ESTATE & LOCAL
Wednesday, October 10,1990
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By KATHERINE COFFEY
Of The Battalion Staff
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The most important natural
resource of the United States isn’t
oil or land, but the talent and
minds of older people, a Texas
A&M health education graduate
student says.
Graduate student Dan Hoover
is doing research for his disserta
tion to see if increasing retired
people’s mental activity will lead
to longer lives and better health.
Hoover is doing his research
with 20 retired A&M faculty and
staff members. His research will
test if challenging and stimulating
minds of the elderly can help this
a^e group become less dependent
on government aid.
"The purpose is to try to set up
a model for older adults so they
can get together in small groups
and challenge their minds,” Hoo
ver says. “The 20 people are able
to do this by talking about inter
esting topics.”
The study-seminar is titled
The Effect of Mental Exercise
e on the Fluid Intelligence and Self
Responsibility for the Wellness
and Affecting Function of Re
tired People.”
The group, called the “Eureka
Rebels,” began meeting in late
August and will continue until
Monday. The group met every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
for two hours.
Hoover says his intention is to
stimulate the adults’ minds and to
keep them thinking by listening
toothers’ ideas and discussing in
teresting subjects.
The seminars also help keep
group members updated on va
rious subjects such as nutrition,
safety, heart research and even
astronomy, he says.
“We had all types of speakers
Deluding a heart specialist, an
economist, a lawyer and a dance
hisdcipecialist come in and talk,” he
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Photo by Sondra Robbins
Dr. Beverly A. Clement, of the Toxicology Department, talks to
retired professors Auston Kerley and Spencer Baen.
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Group member Dr. “Dean”
Fred Bensen, A&M’s dean of en
gineering from 1957 to 1978, says
the seminars have been fun as
well as interesting.
“We’ve had good sessions,”
Bensen says. “My favorite ses
sions have been on health, nutri
tion and art.”
Hoover says one way to slow
the mental effects of aging is by
learning new things. Retired peo
ple tend to do habitual things
such as watching TV and sitting
all day, he says.
The graduate student says
communities should implement
similar programs because in the
long run this could help decrease
medical bills.
“We are looking for a way to
become self-responsible rather
than relying on restorative medi
cine all the time,” Hoover says.
The United States will spend
up to $2 trillion on medical ex
penses by the year 2000, and the
country needs to Find a way to
pay for it, he says.
“The retired faculty and staff
are a great group of people,” he
says. “Since they (group mem
bers) are used to being chal
lenged, the seminars are also in
teresting for them.”
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Catalysts for change
TEAC president calls for diverse participation
ByJAMES M. LOVE
Of The Battalion Staff
Thirty Texas A&M students traveled to the Univer
sity of Illinois and joined over 7,500 other students
from all over the United States for the Catalyst environ
mental conference this weekend.
Speakers at the three-day conference included Rob
ert Redford, Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader, as well as
speakers from Germany, China, Japan and England.
The conference, which was sponsored by the Student
Evironmental Action Coalition (SEAC), focused on two
major issues. One issue concerned the impact major
corporations have on the environment and the need for
responsibility and accountability for their actions. The
second issue addressed was the need for incorporating
more racial diversity among the environmental interest
groups.
The A&M students, members of the Texas Environ
mental Action Coalition (TEAC), attended the confer
ence in hopes of gaining new approaches and insight on
attacking the environmental problems in Texas.
Charles Albert, A&M Graduate student of Physics
and president of TEAC, said the conference was very
educational and gave the group some new perspectives
on what the real problems are about.
“It was helpful to meet and discuss the issues with
people from different regions,” he says, “In the future,
if we can better understand each other, we’ll be able to
work together in concert.”
“If the planet is going to survive another century, vie
need to stop quiveling about how things should be
done, and just start doing something,” Albert said.
Albert said Jesse Jackson’s address at the convention
explained some of the demographic diversities involved
with the problem.
“The focus of many of the speakers there was that
the rich don’t care since they are simply able to buy
their way out of seeing the damage, and the poor can’t
afford to change,” Albert said.
He said environmentalism is a luxury that not every
one has the time for.
“Environmentalism is a necessity,” he says, “and it
should be made more accessible to those who don’t al
ways have the time to participate.”
Albert said there was much discussion at the confer
ence that the economy and the ecology could go hand-
in-hand with each other.
“It shouldn’t be a sacrifice to be an environmenta
list,” he says.“My approach is that we should include all
middleclass non-liberals.”
Albert says the middle class is able to get involved,
and both liberals and conservatives must work together
for the environmental movement to succeed.
“We won’t be successful as long as viewpoints (be
tween the left and right wings) are split,” he says.
Albert said the number and diversity of people that
turned out at the conference showed much about peo
ple’s interest in environmentalism.
“There were twice as many people there than they
expected.” he says. “It says a lot to me that so many took
four days out of their schedules to be there with tre
mendous desire to do something about the environ
ment. This shows how serious everyone is.”
Albert said that the hopeful difference between this
environmental movement and the movements in the
sixties and seventies is that this is the first time that a
large diversity of people are pulling together.
“We saw everyone there from flaming liberals to die
hard conservatives,” he says. “In the past, opinions were
always divided. For a movement to be sucessful, it has to
be big enough to encompass all of these views.”
Albert says the prognosis for the movement is hope
ful. “I see it moving toward some real cooperation. Ev
eryone is agreeing on the gravity of the issue.”
“A successsful drive can be done,” Albert says, “Fifty
years ago, during World War II, a successful recycling
campaign was conducted, and they had a lot less to
spare then, too.
“If we could appeal to peoples patriotism, recycling
would not be viewed as a sacrifice,” he says. “Recycling
and being environmentally concerned is something that
should be made easy to do. It should not be a choice, ei
ther. Paying taxes is something that we have to do, and
so should being concerned about the environment.”
TEAC organized the Earth Day Festival last April
and currently is working with the Student Senate on the
campus recycling proposal. An environmental confer
ence also is planned at Texas A&M in February.
Founded in February 1990, TEAC is a recognized
student group and membership is open to all students
and community members. For more information con
cerning TEAC and its functions, call Lara Mears, Vice
President of TEAC at 823-6316.
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