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local Battalion/Page 3 February 19, 1982 risis Hotline handles ^Brazos distress callers by Lisa Thompson Battalion Reporter A frantic wife on the hotline lories that her drunken husband had just beaten her and walked out on her. She has little money land three children to care for. What can she do? Who can help her? The calm voice at the other Ind soon manages to sooth her by assuring her she’s not alone. She relaxes a bit. The tension Bases. Then the voice advises her on practical steps to take and | gives her the number of a refer- i ral service specializing in her problem. The Brazos Valley Crisis Hot line receives 150 to 300 such jails each month, ranging from people with tragic problems to people asking where to get food stamps. The hotline’s number is 779- 2000. The service is sponsored by the Brazos Valley Commun ity Action Agency. Manned by a trained staff of volunteers, the hotline is open from 3 p.m. until midnight dai ly. Plagued by high turnover, the hotline is unable to keep enough volunteers to stay open 24 hours a day. The volunteers must undergo training sessions before they can work alone. The training ses sions involve step by step in structions on careful listening and handling emergency situa tions. “People volunteer thinking it’s all the glamour they see on TV,” said Holly Lumtkin, the hotline’s advisory board chair man, “and then they find out it’s a lot of hard work. In the first training session we try to let them know how it is. There are some nights when you may get one call, and it’s a prank.” Volunteers also must answer imitation calls as part of the training before they work. They each work three hour shifts once or twice a week. Suicide calls are rare for the hotline, but workers are trained to determine how serious the caller is and how to help him change his mind. aperton: drinking age ay be raised to 21 but I df by Debbie Schard Battalion Reporter H A move probably will be made ► to raise the state drinking age from 19 to 21 during the next 1 session pf the Legislature, Sen. > Kent Caperton said during an | alcohol awareness workshop „ held here Thursday. ■ Representatives from univer- | Sides and organizations across ^fhe state, together with con- fcerned citizens and students gatiiered for the workshop, j was s P onsorec l by the De- 00CJ#i artmen t °f Student Affairs. Caperton was the guest —>■ ^speaker at a luncheon held for ■lose attending the workshop. I In his speech, Caperton said the drinking age was raised to 19 in September to deal with the tremendous abuse of alcohol in dd the high schools. However, Caperton said he knows of no statistics as to whether the new drinking age has curbed this abuse. Caperton said persons found guilty of driving while intoxi cated should be made to learn about alcohol abuse through an alcohol awareness program. However, on the second offense there should be “a mandatory suspension of the driver’s license, no questions asked,” he said. “Alcohol (abuse) is an abuse that is real,” Caperton said, and legislators must be informed ab out the problem so they can do something about it. Dr. Gerardo Gonzalez, another workshop speaker, was director of the Campus Alcohol Information Center at the Uni versity of Florida, and president of BACCHUS, Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students. Workshop participants agreed that students need to be come aware of the problems and effects of alcohol abuse, and, if they are going to use alcohol, to use it wisely: “Students drink for years, but don’t really under stand it (alcohol),” William Pier- not, a University representative, said. Solutions to the problem of student alcohol abuse suggested at the workshop included alco hol information centers, alcohol awareness days and the estab lishment of a mandatory pass- fail course on drinking with in telligence. cience should be open to thought, prof says is a firi ion to till his halfl erms m of th Good o cheap by Sheila Frazier Battalion Reporter I Science should not look for Ibsolute philosophical truths and unchanging scientific methods, a distinguished visit ing professor from Maryland aid Thursday to about 50 peo ple in 510 Rudder. “When a proposition is sup- iosed to be a necessary truth, at is when we should be suspi cious,” Dr. Dudley Shapere said. ..-Science cannot be restrained by e c ‘ iea P any limits on its thought.” I Shapere, who currently used OKijfeaches at the University of iy adveislwlaryland, has written two books and numerous articles on the y our ® iota W] kes for HI sr. aver? f us aret| p over it e are< subject of philosophical science. He has lectured at more than 100 universities across the country. Since science and philosophy have started formulating theories and principles, no sci entific idea has been immune to revision or rejection, Shapere said. “Nothing in science is sacro sanct, not even the very, defini tion of science itself,” he said. “It is more to the credit of man if he can understand and understand how to understand. He should avoid the arrogance of assuming he knows what the world is.” Shapere received his bache lor’s, master’s and doctorate de grees in philosophy from Har vard University. He has taught at Ohio State University, the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago — where he was awarded the Quantrell Award for Excellence in U nder- graduate Teaching. He has served as a consultant for a national philosophical sci ence program and received other awards for teaching. This spring and summer, Shapere will lecture at the Uni versity of Madrid in Spain tind will tour Peru at that country’s invitation. Pill-popper takes hostages, collapses in Beaumont store yoy h' the tat it is. iuld be last wofil ill you ^[ a A&Mis 1 jugo? 1 yet. Hf United Press International BEAUMONT — An armed an who burst into a drugstore, took eight people hostage and gobbled barbiturates until he oliapsed was apparently after arcotics, police said Thursday. Armed robbery charges will be filed against the suspect if he lives, Lt. Bruce Thomason said. The 31-year-old man was hospitalized in critical but stable condition in the intensive care unit at St. Elizabeth Hospital af ter the two-hour incident late Wednesday. His name was with held. Thomason said the hostages were released two by two after the incident began about 5:30 p.m. until it ended about 7:30 p.m. No shots were fired. Sgt. Charles Cole said the SWAT team walked in the front door after the suspect passed out. Cole said it was not known whether the man, who was wear ing a three-piece suit and car rying a briefcase, had any drugs with him when he entered the store. The incident began when the alsobesi?' man walked into the Bill thewriifl Thames Pharmacy, pointed a ealsogun at the pharmacist and said: tages to get out, then collapsed, Thomason said. A clerk who escaped said the man initially had entered the store seeking someone to ban dage his cut finger, left with some Band-Aids and returned 30 minutes later with a briefcase and herded everyone to the back of the store. (orsorf* iboratorf rjd phoiof: iniuniot** 1 ;rnmg V ■ditor. icy exceed 3^ it if the). 1 * ht to edit* ry effort! 11 :onstrain |iif ondence' 1 , d, Texas^ or phoW I 11 luringfe 11 : ■ holiday ,,v pern ,6 Reed J* College S titled ex*', dispat*'*', rtherina" 1 iollegf “This is the real thing.” Pharma- Icist Joseph Seale, four other em ployees and four customers were taken hostage. 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