University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 11, 1987 Page: 1 of 6
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“Honey gives energy to help you sur-
vive, but only BLOOD will keep you
alive." The Lamar University Blood
Drive has collected 98 pints so far.
The drive will continue In the Setzer
Student Center ballroom through
Thursday.
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving Lamar and the community for 64 years
It’s Wednesday
November 11, 1987
Vol. 64, No. 15
Poetry Day
to feature
Jim Hall
Thursday
By Karen Davis
UP staff writer
Jim Hall, author of four books of
poetry and one novel, will give a
public reading from his works at 7
p.m. Thursday in the John Gray In-
stitute auditorium.
Hall is being brought to Lamar in
conjunction with Poetry Day.
“I don’t jump up and down
when I see a good review. I
jump up and down when I
finish a poem or a chapter.”
—Jim Hall
As an undergraduate at Eckerd
College in St. Petersburg, Fla., Hall
discovered that he had the option of
being a poet.
“I never realized that people could
be anything besides real estate
agents and insurance agents,” Hall
said.
Hall was encouraged by a publish-
ed poet at the college.
“That and falling in love is what
really got me started,” he said.
He published his first poem in 1968
while still an undergraduate at
Eckerd College.
Hall said writing poetry was good
preparation for writing a novel
because he became skilled at
writing concise sentences.
“The difficulty or difference in
writing the novel was trying to sus-
tain an emotion for a longer period
of time,” Hall said.
He said beginning and ending
chapters posed a new challenge as
well. In writing poetry, he was used
to bringing his work to a neat
closure. When writing the novel,
Hall had to start and stop many
times within the one work.
Hall has received his share of re-
jection letters from publishers dur-
ing his writing career.
“During that 20 years, I’ve had a
lot of experience with rejection,”
Hall said. “What I wasn’t prepared
for was the acceptance part with the
novel.”
Hall’s new novel, “Under Cover of
Daylight,” published by Norton, is a
mystery-thriller set in Key Largo,
Fla.
Writing in the Nov. 1 issue of The
New York Times Book Review,
Charles Willeford said, “ ‘Under
Cover of Daylight’ is a thriller so
carefully written the clownish
payoff comes as a delightful sur-
prise, an unexpected bonus.”
Hall says he is cautiously op-
timistic about the reviews. He says
the real pleasure is still in the
writing.
“I don’t jump up and down when I
see a good review,” Hall said. “I
jump up and down when I finish a
poem or a chapter.”
The novel has been chosen as an
alternate selection of the Literary
Guild and as a main selection of the
Mystery Guild.
Hall’s books of poetry include
“The Mating Reflex” (1981) and
“False Statements” (1986) publish-
ed by Camegie-Mellon University
Press.
Hall is a native of Kentucky. He
earned degrees from Eckerd Col-
lege, Johns Hopkins University, and
the University of Utah.
Since 1973, Hall has taught
creative writing at Florida Interna-
tional University and is currently
visiting professor of creative writing
at Eckerd College.
Staff file photo
Veterans comfort each other at the Vietnam Veterans Wall, a war memorial in Washington, D.C.
Today marks observance
Veterans recall experiences
By Marlene Auster
UP staff writer
Lamar faculty and student
veterans from the Vietnam war will
remember their wartime ex-
periences today in commemoration
of Veterans Day.
“I predicted myself going to war
as soon as I went into the army,”
SFC James E. Bateaste, senior in-
structor of military science, said.
“It was an obligation to my
country.”
Bateaste’s father was a World
War II veteran. When the younger
Bateaste went into Vietnam at age
21, he said he had the same feelings
of obligation that his father had had.
“The war was a political situation,
but the men fighting didn’t care
about the politics,” Bateaste said.
“We were just defending our coun-
try.”
Bateaste said the quality of
soldiers then and now are about the
same. “Then you were drafted
though, and now you have two
types,” he said. “You have people
trying to get ahead with educational
opportunities and then people who
go for patriotism.”
Bateaste said that there were peo-
ple that should not have been there
because they were not worthy of
defending our country.
“The rain dictated the war,” he
said. “It was a gorilla-type war and
the U.S. never fought that type war
before.”
The United States was not
prepared for that kind of war with
snipers and booby-traps. But now,
Bateaste said, American soldiers
are trained for all types of wars.
