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Volume 110 • Issue 27 • 12 pages
Student EMS volunteers save man’s life
The student-run Emergency
Medical Services responded to a
call when a man went into cardiac
arrest outside Kyle Field at the A&M
v. Pittsburgh game Sept. 27.
Operates 24 hours a day, seven days
a week, including holidays
Answers 600 to 800 calls for
emergency assistance a year
Completely run by student volunteers
Started in 1980 with the acquisition of
its first ambulance
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first ambulance
services in the
Brazos Valley
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SOURCE : EMS.TAMU.EDU
By Eric Ambroso
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M Emergency
Medical Services, a group of 60 stu
dent volunteers, saved a man’s life
after the Aggie football game against
Pittsburgh Sept. 27.
The 75-year-old former student
from Gladewater, who could not be
contacted due to privacy issues, was
clinically dead for almost two minutes
before EMS arrived at the scene.
Approximately five minutes after the
game ended, EMS received a call for a
cardiac arrest. They responded and
were on location within three minutes.
“It’s all about timing,” said Jared
Cosper, paramedic and student volun
teer. “You usually have about four
minutes when someone’s heart stops
beating, and he only had a couple
more minutes.”
When the man’s son realized that
his father was unresponsive while
leaving a parking lot in West Campus,
he notified an officer from
Transportation Services and called
911. The TS officer performed CPR
until the ambulance arrived and EMS
took over, Cosper said.
Cosper, the first to arrive on the
scene, found the man unconscious
and without a pulse. EMS volunteers
immediately shocked the man three
times before they were able to get
his heart beating at a normal rhythm.
He was then given an IV and intu
bated so that paramedics could con
trol his breathing.
“Some of our medics are young and
don’t have a lot of experience,” said
Cosper, who has been a paramedic for
nine years. “When they are challenged
with calls like that, it is amazing how
well they are able to do their jobs.”
Many of the student volunteers join
EMS because they plan to go to med
ical school and need experience.
Others say they want to help people
around campus.
To become a paramedic takes at
least a year and involves classroom
and clinical components. Most of the
EMS staff, however, is trained at the
EMP level, which takes about three
months, more than 100 hours of class
room instruction and 24 to 48 hours of
clinical instruction.
“I had a desire to do something that
was useful and helpful on campus,”
said Brad Mitschke, a senior psychol
ogy major and volunteer for EMS.
Mitschke is part of a bike team for
EMS that responds to emergency calls
on campus. He was the next to arrive
at the scene after Cosper, and he
helped to maintain the man’s airway.
Mitschke said it was his first life-
threatening emergency, but he was
happy with the job EMS did.
“It’s a good feeling,” Mitschke said.
“It’s great that the system totally
worked. We were alerted about the sit
uation before the first 911 calls by a
traffic officer, and we had great
response time. It was like a textbook
exercise, everything was perfect.”
After the man’s heartbeat was sta
bilized and he was provided adequate
oxygenation, EMS transported him to
St. Joseph Regional Health Center in
Bryan. When he had fully recovered,
Cosper visited him in the hospital. The
man and his family were ecstatic to see
Cosper and thanked him for the serv
ice that EMS provided, he said.
“I’ve treated hundreds of cardiac
arrests,” Cosper said, “but I’ve never
had a chance to meet one of them. It
was pretty cool, his family was very
thankful.”
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By Justin Smith
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M College of
Education and Human
Development has enacted a new
policy that will give $100 to stu
dents who score 1200 or higher
on the Graduate Record
Examinations.
The GRE has three parts:
verbal, quantitative and analyti
cal writing, each of which can
count up to 800 points. To get
this scholarship, students are
required to score 1200 com
bined points from the verbal and
quantitative sections.
To receive the scholarship,
which covers the cost of taking
the test, students must submit
their scores to the college to be
put on file.
“We are trying to encourage
students to not only go to gradu
ate school, but also to take the test
early,” said Associate Dean of the
College of Education and Human
Development Becky Carr.
“Students do better on the GRE
when they take it right at the end
of (their undergraduate years)
rather than waiting a few years.”
Carr said the scores will be
accepted for several years after
the test has been taken, so even
if a student was planning to wait
to go to graduate school, the
scholarship will still apply. For
this program, which currently
has more than 1,200 graduate
students, Carr said they are hop
ing to recruit and talk to 100
more students.
Jane Conoley, dean of the
College of Education and
Human Development, said the
money for this program comes
from privately donated funds,
primarily from alumni.
Conoley also said while the
program is intended to encour
age students to enroll in the
graduate program at A&M, they
are not limited to do only that.
