Friday, October 16, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
HnelM&M students offer time, help
[o local mental health facility
By Alan Sembera
Reporter
Texas A&M student volunteers
d at times,doij make large contributions to the im
provement of the services and facili
ties of the Brazos Valley Mental
Health and Mental Retardation Au
thority, said Janie Velasquez, the au
thority’s public information director.
Velasquez said many A&M stu
dents do volunteer work at the facili-
jes, which include halfway houses,
lospitals for long-term patients, vo-
ational workshops and an adminis-
ration office.
t 1 putagarlai: The students come from a wide
and haveafe variety of backgrounds, Velasquez
aid. About 25 of the volunteers are
isychology majors who work from
ibout two to 18 hours a week. Other
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incidentally jther campus organizations.
The psychology students do dif-
erent things for the centers, she
laid; some work as big brothers or
Jig sisters for residents, while others
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medical clinic or do clerical work.
Students also assist psychologists and
sociologists, and help teach MHMR
clients cooking skills, office skills and
cleaning skills at the workshops.
Other students take on special
projects, Velasquez said, which in
clude adopting a Christmas or
Thanksgiving dinner or a Hallow
een party. There is a need for spon
sors at each facility on these occa
sions, she said, because they are at
different locations.
D’Ana Howard, a junior psychol
ogy major who has worked at
MHMR for three weeks as a thera
pist-technician, said she originally
intended to work as a volunteer, but
ended up taking a part-time job.
Howard said she first found out
what kind of volunteer work was
available at MHMR three weeks ago
when she went on a tour of the facili
ties as president of the Psychology
Club with other officers. After the
tour, she said, they told about 120
students at the next club meeting
about the volunteer opportunities.
This prompted many of them to
take advantage of the opportunity to
get clinical experience, she said.
Howard said clinical experience is
valuable for students who plan to go
into graduate school and study clini
cal psychology, but this isn’t the ma
jor motivation for the students, she
added.
“I honestly think Aggies really
care,” she said, adding that the work
also is enjoyable. “I had a few fears
and anxieties about it, but they were
all unfounded. It’s more like fun
than work, but its hard to keep good
grades and work.”
Students in the A&M chapter of
Associated General Contractors, a
national organization dedicated to
community service, also have volun
teered to do a lot of work at the cen
ters, Velasquez said.
Mark Grosskoph, a construction
management graduate student and
organization member, said the
group plans to have about 20 people
out at one of the workshops Oct. 24.
They plan to build a wood frame for
fire escapes, do renovation work on
the front porch and build a wheelr
chair ramp in the back.
Velasquez said MHMR also has re
ceived help from the service frater
nity Alpha Phi Omega. She said
members helped paint some of the
buildings in Bryan.
Horticulture students also helped,
she said. They solicited plants for
the facilities and even drove to
Houston and San Antonio to get do
nated plants, she said. They also do
nated some of the plants, she added.
Velasquez said the MHMR is al
ways in need of volunteers. She said
they need people to to work on pro
jects such as constructing storage
buildings, redoing kitchens and
building kitchen tables. These pro
jects would be perfect opportunities
for organizations to do community
service, she added.
ientson reasserts goal to repeal windfall
ng like that WASHINGTON (AP) — Using a new Energy
h nmn )epaitment study as fresh ammunition, Sen.
laNeanenaslhiyyj g entsen of Texas on Thursday reasserted
is goal of repealing the Windfall Profits Tax as
"^rt of the congressional trade bill.
The repeal provision, introduced as a floor
nendment to the trade bill by Sen. Phil Gramm,
Texas, won bipartisan Senate support but was
t contained in the House version and could
n into opposition in conference.
The tax was enacted in 1980 when analysts
edicted oil prices would soar to the $60 range
1990. The tax was designed to capture some
of the “windfall” profits that oil producers would
in because of this skyrocketing market.
■ But that’s not what happened. While the tax
brought in $25 billion in 1981, it has generated
liltle revenue in recent years following the col-
Bpse of oil prices, the study states.
■ Instead of rising, domestic oil prices bottomed
op! at $9.39 per barrel last year, according to the
erican Petroleum Institute.
“Without the tax, it is estimated that domestic
oil production today would have beeen almost 1
million barrels per day higher — a volume ex
ceeding current U.S. imports from the Persian
Gulf,” Charles J. DiBona, president of API, said
recently.
