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Bus program provides security for students
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"Walking is much easier, but
why take the risk," says Dan
Meacham, a freshman general
studies major from Spring.
He says he rides Dial-A-Ride
because he was approached by
four people while walking to his
girlfriend's residence hall last se
mester.
"My girlfriend likes for me to
ride it when she has a bad fee
ling/'he says.
But some students use Dial-A-
Ride for reasons other than
safety.
"I think Dial-A-Ride is aweso
me," says Jessica Liska, a sopho-
Bullock calls
state welfare
drain on state
budget funds
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas
welfare agency is a "parasite" on
the state budget, Lt. Gov. Bob
Bullock said Wednesday, one
day after a Senate committee is
sued a report skewering the
agency and recommending its
board members be replaced.
"It is a drain on our state fi
nances," Bullock said. "Regard
less of the sum of money that we
dropped in by way of appropria
tion — it's very questionable
whether it would ever get down
to the people who really need
the help."
more mathematics major trom
Donna. "I rode it all the time last
semester."
Deshandra Sandies, a fresh
man political science major from
Houston, says she rides Dial-A-
Ride constantly.
"I use it because I am too la
zy," she says.
Her sister, Lisa Sandies, a
sophomore business administra
tion major, says she rides the
bus because of her sister.
"When I was a freshman I
never rode the bus, but since my
sister came to A&M I find myself
riding Dial-A-Ride all the time,"
she says.
Some students use Dial-A-
Ride several times in one night.
"When I use Dial-A-Ride I use
it twice a night, once there and
once back," says Amy Worrell, a
junior applied mathematics ma
jor from Daingerfield.
She says the rainy week before
spring break caused her and her
friends to become "Dial-A-Ride
groupies."
Dickerson says the success of
Dial-A-Ride is by word-of-
mouth.
"Students using Dial-A-Ride
tell their roommates to call be
fore walking across campus,"
Dickerson says
He says other people see the
bus and ask where he is going.
He replies, "Anywhere you need
to go."
Dickerson says two to three
times a week the on-campus bus
will fill to capacity while trans
ferring passengers.
Because of Dial-A-Ride's in
creased popularity since its be
ginning, PITS hopes to add an
other bus to the program next
semester, says Doug Williams.
"The service is always busy,
and it fulfills a demand, need
and want that is more equitable
to our riders and PTTS," he says.
Senate halts aid to Jordan,
cites king's Iraqi support
peace
WASHINGTON (AP) —The
Senate voted Wednesday to
halt foreign aid to Jordan be
cause King Hussein sup
ported Iraq during the Persian
Gulf War, ignoring White
House protests that the move
would hinder Mideast
efforts.
The aid ban was inserted
into a measure dispensing
$5.2 billion for war assistance
to allies Turkey and Israel, nu
clear weapons waste cleanups
and a host of other programs.
The overall bill was approved
92-8.
White House spokesman
Marlin Fitzwater said the ac
tion against Jordan "takes
away presidential flexibility ...
at a time when we are thread
ing our way through a very
complicated peace process in
the Middle East."
The vote to halt this year's
planned payments to Jordan
was in part symbolic because
President Bush temporarily
blocked the assistance last
month.
Five of 13
violations
false
Continued from page 1
family's best interest to prolong
the situation."
A&M's three-month investiga
tion into the Aggie basketball
program turned up 13 possible
NCAA violations, but only eight
are substantiated by evidence.
Those eight are:
□ Reported player broker Rob
Johnson accompanied Syracuse
transfer Tony Scott on an official
visit to A&M.
□ A University aircraft was
used to fly Scott and Johnson
from Houston to College Station
with Davis and assistant coach
Fletcher Cockrell.
□ A&M coaches, Scott and
Johnson all dined together at a
College Station restaurant dur
ing Scott's official visit.
□ Johnson was assisting the
A&M coaching staff in the re
cruitment of another player from
New York.
□ Part-time assistant coach
Billy Kennedy, acting on Davis'
instructions, gave a recruit s wife
$8 to submit a financial aid pack-
age.
n Kennedy paid the same re
cruit's wife $60 for five or six
hours of babysittting.
□ Kennedy transported the
same recruit in his personal car
from the recruit's apartment to
Davis' office.
PI Cockrell transported a re
cruit to a summer league game
on fuly 9, 1990. This was dunng
an evaluation period when no
contact was permitted.
Davis said the only violation
he knowingly committed was
out of compassion -- allowing
the $8 to be given to the recruit s
"I Ipt mv compassion overrule
good judgment with that," he
said "That was a mistake on my
part but as far as the other viola
tions are concerned, I don
think they're as major as what
the wild speculation that began
in December would lead people
t0 "We made some mistakes, and
with some of the things, we
weren't aware they were viola
tions However, that by no
means excuses them. We should
have known, and we just have to
learn from tliese thm8S and 8 °
on ^
Davis said he's ready to get on
WUh his life, hopefully to get
back to coaching a Dmsion-I
nrcter tcTattain that goal, Da-
In order t the j s j CAA
".r fiis name. Davis said
3nd | timetable has been
setE/the NCAA, saying it could
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