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Monday
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Volume 105 • Issue 151 • 6 Pages
College Station, Texas
Sign of the times
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(From left) Fish Camp counselors Blaire Tully, a senior community health major, Tiffany Graf, a sophomore accounting major, Bill
Quinn, a junior accounting major, and Ben Inman, a junior biology major, spend Saturday morning painting a Fish Camp banner for Camp
Siebert Classified in the Zachry Building.
Week to raise
men’s health
awareness
BY NONI SRIDHARA
The Battalion
A survey conducted by Men’s
Health magazine and CNN re
vealed one-third of males sur
veyed would not go to the doctor
even if they were experiencing
life-threatening symptoms such as
severe chest pains or shortness of
breath, which are two top indica
tors of potential heart attacks.
National Men’s Health Week,
which is being held today
through June 20, strives to make
men more aware of their health
needs.
According to the
Men’s Health Web
site, the goal of Na
tional Men’s
Health Week is to
national
lfl CS honors Aggies for fire rescue
VlCH BY CARRIE BENNETT “It was really early so we were knocking Hurt congratulated the girls for “performing
BY CARRIE BENNETT
The Battalion
B |a last minute decision by two Texas A&M
tudents to take an early morning walk saved
he lives of a College Station family.
BAt last week’s City Council meeting the City
ol College Station and the College Station Fire
■p| Department presented Kathy Chatham and Jen-
iy Moore, both child psychology graduate stu-
ients, with a plaque for their “heroic efforts” in
saving the lives of the Crumbley family,
dione At 6:40 a.m. on May 19, Chatham and Moore
were walking down Munson Avenue and no-
Tficed a garage burning on Holt Drive. They went
o the house and began knocking on the door.
“It was really early so we were knocking
hard to try to wake the family up,” Moore said.
Moore then went to a neighbor’s house and
knocked on the door and called 911, while
Chatham continued knocking on the Crumb-
ley’s door until she alerted them of the fire.
Eric Hurt, assistant fire chief for the Col
lege Station Fire Department, said the family
heard the knocking and escaped the house
just as smoke entered the living area of the
house.
Chatham said they had never been out for
an early morning walk before and they decid
ed to take that route along Munson Avenue.
“I am just thankful that we came along
when we did,” Chatham said.
Hurt congratulated the girls for “performing
acts of kindness and caring.’
Moore said this was not the first act of hero
ism for her. Two weeks before alerting the
Crumbley family, she said she alerted another
family in her hometown of Brownwood of a
fire.
“One night during an electrical storm, my
boyfriend and I were driving to my house at
about 11:30 at night and noticed smoke coming
from another house two houses down from
mine,” Moore said. “We were the first ones to
that fire also.”
Moore said she has invested in carbon
monoxide and fire detectors since these two in
cidents.
raise
awareness among
society, especially
among men, of the
importance of pre
ventive health be
havior in the early
detection and treat
ment of health
problems affecting
men and their fam
ilies.
Margaret Grif
fith, health educa
tion coordinator —
for A.P. Beutel
Health Center, said there was a
U.S. Senate bill recognizing Men’s
Health Week passed in 1994, but
many people remain unaware that
such a week exists.
“The average college male
thinks that just because they
workout all the time, they’re
healthy,” Griffith said. “They
need to realize physical fitness is
only one part of their health.”
Men’s Health Week will cover
“The average
college male
thinks that just
because they
work out all the
time, they're
healthy/'
— Margaret Griffith
Health education coordinator
A.R Beutel Health Center
topics ranging from heart disease
to prostate cancer.
Griffith said there will be an in
formation table outside the Un
derground Food Court Thursday
with information on testicular
cancer and Sexually Transmitted
Diseases (STDs).
“Young man’s testicular cancer
generally strikes between the ages
of 15 and 34,” Griffith said. “How
ever, this can be detected early and
is very easy to catch just by per
forming a simple monthly test.”
She said many males are un
aware of the many threats to their
health, including
the adverse ef
fects STDs can
have.
“Men can be
come infertile
from STDs, too,”
she said.
