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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
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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.
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