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QUOTE OF THE DAY
BY THE NUMBERS
Wednesday, October 8, 2003 University Press Page 2
“Girls are able to study again. We have books and
computers. The international community has
given us so much.”
— Sadiqa Sharif
A teacher in Kabul, Afghanistan
Number of years Martha Stewart
could face if she were convicted of all
five charges of insider trading.
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Gift
Continued from page 1
11:30 a.m. It is sponsored by MOTIVA.
On Thursday, the “Breast Outreach’’ will be at Dowlen
Oaks Assisted Living located at 2250 N. Dowlen Road in
Beaumont at 3 p.m.
The mobile van will be at the Orange Workforce Center
in Orange. It is sponsored by the Nelda C. and HJ. Lutcher
Stark Foundation.
The “Gift of Life” program has acquired a new minivan
from JK Chevrolet, which assisted the program.
“The acquisition of a mini-
van is of great importance for
our program, making it possible
for us to reach those in the com-
munity who are unable to take
advantage of our services,” said
Nell McCallum, “Gift of Life”
board president. “We are grate-
ful to Hibernia Trust and the
other sponsors who are partner-
ing with us in this meaningful
endeavor.”
In cooperation with the
Lamar University department
of nursing and the University of
Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center, the Julie Rogers “Gift of
Life” Program will hold its fifth
annual Women’s Health Forum
on Tbesday from 10:30 a.m. to
2:30 p.m. at the Montagne Cen-
ter.
Registration will begin at
9:45 a.m. There is no charge and
there will be a complimentary
lunch, Trylowsky said. The forum is sponsored by the “Gift of
Life,” Aventis, Memorial Hermann Baptist Hospitals, Odyssey
Healthcare, AstraZeneca and Solvay Pharmaceuticals.
Mobile mammography van sponsors honored at the “Gift
of Life” Oct. 1 kickoff at Parkdale included ATOFINA, BASF
FINA Petrochemicals LP, Community Bank and Trust,
Entergy Texas, the Wilton and Effie Mae Hebert Foundation,
Sallye Keith, Mildred Manion, Miracle Match for Life, MOTI-
VA Enterprises, Premcor Refining Group, the Nelda C. and
H J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, and the YMBL.
Supporters who made it possible to purchase the minivan
for the “Gift of Life” program were honored as well. These
sponsors were the Dujay Charitable' Foundation of Hibernia
Trust, the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, the
Gladys D. Bevil Charitable Trust, Goodyear, JK Chevrolet,
and the Miracle Match for Life.
For more information on this month’s events, call 833-
3663.
211,300
The number of
women who will be
diagnosed with inva-
sive breast
cancer in 2003.
40,000
About the number of
women who will die
this year from breast
cancer.
STAN
Continued from page 1
Southeast Texas Plant Man-
agers Forum.
Dick Townsend, plant
manager for ExxonMobil,
said, “A great deal of research
went into the development of
the system. What was found
was that we did an effective
job of communicating emer-
gencies, but people are more
educated and sophisticated.”
People want to know
more than just that there is an
emergency, he said. They want
to know just what the emer-
gency is, what is involved, and
what everyone should do.
Although STAN has just
been introduced to the public,
it has already been in active
service and put to use in real
life-threatening crises.
John Owens, deputy chief
with Emergency Management
of Port Arthur, said that an
employee of an area industry
was cleaning his truck at a car
wash Friday. He took a radio-
active, soil density instrument
out of his truck to finish his
cleaning. He forgot to put the
instrument back inside the
vehicle when he had finished
and drove off without it. He
later realized that he had left
the radioactive instrument at
the car wash.
When he returned to the
car wash to retrieve the
instrument, it was gone.
When he reported the
incident, emergency crews
immediately activated STAN.
The media was instantly in-
formed, and a message was
displayed across television
screens.
“Within a few hours, we
received a phone call from a
citizen, who was actually the
owner of the car wash, saying
he had found the instrument
and that it was at the car wash.
We took it into our posses^
sion, checked it and found it
to be intact,” Owens said.
The potential emergency
was solved quickly by STAN.
“It just goes to show you
that the system definitely
works,” he said.
This is National Fire
Prevention Week, and fire
fighters will be attending
Golden Triangle schools to
talk about fire prevention and
introduce STAN.
Also for the next six
weeks, various outreach meth-
ods will be used to bring
STAN to the public’s atten-
tion, such as television and
radio commercials, banners,
and brochure mailings.
Carl Griffith, Jefferson
county judge, said, “With the
media and industry and the
government working togeth-
er, in the event of a natural
disaster or a man-made disas-
ter or a terrorist attack, we are
safer because people are wor-
king together.”
Iraq
Continued from page 1
320 U.S. service members have
died in Iraq since the United
States and Britain launched
military operations against
Saddam Hussein’s govern-
ment March 20.
