MSC Political Forum
Presents:
Streamlining Government:
The Changing Role of the State Treasurer
Martha Whitehead
Texas State Treasurer
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Wednesday, April 27, 1994
7:00 pm
229 MSC
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The Battalion
Tuesday, April 26, lJ
Health educators sponsor night at Olsen Fiell
By Melissa Jacobs
The Battalion
Spectators at the Texas A&M-Sam Houston
State baseball game Tuesday night at Olsen Field
can participate in a variety of games aimed at
increasing students’ awareness about health is
sues.
Dr. Jane Cohen, health education coordina
tor at A&M, said “Hit a Home Run for Health”
night will be informational and fun.
“This is an opportunity for students and
people to come to a game and see the Aggies
play and get information on health issues, she
said.
Michael Caruso, information representative
for the athletic department, said this event is di
rected at spectators.
“There will be a number of health issues that
pertain to people who like sports events,” he
said.
Cheryl Slinkard, graduate assistant for the
Health Education Center, said spectators need to
consider several factors when attending sport
ing events.
“Spectators need to wear hats to prevent skin
cancer and exercise to stay healthy,” she said.
“Hopefully, they will take these tips into their
everyday lives.”
The event is sponsored by the Texas A&M
Athletic Department, A.R Beutel Health Center,
the Health Promotion Department and Scott
and White Health Clinic.
Sponsors will be set up in five booths dis
tributed along the concourse, between the first
and second levels.
The Scott and White Health Clinic will have
two doctors at the event to talk about skin can
cer, and the A&M Emergency Care Team will
provide information on high blood pressure.
The A.P Beutel Health Center and the senior
Community Health Class will focus on smoke
less tobacco, which has been banned from ath
letes at sporting events.
There will be games, prizes and frees
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sors given to the first 1,000 fans.
Caruso said spectators will be given a cpJ
word puzzle that will ask questionsil*
health.
“We will pick three people who i
the crossword correctly, which will be|iJ
out at the gate, and they will win prizes,
said. “We will award two one-monthm
berships to Northgate Athletic Club, aol
month membership to Lifestyles FitnessCs;>1
and a health pack from Scott and WhitecJ
taining vitamins, lotions, aspirins and allt
of fun stuff.”
Every Tuesday is two for one night, i
people can get into the game for the pi
one. Tickets are $4 for adults and $2 lord
dren.
“Hopefully the baseball team will wina
will be good night for baseball andhealtI
Caruso said.
Texas ranks 42nd in child poverty levels, report says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Texas has
one of the nation’s lowest recorded
birth rates by unwed teen-age
girls, according to a national re
port on the well-being of young
sters.
Only New Hampshire and Utah
C osted lower rates of pregnancies
y unmarried teens during the
1985-1991 period surveyed in the
“Kids Count Data Book,” funded
by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Almost 20,000 births in 1991
in Texas were to unmarried teens
under the age of 1 8 — accounting
for 6.3 percent of all births in the
state. The national average is 9 per
cent.
That doesn’t necessarily mean
Texas teens are giving birth at a
lower rate than their peers nation
ally, a Kids Count coordinator said
Monday.
The difference might be ex
plained by the fact that Texas
doesn’t specifically ask a person’s
marital status when registering
births, said Patrick Bresette, an as
sociate director at the Center for
Public Policy Priorities of the
Benedictine Health Resource Cen
ter in Austin.
If a father’s name is listed on
the birth certificate, it is assumed
the couple is married, Bresette
said. “We’ve been really pushing
the health department to get that
changed,” he added.
“I think it skews our numbers
fairly dramatically.”
Texas posted slightly lower in
fant mortality rates than the na
tional average, with 7.7 deaths per
1,000 live births versus 8.9 deaths
per 1,000 live births.
But the news wasn’t all rosy for
Texas’ 4.8 million children under
the age of 1 8.
Twenty-four percent of the
state’s children lived in poverty,
compared with a national rate of
20 percent — placing Texas 42nd
among states and the District of
Columbia.
“One thing that I think is par
ticularly troubling for us and has
to be addressed is that while the
national child poverty rate has
shown some improvement, we’re
going in the other direction,” Bre
sette said.
National rates have dropped al
most 1 percent since 1985, while
Texas’ child poverty rate has in
creased by 1.4 percent in the same
period.
At the same time, 22.5 percent
of the state’s youngsters lacked
health insurance coverage in 1 99 1
— a ranking Bresette said was the
worst in the nation.
Texas and five other states —
California, Illinois, Michigan, New
York and Ohio — also account,
almc>st half of the nearly 3.9it]
lion children living in thenafe
worst neighborhoods.
“We can no longer be s
by the terrible outcomes e.\p-:I
enced by young people who ra
up in environments where dicj
violence, welfare and teen pi-.;
nancy are far more prevalent tlr
safe schools, high school t
and good jobs, ’ said Douglas
Nelson, executive director ofi
Annie E. Casey Foundation.
“These neighborhoods oflen]
real choices. We need to
that,” he added.
Mini >st S pen ent of Texas I
dren lived in severely distress;:
neighborhoods during the sis-.
ihtkhI surveyed. Almost 2 peK;:|
lived in houses without
plumbing or kitchen facilititil
One-quarter lived in homesliij
were overcrowded.
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