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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.
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