, Bentsen, chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, said he would use the DOE report to
help convince skeptical House members of the
wisdom in repealing the tax in the House-Senate
trade conference.
“The Energy Department concludes this tax
should be repealed now because it slows energy
production in this country, produces scant reve
nues, reduces the competitiveness of the U.S. in
the oil industry and is costly and burdensome to
comply with,” the Texas Democrat reported.
Citing API figures, the report estimates the in
dustry spends $100 million annually to cover pa
perwork costs associated with the tax. It also says
American Petroleum Institute.
“Without the tax, it is estimated that domestic
oil production today would have beeen almost 1
million barrels per day higher — a volume ex
ceeding current U.S. imports from the Persian
Gulf,” Charles J. DiBona, president of API, said
recently.
Bentsen, chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, said he would use the DOE report to
help convince skeptical House members of the
wisdom in repealing the tax in the House-Senate
trade conference.
“The Energy Department concludes this tax
should be repealed now because it slows energy
production in this country, produces scant reve
nues, reduces the competitiveness of the U.S. in
the oil industry and is costly and burdensome to
comply with,” the Texas Democrat reported.
Citing API figures, the report estimates the in
dustry spends $100 million annually to cover pa
perwork costs associated with the tax. It also says
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A&M researcher calls
"beef over red meat
largely unfounded
By Kim File
Reporter
Red meat may not be the fatty,
high-cholesterol nutrition foe it is
believed to be. In fact, a Texas
A&M researcher says beef is full
of nutrients and doesn’t deserve
its bad reputation.
Dr. Ki S. Rhee, an A&M re
search scientist and lecturer who
recently led research on beef fat
here, says much current informa
tion about red-meat fat is based
on various misconceptions.
Rhee says red meat is good for
you if only the muscle portion,
and not the seam fat, is con
sumed. She says red meat is con
sidered to be “nutrient dense,”
which means the amount of nu
trient value gafned is high for the
amount of calories consumed.
Beef also is an excellent source
of iron for the body and contains
high levels of vitamins B-6, B-12,
niacin and riboflavin, she says.
“Cholesterol content is a sub
ject which is very controversial
and something that the general
public is not correctly informed
about,” Rhee says. “Many people
think that poultry meat is lower in
cholesterol content than red meat
and that’s just not true.”
Rhee says three ounces of
cooked fat-trimmed beef and
three ounces of cooked skinless
chicken contain similiar amounts
of cholesterol.
But three ounces of cooked
shrimp contain more cholesterol
than three ounces of cooked beef
or three ounces of cooked
chicken, she says. However,
finned fish, such as cod, usually
contain the least amount of cho
lesterol when compared with the
same amounts of beef, chicken or
shrimp, she says.
In dietary terms, Rhee says,
saturated fats may be more im
portant than cholesterol because
saturated fat converts into choles
terol in the body.
“Many people equate red meat
fat with saturated fat and this is
wrong,” she says. “Meat contains
saturated fatty acids as well as un
saturated fatty acids — vegetable
oils also contain saturated fatty
acids and unsaturated fatty acids.
“The unsaturated fatty acids
are higher in vegetable oils.”
Even if a person has cut down
on his intake of beef or vegetable
saturated fat, as many health pro
fessionals suggest, that alone may
not help in reducing his choles
terol level, Rhee says.
“Many people think all the cho
lesterol you ingest is immediately
converted into blood cholesterol,
and that’s not so,” Rhee says.
“Only about 15 to 20 percent
of the population will respond to
lower levels of dietary cholester
ol,” she says.
Many factors besides diet are
involved in measuring the
amount of cholesterol in the
body, such as genetic makeup,
weight and whether or not a per
son smokes, she adds.
Rhee feels that misconceptions
about red meat and cholesterol
stem from doctors not being cor
rectly informed about nutrition.
“I don’t think the medical
schools are doing a good job in
terms of nutritional education,”
she says.
Also, Rhee says that there are
many “self-proclaimed” nutritio
nists that are receiving a great
deal of media attention.
“The consumers are con
fused,” Rhee says. “They are wor
ried about their health, so when
ever they hear that something is
not beneficial to their health, they
tend to believe it without ques
tion.”
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