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AOQ National Coed Service Fraternity Boys and Girls Club Still Creek Boys Ranch Special Olympics Crestview Home Meals on Wheels Adopt-A-River Informational Meeting Dates and Times: Wed., Jan. 28th Harrington 207 @ 6:30pm Thurs., Jan. 29th Harrington 108 @ 6:30pm 1st Pledge Meeting Sunday Feb 1st • Rudder 601 7:30 pm Any Questions Call Us: Taylor Haglund 822-5575 Aaron Sugalski 779-2567 Website: http://apo.tamu.edu Leadership • Friendship Service The Battalion EWS l T lrl£^rll UriLyi FROM $ 222) ^ a FROM $ as) Six pack to go New Mexico may restrict drive-up liquor stores BERNALILLO, N.M. (AP) — When 5 p.m. rolls around and Art Jaramillo locks the front door to his liquor store, business at his neon-lit, drive-up window around the side swells. As cars and trucks pull up, Jaramillo is ready with 40-ounce bottles of Budweiser and bottles of tequila. His regular customers like the convenience, especially those who might be turned away under the glare of the store’s inside lights for looking too tipsy. “When I’m drunk, I want to go home, not to convenience stores where there are lights and peo ple can smell me,” George, a cus tomer who gave only his first name, said. “So I go to the drive- up because it’s close to my house and I won’t get hassled.” With the nation’s highest rate of alcohol-related traffic deaths, New Mexico is slowing down to take an other look at the state’s 235 drive- up windows. A bipartisan group of law makers has introduced a pro posal in the Legislature to allow New Mexico communities to vote individually on whether to ban drive-up alcohol sales, something that has been around for decades. Supporters say the measure could reduce drunken driving and the number of teen-agers buying alcohol illegally. The Legislature tried to pass a similar bill during each of the past three years. But Attorney General Tom Udall said the prospects are very good this year. “Part of the reason I say that is the evidence is increasing that the drive-up windows contribute sig nificantly to our alcohol problems in New Mexico,” Udall said. “While we have that support we should strike while the iron is hot and get it done. We could end up waiting around for years going for an out right ban.” Despite lowering the blood-al cohol limit to 0.08 percent five years ago, New Mexico still leads the nation in per capita alcohol-re lated traffic deaths. It had 11.79 deaths per 100,000 people in 1996 —19 percent higher than the next- highest state, Mississippi. Mississippi is not among the two dozen states that have drive- up liquor sales. And experts do not blame drive-up liquor win dows alone for New Mexico’s drunken driving problem. They say a high alcoholism rate and a cultural custom of drinking and driving also contribute. Also, the problem is com pounded by long distances be tween towns; an alcohol ban on Indian reservations that forces many people to hit the road for a drink; and the fact that until 1993, drunken driving was not even a felony in New Mexico. While the Legislature debates the fate of drive-up liquor sales, store owners say they are tired of being blamed for the state’s drunk en driving problem. “We can’t be responsible for all of the problems on the high ways,” Dennis Salazar, the own er of Saints & Sinners Liquors in Espanola, said. Salazar said 95 percent of his business is done through the win dow, and shutting it would put him out of business. MEALS, DRINKS, <& DISCOUNTS! Will cCU-'*Surf our web site \ & check out our A HOT properties www.studentexpress.com Charter OperetanVTt. Carrier:AHearo See TPA Tar alt Term*. 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Thursday 'January29, Tucker loses bi to halt executii AUSTIN (AP) —The state’s high est criminal court Wednesday de nied pickax killer Karla Faye Tuck er’s latest bid to halt her execution, now less than a week away. The 38-year-old woman, who doesn’t deny her guilt but says she has changed since the 1983 slaying, is scheduled to die by lethal injec tion on Tuesday. She would be the first woman ex ecuted in Texas since the Civil War. The Court of Criminal Appeals rejected her arguments that the state’s clemency process is uncon stitutional and denied her request for a stay of execution. “There is no tradition or practice in this state’s history that recognizes any kind of fundamental right to executive clemency,” said an opinion written by Presiding Judge Michael McCormick. “An inmate has ’no constitution al or inherent’ right to commuta tion of her sentence,” McCormick said, adding that clemency powers belong to the executive — not judi cial — branch of government. 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