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BALANCING
A&M
STUDENTS
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Some policies protect
second house from fir
Parents' insurance may apply to student
By Jessica Brown
Reporter
faced with the t eal dilemma — to in-
Student apartment dwellers who
have tucked the worrisome question
of Fire insurance into the farthest
corner of their minds may have less
to worry about than they think —
they may already be covered
through their parents’ insurance.
“Most Texas standard homeown
er’s policies include a built-in allow
ance which covers a second family
dwelling,” says Bobby Estes of All
state Insurance Company. “But the
actual value of coverage for the sec
ond dwelling is only 10 percent of
the amount assigned to the personal
property of the basic policy.”
While this figure may vary, it’s ap
plicable to most students whose par
ents carry a standard homeowner’s
“B” policy, he says.
“You need to alert your local
agent that you are using this second
dwelling coverage, as the agent may
wish an inventory of contents,” Estes
warns.
However, students whose parents
don’t have a homeowner’s policy are
sure or not to insure.
Although it may be tempting to
play the odds of not insuring, a fire
in Bryan’s Christopher Village
Apartments (now Mockingbird Run
Apartments) on March 8 sparked
memories of the 13-unit conflagra
tion last April of College Station’s
Sausalito Apartments, which left
about 50 A&M students homeless.
Sausalito leasing agent Steve
Mernelstein was instrumental in or
ganizing aid programs and relocat
ing the burned-out residents to
other complexes after the Fire, but
he says reimbursement for personal
loss is questionable.
“We have insurance to cover elec
trical shortages and other prospec
tive Fire starters,” explains A1 Pic-
ariello, manager of Plantation Oaks
Apartments.
“However, we advise . . . our ten
ants to take out renter’s insurance
because they would be liable if the
Fire started due to their negligence.”
Apartment managers are quick to
remind potential tenants that insur
ance is the tenant’s responsibility.
Sheryl Machen, assistacij
o f Briai wood apartments,!!
don’t provide fire insur,|
their personal belongings
ei’s insurance is availabl
insurance companies arousl
However, a call to inijii!
the cost of a fire protect};-!
may discourage potentialttj
Estes says the availabiliq
er’s insurance is limited!
whose apartments containl
$ 10,000 and $ 12,000 wont]
erty.
For those not eliminitt!
minimum property valutl
ment, Estes says, the annul
urns can range from $79to||
pending on the construa
apartment dwelling. Tbtj
pensive premiums are;
wood-frame apartments;
expensive are for brickie
plexes, he adds.
Gary Voss, an agent will
Insurance Co., says thaij
limiting and costly theinsii;
average deductible of
compared to most other res
surance.
Students organize
drug-free hangout
in gym for peers
AUSTIN (AP) — A group of high
school students, betting teen-agers
want to dance more than they want
to take drugs or drink, Wednesday
announced the opening of a chemi
cal-free hangout.
Operation Sober Alternatives for
Every Texas Youth was formed to
Find ways for teen-agers to socialize
without facing pressures of drugs
and alcohol, said Larry Laden, an
Austin attorney supporting the
group.
“It’s simply a group of individuals
donating their time, their energies,
their money from here in Austin to
help the high school students,” La
den said.
“It’s a group of students who want
a chance to socialize without the
pressures of drugs and alcohol on
them or their peers,” he said.
The Austin Independent School
District donated a gymnasium on the
Austin Community College campus
for the group to use every Saturday
during the program’s one-month
trial period.
One reason students turn to drugs
and alcohol is that there is nothing
else to do on a Saturday night, said
Derek Castillo, a Travis High School
junior.
“It gets boring just cruising Sixth
Street,” he said of the Austin street
lined with bars and nightclubs.
Stephanie Williams, a local tele
vision broadcaster, said the group
plans to get radio disc jockeys and lo
cal bands to entertain the teen-agers.
The students also plan to use their
own bands or talents, she said.
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby called the pro
ject a “superb example of what con
cerned and involved citizens can
do.”
The organization is relying on
contributions from local citizens
rather than tax money. Laden said,
including pay for police ofFicers who
al
will patrol the parking lot of the
gym.
Laden said the idea for the chemi
cal-free hangout started with a
group of professionals, including
drug counselors, physicians and
ministers.
“They realized that one of the
problems of one of the kids they
were working with was the peer
pressure,” Laden said. “Simply be
cause of a lack of something else to
do, they get together and start
drinking and taking drugs.”
The rate of youth arrests and
crimes tends to peak on Saturdays,
according to the Austin Police De
partment.
The police department took 596
teen-agers into custody in 1986, said
police Lt. Alvin Shaw, who heads the
youth services detail.
“We’re picking up everybody in
the whole spectrum; rich kids, poor
kids, black kids and white kids,”
Shaw said.
Students at Travis, Anderson and
McCallum high schools are advertis
ing the dance hall through their stu
dent councils and say so far their
peers are interested. Williams said
schools in San Antonio and Houston
have called and are interested in
forming similar groups.
Texas SenlP^
BRAZ<
approvesl ^
alimony bir^"
AUSTIN (AP) — Tht
approved a bill Wednd;
sored by Kent Capmtl
Bryan, that will allow”
join the other 49 statHiii
vide for some type of
divorce cases.
