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Attend these meetings in Room 154 Bizzell Hall West for more information: Tuesday, July 25 at 4:00 pm Wednesday, July 26 at 4:00 pm Thursday, July 27 at 9:00 am Study Abroad Programs; 161 Bizzell West; 845-0544 Page 6 • The Battalion CzVIVIHUJS JSriefs Monday • July 24, NEWS Gore attends U.S. Conference of Mayors AUSTIN (AP) — Several U.S. may ors expressed fears to Vice President Al Gore on Sunday that deficit-reduction efforts in Congress would devastate their cities. Gore met with 17 mayors behind closed doors during the second day of the U.S. Conference of Mayors meet ing at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The vice president agreed with the mayors, criticizing Republican-au thored budget bills targeted to reach a balanced budget in seven years. "The budget resolution now being considered in the Congress would in fact be devastating to the cities of America, and it doesn't matter whether the mayor is a Democrat or a Republi can," Gore said. Jury to decide whether Smith deserves to die Stress can bring on blue^ □ A survey reported 75.5 percent of A&M students occasionally feel depressed. By Rhonda Lillie Special to The Battalion A recent health behavior survey reported that 75.5 per cent of A&M students occasion ally feel depressed. Being a college student and trying to balance work and school, yet still maintaining a social life can be stressful. With out proper management of these Provost stressful situations, a form of mild depression called “the blues” may occur. Mild depression is the most common emotional disturbance. Most people feel down or “blue” now and then. The symptoms, however, are not are not recog nized by some students. Some of the symptoms of mild depression are an inability to concentrate, sleeping distur bances, irritability and lack of energy or appetite. Mild depression usually lasts for a short time. But like any form of depression, the blues may result in serious illness if proper actions are not taken. 9 When the blues get you i consider a change in activiti- Talking to a close friendikI help you sort out your feelir;' Exercising raises your adre:- line and gets your body movini Some other suggestions^ The meditating or spending so: quiet time alone, or simply hi |0(J | ging someone you care about. ™ 1 ’lant If depression occurs peri; tently, don’t delay getting he}q Visit a counselor at the Stud; Counseling Services in HencVrOfl son Hall. Jl For information on depress**® students can visit the HeaiJjrT Education Center in 016 A - Beutel Health Center. ,y T ara „ : h| Ba' University-Bloomington, are still candidates. Weichold said that Wildenthal and Fret aexa Continued from Page 1 reviewing all applicants and narrowing the list to a series of finalists. Each finalist, as before, will be interviewed on campus. The committee then will recommend one of the finalists to Dr. Ray Bowen, Texas A&M president, and the Board of Regents for approval. Dr. Charles Lee currently holds the position as interim vice president and provost. When filling the interim position, Bowen set the condition that the interim vice president would not be a candi date for the permanent office. Weichold said he expects the interviews to be gin the first two weeks of the fall semester. “We’d prefer to have all the faculty, staff and students involved with the search,” he said. Previously submitted applicants will be consid ered, as well as any new applicants. The two other previous finalists. Dr. B. Hobson Wildenthal, provost and vice president for acade mic affairs at the University of Texas at Dallas, and Dr. Deborah A. Freund, vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of faculties at Indiana UNION, S.C. (AP) — A tragic fig ure? Or evil incarnate? When Susan Smith returns to court today, jurors will weigh those dueling depictions as they decide whether she should spend her life in prison or go to the electric chair for drowning her two young sons. In the sentencing phase for the woman convicted of murdering 3- year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex, lawyers will argue about her mental state on the night she strapped the boys into her car and rolled them into a lake. The jury took about 2 1/2 hours Saturday to decide Ms. Smith's guilt. The panel rejected a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter, which carries a sentence of up to five years in prison. The jury now must decide whether Ms. Smith deserves the death penalty for murdering the boys. Props and politics create drama at Waco hearings WASHINGTON (AP) — The hear ings, scheduled to resume today, have offered plenty of drama, but none more compelling than 14-year-old Kiri Jewell telling how cult leader D^vid Koresh had sex with her when she was 1 0, and how she was taught the best way to commit suicide. The hearings have featured plenty of props, including hand grenade casings, powerful rifles and blacked- out documents. And there has been plenty of poli tics, with members of both parties professing to search for the truth but setting off in different directions to get there. Democrats have lined up to blame Koresh, to suggest the opposition has an unholy alliance with the National Rifle Association, and even to question the need for the hearings. Republicans try to place the blame on the Clinton administration. GOP split on charge fee for child support services WASHINGTON (AP) — The Re publican drive to overhaul welfare promises a crackdown on deadbeat fa thers and mothers, but GOP plans to balance the budget call for making millions of single-parent families pick up half the federal cost of enforcing child support. As the Republicans try to make un precedented cuts in the country's so cial programs, some lawmakers are ar guing that a 15 percent fee on child support collections will hurt low-in- come families struggling to stay afloat and off welfare. "This is just going to take desper ately needed dollars from families that are really struggling to fund the admin istration of a system that, frankly, gov ernment ought to provide," said Rep. Nancy