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Wednesday Page March 5,19) Clinic, A&M aid students with emergency course:^ By Jackie Vratil The Battalion Emergency medical courses offered by Texas A&M and Scott & White Clinic help students face life-or-death situations. These courses begin at the basic first aid level and end with certification as an Emergency Medical Technician. The University course tract includes the first-aid course, fol lowed by Emergency Care and Transportation and ending with Emergency Medical Techniques. Each course lasts one semester. Kristin Dyer, a senior communi ty health major, has taken first aid and ECT and is currently enrolled in the EMT course. Dyer said she takes the courses to help her reach her long-term career goals. “I knew I wanted to go into some kind of health profession, so I knew these courses could only help,” she said. The first aid course focuses on the basics of recognition of health emergencies and instruction in personal survival techniques. Mark Camber, a senior bio medical science major, took the EMT course through Scott & White. Camber said the course’s structure is more helpful because the Clinic accomplishes in three months what takes the University three semesters. “I don’t know anything about the A&M courses, but I did like the fact that I was certified after three months, because I really didn’t have the time to do it in three semes ters,” he said. Diane Simpson, education assistant for Scott & White, said the purpose of the course is to help students meet the requirements to pass the Texas State Department of Health exam. “The course will certify stu dents for EMT, which is the basic life-saving technique,” she said. “Then there is the advanced-level course, which is certification as a para medic. It enables the person administer or IV [needles].” To receive EMT cer tification, both emergency room and ambulance rotations are to drugs required. Camber said the hospital put him to work his first day there. “From the moment I walked in, I was doing something,” he said. “I actually had to hold some guy’s spine straight who was in a car accident while the doctors drained the fluid.” Dyer said she has had only one emergency room shift, but in the short time she was there she per formed CPR on a patient with sickle-cell anemia. Camber said these courses not only look good on a rdsume, but also give students an idea of what type of health career is best for them. “Even though I loved thedass wish I could find more time tore, ly practice it,” he said. “Howeve; feel I have been exposed to things that will get me on my to medical school Simpson said the studem enrolled in her courses rangei age from 18 to 60, so their re; sons for taking the course van: “I have had housewives want to learn because there been an accident in the houses some time,” she said. “And, lhai had people who have just bee r w ^ interested after watching 9111 ^ by Coi ER . For the most part, peoplef® it very self-fulfilling.” TAMC Continued from Page 1 This semester, the members made phone calls for the recent Student Government Association opinion poll. The committee has goals of its own to accomplish, besides provid ing students to help with the associ ation’s programs. Lewis said they want to get the College Station water tower painted maroon and white. They also want to erect billboards outside all the major cities in Texas. The billboards would be made by committee members and would have messages asking A&M students not to drive drunk and therefore avoid adding their names to Muster roll call. Programs such as these will increase Aggie awareness across Texas, Lewis said. Committee members also will participate in activities such as Big Event and opposing the demolition of Mount Aggie. Members will work the voting tables during spring elections. The committee is open to all stu dents through an application process. Once a student is a mem ber, they must obtain a certain number of points through partic ipation to stay on the committee. Members earn points by attend ing required meetings such as the general meetings held each semes ter and sub-committee meetings held every other week. Points can also be earned by par ticipating in the activities support ed by the committee. Lewis said there is so much to do that it is not hard to earn the 30 points it takes to remain a member. Lewis said that increasing Student Government awareness, interaction and experience for the members are the main goals of the committee. “These three things are our goals to get them (committee members) involved in the ‘other education,”’ she said. “Becoming involved is the first step to success.” Lewis said the committee tries to develop a willingness for hard work and involvement. “No matter where you go, get involved. No matter what the sce nario, do your best,” Lewis said. “These are two important themes of Student Government.” Lewis said these two themes must be developed to create the “Aggie spice" that makes A&M stu dents different from other students. Garcia said the committee wants to be involved and help the students. “We’re about making changes,” he said. “We’re always trying to find something to do. We’re trying to react to what the students want.” Ohio River continues to swell from banks LOUISVILLE, KY. (AP) - Louisville bolted the gates shut in its floodwall Tuesday as the highest water along the Ohio River in 30 years pushed downstream, swamping one town after another and swelling the ranks of people driven from their homes. “I literally broke down and cried at 4 this morn ing,” Jack Hall said after watching the Ohio lap through the door of his home in Utica, Ind. The Ohio was out of its banks from West Virginia to Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, and the water wasn’t expected to crest in most places until Wednesday or later. Thousands of evacuees wait ed for the river to start dropping; thousands more downstream moved out as the water rolled closer. “All I’ve got is the clothes on my back,” Mike Donley said after leaving his home in New Richmond, Ohio, a community of some 2,500 people about 20 miles upstream from Cincinnati. The river was engorged by runoff from record downpours over the weekend that already had forced thousands of people from their homes along smaller streams in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohioan; West Virginia. A total of 50 deaths had been blarm on the Hooding and the weekend’s tornadoes. Most states had no estimate of the numbers people evacuated. In Kentucky alone, “by allmea surements, it would be in the tens of thousands state emergency management spokesman Doi Armstrong said. President Clinton declared 14 counties in Ohio and nine in Kentucky disaster areas, mat ing them eligible for federal assistance. 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