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Health
Space
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ohazardous materials and conduct
extensive individual research.
Students in this discipline take
computer courses as well as courses
that deal with legal and ethical ques
tions that might come up in their ca
reers, Albrecht said. Important ap
plications of medical technology are
found in drug-testing of athletes and
blood testing for the HIV-virus, she
said. The HIV test determines if a
patient has been exposed to the virus
that causes Acquired Immune Defi
ciency Syndrome.
A related field of study to medical
technology is the major of medical
assistant. Barbara Lyons, associate
professor in physcian’s assistant
studies, said graduates in this field
are capable of performing many of
the difficult tasks carried out by doc
tors.
“Medical assistants do a lot of
what doctors do,” Lyons said.
While students studying to be
come medical assistants know basic
medicine, they also are involved in
complicated medical matters such as
surgery and neonatal care, Lyons
said.
Lyons said the aspiring medical
assistant needs to be an amiable per
son. A 3.0 GPR is ‘required for ad
mission. The applicant then goes
through several interviews and tests,
Lyons said.
Other fields related to allied
health careers are physical therapy
and occupational therapy. Both dis
ciplines are taught at the university.
Physical therapists help patients
regain basic motor skills lost in acci
dents or strokes. The physical the
rapy program at UTMB at Galves
ton admits 40 students with a
minimum of a 2.8 GPR. After stu
dents complete the two years of spe
cialization, they can take the state
board exam and obtain their certifi
cation in physical therapy.
UTMB at Galveston is participat
ing in today’s Health Career Fair,
which will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
on the first floor of the MSC.
orate space research is going on
while most people don’t even have
telephones, he said.
Last year at an annual Soviet
space conference where the status
and goals of the space program are
reviewed, three main areas for de
velopment were established,
Thomas said.
First, the Soviets want to concen
trate on circumterrestrial (near
Earth) space, and study solar wind.
Next, they include astronomy in
their space program. They are talk
ing about deploying X-ray obser
vatories with both Earth- and space-
based stations.
Also, they are conducting inter
planetary studies, and these studies
will most likely be joint enterprises
with other countries.
“In terms of potential partners,
the United States is first,” Thoir (
said.
Although the Soviets lack <<
vanced technology (Soviet televisit
must be unplugged when not
or they will explode), their spu
program gets a great deal of atte*
lion, Thomas said.
“The Soviet Union is notjustboj
ing over with assets,” he said.
They do, however, commitquitt
bit of money to their program as v
as their best people, he said.
“The Soviet committment to
space program is that — a coin®
tment,” Thomas said.
Defense
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third-largest and fastest-growing
item in the budget. In comparison,
the $1.5 billion budget allocation for
AIDS research would “barely pay a
day’s interest,” he said.
“Our domestic programs are pea
nuts compared to what we’re doing
to finance the debt,” Barton said.
“We really have to balance the need
for current expenditures against the
need (for) fiscal security.”
Vandiver, director of the Mosher
Institute for Defense Studies, said
the national debt is one of the great
est threats to national security that
exists.
Barton said the peace dividend
also could be returned to the public
in the form of tax cuts or allocated to
domestic programs.
Citing the United States’ expendi
tures since World War II and the
current $300 billion defense budget.
Barton said “the United States has
put more into protecting the free
world than any other nation.” He
said $60 billion of the defense bud
get supports the NATO alliance.
Vandiver told the 24 student lead
ers that for the first time since the
war, the United States must funda
mentally rethink its defense policies
to cope with the quickly changing
global environment.
“Problems of national defense in a
time of peace always seem to be of
lesser importance than domestic
concerns,” Vandiver said. “Even
though we’re entering a period of
great destabilization, we may be
lulled into believing our nation is se
cure and pay more attention to
what’s happening on Main Street
than what’s happening on Red
Square.
“National defense always should
be our first priority because even the
worst domestic problems pale in sig
nificance when your national de
fense position is weak.”
But, the United States also has to
worry about problems closer to
home when contemplating defense
cuts.
Vandiver said closing military
bases and demobilizing troops couid
cause severe repercussions in the
economy. Some towns rely on mili
tary bases to support the economy,
he said illustrating the point with a
vivid example.
