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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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ployees and four customers
were taken hostage.
The gunman ordered Seale to
fill his briefcase with drugs from
$16# a safe and ordered the hostages
to stand in the pharmacy sec
tion.
“All the time he was eating
pills, eating them by the hand
ful,” said Thomason, who de
scribed the man as “cleancut.”
The man told the last hos-
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