The limited alimony :A|
was sent to the House;:*
vot r e , .. T gjSNEAi
Caperton said Texas™ t | u , ]
women senators — Eddie:#'; <■
Johnson <>l I Ltll.iv Judie T ai
rini of I^iredo and Cvndil % s
Vi 11 \ i in mu > — nor M A N A
of his alimony bill.
Under the measure,
maintenance" could be
only in cases in which ibt
had Ixeen married at lo
years and in which ont
could not support himself
self without obtaining«
skills
I lie alimony couldbea-
for up to three years,anc
be limited to a maxim
S 1,500 per month.
“It’s so limited andsoi
that it should cause fear
hearts of no one — as
woman — and it doesap
ther spouse," Caperton
porters. He said if the i
stayed home to raise
brou
Bloc
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semi
West
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dent
Dext
ter j
A&IV
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p.m.
:oloi
p.m.
NTER
7 p.n
tend the house, then hew
CHESS
eligible for support.
Caperton said themost^
tant reason for passing;
was that it would give if
court some discretioninc
volving traditional mail
where a spouse stays at ho:;
does not develop empl
skills.
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Carrier wins 21-year-old
for intrastate delivery servio
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AUSTIN (AP) — A state appeals
court Wednesday upheld a Railroad
Commission order authorizing
United Parcel Service to operate a
small-package pickup and delivery
service between all points in Texas.
The ruling by tne 3rd Court of
Appeals came after Beaver Express
Service Inc., and other motor car
riers, appealed an Austin district
court’s ruling affirming the Jan. 21,
1985, Railroad Commission order.
“The Legislature intended the
Motor Carriers Act to be an exclu
sive statute only permitting such
commercial carrier traffic as ex
pressly authorized by its provisions,”
he added.
Wednesday’s ruling was the latest
action in a long battle over UPS ship
ments within Texas.
rejected the UPS ap
conducted another hearing
courts sent the case back h
commission examiner t
testimony from 600 witness
hearings produced a recoij
tion in favor of the s L
The appeals court, in an opinion
by Justice John Powers, rejected ar
guments that the commission lacked
authority to grant a common-carrier
certificate authorizing the manner
of statewide pickup and delivery op
erations proposed by UPS.
State law on the Railroad Com
mission’s authority “is a power to ‘li
cense’ the . . . transportation of
goods,” Powers’ opinion said.
“Shall we then interpret the Su
preme Court’s (earlier) opinion to
mean that the commission may per
haps ‘hear and consider’ the UPS ap
plication, but that it may not autho
rize the manner of operation
proposed therein?” he asked.
UPS began its Fight for permission
to make deliveries from one point in
Texas to another in March 1966.
The Railroad Commission initially
P an y- M
UPS got the final g°f|AUSTIN
year, and on Feb. 24, l^LX e vote(
First delivery from Texas ^ SOn anc j ■
symbolically handling a m stpr j so
then-Railroad Commissit |[ et y ^ ^
man Buddy Temple sentwi^p jyj a J.
Pproved in
■more H
gthat won
[pte law
against Speedy Trial Acl|^ «
Court overturns argumef
Justice Jim Brady’s dissenting
opinion said the commission’s action
had, in effect, created a “new class of
carriers” by authorizing UPS to de
liver freight over irregular routes
and schedules.
“While the commission may have
had jurisdiction to consider the
(UPS) application, it does not nec
essarily follow that it had the power
to grant all portions of it,” Brady ar
gued.
AUSTIN (AP) — The 3rd Court
of Appeals Wednesday rejected the
state’s argument that the Speedy
Trial Act is unconstitutional.
The ruling came in a Caldwell
County case in which the appeals
court reversed a Driving While In
toxicated conviction of Stanley Orn.
Orn’s DWI conviction, his second
offense, had landed him a sentence
of up to 180 days in jail and a $500
Fine.
He appealed on the grounds that
the trial court erred in overruling his
motion that he had been denied
rights under the Speedy Trial Act.
Orn was arrested for the First
DWI offense Dec. 5, 1985, and on
March 24, 1986, he was charged
with a misdemeanor charge of DWI,
second offense.
j|tm peop
Orn contended thatbOTppt most
than 90 days elapsed bet'' fi T? ain g sta te
rest and the filing of officer
was denied a speedy trial. Rhe law r
Justice Marilyn Aboil#*!
ered the court’s opinion,;/
tne act# 1 :
Ir ce only in
itnoritv giv
'tiles, D-I
enough,
ion coul
I Texas f
state argued that
tutional because it violates 1
ration of powers doctrine**
the Texas Constitution W
ting the Legislature to (1 L
ui'^>n the duties of theji/ ns a bout t<
cc oncerned.” gcorrectia
Criminal defendants ! ii ||| t:o do is
anteed a speedy public ( r iot) t
Sixth Amendment to thosi
States Constitution andb) t0 b
Texas Constitution,” the they
court opinion said.
Trial Act merely defines "f,, e Hous
be considered reasonable df^’^o’s an
av e made tl