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By Kelcey Rieger
THE BATTALION
“Two weeks ago my mother was diag
nosed with breast cancer,” said Bradley
Ceding, a freshman mechanical engineer
ing major. “1 didn’t find out until the
weekend following her diagnosis because
my mom and dad wanted to be with me
in person when they told me.”
Since learning of his mother’s ill
ness, Gerling said he has found it
hard to be away from his moth
er and the rest of his family.
"The initial shock of the
news wore off a few days
later, but that is when the
realization began to set
in,”Gerling said. “It can
be overwhelming at times.
Like when I’m ‘on the
wall’ with the rest of my
freshman buddies (in the
Corps), it hurts to stand
there while somebody is
yelling at me and in the back
of my mind all I can think
about is my mom and how she
is suffering more than 1 am.”
Gerling said he feels there is a
bigger burden placed on his family
now that he is at Texas A&M and
unable to be there to help them.
“She has gone through surgery and has
chemotherapy yet to go,” Gerling said.
“She moves slowly around the house
and somebody is needed to help her do
so many things like sitting and stand
ing, taking a shower and changing
clothes. It is painful to see some
one change so drastically with-
inacouple of weeks just
because of something so
unexpected and unwanted
•iecancer.” '
“ According to Dr.
Peter Gray, direc
tor of the St.
Joseph Cancer .MjM
Center, breast
cancer can be -
unexpected,
but only if
precautions
such as breast
cancer screen
ings, mammo
grams or self
examinations are not
used to predict the
onset of breast cancer.
“Everybody can be at risk for breast
eancer, but risk increases with age,” Gray
said. “Women who have had an aunt or
niother, or what is known as a ‘first-
nogree relative,’ with breast cancer are
also at a higher risk of discovering breast
oancer than other women who have a
non-hereditary connection.”
Gray said women in the 70 to 79-year-
old age group make up the highest per
centage of women diagnosed with breast
cancer in Brazos County. But this doesn’t
mean younger women are not at risk.
“We also have a very high percentage
of women 40 years and younger diag
nosed,” Gray said.
Men are at risk of being diagnosed
with breast cancer, but Gray said the risk
pales in comparison to a woman’s risk of
acquiring the disease.
“There are many ways to predict
breast cancer for women and men,” Gray
said. “The latest breakthrough in breast
cancer prediction is a special screening
procedure called the Gail Risk Model.
Just by answering four or five questions,
this screening can predict if someone is at
risk for breast cancer in the future.”
Predicting the risk for breast cancer
can be an important tool in preventing it
from escalating into the more serious
stages of the cancer, but before prediction
and prevention must come awareness.
October is National Breast Cancer
Awareness month and Zeta Tau Alpha, an
A&M sorority, is involved in many
activities on and off campus to raise
awareness about breast cancer
throughout the year. According to
Lisa Parrish, president of the
A&M chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha,
breast cancer awareness is the
sorority’s national philanthropy.
“(Breast cancer) is more than
just something we raise money for;
it is something that each member of
Zeta is really passionate about,”
Parrish said. “Our members realize
that breast cancer will affect one in
eight women in the United States, and
this is a startling eye-opening statistic.
Unfortunately, we have members who
have had to go through the pain of breast
cancer with their mothers, grandmothers
and even themselves.”
Last year, A&M’s chapter raised more
than $10,000 for the Susan G. Komen
Breast Cancer Foundation by sponsoring
the Strike-A-Thon Bowling Tournament.
Now in its fourth year of sponsoring the
Strike-A-Thon, Zeta Tau Alpha is pro
moting many other breast cancer aware
ness projects for the month of October.
“We sponsor the ‘Think Pink’ cam
paign during the month of October,”
Parrish said. “We have girls at tables all
over campus passing out pink ribbons and
information cards. These are always
well-received, and it is great to see
pink ribbons on backpacks and shirts
around campus.”
Zeta TaU Alpha’s efforts to raise
money for breast cancer awareness
and research has been nationally
recognized throughout the
United States, but members
f|||2Sk ' say it doesn’t take a large
j|Pk organization to help fund
Slk breast cancer awareness
IllPk and research. Web sites,
/ % such as abcf.org or the-
breastcancersite.com,
offer many ways to
p|i|F donate to the cause.
A National Cancer
Institute report estimates
that about 13.3 percent of
women in the United States
will develop breast cancer during
their lifetime. The percentage may
appear small to some, but according to Brad
Gerling, the statistic is not small enough.
“Nobody should ever go through this
ordeal, but it does happen to some people
and unfortunately it happened to us,” he
said. “There is just so much stress, physi
cally and emotionally living with a family
member who has breast cancer. It can
change a person forever.”
