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November 30
Crime stoppers
seeks trespasser
Disability hasn’t stopped him
On Nov. 11, two days before
deer season opened, someone
entered the Buchanan Range on
passer
cabin.
repeatedly shot a deer
Counselor trains with sports
Brazos County
STOPPER:
775-TIPS
Kurten Lane in east Brazos
County. Whoever trespassed on
(he property used a high-
powered deer rille to shoot and
kill a registered Hereford bull.
Af ter shooting the bull, the tres-
If you have any information
on the person or persons who
committed this crime, call Crime
Stoppers at 775-TIPS. All callers
are issued special coded num
bers to assure that they remain
anonymous. If your informa
tion leads to the arrest and
grand jury indictment of a sus
pect, you could receive a $1,000
reward.
Crime Stoppers also offers
cash rewards for information
leading to the arrest and grand
jury indictment of a suspect in
any felony crime.
by Patrice Koranek
Battalion Reporter
John Galland learned to snow
ski when he was 2 years old.
Twenty years later he had to
learn again.
In 1971, Galland had a skiing
accident that left him with no
feeling in his legs. He became a
paraplegic. But being confined
to a wheelchair has not stopped
Galland from water skiiing, scu
ba diving, alpine skiing and
backpacking.
Galland, sponsored by* the
MSG Outdoor Recreation Com
mittee, spoke Monday night in
Rudder Tower. He works as a
“The body is the house
where your mind lives, ”
Galland said. He be
lieves that physical fit
ness can carry over into
social and mind fitness.
counselor for the Vinland Na
tional Center in Minnesota,
which is a training and educa
tion center for sports with peo
ple of varying abilities.
“The body is the house where
your mind lives,” Galland said.
He believes that physical fitness
can carry over into social and
mind fitness. The Vinland cen
ter helps make people aware of
what their body is telling them,
and they also try to make it as
easy as possible for disabled peo
ple to fit in with ordinary peo
ple, he said.
“Unfortunately, the world is
not all geared to folks in chairs,”
he said. Students at the center
are taught that they don’t need
special facilities. They are
taught to use facilities available,
Galland said.
Galland participates in a lot of
outdoor activity by adapting
equipment built for people with
total ability.
“Adapting equipment is fine,
but if you don’t sequence people
right it’s no good,” he saia “The
only rule is what works and
what’s safe.”
Even with modifications and
lots of work, he said some things
are still a challenge.
“Some things are real
Galland said. “Like
down the Salmon River*
easiest thing I did to gel
middle of a wilderness.
packing, though, is i
hardest,” he said.
Galland said he wouldl
see a branch of the Vinlani
ter in all regions of them
maybe one in Texas
xmimit
“I’m real excited aboutl
ing it to Texas and letta
take it away,” he said.
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Sales of retail businesses in
Texas border cities are down as
much as 80 percent and the out
look for Christmas remains
bleak, largely because of the de
valuation of the peso in Mexico,
say U.S. federal economists.
Tight exchange controls im
posed by the Mexican govern
ment to strengthen the peso
have further crippled the
businesses because Mexicans are
no longer able to shop freely
across the border, the econom
ists said Monday.
The businesses have de
pended on a free currency flow
across the borders but two major
devaluations of the peso this
year have seriously affected that
flow. There is fear another
round of peso devaluation may
be around the corner because
the Sept. 1 controls pegging the
peso to a fixed parity have been
found to be ineffective. At the
current fixed rate, one U.S. dol
lar will fetch 70 pesos but the
black-market rate is as low as 128
pesos.
The situation could get much
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United Press International
A study of prison inmates
shows the least likely criminal to
have a tattoo is a murderer. The
most likely is a burglar.
worse if there is another de
valuation, said Raul Carrmillo,
economist for the the Federal
Reserve Bank in El Paso. He said
some people believe the de
valuation could be as high as 150
pesos.
Unemployment, running as
high as 25 percent in some
places, is making matters even
more difficult.
Leroy Laney, senior econom
ist for the federal bank’s 11th
district in Dallas, said: “The out
look for the border cities during
Christmas is pretty bleak, pri-
mariy because of the peso de
valuation. The reports we have
been getting are that retailing
has fallen off drastically, as high
as 80 percent in some areas of
the (Rio Grande) Valley, in El
Paso, in Laredo.”
In a recent letter to the Inter
national Monetary Fund, the
Mexican government indicated
the exchange controls
lifted and that the pesowoiiifl
allowed to find its ownexcb
level. That might help bon
businesses because Me
shoppers would be more fret
shop in the United States.
Because of the fixed
change rates, most banks!
Paso and Laredo have stoi
trading in the peso,
Mexicans to shop across t.
border.
U.S. economists do nol
any immediate improvemeill
the situation even after the
trols are lifted because li
such as Mexican oil are no
ger attractive in a world ra:
experiencing a glut. Mexico
faces an international
some $80 billion.
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“The peso problem is a fail
life for those border cities
there’s nothing they can do
out it,” said Laney.
LIVE OK CAMPUS
AT TEXAS A&M!
New Happy Hours
4 p.m.-Midnight
FUN • FOOD • DRINK=
SHARE THE MAGIC WITH YOUR FAMILY TODAY!
Presented by MSC Town Hall — Broadway
December 6, 7, 8 at 8 p.m.
Matinee Performance Dec. 8 at 3 p.m.
RUDDER AUDITORIUM
Tickets available at MSC Box Office 845-1234
$14.50, $16.50, $18.50
Foreign
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ATTENTION: CLASS OF ’86
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN. . .
FUND RAISING, CONCESSIONS, THE BIG EVENT, FRESHMAN BALL,
PUBLIC RELATIONS, OR SOCIAL EVENTS?
Then get involved by serving as a chairman or sub-chairman of
one of these committees. Pick up an application in Room 2I6
MSC and return it by Wednesday December 1st at 5 p.m.
Interviews will be scheduled later in the week. If you have any
questions, call:
Billy Cassel or Brad Winn
Robert Shepard
Lori Zeigler
at
260-3250
at
260-4468
at
260-0232
We are expecting a GREAT year & looking forward to working with you!
by Angel Stokes
Battalion Reporter
The MSC Travel Commit'
and the Study Abroad Office
sponsoring Overseas
Wednesday to promote the
rious study abroad progplHg
available through the JJji®
sity.
The program will be from
a.m. to 2 p.m. in 205 and'
Memorial Student Center.
The Department of Mode
Languages as well as thecollef
of business administradom
beral arts, education and
gineering will have tables sen
with information on each pi 1 '
ram. Students also will be aft
get information about thePti
Corps and other overseas*'
opportunities.
The marketing, financei ;
management departmentsb'
individual programs available*
do the Department of ~
tion, Curriculum and Instm
tion and the Department of!
terdisciplinary Education.
Study Abroad coordirf
Mona Risk-Finne said there'
many opportunities for stm
abroad that most students do'
realize. She said Overseas! 1 *
will give students a chance
meet with professors who"
teach the summer study pff
rams for 1983 and also to"
out what courses will be a"
able.
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