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An Example of Participatory Learning”, “Class, Race and Science: Implications for HIV Prevention in Women” and “HIV, Alcohol and Risk-Taking Behavior Among Minority Women." □ The law that requires people to wear head protection will have no enforcement provision. Faculty senator de termined by recount AUSTIN (AP) — Under a bill tentatively approved by the Sen ate Wednesday, youths riding bi cycles on public roadways would be required to wear protective helmets — sort of. The bill by Sen. Judith Zaf- firini, D-Laredo, requires that helmets be worn by juveniles un der the age of 18, but it includes no penalties for violations, a sit uation that caused several sena tors to question why the mea sure was needed. “Passing laws to make (peo ple) law violators when you’re not going to do anything to them anyway, it seems to me, is pretty superfluous,” Sen. Don Hender son, R-Houston, said. The Senate gave preliminary approval to the bill with a 19- 10 vote. The bill’s supporters charac terized it as a health and safety measure. “We believe this is a psycho logical tool and something that can help parents tell their chil dren, ‘Wear a bicycle helmet,”’ Zaffirini said. “We believe that this will save people’s lives.” She said many laws with no enforcement provisions exist on the state books. “If this legislation only pre vents one head injury, just one (to) just one child in this entire state, it’s well worth our effort,” said Sen. Mike Moncrief, D- Fort Worth. Henderson, however, suggest ed that education programs would be a more effective way of encouraging children to wear bike helmets. “I want everybody to be safe and healthy, and I would like goodness and happiness for the whole world for the rest of every one’s life, but I don’t think I could realistically pass; do that,” he said. Sen. Peggy Rossoe Paso, said the bill was® light of the Legislature on teaching children tin will face consequencesfi inal actions. “What kind of psycln message are we sending young people whenwesaij passing a law whichrej you to do something bu really against the law we’re not going to enfo Rosson said. Zaffirini said a strone did not have the suppoi come law. She pointed! by Rep. Bill Carter,! Worth, that would set for a bike rider of any using a helmet. “It is still in commit said, indicating it stoc(| chance of passing. “Thi: only hope. If theresati that we can pass it like this.” hu A miscalculation in the counting of runoff ballots for Faculty Senate resulted in determining the wrong winner Tuesday. Olga Cook was elected Place 8 for the College of Liberal Arts. The procedure for Faculty Senate voting calls for voters to rank their choices for senator from one to three. Only the first choice is counted unless a tie occurs, then the second choice is counted to break the tie. It was in the counting of these second-choice votes that the error occurred. Endangered Species Act successfully deb □ Spending cuts cause Congress to call for a moratorium on the pro tection of species. Conference to teach sensitivity, leadership About 200 peer educators and their advisers from universities across the southwest will be at Texas A&M April 6-8 for the first peer education conference. The theme of the conference is “Unify and Empower: Making a Difference for the Future”. Its goal is to teach the participants skills such as team building, cultural sensitivity, presentation style and leadership development. Speakers will include Dr. Barry Thompson, chancellor of the Texas A&M System, Randi Shade, a former peer educator and Andrea Prothro, a former Texas A&M health educator. WASHINGTON (AP) — Con gressional Republicans’ latest attempt to put the brakes tem porarily on parts of the Endan gered Species Act may prove successful. House and Senate negotiators who Wednesday concluded their bickering over a $3.1 billion sup plemental defense spending bill agreed to keep in the bill lan guage that would freeze new En dangered Species Act protec tions, said Rep. Henry Bonilla, R-San Antonio. With the Pentagon pressing urgently for the supplemental funding, the conference bill ap pears poised for rapid approval this week in both houses. The money is needed to re plenish Pentagon accounts used to pay for deployments to Haiti and elsewhere and President Clinton has promised deep spending cuts unless the bill is sent to his desk swiftly. “The ESA moratorium is a top priority,” said Bonilla, who as a defense supplemental con feree fought to keep the freeze “I "ESA regulations have been used to curtail training exercises at some of our military installations." — Rep. Henry Bonilla, R-San Antonio in the bill. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R- Texas, last month successfully at tached the moratorium language to the defense supplemental bill approved by the Senate. But the language faced a tenuous future in conference committee because unlike the Senate, the House has strict rules about what can be at tached to appropriations bills. The moratorium also wasn’t in cluded in the House-pa;.,™ flus fense spending measure. I com i “Some of my colleague T i Y ^ why this ESA language*#; p ; eluded in a defense appRf tions bill,” Bonilla acknoai§p ftn - “I reminded them thatin£®| um , to being used againstL 0 f l ( property o ; M* ESA regulij have beenii curtail train: ercises ats our military! lations.” Kelly Airl Base in Sari nio and Foul in North Carolina havek embroiled in some Emfc Species Act difficulties! the fountain darter andi aded woodpecker respectiv Thirty-nine of the Sen!:#' Democrats had foughifc Hutch ison's moratorium.■ conferees to keep it outolf nal bill. 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