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One coupon per customer. Cany out only. USM ■.ao-m-vm. i BxiilnN»i0»GtM*0 E*p4re#; GfWW-aO 1VORTHGATE 268-0220 University & Stasney COLLEGE STATION 696-0191 SW Parkway &. Texas BRYAJY 776-7171 E. 29th <& Briar crest Little Caesars* Pizza! Pizza! WSRRD fcAROUWE HtPGES, WKPP STATION MAMGEK. THIS IS MS. WTUKI, MLL1W6 TO CO/iPMIW ABOUT 50MF MORE OF VOUK TV PROGRAMS... MRS. PATbKl. m ColfJG To HAVE TO INSIST t>0 START WATCHING EACH AND ESlEKi PROGRAM WE AIR, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR A/0% WITHOUT AW /AQRK THIS WH/V/VG! LOTRAK (Continued from page 1) below ground level through campus, while existing streets, like University Drive, Joe Routt Boulevard and George Bush Drive, would stay at ground level. Northbound Wellborn traffic would stay on the present Wellborn Road, while southbound traffic would travel on what is now Fin- feather Road. The depression of Wellborn and the railroad tracks would eliminate traffic stoppages because of trains and eliminate braking and turning by cars caused by Wellborn intersect ing other major streets. Ziegler said the LOTRAK project was undertaken because of concerns by the state, A&M and the cities of Bryan and College Station about safety hazards on Wellborn Road, which handles 50,000 cars daily. Pedestrians crossing Wellborn, in creased vehicular traffic, hazardous train cargo and emergency person nel being stopped by trains were among concerns, Ziegler said. In order to handle pedestrian tra ffic more effectively, a pedestrian mall as large as 200 feet wide would be built at Main Drive in front of the Albritton Bell Tower and a smaller crossing near the tennis complex. Both crossings would connect east and west campus without coming into contact with a street or the rail road tracks. University Poli the scene of tf South College fence surround Start!* strike /-/fRBERT REAU2ES THAT HE SHOULD HAVE 7Hom TUICE &EF0ZI TZV/H6 TO TOAST OUT Of THE TOASTEF WITH A FOFK. James Bond, deputy chancellor for external affairs at A&M, said the University supports the LOTRAK project because it is “indispensable” to A&M to connect the whole cam pus because of the west campus’ growing role. College Station Mayor Larry Ringer, Bryan City Manager Ernie Clark and the cities’ Chamber of Commerce all echoed support for the project. Not everyone, however, spoke kind words about the LOTRAK pro- ject. One woman in the audience asked why the entire four-mile section of Wellborn had to be reconstructed to become a divided, one-way freeway since it would hurt many small busi nesses along Wellborn. “The traffic by my business will be cut in half,” she said. Ziegler said businesses probably will lose some customers, but that the present plan was the best alter native. A Bryan man in the audience asked if bicycle traffic had been taken into account when the plans were drawn, but Ziegler said it would be up to the cities and A&M to make bike paths available in the area. The lion’s share of the $39.7 mil lion project — $25.7 million — will be paid for by the state. A&M will contribute $6.6 million, College Sta tion will add $4.5 million and Bryan will add $2.9 million. Study: Speeders havt lower accident rates Two Texas dents were tre; juries followir night car accidi don of South C' sity Drive. A&M studei aid, 22, and ; identified fema taken to Hum: the 1987 Toy driving struck c on University D The student' released early ing. Bob Wiatt, ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Lead- foots probably will be happy to hear about a new study, partially per formed in San Antonio, that says speeders may actually be safer than folks who follow the posted limits. “They’re not all fools,” said Sam uel Tignor, the Federal Highway Administration’s chief of traffic safety research. “Some of them know what they are doing. They are driving at what they think is a rea sonable and appropriate speed.” According to Tignor, studies con ducted along 52 highways with speed limits of 50 mph or less and other research indicate that: • Seven out of 10 drivers exceed speed limits. • Drivers maintain the same speeds even when the posted limits are lowered or raised. • On roads with a speed limit of 50 mph, the lowest rate of accidents and deaths occur among drivers whose average speed is between the legal maximum and 80 mph. What that means, Tignor said Monday, is that most drivers gauge their speed based on traffic and road rather than the posts conditions limits. It also means that the postd speed limits do not necessarily it fleet the safest speed, and trafficei gineers need to do something tom rect that problem. Two things that do not effective! slow traffic are white lines alongE edge of a road and stop signs, sail Andrew Ballard, citing his ownrt search as a traffic design engineerit San Antonio. Ballard said the “edge lines’dii nothing to slow traffic along iw streets leading to residential areasii San Antonio. He also said cars slowed when ay preaching stop signs, but no: enough to warrant using the signslt reduce