twisted his knee while play
ing flag football for an intramural team.
“We sent teams to help during the
huge Woodway Square apartment
fire in Houston, and some of our peo
ple helped coastal residents evacuate
during Hurricane Allen,” Gray said.
Gray feels that TAMECT has
some of the most modem emergency
care and communications equip
ment in the area.
emocratic Party rebuilds
“We feel that if anyone should be
innovative in emergency care, it
should be us,” he said. “We have
more people to work with and all the
resources of the University at our
disposal.”
TAMECT’s next meeting will be
tonight at 7:30 in 301 Rudder Tower.
“We have instructional films,
seminars, speakers, and training
programs from all areas of emergen
cy medical care,” he said. “Anyone
interested in joining should come by
and see what we’re all about. ”
WHO WILL BE
MR. MACHO?
Ladles find out at
ZACHARIAS GREENHOUSE
Thurs. 8 P.M.
ATTENTION OFF
CAMPUS STUDENTS
OFF CAMPUS STUDENTS
MAY PURCHASE BOARD
DINING FOR THE
SPRING SEMESTER.
Dining space will be available in Sbisa, Commons, and
Duncan Dining facilities. Sign up for the board plan
during pre-registration.
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United Press International
g KAUSTIN — Texas Democratic
Igairman Bob Slagle walked into
gfete party headquarters Wednes-
. grabbed a bullhorn, and told
)n on soutk$taff members they had only 24 hours
was eaten t« to recoil from their disappointment
eninsulaL about President Carter’s crushing
pefeat at the hands of Ronald
the headkiReagan.
rf his Labri: “My Daddy always told me if you
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oopenaMpur pants and get up and fight
commissioEigain, then you didn’t have any busi-
, LeBlanc .ness climbing in the ring in the first
n his dog«mce,” said Slagle, who took over
ic’s duckblitthe party chairmanship six weeks be-
: enoughtbt fore the election.
| The party’s task now, he said, is to
huntersfeaiifebuild immediately and prepare for
unting dogif’campaign to recapture the gov
ernorship in 1982 from Republican
ially, the Tp.Gov. Bill Clements,
lything but ei; Slagle contends it was Carter’s fai-
rtment offelures, rather than Clements’ backing
/ildlife Dewf Reagan, that resulted in the
Teagan landslide in Texas.
and Chaml*
100 gators p
lirector fore
jcated
nservativeeij
ent,” BrowiI
arty set
for tonight
“Folks vote their pocketbooks as a
normal rule, and we got caught in a
recession and we got caught with an
inflationary spiral,” he said.
Slagle said it was a confluence of
several issues in the final hours of the
campaign that ruined any hopes Car
ter may have had.
“I think the inflation issue hurt
us, and that was a hell ot a time to
have an anniversary of the taking of
the hostages in Iran.
“It’s pretty clear what happened
— all the folks who were undecided
just went the other way.”
Slagle discounted the impact on
the campaign by Clements, who
campaigned virtually full time for
Reagan and coordinated his Texas
effort.
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“I don’t think the people were vot
ing for Bill Clements, in fact I think
Bill Clements helped the Democrats
in this election,” Slagle said.
“Clements is going to have to run
(for re-election) on his own record,
and the fact that Clements was out
stomping and screaming for Reagan
might be negative for him two years
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