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Location makes B-CS a potential prime drug market
Staff photo by Chuck Chapman
Mescaline, barbituates, heroin are a growing part of drug
traffic in area. Bryan and College Station are at a crossroad of
movement from Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. This loca
tion makes the area a mecca for drug dealing.
Juniors can order
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Battalion Reporter
Juniors at mid-term who are
passing enough credit hours to
give them 92 hours credit will be
eligible to order senior rings after
mid-term grades are processed.
Students must be in good stand
ing with Texas A&M University to
be eligible to order, and 30 of the
credit hours earned must have
been while in residence at the
University. To be in good standing
the student must not owe any fines
or fees.
Students can order the rings at
Heaton Hall with the ring clerk,
and the last order for the semester
will be accepted May 1.
The prices for the student rings
are set by Balfour, although part of
the money a student pays goes for
processing the ring order, said
Donald Carter, associate registar.
“We are not involved with the
money except for accepting the
checks, ” Carter said. “This is a pri
vate operation.”
Through Feb. 20 the price for
the traditional men’s ring was
$301.16, Carolyn Swanzy, ring
clerk, said.
The price for a woman’s ring
was $129.19, she added. “The
price now is lower than it’s been in
a year,” she said.
Prices for the rings will vary
with the manufacturer, she said.
Alterations open sex
discrimination suit
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — Should a
woman pay to have her clothes
altered while men don’t?
Mary Hotard Becnel doesn’t
think so — and she’s filed a
$30,000 federal court suit to prove
her point.
Becnel has charged six depart
ment store chains, including Sears
Roebuck and Co. andJ.C. Penney
Co. Inc., with sex discrimination
because they charge for altera
tions on women’s apparel but not
on menswear.
The Reserve, La., attorney
filed the suit in federal court, seek
ing $5,000 in damages for financial
losses and another $25,000 for
humiliation and emotional dis
tress.
Becnel said the stores arbitrari
ly discriminate against women by
not offering them the same free
alterations that are made on men’s
clothing. She said she bought clo
thing from all six of the store
chains and was told on each occa
sion that she would have to pay for
any alterations.
Business students. If you
are studying economics, fi
nance, accounting, busi
ness or related fields, you
can begin to make your
education pay off before
you graduate. Learn how to
earn in real estate without
selling. Act quickly as the
laws are expected to
change soon. Call for infor
mation about the Brazos
Valley Referral Company
at 846-4302 or 779-3725
after 5:30.
By TRACEY BUCHANAN
Battalion Reporter
Because of its location, Bryan-
College Station is potentially a
prime area for drug distribution
says Brad Lamb, director of the
drug abuse prevention program at
the Brazos Valley Mental Health
and Mental Retardation Center.
The Brazos Valley area is char
acterized by rurality, but three of
the country’s ten largest metropo
litan areas (Dallas-Fort Worth,
Houston and San Antonio) and
major highways from these areas
intersect it.
Location is a key factor in
understanding the drug problem,
he said. The Brazos Valley consists
of Brazos, Leon, Madison,
Grimes, Burleson, Washington
and Robertson counties. All seven
counties are affected by the flow
from big cities. Lamb said.
Small rural towns are usually
the drug dealers’ distribution
points, said Lamb, the only drug
prevention authority in Brazos
Valley.
If a drug dealer receives a ship
ment of heroin or cocaine, he’s not
going to “cut it open” in Dallas or
Houston, Lamb said. He will take
it to a small rural town where the
[police department is not as well
j staffed or specialized.
I A group of area residents
headed by Dr. Gil Trevino recent
ly organized a chapter of Gov. Wil
liam P. Clement Jr.’s program
Texans’ War on Drugs to fight loc
al drugs. Trevino is a professor of
veterinary pathology at Texas
A&M University.
“The problem here in this com
munity has been ignored,” Trevi
no said. “We feel the only reason
why such a group has not hereto
fore been established is because
people have hoped that the prob
lem will go away, and they have
swept a lot of filth under the
carpet.”
A drug problem in Bryan-
College Station exists although
there are not accurate statistics to
reveal it. Lamb said.
The Department of Public
Safety has had a narcotic service
since the mid-50s; but, prior to
Aug. 1, 1980, only one man work
ed in Bryan-College Station, said
Sgt. Rick Stewart, head of the
DPS narcotics division in this
area.
The staff now consists of three
investigators who handle a 10
county area, Stewart said. Since
the addition to the staff, a
$100,000 laboratory in Cherokee
Co. (near Rusk) has been seized,
he said.
In 1980 the DPS narcotics divi
sion made 31 drug-related arrests,
three of which involved juveniles.
In 1981, they hope to increase
their staff by at least two, Stewart
said.
The sheriff department’s re
cords show only five drug-related
arrests in 1980. Chief Deputy Jim
Beamer said the number of re
corded arrests is low because re
cords have not been kept accu
rately.
Bryan police department 1980
statistics show that 51 adults and
21 juveniles were arrested for
marijuana-related offenses, one
adult for dangerous drugs (such as
barbituates) and one adult for nar
cotics (such as opium derivatives,
heroin or cocaine).
The College Station police de
partment made a total of 62 drug-
related arrests, only one of which
involved a juvenile. Of the 61
adult arrests, 48 were for mari
juana-related offenses, one for
dangerous drugs and 12 for narco
tics.
Both city departments said
these figures indicate only what
drug abuse is reported, not neces
sarily the actual drug usage in the
area.
Texas A&M University police
recorded 17 drug-related arrests
for the 1980 school year.
Lamb said, “Law arrest rate is
not indicative of a low drug prob
lem. It is indicative of an under
staffed and non-specialized police
department. ”
Trevino said the first step in
combatting the drug problem in
this area is to admit a problem ex
ists and to unite the law enforce
ment agencies, school officials,
ministers, psychologists and pa
rents.
A drug awareness rally featur
ing Texas millionaire Ross Perot,
chairman of the Texans’ War on
Drugs committee, launched the
Bryan-College Station group’s
efforts Feb. 19.
A MH-MR Center survey of
Brazos County shows that 28.8
percent of 1,365 students sur
veyed have used marijuana. The
results are most indicative of ex
perimentation, the report said.
The same survey shows that
10.3 percent use marijuana at least
once per month.
“Marijuana is the single most
often used substance, but other
‘harder’ drugs as a group at least
equal and often surpass marijuana
use,” the report stated. “Out of
1,358 students, 165 report fre
quent drug use across all subst
ance categories.”
Perry Pope, Bryan High School
principal, said anybody in Texas
who deals with teenagers is going
to encounter drugs because there
is a drug market and an interest in
it.
Because statistics say a drug
problem exists does not mean the
majority or even a high percen
tage of students are drug users, he
said.
“If you have one kid with a
problem, you have a problem,”
Pope said. “We (at Bryan High
School) are trying to establish a
program that has empathy for stu
dents and respect for the indi
vidual.”
Pope said if a student is caught
using drugs, the school officials try
to get to the root of the problem.
talk with his parents and then refer
him for treatment. Two students
have been referred to Greenleaf
Psychiatric Center this school
year, he said.
Lamb said students have also
been referred to the MH-MR
Center, which uses drug-free
treatment and counsels families
and individuals.
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