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Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, January 30, 1984 Former bartender works to control drunk driving United Press International NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — James Peters looks back on his days as a bartender and wonders how many drivers he helped get drunk, how many accidents he helped cause. “I used to think I was doing a great job,” he said. “I used to get people drunk. I thought I was helping people have a good time. I never realized what I was really doing.” Peters, 33, founded the four- month-old Intermission, Ltd., a non-profit organization aimed at teaching bartenders and em ployees in similiar jobs they have certain social responsibilities. “No one ever told me what it meant to be drunk,” Peters said during an interview in his two- room Northampton office. “I did things I now know were neg ligent.” Peters acts as a consultant for restaurants, bar, hotels and other businesses in the hospital ity industry, organizing training seminars and workshops for em ployees. Recently in Boston more than 200 people attended a two-day Northeast Conference on Alco hol-Server Liability, an event sponsored by Intermission that Peters claimed was the first of its kind in the nation. “Roadblocks and taking away • „/ ^COUPON' international) HOUSE .'*«*i* RESTAURANT J Breakfast Special $-1 99 Monday thru Friday Up to 4 people with this coupon Offer expires Feb. 29, 1984 * ■ ■ * Includes your choice of 4 great kinds of pancakes- gk Buttermilk, Strawberry, Blueberry,or Pecan. Plus 2 strips of bacon or sausage and 1 . ^ At <» PANCAKES® RESTAURANT J ■ ■ v * 5 1 Skaggs Center J »»»»»♦»♦»»»»»•»»» ••••••••••• people’s licenses is after the fact,” Peters said. “People are starting to realize they have to do something before the fact.” Former Massachusetts Gov. John Volpe, who chairs a pres idential panel on drunken driv ing, spoke at the conference, which includes workshops like “Drunken Driving: Whose re sponsibility is it?” and “What is the role of the insurance indus try in preventing drunken driving?” Peters said he hopes to use the Boston conference — which drew participants from as far away as Michigan and Wisconsin — as a model for a national con ference on the same issues. Peters, a Long Island, N.Y. “I used to think I was doing a great job. I used to get people drunk. I thought I was helping people have a good time. I never realized what I was really doing. ” — former bartender James Peters attend the University of Mas sachusetts in Amherst, he said. said. Those awardsarebm insurance rates. After classes, while working as a counselor for recovering alcoholics in Springfield, he realized how he had contributed to alcohol abuse as a bartender and founded Intermission. “By reducing drunken ing, you reduce the risko| suits and can still mainlainj fit,” he said. "The iestate bar that has foresight anjjj ize on this.” Many bar owners see refusing to serve an intoxicated customer as contrary to their business, but Peters says it can actually be good for business. native, worked in bars and res taurants in New York and Washington, D.C., before com ing to western Massachusetts to Bars and restaurants are being held accountable by vic tims of drunken driving acci dents, and juries are ordering them to pay damages, Peters For example, barsib offer more and belter prta non-alcoholic drinks, kc becoming popular butarti! available outside the hoi ters said. And by com crowds, bar owners cam easily spot an intoxicanlj tomer who should be further service while impu service in general. evelopment oundation “Meeting the Needs of Texas A&M ►c DOC DOC Today and Tomorrow” Office of Development Texas A&M University 610 Evans Library 845-8161 ** —vtie- Chinese find torn! with remains of human sacrifices United Press International PEKING — Archeologists DOC XK excavating 1,200-year-old tombs have unearthed the re mains of human sacrifices in Juniors, Seniors Grad, Vet, Med students Get your picture taken on-campus at the Aggieland photo 8:30 a.m.-12 noon, 1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. For more information call 693-6756 or 845-2681. agency which dozens of victims^ headed, mutilated or alive, the official Xinhm said Sunday, ic news agency archeologists, digging in xiang County in theceninl| of Shaanxi Province, di 30 tombs containing45 sacrifices” from the the Tang Dynasty, w] from 618 to 907. “Some were without and others without ft hands,” Xinhua said archeologists also notci some were shackled,ina position and thought tk had been buried alive.'’ One to six victims wert dismembered and their parts placed in tomb chambers and shafts. The tombs were disc last summer by the SI archeological leamast cleaning up a pre-Qinfc site that dated backatleas; years. The archeologists aid tombs a “missingTink’intii standing the Tang In system Tang tombs found lx ■‘favored were from the early anil years of the dynasty and contained such large mg of human sacrifice!, archeologists told Xinhua Ninety out of an esiin 1 10 tombs have been uneara utnsca E Unii QUI iresidei hough tb put tl lunoff )svaldc A re< al elec yielding 300 pieces of relks included life-size, tri-col: hlitary clay warriors, painted pci wed b and bronze mirrors; The Tang Dynasty is( tallied dered China’s golden age Tcbres lure and prosperity flow 6l the I and a highly developed Front i ernmental system andsWotes military made the countTpountec most advanced in theworkl. “I e a But halfway througkKxpect period — the time during‘fSiig ihe the tombs were construflcftiiechar rebellion erupted and^his hor empire temporarily crunMEcuado E j-jj s Xinhua said nothingolB d . identities of the victiwB^ whether the sacrificeswertf" nected to the turmoil. The archeologists, how said 15 of the excavated it contain one or two shafts, according to historical n should only be found into! the Tang imperial family. Party, ?otes. The against Shaanxi Province inn central China, the cradk| Chinese civilization, hast gold mine of other archeolol finds, including the famed] army” of human-size wan] buried in front of the toist China’s first emperor, Qi»I Huang Di. r K IV 'Extincf frog discovered United Press Intematioiul LONDON —A frog red scientific interest becafl incubates its eggs in itss has been discovered 75 north of its last known I near Brisbane, Australia,d years after it was believedj tinct. In its current issue,the‘ ! ly “New Scientist,” saysthe] originally excited imeresl cause it incubates its eg| stomach where they apparently unharmed 5'] female’s digestive juices. “Something must inhibl destructive effect of ther rochloric acid and othetl zymes in the frog’s digesti'l tern and that somethingcori extremely valuable in the# ment of human ulcers,] magazine said. One of the newly foundi] was pregnant, the magaj said, and it was rushed to' laide where eight zool physicians attended thebir*