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the BAIT.* a ns suspec gainst U.s I (AP) - Ge- bs had susp : W0 months Turkish ma r f plotting to Hilary bas« > but bure es delayed 'I last week, a; id Sunday. : rom (j.S. * that a the suspec > at home rear >rosecutorsin- a judge pu- ■’g of the W; 1 for Aug the sum’- be delivete: Elke O'Donor 'tor m the a Aggielife The Battalion Page 3 Monday, September 9, 2002 Hitchin’ a ride embers of CARPOOL spend weekends helping prevent drunk driving in B/CS By Denise Schoppe THE BATTALION he witness« d later, she, Dsman Petr- nmng somr They are seen around Aggieland every weekend, hanging ■round clubs and bars. Dressed in bright green T-shirts, they are armed with business cards'and cellular phones. Now and then, their cars whisk party-goers away. Their goal: to save lives. Their name: CARPOOL, which stands for Caring Aggies ‘R’ Protecting Over Our Lives. Lauren Barbier, CARPOOL director of public relations and a junior journalism major, said the organization simply wants to help students get home safely. “We just want to provide a service that gives students an alternative to drinking and driving,” Barbier said. CARPOOL is a student-run organization which, according to its mission statement, offers “ free non-judgmental rides” to stu dents and Bryan-College Station residents who have been drink ing and feel incapable of driving themselves home. It operates T hursday through Saturday every weekend, except 0 Doner Thanksgiving Day weekend, from 10:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. Associated « got a st Jg 30 - sas mezci, 24, arc fiancee, te 23, were r ursday [, home to pe headqur ■stem Cermr authorities s: couple was a rte citing ew# red Osama shared sore ons, indudi ws. rosecuton 'er the imec om erg state « hi Barbier said she hears some students do not use the organiza tion because they are afraid of being turned in to the police. “It’s frustrating when you hear of people not using the serv ice because of misinformation,” Barbier said. “Rides are not videotaped or audio-taped. We only take riders’ first names, so |here is no way to trace them. Being non-judgmental is the heart f CARPOOL.” Eric Martin, CARPOOL member and senior biomedical sci ences major, said picking up students who use the organization Improperly is the hardest thing for him. “We work on auto program.” Martin said. “People give you an address and you can’t call them a liar, even when we have ^he inclination that they are just trying to go to another party.” CARPOOL members who are not driving the cars work as “her- ^chels,” named after Herschel Walker, the 1982 Heisman Trophy 'inner and a favorite football player of CARPOOL’s founder. The herschels walk around area bars and clubs handing out business cards, or calling rides for people. CARPOOL operates using 10 cars provided by Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Two members, one male and one female, are dis patched in each car from CARPOOL’s meeting place at a Plantation Oaks apartment. “We have 250 members that must work six nights a semes ter,” Barbier said. “About 40 students work a night.” Members of CARPOOL are trained to handle any situation. The process for becoming a member involves filling out an application which is followed by an interview. “[The members are] one of the coolest things about the organization,” Martin said. “The people who are in it are a pleasure to be with. I haven’t had a night that 1 didn’t want to be there. The company in the car has always been nice. It’s an organization with a lot of good people in it.” Taking charge CARRIE CARTER • THE BATTALION Senior computer engineering group assignments to another major Peter Rega relays the CARPOOL member. Barbier said CARPOOL has about 100 members each semester. Students who are chosen to be part of CARPOOL go through six hours of training. “Drivers go through training so they can be confident and feel safe in their abilities,” she said. “Also, patrons can feel safe.” In the years since the organization began, there has never been an incident of someone exerting violence towards CAR- POOL members. “I really don’t feel any of our members feel apprehensive about going out,” Barbier said. "We recognize the fact that something could happen, but we’ve never had an incident. We enjoy what we do.” Student’s reasons for joining vary from wanting to help the community to having been personally affected by drunk drivers. Cat Jacobs, CARPOOL member and junior management major, joined because she had family members killed by a drunk driver. “I’m just trying to keep people from having to go through what I went through by having people killed by drunk drivers, be it family members or friends,” Jacobs said. CARPOOL is affiliated with M.A.D.D. (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) and is supported by Aggie Moms’ Clubs and the Bryan, College Station and University police departments. “We have mutual respect and a good relationship with the police, but we don’t report to them. [They] do not receive any information at all," Barbier said. “They will sometimes call us to come pick someone up.” Jacobs said CARPOOL sometimes receives more calls than the organization is equipped to handle. “It’s really hard to get to people as quickly as we would like,” Jacobs said. “You feel bad that people have to wait. We get so many calls and try to get to them as fast as we can. Unfortunately, people sometimes end up having to wait awhile before we can get to them.” Barbier said CARPOOL tries to provide as many rides as possible. “In our first three years, we gave 26,353 rides,” she said. The organization kicked off its fourth year on Sept. 5. Barbier said 130 rides were provided that night. 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