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
PALTROW
Paltrow presents Film
fellowship to Weinstein
LONDON (AP) - Gwyneth
Paltrow presented an honorary
British Film
Institute
fellowship
to Miramax
Films co-
chairman
Harvey
Weinstein.
Weinstein
received
the award
Sunday at the National Film
Theater. His brother, Miramax
co-chairman Bob Weinstein,
was also honored, but didn't
attend the ceremony.
Previous honorees include
Orson Welles, Martin Scorsese,
Michael Caine, Clint Eastwood,
Akira Kurosawa, Elizabeth
Taylor and Robert Altman.
Paltrow won a best-actress
Oscar for 1998's Shakespeare
in Love, which was produced
by Miramax. While she looked
on, Weinstein paid tribute to
her father, TV producer-direc
tor Bruce Paltrow, who died
earlier this month in Rome.
Weinstein said Paltrow, who
was 58, had played a crucial
role in the "renaissance in TV
going on in America," calling
his death "a loss that we all
share in."
Blake's lawyers petition
Court to grant bail
LOS ANGELES (AP) -
Lawyers for actor Robert Blake
petitioned the California
Supreme Court on Monday to
grant Blake bail without a fur
ther hearing.
The filing was the latest in a
series of legal maneuvers
aimed at freeing the former
"Baretta" star, who has been
jailed for six months on mur
der and other charges in the
killing of his wife. Bonny Lee
Bakley.
At an Oct. 9 bail hearing, a
judge said he still needed to
hear from witnesses at a pre
liminary hearing before he
could make a decision on
whether to set bail. That hear
ing has been scheduled for
Dec. 11.
In Monday's filing, attorney
Paul Hoffman said his client
should be released on bail
immediately. He said the gov
ernment lacks "clear and con
vincing evidence" that Blake
killed his wife while lying in wait.
"That's the bar that has to be
met. We are saying that the
D.A. did not meet that bar,"
Hoffman said.
Sandi Gibbons, a spokes
woman for the Los Angeles
County District Attorney's
Office, declined to comment
on the petition, saying her
office hadn't seen it yet.
Riddes named hockey
team's honorary captain
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hey,
hockey pucks!
Insult-spewing comic Don
Rickies is the honorary captain
of the University of Arizona's
hockey team for the 2002-
2003 season.
"He became a friend of ours
and we are honored to have
him as part of our team,"
Arizona head coach Leo
Golembiewski said Monday.
Besides serving as honorary
captain, Rickies will be fea
tured in the hockey team's
card sets, which feature trad
ing cards of team players,
coaches and now, the man
known as "Mr. Warmth" — who
often uses the phrase "hockey
puck" in his insults.
"I'm pleased to have been
chosen by Coach G. and the
team. I know they'll do me
proud," the 76-year-old Rickies
said.
"If not, I'm going to invite
them to leave Tucson and
come to one of my Las Vegas
shows, and then make them
sit outside in the desert and
let them watch their skates
melt."
Dion's show to take
place at Ceasars Palace
LA LOUVIERE, Belgium (AP)
— "A New Day" will be the
theme and title of Celine
Dion's new show, set to
debut March 25 at the new
4,000-seat Colosseum the
ater at
Caesars
Palace in
Las Vegas.
"It will
be the
beginning
of a new
adventure,
of some- dion
thing
incredible," Dion said at
rehearsals Monday. "I can't
wait until the curtains rise...
I'm so excited."
Producer-creator Franco
Dragone said the show
would include song, dance,
theater and special effects —
even clowns.
"The story will be Celine/"
he said. "Our tableau will be
built around her."
The show's cast of 60
dancers and performers have
been secretly rehearsing
since June at a makeshift stu
dio in the mining town of La
Louviere, Dragone's home
town, located 50 kilometers
(30 miles) south of Brussels.
Dragone directed both of
Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas
productions, "O" and "Mystere."
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WHO’S WHO AMONG STUDENTS IN AMERICAN
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
2002 - 2003
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
Who’s Who applications are now available for both graduate students and
senior undergraduates in the following locations:
Commandant’s Office (Military Sciences Building)
Student Programs Office (2 nd floor MSC)
Student Activities Office (125 Koldus Building)
Sterling C. Evans Library
Office of Graduate Studies (302 Administration)
Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs (10 th floor Rudder)
Office of the Dean of each College
Completed applications should contain an application form and one (8.5x11”) activities page in 10 pt. font or above with one-inch margins.
The deadline has been extended. Applications are due to the Office of Graduate Studies or the Department of Student Activities
no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, October 25, 2002. Applications may be personally delivered or sent through US Mail or Campus Mail to either:
Dept, of Student Activities Office of Graduate Studies
ATTN: Who’s Who ATTN: Who’s Who
1236 TAMU 1113 TAMU
125 John J. Koldus Building 302 Administration Building
College Station, TX 77843-1236 College Station, TX 77843-1113
Questions may be referred to:
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