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The Baytown Sun
Viewpoints
Thursday
September 5, 2013
OUR VIEW
Police
Academy
Looking for a few
good men, women
Local folks have a golden opportunity to learn the
ins and outs of the Baytown Police Department.
The department is accepting applications for
BPD’s Citizens Police Academy.
It is a grand chance to acquaint yourself with these
key members of our community.
The program consists of 10 courses held consec-
utively on Wednesdays from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.,
beginning Sept. 11.
Taught by police officers, classes are held at the
Baytown Police Academy, 203 E. Wye Drive.
The academy is intended for people who live or
work in Baytown who want to become more in-
formed on law enforcement issues. The program pro-
vides an overview through course work and hands-
on experience of the criminal justice system and the
operations and functions of the police department.
After an overview of police operations and ter-
minology, other topics will cover crime prevention,
K-9 units, terrorism, gangs, narcotics, crime-scene
investigation and a jail tour.
Students also have an opportunity to tour the po-
lice station and ride with a patrol officer.
Applicants must be 18 and must not have a crimi-
nal arrest record.
Class size is typically between 15 to 20 students,
and there is a $25 fee.
Interested? Then be sure to submit an application
by Friday.
Get applications at the Community Services
Bureau, 220 W. Defee St., or at www.baytOwn.org/
content/citizen-police-academy.
STATE VIEW
New law will help
sex assault victims
Texas rape victims have often been forced to drive sev-
eral hours to reach a. hospital designated and equipped to
handle victims of sexual assault.
Beginning this week, all Texas hospitals with an emer-
gency room are required to have staff trained in basic fo-
rensic evidence collection.
The expanded access to services will enable more sex-
ual assault victims to have the evidence collected.
The new law does not require all emergency rooms
to be staffed with sexual assault nurse examiners, but it
mandates that hospitals inform patients about the avail-
ability of primary care centers and offer the option to
transfer.
And it is encouraging to see funds in the new Texas De-
partment of Public Safety budget earmarked for reducing
the backlog of untested rape kits.
Lawmakers this year included $l l million in the DPS
budget to tackle an untested rape kit backlog the agency
estimates at about 20,000.
The number of untested kits remains open to debate be-
cause agencies use different formulas to determine how
many untested kits they have.
Regardless of the number, handling evidence in a time-
ly manner is crucial if cases are going to be prosecuted.
Increasing access to hospitals that can collect forensic
evidence is the right move, but it means nothing if the
evidence never gets tested.
- San Antonio Express-News
Where to write your lawmakers
Governor
Building, Washington, D.C.,
Rick Firry (ft)
P.O. Box 12428 Austin, Texas
20515; 202-225-1555
78711-2428; 512-463-2000
Texas Senate
Sylvia Garcia (D-Dist. 6)
U.S. Senate
P.O. Box 12068, Capitol
Mu CornyB (R-Texas)
Station, Austin, TX 78711
517 Hart Senate Office Build-
512-463-0106
ing, Washington, D.C., 20510
5425 Polk Street, Suite 125,
202-224-2934
Houston TX 77023
Ted Crtu (R-Texas)
713-923-7575
185' Dirksen Senate Office
Texas House of
Building, Washington, D.C.,
Representatives
20510:202-224-5922
WayM Smitb (R-Baytown)
P.O. Box 2910 Austin, TX
U.S. House of Representatives
78768;
Sew Stadwas (R-Texas, Dist.
909 Decker Drive, Suite 104,
36)
326 Cannon House Office
Baytown TX 77520
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WHEN IT COMES TO
STRIKES ON SYRIA,
THE BUCK STOPS...
Lawmakers making Texas teens unhappy
Texans must deal with a whole
slew of new laws starting this
week and one of them is going
to upset a lot of teen-aged girls
across the state.
This new law greatly restricts
anyone under the age of 18 from
using tanning beds.
Before, parents could okay their
teens getting their tans in this way,
which experts have said again and
again causes skin cancer. Specif-
ically, research coming out of
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
found the risk of getting mela-
noma increases by 85 percent for
teens who start indoor tanning be-
fore the age of 18. Under the new
law, now younger teens won’t be
able to use indoor tanning beds at
commercial facilities at all while
those 16 l/2 to 18 can still do so
with parental permission.
Oh, no! What will all those pale
teen-agers do? How will they get
tans to make their prom outfits
look just right? How can they
face spring break without a pre-
break tan already in place?
Well, they could use those
products from the pharmacies and
make-up counters.
They could actually try using
the sun to get a tan, though that
can be bad for you too if you
overdo it.
I can just imagine the whining
and crying that is going to result
from this new law.
Some air-brained parents will
no doubt give in to pressure and
buy their spoiled little girls their
own tanning beds.
Really. Some will. Forget mela-
noma. Forget the cost. If it makes
their little teenage girls quit whin-
ing and crying, they will do it.
Daughters of
some of those
whose parents
JANE
HOWARD
LEE
who aren’t
foolish or are un-
willing to spend
that money for an
in-home tanning
bed will have to
get creative.
