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V. T l<S Handicap staff photo by Eileen Manton gotcha! Senior education major Amy Billington of Brazoria, wilds of Lake Somerville to gather specimens for takes advantage of a warm weekend and braves the her entomology collection. (continued from page 1) Liz Jackson said she inter viewed her roommate over the telephone before the fall semes ter. Liz is a junior community health major who has been in a wheelchair for more than six years after being thrown from a horse. “I haven’t had any real prob lems getting around, and I think I adjusted to being in a chair before I came down here,” she said. “I own a van, and it’s a has sle when people park in front of ramps because you have to go around or get some help.” Jeff Scott, who was injured playing football three years ago, said he has no problem getting around on campus. “I don’t know if the other people have problems, but it (being in a chair) is really not a problem for me,” he said. “The only differ ence between someone in a wheelchair is that we’re shorter.” Scott met his roommate in Elliot’s office while visiting his two sisters at the University dur ing Parents’ Weekend last year. “We usually have more who want to help the students than we have students who need help,” Elliot said. “I like for them to interview several appli cants before they decide because they’re going to be depending on this person a lot." Goodwin and Francis halls are the only inaccessible build ings on campus. “There are a few places where we could use curb cuts so the students wouldn’t have to go so far around,” Elliot said. “The Uni versity has 15 to 18 scheduled.” Funding for such modifica tions has not been a problem in the past, and when asked what the Reagan administration has planned for the TRC, Elliot said the commission is “very much in favor of Congress. “We're cost efficient. We’re taking people off the welfare and social security roles and turning them into taxpayers.” Jimmy Hinton, Texas Re habilitation Commission super visor of Bryan and the Universi ty, said funds presently budgeted for the TRC are two percent more than last year. "But a two percent increase doesn’t even cover inflation, and medical bills went up 26 percent last year,” Hinton said. “In Texas last year, 15,860 handicapped people were re habilitated at the cost ofV per client. After rcbJi these same people eaJII million, averajnn.1 week. 1 hese people mg the state and federf* metits more than ftp J fore they received rj| tion." Hinton said Reanr,; <««l budge, will percent of the fund.® to the TRC. “This 51 cut the number of peopJj Ik* able to serve rati®] pn>gram.It*ta ably mean tighteniiw^H/J NO. rain to serve only ~ Weinberger says Army redesigning controversial tank United Press International WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said Monday mat the Army is redesigning the M-l tank even though the $2.7 million vehicle — the most expensive tank in U.S. history — has just begun rolling off the production lines. In an hour-long breakfast meeting with reporters, the Pen tagon chief also defended his $258 billion budget for the com ing year, saying momentum must be kept up for the adminis tration plan to rearm America, because the Soviet “threat hasn’t diminished one bit.” The escalating cost of the M- 1, which began production four months ago, and its troubles in meeting Army performance specifications have made the 60- ton vehicle one of the Penta gon’s most controversial weapons programs in recent years. Weinberger said he has no plans to reduce the planned purchase of 7,058 M-ls, the Economic signals drop in January United Press International WASHINGTON — The gov ernment’s sensitive leading eco nomic indicators dropped 0.6 percent in January — the sixth straight month of decline, the Commerce Department re ported Monday. The new data wiped out im provement first reported for December, changing the origin al 0.6 percent increase estimated for the last month of 1981 into a 0.3 percent decline. The indicators are designed to foreshadow economic trends. Six of the nine indicators available for January contri buted to the overall decline, with s S N s 3 N N s Old South Restaurant NOW HIRING • wait people • bus people dishwashers • cooks 12 noon-6 p.m. Monday-Friday Parkway Square S. Texas five, fit Southwest Pkwy. OLD SOUTH SOUTHWEST PKWY. ♦ ♦ l Army’s first new tank in 20 years — despite reports that the new tank is vulnerable to an adv anced antitank weapon. Though he said the M-l was an excellent tank, he acknow ledged the 20-year development of the vehicle was “much too long” and said the tank is being redesigned. “It will be produced and used,” Weinberger said of the M-l, which is to cost an esti mated $19 billion for the fleet. “But it would not be very wise to say that now we don’t have to do any more in the way of tanks now that we have that one. “We do have to continue to improve, and the time to start new design is right now.” Democrats in Congress have proposed cutbacks as large as $40 billion in the total 1983 budget authority the adminis tration has proposed for the Pentagon, and Weinberger said he would be “very concerned with major reductions in the de fense budget.” new orders adjusted for infla tion and stock prices dropping the most. Also down were new claims for unemployment insur ance, contracts and orders for plant and equipment, changes in raw materials prices and changes in total liquid assets. 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