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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.
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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.
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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 -
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seen auctioned was undenvejolf Teat
He said items not purctoj
at the auction are donaifil
places like the Salvation I
or local schools.
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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.
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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.
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