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.
Anne McGowan, adaptive physical edu-
action teacher, says the classes cater to stu
dents and their particular disability. She
says she organizes the classes depending on
each student’s disability and personal goals.
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