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Program kicks off breast cancer month
Early detection, prevention aims
of ‘Gift of Life’ agenda
By HEATHER VOLRIE
Staff Writer
According to the Ameri-
can Cancer Society, one of the
most common cancers among
women is breast cancer, sec-
ond only to skin cancer. It is-
the second leading cause of
cancer death in women after
lung cancer. About 211,300
women in the United States
will be found to have invasive
breast cancer in 2003. Breast
cancer is expected to claim the
lives of about 40,000 of these
victims.
Early detection and im-
proved treatment have helped
to decrease that number,
according to the society.
The Julie Rogers “Gift of
Life” Program, a program set
up by the Ben Rogers family
to aid women in the early
detection of breast cancer,
kicked off National Breast
Cancer Awareness Month
(October) with “A ‘Beary’
Good Friend is a ‘Gift of
Life’” all-day event at Park-
dale Mall on Oct. 1.
The play of “beary” is on
an “I Love You” Teddy Bear.
The “Gift of Life” pro-
gram is introducing the bear to
raise money for mammograms
and prostate exams for med-
ically underserved Southeast
Texans, Uliana Trylowsky,
executive director of the Julie
Rogers “Gift of Life” Pro-
gram, said. When squeezed,
the bear says, “I love you.”
Cost is $19.95 plus tax.
Breast cancer survivors
were recognized at the kick-
off and a mall walk honored
friends and loved ones.
Beaumont mayor Evelyn
Lord presented a proclama-
tion recognizing October as
National Breast Cancer
Awareness Month in Beau-
mont.
The “Gift of Life” mobile
van is used to provide on-site
mammography and prostate
exams.
Today, the mobile van will
be at the Port Arthur Public
Library in Port Arthur. Also
today, there will be a “Breast
Outreach” at the Beaumont
Civic Center for Beaumont
city employees from 10 a.m. to
GIFT,
Southeast Texas Alerting Network
Area industry
introduces
new STAN
alert system
By GUISEPPE BARRANCO
Staff Writer
The Golden Triangle has a new alert
warning system that is designed to immediate-
ly alert citizens of any potentially dangerous
situations that might arise from industrial
mishaps, natural disasters or terrorist attacks,
spokespeople from local Emergency Man-
agement announced Monday at the Gray
Center on the university campus.
The system is referred to as STAN
(Southeast Texas Alerting Network) and will
cover Hardin, Jefferson and Orange counties.
In the event of an emergency, industrial
companies or Emergency Management will
post the situation on STAN, a network
between the emergency site and the media,
and will directly get the proper message to the
public, telling people in the area what they
should do to protect themselves
“The news media has pledged that in the
event of an emergency, where people need to
take action, that they will automatically dis-
play a bulletin across television screens to let
the public know what kind of safety actions
they may need to take,” Kathleen Jackson
chairperson of the Southeast Texas Industry
Public Relations Association, said.
STAN is also capable of calling citizens in
a designated danger area of emergency direct-
ly by telephone to notify them of actions that
they should take.
The public can also call the system direct-
ly by dialing 1 (877) THE-STAN.
STAN is capable of handling up to 2,000
calls in a five-minute span of time.
“This system will not replace 911 or the
Emergency Alert System,” she said, “which
are dictated by the federal government.”
STAN is operated by Firstcall, an interac-
tive telecommunications firm, based in Baton
Rouge, and funding is provided by the
STAN,
UPMichelle Cate
Local industry leaders,
Iraq bombs
kill three
American
soldiers
Newest attacks
bring death
toll to 91
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP)
— Roadside bombings in cen-
tral Iraq killed three U.S. sol-
diers and an Iraqi interpreter
and wounded six other service
members, the U.S. military
said Tuesday. They were the
first reported deaths of
American soldiers by hostile
fire in Iraq since Friday.
The first bombing came
Monday night, just west of
Baghdad, killing one soldier
attached to the 3rd Armored
Cavalry Regiment and woun-
ding another, the U.S. Central
Command said.
About an hour later,
another roadside bombing
killed two soldiers from the
82nd Airborne Division and
their Iraqi translator, the mili-
tary said. Two other soldiers
were injured in the bombing,
in Haswah about 25 miles
south of Baghdad. Another
roadside bomb exploded T\ie-
sday near a convoy of U.S.
troops driving near central
Tikrit, slightly wounding three
soldiers.