Griffith said
they will also be
distributing free
condoms and
teaching males
about the roles
condoms play in
birth control.
Griffith said
another topic be
ing addressed is
tobacco use.
Courtney Pick
ens, executive
chair for Aggie Representatives
Educating About College Health
(R.E.A.C.H.) and a senior bio
medical science major, said she
feels the table will help target the
incoming freshmen attending
New Student Conferences.
Griffith said the table Thursday
will be operating from 11:30 a.m.
to 1 p.m. More information on na
tional Men’s Health Week can be
found at www.menshealth.com.
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Response center offers
anti-terrorist training
BY SUZANNE BRABECK
The Battalion
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I The Texas Engineering Extension
I I <5 Service (TEEX), a member of the Texas
I |4 A&M University System, will receive $4
' | m illion in funding for its counterterror-
( ism program this fall.
I In an effort to combat domestic ter
rorism, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
was one of the members of Congress
who pushed for increased funding for
the National Emergency Response and
Rescue IVaining Center at A&M.
The $4 million congressional fund-
ihg granted for the program is a 50 per
cent increase over last year.
IP* The National Emergency Response
and Rescue Training Center teaches per-
■ sonnel such as police, medical person-
nel and firefighters how to respond
> S fci properly to numerous types of terror-
^ ism, including chemical, biological and
nuclear acts of violence.
I “I have seen first hand how the train
ing at the center will save lives in the fu
ture,” Sen. Hutchison, a member of the
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee,
said.
1 She said this is why the training cen
ter is a priority even at a time of budget
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Training courses will be offered in
College Station, other U.S. cities and
even over the Internet.
The following courses will be offered
and are either already in the program
or under development: Emergency
Medical Service Operations and Plan
ning, Tactical Emergency Medical Ser
vices, Weapons of Mass Destruction -
Incident Management, Threat and Risk
Assessment and an Internet Awareness
Course.
“Senator Hutchison has worked hard
to ensure that the nation’s first respon
ders are equipped and trained to do
their jobs in the event of terrorist at
tacks,” Dr. G. Kemble Bennett, director
of TEEX, said.
“As a result of her leadership, we will
have the capability to train more than
14,800 firefighters, emergency medical
personnel and law enforcement officers
over the next year in critical topics re
lated to weapons of mass destruction. ”
The funding will be made available
on Oct. 1, 1999.
TEEX became a member of the Na
tional Domestic Preparedness Consor
tium in 1997. Sen. Hutchison said the
goal of the program is to train one mil
lion first-response workers over the next
five years.
Educators build
leadership skills
BY STUART HUTSON
The Battalion
The Texas Leadership Conference, which was held at the
George Bush Presidential Conference Center, focused on issues
such as developing grants for leadership programs, teaching
leadership skills to students going into business and public sec
tors and the development of a State Leadership Educator’s As
sociation to help educators share and expand leadership train
ing ideas.
Chris Townsend, an associate professor in the College of Agri
culture and Life Sciences, said the association would include
anyone who performs leadership training including those in
volved in civic associations, higher education, high schools, el
ementary schools, medical and technical schools.
Brad Butler, a third-year medical student at A&M, said the
more people research leadership, the more they realize it is im
portant regardless of what profession they are in.
“Leadership education has previously been neglected,” But
ler said, “but now, more and more schools are starting to have
leadership curriculums.”
Townsend said the idea for the State Leadership Educators As
sociation began a few years ago with a coalition between A&M’s
colleges of agriculture and medicine.
This coalition expanded to include departments from univer
sities around the state. He said educators in Kansas have im
plemented a similar program called the Leadership Education
Network.
Curt Brungardt, assistant professor for the Institute of Leadership
Studies at Fort Hays State University in Kansas, said the interest and
vision of the faculty at A&M allows the faculty to see the importance
of getting people to teach leadership across the state of Texas.
TERRY ROBERSON/The Battalion
Nancy Dickey, president of the American Medical Association
and an associate professor in the College of Medicine, speaks
at the Texas Leadership Conference Thursday.
“The ball is now rolling and people are sharing ideas,’
said. “The potential is tremendous.”
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