Johnson, R-Conn. But other Republicans say that in this era of budget-cutting, it is fair to ask consumers to pay for the services government provides. Defects Continued from Page 1 find the causes, he said. Despite the acquisition of a birth defect registry, it is hard to know if all of the birth defects are ascertained. Approximately 25 percent of all births along the border are per formed by midwives, not doctors. “If a baby has a lethal condi tion, it may not be reported,” he said. “We may have an under estimate of the number of kids that have neural tube defects.” Neural tube defects are reoc curring in the Brownsville- Matamoros area, and last De cember there were eight cases reported in the Eagle Pass- Piedras Negras area. Finnell said it is unusual for such a small population like Eagle Pass-Piedras Negras to have that many. A number of factors are con sidered when looking for the causes of the birth defects, he said. Neural tube defects have a genetic component and an en vironmental component. Certain heavy metals such as arsenic, which is prevalent in the Rio Grande Valley, can cause neural tube defects. In dustrial solvents and by-prod ucts, certain pharmaceutical agents and some medications are other causes. Each of these factors has to be considered, Finnell said, so it is not possible to say just one is the cause. “It could be one of those, some of those or all of those,” he said. “It is unfortunate that it takes a great deal of time and money to sort those factors out.” Dr. Stuart Shalat, an associ ate pro ment of Ai the border dents of birtl Sha at i , lo . Loring the wa ter, household dust and pesti cides in the communities of women who gave birth to ba bies with neural tube defects. Finnell’s laboratory is re searching the various environ mental factors in animal mod els to examine whether they have the capacity to cause neural tube defects. “If they do, we look at how these environmental factors change the functions of certain genes in the neural tube,” Finnell said. “This explains why some fetuses have neural tube defects and others don’t.” If women take folic acid, a B vitamin, supplements before and during the first trimester of pregnancy, incidents of neur al tube defects can be reduced by 50 percent or more. “We are looking at popula tions of women for those who may have an abnormal gene for this folate receptor,” he said. The folate receptor is the part of the cell that hangs out side of the cell and carries the folic acid into the cell where it can be utilized. However, Hispanic women do not appear to benefit from folic acid supplementation like African-American or Caucasian women do. “It may be that this folate re ceptor gene is less functional in a higher percentage of Hispan- ics,” Finnell said. If that turns out to be the case, then other ways of deal ing with this problem can be recommended such as the use of methionine, he said. Methionine is an amino acid that aides in the transformatr' exas folic acid to its most useful foq ur j n g Kimberly Greer, a gradt-j-^ s h student studying genetics ! r 0 y/z, works in Finnell’s lab, said tit All s late project is important bee n d ac populations respond differentheHili folic acid supplementation. re spe The government wants t^uder rectly impose folic acid Tho! everyone’s food, Greer said. a grjri “Where as they are sayinf hops < going to help everyone, in acte45-47 ty it helps some populationsi Feli not others,” she said. “It is infice pr tant to find out why, so a moitaid th ficient method can be impleWreas < ed by the |government].” jgetht Norma Jimenez, a senior! “Th< netics major from the fersity Grande Valley, also workipen d Finnell’s lab. ues,” “It is a serious problem fat©wnp the Hispanic populatkimcs Jimenez said. “This is whattreate got me interested in workin! Lee this lab and on this project.” ireeb Finnell said the rate ofnhe|fib al tube defects occurs kay in least one of every 1,000 birtHon o An increase in defects^w tin suits in an increase ini Jan amount of money used foritilm c ical expenses and to care ese-. the newborns. illed Texas spends an estiiWian v $58 million a year on thetiothe of neural tube defects. So®‘ “He these cases may be preventetereot by providing vitamin supfean n ments to all women of repaid. “] ductive age. f gntt “The problem clearly spf^ Wal to the issue of poverty,” Finrenting said “Better nutrition, betlauca* babies. It is pretty simple, ies to “There is no reason, kceat t country as rich as this, that hows population should be compnd tl mised and that we should hfith in higher rates of neural tube The fects along the border.” art o T) O should be considered candidates, but not neces/riday ily front-runners for the position. lillion “Since the decision was made to pursue Dri soms and not Freund and Wildenthal, 1 dt: think I would say they’re front-runners,” hesai; Wildenthal said he would consider taking »| post, but would not lobby for it. “A&M is a great university,” Wildenthah. “Obviously, I’ve gone through the interviews- the application process, so they know me. Ire; think the initiative is up to them.” Freund, who is out of the country, could no’* reached for comment. M.WM. Weichold said whoever is tabbed for thepjTlH tion must have extensive administrative and a;. ^ . emic experience. He said he expects the final:”*cH* didate to have worked as a professor, deparfc)0, jji- head and dean. “This candidate will probably have welloveJpdl years working in higher education,” he said. n » Weichold said the final candidate should bt miliar with land-grant institutions like Aijy c re have skill in budgetary and legislative mab HE and work well with all University groups. r in A&M’s Depart- tomy, is monitoring pulati i for inci- ( Would you like to teach? If you have superior standardized exam scores and dynamic presentation skills, teach at Kaplan. Help students achieve their educational and Career goals * Enjoy flexible, part-time hours Interact with interesting and dedicated co-workers Earn excellent wages (F|7L» • •Offered only in selected areas. 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