I imagine there
will be a huge
new demand for fake IDs just so
teen-aged girls can keep getting
their healthy (?) glows and that
j ust-back-from-the-isl ands look
that they crave. Enterprising peo-
ple are surely taking note of this
new marketing opportunity.
Our daughter, who is in her
20s, knows lots of young women
who regularly visits tanning sa-
lons. She hasn't done too much of
that herself, since she tans easily
and is essentially cheap like me
and has better things on which to
spend her hard-earned money, but
some of her friends seem to be se-
rious tanning addicts.
What we need, she says, is a-
new system and law that will out-
law using tanning beds too much.
Apparently salons, or some
salons, keep an eye on their cus-
tomers and won’t let the use the
tanning beds too often.
To get around that, the young
women just flit from one salon to
another, sometimes visiting sev-
eral different salons in a week’s
time or even more than one per
day.
She likens them to prescription
pillheads who visit multiple doc-
tors to get prescription pain pills
from each one.
What we need, is a system to
keep people from overtanning,
she said.
However, despite the many laws
that have been created to help
keep people from hurting them-
selves by doing stupid things, the
fact remains that stupidity is not
against the law. Self-destructive
stupidity isn’t illegal either, un-
less it involves those who aren't
considered to be responsible for
their own decisions, like teenag-
ers.
I never had to worry about get-
ting a tan. My father had enough
Native American blood in his
veins that tanning just wasn't an
issue for him or his daughter.
Sure, l slathered on baby oil
and fried myself as a teenager, as
many of my generation did, but
it really wasn’t necessary. By the
time spring break and summer
rolled around, my skin was plenty
tanned without such efforts. Now
that I’m old enough to know bet-
ter, if I’m going to be out in the
sun for any significant time I wear
hats and sleeves and use sun-
screen. Somehow i still manage
to get quite tan each summer.
No tanning beds for me.
But for all those who use them,
who think that they really need
them, I hope you’ll take heed of
the science that inspired this new
law. Look for a healthier alter-
native and absolutely keep your
teens away from them. Eighty-
five percent should be hard to ig-
nore.
Jane Howard Lee is a contrib-
uting writer at The Sun. She can
he reached at viewpoints'd bay-
townsun.com. Attention: Jane
Lee.
Baytown Sun seeks high school reporters
High school students now have the
opportunity to write their own ver-
sion of what high school life is like
because The Baytown Sun is looking
for Teen Reporters for the 2013-2014
school year.
Students are being, sought to re-
port news at Robert E. Lee, Ross S.
Sterling, Goose Creek Memorial,
Anahuac, Barbers Hill, Crosby and
Baytown Christian Academy that can
be on a variety of topics. Initially, ar-
ticles will appear in Sunday editions.
Teen reporters wrote for the Sun
between 1930 and the early 90s,
covering sports, student events, and
many other areas that fellow students
wanted to read about.
For those who are interested in be-
ing selected for this year’s Teen Re-
porter group, send a letter explaining
in detail why you would like to par-
ticipate.
You may also include information
about your extracurricular activities
and personal interests.
Send letters to T he Baytown Sun
office, located at T30l Memorial
Drive, or email Managing Editor
David Bloom at david.bloom@bay-
townsun.com.
For more information, call 281-
425-8016.
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is the 248th
day of 2013 and the
77th day of summer.
TODAY’S HISTO-
RY: In 1774, the First
Continental Congress
convened in Philadel-
phia.
In 1957, Jack Ker-
ouac’s “On the Road,”
a defining novel of the
postwar generation,
was published by Vi-
king Press.
In 1975, President
Gerald Ford survived an
attempt on his life when
Secret Service agents
tackled would-be assas-
sin Lynette Fromme.
In 1986, Pan Am
Flight 73 was hijacked
at the Jinnah Interna-
tiona) Airport in Kara-
chi, Pakistan.
TODAY’S BIRTH-
DAYS: Jack Daniel
(1846-1911), distiller;
Jesse James (1847-
1882), legendary out-
law; Arthur Nielsen
(1897-1980), market
researcher; Darryl Za-
nuck (1902-1979), film
producer; John Cage
(1912-1992),' compos-
er; Bob Newhart (1929-
), comedian/actor; Ra-
quel Welch (1940- ),
actress/model; Werner
Herzog (1942- ), film-
maker; Freddie Mercu-
ry (1946-1991), sing-
er-songwriter; Cathy
Guisewite (1950- ),
cartoonist; Michael
Keaton (1951- ), actor;
Rose McGowan (1973-
), actress.
TODAY’S FACT:
Jack Kerouac typed the
manuscript of “On the
Road” on a 120-foot-
long scroll of paper.
TODAY’S SPORTS:
In 1960, boxer Muham-
mad Ali (then known as
Cassius t lay) won gold
at the Olympic Games
in Rome.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“1 don’t like country
music, but I don't mean
to denigrate those who
do; and for the people
who like country music,
denigrate means ’put
down.’” - Bob Newhart
TODAY’S NUM-
BER: 12 - colonies
represented at the First
Continental Congress in
1774. Georgia declined
to send delegates.
TODAY’S MOON:
New moon (Sept. 5).
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