Campus Health Fair to focus on education, disabilities
by Amanda Leduc, Reporter

   Focusing on Health, Education and Disabilities is the theme of the eighth annual SE Campus Health Fair.
   Students and community members can donate blood, participate in cancer screenings and listen to various guest speakers on the topic of the ever-changing medical field.
   Veronica Warrior, SE coordinator of health services, organized the Wednesday, Oct. 29, event with the cooperation of community sponsors and academic institutions.
   The fair, according to Warrior, will raise awareness of community health issues and provide flu and other immunizations.
   The day will kick off with the Carter Blood Center blood drive in the North Ballroom at 9 a.m.
   Donors will receive T-shirts for their donation.
   The National Marrow Donor Program will provide information to participants and recruit donors.
   When the fair opens at 10 a.m., the Main Commons will fill with vendors, including community health outreach groups such as JPS Health Network, Texas Department of Health and Women’s Haven of Tarrant County.
   Vendor representatives will provide information on and assistance for numerous health topics.
   The Harris Methodist Mobile Mammography Unit will be located near the front flagpole, providing mammograms and skin cancer and prostate cancer screenings. AIDS Outreach will provide HIV testing.
   The following immunizations will be available through Agape Clinics: influenza, $20; tetanus, $35; pneumonia, $30; hepatitis B, $50; hepatitis A, $40; and tuberculosis, $15.
   The Mansfield Rotary Club along with Dr. Bryan Stewart, Rotary community chair and SE mathematics and science division chair, will barbecue a hamburger and bratwurst lunch for blood donors and vendors.
   Starting at 9:45 a.m. three speakers will discuss various genetics topics.
   Dr. Timothy Gilbert, professor of philosophy and religion on NE Campus, begins the series with Ethics of Genetic Engineering and Cloning.
   A geneticist, Dr. Mary Carlin of the Agape Clinic, will present The Issues of Geneticism Such as Development of Pediatrics, ADD, Nutrition and Cerebral Palsy.
   The series will close with Dr. Arthur Eisenberg, DNA forensics for UNT Health Science Center, who will present The Issues of DNA Forensics and Human Geneticism.
   Faculty and staff will be asked to work with the Southwest Medical group in diabetes screening and study.
   Other community groups involved include the Arlington Fire Department, Cataract Institute of Texas, Fort Worth Public    Health, Easter Seals of Greater Northwest Texas and Department of Veterans Affairs.
   For more information, contact Warrior, campus nurse, or Cheri Colbert, secretary of SE health services, in SEC 204 or at 817-515-3591.