Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1995)
FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Continuous Improvement Process Tearns Operations & Procedures Internal Services External Services Finance Planning & Analysis Financial Procedures mscleadership applynow! Applications are available in Rm. 216 of the MSC, Multicultural Services, and Student Activities HUMAN RELATIONS PROGRAMS RESOURCES Personnel Recognition Recruitment & Retention Leadership Development A.L.O.T. Crossroads John Ben Shepperd Fall Leadership Training Leadership and Academic Resources Development Dev. Public Relations Dev. Finance Committee Development Information Management Former Student Relations Public Relations Internal Public Relations External Public Relations Publications Marketing Committee Marketing Market Research/Analysis All Night Fair Black Awareness Committee CAMAC Cepheid Variable Dinner Theater Film Society of Texas A&M Great Issues Hospitality Literary Arts L.T. Jordan Institute MBA/LAW Miss Texas A&M Pageant NOVA OPAS Political Forum SCONA Spring Leadership Trip Town Hall Variety Show Visual Arts Committee Wiley Lecture Series <k Persons with disabilities please call 845 1515 to inform us of youi special needs. We lequcst three (3) working days prior notice to enable us to assist you to the best of our abilities. The REALITY Female Condom is here. And now, for the first time, you have protection of your own. REALITY Female Condoms 'were designed to help protect you and your partner against sexually transmitted diseases, especially AIDS. They also help prevent unwanted pregnancies. When used correctly every time in 6'month clinical trials, REALITY had a 2.6% pregnancy rate. Over a year’s time, this is projected to be a 5.1% pregnancy rate. If not used correctly every time, the pregnancy rate increases to between 19'25%. Find out more about the REALITY condom by calling your doctor, pharmacist or 1'800'274'6601. If saying “no” to sex is not for you and your partner, and he isn’t using male latex condoms—take a closer look at Reality. New REALITY Female Condom Make it your reality. • LATEX CONDOMS FOR MEN ARE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE AT PREVENTING SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, INCLUDING AIDS NO CONTRACEPTIVE IS EFFECTIVE IF IT IS NOT USED. AFTER ALL, UNPROTECTED SEX HAS (HIV INFECTION), IF USED PROPERLY. • IF YOUR PARTNER IS NOT GOING TO USE A MALE LATEX CONDOM, YOU CAN USE A PREGNANCY (FAILURE) RATE OF 85% OVER A YEAR'S TIME. REALITY TO HELP PROTECT YOU AND YOUR PARTNER. • REALITY ONLY WORKS WHEN YOU USE IT. USE IT EVERY TIME YOU HAVE SEX. • BEFORE YOU TRY REALITY, BE SURE TO READ THE DIRECTIONS AND LEARN HOW TO USE IT PROPERLY. - "TYPICAL" USE FAILURE RATES 6 months™ 1 year™ REALITY FEMALE CONDOM 12 25 MALE LATEX CONDOM 8 15 CERVICAL CAP 10 18 DIAPHRAGM 8 15 SPONGE 12 17 UNPROTECTED SEX 61 85 Page 14 • The Battalion jjj % .' , ' Poorer Americans most likely to count financial blessings, recent study shows NEW YORK (AP) - Jesus said no one can serve the dual mas ters of God and money, but he has not convinced a majority of well-off Americans. In a national survey on faith and finances, nearly two-thirds of lower-income Americans agreed with Jesus’ admonition, but less than half of the respon dents earning more than $50,000 agreed. Poorer Americans were most likely to count their financial blessings, ask God for guidance on financial affairs and believe their financial situation is a re flection of God’s regard for them. The findings show that while church leaders are often stereo typed as being preoccupied with money, in practice many clergy are uncomfortable with the topic and avoid it, said a leading re searcher on religious giving. “I think basically, in our soci ety, the church has not provided a constructive agenda, or evens theological context, for money," said Sylvia Ronsvalle of the Champaign, Ill.-based research organization empty tomb inc. “People don’t know what a bibli cal approach to money is.” A random sample of 1,000 people were interviewed by telephone in the faith and mon ey survey conducted last fall by Louis Harris & Associates for the Minneapolis-based Luther an Brotherhood, a nonprofit in surance and financial services company. The survey had a margin of error of plus or mi nus three points. Louise Thoreson, vice presi dent of the Brotherhood’s char itable programs, said the sur vey showed faith influences the way many Americans approach their finances. “In the daily grind of money management, many people both seek God’s guidance and thank God for their financial well be ing,” she said. The poll found 81 percent of Americans, including 86 percent with incomes of $25,000 and less, have thanked God for their financial well being. Seventy percent of the re spondents, including three-quar ters of those in the lowest in come group, said their own fi nancial situation reflected Gods regard for them either a great deal or somewhat. The positive response does not mean lower-income people think God holds them in low re gard, Thoreson said. Rather, she said, “I think they do feel God is taking care of them, and they are grateful.” In findings resonant of Scrip tural passages, a substantial gulf emerged between richer and poorer Americans in their attitudes toward money. Numerous passages in the Bible warn against placing too much emphasis on possessions. In a famous saying in the Gospel of Mark, at the end of a parable in which a rich man re jects the faith rather than give his money to the poor, Jesus says “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” In the Gospels of Luke and Matthew, Jesus says pointedly that no one can serve two mas ters: “You cannot serve God and wealth.” In response to a survey question framed in the biblical language, 65 percent of both the lower-income and middle- income respondents agreed with the statement “You can not serve both God and mon ey.” Forty-seven percent of the respondents earning more than $50,000 agreed, while 48 per cent disagreed. More than three-quarters of the lower-income respondents also agreed that the love of money is the root of all evil Half of the high-income respon dents disagreed. Who has prayed for guidance in how to manage their fi nances? Sixty percent of people with incomes of $25,000 or less, compared to 40 percent of people making more than $50,000, ac cording to the survey. Ronsvalle said the survey re sults show that despite some 2,000 biblical verses about the relationships between people and possessions, many clergy “have abandoned their members to a secular mindset about a very important topic.” “One thing we have heard from various individuals is that they wished the church talked more about money, and helped them make sense of it,” she said. S Ql Sen cha dro By Ke [he B/ The light sAA( ’ :ocial ture of Sha he T( ISAAC' In 1 he n A 4 Bro maj Re □ St. Uni' kne\ mar prot By Lis The Ba- Sta1 this g A&M’s non-ac Univer Two Smock, Dinan, Board , the sta March , Sirio dit the Institi. ®Xper Agrieu; Texas Service Experi:
