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Health officials redefine AIDS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ATLANTA — Federal health officials on
Tuesday added three more diseases to a pro
posed new definition of AIDS, bowing to de
mands from activists who had accused the
government of ignoring symptoms peculiar
to women.
The revised definition, expected to be en
acted next year, could affect disability and
other benefits for thousands of people infect
ed with HIV, the virus that eventually causes
AIDS. The government considers an AIDS di
agnosis in calculating disability benefits, and
a diagnosis is needed to participate in drug
trials or qualify for low-cost AIDS drugs.
The Centers for Disease Control proposed
adding pulmonary tuberculosis, recurrent
pneumonia and invasive cervical cancer to
the list of diseases that indicate AIDS has ful
ly developed in people infected with HIV,
the AIDS virus.
"We expect this expansion to result in
more comprehensive monitoring of the epi
demic of HIV infection and related disease in
the United States," Dr. James Curran, associ
ate director for AIDS, said in a letter an
nouncing the proposal.
The Atlanta-based agency will take public
comment on the proposal until Nov. 16 but,
barring unusual developments, the definition
is expected to go into effect Jan. 1, said
spokeswoman Ann Sims.
AIDS activists welcomed the proposal,
saying it would mean AIDS diagnoses for
thousands of HIV-infected women and drug
abusers.
"It's not enough but it's definitely a step in
the right direction," said Tracy Cedar of the
National Association of People With AIDS.
She is infected with HIV and has cervical
cancer but tests negatively for AIDS.
Now that the government accepts cervical
cancer as an AIDS sign, gynecologists must
do the same, said Tricia Grindel of AID At
lanta.
"I've heard horror stories of women with
persistent gynecological problems who re
quest an HIV test and are refused," she said.
"We just need more awareness from gynecol
ogists that a person doesn't have to be gay or
a white man or from a poor African-Ameri
can community to have AIDS."
"The recognition of invasive cervical can
cer among HIV-infected women represents
missed opportunities for disease preven
tion," the CDC said.
HIV-infected people are diagnosed with
AIDS when they develop any of 23 indicator
diseases, including Kaposi's sarcoma, a type
of cancer found mostly in men.
More than 1 million Americans are
thought to be infected with HIV. More than
230,000 have developed AIDS, and about
152,000 have died.
NAACP talks
about impact
of 1-hour class
By TANYA SASSER
Staff Writer of THE BATTALION
Instead of lashing out against
members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon
for the “jungle party" they hosted
earlier this month, members of
the NAACP discussed Tuesday
evening the impact that a re
quired multiculturalism class
would have on the University.
Some members of the A&M
chapter of the National Associa-
andidates start final campaign week
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
I President Bush seized on news
Ot stronger-than-expected eco-
(1(1 Momic growth Tuesday as a we/-
v/v I come tonic for his ailing cam
paign. Bill Clinton sped through
■te South, teYhng supporters who
leemed ready to begin celebrat
ing, “One more week."
I The third man in the race, inde
pendent candidate Ross Perot,
Stayed out of sight after two days
11192 appearances in which he ac-
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that Republi
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ning to disrupt
his daughter's
wedding. "A
little bizarre,"
the president
said of Perot's
spending tens
of millions of
dollars on cam
paign ads.
Clinton was glad to take the
high road, denouncing "all this
name calling and stuff."
In Augusta, Ga., and then again
in Tampa, Fla., he gave his dra-
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By GINA HOWARD
Reporter of THE BATTALION
BusinessWeek listed the
Texas A&M graduate business
school as one of the top 20 in the
country among 'second-tier'
schools in the Oct. 26 issue.
The story titled "Second-Tier,
But Not Second Rate" said
many graduate schools outside
of the Top 20 offer consumers
an excellent education for a rea
sonable price.
There are clearly some advan
tages to being included on the
list, especially for students grad
uating from the program soon,
said Dan Robertson, associate
dean for academic programs.
"To students graduating this
year or next there will be a dis
proportionately positive impact
since we have not been recog
nized on this list before,"
Robertson said. "We will be
getting a lot more mileage this
time than if we are listed again
next year."
Inclusion on the list could
mean a positive impact not only
for graduates but also for the
school, he said.
"This could mean something
even to undergraduate stu
dents," Robertson said. "I don't
know if there is necessarily a
cause and effect, but I suspect a
result could be to drive the
amount of applications up even
further."
This is very positive because
there are more and better appli
cants, he said. As student quali
ty increases, so does the quality
of future applicants.
"The result is a positive, up
ward spiral as you get a higher
quality student body."
Selection of the Top 20 was
based on schools accepting ap
plicants with Graduate Manage
ment Admission Test (GMAT)
scores no lower than 575 out oif
800. Also, each school's tuition
was compared to the starting
salaries of it's graduates.
The GMAT score for the
A&M program is 601 and the
average starting salary for its
graduates is $35,586. A&M's tu
ition is the second lowest of the
listed schools at $10,608.
Other Texas schools included
on the list were Rice and the
University of Texas.
matic version
of political ap
pointees at the
State Depart
ment going
through his
records late at
night, then de
clared, to
cheers and
laughter:
"I bet it's
the only time
those three political hacks have
worked till 10 o'clock at night the
whole time Bush has been presi
dent."
Perot's running mate, former
Vietnam prisoner of war James
Stockdale, said in an interview
with The Idaho Statesman in
Boise that anti-war demonstra
tions by young Americans such as
Clinton hurt the war effort, cost
ing thousands of American lives
and prolonging the captivity of
POWs.
Vice President Dan Quayle
joined a Bloomington, Ill., crowd
in laughingly tossing around waf
fles symbolizing GOP charges
about Clinton's changeability. He
had a tougher moment earlier, in
an interview with CBS' "This
Morning," when he asserted, "We
have been pushing the idea that
George Bush is going to make
matters much, much worse."
The government reported that
economic growth jumped to an
annual rate of 2.7 percent in the
quarter ending Sept. 30. The
growth surprised most private
forecasters and was nearly dou
ble the weak 1.5 percent rate in
the April-June quarter.
"It's going to be very hard for
the nay-sayers and the pessimists,
who can only win by convincing
people how bad things are, to re
fute the fact that this is very en
couraging for America," the pres
ident said.
"If you think I'm happy, you're
right," said Bush.
Just seven days from the elec
tion, Bush tried to play catchup in
Iowa, Kentucky and Ohio. He
was running behind in all three
states.
Clinton campaigned from
Georgia to Florida to Louisiana.
"If we carry Florida, it is over,"
Clinton shouted to the cheering
crowd in Tampa.
Running mate A1 Gore cam
paigned in Wisconsin and Michi
gan, serenaded in Racine, Wis.,
by a crowd chanting, "One more
week."
Bush gave television inter
views aboard Air Force One to lo
cal channels, and lined up a series
of morning and evening appear
ances on network television pro
grams throughout the week.
"There's a sea change in the
country, and I feel it," Bush said.
"Everybody traveling with us
feels it. . . . There's something
happening out there."
"I think a large part of
the racism we experi
ence here on campus
is based on ignorance.
The best way to deal
with ignorance is
through education."
- Joseph Gourrier,
president of NAACP.
tion for the Advancement of Col
ored People said that requiring
Texas A&M students to take a
one-hour class on multicultural
ism is a way to educate people
about racism.
"I think a large part of the
racism we experience here on
campus is based on ignorance,"
said Joseph Gourrier, president of
NAACP. "The best way to deal
with ignorance is through educa
tion."
Gourrier said there is not
enough emphasis placed on inter
actions between whites and mi
norities at A&M. Requiring a
multicultural class might teach
people how to interact with mi
norities, a skill that is needed by
everyone, he said.
Many people don't know how
to interact with minorities and
think minorities are easily offend
ed, said Ferieshare Starks, a mem
ber of NAACP.
"What burns me up is that a lot
of black students do let these
things offend them," she said.
"Instead of speaking up for them
selves, they sit there and get mad
and do things that continue to
stereotype us."
Ronnie McDonald, a Texas
A&M yell leader and member of
NAACP, said he thinks blacks are
fragmented and need to work to
gether to educate people about
racism.
"We tend to break each other
down instead of building each
other up," he said. "If we put all
of our efforts together, it's a lot.
Everyone in this room is a student
leader, and we have to educate
people."
Sala N. Senkayi, a member of
NAACP, has organized a rally to
"educate the masses about
racism." The rally will take place
Thursday, Oct. 29 outside of Rud
der Tower. Everyone is invited to
attend.
"I have asked the speakers to
gear their speeches toward edu
cating people about the problems
of racism," she said. "Maybe
then, incidents like this won't
happen."
Gourrier said blacks should
not get caught up in the SAE inci
dent but try to deal with long
range solutions and plans in an
effort to keep this from happening
again.
"I feel the sanctions imposed
on SAE were fair and served a
better purpose than having their
charter revoked," he said. "This
way it serves as educational expe
rience for people to learn from."