They are sent to several different
areas for diverse types of training.
Bateaste said we did not know our
enemy well in Vietnam, and the key
is to be able to predict.
Immediately following the war,
Bateaste got out of the Army and
began working in his father’s
business.
He is married and has two sons.
Bateaste said he would encourage
his sons to do anything they feel they
need to, and he would not push them
into the military.
He said he believes there has to be
a feeling for going into the military,
and nobody should be coerced into it.
“We can’t ask people to put their
most precious thing, their life, on the
line,” Bateaste said. “If it’s not com-
ing from the heart you won’t be an
effective leader.”
There are many things that will
never be healed in some of the
veterans. They came home to face a
whole set of problems that some peo-
ple could never imagine, he said.
“Because Americans never ac-
cepted them back, they have had all
sorts of problems,” Bateaste said.
They faced unemployment, they
weren’t trusted on the job, and some
had drug addictions. Some men had
to face coming home to find their
wives pregnant with other men’s
children, he said.
“These things are hard for a
21-year-old to accept,” Bateaste
said.
He said people outside cannot fully
understand what the veterans went
through. He said that people are get-
ting the wrong idea about it from
movies such as “Platoon” and “Full
Metal Jacket.”
See VETERANS, page 4
Epidemic update
examines rumors
of spreading AIDS
By Patti Baker
UP staff writer
Rumors about the AIDS epidemic
are spreading faster than the
disease itself, an expert in anti-viral
medicine told a Beaumont audience
Wednesday evening.
An AIDS update, sponsored by St.
Elizabeth Hospital, was held at the
Austin Middle School auditorium in
an effort to dispel some of the
rumors surrounding the deadly
disease. Dr. George McKinley, an
assistant in the clinical research
department of anti-viral medicine at
St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in
New York, spoke at the event.
McKinley spent one day last week
with the staff of St. Elizabeth’s,
teaching them about the disease and
how to deal with it.
“I entered St. Luke’s-Roosevelt on
a fellowship and worked in infec-
tious diseases with Dr. Michael
Lange,” McKinley said. “I got in-
volved in AIDS research as part of
my training there.”
He works with patients infected
with the disease in coordinating
drug studies, selecting patients and
following their daily care.
“AIDS didn’t come out of
nowhere. It is my belief that it had to
be here in the environment for a long
time,” he said.
A case recently brought to light in-
volving a young man in St. Louis on-
ly reinforces his theory.
The man had all the symptoms of
the disease, but when he was ill in
1969, AIDS was unheard of. He had
the skin rashes and swollen lymph
glands associated with the disease,
but doctors were unable to diagnose
the problem.
After his death, coroners took
samples of his blood and tissue and
froze them for later study.
Tests recently supported that the
man had Acquired Immune Defi-
ciency Syndrome.
‘(That (the St. Louis case)
presented an interesting problem,”
McKinley said. “I feel that it is a
slow virus that has been around for
quite a while. There were probably
other cases, but it was only present
in a few people so doctors were
unable to diagnose it.”
He says he believes the change in
behavior patterns is what brought
about the spread of the disease.
“What probably happened is that
the disease got into the gay com-
munity and became widespread that
way. Between 1969 and 1977 there
were random rare cases,” he said.
But in 1981 and 1982, cases began
to appear more frequently and doc-
tors were able to diagnose it.
“How that man got it in 1969, we
have no way of knowing. But it was
obviously here,” McKinley said.
In testing, most cases, McKinley
said, are diagnosed within six to
eight weeks of exposure. If the test
comes back negative, but the person
feels it could be wrong, the best ad-
vice is to wait six months.
Fear of the disease is worse for the
potential victim. If a person
suspects he has come into contact
with the disease, he should seek
medical testing.
“The people who worry the most
are usually the ones who don’t need
to. The ones who worry the least and
think they don’t have it are usually
the ones who should get tested. Don’t
let anxiety get out of control,” he
said.
McKinley says people in the
medical profession have the respon-
sibility to gain knowledge about the
disease and pass that information on.
AIDS can be spread in four ways
that doctors have been able to
positively identify.
The most common ways of
spreading AIDS are through sexual
contact, drug use with needles and
blood transfusions.
One issue that does not get as
much exposure is the threat to
newborn infants and unborn fetuses
when the mother is infected with the
AIDS virus.
