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Available in original or Texas pan crust Born N' Baked In Texas Please mention coupon when ordering Page 6 The Battalion Thursday, December (Continued from page 1) Three Texas A&M students have Guide Dogs. Laura Ann Grymes, a junior el ementary education major from Taft has been blind since birth be cause of a retinal disorder. She can see shadows and the outlines of peo ple during the day, but at night she sees nothing. At 16, she began using a walking cane for greater mobility. She learned to use the cane very quickly, and learned to walk almost every where. It’s essential to learn how to use a cane before getting a dog guide, Grymes said. She researched many dog guide schools before deciding upon Guide Dogs for the Blind because of its reputation, she said. Grymes applied for a Guide Dog at the end of her freshman year at A&M because she wanted to famil iarize herself with the campus before bringing a dog into the environ ment. During the first three days of Guide Dog school, students learn how to use a harness with an instruc tor before learning how to use it with a Guide Dog. The instructors teach students the various commands for the dogs: forward, left, right, hop up and basic obedience: sit, down, stay, come and fetch. Instructors observe the personali ties, behaviors, attitudes and stu dents’ walking style during these three days and try to match the Guide Dogs’ personality and walking style with that of the students. On the fourth day, the Guide Dogs are introduced to their new owners, and training continues. Grymes received Danna, a yellow labrador retriever, in June 1987. “You’re going to walk at least two miles a day,” she said. “You have to be physically able to do this before going to the school. And don’t ex pect to lose any weight, the cook is great.” Some students practice giving commands to the dogs in the coun tryside, residential areas, San Fran cisco and Chinatown, she said. After training in residential areas, stu dents go into San Francisco to learn to maneuver intersections, and into Chinatown to deal with crowds. “When we were in Chinatown, a man asked us if he could buy one of the dogs so he could cook it,” Grymes said. “We said no.” Near the end of the training ses sion, students have a ‘Drop Off,’ she said. Students and their dogs are left in town and have to make their way to a predetermined location. “I had no trouble finding my way back and stopped along the way at a candy shop,” she said. At the end of the month’s train ing, a graduation ceremony is held. Members of 4-H give the Guide Dogs to their new owners, and the students talk about their experiences at the school. “Danna gives me more indepen dence, and I can go more places by myself,” she said. “People aren’t so afraid to come up and talk to me now that I have Danna.” Sometimes, people are afraid to approach a blind person using a cane, she said. Danna is cheerful, calm, hard- headed, hyperactive and a lot of fun, Grymes said. “When I was introducing a friend at noon Bible study, Danna leaped across the floor and ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in one big gulp before anyone realized what she was doing,” she said.“The pea nut butter stuck to the roof of Dan- na’s mouth and she had a hard time getting it off. “But we get along great when Danna does things my way.” Allan Landin, 31, an A&M grad uate studying education curriculum and instruction, lost his vision in 1985 in an oil well accident. It took Landin six months to re cover emotionally from the accident and begin using a cane, he said. He used a cane for a year and then de cided to get a dog guide. Landin chose Guide Dogs because of the organization’s follow-up serv ices. “I know other people who have dog guides, and when they eij enced trouble with them, thejj tried to answer their questions the phone,” he said. “It’s had show them what the dog is j, wrong over the phone ' Guide Dogs sends a represt live to students’ homes to solve; lems with the dogs. Landin received Alexis,aGe^ shepherd, last summer. Walking with Alexis is a change from using a cane, la- said UNITED N enerai Asse sverwhelming “With a cane, 1 have contact, |enial of a visa the ground, and I can feel an doors,” he said. “With Alexis,i isn’t any ground contact." Las has to know the area to place to another safely. Many people hold the miscor; lion that if a blind person hasa j 0IL Britain guide, he or she can go ansvi without getting lost. But Landin said, “I have toll he resolutior where I’m going. Alexis d« tlanned to me know the Academic Buildings niother resoh any other building.” A blind person and thedoggi are like a bus driver and a bus ‘'Once when Felicia, f riend and I were resii my f riend told me Felt