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n „WOM£N IN eNOINGSKING CONFSKeNCS • Are you unsure what you want to do with your degree? • Would you like to find out about the real job.market? • Do you want to learn more about your discipline? • Would you like to meet and talk with practicing female engineers? • Sophomores &. Juniors - Would you like a corporate mentor? • Do you want free food and a t-shirt? cut XV^EC, 2 9 98/ Registration forms available in 204 Zachry Registration fee is $10* (includes meals, snacks, and a t-shirt) ' Deadline: October 13 “scholarships available Sponsored by: Boeing, Brown & Root/Halliburton, Compaq, Dupont/Conoco, Entergy, Schlumberger, Texaco, Union Carbide, Vastar project:. forums Social Security Where do we go from here? Come and share your views in an engaging discussion on social security and the proposed reform measures. Results from this forum will be presented in Washington, D.C. in January at a national meeting. Presented fay Nathan Cray and Conor Seyie, NCHC members from Texas A&M. Over the summer they won the National Social Security Challenge Championship. The prize was a $1 00,000 grant to get college students engaged in the national debate on Social Security. They plan on holding these forums on campuses all over the country. Thursday, Oct. 15 6-8 PIVI Rudder 601 project: campus issues online http://honors.tamu.edu/ssforums/ t iPersons with disabilities call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request MSG Great Issues Online O .notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best http://wwwmsC.tamu.edu/MSC/Greatlssues/ d of our abilities. ^ enlighten • entertain • inspire WTH THE St. Peter5burg 5tate 5YMPHONY ORCHE5TRA Direct from Russia • One night only C^Jearching for ways to impress her? Or him? Try an evening filled with the exquisite classical sounds of the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra. Led by Chief Conductor Ravel Martynov, the acclaimed orchestra will lead you on an unforgettable classical music journey, including a vocal treat featuring accomplished soprano cininist Maroarita Alaverdian. Page 6 • Wednesday, October 14, 1998 ampus Bat Minority health conferen addresses health-care issi# BY MEGAN WRIGHT The Battalion A minority health conference ti tled “Are We Meeting the Needs?” will be held today from 8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. at the College Sta tion Hilton and Conference Center. The conference is sponsored by the Race and Ethnic Studies In stitute and the Texas A&M Uni versity Health Science Center Col lege of Medicine. Topics to be discussed include migrant and farm worker’s health; indigent health care in Texas towns and cities; HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases and minority health care; and cultural values and health. Focus will also be on the re cruitment and promotion of minori ties and women in the health and re search-oriented professions. Dr. Mitchell Rice, director of RESI, said the conference aims to develop new ways to improve mi nority health-care systems. “Federal and state health data shows that minority, particularly African-American and Hispanic, health status is behind that of the white population,” Rice said. “These minorities have lower life expectancies, higher disease and illness rates, higher HIV/AIDS in fection numbers, higher infant- mortality rates and higher mater nal-mortality rates. The purpose of this conference is to bring togeth er health researchers, scholars, policy analysts and health practi tioners to discuss strategies and proposals to improve heath-care conditions for minorities in Texas and the United States.” Keynote speaker for today’s con ference will be Renato Espinoza, director of the Office ol.'J I lealth. Espinoza will . [ 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. Thursday's conference:(| ture keynote speaker loins van, former secretaryofi Department of Health am:] Services and president oil house College School of.