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Students ‘major’ in camping skills
Program set to build leadership
by Steven B. Larkin
Battalion Reporter
Rappelling down a 100-foot
cliff or withstanding the
rigors of a 12-day Rocky
Mountain ski trip are ways a
new' Outdoor Leadership
Program plans to develop stu
dents’ leadership qualities.
A part of the MSC Outdoor
Recreation Committee, OLP
is partly modeling it’s curricu
lum around that ofleadership
program “Outward Bound”,
OLP Director Morris Salge
said.
There are four phases to
an Outward Bound program:
pre-course orientation to
eadership, the actual Out
ward Bound course — usually
held in a rugged wilderness
[setting, the post-course wrap-
up and putting what is
learned into real world situa
tions.
The Texas A&M course
will include seminars about
[various aspects of wilderness
leadership.
Those interested in OLP
ill be asked 10 sign up for a
major” in either rockclimb-
[ing, canoeing, kayaking or
" ackpacking. They then will
attend lectures that deal with
topics ranging from nutrition
to camping techniques.
Professionals from the Uni
versity and guest speakers will
be the instructors of OLP stu
dents.
The curriculum will be di
vided into three levels:
• Recreation — upon com
pletion a student will be able
to handle himself safely in the
out-of-doors.
• Enthusiast — upon com
pletion a student will be able
to lead his peers safely in the
out-of-doors.
• Professional — this sec
tion never is completed be
cause no person can be com
pletely knowledgeable in all
aspects of outdoor education.
The course instructors will de
termine what level must be
obtained to qualify a student
as being knowledgeable
enough to lead and instruct
beginners safely in the out-of-
doors.
OLP is combining its prog
ram with that of Outward
Bound to provide the partici
pants with an opportunity to
test themselves in a wilderness
situation. From May 16-30,
OLP students will join up with
a similar group from Kansas
State to take part in a 12-day
Outward Bound moun
taineering course in the Col
orado Rockies.
Walter said the trip will be a
true test to get out of the clas
sroom and try out what has
been learned.
“By getting out there anc.
doing it, you have developed a
judgmental talent and accom
plished something by con
quering a challenge,” Charlie
Walter, Outdoor Recreation
Committee advisor, said.
Four universities across the
nation currently are trying
out programs similar to the
one Texas A&M is starting,
said Ron Gager, director of
program development for the
Colorado Outward Bound
school in Denver.
One private California col
lege tried its own type of
leadership program and
found it to be a successful edu
cational tool, said Scott Har
ris, associate professor of eco
nomics at Chapman College
and coordinator of that
school’s leadership program.
The Chapman College
program took 14 students on
a combined Outward Bound/
Leadership Program and
Harris has reported 100 per
cent success among the stu
dents who participated.
Playboy attacks
drug committee
United Press International
DALLAS — The Texans’ War
on Drugs Committee is part of a
bureacratic drive to undermine
basic civil liberties and is equaled
only by the McCarthy era, an
article in the April issue of Play
boy magazine claims.
The Texans’ War on Drugs
Committee, headed by Dallas
billionaire H. Ross Perot, cur
rently has an estimated one mil
lion members and recently drew
national attention when First
Lady Nancy Reagan met with
committee members in Texas to
promote the federal effort to
stamp out marijuana use by
minors.
The article, written by Laur
ence Gonzales and scheduled
for distribution Tuesday, credits
the Texas committee with
pushing through laws that allow
police to break into and enter
homes to wiretap phones and
create a central computer re
pository for persons receiving
certain prescriptions.
The committee, supported by
Gov. Bill Clements since early in
his term, has done “more to
undermine basic civil liberties
than any other movement since
Joe McCarthy’s anti-Communist
crusade,” the article said.
“I fell asleep after reading the
first two pages (of the article),”
was Perot’s only comment.
The article charges the re
newed war on drugs is a priority
in Congress, and President
Reagan is using the federal
program and the state and local
organizations it is spawning as a
political tool.
In Austin, Gen. Robinson Ris-
ner, executive director of the ac
tion-arm of the Texas anti-drug
committee, took issue with the
article’s claims and said grass
roots support — not bureaucra
tic influence — helped the laws
pass.
The article also charges cur
rent anti-drug proposals being
considered in Washington in
clude using soldiers to enforce
drug laws and allowing court
admission of evidence seized
illegally as long as police act in
good faith.
In the article, Texas Civil
Liberties Union Executive Dire
ctor John Duncan, asked to eva
luate the impact of current anti
drug legislation, is quoted as
saying: “If we’re going to create
a police state, why do it
piecemeal? Let’s just tattoo a
number on everybody’s arm.”
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United Press Internationa]
AUSTIN — The chief bridge
engineer with the Highway and
iublic Transportation Depart-
awards presen t fent said Thursday that most
1 6 urn <fiW exas bridges cited as deficient
rradua.es. The.) in a federal . re P ( ? rt c, ° not fa,i
riot , director J Unde u r state jurisdiction.
The federal report says near-
tL fun and f ^ a quarter-million U.S. bridges
uKe defective in some manner,
of chemistry,Hr tuh Texas having the largest
student may» number of structurally deficient
rnce; registr
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or funtionally obsolete bridges.
Wayne Henneberger, bridge
engineer for the highway de
partment, said “only a couple”
of bridges on the state’s highway
network were considered defi
cient and none suffered from
structural problems.
Although he had not seen the
government report, Henneber
ger said he was not surprised by
findings that say Texas has
15,197 structurally deficient or
functionally obsolete bridges.
But he says those structures
are off the main highway system
and are not the state’s responsi
bility, but the responsibility of
the counties or cities.
Henneberger said the state
keeps a detailed inventory of
failing bridges and advises the
cities and counties if a bridge be
comes unsafe.
Under federal law, the state
must spend between 15 and 35
ey
devoted to bridge work on off-
highway bridges.
“We work on a system of
priorities,” Henneberger said.
“We know which ones are worst.
The cities or counties have to
pay 20 percent of the cost of the
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If DALLAS — Sure, the money
Was simulated, the airplanes
were paper and the tycoons
were only second-graders, but
financially strapped airlines
Blight consider going back to
hool.
Teacher Jean Seymour de-
was commas violed to give her class at Hyer
it the U.S. ^Elementary School an econo-
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nti-military 'P an i es and w ith $500 worth of
Vietnam \VatMP rnidated capital, launched into
profits, Doll finished second to
8-year-old Glenn Stotts’ Paper
Express. Stotts won only $390 in
prize money, but he earned
$800 in profits through a
shrewd business move.
Stotts early on acquired Areo
Tool Co., with assets including
three pairs of scissors. Refusing
to sell his acquisition, Stotts lent
scissors in exchange for other
materials or rented them for up
to $20 for five minutes.
Stotts’ monopoly sliced
through the competition.
“We paid $ 190just for the air
planes,” groaned Sara Kraemer
of Famous Flyers.
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Young Matthew Doll, presi
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lanes, winning $550 in play
prize money because his planes
tayed aloft longer and flew
more accurately than other com-
anies’ planes.
But in the paper chase for
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