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FRIPAY, MARCH 10,2000

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Crawford. Objectives for the forum are: • To offer solutions to address racial and ethnic disparities in chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease and diabetes. • To identify current activities, prevention and treatment options, and health education strategies regarding chronic diseases in Indiana’s minority populations. • To identify and make recommendations to address concerns and disparities experienced by Indiana’s minority populations. The forum will be from 8:30

a m. to 3 p.m. in the House of Representatives Chamber in the Indiana Statehouse. For more information, contact the Office of Minority Health at the Indiana State Department of Health, (317) 233-7607.

O’Bannon signs bill enabling appeals of IHSAA rulings With a few strokes of his pen, Gov. Frank O’Bannon brought more accountability to the Indiana High School Athletic Association. O’Bannon signed into law House Enrolled Act 1018, creating a case review panel to hear appeals of IHSAA decisions.

Parents have raised troubling questions about how the IHSAA enforces its rules, especially on a student’s eligibility for interscholastic sports, O’Bannon said. The new law bars any school corporation from taking part in as-sociation-sponsored athletic events involving another school unless the association establishes a case re-

view panel. The state superintendent of public instruction will appoint the panel’s members, parents and high school principals and athletic directors. They will be responsible forbearing parents’ appeals of how the association applies or interprets its rules toward their children.

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with the death of Lance Turner, a 9-year-old who attended School 109. Turner died after a car struck, him, then dragged him 300 feet in the parking lot of the Eagle Terrace Apartments. Keene also provided support and assistance to teachers who had a hard time dealing with Lance’s death and his concerned classmates. Not a single students’ question went unanswered as teachers and Keene fielded concerns ranging from Lance’s whereabouts and death, to police procedures in their investigations. Yet, Keene realizes that she and other counselors can never provide adequate answers.

“I haven’t figured it out, and I hope I never do. Death is something that can’t be explained or accepted,” said Keene. Buell Elementary School students in Flint, Mich., were also left with grief and questions after 6-year-old Kayla Rolland was shot and killed by a fellow classmate. Counselors met with the youngsters when they returned to the classroom, asking them to relive the tragedy. And while it might sound like picking a healing wound, reliving the tragedy is the best way to recovery according to John Stein, the deputy director of the National Organization for Victim Assistance. “It seems to alleviate the power of these memories to be disraptive and debilitating,” Stein recently told Fox News. “Without doing much thinking, you’re a prisoner

to emotional fragments.” Lee Land, a grief counselor at A Family Counseling Center, said he believes that his services are helpful in getting children to open up about their feelings, but he offers referrals. “Psychologists and psychiatrists can help people to a certain point,” he said, “but they can only find true assistance through Jesus Christ.” Church officials, such as Mt. Zion Apostolic Church’s associate pastor, Anita Stone, also believe that people can turn to religious institutions. “We offer prayer,” Stone said. “Prayer is something that goes beyond areas in our reach.” “God is the ultimate psychiatrist. He can provide you with peace and understanding that can’t be found anywhere else. He’s the best source of relief,” Stone said.

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