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NEWS
Thursday, February 15,:
THE BATTALION
Seat belt usage increases
People in the western U.S. wear belts more frequently
WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans are wear
ing seat belts than ever before, but usage can vary great
ly depending on vehicle type, region and state seat-belt
laws, the government said Wednesday.
Seat belt use nationwide reached 71.3 percent in 2000,
up 4 percentage points from 1999 and continuing a trend
of steady increases since 1995, when the rate was 58 per
cent. Government experts say the hike is due to public
safety campaigns, stricter seat belt laws and police en
forcement.
People in the West wore their belts the most, 80 per
cent of the time, followed by the South, 69 percent; Mid
west, 68 percent; and Northeast, 67 percent.
The study, done for the Transportation Department,
did not offer speculation about the regional discrepancy.
“I think that when you look at the West, there is no
question that California is driving that high average,” said
Rae Tyson, spokesman for the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration. “But to explain why the other re
gions are lower certainly defies me.”
California has some of the strictest seat-belt standards
and stiffest enforcement and often is cited by safety ad
vocates as a model state.
Government studies show use of a lap and shoulder
belt reduces fatalities in accidents by 45 percent in cars
and 60 percent in light trucks.
“Seat belts are absolutely our most effective safety
device,” said Transportation Secretary Norman Mine-
ta. “If everyone buckled up, thousands of lives could
be saved annually.”
In the study, the government hired
contractors to count seat belt users at
sites around the country. It has a mar
gin of error of plus or minus 3 per
centage points.
The study found seat belt use aver
aged 77 percent in states where police
can ticket motorists simply for not
wearing a seat belL^compared to 64
percent in states where they must be in
violation of another offense before be
ing pulled over.
An average of 74 percent of car,
van and sport utility occupants used
seat belts, while pickup truck occu
pants averaged 59 percent. Drivers
were slightly more likely to buckle
up than passengers, 72 percent to 68
percent.
Seat belt usage
Seat belt use is up to a record 71
percent nationwide, but use varies west
by vehicle type and region. Here
is a look at the percentage of
drivers who use seat belts.
FI All ; Cars ■ Vans, SUVs Bi Pickups
United States Northeast Midwest South West
Note: Figures are for 2000 and have an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation AP
South
—News in Brief-
Kansas changes
science teachin;
includes evolutie
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP)-El
tion was restored Wednesda,
a central theory in Kansas':
ence curriculum, endingadet;
that subjected the state to in
national ridicule over the tea:
ings of the origins of man.
The State Board of Educe:
voted 7-3 to approve newscr:
standards to be used indeve:
ing tests that will be given to?
dents later this spring. The ter
will include questions on ew
tion, which will now be conste
one of the unifying concepts:
the state’s science curriculum
The new standards will repe:
ones adopted in August IS®
which omitted references
many evolutionary concepts-
well as the big-bang theory onfi
creation of the universe. Ttios
standards brought Kansas te
national attention and critics
from scientists and sciec:
groups who saw evolution’s?
emphasis as a step back.
The board caused an uprc
in 1999 when it voted 64ir :
vor of science standards that t
ics said stripped evolution fro
its accepted place atthecerii
of biological studies.
Reveille
Continued from Page 1A
However, when she does step
down as mascot, she will remain in
College Station.
Dr. Charles Hall, Class of ’54, and
his wife will adopt Reveille VI. Hall
was the official veterinarian for
Reveilles IV, V and VI over a span of
more than 20 years.
Serold said potential caretakers of
Reveille must live in College Station.
Dr. Joe West, former caretaker of
Reveille V, and Dr. Leigh Philips,
former caretaker of Reveille IV, rec
ommended Hall and his wife for the
prestigious job.
“Obviously, with all of his cre
dentials, Dr. Hall was overly quali
fied to handle her in retirement,”
Serold said.
Reveille VI debuted in 1993 with
Capt. Jim Lively, Class of’96. Live
ly is a captain in the U.S. Marine
Corps and is stationed in Okinawa.
He was the last mascot corporal to
experience a mascot transition.
“The transition wasn’t difficult
at all,” Lively said. “We hired a pro
fessional trainer to assist with the
process, and that was key to our
success.”
Lively said that Reveille V stayed
with Reveille VI for about a month
before she officially retired. Al
though she was retired in 1993,
Reveille V lived until 1999. She was
given a full military funeral in Sept.
1999, an event which thousands of
people attended.
“Rev VI had a great personality,
and our early efforts were to get her
used to large crowds and lots of pet
ting,” Lively said.
Lively recalls activities that made
Reveille VI dear to everyone’s hearts.
