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something she just does not want
to do, she steps back and looks at
the situation and asks herself, “Is
this in my best interest.” Then she
can hop up and tackle the task at
hand.
Stanton said people should
practice constructive self-talk.
“People just feel better about
themselves and have more confi-
dence in themselves. It makes peo-
ple more willing to move up in the
work place,” she said.
Through the WIN-R program,
students are experiencing positive
thinking. These presentations help
them evaluate their way of thinking
and improve their overall way of
thinking, Stanton said.
Carey Wells, a WIN-R student,
said the presentation was helpful.
“I am getting a higher self-es-
teem, and this is giving me a sense
of empowerment,” she said.
Stanton said she likes to do
these self-esteem type presenta-
tions around mid-terms and finals.
It can give students a way to han-
dle high stress situations.
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Stanton agreed those words
were downers.
“People learn negative think-
ing by being surrounded by nega-
tive talk,” she said.
Stanton said the word should
needs to be eliminated. She said it
is another word for “not good
enough.”
Saying something like “I
should have done this differently,”
is a downer, Stanton said.
Stanton said people might not
know for years what will happen as
a result of their decision.
“We make decisions based on
what we know,” she said.
Stanton said negative talk in-
creases stress, creates new stress
and is a cause of self-destructive
ways.
Positive talk can have the op-
posite effect leading to a confident
attitude. Saying things like
“maybe, can do, I wish, I choose, I
want, and what’s in my best inter-
est” are all ways to be positive,
Stanton said.
Stanton said anytime there is
while on the way to Mexico to
visit his father, whom he had not
seen in many years. As Hughes
crossed the Mississippi River, he
wrote “The Negro Speaks of
Rivers.”
Sanders said Hughes changed
his life. In 14 lines, Hughes told
Sanders he was worth something,
that his beginnings were not from
a slave ship and that others could
not affect his destiny. ,
Sanders said people owe it to
themselves to accomplish their
dreams.
“Don’t let someone else deter-
mine your dreams for you,” he
said. “Do what you want to do.
Really work at it, and ask for
help.”
Sanders said some college
graduates have entered the media
business with hopes of working in
television, but did not have the
ability to speak. When asked if
they had taken speech in college,
they answered that no one had told
them they needed it. Sanders told
his audience they should find out
everything they will need before
looking for a job.
“The most you can do is the
best you can do,” Sanders said,
quoting Bill Withers.
Things are much different for
this generation, Sanders said,
pointing out obstacles other gener-
ations faced. Langston Hughes’
work was not allowed in public
schools at one time. Sanders’ own
people will tell those who do not
go to our church, “Hey, you are
going to hell, but we love you!”
Shifting to the subject of in-
carceration, Sanders said 150,000
people are in the Texas prison sys-
tem, not federal, not jails, just pris-
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away? You have an obligation to
fulfill your dreams and help others
to fulfill theirs.”
Sanders described the attitudes
of current society.
“We are good at short time
love. Look at the hurricane evac-
uees. We want to help them now,
but when are they going home?
Like relatives who stay too long,”
he said.
Sanders said great religious
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Cancer screening vital aid
by Jennifer Kvasic
reporter
Women are not the only ones who get breast
cancer, a nurse said last week on NE Campus.
Ellen Kerr of Harris Methodist Hospital of Fort
Worth was on campus Oct. 5 to talk about breast
health and awareness.
“About 1 percent of men get breast cancer,” she
said.
In 2004 there were 1,450 new cases. An esti-
mated 470 men will die from breast cancer, which is
highly aggressive in men, Kerr said.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in
women. By age 80, one in every seven women will
have breast cancer.
“There is no excuse for anyone not to get a
mammogram,” she said.
Kerr said undocumented, underserved, unin-
sured and financially challenged women can get
mammograms at little or no cost through various
agencies and programs.
For women, Kerr said, the common risk factors
are simply being a woman, getting older, starting
menstruation at an early age, not bearing children
and experiencing late-aged menopause.
KeiT'said behaviors that people can control in-
clude environmental products, smoking, alcohol in-
take, weight, physical activity and hormone levels.
“About 85,000 or more products that we are ex-
posed to are potential cancer risks,” she said.
An abnormal mammogram would automatically
cause someone to be recalled for a secondary screen-
ing, Kerr said. This does not necessarily mean the
person has cancer.
“All breast lumps are not cancer; mammograms
show fibroadenomas, which are benign,” she said.
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Other potential noncancerous results that could
show up on a mammogram are cysts, blocked milk
ducts and fibrocystic tissue. However, anything con-
sidered atypical needs to be removed, Kerr said.
Kerr described a mammogram as a low-dose x-
ray that compresses the breast to spread tissues apart
to make the breast less dense. This allows a dual-
screening process to detect any suspicious masses.