In a raid Tuesday, U.S.
troops captured an officer in
the former Iraqi army’s spe-
cial forces who allegedly
helped organize bombings
and other attacks against
American soldiers, the mili-
tary said.
The former officer was
captured in the city of Ba-
qouba, north of Baghdad,
along with six other people,
and U.S. troops discovered a
suitcase full of bomb-making
materials along with small
arms, rocket-propelled gre-
nades and mortar sights, vari-
ous passports, large amounts
of ammunition and a large
sum of money, said Maj.
Josslyn Aberle, a spokesper-
son for the 4th Infantry
Division.
She said the passports
included one from Germany,
one from Russia and others
from countries in the region
— all belonging to the former
officer. He was not identified
and no further details were
available.
Also Tuesday, large sec-
tions of Baghdad were in tur-
moil after an explosion inside
the Foreign Ministry com-
pound, former intelligence
officers demanding back pay
or jobs hurled paving stones at
American forces, and U.S. sol-
diers confronted a big demon-
stration of Shiite Muslims
after closing a mosque and
allegedly arresting the imam.
There were no known
injuries in any of the incidents,
but traffic in the center of the
capital was at a near standstill.
Streets around the Foreign
Ministry and Saddam’s former
Republican Palace were
blocked by U.S. soldiers in
armored vehicles and Iraqi
police.
Army Maj. John Frisbie
said the explosion at the
Foreign Ministry blasted a
crater about a foot in diameter
in the parking lot but caused
no injuries.
Hussein Amin, a witness,
said a mortar shell or rocket-
propelled grenade was fired at
the ministry compound and
landed, near the office of
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Ze-
bari, who was not present.
Workers in the compound
came streaming out.
Frisbie said there was no
sign of a mortar attack.
Two U.S. armored person-
nel carriers and five Humvees
were sent to the scene.
The ministry is also about a
half-mile from the Al-Rasheed
Hotel, where many U.S. officials
live. The hotel was attacked
Sept. 27 with small rockets or
rocket-propelled grenades, cau-
sing only minimal damage.
Security already was tight
in the palace area because of
demonstrations Tuesday by
about 2,000 former employees
of the Iraqi intelligence service
who want back pay or the
return of their jobs.
Afterward, paving stones
littered the street near- the
palace and strands of concerti-
na wire were flattened by the
demonstrators.
In southwest Baghdad, U.S.
soldiers in about 20 Humvees
with two helicopters overhead
confronted some 600 demon-
strators at a Shiite Muslim
mosque, with protesters claim-
ing their imam had been illegal-
ly detained.
Sheikh Mohammed al-
Sudani said mosque preacher
Moayed al-Karzraji was arrest-
ed Monday as he led a 12-man
delegation to negotiate with the
Americans in the municipal
council building.
The group was briefly
detained and handcuffed by
soldiers, al-Sudani said. Every-
one later was released, he said,
but the imam was taken to an
unknown location.
The military said it was
checking on the arrest allega-
tions.
Al-Sudani accused the
Americans of planting hand
grenades in the mosque as a
pretext for arresting the imam
and sealing the building.
Protesters shouted “Amer-
ica equals Saddam!” and “Today
we are raising banners; tomor-
row we will raise weapons!”
Baker
Continued from page 1
Come Hear Max Dawson
“It’s OK To Be ”
a graduate teaching assistant
at the University of Okla-
homa, and Purdue University.
She earned her bache-
lor’s degree in speech educa-
tion and her master’s degree
in rhetoric and public address
from the University of Okla-
homa and a doctorate in com-
munication from Purdue.
The TRS delivers retire-
ment and related benefits
that have been authorized by
the Texas Legislature and
manages a more than $76-bil-
lion trust fund established to
finance member benefits,
Goldman said.
More than one million
public and higher education
employees and retirees cur-
rently participate in the sys-
tem.
The system is fifth largest
public public pension fund in
the United States, Baker said.
Saturday, Oct. 11, 4 p.m.
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Bilingual Corner
Picture: ASL
Traditionally Deaf children have been educated through an
“English-firsf’method.That has been proven ineffective through
reading scores on standardized tests. More and more educa-
tion facilities are utilizing a bilingual/bicultural approach, using
American Sign Language as the first language and using that
natural language as a foundation to build English literacy skills.
This is called English as a Second Language, or ESL approach.
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Kiddos
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because these provide monies
to aid children.
Wilson said that one of
her biggest goals is to set up
family dorms on the Lamar
campus for students who can-
not make the commute to
school because of young chil-
dren.
“If you’re looking to
achieve something” Wilson
said, “why not look into doing
the really hard things to help
accomplish the easy things.”
Wilson may be reached at
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