“Rev really enjoyed volleyball
and basketball games,” Lively said.
“I don’t know if it was the noise or
excitement of G. Rollie, but she
seemed to have a good time.”
For 01’ Army Aggies, one event
in the history of Reveille VI that
stands out is the time she was kid
napped during winter break in 1993.
Reveille VI was taken from Lively’s
home in Dallas. It was the only time
a mascot has been kidnapped.
“Other than the obvious events af
ter Christmas ’93, when Rev was tak
en in Dallas, she had a pretty normal
mascot tenure while I was there,”
Lively said. “She, of course, ran the
circuit of Aggie Mom’s Clubs and
Fish Camps, athletic events, AFS
(Association of Former Students)
events, magazine covers, photo
shoots, etc.”
Graham estimated that he traveled
more 12,000 miles with Reveille VI
during the summer he took care of her.
“Traveling is relax time for her;
she just puts her face in one of those
air-conditioning vents and goes to
sleep,” Graham said.
Bo Wilson, 2000-’01 mascot cor
poral and a sophomore business ma
jor, said Reveille travels a lot during
football season.
“For any game further than about
Waco, we fly,” Wilson said.
Serold said A&M’s entrance into
the Big 12 raised the issue of flying.
It was the only reasonable way to get
Reveille to the out-of-state games, he
said. The Association of Former Stu
dents pays for most of Reveille’s
travel expenses.
Reveille VI will remain at A&M
to help her successor, Reveille VII,
adjust to her new role long as need
ed, Graham said.
The tradition of Reveille began
in 1931 when a group of cadets hit a
small black and white dog on the
road during their return trip from
Navasota. The cadets brought the
dog back to College Station, where
she became known as Reveille be
cause she barked during “Reveille.”
During the following football sea
son, she was named as the official
mascot of A&M.
Reveille I died in 1944 and was
given a formal military funeral.
Corps Company E-2 is responsible
for Reveille, and she is assigned a
handler each year, known as the mas
cot corporal. Reveille is a five-dia
mond general, the highest-ranking
member of the Corps.
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be sold over the counte
WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of a morning-after pill isaboutte
gin government-sanctioned studies to see if the emergency contraceptior
sell without a doctor’s prescription.
The maker of Plan B morning-after pills hopes the studies of hundrec
women will persuade the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) toappi:
over-the-counter sales by next year.
The announcement comes as 60 medical and women’s groups file an
usual petition with the FDA Wednesday declaring morning-after pi
safe as aspirin and urging they be sold without a prescription to help won
prevent pregnancy.
The American Medical Association supports the change, already mai
Britain last month following several other European nations.
Women who are raped, whose regular birth control fails or who sin;
forget in the heat of the moment can take the so-called morning-after pill
to 72 hours after sexual intercourse.
Opponents, including the Vatican, contend emergency contracepttt
early abortion, and oppose teen-age access to the pills.
But proponents stress that emergency contraception does notcauseat
tion.— if a woman already is pregnant, it will not work.
Taken quickly enough, the pills may prevent fertilization of an eggs
Dr. Paul Blumenthal, a Johns Hopkins University gynecologist!
Planned Parenthood adviser.
SBP
Continued from Page 1A
switching places with a student.
“I switch places with a student for
the day, and I almost never take notes,”
Bowen said. “ The worst thing I ever
did was cut class; it was aerobic run
ning, and I wasn’t about to do that.”
Lane skipped one of Smith’s
classes because she had a test. She
tried to talk him into taking it for
her, but Bowen thought that would
be a bad idea.
“I don’t know if I’d want him tak
ing a test for me,” Bowen said.
Southerland greeted Smith and
her escort, Rob Ferguson, SGA vice
president for policy and a senior po
litical science major, with a box of
chocolates for Valentine’s Day.
Southerland asked Smith if she
had made any big decisions and if she
was having fun.
Southerland told Smith that he
and Bowen like to tour the residence
halls once a semester and introd
themselves to students.
“If somebody had a camera!!)
was a terrific photo opportunity
night,” Southerland said. “We»
wandering through Corps staff:
we were going by a room and:
nior had just come in with hislx!
on, and the juniors help get I
boots off because you can’t getl
off by yourself. We go into the if
and one boot had just come off
Bowen just proceeds right into pi
to pull the other boot off.”
Smith said that she never#
anything and was surprised that
was actually picked. In fact, she:
signing up for the drawing wasac
ter of chance.
“I was showing my HowdyO
campers around at the MSC"
House, and we stopped to lookad
student government booth,” Sm
said. “ We talked to one of the
that was involved with it, and
handed us a little form to signup,
I was picked out of the drawing.
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