Canadians sav nav to constitutional reforms
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONTREAL — Canadians discovered a
new unity Tuesday. East and west, French and
English came together — not over constitu
tional reforms but in rejecting the path chosen
for them by the country's political elite.
The results of Monday's referendum was a
sharp rebuff to Prime Minister Brian Mul-
roney, provincial premiers and aboriginal
leaders. Voters in French-speaking Quebec re
jected the reform accord, but it also lost in five
other provinces and one territory.
The constitutional changes would have rec
ognized Quebec as a "distinct society," re
formed the Senate and the House of Commons
to give western states more representation,
and recognized the rights of Indians and Inuit
to govern themselves.
Canadians combined to vote the measure
down 54.4 percent to 42.4 percent. Canada was
left no closer to a consensus on dealing with
the cultural and regional differences that have
been straining the federation for years.
Separatists in Quebec were cheered, hoping
the results would rejuvenate their indepen
dence campaign and give them a boost in
provincial elections that must be held by 1994.
The province's rejection did not translate into
support for independence, because many op
ponents of secession also voted "no."
The reform package originally was designed
to meet Quebec's complaints about threats to
its cultural identity in a predominantly Eng
lish-speaking nation. It gradually was expand
ed to meet demands for giving more power to
less populous provinces and aboriginal peo
ples.
. Pollsters predicted Tuesday that Mulroney
would be the biggest loser and might soon be
forced from office. With an anemic economy
that has 1.5 million Canadians out of work,
Mulroney is Canada's most unpopular prime
minister since pollsters began tracking such
sentiments.
Knocking Down The Wai i s
Corps strives for unity between moles, females
This is the third article of a four-
part series about the changes within
the Corps of Cadets since the sexual
harassment controversy last fall.
By TODD STONE and JULIE
CHELKOWSKI
Reporters of THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M Corps of
Cadets has tried to break down
the walls between men and
women by integrating its compa
nies and squadrons to become a
more unified organization.
But now, after accusations and
investigations of sexual harass
ment in the Corps last fall, fol
lowed by a series of reforms, the
walls are still standing for some
cadets.
"There's a lot of people who
still think that integration
shouldn't have happened simply
because there's a lot of people
who joined the Corps for the male
bonding — the camaraderie," said
a senior male cadet with the Ross
Volunteers who asked to remain
anonymous. "The bottom line is if
you have females in your outfit,
you cannot have that."
Corps Commander Matt
Michaels said there will always be
a few male cadets who oppose in
tegration despite the education
programs and positive attitudes
towards females.
"There are attitudes in the
Corps that no matter how much
we preach are not going to change
because of their upbringing,"
Michaels said. "There is really no
place for them. They're not going
to be the ones who are going to be
leaders in the Corps."
University President Dr.
William Mobley agreed and said
there are always a few who may
bring backward attitudes to the
Corps.
"There's a small group that
kind of reinforces within their
sons or grandsons this (all-male)
notion, and that needs constant
talking about," Mobley said.
Mobley said he believes it's be
coming the norm within the Corps
that harassment is not acceptable.
Indeed, university officials be
lieve the Corps has made signifi
cant progress in handling the dif
ficult issues of male/female work
ing relationships.
"They understand each other
better, and they learn to work to
gether," Corps Commandant Maj.
General Thomas Darling said.
"Women feel more of a part (of
the Corps)."
Darling said it has not always
been a smooth transition, and it is
possible the harassment problems
of last fall may not have occurred
if units were not integrated. Still,
he said both male and female
cadets will benefit from the
changes in the long run.
In the fall '86, female and male
units of the band were combined
and four years later, the rest of the
Corps followed their lead. Inte
gration was implemented when
various Corps leaders requested
that women be moved into tradi
tional male outfits, and men be
moved into traditional female out
fits.
The Corps was one of the last
military programs in the nation to
integrate female and male outfits.
Darling said the change was a re
sult of women being ostracized
from the all-male outfits.
"Generally, they didn't measure
up physically," he said. "There
was separatism. Now, they under
stand each other better, they have
learned to work together. It (inte
gration) gives women more of an
opportunity and men need to get
used to working with women."
Jena Madeley , a senior in the
Corps, was in an all-female outfit
her freshmen year when the
women lived in the same dorms
as the men, but on different floors.
She said the men would avoid the
women in the dorms and around
campus.
"The females were always put
off in their own little corner,"
Madeley said. "They were looked
down on when in an all-female
outfit. It just made it a little
tougher on us trying to prove our
selves in more ways than what
was necessary.
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