\!ea Sullivan will speakThunciJ 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. i hlu>i speakersexpecte j iiu h:T-\!u . j regional minority healthctsa U.S. Public Health Service rd George W. Roberts, specials for Communities of Color for Disease Control; Clyde lit counselor, Galena ParkHighi Galena Park, Texas; andofei lators, city and county, tors and researchers and; members from universities tional research centers. llNCC the tven t eager (two £ jnot a |We a Ind pr< Inst K lork e leand lie bit [n Sep the frout 1-17 Jnd g t Iweek Iraska (lot ex, Auction offers misplaced item is syn ia| led t 392. ( lining rani Annual MSC Lost and Found puts abandoned goods upfor^ 0 " BY AMY CURTIS The Battalion The MSC Lost and Found Auc tion will be held today in the MSC Flagroom from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. offering an array of items ranging from sports equipment to coupons for local places of business. Ron Fulton, manager of the MSC Guest Room, said the auction is organized by MSC Hospitality, a Student Programs organization. Fulton said everything from sporting equipment to umbrellas come through the main desk and end up at the auction. He said items left behind in the residence halls are sold at the auction. Scott Generes, chair of MSC Hospitality, said an auction is held every semester. Last semes ter two auctions were held be cause so many items were turned in, but he said this semester they anticipate only one auction. Generes said local businesses including Hastings Book, Music and Video, Marble Slab Creamery and the Outback Steakhouse do nate certificates that are auctioned. Generes said on average the auction generates $1,000 in rev enue. He said the proceeds help pay for programs such as “Win ter in Aggieland,” a program that decorates the campus for the Christmas season. Generes said a lost article hi I game stay in Lost and Found months before it is sold in the tion. He said a student picks what he or she wants tobuy takes it to the auctioneer.Thi:.— ding is held on it with the top bidder getting the item may pay with cash or check Generes said there are us: quality items at the auction' sports equipment, jewelry,ci lators and Walkmans. He said of the more unusual itemstos kers - IjC DALE seen auctioned was undenvejolf Teat He said items not purctoj at the auction are donaifil places like the Salvation I or local schools. Ihe Da Pastor discusses acceptance gays within church communij BY AMANDA SMITH The Battalion Dr. Jo Hudson, pastor of the Friends Congregational Church, addressed Tuesday the continu um of acceptance of gays, les bians and bisexuals. “Churches will fall along a continuum,” Hudson said. “There will be churches in which a ho mosexual lifestyle is preached against and there is another end where churches make statements in support of the gay and les bian lifestyle.” Rainbow Christians, an organi zation open to people of all sexual orientations, sponsored the event as part of national Coming Out Week (COW), which recognizes gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Hudson said the Friends Con gregational Church, part of the United Church of Christ, adopted an “open and affirming state ment” in 1994. “The statement talks about our belief in welcoming people and in cluded in that is welcoming sexual orientation,” Townsend said. “They "/ think the creativity and the incredible nature of God is that he allows people to find a place of faith” of Christ and 1 struggled wiili terpretation of scriptures cone homosexuality,” Moore said is cultural interpretationinvol the scriptures. We tend tofocui' on being Christian than being Hudson said within theFii Iimpre — Dr. Jo Hudson Pastor, Friends Congregational Church are created by God as they are cre ated. We welcome all people. Into the full life and ministry means into the sacrificial life of the church.” Michael Moore, president of Rainbow Christians and a com puter science doctoral student, said he struggled with the verses in The Bible that speak against homosexuality. “My faith background is Church Congregational Church, been dispute over the inteip tion of scripture. “Whether you interpiei scripture as literal or as ope broader, there are scholarsW port on both sides,” Hudson “There are ample statement: condemn homosexuality.Tb® an equal number of scholar do not draw those concltt from the scripture. “A lot of people havetoei what the heart of God is.Itbii JThe A Isey C oting 54-1 “We p ch Bt uted |igh b [he ind Pro; nded creativity and the incredibW /ailabl of God is that he allows pef find a place of faith.” Hudson said the Friends gregational Church, found 1978, sought to increasetbet her of women and minorities* in the congregation and has become a congregation in' gays, lesbians and bisexuals. tit, and •einbei &1k to, “geAbsh U( teni Lit an Hall C "nyAckl Squeeze it Like You Want It! reuiyAlt Ss ident A< ; °ore Hall pietteA aglish Her 21: 1705 S. 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