by Scott McCullar
Tuesday, March 20, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5
O'Hair
questions
decision
:mergencies
ssistance can be hindered if victim is combative
implex
jntain.
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/SONDRA HOSTETLER
Reporter
Xmergency Medical Techni-
ns are trained to administer
lie life supppOrl to victims of"
icltnts, but assistance can be
5®red if the victim is cum
in
land Phillips, chief ambu-
ce operations for Texas
M said many incidents in-
_nng combative victims occur
a division of the Emer
gency Care Team, sponsors
special workshops to teach
EMTs and Emergency Care As
sistants how to handle a bellig
erent victim, Phillips said.
Injuries received by a victim
because of movement after an
accident can be as critical for
the victim as the initial injury, so
it is important for the EMS
members to learn how to con
trol a combative patient quickly,
he said.
Some of the techniques
taught in the seminars demcfti-
strale to the EMTs and ECAs
how to modify their basic stabi
lization equipment — splints
and bandages — to secure a
combative patient and protect
him from further injury, Phil
lips said.
The workshop also includes
lectures from a psychologist to
familiarize EMTs and ECAs
with calming phrases and tech
niques to soothe a disruptive
victim.
The workshops for the EMTs
and ECAs supplement the basic
training they receive in bandag
ing, splinting, taking vital signs,
and assessing victims for inju
ries. EMTs and ECAs are also
trained to administer oxygen.
Phillips said instances where
a victim is most likely to be com
bative include internal head in
juries, drug and alcohol related
instances or mental distur
bances.
United Press International
AUSTIN — Atheist leader
Madalyn Murray O’Hair said
Monday she would appeal a
federal district court ruling
upholding the Texas constitu
tion’s requirement that all pub
lic officials declare a belief in
God.
O’Hair filed suit against the
state in 1977 seeking to over
turn a section of the Texas con
stitution’s bill of rights that
mandates anyone who holds
public office or a position of
public trust to “acknowledge
the existence of a Supreme Be
ing.”
A federal district court in
Austin last week upheld the
constitutional provision. It
based its decision on recent U.S.
supreme Court rulings uphold
ing the Nebraska Legislature’s
practice of opening sessions
with prayers and permitting the
display of a Christmas nativity
scene on public property in
Rhode Island.
O’Hair said the recent ruling
inferred “agnostics and atheists
are unacceptable in the state of
Texas.”
udents doing research
f academic credit
By ERIN PYLE
Reporter
.“-rih year, the undergrad-
s in program at Texas
. ,M oilers qualified students
img 10 mddouunity to conduct in-
qU !i rii&nt research for aca-
- aid totlS
. . , in credit.
! me lick Pace, coordinator of the
liursity Undergraduate Fel-
f&roffram, says the purpose
away atwft. 1 0 • . • 1 .
7 iht program is to give stu-
nla chance to do serious re-
conuiMM c Ji stuss (heir projects
lion aid s t ll( j en i s an d faculty
wit:iBiers in the program, and
-n the UniS'd papers that summarize
llion coiil!findings at the program’s
=s, inch llUa l symposium in mid-
1 MoneiiP
Bank. I)*-’ program is two semes-
countrieiJpig in order to give stu
dents adequate time to complete
their research. Pace said some
students become so interested
in their projects that they spend
far more than the required time
on them.
To be accepted as an under
graduate fellow, the student
must be classified as a senior
when the program begins, have
a grade point ratio above 3.3
and submit to the University
Honors Program Committee a
research proposal that has been
endorsed by the student’s fac
ulty adviser, department head
and the college dean.
Applicants must submit pro
posals during the spring of
their junior year. The research
proposal should be six pages or
less and include a summary of
the project, the research meth
ods the student will use and a
budget for equipment and
other expenses. Acceptance to
the program allows seniors to
substitute six credit hours of
485H courses for other courses
in their curriculums. Pace said
almost any research proposal
can be accepted except those
dealing with religous topics.
The undergraduate fellows
program has 58 participants
this year. Students who success
fully complete the fellows pro
gram are recognized at com
mencement ceremonies, in
their official transcripts and by
a certificate. Pace said comple
tion of the program is of great
value to students when they
seek employment or acceptance
to graduate or professional
schools.
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rebuke waste sites discussed
United Press International
1AR1LLO — The size of
nts owneJB ,se( ' nuclear waste dispo-
Center. * Slles
' Sain 1
in Deaf Smith and
Isher counties have been re-
porary N * n a report to be released
st Thuri® av > officials said.
rhuri
n a conM
s docunid
Department of Energy
Ichecluled a 4
^toniocoflrfnce at the
library to
p.m. news
downtown
discuss
( |, l( in |ges in two of nine sites be-
ndi x4 tl,die(l as possible locations
iwo'chil J lie repository,
sptjai’sptfle other sites are in Wash-
unit r 11 ' Nevada, Utah, Loui-
exar CoW'r a,ld Mississippi. The re-
iiioii | 0r y would store waste from
Clerical nuclear power
- docunie# and is slated to start op-
:ycling cofgin 1998.
after spejr en Lalham, spokeswoman
Rothe dwattelle Institute of Colum
ns of announced the news
from M*
conference. The DOE hired
Battelle to prepare reports and
recommendations on the pro
posed sites.
Lalham said DOE and Bat
telle officials also would be in
Hereford and Tulia from 4
p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday to
answer questions from the pub
lic.
“They have the same status as
far as the other seven sites. The
difference is instead of being
hundreds of square miles
they’re much smaller — down
to 9 square miles,” Lalham said
of the revisions in the Panhan
dle sites.
DOE officials have said the
Panhandle locations were se
lected because of thick salt beds
that could be used to store the
waste. Opponents of the West
Texas sites argue nuclear waste
al-
sites might contaminate an
ready scarce water supply.
The High Plains Under
ground Water Conservation
District based in Lubbock and
slate Agriculture Secretary Jim
Hightower oppose putting the
disposal site in the Panhandle.
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