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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
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"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.”
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Both are members of the Texas A&M women’s rugby team.
Teen-age offenders
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HOUSTON (AP) — More
Harris County juvenile offenders
are finding themselves treated
as adult defendants.
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.
The Executive Council of Health
Organizations
would like to send heartfelt thanks to
Ms. Randee Lyne Nicholas.
We deeply appreciate all of the guidance and
support you have unselfishly given to our
organization and
Texas A&M University. ECHO owes all of its
successes and achievements to you.
You are simply the best advisor an organization
can ask for.
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MARK EVANS, Editor in chief
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