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2 The Battalion STATE & LOCAL 3 Tuesday, July 10,1990 Man rrRc teiis jcommunity services A&M earns ‘interest’ from Wadley blood bank By JAMES LOVE Of The Battalion Staff is blent lustet iearch eadei: one a n who I vocale red to | )eople| Manj sonic - “s this icratit ice. It much ces to aci \ Any disabled person | may qualify for help isy JULIE MYERS lOf The Battalion Staff I The Texas Rehabilitation Com- Bmission needs help spreading the ■word about services it provides. Any individual with a disability is ■ eligible to receive TRC services. I Examples of disabilities which ■ may qualify someone for services in- ■ elude hearing and speech impair- Bments and internal medical condi- Btions like epilepsy, heart disease and B diabetes. Other disabilities include severe ■ asthma and allergies, orthopedic im- Bpairmcnts like scoliosis, polio, ampu- Btations, cleft palate, back impair- Bments, arthritis and paralysis, birth ■ defects and learning disabilities or B emotional problems. “We work with almost anyone B who has a professionally docu- I mented disability that could cause I (them) difficulty when applying for I a job,” TRC Senior Counselor F. Je- I rome Duderstadt said. Some services which the TRC can i provide include tuition payments for I colleges, universities, technical and 1 trade schools and purchases of tools, I books and supplies for technical i training. Others include purchases of 1 adaptive equipment such as hearing i aids, van modification and pros- 1 theses, vocational counseling and I testing and further financial assis- I tancebased on individual need. The TRC receives 80 percent of I its funding from the federal govern- I ment and 20 percent from the state. I For every $1 the TRC spends on its I clients, $11 comes back, Duderstadt I said. The TRC is cost effective, he added. “The more we can push vocatio nally at a young age, the more they will earn,” Duderstadt said. “Then they will be able to contribute taxes to the government on their incomes instead of using taxes to support themselves.” The only criteria for receiving services from TRC is that these serv ices likely will result in gainful em ployment. Targeted caseloads include stu dents, staff and staff family mem bers from the community. For more information call 845- 0350. Texas A&M students, faculty members and their family members are guaranteed a com plete emergency supply of blood from the Wadley Institute in Dallas. Established by Wadley, the Aggie Blood Drive Committee has replenished to hospitals any blood used by A&M students and their families since 1959. Carol Hill, Wadley’s director of donor re cruitment, said A&M issued credits for the blood collected during its blood drives on campus. “We collected about 5,000 units of blood per year from A&M,” she said. “Only about 10 percent of that was needed for students. So A&M is definitely on the plus side of re ceiving blood from us. “It’s like a checking account” Hill said. “The more blood we collect from campus, the more credits A&M will have to use in the fu ture.” The credits are like interest earned for depositing money in a bank account. Hill said most insurance companies will cover the cost of the blood (approximately $100 per unit), but will not pay for the cost to process the blood. A benefit given by the blood drive commit tee is not having to pay this extra cost. Hill said insurance companies are trying to promote blood donations by not paying the processing costs. This encourages people to receive the cost benefits of donating from the blood collectors. Harriet Montgomery, Student Govern ment’s senior secretary, said many students at A&M do not realize they have this kind of “b- lood coverage.” She said any A&M student, faculty, former student or family member is covered All that is needed is basic information about the pa tient in need. “We need the patient’s name, admission date, hospital, diagnosis and the number of units requested, and they’ll be covered,” she said. Montgomery said the system is used fre quently and is successful. More information about the Aggie Blood Drive Committee can be obtained by calling Student Government or the Wadley Founda tion at 1 -800-DON ATE-4. Sold! W' Photo by J.B. Bullock Agricultural economics major R.L. Bordovsky from Walter Britten. Britten, Class of’41, has per- (left) receives his auctioneer seminar certificate formed auctions nationwide for over 45 years. Summit leaders balk at Bush’s request to remove subsidies Delegates criticize rich nations HOUSTON (AP) — Delegates to the World’s Poorest Peoples summit toured a public housing project and criticized the seven richest nations meeting in an economic summit. “Development is always done at the expense of the poor,” said Fil ipino human rights activist Enrique de la Cruz. “That is what we saw here today and that is what is hap pening in all our countries.” The delegate to the Poorest Peo ples summit — part of The Other Economic Summit, or TOES, that ended Sunday — was alluding to plans to redevelop the 1,000-unit Al len Parkway Village. De la Cruz told the Houston Post that “poor people are being pushed out to make room for the developers and big business.” De la Cruz, Francisco Torres of Puerto Rico, Pedro Galindo of Co lombia, and APV Residents Associa tion President Lenwood Johnson said the economic summit partici pants proved their disregard for the world’s poor people by not inviting their representatives. City of Bryan refunds 500 bus fare to pools at hei y calli As ski :es hn Mb)i| iiilyoll Victim | g i casfip aboii! By JAMES LOVE Of The Battalion Staff The City of Bryan has joined with the Brazos Transit System to offer cash discounts for those riding transit buses to Bryan pools. The program provides a 50-cent refund to rid ers taking buses to the Bryan Aquatic Center, Haswell Park Pool or Bryan Municipal Pool. The