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Student organizes ‘fun bus’ service
A&M administrators support ‘Don’t Drink and Drive’ campaign
By Holly Beeson
REPORTER
In response to stricter university
regulations regarding on-campus
consumption of alcohol, a student at
the University of Rhode Island orga
nized a “fun bus” shuttle service be
tween campus and area bars as part
of a “Don’t Drink and Drive” cam-
paign.
Texas A&M administrators in the
Department of Student Affairs are
supportive of the service to decrease
the number of drunk drivers in the
Kingston, R.I. campus community.
Jan Winniford, assistant director
of the A&M’s Department of Stu
dent Affairs, said the bus service
sounds like a good idea, especially if
the bars are far from campus.
“It certainly gives students an op
tion to not drink and drive,” she
said.
Scott Carter, a student at URL
said he decided to start the service
because the university put regula
tions on the student body last semes
ter that included removing beer taps
from the bars of the fraternity
houses on campus.
“When I heard that, I figured ev
erybody would be going off campus
to drink,” he said. “I thought it
would be nice to provide another
way for students to get to bars in
stead of drinking and driving. That’s
when I came up with the idea of the
‘fun bus.’ ”
Two fun buses run every half
hour on Thursday and Friday nights
to Five local bars in Kingston, R.I.
Students pay $2 per night, which in
cludes unlimited rides and transpor
tation from bar to bar.
The buses and drivers are leased
and everything is under the liability
of the bus company, he said.
“The bars pay $750 per semester,
just about enough to cover the cost
of leasing the buses,” Carter said.
“The money students pay to ride the
bus covers advertising costs and pays
for bouncers.”
A bouncer on each bus ensures
that there’s no trouble and everyone
pays.
“We’ve never had any trouble and
nobody has even gotten sick on the
buses — yet,” Carter said.
He believes the students think the
fun bus is a good idea. The only
problem thus far is persuading peo
ple who are used to driving their
cars to start riding the bus, he said.
The university has taken a “hands
off’ attitude toward the shuttle serv
ice, Carter said, while some adminis
trators support it.
“Campus officials have their own
political red tape to go through, I
guess,” Carter said. “The school
newspaper has tried to interview
them, but they just avoid the whole
topic.”
Carter’s teachers have tried to
help him as much as they could, he
said, while other faculty members
have backed the idea.
Many surveys were conducted on
the URI campus about the effective
ness of the bus service.
“Basically, the results are that peo
ple really don’t drink more or less
whether they drive or take the bus,”
he said. “It definitely hasn’t in
creased the amount of alcohol peo
ple drink.”
Of the 12,000 students at URI,
7,000 live on campus. Seven sorority
houses and 14 fraternity houses are
also on campus.
“Not as many people are using the
service as I had hoped,” Carter said.
“I’d say the buses average from a
high of 150 people per night to 20
being low.
“The whole point is that if you can
get them on the bus, they at least
won’t be drinking and driving.”
For students to use something
such as this at A&:M, Winniford said,
it would have to run frequently and
be convenient.
“Some people just don’t want to
give up the convenience of their
cars,” she said.
Dennis Reardon, program coordi
nator for the Department of Student
Affairs, said such a service probably
would be beneficial at A&M.
“I think if it’s utilized properly, it
would be appropriate for the stu
dent body,” he said.
Man finds ‘gut feeling’ true
about wife’s fatal car accident
Library to commemorate
National Library Week
The Sterling C. Evans Library will
sponsor a number of events to com
memorate National Library Week,
ending with a book sale Friday.
National Library Week is spon
sored by the American Library Asso
ciation and serves as a week-long cel
ebration to promote library use and
awareness.
Sue Charles, assistant instructio
nal services librarian and chairman
of National Library Week for Ster
ling C. Evans, said the library will
sponsor three events during the
week.
Kinky Friedman, author and
singer, will speak Wedri*»sdav t
p.m. in 204C Evans. A reception fol
lows in 204B and Friedman will au
tograph his book at Waldenbooks in
Post Oak Mall at 5 p.m.
Six Davis Scholarships will be
awarded, along with library staff
Longevity Awards, Thursday at 2:30
p.m. in 204C Evans. A reception im
mediately follows in 204B.
The library will sponsor a book
sale Friday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
on the south side of the library.
Charles said used books, magazines
and posters will be available for pur
chase, and that prices will depend on
the quality of the book.
