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WEDNESDAY • OCTOBER 8 • 1997
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discuss WWII
the Rev. Fritz Haus, who spent
/o years as a German ROW, will
esent a lecture about his World
'ar II experiences today at 7 p.m.
|L05 Harrington Education Center.
’ Haus was imprisoned at “Camp
earne" in the Brazos Valley.
: ®aus served with Gen. Erwin
Burners Afrika Korps and the Luft-
3ffe until he was captured from
orth Africa in 1943. After his im-
•jSonment at Camp Hearne and
s repatriation to Germany, he be-
e an ordained Baptist minister.
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fed Cross releases
llocaust documents
IeRUSALEM (AP) — The Red
ross handed over 60,000 pages
War ll-era documents to
>rael Tuesday, and a top official
cknowledged the organization’s
mioral failure” in keeping silent
ihile the Nazis murdered six mil-
on Jews.
livery clearly, the ICRC’s activities
/ilti regard to the Holocaust are
jMsed as a moral failure,” George
l/illemin, director of archives for the
iefieva-based International Commit-
ofthe Red Cross, said.
“The ICRC admits — yes —
hat it has kept silent with regard
othe Holocaust, and I would say
tatthis is the heart of the moral
ufure," he added.
‘Willemin spoke at a modest cer-
jony at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holo-
st memorial institute, which re
ed the documents.
|etanyahu, Arafat
old peace talks
EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip (AP)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
letanyahu and Palestinian leader
ser Arafat held face-to-face talks
ly Wednesday for the first time in
it months, a senior Palestinian
Dial said.
The 2 1/2-hour summit,
rranged late Tuesday by U.S. en-
oy Dennis Ross, could signal a
|aw in the crisis that has
rought the peace process to the
ribk of total breakdown.
Iponvoys of limousines carrying
leaders left the Erez Crossing
Ithe Israel-Gaza border, where
le meeting was held, around 5
. local time. The two men did
speak to reporters, who had
|?en kept outside the compound.
jt
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lational news through The
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lews service.
► i 997 Health and Wellness Fair
Exhibitors aim to educate students
By Amanda Smith
Staffwriter
The 1997 Health and Wellness Fair will
feature more than 50 exhibitors with health
information from the Bryan-College Station
area today.
The fair will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on
the first floor of the MSC.
Dr. Jane Cohen, assistant health coordi
nator and a nutrition specialist from the A.E
Beutel Health Center, said the fair provides a
wide range of health-related information.
“The health fair is an opportunity for stu
dents, faculty and staff to know of available
sources in the community,” she said. “We
have so many different organizations, with
screenings ranging from glucose to body fat
to blood pressure.”
The American Red Cross and Planned Par
enthood are two of the organizations that will
have exhibits at the fair.
“With 50 different campus organizations,
students can get information on all areas of
health whether it pertains to pregnancy or
heart rate,” Cohen said. “Students need to
stop by to examine healthy choices.”
Mary Anne Edly, an assistant at the health
center and a nutrition science graduate stu
dent, said students can get free food samples
from businesses such as TCBY, and pick up
information about health.
“It is just a good way to promote healthy
lifestyles,” she said. “In the health education
office, we want to focus on sex education and
nutrition education.”
Beutel also will have representatives at
the fair.
Students may sign up for the 40 door
prizes, including gift packages and certifi
cates to Bryan-College Station businesses.
Students also may get information about
psychological health and relationships.
Please see Exhibitors on Page 6.
Mixing it up
Jeff Heffington, a senior Civil Engineering student, mixes concrete in his Civil Engineering 342 class. The students make test beams and
columns which they then test for strength.
Confusion prompts runoff elections
By Bran dye Brown
Staffwriter
Due to differences in interpretations of
“majority” under the ranking system by the
Election Commission, freshman run-off
elections are today from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Amy Magee, Rules and Regulations chair
of Student Senate and a senior psychology
major, said the ranking system worked with
out problems, and it reached a majority^ be
tween two candidates.
“The problem as far as the Election Com
mission is concerned is they looked for a ma
jority out of all students that voted in the
election,” she said. “Technically, using the
ranking system a majority out of all students
voting in the first round may never be
reached, because when students did not
rank all the candidates, they chose not to
participate in the subsequent ‘run-offs’ by
the ranking system.”
Pat Troy, Election Commission chair and
a senior political science major, said the
problem was not with the ranking system,
but there was a conflict between the inter
pretation of the system’s view of a majority
and the interpretation of the election regula
tions’ definition of majority.
“What majority meant to the originators
of the system and what I felt my rules and
regulations called for were different,” he said.
“The definition of majority in the election
rules and regulations will have to be changed
to avoid problems in the future.”
Magee said the ranking system could have
been used according to the election regulations.
“The Election Commission had a differ
ent interpretation of what a majority is, the
ranking system considers it to be of the votes
cast in the last round of the ranking, not of
the entire number that voted in the election,”
she said.
Please see Confusion on Page 6.
Lady Bird: Johnson believed Warren report
Texas A&M
Horsemen
Association
hosts riding
clinic for special
B-CS children.
See Page 3
he Texas A&M Volleyball
^efem travels to Houston to
attle the UH Cougars.
See Page 9
ackson: Pressure to fit into
feconceived groups
llenates students at A&M.
AUSTIN (AP) — Contradicting
a new book based on Oval Office
tape recordings, former first lady
Lady Bird Johnson said Tuesday
her husband believed the Warren
Commission report on the assassi
nation of President Kennedy.
