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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.
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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
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Though he said the M-l was
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of the vehicle was “much too
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redesigned.
“It will be produced and
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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
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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.
The three indicators that
went up were the pace of de
liveries, building permits and
the money supply.
The composite index of coin
cident indicators, which analysts
expect to bottom out two
months before a recovery, drop
ped 1.6 percent in January, the
department said.
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