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Battalion
BY CARRIE BENNETT
The Battalion
The College Station City Council decided to reduce the speed limit on
Wellborn Road from University Drive to the College Station city limit
south of FM 2818 to 35 mph.
The decision was made at the council’s Feb. 11 meeting, and the speed
limit will be reduced when a local representative from the Texas Depart
ment of Transportation sends the ordinance to the Capitol in Austin for
approval.
Paul Sturrock, public information officer for the Texas Department of
Transportation, said signs displaying the increase will be installed Feb.
23.
“We will begin putting the new speed-limit signs up next Tuesday and
hopefully will finish that same day, weather permitting,” Sturrock said.
Scott Hester, a transportation analyst for the City of College Station,
said after conducting the survey, the state agreed to lower the speed lim
it by 5 mph and change the speed zones.
“Texas A&M officials initially requested the speed limit change to in
sure the safety of students that cross from West Campus to Main Cam
pus,” Hester said.
“Last year, a blinking yellow light was put up for pedestrian crossing,”
Hester said. “The speed limit reduction would compensate for the pedes
trian crossing.”
Hester said the ordinance was accepted by the council without con
troversy and without any amendments.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In the first
year under the nation’s only assist-
ed-suicide law, 15 terminally ill peo
ple in Oregon used it to end their
lives, and there was no evidence
they suffered painful, lingering
deaths as opponents had warned.
In a report published in Wednes
day’s New England Journal of Med
icine, Oregon health officials also
said that fears that the law would be
used as an easy way out by people
afraid of financial ruin or extreme
pain proved unfounded.
Rather, health officials found that
use the law has so far been driven
overwhelmingly by the desire of
strong-willed patients to exercise
some control over the way they
died.
“Many physicians reported that
their patients had been decisive and
independent throughout their lives
or that the decision to request a
lethal prescription was consistent
with a longstanding belief about the
importance of controlling the man
ner in which they died,” the report
said.
The first annual report on Ore
gon’s Death with Dignity Act
showed that doctors prescribed
lethal drugs to 23 people in 1998 but
that six died from their illnesses be
fore using the drugs. Two others still
were alive as of Jan. 1.
Thirteen of the 15 who took the
lethal drugs were cancer patients.
The others were suffering from heart
or lung diseases.
The average age of those who
took their lives was 69.
Backers of assisted suicide said
the report shows the law is working
well and confirms their predictions
that only a small number of people
would make use of it.
“It’s what we expected — a year
of impeccable implementation,”
said Barbara Coombs Lee, chief
sponsor of the ballot measure that
established the law.
First approved in 1994 and reaf
firmed by Oregon voters in Novem
ber 1997, the law allows a doctor to
prescribe a lethal dose of medication
to hasten the death of patients who
have less than six months to live.
The Roman Catholic Church and
others spent millions of dollars to try
to derail the law. They relied chiefly
on the argument that some people
would die excruciating, torturous
deaths after taking the drugs.
campus ministry .
said “Reverend Howard Judas was a disciple, to
Moody.
“It certainly is an ugly thing to be compared to.
known as a traitor," Konderla said. "It is ourresp
not [Moody’s) truth, but God’s truth.”
Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeas
Durkin said he is pleased with the outpouring of ct
for the clinic.
“In Texas, only 1 7 out of 254 counties offer abo
said. “Now we have 18. It’s a celebration
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Durkin said the only thing he regrets is thatthef
not able to offer abortion services sooner.
The new clinic has three exam rooms and fivecoi
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as high-tech and state-of-the-art as we can make it." .thrown int
Lauren Donohue, executive director of the Brazos es Herbal F
for Life, organized the protest outside thedi tit. tatFrito La
“This community is really pro-life, " she said.'Thi; f possible t
of support for the unborn ami the women Inm compl
abortion.” vertising in
One protester, Pablo Serna, stood at thegateofthed
loudly about God’s will.
‘“Do you know Jesus?” he said. “Do you believeinC
know right from wrong unless you know God.”
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Friday, February 19,1999
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