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To the New Students in
the College of Liberal Arts:
Dean Woodrow Jones, Jr.
invites you to attend the
New Students’ Reception
Thursday, September 9,1999
5:0ft to 7:00 P.M. in
the MSC Wayne Stark Galleries
Proposed law woull require safety seats for children ages 6 and uift 100 _
FREEDOM, Calif. (AP) — Donny Bal za r
rides proudly to kindergarten every mornt in
the front passenger seat, toying with the ^e,
loose seat belt that slides up over his mou
“I like it up here in front,” he said. “I lil\to
play with the seat belt.”
Donny’s been riding shotgun for two y<
ever since his mom, Marguerita Baltazar, b
him out of the car seat mandated in Califod
for children under 4 years old and 40 pound!
Safety advocates point out that seat belts c!
be as dangerous to children as air bags. They sa^
California’s law does not go far enough. Childn
as old as 6 also are usually too small for a seat bel
designed for an adult. The shoulder straps slidi
dangerously up their necks, and lap belts sit across
their vulnerable abdomens, not low on their hips.l
Gov. Gray Davis is considering a measure'
passed by the Legislature last week that will put
kids like Donny back into booster seats or har
nesses through their seventh birthday. The de
vices cost $20 to $110.
If signed, it will be the toughest child pas
senger safety law in the country.
“Children are irreplaceable,” Judy Barrett-
Miller, a consultant for the California Coalition For
Children’s Safety and Health in Sacramento, said.
WAS11 INt
eliminated if the childivn usat an t0
child safety seat, booster seat orse;
are 11m >
“If we want to safeguard
our children, this is the
best approach/'
— Judy Barrett-Miller
California Coalition for
Children’s Safety and Health
every ride. i?°, V l '
California Highway Patrol officer ft'* 111 W( -
by would not dream of driving her: etcn c ° 1
daughter anywhere without buckling Aj teat ' lfe=
booster seat. plemcuk.
"The seat belt could come across# ^ lvsli
and. in children, that windpipe is realT 111 cai ( - ; ‘
so it could kill them. And then there®
ternal injuries that can be caused b,
belt.” she said. “Parents just aren't aw
dangers. We really need this law."
“Traffic accidents are the leading cause of
death for children who this law applies to. If
want to safeguard our children, this is the
^>est approach.”
A National Highway Traffic Safety Admin-
Uration study of traffic accidents involving
jhildren under 15 found that 71 percent of
choo 1
k search i
>s Codes .
hreats.
All 50 states, the District of Colum® ( ) ' 1 /'"T.
to Rico and the U.S. territories havtl® 1UK ' A
laws, most of which cover children up *
4 years old. st.hK nis
Consumer and safety advocates Jf r an ' u k
laws have saved thousands of liv
1979, when no states had car seat
. until I' most had ^ Cl ’ lu 0111
acted, deaths among children under4; lI W' ) ian ' £
30 percent nationwide. g J K u '\c i
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MSC Great Issues is an open membership committee, meaning anyone
who is willing to join our team is welcome. Our goal is to increase
student interest and awareness in current events through programming.
Topic areas:
• Campus Issues
• Relationships
• Environment
• Science and Technology
• World Affairs
• Society
Past Programs include:
- School Choice
- Preventing Worldwide Depression
- The Biotech Century
- The Origin of the Kiss
- The Responsibility of Photojournalism
- Technology and the Ethics of Cloning
Informational Meeting Tonight!!
MSC 229
7pm
MSC Great Issues and Political Forum have joined forces in the
biggest merger since Exxon Mobil. Come check us out. For
more information, contact us at 845-1515
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Political Forum
For 30 years, the Memorial Student Center
Political Forum has focused on providing
educational non-partisan programs on
political topics to the students at Texas A&M
University and to the people of Central Texas.
MSC Political Forum has hosted a wide
variety of speakers including former President
George Bush and Mrs. Bush, former
Governor Ann Richards, Senator Phil Gramm,
and most recently Governor George W. Bush
and H. Ross Perot.
