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Healthy individuals with a history of colds needed to participate in a short research study with a currently available prescription medica tion. $40 incentive for those chosen to participate. $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 !“o MILD ASTHMA ir $400 Males 18 yrs. & older who have mild to moderate $400 $400 asthma, or past history Of childhood asthma to participate in $400 $400 a one weekend investigational study. $400 incentive for $400 $400 those chosen to participate. $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 CALL PAULL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 776-0400 Page 12 Wednesday, February 28,1990 Group urges high court to leave its powers intact WASHINGTON (AP) — The na tion’s pension insurance agency urged the Supreme Court Tuesday to leave intact its ability to prevent companies from abandoning re sponsibility for worker benefits. The high court heard oral argu ments in a case seen by the Bush ad ministration as an important test of the authority of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, a govern ment corporation that insures the pensions of 30 million Americans. At issue is whether LTV Steel Co. will succeed in dumping billions of dollars in pension costs onto PBGC. Schedule (Continued from page 1) elon Fantasy and Deconstruction, 501 Rudder. • 6 to 7 p.m. — Panel on Fantasy and Genre Collections, Library 204. • 7:30 p.m. — Conference Banquet, Casa Tomas. March 2: • 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. — Panel of Fantasy and Psychology, 501 Rud der. • 12:30 to 2 p.m. — Lunch, Duncan Dining Hall. • 2 to 5:30 p.m. — Panel on Fantasy and Marxism, 501 Rudder. • 5:30 to 7 p.m. — Reception, MSC 145: March 3: • 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. — Panel on Fantasy and Feminism, 206 MSC. • 2 to 6 p.m. — Panel on Fantasy and Anthropology, 204 Harrington. March 4: • 10 a.m. to noon — Panel: The Writers Respond to Scholars of The Fantastic Imagination, 501 Rudder. Admission to all panels is free. Month Delegates (Continued from page 1) “Today, a college degree is abso lutely essential,” Smith said. He said a good grade-point aver age helps college graduates entering the job market. Smith said the educational system in the United States is a very impor tant way for African-Americans and other minorities to succeed later in life. At present, there are not many African-Americans in high manage ment positions, Smith said. He said education was one way to correct this injustice. Smith said he also favored the enforcement of affirmative ac tion. “I believe that affirmative action is good but the minority must be as qualified as any other person apply ing for the job,” Smith said. .“You have to be prepared.” Broussard and Smith said they agreed education was essential in the future. Smith said that although rac ism will never go away, African- Americans have made large gains in American society. Broussard said that drugs and ap athy may stand in the way of a freer America but, with hard work and determination, the goal of an Amer ica where the color of a person’s skin does not matter can be realized. AIDS (Continued from page 1) ered handicapped and are per mitted to use the facilities of the uni versity as long as they are physically able to. Infected students or faculty mem bers do not pose a health risk in the institutional setting, she said. According to information re leased by the U.S. Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control, there is no reason to avoid an in fected person in ordinary social con tact. There is no evidence that the vi rus can be spread through social kissing, telephones, toilet seats, shar ing swimming pools, bed linen, eat ing utensils, cups or office equip ment. Because AIDS cannot be spread by casual contact, Gonzalez-Lima said students with AIDS can share rooms with other students as long as the infected student’s physical condi tion is not in danger and does not re- uire private care. She also told stu- ents to take note that harassment of an AIDS victim is condemned by in stitutional policy. One of the biggest concerns of the college population is that of giving blood, sne said. No student, except maybe Health Science students. should be allowed to draw blood in class, she said. It should also be made clear there is no risk from donating blood at university-sponsored blood drives, she said, because equipment is con tinually changed each time blood is given. Each blood sample also is au tomatically screened for the HIV in fection. According to statistics released by the Texas Department of Health, there have been 22 reported cases of AIDS in Brazos County and at least 20 more undiagnosed or anonymous cases. A&M health officials said that possibly seven of those cases involve students. Gonzalez-Lima said it is not known exactly how many cases have been reported on college campuses. Although one in every 100,000 pints of blood collected at blood drives is infected, it is not mandatory for the case to be reported to the university health center. However, the individual is notified and the case is reported to the state’s depart ment of public health, she said. Gonzalez-Lima said that if a uni versity health center is made aware or is providing primary care to a stu dent infected by the virus or AIDS, by law it cannot release this informa tion to the student’s family, room mate, employer or professors. However, she said, the health cen ter can provide confidentiality but it cannot guarantee complete anonym ity due to the number of people, in cluding student workers, who han dle records by name. Gonzalez-Lima said it only takes a single act to become infected. She said that students who believe they have come into contact with some one who is infected can voluntarily take a test to determine if there is a presence of antibodies of the HIV infection. The test can be administered at some campus health centers. It’s bet ter to take the test now, she said. “Although the virus may not show up in an individual at first, risk be havior should be modified,” she said. “Students should not get par anoid thinking the results were neg ative and may change. They should not keep taking the test over and over.” Most state health departments recommend taking the test every six months depending on individual sexual behavior, she said. If the test results are positive, a series of two other tests must be administered be fore the virus