FREEPORT' (AP) — Juan Jose
Hermosillo said he had a premoni
tion that something was wrong.
His gut feelings turned out to be
true last Friday when the car his wife
was driving veered off a road and
plunged into a canal. Lydia Hermo
sillo and the couple’s three children
drowned.
Hermosillo said he left his job at
the Chocolate Bayou Chemical Plant
early Friday afternoon to search for
his family.
“It was raining real hard. I got out
early, noticed how bad it was rain
ing. I had a feeling something was
wrong,” he said.
As he and his brother drove past
the canal, which runs east along
County Road 227 in Brazoria
County, Hermosillo saw a wrecker
pull his wife’s car from the water,
which was about five feet deep.
Trapped inside the car were Mrs.
Hermosillo, 24, and children,
Christina, 4, Monica, 3, and Juan Jr.,
2.
“(Lydia) went off the road, lost
control of the car, skidded on the
hood, apparently (after it flipped
over),” Hermosillo tearfully told the
Houston Chronicle Sunday.
The Freeport family had been
trapped in the car, turned upside
down, for several hours by the time
they were found at 1:30 p.m. by two
men roaming the canal bank.
The car had hit a concrete block
as it toppled into the canal, said Rex
Walker, a Texas Department of Pub
lic Safety trooper.
When it was found, only the car’s
two rear wheels protruded from the
water.
Hermosillo and the children were
about six miles south of Danbury on
their way home from taking Hermo
sillo to work.
Delta witness says
crew’s actions saved
lives on Flight 191
FORT WORTH (AP) — The
crash of Delta Flight 191 would have
been even more disastrous if the
crew had aborted a landing attempt
because of wind shear, a witness for
Delta Air Lines testified Monday.
Flight 191 crashed at Dallas-Fort
Worth Interntational Airport dur
ing a thunderstorm on Aug. 2, 1985,
killing 136 people on board and a
motorist. Twenty-five people sur
vived.
Delta Air Lines sued the federal
government in an attempt to force it
to help pay about $125 million in
claims by victims’ relatives and $25
million for the cost of the L-1011 de
stroyed in the crash.
Delta contends that Federal Avi
ation Administration air traffic con
trollers and National Weather Serv
ice meteorologists failed to warn
Flight 191’s crew of the storm’s se
verity.
But the government has coun
tered that the crew never sought in
formation about the storm and that
the plane’s weather radar should
have warned the pilots against flying
into a large storm cell.
The non-jury liability trial, which
recessed last month after the gov
ernment rested its case, resumed
with Delta presenting rebuttal wit
nesses.
The National Transportation
Safety Board has blamed the crash
on a microburst, a violent downward
blast of air often associated with se
vere thunderstorms.
The government has contended
that the plane’s crew should have
tried sooner to maneuver the jet out
of the storm.
But University of Texas-Arling-
ton professor B. Robert Mullins tes
tified that if the crew had tried to
abort its landing when it encoun
tered the violent wind shear, the jet
would have crashed sooner and
fewer people would have sur vived.
Mullins, who played a videotape
simulating Delta’s interpretation of
what the crew encountered before
the crash, denied government asser
tions that the crew forced the jet’s
nose down when trying to come out
of the wind shear.
He said the plane’s nose was
forced down because a head wind
rapidly changed into a tail wind.
“This is what started the course of
events which eventually led to the ac
cident,” Mullins said.
Throughout the trial, the govern
ment has criticized Delta crew train
ing and procedures, charging they
have been inadequate for years.
The government has also tried to
portray Flight 191 pilot Ted Con
nors as a habitual user of the tran
quilizer Stelazine.
A Denver psychiatrist testified
Monday that the amount of Stela
zine that Connors was taking was not
enough to impair the pilot’s
judgment. Dr. Frederick Lewis said
he estimated from trial transcripts
that Connors took only 2 milligrams
of the drug every three days.
The most frequent side effect of
the Stelazine is a temporary deterio
ration in motor abilities, Lewis said.
“There is absolutely no evidence that
Ted Connors had any of these side-
effects,” he said.
Lewis said Connors took the drug
for jaw pain.
Government attorneys pointed
out that Lewis had never treated or
examined Connors and that it was
impossible to tell how often Connors
look tranquilizers because the pre
scription directed him to take them
as needed.
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