saw a squirrel andck it up a tree. Felicia looking up the tree at squirrel then looked at me with a 'Oh noj'nii trouble now’look.” Wendy Rigden, a fres man Spanish majorfn Phi said. If the bus is out ofcontrd eryone in it and around it isinu gainst time t< hit Teaching the dog guide tool* an important part of makingai cient team with the ddg, hesaid "I keep up with Alexis’discipi and I am Consistent with her. has to turn right when Itellbc turn light and not chase soi carrying a lunchpail.” Kverytime Alexis doessomeK correctly, Landin praises her [irst step towa Geneva to h ext month. The vote ii embly was 15 nd Israel vot ions were abs Arab diplo ral Assembly ember to hea leclaration of inian state. The resolu lay requester ral Javier Pei ick on the U ay. Me fac MEXICO ( alinas de G< onalist with I -ecomes Mex: lay and imm ‘If I praise her, she’ll looks ialinas will loc ry economica hologically. Six years o usterity havi ilitical oppos elf has said t |ystem” — a s lexico for al take. When he ta dative palace low times hav (ongressmen, titutional Re me, he said. “1 trust her teka know she knows what she's Landin said Alexis seems tot to he an air-traffic controller, j nunprecedei day in training, 1 felt A lexis tun® on. head left and right, left and n; Salinas' vie and I wondered what she > >ver 50 perc doing,” he Said. “My instructors narred by acc me she was watching butterflies.’ Wendy Rigden, a freshmanSp )ver the wee ish major from Plano, had cancer the retina, and her eyes were moved when she was a year old. She went to Guide Dogs in 1987 and received Felicia, a vti lardenas labe nate preside reads of state labrador retreiver. When the instructors called name to receive a Guide DogSastro should ran so fast that she forgot herb rauguration. she said. “With Felicia, 1 can gc places and do more things own,” Rigden said. “Felicia at mh a foreig me to he more independentth In economy I cane ever did.” Walking with Felicia to the post office, supermarket various places on campus. he result sti National Dem ity halls in Mi Only last w residential c Salinas nee (emonstrate ib, but he is Sx years and kreent. [ Yet there r hay have a b< i Lessor, Mi dose biggesr stop an ec< event social De la Madr it director, ent s contro f state-ow rshed effort !pendence c g its industr arid market: The differ said. She usually sits under s' fx years ago i thing and watches feet, kneesi lonfident we legs and sometimes tries to- I? - ; l| u . m kith Howard If the Guide Dog dies orrei estamant am 10 years of age, a new dog is girt I ^ a inas las the blind person after a tw‘ : training session. If the blind pf 1 S ain ’ an j' dies, the dog is returned io |ountrv need school and given to a new owner Bentsen: Bush must Wo make budget plans for WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, chairman of the Sen ate Finance Committee, said Wednesday it is the responsibility of president-elect George Bush to set out a budget blueprint as part of the price of leadership. Bush has made no final decision on whether to offer his own revi sions to the budget President Rea gan will submit to Congress on Jan. 9. Democrats have been critical of any failure by Bush to come forth with his own suggestions. “It is his responsibility to set out a blueprint of those things he believes in that should be in the budget, on major points, of what’s going to hap pen to Medicare; we’ve heard these stories floated about a $5 billion cut, is he part of that thinking? Has he totally excluded revenue-raisers? What about defense?” Bentsen said. “That’s part of his responsibility,, that’s part of the price of lead ership,” Bentsen, who was the Dem ocratic nominee for vice president, said. “The president is expected to lead and he should make H GEORGE! points. ; dice woman,’ Bentsen said he looks fortf®fc en . age c ] au working with Bush, and that'L 0 | ; s ,i ie f ir other Democrats are like-mind a bipartisan attempt to address he thinks are some very enoi problems, such as the trade and get deficits. “If he will address it in aI m a crack< ounty offu meaningful way w^ich con'® dent after the foreign investors of that, youT' drop in the interest rates and- doesn’t you won’t,” Bentsen said In a wide-ranging news con ence with Texas reporters, Be® 1 said regulators should move quickly as possible to resolvetlif’ ings and loan crisis “The sooner you do it, thes^ you cut your losses,” Bentsensa® He said the cost of bailingo 1 ' its kind shutting down the involvenU will be at minimum $50 could range up to that the industry should much of the cost as it can. ected of a rink in their Two teen-r the party wei I Jim Shofn Beverage Goi Vestigated th( sued the ch parties where nol and drug the county. 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