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Page 2 NEWS —--f- THE BATTALION ^ Wednesday, Jl f;|fc H^Besday, July IS, Diptm Apes PM R\D£UJN.fl The pantastico Chronicles BY J. GOLDFLUTE 2s HAZING ^Adrian Ritalin Continued from Page 7 “It’s easier to gu r e somebody a pill than to get to the bottom of the problem,” she said. Nationally, nearly 20 million prescriptions for Ritalin, Adder- all and other stimulants used to treat ADHD were written last year — a 35 percent increase over 1996, according to IMS Health, a health care informa tion company. Most of those prescriptions were for boys un der 12, IMS Health said. In some elementary and mid dle schools, as many as 6 percent of all students take Ritalin or other psychiatric drugs, accord ing to the federal Drug En forcement Administration. Dr. Andres Martin, a child psychiatrist at the Yale Univer sity Child Study Center, said schools have no business prac ticing psychiatry. “We’ve all heard these horror stories of parents who arc told, ‘If you don’t medicate your child, he can’t be in the class room,’ ” he said, “You never hear the school say, ‘If you don’t take the damn appendix out, this kid has a bad outcome.’ You say, ‘Your kid has a stomach ache. Take him to the doctor.’ ” The Connecticut Association of Boards of Education has taken no position on the bill. Nor has the Connecticut Education As sociation, the state’s largest teach ers union. But union President Credit Continued from Page 7 In recent years, credit card companies have set up tables on or near campuses loaded with free T-shirts, Frisbees and oth er gifts to lure students to apply — creating a “carnival atmos phere,” according to one college official interviewed by the GAO. R< >semary Coyle said tiki lieves the problem is “I really believeteaci not practice medicineT said. “We don’t recomnJ get on drugs.” Concern about Riti other drugs is widesprel Texas Board of hi adopted a resolution 1;| recommending that { consider non-medical J to behavior problems.Tl orado school boardapp| similar resolution in 1 legislation regarding drugs in school has posed in nearly a dozer. > accomplish. In the New Canaan^ th f hav , e dis,-,ct. \l.i,thousand l^ned <> n the= . , , , . Dasdnill di.u11<>nc— band took their son, novMr>- , , . . Ipi Ripken s sur— private psychologist, the bo\ has trouble with ti uring th« last sever, years, alM King Lou Ihrig’s consecui: ing. I le now receivesspe games record, A3 ucation from the schoi Sam;m Sosa sha^ “1 was able to get, tor angle-season hc» a different label that has pitching mastery cadonal connotation,ratheB e gMaddux ax medical,” said M.utlw »' e heen oversl: did not want her sons nan nonsense emana. ' < ..n.un.lMr,.- * *2’, m ' 1 ;! , ' st ' ther ,■ . Strike, two years did not return repeated _ J , Bipires threaten coinnicn'. But for ^ she has resolved many of ferences with the school which ilid not threaten: move her son from class. “I’m really thrilled abed new law, she said, “herd gives parents an awarenesi there should beacleardf ence between education medication.” wipires to be ft r ■ The most re< Bmes directly I Fall practice i Ot the 12 universkksaBe plenty of foe L ucs, the ' eport said,twB 0 n this weekei rclaux el\ restrictivepoias j Some of the garding solicitation by::*exas will con^ c'ard companies while o«B®ompete in the tut ion prohibited the pmAf the state’s to] completely. lnsomccK fespective scho plaints from students v . have verbally c( gressive marketing hadpr The 64 team ed colleges to adopt: el by winning restricting on-campuss. regional tourn Research Continued from Page 7 for development,” Hiler said. “This re search focuses on improving water dis tribution from El Paso to Brownsville so that farmers can produce more viable crops.” - Also approved was $4.3 million to ex pand shrimp farming research at Corpus Christi; $63,000 for dairy and meat goat research at Prairie View; $569,000 to ana lyze livestock and dairy policy; $293,000 for broad agricultural policy research and $299,000 for wool research at San Angelo. Man pleads no contest for negligent homicide PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A man whose 2-year-old son wandered away and froze to death while the fa ther hunted deer was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days in jail. Paul Wayment pleaded no con test june 5 to negligent homicide, which could have brought up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine. In ad- News in Brief dition to the jail sentence, he re ceived a year on probation. Wayment, 38, left his son, Gage, in his pickup truck last October while he went hunting in the mountains outside Salt Lake City, and the boy wandered off in his pajamas. Temperatures fell well below the freezing mark. Searchers found the boy's body five days later under a blanket of snow. Wayment read a statement in courtsSyihg he "made the biggest mistake of my life. ... If I could change places with my son, I would give up my life in a second." UTSA to offer pre law SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Uni versity of Texas-Austin and UT-San Antonio on Tuesday announced a new law preparation program. The pre-law program will be es tablished at UT San Antonio's downtown campus. The Institute for Law andPubt Affairs will open its doors to slug dents Sept. 1. It will be headed by Richal Cambitta, chairman of thedepartl ment of Political Science andGt: ography. The program will help the ur| versity attract more minority law® dents, said Rep. Trey MartinezV cher, D-San Antonio. ]*i"eosfeit , £cr£f9i9 •F®** Residence Hall: The Student Life Alcohol and Drug Education Programs Office offers presentations on Women and Alcohol as well as Sexual Assault and Date Rape Drugs; how to protect your self. Y<m# c.cm ct pr&&<t-tv£wti9n «rt h€fcp5//*rwrw-s*«dej*filiFe-t:cn*i*»/«d«p or- coll Far mara inFarmatJan. fw, UDENT A-Ki.M 4 vi ai.coho*. aivo i)m;o *U»L7Cation Programs cMofxe. 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