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NOTABLE KNIGHTS 5 Featured Club: The GREEN Club What is the main purpose behind your club? The main purpose behind our club is to provide a means for our col lege community to do something, no matter how small it is, for the failing environment around us. We are the only ones who pick up the recycling bins around campus and replace them with empty ones to begin again. We want to provide more than just recycling material; we want to provide fun activities that promote saving energy, con serving food, as well as wildlife. Awareness was our goal last year, and this year we hope to create an environmental friendly campus for the future years. How, when, and why did you found your club? The GREEN club was founded mainly by Perry Morris, Ian Burkett, and myself. Perry and Ian (the president and vice president of the Student Government Association last year) needed someone to act as president for their idea of environmental cleanli ness and to get word out to the students of St. Andrews, which is when I stepped in. It started as a small idea of not throwing away plastic bottles and paper when there are two to three recycling centers within five miles of the campus. It then turned into want ing to make a difference, which we believed we could do. Now, a year later, all we need is for the rest of campus to get involved. When do you meet and what are your usual club activities? We usually meet on Sunday after noons in Knight Life. What are you future aims for your club and what role does your club play in relation to our campus as a whole? The future aims for this club are more involvement. We want the Senate and heads of each dorm to build a system of recycling and drop off points. We want the main tenance crew to become involved by not throwing away recycling before an open house; instead we hope they might possibly use their own trucks to help us move the bins to the drop off point. We want an annual GREEN activity to be a big event each year. We want to show that recy cling and saving energy to be an easy and simple thing to do. ¥ HEALTH & WELLNESS Smoking: Assessing the Rislis for Women and Children Many people smoke, often for a variety of reasons. Sometimes people reach for a cigarette when they are stressed, seeking a way to relax. The slow, steady puffing of a cigarette produces a feeling of calm and ease. Or perhaps an individual may smoke due to parental model; if one's parents lit up, how harmful can it be? Another reason may be the incit ing and attractive smoking advertisements. Cigarette ads feature attractive men and women who are usually happy and appear to be having a good time. These such advertisements are the main reason ciga rette sales continue to increase despite mass information as to the detrimental qualities of cigarettes to one’s health. By Melody Kirkpatrick Cigarette companies know how to target people of all different demographics. Camel has even used “Joe Camel” as a means of targeting more youthful audi ences. Joe Camel, a cartoon character, represents the different ways in which the tobacco industry has broadened its breath of potential customers. Around the late 1980’s and early 90’s studies indicated that children between ages of four and six could recognize and identify Joe Camel as frequently as they could Mickey Mouse. Such concerns have resulted in numerous court cases against tobacco giants like Marlboro. A San Francisco attorney took the marketing manager of Marlboro, R.J Reynolds, to court on the basis of the com pany’s advertisement campaign targeting children. Though the case was settled out of court, Joe Camel was removed from future advertisements. We all know that cigarettes cause cancer, but there are other health risks associated with cigarettes that are worth knowing. Some risks are higher due to gender. For instance, a woman may smoke the same amount of cigarettes as a man in her life time, yet as a woman she’s more likely to develop lung cancer. Women who smoke also increase their chances of having a heart attack at a younger age, more so than their male counterparts. Estrogen is a female sex hormone responsible for developing the female reproductive system and aiding it to func tion properly. Estrogen can be found in both men and women, though women need estrogen to help keep bones healthy, aid in protein synthesis, coagulation (blood clots), and water retention. When women smoke their estrogen levels decrease. Menopause is supposed to happen gradu ally over time, yet lower estrogen levels can cause menopause to occur earlier than usual. Low estrogen levels can also cause mood swings, depression, or even panic disorders. Thus cigarette companies are literally making money through the ruin of our nation’s health. Raising A wareness.Monthly Health Informative Though October is nearly over with Halloween rapidly approaching, we should still respect the issues and concerns this month brings. Awareness of various ail ments not only benefits the individual but can also help raise funds for cures and treatments. The following is a list of issues on which the month of October focuses: Down Syndrome, breast cancer, domestic violence, lupus, and dental hygiene. Down Syndrome: A normal person has twenty- three pairs of chromosomes, but those afflicted with Down Syndrome have an extra twenty-first chromosome. Men are classified as having XY chromo somes, whereas women have a genetic makeup of XX. A man with Down Syndrome would therefore have an extra “y”—causing the formation of XYY—and a female would have and extra “X”—thus resulting in XXX. People suffering from Down Syndrome are usually shorter and plumper than the average individual. They also may lack the ability to use any cogni tion function. Doctors are able to deter mine if an unborn fetus has Down Syndrome, but no cure has yet been found. Breast Cancer: Cancer occurs when cells divide and multiply at unusually high rates. Typically cells divide in order to keep the body strong and to replenish older cells, but cancerous cells actually harm the body due to overproduction. Cancer can strike anyone at any age and occur at almost every part of your body. Breast can cer, a gender-based cancer that afflicts mil lions of women, can be emotionally as well as physically damaging; women who must undergo a lobotomy (the removal of breast tissue) obtain permanent reminders of how vicious cancer can be. Domestic Violence: Domestic vio lence is an act fSee OCTOBER, page 8)
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