Johnson, who escorted news
reporters through a new exhibit at
the Lyndon B. Johnson Library
and Museum at the University of
Texas, said the former president
respected the members of the
Warren Commission and believed
their conclusion Kennedy was
shot by a lone gunman.
Johnson was Kennedy’s vice
president and assumed the pres
idency upon Kennedy’s death.
“I remember truly that he did
wonder if this is a wider plot; a
wider victims’ plan than one
man, one person to assassinate,”
Johnson said.
“He believed in those men on
the Warren Commission, and he
believed that they had tracked
down every iota that could be
found. And so he wanted to go
onward with Kennedy’s agenda,
his agenda, Lyndon’s, and the
problems that the country faced
and needed to handle.”
A new book, based on tape
recordings from Johnson’s presi
dency, says the former president
thought Cuban dictator Fidel Cas
tro played a role in Kennedy’s 1963
assassination in Dallas. The book
says Johnson worried, though,
that a retaliatory strike on Cuba
could lead to nuclear war.
Johnson did not believe the
Warren Commission’s report, the
book says, citing a conversation
between Johnson and commis
sion member Sen. Richard
Rusell, R-Georgia.
Month
dedicated
to AIDS
awareness
By Rachel Dawley
Staffwriter
During National HIV/AIDS Awareness
Month, Texas A&M organizations and the
national Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention will educate the public through
posters, videos, public service announce
ments and literature.
Margaret Griffith, health education co
ordinator at the A.P. Beutel Health Center,
said the month’s focus is to make people
more aware of the disease through pro
grams and education.
“People are hearing good news about
AIDS, which sometimes makes them feel
that it is no longer a problem,” she said.
“Medicine has proved to be effective in
keeping the disease in the HIV stage, but
now fewer people consider it the serious
problem that it is.”
Students should be tested for HIV/AIDS
regularly, Griffith said. Testing is offered
year-round in the health center and in the
Bryan-College Station area. The testing
centers also can offer suggestions to stu
dents on improving sexual habits after they
answer individual questions.
There will be free and anonymous HIV
testing at the Health Fair in the MSC from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. Representatives at
information tables also will available to an
swer questions about the prevention and
transmission of the disease.
“It is really difficult for a few people to hit
the 44,000 students here,” Griffith said.
“When more information is out there, there
is more concern and people are more like
ly to get tested.”
The Texas Department of Health said
HIV and AIDS cannot be detected by look
ing at someone. A person with HIV may
look healthy and feel fine. A blood test is the
only way a person can find out if he or she
is infected with HIV.
HIV is spread only through sexual inter
course and intravenous drugs, not casual
contact or through the air.
Sheilah Looney, a junior community
health major, is secretary of Aggie Repre
sentatives Educating About College Health
(Aggie R.E.A.C.H.), a group of student vol
unteers trained to give presentations about
health-related issues.
Looney said college-age people are af
fected by HIV and AIDS because students
are trying new things while they are away
from their parents’ home.
“Alcohol on this campus plays a part in un
planned, unanticipated, unwanted and un
protected sex,” she said. “We hope that people
will practice safer sex, get tested often or ab
stain from sexual intercourse. The bottom line
is respect for yourself and to protect yourself.”
A University committee, the HfWAIDS
Awareness Committee, promotes the aware
ness of the disease on campus through edu
cational and outreach programs.
Anupama Ramachandran, a member of
the committee and a freshman bioengi
neering major, said safer sex is important in
the prevention of HIV and AIDS.
“A lot of people have been personally
touched by the disease,” Ramachandran
said. “People must realize that HIV and
AIDS affects more people. It has a domino
effect that touches everyone including fam
ily, friends and co-workers.”
Activities and educational programs are
planned during the month of October.
World AIDS Day, sponsored by the World
Health Organization, is Dec. 1. This day al
lows people to stop and consider people af
fected by HIV and AIDS.
AMA president-elect encourages
women to pursue medical careers
ROBERT McKAY/The Battalion
Dr. Nancey Dickey, National President-elect of the American
Medical Association, addresses students at Rudder Theater Tuesday
evening.
By Colleen Kavanagh
Staffwriter
The president-elect of the American Medical As
sociation (AMA), said Tuesday night although
women face challenges working in male-dominated
profession, opportunities also exist in the medical
field for women.
Dr. Nancy Dickey, the first woman to become pres
ident of the AMA, said she knew she would face chal
lenges as a woman physician, but she has tried to keep
a sense of humor about it.
“I am a physician who happens to be a woman,” she
said. “There is a measurable amount of hostility to
women because this has been a man’s profession for
hundreds of years, but I think this hostility will go away
with time.”
Dickey also said because of the small amount of
women in the field, she has had opportunities she
would not have had otherwise, such as treating pa
tients who wanted a woman doctor.
“My practice and my work with the AMA began be
cause people needed a woman to help them,” she said.
Dickey also discussed challenges physicians face in
the field, such as uninsured patients and globalization.
“There are 34 million uninsured Americans who
don’t get the type of health care they need,” she said.
“That doesn’t even include the rest of the world. We can
no longer just worry about the U.S. when infectious dis
eases from West Africa can reach the U.S. so quickly.”
Doctors must continue their education throughout
their profession to stay informed of technology ad
vances in the medical field, Dickey said.
Please see Medical on Page 6.