Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1988)
S DEFENSIVE DRIVING CLASS Nov. 4 (6-10 p.m.), 5 (8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) Nov. 11 (6-10 p.m.), 12 (8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) Register at University Plus (MSC Basement) Call 845-1631 for more information on these or other classes Contact Lenses Only Quality Name Brands (Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Barnes-Hinds-Hydrocurve) $ "7Q00 pr. *-STD. DAILY WEAR SOFT » ^ LENSES $ QQ00 pr. *-STD. EXTENDED WEAR SOFT LENSES $QQ00 pr. *-STD. TINTED SOFT LENSES W ^ DAILY WFAR OR EXTENDED WEAR SAME DAY DELIVERY ON MOST LENSES Call 696-3754 For Appointment CHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, O.D., P.C. DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY * Eye exam & care kit not Included 707 South Texas Ave., Suite 101D College Station, Texas 77840 1 block South of Texas & University PIZZA SALE! 99 0 PERSONAL PAN PIZZA pizza I'Hutl READY IN 5 MINUTES.GUARANTEED. Just For One • Just For Lunch Guaranteed 11:30 AM-1:00 PM. Personal Pan Pizza available ’til 4 PM 5-minute guarantee applies to our 3 selections on orders of 5 or less per table. 3 or less per carryout customer. m Personal I Pan Pepperoni I Limit one per coupon Personal I Pan Pepperoni^^^ I Limit one I Pr»«nt coupon wtwn a>4«rfng. On* eou- — ~ pan pOT p*r*on fMr vfajl Pwaonal P»n» —sflUa • per coupon Mrvsd botxw.n 11*m-«pni, Mon.-Frt. *1 portfcfpoting Pin* HuW rOTtawanls. ■ Pin Present coupon when ordering. One coupon <r person per visit. Persons! Psns served Ween 1Mon.-Frt. st psrtldpslng Pins Hoi® restaurants. 4W. Cash redemption value 1/20 cent. Not valid In combination with any other Pizza Hut® otter. 5- mlnirte guarantee appDe* 1130 AM to 1.-00 PM to our two selections on orders of Bor less per ta ble or 3 or less per carryout customer. ©1983 Pizza Hut, Inc. I Cash redemption value 1/20 cent. Not valid In combination with any other Pizza Hut® otter. 5- mlnute guarantee applies 1130 AM to 130 PM 1 to our two selections on orders of 5 or less per ta-1 " ble or 3 or less per carryout customer. 1 ©1983 Pizza Hut, Inc. 102 University Good at both Locations < University 501 University ‘Couch potato hypothesis’ explains overweight youthsP® Par SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Young Americans are more overweight than ever, a “fattening of America” that one researcher blames on a generation of couch potatoes that spends as much time watching television as in the classroom. Rates of obesity among children and adolescents went up an average of about 45 percent between 1960 and the early 1980s, said Steven Gortmaker, associate professor and acting chairman of the De partment of Behavioral Sciences at Har vard University. A key factor in explaining the rise are 1983 studies that show children spend an average of at least 25 hours a week in front of the television, said Gortmaker, who speculated that the actual number of viewing hours is higher. “Television viewing for children is now practically a full-time job equal to the time spent in school,” he said, add ing that television viewing is up from an average of 18 hours per week in 1968. Diet, a general decline in physical ac tivity, and TV commercials that re inforce the appeal of high-calorie foods contribute to the dramatic increase in overweight youths, said Gortmaker, who explained his “couch potato hypothesis” last month at an American Dietetic Asso ciation meeting. The link between TV-watching and obesity rates holds true for adults, too, he said. One study showed that adults who watch an hour of television a day or “Television viewing for children is now practi cally a full-time job equal to the time spent in school.” — Steven Gortmaker associate professor in the Department of Behav ioral Sciences at Harvard University. 98 percent in the same age group. Among youths aged 12 to 17, obesity went up 39 percent and super-obesity rose by 64 percent. Obesity and super-obesity were mea sured with a skinfold test that does not readily translate into percentage of body fat or other measurements, he said. The greatest increase among males was between the ages of 6 and 11, and the biggest among females was in those aged 12 to 17. Obesity was less prevalent among blacks than whites, but that gap has narrowed recently, he said. Obesity is equally prevalent among wealthy and poor children, Gortmaker found. The greatest number of obese youths are found in the Northeast while the fewest are west of the Mississippi River. Obese children face health risks 1 eluding hypertension, psycho-soa damage, respiratory and orthopei problems. They also tend to bee® overweight adults, Gortmaker said, To counter the trend, he recommei individualized programs to target ovi weight youth, and school and comt nity-based nutrition programs. In another presentation, John Fore an associate professor at Baykr Coli ientary clcctions tons parties ower. hoh less have a 3 percent chance of being obese, compared to a 25 percent chance of obesity among adults who watch three hours per day. Specifically, Gortmaker found that be tween the late 1960s and 1980, obesity rates went up 54 percent among children aged 6 to 11. Super-obesity rates went up Houston woman vows fight to keep 700-pound pet pig HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston woman who has bowed to pressure from city officials and agreed to move her pet pig out of town is