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Page 4A"he BattalionAVednesday, January 8, 1986 Battalion Classifieds WANTED STUDY I Recent injury to wrist, knee or ankle? Severe enough pain to remain on study up to 10 days and 5 visits? STUDY II Recent injury with pain to any muscle or joint? One-dbse (4 hours) in-house study. STUDY III Recent injury Study of 2 day duration with only 2 visits re quired. Volunteers interested in participating in investigative drug studies will be paid for their time and cooperation. G&S Studies, inc. 846-5933 FOR RENT AM CAMPUS LOUPOT’S BOOKSTORE Now Leasing! We will pay your security deposit plus, free rent for February! Starting at $250.00 3902 COLLEGE MAIN country place apartments 846 0515 . 50t11/8 -.Condo lor sale or rent. 1 Bdrrn., 1 VS bath, studio type. Good location. Woodbrook Condos. 764-1951. 71tl/8 AAA Apt. 3 bedroom. 2 bath S375. 2 bedroom, fenced. house S350. Near A&M. December free. 693-5286. (vStfn 2 & 3 bdrm. house. Some near campus. $300. - $450. 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In first announcing plans for the plant last June, HNG-Inter- North officials said that using natu ral gas to produce two kinds of power is more economical than us ing conventional methods. , The plant will employ about 25 people in operations and mainte nance when it opens in mid-1987, Northern said. Waldo HOWOV/TMIS IS YOUR v/ORLD F4MOU3 CARTOOWIST MERC TO MAKE SOME IkJTRODUcT/Ohls! ON MY RI GMT IS RHONDA/ THE BATTALION EDITOR FROM THE FALL SEMESTER. ON MY left IS MICHELLE, OuR NEW EDITOR FOR THE SPRING ■SEMESTER/ I you COULD SAY that RHONDA HAS PASSED ON TME RAINS TO MICHELLE/ by Kevin Thomas SHOE by Jeff MacNelly Pest control Exterminators working the bugs out of A&M By KRIS SHEELEY Reporter From raccoons to rats, “crazy” ants to termites, Texas A&M’s exter mination program is in charge of the campus’ pest control. Bill Shepherd, head of the pro gram, is assisted by another full-time exterminator and a part-time stu dent assistant. “The worst pest problem at this time are the crazy ants — they are named this because they run fast and from side to side,” Shepherd says. “They are a particular problem within the dorms, but they don’t bi te.” Other problems common to spe cific areas on campus are the Ger man cockroaches in married student housing and rats on the west side of campus, he says. One of the most effective methods of pest control is alerting the exter minators to the problem before it gets out of hand. Shepherd says. “An example of when a problem gets out of hand is something that occured a few years ago,” he says. “A student in married student housing had a roach problem that steadily grew worse because she did not in form us about the problem. When we were finally notified, we found that she had been keeping a stale doughnut and an old chicken leg in the corner of the apartment to keep the roaches in one corner of the room.” The three most common pest con trol problems — fleas, termites and roaches — are fairly seasonal, he says. Fleas are the worst during the summer and termites peak in April and May. Roaches are a problem all year, Shepherd says. General purpose extermination is performed on most campus build ings every three months. Shepherd notifies the occupants of the build ings two weeks in advance of the date of extermination so they can be prepared. Certain rooms, such as some of the laboratories, need the notification so they can tell Shep herd where not to perform treat ments. The dorms are treated on a dif ferent schedule. Because of stu dents, they are treated during the summers, and then any other prob lems are dealt with on a priority basis during the Christmas holidays. “Seventy-five percent of tne insect problems in the dorm areas exist be cause they are not kept clean,” Shep herd says. “Even crumbs left on the floor, a coffee cup or dirty dish left out overnight can cause pest prob lems.” Shepherd says some simple yet ef fective ways to nelp with pest control are: • Keep the dorm areas, especially rooms, clean. • Cooperate with the extermina tors. “Have the rooms ready so we can takecare of the problem and do the best job possible,” he says. “If you are askea to have the cabinets cleaned out, please try to have it do ne.” • In a dorm, contact the resident advisers as soon as possible upon finding a problem so they can get a work order out immediately to mini mize the problem. Shepherd says one of his favorite examples of a person waiting too long before calling attention to a problem is of a professor that ne glected to call anyone when he no ticed a termite problem. When he fi nally alerted the exterminators, the termites had already eaten through the back of his bookcase and de voured six years of lecture notes. An unusual problem found only in G. Rollie White Coliseum, Shep herd says, is