Wednesday, February 19, 1992
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Baker invites NATO to join center Family emergencies.
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point of having to ... spend end
less months and years haggling
over the tiniest points and de
tails/' Baker said after meeting for
more than two hours with
Kozyrev.
The two will hold another
round of talks on March 10 on the
sidelines of a NATO foreign min
isters' meeting in Brussels, a U.S.
official said.
Baker said he hoped the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
would join in the proposed early
warning system, saying that other
countries would also be welcome
if they acted "in a responsible
way."
The center would be estab
lished by the United States and
Russia and would also be open to
participation by the former Soviet
republics in the Commonwealth
of Independent States, said a se
nior official traveling with Baker.
"It's the first move to create a
practical form of defense coopera
tion" between the adversaries of
the Cold War, the official said.
He indicated that the project
had not progressed much beyond
the conceptual level.
The center, at a site yet to be
determined, would utilize existing
technologies and might develop
new techniques down the line,
said the official.
He held out the possibility that
the system would eventually re
quire modification of the 1972
Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty which
bans space-based anti-missile de
fenses.
The Bush administration
wants to modify the treaty to al
low a limited space-based defense,
but Russia does not.
The proposed system is of par
ticular importance to Russia
which is likely to lose some of its
early warning capability from
radar in the former Soviet re
publics which have now declared
independence.
No two emergencies are exactly alike. So all emergency care
jdnesday,
shouldn’t be the same either.
Attorney suggests safety measures
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started, he said. Owners can run a
wire to an inconspicuous place in
their car and activate the switch
when parking the vehicle.
Kuboviak said that inventions
like "the Club" will deter amateur
car thieves, but not professionals.
"A professional car thief will
laugh at 'the Club'," he said.
"The best crime prevention in
the world is your neighbors," he
said.
As for protecting your bicycle,
Kuboviak said that a good lock is
the difference between owning a
bike one day and not owning one
the next.
A good lock usually costs
about $45.
"The little chain locks are a
joke," he said.
Protecting your possessions is
important, Kuboviak said, but
only if you know how to protect
yourself first.
He warned women to never go
anywhere by themselves at night,
and to be aware if they must go
alone.
Before walking from a destina
tion to a car, keys should be in
hand, in case a quick escape from
a parking lot is necessary. Always
look under and in the back seat of
cars before entering a vehicle, he
said.
Sexual assault is a crime of vio
lence, and can happen anywhere,
Kuboviak said.
If a woman is in danger of be
ing sexually assaulted, she should
try to evaluate the situation as
quickly as possible, because many
assaults can be avoided, Kuboviak
said.
Women should think about
their options to different situa
tions in advance, he said.
Agency warns of alcohol dangers
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large amount of people in College
Station have fake identification
cards and if they don't then they
just use a friend's (ID) that looks
similar to them and probably it
works nine out of ten times."
Surveys on alcohol conducted
by the center during the spring of
1989, 1990 and 1991 have been
very consistent. Dr. Dennis Rear
don, coordinator for A&M's Cen
ter for Drug Prevention and Edu
cation said.
Ninety-five percent of A&M
students said they consumed alco
holic beverages at some time ac
cording to survey. Eighty-eight
percent of the surveyed students
said they consumed alcohol in the
last year, 60 percent said they had
been intoxicated in the last year
and seven percent said they drink
to get drunk.
"We are probably no different
than the general population,"
Reardon said.
The center is here to help them
while they are still students, he
said.
situation among
"We have a confidential ser
vice and any information will not
become part of the students'
records," Reardon said. "We see
80 to 100 students a month in MIP
classes."
Community organizations in
the Brazos Valley are also focus
ing on the alcohof sit
students.
Surveys conducted by Brazos
Valley's Mothers Against Drunk
Driving organization among stu
dents who attended MIP courses
revealed students' experiences
with alcohol.
Sixty percent of the students
said they had sex when they
drank too much, Florence Wagn
er, president of MADD said. Nine
ty percent of the students sur
veyed said beer was their favorite
drink.
A high number of students
also spent a lot of money, did not
remember what they did and
missed classes, she said.
"The standard answer stu
dents gave for drinking was
stress; academic and sexual,"
Wagner said.
Gulping two to three drinks
before going out on a date is very
widespread, Wagner said. Stu
dents did say that they learned a
lot from the MIP course and that
they would think before drinking
heavily in the future.
"Alcohol is the number one
problem with kids ages 13 to 22,"
said Kay Parker, community edu
cation director for the Brazos Val
ley Council on Alcohol.
About 25 percent of the popu
lation is in a high risk group be
cause they already consume alco
hol, Parker said. The council is a
referral and assessment agency
that also operates a 24 hour hot
line, 775-TALK.
"A lot of calls come from A&M
students," said Parker.
The Center for Drug Preven
tion and Education is a part of
Student Affairs and is located on
the second floor of the Beutel
Heath Center. For information
about Alcoholic Anonymous
meetings and other support
groups, call 845-0280 or go by
room 222 in the Beutel Heath Cen
ter.
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Changing social attitudes of female anatomy
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3:00pm Rudder 502
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Ann Simonton, former model and current
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For Information Call 845-1515
That’s why the emergency center at Humana'"’ Hospital -
Brazos Valley was designed and equipped to handle situations from
minor accidents to life-threatening injuries. The emergency department
at Humana Hospital — Brazos Valley is staffed with specially-trained
nurses and independent doctors who understand and can respond to
individual needs in almost any emergency situation. And because the
emergency department is backed by the many resources of Humana
Hospital — Brazos Valley, the department is prepared to handle almost
any medical emergency. For more information, call us at 764-5201.
Screaming and running is usu
ally the best answer to an attack,
he said.
AIDS has changed everything
involving sexual assault, because
women must now wonder if they
have been infected with the HIV
virus along with the emotional
and physical elements of the at
tack, Kuboviak said.
If anything, Kuboviak said he
hopes the fear of AIDS will make
women report more sexual crimes
than they have in the past.
Kuboviak said only one out of
ten victims of sexual assault report
the offense.
"That is a horrible statistic,"
Kuboviak said.
Not only does he teach others
ways to avoid being a victim,
Kuboviak listens to his own ad
vice.
"I practice everything I
preach," he said.
Because when it comes to family emergencies, the skilled and
specialized care we offer is no accident.
Humana k Hospital -
Brazos Valley
1604 Rock Prairie Road
College Station, TX 77845
(409) 764-5100
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