Students who decide to do
this are not committing them
selves to join the College of
Education and Human
Development graduate program.
Rather, students can receive the
scholarship and then decide to
go to another university for
graduate school or not go to
graduate school at all.
“If our students go other
places and do well, it reflects well
on (Texas A&M),” Carr said.
Tim Dosch, Class of 2003, from Houston, hammers nails in top plates across
two walls in to hold them in place while building the first house for Texas
Aggies Building Spirit and Aggie Habitat for Humanity. The new house is
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located in Bryan, Texas, and will take approximately eight weeks and $30,000
in donations to build. Dosch founded TABS as a way to unify the student body
and bring Aggies together to do things for less privileged people.
Breast cancer awareness
issues raised this month
By Pammy Ramji
THE BATTALION
This year, 39,800 women are expected to die
m breast cancer, the second most common form
of cancer in women in the United States.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness
, which aims to increase attention given to
s form of cancer and early detection methods.
Texas A&M Director of Health Services Dr.
Linda Lekawsi said one out of every eight to nine
women will develop breast cancer at some point in
her lifetime.
“We always try and educate our young ladies
about how important it is that they get an annual
exam, whether it be a self exam or a mammogram,
and about how important it is to know about breast
cancer in general,” Lekawsi said. “Young women
need to learn how to do self exams at home and at
the age of 40 get yearly mammograms.”
According to the National Association of Breast
Cancer Organizations Web site, breast cancer death
rates would drop up to 30 percent if all women ages
40 and older took advantage of early detection meth
ods, such as mammograms and clinical breast exams.
“(It’s important for students) to understand the
See Awareness on page 2
CHANCES OF DEVELOPING
BREAST CANCER
The likelihood that you will develop
breast cancer increases with age.
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New partnership
helps prepare SA
high school students
By Jacquelyn Spruce
THE BATTALION
CRACIE ARENAS • THE BATTALION
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^districting battle may delay presidential primary
By April Castro
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — The state’s role in presidential
politics could be damaged by bitter Republican
infighting over congressional redistricting.
As the clock ticked Sunday without a deal
redistricting, a delay in the March 2 Texas
primary became increasingly likely.
That could leave state Democrats without
ich influence in picking their party’s nomi
nee to challenge President Bush next year —
one of the Democratic candidates might
already have his party’s nomination sewn up
before the delayed Texas vote.
Lawmakers on both sides of the Capitol had
hoped to have an agreement in place by
Saturday. Instead, weary lawmakers left the
Capitol Saturday evening
with no map.
Gov. Rick Perry has
cited Monday as the
“drop dead date” for him
to sign a map agreed on
by lawmakers. By
Sunday afternoon, no
map had been filed. Once
a map has been filed, the
legislation will have to go
through a constitutionally
required 24-hour waiting period before it can
be considered for a vote, making the Monday
deadline nearly impossible.
The office of Secretary of State Geoff
Connor has said the Legislature must adjourn
and the bill must be signed no later than
a
It is apriority for
members of the Senate to avoid
moving the election date.
— Todd Staples
Republican state senator
Monday to maintain the
March 2 primary with new
congressional districts.
“It is a priority for
members of the Senate to
avoid moving the election
date,” said Sen. Todd
Staples, R-Palestine, a key
Senate negotiator. “We
think it is unfair to the can-
didates, both Republican
and Democratic alike, as well as the voters, and
we’re continuing to negotiate in good faith in
order to avoid” moving the primary.
Staples and Sen. Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock,
See Delay on page 2
San Antonio high school students will have extra help
preparing for college thanks to a new partnership
between Texas A&M and three San Antonio school dis
tricts, said David Byrd, director of recruitment for the
College of Education and Human Development.
The partnership was announced during a press confer
ence last week and is geared to not only prepare students
for college, but to help teachers get those students ready.
The San Antonio school districts included in the
partnership are East Central ISD, Southside ISD and
Southwest ISD.
As of now, the partnership is focused on those three
San Antonio school districts, because the north side of
San Antonio has experienced an economic boom recent
ly, Byrd said.
“The mayor is trying to help the south side school
districts,” he said. “He is focusing more on the eco
nomic development of a part of town that has not seen
much growth.”
Patti Birney, assistant superintendent for curriculum
instruction for East Central ISD, said the partnership
will provide academic preparation in multiple areas.
“Because teachers are in demand, that is one of the
areas they are focusing on,” Birney said. “We hope it
will help enhance teacher recruitment, as well.”
Plans to form a partnership that will help the south
side of San Antonio have been discussed by many peo
ple, including Ed Garza, the city’s mayor.
See Partnership on page 2