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Campus organizations unite
for Hispanic Open House
Beutel's Health Education Center offers
peer education programs for Aggies
By Erin Foley
A.P. Beutel Health Center
DOES OVERPOPULATION
MAKE LIFE CHEAP?
Every year countless dogs and cats are
killed because there are not enough homes
for them. Some are euthanized at shelters.
Some are dumped along the side of the
road. We see their broken bodies as we drive
by. Others are abandoned to face starvation or
abuse. Think how awful it must be for them
All of this needless suffering can be prevented.
Please make the compassionate choice.
Please spay or neuter
your cats & dogs. \
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Do you want to talk about sex?
Perhaps you are interested in nutrition.
Maybe abstinence is your thing.
If any of the above intrigue you, the Health Education Center at
A.P. Beutel Health Center has peer education programs for you.
Peer education can play a vital role in influencing good
health among Aggies. Trained students educate other students
about health and wellness, providing them with a fun and re
warding experience.
The Health Education Center offers two peer education
groups, Aggie REACH and Choices in Sexuality.
Aggie REACH gives presentations in residence halls, classes
and to student organizations. They cover topics ranging from
fitness and nutrition to HIV/AIDS and abstinence.
Choices in Sexuality is a volunteer program that seeks to ed
ucate students at Texas A&M about contraception, sexually
transmitted diseases and abstinence.
This program was designed to make the Methods of Contra
ception class more readily available to students. Now, students
do not have to go to A.P. Beutel for the class because Choices in
Sexuality brings it to them.
If you would like to play a role in educating peers, encourag
ing healthy lifestyles and emphasizing wellness, fill out an ap
plication at the Health Education Center.
□ The event was held Monday as an
addition to MSC Open House.
By Greg Fahrenheit
The Battalion
Representatives from various Texas A&M His
panic organizations united Monday night in Rud
der Theatre for the first Hispanic Open House.
The Hispanic Presidents’ Council (HPC), which
includes members from 12 predominantly Hispan
ic organizations, presented the event as a supple
ment to MSC Open House.
Noe David Lopez, HPC President and a senior
finance major, said this event is important to the
A&M Hispanic community.
“One of the best reasons for doing this is to in
crease participation in Hispanic organizations,”
Lopez said. “At Open House, there are so many or
ganizations that sometimes you tend to overlook
the Hispanic organizations.”
The program began with an introduction of the
organizations’ presidents, who briefly described
each group’s purpose.
Dr. Leo Sayavedra, deputy chancellor for the
Texas A&M University System, said student in
volvement in the Hispanic community is a necessity.
As the highest-ranking Hispanic in the A&M
System, Sayavedra related his own experiences
with discrimination.
"Sometimes I find myself in a fish bowl,” he
said. “People are constantly watching my behav
ior, watching my decision-making ability, watch'
ing to see if I really am what I pretend to be.”
But he told students not to expect preferential
treatment based on the label “minority.”
“Do not accept a position if it revolve
around ethnicity,” he said. “Accept a jobbe-
cause you are good at what you do, not because
you are a minority.”
"At Open House, there are so many
organizations that sometimes you ten
to overlook the Hispanic organizations,
— David Loft:
president of the Hispanic Presidents' Council
Denisa Rebeles, a senior wildlife and fisheries
major, said the number of attendees was encour
aging, considering this was the event’s first year.
“We had a pretty good turnout, although F
sure there are a lot of people who may not have
heard about it,” she said.
Rudy Arredondo, a junior community b
major, said that the presentation was worth sit
ting through.
“It’s great to see a community come together
and be cohesive,” he said.
In the future, the HPC will hold the event
ing the fall semester instead of the spring.
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a quick extension of the government’s
borrowing authority.
Eager to avoid election-year blame for
a third partial closure of federal agencies
since November, top Republicans hoped
for congressional passage as early as
Wednesday of legislation keeping pro
grams functioning for perhaps another
month. Without such a bill, dozens of
agencies would once again have to put
some operations in mothballs after the
close of business Friday.
The trick for Republican leaders, espe
cially in the House, was balancing conserv
atives’ demands for budget slashes with a
bill Clinton would sign. They were consid
ering financing affected agencies at about
75 percent of last year’s levels and elimi
nating some minor programs Clinton
might accept — House Speaker Newt Gin
grich said 12 to 15 small agencies might be
killed. GOP aides listed one possibility as
the Bureau of Mines.
The focus on keeping the government
open and on federal borrowing reflected a
belief by many Republicans that their ef
fort to reach a budget-balancing agree
ment with Clinton was probably over.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-
Kan., more optimistic than many, said
there was “still some glimmer of hope”
that a deal could be completed.
Gingrich, R-Ga., was more blunt.
“Since the budget negotiations are for all
practical purposes not functioning ... we’re
trying to work for first of all how to get a
down payment to get to a balanced bud
get,” Gingrich told reporters.
Dole predicted that Congress and the
president would approve a bill keeping the
government open, but in a way that was
true to the GOP struggle for a seven-year
balanced budget.
“Our responsibility this week is clear:
Keep faith with our principles, keep our
word to the American people, and also keep
faith with federal employees, who shouldn’t
be the pawns in this game,” Dole said on
the Senate floor.
But GOP leaders said there would prob
ably be no quick congressional action to ex
tend the debt limit, without which admin
istration officials have said an unprece
dented, jarring federal default might occur.
Dole said the Senate would not consider
a debt-limit measure this week, and House
leaders said they saw no reason to push
such legislation soon. In this parallel track
of their budget battle with Clinton, Repub
lican leaders seemed willing to call the ad
ministration’s bluff, citing warnings of im
minent default by Treasury Secretary
Robert Rubin in recent months that have
not borne out.
“Putting default in play isn’t what any
body wants, but none of us feel right now
that that’s a possibility,” said Rep. John
Boehner, R-Ohio, a member of the House
GOP leadership.
Gingrich said that if a debt-limit ei
tension is sent to Clinton, the presidem
would have to accept limits on future
spending — or the impasse over borrow
ing would continue.
“He has an obligation to put on the title
what substantial reforms he is preparedto
sign as part of getting a debt ceiling, andir,
the absence of that frankly we are tem
porarily at an impasse,” Gingrich said.
With no authority to borrow more mon
ey to pay government bills, Rubin has said
he will have to take extraordinary steps to
make interest payments in mid-Februan.
Since the $4.9 trillion debt limit was
reached in November, Rubin has kept the
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federal retiree pension funds and deposit
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treme cuts in Medicare, Medicaid am/’
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Continued from Page 1
Center to present plans
widen Texas Avenue to si!
lanes.
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a contractor’s plan.
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