is diagnosed. Pro-choice (Continued from page 3) tion, but we can send a message. It could set the tone for the rest of the decade.” Abortion has become a hot topic in statewide races because of the Su preme Court’s decision last summer giving states more freedom in regu lating abortion. Abortion became legal in 1973 following the Supreme Court deci sion in Roe v. Wade. Smoot pointed to the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races earlier this year, where pro-choice Democratic candidates won, as proof that the American public is not in fa vor of legislation restricting abortion rights. “The Republican party, for the first time in a while, is in trouble,” she said. “Their party leaders have made strong anti-choice stances and it’s hurting them. They are going to have to give in soon.” The Texas Legislature is expected to take up the issue of possible re strictions on abortion tights in Jan uary 1991, the next legislative ses sion. TARAL also is making a commit ment to college students through training and education seminars, Smoot said. The seminars help pre pare college students to recruit members into local organizations, respond to legislative action on the abortion issue and other topics im portant in an election year, she said. Adoption (Continued from page 3) Seay said the NLCS is not run like a regular, or open adoption agency. The center is a semi-open adoption agency, she said. In an open adoption agency, the mother is in communication with the prospective parents while still preg nant. The drawback to this adoption process is that it puts too much pres sure on the mother if she decides to keep the baby because all parties are emotionally involved, Seay said. “We personally feel that we need to eliminate that pressure,” she said. The NLCS lessens that pressure by using the semi-open process in which the family is not contacted un til the agency has a baby for them. The mother chooses a family from profiles the agency has compiled, Seay said. After the baby is born and the mother signs the release forms, the family is contacted and only then meets the mother and child, she said. This guarantees the baby will im mediately be placed in a family, and the prospective family won’t go through the pain of “losing” a child if the mother decides to keep it, Seay said. She said that after the adoption, Ibe center encourages the mother to stay in communication for the first few months with the family that adopted her baby through pictures and letters. At the eighth month, the mother meets with the family for “an emotional letting-go,” Seay said. “It's more difficult up front for the mother, but it’s easier in the long run,” she said. The private non-profit agency, which employs five workers, was started in 1982 as a ministry for the Northwest Memorial Baptist Church. The center only accepts two-parent, Christian families for profiles. They placed 11 babies last year, she said, and have already placed nine this year. Seay, a registered nurse, attrib utes the increase in adoption to bet ter awareness of abortion and the dangers involved. “My firm belief coming from a medical background is (that) most girls who have abortions don’t know what they are,” she said. (Continued from page 1) on topics of concern to students are available for students to watch in the Health Center waiting room ot for those who express interest to take home for personal viewing. Testing for the presence of HIV antibodies also is available, for a cost, at the Health Center. Student Coun seling also provides pre- and post testing counseling. The most recent effort by A&M in favor of AIDS education can be seen with the actions of A&M Associate Provost Jerry Gaston, chairman of the A&M committee on AIDS. The committee, appointed by former President Vanaiver, has submitted to President William H. Mobley rec ommendations to make condoms available on campus and to educate students, faculty and staff about AIDS and its carriers. In reference to AIDS on her cam- f urs, Kristin Saltzgiver, a delegate rom Sam Houston State University, said “to not promote safe sex on campus is to ignore the fact that stu dents are having sex.” She said that although they had a condom rally last year where a uni versity member passed out condoms, the school still remains conservative. Condoms are available at the health center, she said, but only a few students actually ask for them. She also said she thinks that uni versities should be more open to dis cussion on topics such as AIDS, es pecially since students at Sam Houston believe a university faculty member died of AIDS last year.This report has not been confirmed. “It’s one thing to make condoms publically available,” she said, “but education is the main problem be hind AIDS. If you don’t educate the students about the available con doms, it defeats the purpose of hav ing them available.” Alexander Cordon, a delegate from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia said, “it makes good business sense for a uni versity to provide education and condoms.” This way he says more students will get an education and universities will maintain retention rates. Resident advisers at his uni versity sell condoms. Condoms also were distributed as Valentine’s Day gifts. A delegate from Oklahoma said females at his university are required to take a human sexuality course. He feels the class should be mandatory for both sexes. He also feels that ho mosexuality, what he says is a big is sue in Oklahoma, needs to be given more attention at an earlier age, since sexual stereotypes are placed early in life. Martha Price, a delegate from Eastern Illinois University, said sta tistics recently released at her uni versity showed that as much as 30 percent of the male population was homosexual, although she claims she has never come across anyone who is. Education on this subject is defi nitely necessary, she said. She said the student government at her university tried to pass legis lation for condoms to be provided in campus restrooms, but the univer sity refused the request. In reference to birth control she said, “I think university health cen ters should provide every benefit that off campus doctors’ offices pro vide.” A delegate from the University of Texas Pan American agrees with Price’s stance on making birth con trol readily available to students. i!k 1 i”4ak f 2* !~i sv r’t c; j ■JILvSI Cl LILH ■ 1L—‘ Wr jpas-ff ■ 7 la J 4 m H B \ 1 j \ J B . 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