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Officials dispute effectivernss of ear-infection treatment
backiF"-.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pharmaceutical giant Pfb
er Inc. is trying to convince doctors the best drug
children’s ear infections is not the cheap, proven an\
tibiotic the government recommends, but Pfizer’j
own pricey product.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
(GDC) said in January that amoxicillin should be doc
tors’ first choice for treating ear infections, which ac
count for 25 million visits to doctors’ offices each year.
The GDC ranked Pfizer’s competing Zithromax
among other antibiotics that “lack good evidence”
for effectiveness against ear infections.
The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen un
covered a schedule for Pfizer teleconferences targeted
at doctors nationwide to counter the GDC guidelines.
“We urge you to inform the nation’s pediatricians
of this campaign so they are not duped into draining
the Medicaid program of needed resources and of
wasting large amounts of money on treating other
patients with this needlessly expensive and second-
rate drug for ear infections,” the advocacy group said
in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary'
Donna Shalala.
A Pfizer spokesperson defended the campaign,
saying the Food and Drug Administration had ap
proved Zithromax for treating ear infections.
Consequently, "everything we re doing is under
the umbrella of what we’re allowed to do according
to the FDA,” spokesperson Mariann Caprino said.
The GDC is “just basically weighing in with yet
Another opinion," she added, noting that the
igency’s amoxicillin recommendation is not an offi
:ial treatment guideline.
As for the Pfizer teleconference schedule, Capri-
said “it’s not a corporate document that came
iwn from on high,” and it probably came from
lomeone in one of our sales forces."
Pfizer has aggressively promoted Zithromax to
ttors and parents, including giving away the drug s
bhnbag mascot “Max the Zebra.” Max lives on an
hernet site called KidsEars, which tells parents to
as,their doctors about Pfizer's drug.
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Journal describes camper’s death
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Journal
notes purportedly made by two
friends who were lost while hiking
in the New Mexico desert describe
in detail how one killed the other, be
fore rescuers reached them.
The diary ascribed to Raffi
Kodikian and his friend who was
killed, David Coughlin, also in
cluded farewell notes to friends
and burial instructions. The
Philadelphia Inquirer reported
yesterday.
“I killed & buried my best friend
today. Dave had been in pain all
night. At around 5 or 6 he turned to
me & begged that I put my knife
through his chest. I did, & a second
time when he wouldn’tlie. He still
breathed & spoke so I toll him that I
was going to cover his Lv. He said
OK. He struggled but die. I buried
him w/ [sic] love. God &bis family
& mine, please forgfe me,”
Kodikian wrote in a joumalmtry dat
ed Aug. 8, the newspaper Aid.
Kodikian, 25, has tolcnnvesti-
gators that Coughlin, 26,\leaded
with him to end his pain dter the
two men got lost early lastmonth
while camping in Carlsbaf
erns National Park and ran
water. Kodikian said they b(
they would die.
Investigators will not say eactly
what they think happened, bufehey
Cav-
ut of
eved
do not believe Kodikian's story and
have charged him with murder.
He is free on $50,000 bail and
currently is living with his parents
near Doylestown in suburban
Philadelphia.
The U.S. Secret Service is cur
rently examining the journal
for fingerprints and analyzing
the handwriting to determine
whether Coughlin actually wrote
in the diary, Gary McCandless,
chief of detectives for the sher
iff’s office, said.
On one page is a farewell note
signed “David Andrew” and ad
dressed to Coughlin’s girlfriend,
Sonnet Frost.
DES MOINES, Iowa Ray Vus\\i
With an jtvasionsoi
Sen. Tbm Harkin, VicePres£ s * u 'N ,lu
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AFL-CIO secretary and
Richard TYumka,
who spoke ap
provingly of Gore's
bid for the Democ
ratic presidential
nomination.
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is elected. )rs said.
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