the raccoons that are sometimes found to be living in the ceiling and munching on the insula tion and pneumatic pipes. Quite a few have sneaked through the steam tunnels in the last 10 years, he says. “I capture them with a harmless trap and set them free in the woods by Easterwood Airport,” Shepherd says. “Once I caught five in one day — a mother and her children. It took me a while, but I was able to get all of them back to the woods.” Group helps children search for new homes By KAREN MCINTSOH Reporter Alfred, 6, and Rosemary, 13, are brother and sister. Alfred is mildly retarded. He and his sister need a two parent family who will spend time with them. These children are two of the 75 to 85 children each month in Brazos and seven surrounding counties that need adoptive parents. Brenda Rumfield, regional adop tion worker for the Department of Human Resources, locates families for these children. “Most of the children come out of abuse or neglect backgrounds,” Rumfield says. “Of course our first priority is to work with families of children who can return home.” In fact, Rumfield notes that 80 ercent of the children brought to er attention are returned home. The others can’t go home because they are in danger of physical injury, she says. “If we are not able to return the child home safely,” Rumfield says, “then we approach the courts.” In these cases, the courts inter vene and in some cases will decide the child needs a new family. At that point, Rumfield begins looking for a family for the child. These children are difficult to place because often they are physi cally or mentally handicapped, mi norities, or need to be placed with their brother or sister. Rumfield looks for families that meet the needs of the child, not a family where the child fits the fami ly’s desires. Because there are more children who need families than families looking for children, Rumfield tries to promote the adoption of needy children. She does public appearances, talks to church groups, sends out fliers and sets up displays. And every year there is a special adoption recruitment drive. Adop tion Week is a special program held every year to promote community awareness of unadoptable children, Rumfield says. But, Rumfield says she doesn’t usually get an immediate response from parents that attend adoption week. Rumfield says interested par ents will usually not call until the spring after they study their situa tion. “There is a decision process invol ved,” Rumfield says. “People will call and say, ‘remember that adoption week you had last fall?’ ” Rumfield says she has many adop tive parents who are faculty and graduate students at Texas A&M. “A graduate student has more flexible hours than an undergradua te,” Rumfield says. “A child takes a lot of time.” To adopt a child, parents must meet certain criteria required by law and the agency. Parents should be close to the ages of the child’s natural parents. For example, Rumfield explains that a 75-year-old woman would not be al lowed to adopt a 5-year-old child. Rumfield says potential parents need to pass a physical exam to prove they aie healthy enough to care for a child. Applicants must have been mar ried for two years. But if one of the parents has been divorced, the cou ple must have been married for three years. Applicants can be single too, Rumfield says. Financial status is evaluated on past and present money manage ment, Rumfield says. The adult’s in come should be sufficient to meet the needs of one more child in the home. In her evaluation, Rumfield looks for adults who can deal with an agency. “It has a lot to do with procedu res,” Rumfield says. “They have to live with rules and regulations.” She also says that the family should be able to provide a stable, se cure, and strong home environment. “The child has often not experi- ■enced stability,” Rumfield says. After the adoption, therapy is available for the child and the parent to help them adjust. Columbia launch delayed CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The shuttle Columbia’s return to space was delayed for a fifth time Tuesday by sand blowing off the Sahara and clouds in Spain and Florida that blocked visibility at emergency runways. “We have a bad habit going here,” remarked mission com mander Robert Gibson as he and his six astronaut colleagues left their spacecraft after once again waiting hours for a launch that did not happen. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration reset the liftoff for 7:05 a.m. EST Thurs day. Columbia, the first shuttle to reach orbit, has been out of serv ice more than two years under going renovations. THEATRE GUIDE R«!ucW Adniivori | Cinemas •"] ICott»o9ML-Vr MMMgM ' ■ MS-ST14 Shows ■ MSfW * Saturday ■ The Jewel of the Nile Cinema 111 315 College N. 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