“Suppose the state were to say to
Bryan-College Station, ‘We’re going
to close Texas A&M; we have too
many universities,”’ Vandiver said.
“This community would collapse.
We are the economy to a great ex
tent, and that’s the kind of thing you
have in the defense establishment.
“(A standing army) is not a pro
ducer of much. It’s a consumer.
How do you absorb all of that into
the economy, into the workforce?
That is the issue that Congress is
going to have to wrestle with. You
have a much more difficult problem
than meets the eye.”
Because the United States is en
countering unprecedented change
in the world, there are currently
more questions than answers, Van
diver said.
“We have entered the most desta
bilized period in world history since
the beginning of the second woij
war because we don’t know wh;
going to happen in the SovietUnio
in Eastern Europe,” Vandiver
“Is President Gorbachev going to
able to ride this bucking bronco4
lie’s on? Is he going to be ableto
ahead of the revolution, whic]
what he’s really t rying to do?”
Vandiver said international even
give the United States the opport
nity to make some long-needi
changes in defense policy.
“The real challenge will be tot®
international opportunity and do
mestic constraint into a chance
save money in a sensible way,
do something that has been I
done f or too long: matchingdefei
spending to a miltary strategy,"
said.
Vandiver also offered a solutii
to the problem of cutting dele®
spending that would, at the sai
time, protect national interests.
"I suggest that one way to
about this, to achieve cuts in natio®
defense, is to contemplate so®
thing we have avoided consistent
like the plague: unify the ante
forces,” he said.
Barton said that whatever hij
[iens in Eastern Europe, thecurra
generation should still remajnalen
“Once they remove the threat
Soviet retaliation and Gorbacl®
stays in power, then your world
going to be a much safer place tin
your grandparents’, and tosometi
tent your parents’ world,” Bart
said. “But you’re still going to hat
to remain vigil because it doest
mean there’s not going to be as
threat to the United States,
there’s not going to lie any threat
democracy.”
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The A. P. Beutel Student Health Center has a central
purpose: to alleviate and prevent illnesses that negatively
impact on the student’s well-being. The A. P. Beutel
Health Center is open Monday through Friday from 8:00
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The services of available to students
registered at Texas A&M are:
Students Over Traditional Age (S.O.TA.)
Outpatient General Medicine
Specialty Clinics:
By referral from staff physicians, specialists in the
fields of orthopedics, urology, dermatology,
gynecology, general surgery, and
otorhynolaringology are available for limited
consultation.
Wednesday February 14 - 12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Lunch Speaker Series
"Financial Aid for Aggies Over 25"
A&M United Methodist Church Rm. 113
Friday February 16 - 6:00 p.m.
SOTA Supper Club - Garfields(Holiday Inn)
Friday February 23 - 12:00 noon
AGGIES WITH KIDS
Brown Bag Lunch - Health Center Conference
Room
Off Campus Aggies
Accredited Medical Laboratory
4.
5.
X-Ray Services
Physical Therapy:
Preventative and rehabilitative services are offered
by licensed physical therapists.
6.
7.
Allergy Clinic
Limited allergy testing is available for a fee.
Immunizations
Friday February 23
Mardi Gras Dinner and Dance
Saturday March 3
All Night Fair
Saturday March 24
Big Event and Picnic
Wednesday March 28
General Meeting
Saturday April 7
Parents Weekend Picnic and Slide Show
Wednesday April 18
General Meeting
TBA Aggie Olympics
OCA Dinner Club meets every Friday for dinner. Look in
the Battalion ’What’s Up’ section for location.
8.
9.
Cold Clinic
Pharmacy
Pharmacy sells a limited number of prescription
For More Information call either the OCA office, 845-
0688 or the Off Campus Center, 845-1741.
Off Campus Housing Fair
medicines at a nominal cost.
10.
Hospitalization
Payment of the Health Center Fee entitles
students up to 10 days of hospitalization per
semester at no extra charge.
"Off Campus Housing Fair - Not a Trivial Pursuit" will be
held on Thursday, March 22nd. The Housing Fair will be
held in the MSC this year. Look for more details in the
Battalion in the upcoming months.
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