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Pettaway set to speak at LU Health Forum
Program seeks to aid community with prostate cancer awareness
By JENNIFER LOWRANCE
UP Staff Writer
Curtis A. Pettaway, associate professor
of urology at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
in Houston, will speak at the sixth annual
Health Forum, scheduled for Wednesday
from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Montagne
Center.
The program is open to all nursing stu-
dents, nurses, doctors and others in the med-
ical field, Kristie Young, media relations
coordinator, said.
Sponsored by the Julie Rogers “Gift of
Life,” the Jefferson County Medical Society
and the Lamar nursing department.
The forum platform will be prostate can-
cer awareness.
Information on prostate cancer treat-
ment includes prevention, nutrition and clin-
ical trials. Along with new information on
procedures and treatment, nurses will earn
contact hours and doctors will earn continu-
ing education credit.
“It is time to educate the community
about, the latest treatment for prostate can-
cer,” Young said.
“Gift of Life,” in conjunction with
Memorial Hermann Baptist Hospital, the
Julie and Ben Rogers Cancer Institute, the
University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston, and Anderson, along with local
physicians, have funded 2,800 free prostate
cancer screenings, she said.
“One in six men will be diagnosed with
prostate cancer in their lifetime and 230,000
will be diagnosed this year,” she said.
“Treatment is widely available, but early
detection is key. Men should begin getting a
regular screening at age 50; however,
African-American men are at a higher risk
and should begin at age 45. Those with
prostate cancer history in their families
should start even earlier.”
Young says volunteers to help set up and
work the forum are needed and may contact
her for more information at 833-3663.
Younger
by the
year
Lamar recruiters are obvious-
ly working hard these days to
increase enrollment. Bryan
Boatner, 3, really is not a stu-
dent, but he loves coming to
campus with his mother,
Cheryl Williams, who is a stu-
dent. He certainly looks the
part carrying a backpack that
is practically as big as he is.
The staff has dubbed him
Lamar’s little man.
UPAmanda Rowell
LU professor conducts
study methods workshop
Gwin says self-discipline key to success
By STEFFANY BREWER
UP Staff Writer
Howell Gwin, professor of history,
conducted the fourth in a series of aca-
demic enhancement workshops on Mon-
day.
The subject of the workshop was study
methods.
In the session, Gwin said that spaced
repetition of study is the most effective
way of knowing that you understand all
the material. Chapters of text should be
read individually over a period of days,
and not all together the day before the
test.
Junior Douglas Denman, who attend-
ed the Monday workshop, said, “I normal-
ly try to cram all of the reading into the
night before the test; but with Gwin’s
method of spacing, I see that it would be
easier to remember the material if I did it
his way.”
Gwin also discussed comprehension
monitoring. He said that one will save time
by only studying what is not already
known.
“Be aware of what you already know
and spend your time on what you don’t
know,” he said.
Gwin pointed out that most people *
study what they like the most and tend to
put off what they think is boring.
To solve this problem, he recommends
not avoiding the boring subject but facing
it. He also said that one should motivate
himself.
' “Tell yourself that you like the subject
and you are not bad at the subject,” he
said. “Set a goal to make the grade you
expect to receive and reward yourself
when you earn it.”
Gwin said that one must make it as
easy as possible to study. He said that in
order to do this, a comfortable, quiet place
with no distractions is required.
To conclude the workshop, he gave a
number of tips that he says many do not
remember. These include getting enough
sleep, eating breakfast, and reminding
oneself that one is prepared for the test
and will do well.
Study methods will be conducted
again on Oct. 12.
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