The latest deaths brought
to 91 the number of American
soldiers killed by hostile fire in
Iraq since President Bush de-
clared an end to major combat
operations May 1. A total of
IRAQ,
58th District Court
Law fraternity
inducts 13 members
By GUISEPPE BARRANCO
Staff Writer
Lamar students have ad-
ded a new academic fraternity
to the campus that helps its
members further their educa-
tion and resources in the field
of law.
Thirteen students gathered
Saturday evening in Jefferson
County’s 58th District Court to
be inducted into Lamar’s first
pre-law fraternity, Phi Alpha
Delta.
The meeting was conduct-
ed by Jeffrey Crews, an alum-
nus of the fraternity, who offi-
cially opened the chapter and
installed the first executive
board.
During the new ceremony,
Crews handed Damon Derrick,
a Lamar student, the chapter’s
first president, a gavel that offi-
cially began his administration.
“It took a lot of hard work
to get this chapter off the
ground,” Derrick said, “but it
will definitely be worth it
because there is a lot this
organization has to offer both
its members and Lamar.”
“The main benefit to join-
ing Phi Alpha Delta,” Crews
said, “is the long list of contacts
that each member can receive
through networking and just
having fun in the fraternity.”
“Nationally, the fraternity
has 160,000 members,” Derrick
said. “We want to do our part in
raising that number by dou-
bling the size of our chapter by
next spring.”
The fraternity was origi-
nally created in 1897 at the
University of Chicago and was
then titled Lambda Epsilon,
symbolizing law and equity.
The University of Chicago
students created the organiza-
tion in a successful attempt to
repeal an unfair law set by the
Illinois Legislature that made it
difficult for law students to find
work.
Five years later, the name
of the fraternity was changed
to the current Phi Alpha Delta.
Since then, the fraternity
has grown to have chapters at
more than 150 universities and
at most law schools, Crews
said,
The local chapter adviser
will be Alicen Flosi, a manage-
ment information systems
assistant professor in the
College of Business at Lamar.
Veteran LU professor
elected to state board
New student organization throws
focus on ‘Cardinals with Kiddos’
University Press Staff Committee and a member of
Mary Alice Baker, profes-
sor of communication, has
been elected vice chair of the
Teacher Retirement System of
the Texas Board of Trustees,
Howard Goldman, TRS direc-
tor of communications, said
Friday.
“Baker has served on the
TRS board since 1999,” he
said. “In that capacity, she rep-
resents more than 135,000
higher education employees
throughout Texas.”
In addition to serving as
vice chair, he said, Baker also
is chair of the board’s Ethics
the Alternative Assets Com-
mittee, the Benefit Committee
and the Compensation Com-
mittee.
“I was very honored that
the trustees selected me for
the position,” Baker said. “ I
was elected by the other com-
mittee members — by my
peers.”
Before coming to Lamar,
Baker was a speech instructor
at Eastern Illinois University,
a speech teacher and debate
coach at Southeast High
School in Oklahoma City, and
BAKER,
Mary Alice Baker,
By GUISEPPE BARRANCO
Staff Writer
It seems as if in every class
there is a student-parent of one if
not two or three children. With
such a' plethora of moms and
dads taking classes, it was just a
matter of time before an organi-
zation was created for them.
At the beginning of the fall
semester, sophomore Janice
Wilson, a student and mother of
two boys, said she was ap-
proached by Donna Birdwell,
director of the university honors
program, to put together a social
program at Lamar for students
that are mothers and fathers.
Wilson took the task head on
and created “Cardinals with Kid-
dos.”
In the first few weeks, she
acquired three dedicated stu-
dent-parents to help her in
expanding the organization.
During the Sept. 25 organiza-
tion fair, 13 student-parents
signed up and two students vol-
unteered to help in baby-sitting.
“The organization will pro-
vide emotional support and a
social background for any parent
who gets involved,” Wilson said.
“It helps so much to have
people that you talk to about par-
enting, and that is exactly what
this organization offers,” she
added.
Wilson also is setting up
baby-sitting sessions during La-
mar events so the parents can be
more involved in campus activi-
ties.
The organization will accept
any age of student with any age
child, and all meetings will be
held in kid-friendly atmospheres
such as parks or a bowling alley.
Cardinals with Kiddos will
also be holding fund-raisers to
raise money for various charity
groups, such as the March of
Dimes and Relay for Life,
KIDDOS,
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