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Tickets: Police try to reduce accidents
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“Currently, officers patrol the whole city,” Lt.
McCollum said. “Through this grant, officers
will concentrate on these locations.”
The Bryan Police Department has been par
ticipating in Speed STEP since December.
Sgt. James Barnett with the Bryan Police De
partment said officers work at certain locations on
a set schedule every day.
“We work the various areas from 7 a.m. until
9 p.m.,” Sgt. Barnett said. “We assign locations
every week, with a different location being
worked everyday.”
The areas in both Bryan and College Station
were chosen from a survey conducted in Septem
ber 1994, to find which roads in each area in
volved the most speeding.
According to the College Station Police De
partment, a sample of 3 50 cars was taken in
various locations around the city. The locations
with the highest speeding percentages were cho
sen for the program.
According to the Department of Transporta
tion, Speed STEP is practiced throughout the
state. Each participating law enforcement agency
has a different contract with the state, but not
every police department is eligible for the grant.
Denise Fischer, public information officer with
the Texas Department of Public Safety, said each
department must meet certain qualifications to
receive the grant.
“Law enforcement agencies receive the grant
based on need,” Fischer said. “They must have
proof of areas where it is hard to monitor speeding
efficiently, have proof of excessive speeding and
have a high accident rate attributed to speed.”
Fischer said the contracts can be renewed for
up to three years.
“The first year of the contract, a law enforce
ment agency’s grant is fully funded,” she said.
“However, if they wish to renew it for a second or
third year, they must also contribute with the fi
nancing by finding a local match in funds.”
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Forum: Students can meet with administrators
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Southerland said he hopes the Open Forum
goes as well as the first Chat and Chew. At Chat
and Chew, he said, students had some individual
issues to talk about with him.
“There were a couple of informational items,
such as how to go about solving academic issues,”
Southerland said. “There was also an inquiry or
two on how we stood on having additional emer
gency telephones.”
Some students stopped by, he said, because
they already knew him and just wanted to talk.
Other students stopped by to see what he was do
ing there, he said.
Southerland said the purpose of Chat and Chew
and the Open Forum is to make him available to
students and answer their questions.
“If I have an answer. I’ll tell them,” he said. “If
not. I’ll find one.”
Wilson said Bowen and Southerland are avail
able to talk with students on other days as well.
“All of the leaders in Rudder have an open-
door policy,” Wilson said, “so I think they are
pretty accessible.”
Southerland and Bowen said they plan to have
more Open Forums and Open Houses periodically,
at least one Open Forum a semester.
Wilson said he believes one of each per semes
ter would be effective, but the number will be de
termined by how well the events go.
Beutel: Center offers affordable health care
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health issues including birth
control and nutrition counsel
ing, she said.
Specialty clinics are provided
for students several days a
week, Arnold said.
“An orthopedic surgeon and a
psychiatrist come to the health
center twice a week and an ear,
nose and throat doctor, a gener
al surgeon and a gynecologist
have office hours one day a
week,” she said.
Lab, pharmacy and x-ray
costs at the health center are
minimal, which is a big service
for students, Arnold said.
“Complete blood count and
urine tests are free to students
and other lab tests are done for
a small charge,” she said.
X-rays are free except for a
radiologist’s fee of $10, Arnold
said, and drug costs are ex
tremely low compared to prices
at other pharmacies.
The center provides tests for
HIV and other sexually trans
mitted diseases for a small fee,
she said.
Besides being responsible for
actual treatment, the center
also provides a large amount of
health education to students,
Arnold said.
“We do a lot of health educa
tion because when we treat stu
dents,” she said, “we’re respon
sible for telling them how to
take care of themselves and
what they should do if they
don’t get better or if they devel
op an infection.”
Though the health center
serves more than 300 students a
day, Dirks said he doesn’t see
any need for the health center
to expand at any time in the
near future, L he thinks the
center would benefit by having
more doctors.
“What we would like to do is
hire some more doctors to re
duce some waiting times, but
that’s dependent upon some ad
ditional funding,” he said.
Committee
considers
concealed gun
legislation
AUSTIN (AP) — As the coun
try marked the one-year an
niversary of a national handgun
control law Tuesday, state law
makers began debating legisla
tion to allow licensed Texans to
carry concealed weapons.
The bill by Sen. Jerry Pat
terson, R-Pasadena, was en
dorsed 5-1 by the Senate Crim
inal Justice Committee follow
ing a 7 1/2-hour public hear
ing. It now goes to the full Sen
ate for consideration.
Displaying large posters of
the Texas Constitution, Patter
son told committee members
the Legislature has the authori
ty to regulate the wearing of
arms but not to ban it.
“Senate Bill 60 restores a con
stitutional right that the Legisla
ture in the past 120 years has
taken away from us,” he said.
‘‘We’re allowing citizens to do
what the constitution already
says they have a right to do.”
Texas is one of 12 states
that prohibit carrying hand
guns in most circumstances.
Current law restricts citizens
to having handguns at home or
on other premises under their
control and while hunting,
fishing and traveling.
If Patterson’s bill is passed
and signed into law, eligible
Texans could apply for a license
to carry concealed handguns.
Applicants would have to un
dergo a criminal background
check and 10 to 15 hours of in
struction and pass an exam in
handgun proficiency. A four-
year permit would cost $140.
The measure restricts the
carrying of handguns at certain
places, including government
buildings, schools and business
es that derive at least 51 per
cent of their income from the
sale of alcohol.
Patterson said he believes al
lowing Texans to arm them
selves would deter crime. "I tru
ly, sincerely believe this will
make things safer, not less
safe,” he said.
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