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By Susan Stubing
Reporter
“Wellness,” (he mystery word that
I has been lurking in the minds of
health educators and fitness promot
ers since 1950, is rapidly becoming a
familiar term with a simple concept
I — feeling good.
Although the concept is basic,
I promoting the idea and educating
the public on how to “feel good” is
complex, says Buster Pruitt, asso
ciate professor in the health and
physical education department.
Wellness focuses not only on feel
ing well now, hut also on establishing
a wellness program in schools so
children can grow in a healthy envi-
romnent with good health habits,
Pruitt says.
The wellness idea suggests that to
“feel good,” a person must concen
trate on (he emotional, social and
spiritual aspects of life as well as the
physical aspects, he says, and these
aspects reach beyond simple health
care.
“Anyone, regardless of where he
is on (he health continuum, can he
well,” Pruitt says. “Kven a paraplegic
can achieve a level of well-being.”
Activities and programs that pro-
■ motets of wellness provide are de
signed to maintain this level of
health, which Pruitt calls “preventive
medicine.”
“It’s taking a well person and pro
viding a service that will keep him
well,” he says.
Texas A&M provides this service
in its $ 150,()()() human performance
lab— housed in the Netum A. Steed
“Anyone, regardless of
where he is on the health
continuum, can be well.
Even a paraplegic can
achieve a level of well
being. ”
— Buster Pruitt, A&M
associate professor
Research and Conditioning Tab —
and is available to all A&M faculty,
students and staff , and to the mem
bers of the Bryan-College Station
area.
Stephen Crouse, director of the
conditioning lab, says a complete fit
ness evaluation costs $120 and in
cludes a stress test, a body composi
tion reading and a measure of blood
fats and cholesterol levels.
“The evaluation tells us how
healt hy your heart is,” Chouse said.
Another program wellness pro
moters at A&M have undertaken is a
series of “wellness weekends.”
The events are designed for
Texas school administrators, teach
ers and school board members to
learn how to develop proper health
education programs in their schools,
Pruitt said.
Jane MacDonald, principal of
Carl Schur/. Elementary School in
New Braunfels and one of 20 partic
ipants in a wellness weekend held
Jan. 25-25, says, “We are starting
with the teachers in the hopes of our
examples filtering down to tjie chil
dren.”
Students are the target population
of the wellness idea, MacDonald
said, so they may understand the im
portance of exercise and nutrition.
Karon Preiss, a nurse from the
New Braunfels Independent School
District, said she attended the well
ness weekend “to develop an aware
ness of my own body and implement
a program in my school.”
Pruitt says the idea to implement a
wellness program stemmed from re
search evidence that shows schools
across the country lacked a strong
health education curriculum.
State commissioner ‘unsurprised’
at Texas’ poor education marks
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AUS TIN (AP) — Texas Education Commissioner
[William Kirby said he is not surprised by the report is
sued by the U.S. Department of Education indicating
[the state educational system still lags behind that of
[most other states.
Despite a sharp increase in average teacher salaries,
| Texas’ rankings fell among the 50 states and the District
of Columbia on the number of students graduating
from high school on time. The state also lags in the rate
(d increase of Scholastic Aptitude Test scores,
j “Am I upset with what it says? I’ve been upset for a
[long time, especially with an increase in our dropout
Irate,” Kirby said. “ We’ve got to continue to work with
lour teaches and parents. The solution is not to expect
[less of our students, but expect more.”
Kirby noted that Texas ranked 54th in the nation in
[the amount of the money spent per child in 1985. The
[most recent report placed the state in 57th place.
“Now is the time to watch more closely how legislators
[will respond to education in a financial crisis,” Kirby
[said. “ To have a first-class production we can’t cut back
Ion our resources.”
Jim Butler, executive director of the Texas Stale
Teachers Association, criticized the report, saying that
comparing lest scores in Texas with those in other states
is “like comparing apples with oranges” because Texas
students come from a wide variety of cultures.
The state ranked 45rd in the nation in high school
graduation rates, determined by tracking how many
ninth graders graduate over the usual four-year period.
In 1985, 65.2 percent of the students graduated on
time.
In 1982, when the Department of Education began
its annual national “report card” on education, Texas’
graduation rate ranking was 45rd, with 65.(> percent
graduating.
Graduation rates in 52 other states also fell, but edu
cation officials said the more important figure was the
one that showed the trend over the past four years. In
that category, 55 slates increased while Texas declined.
Texas SA T scores have increased over the past four
years, but its nine-point increase lags behind the na
tional average increase of 15 points. In 1986, Texas stu
dents earned an average of 877 points out of a possible
1,600 on the college entrance exam, slipping one point
from 1985’s mark.
The national average was 906, putting Texas 17th of
the 22 states that use the SAT.
jSenate delays vote on White nominations
AUSTIN (AT) — The Senate
Nominations Committee delayed a
vote Wednesday on seven nomi
nations by former Gov. Mark White
[until it can determine if While le
gally made them after being de
feated by Gov. Bill Clements.
“We don’t care to delay this any
longer than necessary but we want
ill members of the committee to
lave a chance to review the law,”
jsaid Sen. Chet Edwards, committee
hairman.
The committee vote probably will
come today or next Tuesday, Ed
wards said.
After White was elected governor
in 1982, he recalled a number of
nominations made by Clements and
made new appointments.
A bill passed during the 1985 Leg
islature generally said a defeated
governor could not make any ap
pointments af ter the November gen
eral election. There is a controversy
presently over whether the law ap
plies only to vacancies that occur be
fore Nov. 1 or those vacancies after
the election.
Edwards, D-Duncanville, said
Clements had not asked that the
names of the seven appointees be re
turned, but members of Clements’
staf f had talked with the committee.
Sen. O.H. “Ike” Harris, R-Dallas,
made the motion to delay a commit
tee decision until members of tbe
Texas Legislative Council could
brief the committee on the 1985 law.
Other White appointments, all
made before Nov. 1, were cleared by
the committee for later Senate con
sideration.
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