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esignated driver program could save lives
By Pam Mooman
[ The Battalion Staff
Partying is great — driving home
afely afterwards, however, is often
he problem.
But Texas A&M’s Center for
Drug Prevention and Education
hopes a new designated driver pro-
am will make homecomings safer
rail Bryan-College Station drivers.
The BACCHUS Designated
Driver program will begin contact-
ng local businesses in November,
Dr. Dennis Reardon, C.D.P.E. coor
dinator, said.
“We are trying to contact 15 to 20
high-traffic establishments,” Rear
don said. “If we are successful, then
maybe it will spread to more cam
puses.”
BACCHUS (Boost Alcohol Con
sciousness Concerning the Health of
University Students), a student orga
nization, has 20 colleges and univer
sities throughout the state participat
ing in the program, Reardon said.
These other schools, he said, also
will contact 20 businesses near their
campuses to make a total of 400
Texas businesses involved in the
program. The hope is to create a
network, he said.
“It seems an amazingly large
number for such a simple program,”
Reardon said. “The establishment of
a network is the key.”
The program, which has been
planned for more than a year, re
ceived a $27,000 grant from the
State Department of Highways and
Public Transportation this month,
he said.
Reardon said volunteers will con
tact businesses and try to establish a
relationship with their owners to get
support for the designated driver
program.
Lynda Sorrell at C.D.P.E. has in
formation on volunteering to con
tact businesses. Her number is 845-
0280.
When people come to an estab
lishment, they can ask if it supports
the program, he said. If it does, then
the designated driver will get some
form of identification, such as a pin,
Reardon said.
The business will give free soft
drinks and coupons to the desig
nated driver, he said.
“WeTe dealing with this on two
levels,” Reardon said.
First, C.D.P.E. wants people to re
alize that drunk driving presents
danger for all drivers, he said.
“People have a responsibility to
themselves and others on the road,”
he said.
Second, C.D.P.E. wants to educate
people on how to reduce alcohol-re
lated injuries and death, Reardon
said.
“Drinking doesn’t have to be the
center of a good time,” he said.
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[tumes and played slow-motion football in front of Sbisa Dining Hall
Photo by Robert Huff
Thursday. The game is part of a creative outreach to provide a
chance to tell students about the Campus Crusade movement.
RUNGE (AP) — A school bus car
rying a junior varsity football team
to a game overturned Thursday, in
juring at least 25 students, with one
possibly in serious condition, author
ities said.
Several students were taken to
Kaiser Memorial Hospital in nearby
Karnes City with various injuries fol
lowing the rollover at about 4:45
p.m., a Karnes County sheriffs
spokesman said.
One student was hospitalized in
serious condition and two others sus
tained possible neck and back inju
ries, Rex St. John, sheriffs dis
patcher, said.
He said 20 other students suf
fered cuts and bruises in the rollover
on Texas Highway 72, near the east
ern city limits of Runge. The bus was
carrying students from Yorktown
Junior High School, St.John said.
The Yorktown Independent
School District bus was believed to be
carrying 35 students, Ronnie Haug,
Yorktown High School principal,
said.
“Everyone seems to be all right,”
Haug said.
A&M Corps will march
in Houston before game
,orps of Cadets
members will step off at 9:45 a.m.
Saturday and march through down
town Houston to show Aggie spirit
before the football game against
Rice University.
Members of the Aggie Band,
Corps Staff, First Wing, Brigade and
Regiment and Parsons’ Mounted
Cavalry will assemble on Main and
Clay streets in Houston. The parade
will make its way up Main Street,
turn right on Texas and continue
down Fannin Street.
The review stand will be on Main
Street, between Rusk and Capitol
streets. Reviewing officer is Maj.
Gen. Dionel E. Aviles, Class of ’53
and commander of 75th U.S. Army
Maneuver Area Command in Hous
ton.
Cadets will have an informal yell
practice prior to the march-by.
In conjunction with the football
weekend, the Corps Development
Council will meet today in the Doub
letree Hotel in Houston to discuss
on-going Corps projects.
Correction
Thursday’s What’s Up re
printed a notice for a September
meeting of Aggies for Clayton
Williams. The Battalion regrets
any inconvenience this may have
caused.
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