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Friday, October 17, 1986AThe Battalion/Page 3 State and Local ors don’t stop forA&M’s buses Shuttle riders advised to be careful By Jo Ann Able Staff Writer exas A&M shuttle bus pas- gers who step off buses into I path of oncoming traffic may be unaware that no law exists re- quiring motorists to stop for the puses as they must when public school buses are loading and un loading children. ■Jerry Cain, associate general counsel in the A&M Office of Le gal Affairs, says there is no stat utory requirement for motorists toftop for shuttle buses. ■‘They’re treated just like city ljuses in Dallas, Austin, Houston or San Antonio,” Cain says. “The obligation that exists on motor ists, of course, is to drive with care M to use caution whenever it’s required. The same thing applies to the passengers.” ■dam says he thinks the statutes applying to school buses exist be cause it is presumed that children are less likely to pay attention to dangers when they step off a bus. ■The presumption is that ev- i w w? Traffic passes as students board a bus. eryone riding the A&M shuttle bus is an adult and will make sure the way is clear before they pro ceed,” Cain says. Doug Williams, assistant man ager of bus operations, says there have been no accidents involving passengers exiting shuttle buses, but there have been a lot of near misses. He says students often have their minds on tests and such, and don’t pay attention. “They’ll be daydreaming miles down the road and they get off the bus and just start crossing the road,” Williams says. “And one of these days one of them is going to get killed because there’s nothing we can do to stop traffic.” Williams says drivers some times honk the bus horns to warn passengers of oncoming vehicles, but that’s the extent of their in volvement. Lou McCoy, a researcher in the Research and Communications Division of the Texas attorney general’s office, says it’s possible to change the law. Photo by Greg Bailey “What you would have to do is get a state representative or sen ator to support a bill and am- mend the current law,” McCoy says. Sen. Kent Caperton, D-Bryan, says he doesn’t know that this is sue has been specifically ad dressed since he’s been a state senator. “Certainly, if any groups brought it to my attention I’d . . . try to explore the possibilities of enacting such legislation,” Caper- ton says. ‘Attitude change a must for control of cocaine trade’ By Olivier Uyttebrouck Staff Writer Governments will be unable to control the cocaine trade by military and legal means unless social atti tudes toward drug use change, speakers at a seminar on the interna tional cocaine trade said Thursday. Carlos Miranda, spokesman for the Bolivian Student Association, said at a seminar sponsored by the International Students’ Association that the cocaine trade is so open and widespread there that drug kingpin Roberto Suarez recently offered to pay a $380 million portion of the Bo livian foreign debt in exchange for a presidential pardon. “Like it or not, everybody’s got a price and cocaine involves unbelie vable amounts of money,” Miranda said when asked about the involve ment of government officials in the cocaine trade. Rosa Yupari, spokesman tor the Peruvian Student Association, said that the Peruvian government has long controlled the trade of raw coca leaves within the country. Coca in unprocessed form has been in popu lar use in South America since the days of Spanish rule, especially among Indians, Yupari said. Miranda said that in raw form, coca is not addictive. Because of its long-standing popular cultivation and use in South America, it would be nearly impossible for the govern ment to destroy the Bolivian coca crop. “It’s like trying to irradicate part of their culture and that’s impossib le,” Miranda said. But in the past five years, much more potent forms such as crack and cocaine paste — the by-product of Bolivia’s thriving trade with the United States — are becoming more prevalent, creating a growing prob lem of cocaine addiction in that country. Dr. Henry C. Smith, A&M profes sor of Latin American studies, said that the United States government’s new policy of sending U.S. agents and soldiers into foreign nations constitutes a dramatic departure from past styles of controlling the drug trade. But he said drug use in Western society is only a symptom of deeper problems such as the quickening pace of life. budget cuts may hit programs for handicapped By Julie Vass Reporter IState budget cuts could hamper efforts | organizations at Texas A&M that work with handicapped students to improve fa- pesand services, says Dr. Charles Powell, Ictor of the Handicap and Veterans lices. IPowell says Handicap and Veterans Serv- jees, located in Hart Hall, is on a limited ■get and that budget may not cover all of (lie yearly improvements on ramps and curb cuts. He says accessibility to buildings and classrooms affects not only handicapped students, but their classmates as well. Not all buildings are easy to get into or get around in, he says, and if a hand icapped student has a class in such a build ing, the entire class will be moved. “Mobility and access on this campus are better than most,” Powell says, “and every year it is increased and improved.” The lack of money also has discouraged any new plans for the service office even though the office needs to expand testing and repair facilities, he says. “Mostly we need more people and more space, and that would mean more services,” he says. Powell says volunteers help ease the bur den of the tight budget. He says one con stant source of help has been the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega. Susan Franklin, president of APO, says there should be more projects that promote handicap awareness and educate students about handicapped students. She says the fraternity supplies volun teers who read for the blind, help hand icapped students by writing or reading, lo cate and paint curb cuts, and raise money through fund raisers. The call for more money is repeated not only by Powell, but also by John Greening, senior counselor at the Texas Rehabilita tion Commission. Greening says many of the commission’s services have weakened since the budget cuts — including cutbacks in non-severe surgery and hospitalization. “The whole purpose of the TRC is to serve the handicapped . . . and to have (them) trained in a job they can do after graduation,” he says. The TRC offers several services to eligi ble students free of charge, including tu ition fees, room and board, mobility assis tance, attendant care, interpreters, note- takers and tutors. Another service offered to handicapped students is adaptive physical education with classes in weight training and adaptive aquatics. 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