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JULY 9 [] WILL NOT PLAY SUNDAY, JULY 10 After the murder of Colombian soccer player Andres Escobar, sports fans are find ing that a little friendly competition can be taken too far. Thousands of mourners attended the fu neral of the Colombian player on Sunday. He was shot early Saturday in an appar ent retaliation for a goal he accidentally scored against his own team during Colombi a’s World Cup match with the United States. This shooting is similar to a 1993 incident in Hamburg, Germany, where tennis star Monica Seles was stabbed at a tournament by a fan of Germany’s Steffi Graff. These acts of violence have shocked the sports community and beyond. Don Albrecht, an A&M associate profes sor of sociology, said these acts are an indi cation of how serious sports are taken by some fans. “It was obvious by the World Cup that this was not just a game, but a matter of na tional pride,” he said. “You are heroes if you win and losers if you don’t.” Jeff Hird, a psychology intern at A&M’s Student Counseling Service, compared inter national sports to war. “When two countries are in competition, fans identify with their team just as they would with their army,” he said. “When the 111 §§§ |» m gg§ |»»| wmmm "When the team suffers a defeat, the fans feel the loss as well." —Jeff Hird,psychology intern, A&M Counseling Service team suffers a defeat, the fans feel the loss as well. “ Brandon Ward, an A&M football player, said fans have gone too far, and violence has no place in sports. “Although there is always a lot of pres sure on players here to represent their team and uphold their school pride, when it comes down to it, it is just a game,” he said. Luis Angel, a senior agriculture engineer ing major from Colombia, said even though people in his country are big sports fans, Es cobar was killed not because he made a mis take, but because of a bet on Colombia’s ex pected win. “Millions of dollars were riding on that game, and if the bet had been that Colombia would lose and Escobar scored the winning point, the outcome would have probably been the same,” he said. “It is like killing the horse you bet on when your money is lost.” Angel said Escobar was a respected per son and a good athlete. He said the majority of people in Colombia were not outraged that he scored the goal for the United States. “This was not a crime of a fan’s passion,” he said. “There has been a case of someone having a heart attack during a sporting event — that’s passion. “This had to do with money,” Angel said. Shelley Claussen, a junior agriculture eco nomics major, said she still believes too much emphasis is placed on winning in sports. “Even when I played sports in high school, our motto was ‘Winning — it is more than just a game,”’ she said. “But the important thing to remember is sports have to do with talent, sportsmanship and team work, not just winning.” *NO PASSES ACCEPTED ON THIS FEATURE SHOWTIMES FOR TODAY ONLY I • First Class Free • No Membership Fee • Super Summer Special i i with giveaways: T-shirts, sunglasses, workout bags ' Morning, Afternoon and Evening Classes • Child Care Available I l .iazzcrcise The fitness professionals. Wellborn at Grove, College Station 1 block south of George Bush Dr. ■ 764-1183 or 776-6696 • 15 Yrs. in the B/CS aieaj Serving Aggies for over 20 years. J.J. 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Statistics from the Harris County District Attorney’s Office show the number of requests to certify youths as adults jumped from 10 cases in all of 1988 to 102 in just the first half of 1994. “They’re apt to do things irra tionally that adults wouldn’t do,” said Robert Baum, a state district judge who sits in one of the three juvenile courts. “The public has had it with juvenile offenders.” Chief juvenile prosecutor Elizabeth Godwin said Harris County now has three assistant district attorneys who work ex clusively on obtaining so-called “certifications” for violent teen agers, ages 15 and 16. In 1988, certifications were sought primarily for teen-agers who committed very serious crimes — usually murder — and had criminal records that in cluded a trip to a Texas Youth Commission facility. Now, a teen-ager’s prior his tory is a secondary considera tion, and the offense may be dealing drugs or commiting a robbery where no weapon was fired. The process also has become faster. Today, a case may arrive in one of Harris County’s three juvenile courts, where a judge is asked to send the youth to adult court for prosecution, within 30 days of the time certification is sought. But while prosecutors are in creasing their attempts to obtain harsher punishments for violent juveniles, efforts are under way in the Legislature that could bring on major changes in the juvenile process. Environment plays role in birth defects Study shows that home, workplace affect risks BOSTON (AP) — A study of more than 370,000 mothers pro vides some of the strongest evi dence yet that where people live and work powerfully affects the risk of birth defects. The study, conducted in Nor way, followed women who gave birth to a defective child. Not surprisingly, it found that they face a high risk of pro ducing a second child with the same birth defect. However, the study also dis covered that the risk is cut in half if the mother moves to an other town. This suggests some environ mental factors are at work in triggering birth defects and are more important than experts had suspected. Dr. Allen J. Wilcox, a co-au thor of the study and a re searcher at the National Insti tute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C., said the study could not tease out the precise envi ronmental hazards that con tribute to birth defects. “Moving changes a lot of things in your life,” he said. “But it suggests there may be certain factors linked to the household or related to a job change. It can only give us the barest kinds of leads.” More than 150,000 babies are born with serious birth de fects in the United States each year. In about two-thirds of the cases, the causes of the defects are a mystery. Most of the known causes of birth defects are specific genetic mutations. Other causes include alcohol abuse, poor diets and some medicines and chemicals, such as mercury. However, experts have long suspected that genetic tenden cies and environmental hazards are involved in many more cas es. One leading theory holds that some unidentified environ mental substances are harmless to most people but can trigger birth defects in those who have a genetic susceptibility. “This clearly leads us to con clusions about the importance of environmental factors,” said Kay Johnson, policy director at the March of Dimes. The study was directed by Dr. Rolv Terje Lie of the Uni versity of Bergen in Norway and published in Thursday’s is sue of the New England Journal of Medicine. It was based on the records of first and second infants deliv ered by 371,933 women from 1967 through 1989. For the 9,192 women whose first babies had a birth defect, the researchers determined the risk of defects in the second baby. This was compared with the risk in women whose first ba bies were normal. Overall, 2.5 percent of the first babies had birth defects. The study “implies that there may be some agents out there that large numbers of people are exposed to — and maybe not in terribly high doses — that may have an effect on reproductive outcomes,” commented Dr. James Hanson, director of the University of Iowa’s Institute for Health, Behavior and Envi ronmental Policy. Birth defects A study of more than 370,000 mothers shows that some environmental factors trigger birth defects and are more important than experts had suspected. • Women who had given birth to one defective baby faced nearly seven times the usual risk of producing a second child with the same defect. •Among women who continued to live in the same town, the risk of a second baby with the same defect was 12 times higher than usual. But if they moved, risk fell to five times higher. • When these women changed partners after their first defective child, their risk of producing a second baby with a defect fell slightly. 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