Show Pag 7 AAA Program Highway drunks: new cure-all- s by Rick Mrtz standard disciplines There are four colleges within the UttpteU? ctb made its way through college £ dirty dankly polluted emitted a Tall chimneys tan where in a city tei Hpfc smog £3 Bad of black isn’t beautifulin Axd ten the vehicle pulled fretef a puddle of dirty water a larger puddle of fvtincalied Lake Michigan r--r g ecsstruction site near an "critacsatal science building I The hii arrived l don’t know” said the Green like any Bay csb driver “It’s just other university I suppose” At Erst glance it looks university-1- - sr- just-like-iet- suppose 3K3 students shoving wey to class books under tszX'gtb under arms long hair short hair linoleumed cement walls announcing the floors white taSetin boards 'usual bull University: Environmental Sciences Community Sciences Human Biology and Creative Communication Curriculum includes such subjective subjects as “Visions of Man” “Ecosystems Analysis” “The Philosophy of Leisure” independent study programs that include munication comand involvement — the old standby stan- community as well as dards like accounting and phys ed But this university ties them all together “Frankly” says chancellor Frank Weidner “we’ve tried to build an institution that says the cop-ofrom society isn’t welcome here There must be a ut feeling of social responsibility — — in every area Let’s not pollute this university with things that lack meaning” relevance By Ralph Nadar Associated Press Alcohol is an enormous problem in highway safety We know that alcohol was a factor in roughly half of the 54800 highway deaths in 1970 AAA has launched a major program which we hope win have some effect in countering the tragic consequences of drinking and driving The program combines rehabilitation efforts with punitive measures for persons arrested on driving while intoxicated DWI charges The magnitude of the DWI dilemma is illustrated in examples like this: A head-o- n collision at 70 miles per hour recently resulted in the deaths of nine young people' Evidence showed the presence of both liquor and drugs-wit- h both drivers having a blood-alcohcontent of 10 In many states this would make them legally drunk-bu- t not in where the is 15 limit Michigan And 15 is equivalent of being stoned: Yet despite AAA efforts to change laws like Michigan’s by lowering the legal blood alcohol content limit to 10 measure to this effect remain bottled up in state legislative committees Meanwhile too many highway safety proponents are out trying to prove that cars cause accidents It’s no secret that modern as those in the Interstate system - are safe highways with fewer accidents and deaths per car-mil- e traveled If we are serious about traffic safety we need better roads and we need them badly-no- t more new roads but necessarily modernization and upgrading the great number of our present substandard roads With all of these problems facing us the concentration of the efforts of many auto safety enthusiasts on the car is truly hurting the cause of highway safety What about the 10000 pedestrians killed annually? 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