“There was a case of a woman
who was hemorrhaging while giving
birth and required a blood transfu-
sion. She got AIDS through the
transfusions, and the baby got it
while it was nursing,” McKinley
said.
Another way a child may contract
the disease is when the mother has
the disease before she gives birth.
The blood enters the fetus through
the umbilical cord. Some cases,
however, have been found where the
infant was bom without the virus.
Fear of exposure is as widespread
as AIDS itself.
“While infection or contraction
can occur after one exposure, that is
not the usual rule. A single exposure
can do it, but that is not the most ef-
fective way of catching the disease
by any means,” McKinley said.
AIDS is not a disease that is
spread by mosquitoes or casual con-
tact.
Prior to 1982, blood received for
transfusions was not purified. Blood
now donated is purified, and the
donor must answer questions about
himself before donating.
People who live with AIDS pa-
tients are also not as much at risk as
they were once thought to be.
“You cannot get AIDS by taking
care of a person with AIDS. Parents
of children with the virus and
brothers and sisters who live in the
same household have not been
shown to have the virus. You can on-
ly get it in those circumstances if
you are having sexual contact with
that person,” McKinley said.
That is evident, he said, by the
vast number of health care workers
who deal with AIDS patients.
“There needs to be some behavior
modification. There is a lot of talk
about safe sex, but people need to be
aware of the facts so they can make
a rational decision,” he said.
The virus is believed to have come
from Africa, but McKinley said he
thinks it has been in this country a
long time.
“Millions of people have AIDS.
Twenty percent of the people who
work in hospitals have tested
positive for the AIDS virus. Africa is
a heterosexual community, so it is
coming from somewhere other than
just the gay communities,” he said.
Another issue McKinley discussed
concerned whether those with the
virus should be permitted to keep
working.
“There is no reason why a person
with AIDS should not be allowed to
work. When they are sick, they
should be given the same considera-
tions as any other sick person. But
when they are well, they should be
allowed to work. These people don’t
want to be a burden on society and
they want to keep working as long as
possible,” he said.
He said the 45,000 reported cases
reflect the sexual activity of the late
70s and early 80s. Results of sexual
activity today will not be known for
several years.
“We have to separate the issues
from the non-issues. It is best not to
be distracted by the non-issues,”
McKinley said.
Delegates hold workshop
to share conference ideas
By Michele Morrow
UP staff writer
Last week 35 Lamar students and
faculty attended a Residence Hall
Association workshop conducted by
RHA delegates who attended the
Southwest Association of College
and University Residence Halls con-
vention in Louisiana in October.
“The purpose of the Lamar
presentation was to share ideas
from other organizations in the
region, which were joined at the con-
ference,” Richard Christ, RHA
president, said.
Some of the topics discussed by
the delegates included student
organizations, new publicity ideas,
freshman leadership programs and
helpful hints for resident assistants.
“I expect that the people who at-
tended our presentation," Christ
said, “will take the information that
we gave them back to their own
organizations.”
Students at the presentation in-
cluded dorm residents, resident
assistants and dorm council officers.
“I was very surprised at the tur-
nout at the presentation,” Christ
said. “I did not expect that many
people because of the nature of the
program. It turned out to be ex-
cellent.”
At the Louisiana conference,
which was held at the University of
Southwestern Louisiana, 31 schools
made up the three-day program.
Besides giving ideas, Christ also
got some ideas at the conference
which are already in the works at
Lamar. “We got an idea from the
delegates from North Texas
(University) for a T-shirt design.
The shirts should be in the bookstore
later this week and support the blood
drive going on now,” he said.
Next year’s conference is schedul-
ed to be held at the University of
Houston.
t
Friday
fatality
John Wesley Maddox from the
Austin area died Friday night,
about 11:40, outside the Foxy Lady
night club on M.L. King Parkway.
Charles Brady Shearer of Beaumont
has been charged with involuntary,
manslaughter, according to Beau-
mont police. "Maddox was shot in
the chest with a shotgun, after some
type of word exchange and a slight
fight,” Harrel Fowler, Beaumont
police detective, said. Justice of the
Peace Vi McGinnis, second from
right, is shown pronouncing Maddox
dead at the scene.
Photo by Lyra Katena
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