speed. The only sure-fire deterrents: speeders, he said, are the present! of police cars or potholes. “Most of the people drivinghigt ways aren’t having accidents,” Tig nor said. “So they must be doing something right. On the other hand that is not to say we don’t have po tential for improvement.” Fres Illinois’ lawmakers repeal grandparents’ visitation law SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Five days after the Gen eral Assembly passed a law strengthening the rights of grandparents to visit their grandchildren, Joni and Da vid Gammie and their three children left the state. The couple put their brick home in the Chicago sub urb of La Grange on the market, left their jobs and didn’t tell their families where they were going. They wanted to keep Joni’s mother from ever seeing the chil dren again. That was in 1989, and this year lawmakers decided state law went too far. Last month, they passed a law that repealed what they’d done the year before. Gov. James R. Thompson hasn’t decided whether to sign it. He has until late September. All states have laws allowing grandparents to ask the courts for rights to visit grandchildren if a parent is di vorced or dead. But additions to the “grandparents’ rights” law enacted last year in Illinois allowed grandpa rents to sue for visitation rights even if the parents of the children are married or living together. Lawyers said they know of only a few lawsuits filed under the 1989 law, but they have been hitter. On one side, grandparents argue that family rife shouldn’t keep them from their grandchildren. Ontk other side are parents who disapprove of how their pat ents treat the grandchildren, and lawyers who argu* the law is an unconstitutional interference with parent rights to raise their children as they see fit. “The law doesn’t give rights to the grandparents said Mrs. Gammie, who now lives in Mesa, Ariz. “1’ | takes away rights from the parents.” The law was passed after three years of attempts!)' Rep. James Stange, who decided to sponsor legisladof after hearing stories such as that of Mrs. Gammie' mother, Ruth Etheridge. Etheridge and her daughter have accused eacholhet of abusing the grandchildren. Each side says there’sn« evidence for the other’s allegations. By JEFFREY A., Special to The Ba More than hal I ing freshmen will I land starting Frid The first grou] j in Aggie jargon, I Four such camp 1 prior to the fall se For Texas A&I 1 day orientation c< Volunteer cou I erything from sti: | good nutrition to A&M h permaiK By JULIE MYERS Of The Battalion Si Texas A&M sti more in fees this f; maintaining each tion card. Assistant Reg Ritchey said the s nance fee was imj suit of the Texas System Board of last year to use pe every year instead “The $4 fee co getting into and c Information S Ritchey said. “Be work this fall, we you’ve paid your files to see if you ing. “We then activa the magnetic strip you use it to get fc brary books.” Ritchey said tht for the verificatior IDs is expensive. Magazine ‘scentstrips’ raise stinl NEW YORK (AP) — Some mag azine readers are thumbing their noses at “scent strips,” the fragrance advertising inserts that can make ev erything in the mailbox smell like a perfume store. These people want scent strips sealed in odor-proof wrappers to protect the health of the allergic, asthmatic and hypersensitive, as well as the olfactory sensibilities of every one else. Legislation to regulate the use of the strips is even being considered in some states. Manufacturers and publishers de fend the strips as an inexpensive, ef fective way to bring fragrances from the perfume counter to the kitchen counter. But some have agreed to stop using one form of the strips. The scent strip was first used widely in the early 1980s to intro duce a perfume called Giorgio, whose manufacturers could not af ford the usual television advertising and promotional giveaways. Women were able to sample the powerful perfume at their leisure, and anyone else not directly upwind also got a blast. Giorgio became America’s best selling fragrance. Billions of fragrance inserts have been distributed over the past de cade, and about 30 major magazines regularly carry them. The mag azines love the ad revenue — F million last year — but some reader don’t like the scents. One is Amy Solomon, 38, wl* opened a fashion magazine spring on a train ride from Manta tan to Albany. By Beacon, she had a headadi' By Poughkeepsie, she could open her eyes. By Hudson, stillin' ther northward, she felt sicktohf stomach. “There ought to be a law," told herself. As director of com® nications for New York state Sf) Martin Connor, she was in a posiw' to help pass one. “This is a bypr one-time card ins each semester,” Ri Students previc year for a new cat matically update With permanent c a one-time $5 fee and $4 every yea puter update inf card. “We’re saving s over what they spending on nev said. “Once you g to it.” Ty Clevenger, S ident and senior g he does not have : new $4 fee as long date information c Clevenger said committee to loo ment in the fall.