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THE BATTALION
Thursday,:
Study tests effects of drinking and drr
py. April 2 1
BY MAUREEN KANE
The Battalion
Carlos Rodriguez, a Class of'99 A&M graduate,
finished off his seventh beer at 12:20 p.m.
Then he got behind the wheel of a ear.
This may sound illegal, but administering aleohol
to participants was part of an experiment conducted
by the Center for Alcohol and Drug Education Stud
ies (CADES) at Texas A&M University’s Riverside
campus Wednesday.
Participants were assigned to either a control
group, which was not administered alcohol or an ex
perimental group whose members were administered
alcohol. All participants were then tested on different
driving maneuvers.
The maneuvers included a skid test, a blocked lane
exercise and a “Monster Car" test. The monster car is a
normal car w ith the back two wheels taken off and re
placed with two smaller wheels, like those on a go-cart.
“It simulates driving on icy roads. It’s difficult; I
can only imagine what it’d be like to do it drinking,’’
said Kathy Durkin, a participant.
The drivers also tested their ability to stop a car and
their ability to recover from a spin on a wet surface in die
skid test. Brenda Brock, one of the experimental group
participants, said that the skid control was difficult.
“Yesterday in the pre-test. 1 knocked out one cone.
Today, 1 knocked out two or three of them. That u as at
.046. On the blocked-lane test, I did fine,” Brock said.
The blocked lane exercise tests a driver’s motor
skills by forcing the driver to swerve from a blocked
lane into an open lane, and then back again.
Julie Evans and Bryan Apperson tended the
makeshift bar. distributed alcoholic drinks to experi
mental group members and recorded the number of
drinks each received. They said that the most notice
able effect of the alcohol on experimental participants
was that they had trouble processing information.
“They lose their ability to focus and stare. They
tend to pause and are in a daze as the day goes on.
They’re sluggish,” Evans said.
Bill Van Tassel, one of the driving instructors, said
that although he instructs drivers monthly, this was
his first driving experiment involving participants
w ho had been drinking.
“People seem to be as competent as they were
sober, but their decision making and judgment is off.
They think they’re fine, but the measurements show
otherwise, even at low Blood Aleohol Lev els (BAL).
People are showing their impairment at about one-
half the legal limit (.08). A lot of other countries have
BALs of .05, and there’s good reasonful
Tassel said. “You’ve got to be pretty heat,
got to keep everybody safe. It’s my job loi
if I feel we’ll be in peril at any time.'
Dr. Maurice Dennis, director of ik(I
A&M and the project coordinator,saidtlij|
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ceremony. Matson retired as the execu
tive director of the Association of For
mer Students in December.
“Muster is just such a hallowed tra
dition that we thought that the speaker
needed to be someone who represented
A&M well, but with humility,” said
Kim Smith, Muster Committee sub-
chair for speaker selection and a senior
speech communication major.
Smith said the Muster Committee
believes Matson has done just that.
Matson’s list of accolades is long,
but Smith said his humble nature makes
those things even more significant.
Matson also has won a gold and silver
medal in the 1964 and 1968'Olympic
Games for shotput.
“Mis modesty, composure and
everything about him really reflects
what it means to be a Texas Aggie.” Eu
banks said. “I know that he is really go
ing to have incredible things to say.”
“Il l had to pick the one Aggie tradi
tion that makes us stand out and other
schools envy us the most, it would he
Muster,” Matson said. “It is hard for
them to understand w hy we have groups
of former students getting together and
talking about A&M and also remem
bering those that we’ve lost."
Matson should know. Since he start
ed working for the Association of For
mer Students — 27 years ago — he has
spoken at Aggie Musters each year. 1 lc
has addressed Aggies at locations across
the nation — from San Diego to Wash
ington, D.C. — and many places in be
tween. But this will be his first campus
Muster since he was a student here.
“I think it will be an awesome expe
rience in Reed with that many Aggies,”
Matson said.
“Muster reminds us why we are all
really proud and really fortunate to call
Aggieland home,” Eubanks said. “Just
as it always docs. Muster is gong to play
the role of us coming together as one
family embracing each other and cele
brating those lives.”
The Muster held on A&M 's campus
recognizes current students and former
students liv ing in the Brazos Valiev who
have died in the past year. Former stu
dents who have died and have immedi
ate family who are current students are
also honored.
This year’s Muster holds special
meaning to the Aggie community be
cause the 12 Aggies who died in the
1999 Aggie Bonfire collapse will be
honored Friday.
However, the ceremony will not he
different than in years past.
“No Aggie loss is any more signifi-
ciint than another,” said Tancssa Saathoff,
a Muster Committee member and junior
agriculture development major.
As of Wednesday. 166 names were
on the roll call. Ilowever, names can still
be added to the roll call until shortly be
fore the ceremony.
Fubanks said she is unsure how
Faster weekend w ill affect Muster. She
said there could be overflow from the
10.(KK) seats av ailable for public seating
in Reed Arena.
The last time Muster fell on Easter
weekend was 1946. and Muster was
held at Kyle Field. President Dwight
D. Eisenhower spoke at that Muster
ceremony.
“At our awareness tables around
campus, we have lists of the hometown
Musters for students to look at and find
out where their Muster is going to be.”
Eubanks said.
Fubanks said students who choose
to go home this weekend are encour
aged to attend Muster near their home
town.
Alter the roll call is read at the cam
pus Muster, the final candle is lit in hon
or of all Musters around the world.
"Aggie Muster is always special,”
Eubanks said. “Now more than ever, we
know the family [that] we are a part of
and we feel more than ever how much
we miss our fallen comrades w hen they
aren’t with us anymore.”
Friday’s activities will begin with a
llag-raising ceremony by the Corps of
Cadets at the Academic Plaza. The Class
of 1950 will also be in attendance, as
part of their class reunion.
Texas A&M’s Department of Food
Services will serve a Muster Cama
raderie Barbecue at the Academic Plaza.
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