program works by allowing riders to pick up a blue ticket as they exit the transit bus at one of the three pools. The ticket is then presented to the pool cashier for a 50-cent refund — the cost of the bus ride. The discount ride program was started in late June and will continue thr summer. trough the end of the ;ionm I italic could [ Lot Tony Cisneros, division manager of Bryan Parks and Pools, said he believes the new system will help many who have problems finding a ride to the pools. “We were concerned because many people who don’t live near a swimming pool were having a difficult time getting to one,” he said. “If kids can’t walk or ride bikes to the pools and thpir par ents work, it may be hard for them to find a way to go swimming. “This will allow all Bryan residents to catch a transit bus to Bryan pools without having to pay extra for the ride.” Joe Brown, communications officer for the City of Bryan, said the program is directed to ward children since they might have a harder time getting a ride, but anyone is allowed to use the discount. “Some kids don’t have access as easily as others,” he said. “We wanted to give everyone an equal chance to go swimming.” Brazos Transit System buses run every hour from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. However, pools are open until 8 p.m., so those wishing to return home on the bus must leave within the regulary scheduled stops. Each bus route will include a stop at the Aquatic Center and Haswell Park. Buses also will make a stop at Villa Maria and Wellborn, which is within walking distance of Bryan Municipal Pool. Brown said the program has been a success since many blue tickets are refunded everyday. He expects more people to use) the buses as they find out about the offer. HOUSTON (AP) — President Bush pressed his summit partners Monday to phase out billions of dol lars in farm subsidies, but there were few signs his call would be heeded at the economic meeting. European officials attending the seven-nation summit insisted they would never accept America’s pro posal for a complete phase out of the expensive farm subsidies over the next decade. Bush has made ending agricultu ral subsidies a top U.S. priority at the summit, believing that successfully reaching a compromise is critical to breaking a deadlock in a nearly four- year effort to overhaul the global trading system. The administration has much at stake in the global free trade talks, which hold out the promise of greatly expanded markets for U.S. farmers and businesses. More ex ports would help reduce America’s $ 100 billion annual trade deficit. The trade talks, known as the Uruguay Round for the country where they were launched in 1986, have reached a virtual stalemate over the divisive farm issue. The ad ministration is hoping that the seven-nation economic summit will be able to reach a compromise that will re-energize the talks. Bush brought up the trade nego tiations in a string of one-on-one ses sions he held with world leaders be fore the summit officially got under way Monday, stressing now impor tant the talks were to the United States. White House Chief of Staff John Sununu told reporters that Bush be lieved resolution of the trade dispute was “crucial. It is critical. It should and must be done. The United States believes in that issue so strongly that we will continue to make that point to the allies.” The agricultural question was ex pected to be taken up in the first round of talks between the leaders on Monday afternoon at Rice Uni versity. The 12-nation European Com munity is putting up the strongest resistance to the U.S. farm proposal, arguing that between two and three million European farmers could lose their jobs if the subsidies are elimi nated totally. The EC, known as the Common Market, is represented at the eco nomic summit by EC President Jac ques Delors, who met with Bush be fore the summit began to discuss their differences. Bush took a tough stance on the farm dispute, telling Delot . that the political leaders needed to exhibit courage to resolve the issut an EC official said. “It was quite hard on agru uiuue,” said the official, who spoke <sn condi tion that his name not be used also discussed agru ultural in his meeting with French Bush policy President Francois Mitterrand tides said. France and West Germanv are the two European countries with the strongest opposition to total elimina tion of farm subsidies. West Germany Chancelloi mut Kohl is considered to be ; ularly opposed to any cliang present time, because he d want to upset farm groups West German region of Bas in East Germany before ci u< it H el an ic- u the jesn’t i the i and Dec. It (the phase out of farm subsidies) should and must be done. The United States believes in that issue so strongly that we will continue to make that point to the allies.” — John Sununu, U.S.chief of staff 2 elections on the unification oi tier- many. T hose elections will occur around the tirrfe negotiators are scheduled to meet in Brussels for the find b.u- gaining session to complete tin A i u guay Round of trade talks. The talks are being conducted under the aus pices of the 97-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. In addition to phasing out farm subsidies, the United States has an ambitious goal of expanding global trade rules to include about s 1 tril lion in trade not now covered by the GATT, the world body which po lices trade disputes. The U.S. proposal would result in the elimination of barriers to trade in the high-growth area of banking and other services. Iloirfif SUPERCUTS The Nation’s #1 Hair Styling Salon Now open in Culpepper Plaza! Supercut - $8 • Students & Professors with I.D.-$7 • Children 13 and under-$6 Introductory Offer for Texas A&M Students & Faculty Bennigan’s Texas Ave. Supercuts | Safeway $2.00 off Harvey Rd. 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