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merges shuttle bus service
for Munson, Scarlett O’Hara runs
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oredunH The Munson and Scarlett O’Hara bus routes
il poina were combined Monday, said Douglas G. Wil-
e reponftms, manager of Texas A&M bus operations.
[ nod™ The routes had been combined last semester,
eddtai- but only from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., Williams
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ons. |f Both bus routes now include all the stops along
85 ANjHniversity Oaks Street. Under the revised route,
the Scarlett O’Hara buses stop at the Plantation
0aks apartments first and the Village Green and
Tanglewood apartments last. The Munson buses
' wasi11 now run in the opposite direction along Univer-
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ttion wiH Because of these changes, buses will be three
tsestoVB» f our minutes apart before 10 a.m. along the
ternsisBantation Oaks, Sausalito, Sundance, Court-
ere yard, Travis House and Village Green bus stops.
After 10 a.m., the buses will be about six minutes
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Before the new plan was implemented, Scar
lett O’Hara buses ran 12 to 15 minutes apart.
“The changes in bus routes mainly help stu
dents on the Scarlett O’Hara route,” said Bill
Conaway Jr., assistant manager of bus opera-
tions.
“Students on the Scarlett O'Hara
route are used to .. . waiting eight
minutes for a bus, but. . . they were
waiting up to 15 minutes.”
— Bill Conaway Jr., assistant
manager of bus operations
The decision to combine routes was made af
ter students complained about long waits for
buses and being late to class, but bus operations
won’t charge extra money for the changes, Cona
way said.
“This will make things a lot easier,” said Chris
Stafford, a sophomore electrical engineering ma
jor. “Sometimes I would wait as long as 22 minu
tes.”
The reason the Scarlett O’Hara buses don’t
run as often as last semester is that the buses on
the new Dartmouth route now pick up some of
the students who used to be on the Scarlett
O’Hara route, Conaway said. Because the Scar
lett O’Hara route eliminated two bus stops
(Woodstock and Post Oak Village), bus opera
tions could not afford to spend as much money
on the route.
Last semester, bus operations allotted three
buses to the Scarlett O’Hara route, while this se
mester there are only two, he said.
“Students on the Scarlett O’Hara route are
used to better services, waiting eight minutes for
a bus,” Conaway said, “but at the beginning of
this semester, they were waiting up to 15 minu
tes.”
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to delay show
on condom use
■ FORT WORTH (AP) — A
Rlevision sitcom episode about a
||en-age boy who buys condoms
fwill be run by the NBC affiliate in
the Dallas-Fort Worth area on a
delayed basis and will be followed
t a forum on teen-age preg-
ncy, station officials say.
Doug Adams, news director of
tAS-TV, said the station re
ived permission from NBC to
the episode of “Valerie” at
10:30 p.m. CST Sunday instead
of its regular 7:30 p.m. time slot.
■ The station earlier had an
nounced it would not run the epi
sode.
■ In the episode, series star Vale
rie Harper discovers her 17-year-
old son has purchased condoms
as a safeguard for a sexual en
counter.
I “Our feeling is that we’re sup
portive of the show and of teens
latching it,” said O’Neil. “But we
think we’ve made a contract with
families that between 7 p.m. and
8 p.m. they don’t have to worry
about the programming that’s
poming into their home.”
I The show will be followed by a
forum on teen-age pregnancy to
be produced by the station. Ad-
said.
Doctors: Mexican diet pills
can endanger student users
By Tami Tate
Reporter
Some college students are losing
weight with possibly harmful diet
pills obtainea in Nuevo Laredo,
Mexico.
One of those students, Lisa Dick-
ard, a student at the University of
Texas, has been taking the diet pills
since August 1986.
Dickard, 21, says she heard about
the diet pills through a friend.
Dickard and her roommate, Pam
Pinder, first went to Nuevo Laredo
in August 1986. They crossed the
border into Mexico, hailed a taxi and
gave the driver the address of a phy
sician who would prescribe the pills,
she says.
About 25 people were waiting for
prescriptions in the doctor’s office,
which she says was about the size of a
bathroom.
Before receiving any pills, the
women were told to fill out an index
card with their names and heights,
Dickard says, and then they were
weighed.
The doctor then showed her the
drugs — three different pills. One is
taken early in the morning, another
at about 10 a.m. and the last at 2
p.m., she says.
One of the pills, which the doctor
called a “fatburner,” had no pre
scription, ingredients or name on
the pill bottle. The other two drugs,
Miccil and lonamin, required a pre
scription, Dickard says. The cost for
a three-month prescription and the
doctor visit totaled $30, she says.
The pills were obtained at a local
pharmacist in Nuevo Laredo. In or
der to bring the drugs into the
United States, proof of a prescrip
tion was required, she says.
John Thompson, associate direc
tor for the Texas State Poison Cen
ter, says Miccil is a diuretic which
produces urine flow, therefore, get
ting rid of excess fluid. If used in ex
cess, Thompson says, a person can
become dehydrated. lonamin, an
appetite suppressant, can lead to
high blood pressure and a high
heart rate if too much is taken, he
says.
Jackie Howell, a nursing supervi
sor and licenced vocational nurse at
Care Plus in College Station agreed
with Thompson, saying lonamin is
an amphetamine, more commonly
known as speed, and affects the cen
tral nervous system.
Howell says the Physicians Desk
Reference characterizes lonamin as
a short-term weight reducer that el
evates the blood pressure and causes
stimulation and hyperactivity. lona-
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Dickard lost 15 pounds in three
weeks and says she could hardly eat
for a week. The Nuevo Laredo doc
tor had told her she would lose most
of the weight in the first two weeks.
“The first day is the worst,” she
says. “It sort of makes you feel like
you’re in a daze the first day.”
When she began taking the diet
pills, Dickard says she couldn’t sleep
for a few days and when she did, it
was a fitful sleep. She also noticed
having a lot of energy, and then
none at all. She thought it was be
cause one of the pills was a stimulant
and the other pill counteracted the
first one.
Dickard says she wasn’t afraid to
take the pills because she has never
had heart or blood problems and
would probably continue taking
them.
In Dickard’s opinion, the Nuevo
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diet pills to anyone, including un
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“He wouldn’t care I don’t think,”
she says. “He doesn’t care.”
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