Although film is the conventional form of mam-
mogram, the new technology of digital mammo-
grams has benefits for women with dense breast. In
addition, digital is stored on a computer and can be
sent with ease electronically in case a patient moves
or changes doctors.
Ultra sounds determine if the suspect area is a
solid mass, and then usually a needle biopsy con-
firms or denies cancer. '
Kerr explained the use of the new mammo-pad.
“It allows the mammotechnologist a better,
more intensive compression,” she said.
Made of thin foam, the mammo-pad is softer
and warmer than conventional methods, allowing the
same results with less discomfort, Kerr said.
Kerr said self-examinations are always impor-
tant.
“Women need to get in tune with [their bod-
ies],” she said.
Even with ovarian cancer, Kerr said many
women ignore symptoms or pass them off as noth-
ing. For any type of cancer, she said it is important
to get a family history. When genetics is a factor,
the screening processes should start earlier in life.
“The key is that we find it early,” Kerr said.
Because early detection is important and poten-
tially life saving, all women should have an annual
pap smear, Kerr said.
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South Campus recently. Sanders cited works from James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes.
sion, Sanders said he has written
some poetry, but would not want to
embarrass himself by publishing
any of his work.
One audience member then
asked if he was disappointed that
he was not able to write poetry
since he loved the medium so
Prisons have grown from 15 in much.
1978 to 105 today. “Now you are beginning to
“What about those deferred sound like Oprah,” he said.
dreams?” he asked. Sanders said when he is older,
During a question/answer ses- he might try again.
Nurse urges positive thoughts
by Sara Qualls
reporter
Positive self-talk promotes
constructive thinking and behavior
by saying something positive, the
South Campus nurse said to a
group of students last week.
Flo Stanton presented Positive
Self-Talk on South Campus Oct. 5,
in collaboration with the Women In
New Roles Program.
“When you feel your mind
moving too quickly, back off and
regain your bearings,” she said.
Stanton said the presentation,
which is part two of a three-part se-
ries, is to encourage women to
move up in the work place.
The objective of the presenta-
tion is to give students a sense of
positive thinking. Stanton said stu-
dents should identify the language
of “downers” vs. “uppers.”
Downers are words people say that
bring themselves down.
Stanton asked the audience
for examples of downers.
The audience replied, “Can’t,
never, always, if only, should.”
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Local writer takes poetry's message to South Campus
by Mary Elaine Midgley Hughes. Hughes had written it Star-Telegram would not publish a r~~~~~
reporter
South Campus students might
have walked into a lecture hall last
week expecting to listen to a dull
speech on poetry; instead, they dis-
covered a presentation of humor,
local history and poetry.
The lecture hall was silent as
Bob Ray Sanders recited the poet-
ry of Langston Hughes with sprin-
klings of James Weldon Johnson
and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Sanders did not need notes; he
spoke the words from memory.
Many area residents know
Sanders as a writer, editor, and
vice president/associate editor of
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, but
Sanders has been interested in po-
etry since the fifth grade.
Part of a large family, Sanders
shared a room with his older broth-
er, who was then in the 11th grade.
His brother was assigned to
memorize “God’s Trombones” by
James Weldon Johnson, a black
poet who wrote deep, often reli-
gious poetry. Sanders heard the
poem so many times while his
brother was learning it he memo-
rized it. From then on, he was
hooked.
Growing up in the ’60s was
difficult for Sanders. People told
him he would never amount to
anything, partly because his ances-
tors’ beginnings were from slave
ships. When Sanders was a sopho-
more in high school, he read a
book of poetry by Langston
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Star-Telegram would not publish a
photograph of a black person.
Sanders said his father was
discouraged when Sanders told
him he wanted to become a jour-
nalist because he wondered where
his son could possibly work.
His father was exuberant
when Sanders gave him a copy of
the Star-Telegram with his picture
and by-line.
“Look! He is in the newspa-
per, and he didn’t even kill some-
one,” his father told the neighbors.
Speaking to an audience with
students too young to remember
such times, Sanders said people
“who looked like me” were al-
lowed to attend the Fort Worth Zoo
only one day out of the year.
They could swim in the Forest
Park swimming pool only one day
out of the year—June 19. On June
20, the pool was drained and re-
filled for the white people.
Sanders then quoted from an-
other Hughes poem. In “Merry-
Go-Round,” Hughes asks the ques-
tion, “Where is the Jim Crow sec-
tion?” In Hughes’ time, blacks
were required to sit in the back of
buses and had separate cars on
trains called “Jim Crow cars.” On
a merry-go-round, there is no rear
section.
Sanders also quoted portions
of Hughes’ “Deferred Dreams,” in
which he asks, “what happens to a
dream deferred?”
Adding his own twist to ]
Hughes poem, Sanders said,“Do
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