calling for friends to march on City Hall in a campaign to “Keep Jerome at Home. ’ ’ The 700-pound pig known as Jeffrey Jerome has been used as an attraction at charity events by owner Victoria Her- berta Ziesig, who believes the animal de serves special treatment as an exception to city ordinances. “As far as I’m concerned, he is instru mental to the work I am doing as ambas sador to the needy, ’’ Ziesig said. have been feeding street people for four years out of my own pocket.” Jeffrey Jerome appeared on the porch of Ziesig’s home Sunday in a “Vampig” costume at a gathering that drew about 1,000 people, who donated a pickup bed full of food for Jerome’s last appearance as a Houston resident. “They agreed to let me keep him for his Halloween party today, but they said after that, they want him out of the city limits,” she said. “We have parties for him and . . . ask people to bring canned goods,” she said. “This helps me because sometimes my demand gets past what I can supply. I “In other words, I’m going to cooper ate with the city in the hope they’ll let met get a special permit and let me con tinue my work with street people and the needy,” Ziesig added. of Medicine in Houston, reportedthati eting has become the norm amongAt ican women and has become comm among young children “We have become a nation obses with body shape, body size. Women particular are not satisfied with theirko ies today, either size or shape,” hesa^, e l po f the religiol But Foreign Iv Election buttons tell political story n i JERUSALEM (/ ikud bloc and lef ueled head to heai Likud leader Yi o have the edge i ilition and said :ould stay on as p SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Behind every campaign button is a story. And every dedicated collector is a storyteller. Put the two together and what have you got? Life, piercing what Charles Cotrell, St. Mary’s University aca demic vice president and political sci ence professor, terms “dead” his tory. This particular story begins with 1,000 political buttons dating back to the 1896 William McKinley-William Jennings Bryan presidential cam paign that recently found their way to St. Mary’s University, thanks to a lo cal anonymous collector whose de ceased brother once attended the col lege many years ago. The political Americana, which will be on display at the university through Nov. 9, ranges from the somber McKinley photograph to “Drive Carefully — the life you save may vote Republican (Gold water ’64).” Although the collection has yet to be appraised, Cotrell said the button bearing the likeness of McKin ley, the 25th U.S. president who was assassinated, is one of the most valu able buttons today. The McKinley button was the first of the type of campaign buttons used today. Earlier buttons were made from lithographs on steel and more recent ones are made of paper with a celluloid covering. “A button really expresses the First Amendment,” Cotrell said. The professor pointed out that symbolic speech is protected by the First Amendment, a ruling made in the 1969 U.S. Supreme Court case of Tinker vs. Des Moines School Dis trict. The case arose when the school district forbade its high school stu dents from wearing black armbands to protest U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. “So much of political science is symbols,” Cotrell said. “Buttonsare Fixed imagery that goes back before the turn of the century. They afford a concrete touch with history in an age that almost depends on a flickering image (television) of reality.” David Frost, a paratransit coordi nator for VIA Metropolitan Transit Authority, began his button collec tion 30 years ago and has amassed at least 1,000 assorted buttons. “Buttons tell where we have been as a nation and how we got to where we are now,” he said. One of his most prized items is a George Wash ington campaign token. “I found it in an antique store In South Carolina," said the 43-year-old history buff. The Student Chapter EL PASO (AP ’atrol’s El Paso se ast month for m; :ials said Tuesday Border Patrol 0,622 pounds ol 96 separate sei nonthly record narijuana seized Woodruff said. April and Octc zesting seasons ir ;en increases in e ,018-pound hai April, while last seizures of 12 t ,000 pounds of n October 1987. “I think we’i oming across, ai fighting the prot Vina, deputy ch vast El Paso se southern New Me To underscore noted the amount October eclipsed trol sector’s figu 1986 - 6,594 pc U.S. Custom agents have beet years that the El more and more p glers, especially Some drive drug; the international toms can’t check the tremendous makes El Paso-Ji the U.S.-Mexica Other smuggle THE AGGIE CLUB The Aggie Club w Student Chapter vc fre By Al Sen Wednesday Nov. 2 5:30 p.m. Meet at the Indoor Pool (DeWare) (watch the last half hour of swim practice) Guest Speaker The free flov tial to the effor societies aroun of the Voice o said Tuesday at Information world,” VGA 1 said. “How out advantage in i ership role in going to deten sence of demo over the next ce Carlson wa: Reagan in 19 which broadet million people wide. “Voice of providing trutl public interes which in so mi free flow of in Mel Nash Swim Coach “The Voice glamourize c State’s accom ach democrai other governn ic.” he said, v job is, within frailty, to tell “. . . to of ■ on a variety < give a balano United States prises the Uni For more information call the Aggie Club The intends fort, Carlson such as the fr participatory ing to people I lions.