The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 13, 1980 Page: 3 of 16
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BEYOND THE HEDGES/by Karen Strecker
A&M suffers epidemic
of mysterious illness
A mysterious plague descended
upon Aggieland the last week in
October. Hundreds of students
had to resort to the "Quack
Shack's" remedies for fever, chills,
nausea, and diarrhea. At one point
over 175 students were treated for
these symptoms. At least 15 had
to stay a night in the infirmary.
Dr. C. B. Goswick told The
Battalion, "If it had persisted we
would have been in real trouble.
The waiting room was absolutely
full this morning. We had people
sitting, lying and well, they were
just practically holding the walls
up." Because of the sudden influx
of patients, visitation privileges to
the second floor were temporarily
suspended. "I have a strong feeling
that because this thing has been so
explosive, it's probably going to
end the same way," Goswick
added.
The cause of the mysterious
illness, which primarily struck
members of the Corps of Cadets, is
still under investigation. Test
cultures from affected students
have been sent to the National
Center for Disease Control in
Atlanta for analysis. Results are
not yet known. Goswick said he
thought the students were affected
by a virus transmitted through the
air. "It's not typical of classic food
poisoning in which the person is
extremely ill." Goswick added that
employees at the dining hall
originally thought to be the
common denominator for the
illness also ate there, and had not
become sick. "Food is always the
scapegoat...Seems logical since it's
something that they're all exposed
to. After you do some
investigation, you find that it
wasn't food at all."
Assistant Director of Food
Services Lloyd H. Smith, however,
said samples of link and patty-
sausages and milk were being
tested. Although most of the
students had eaten at Duncan
Dining Hall, Smith claims that no
single food eaten by all the
students could be determined.
Other possibilities are also under
consideration. Smith said, "We did
a survey of those we saw to see
which dorm they lived in, but it
was of no help at all. They're
spread throughout the dorms."
Yale's Smith says his
punishment unfair
Andy Smith, Yale '82, accused
last month of taking advantage of
a breakdown in computer security
to access to change private
university records, received the
verdict fom Yale's Computer
Science department: He is a
"troublemaker."
Acting on recommendations of
the Department Student
Advisory Committee (DSAC),
the department of computer
sciences has suspended Smith
from any computer account
until September 30,1981. He is also
on probation until September
1982, four months after he planned
to graduate. The department has
denied Smith use of his regular
classwork accounts because he
violated the terms of his
suspension last week by using the
computer to type a letter to Dean
Howard Lamar. Smith can neither
experiment on the system nor do
his class assignments. Smith
has accused the department of
bias, claiming his punishment is
more severe than that of the other
four students involved in the
original incident in which they
were accused of looking into
students' and professors' private
accounts. One of the students was
suspended for only two weeks.
Two others were found innocent.
The fourth, Tom Karges, '83, was
suspended until January 1981.
Professor Stanley Eisenstat says
Smith's punishment is worse
because he is a "repeat offender."
UT's Cactus will
cover racist sororities
"I don't think that they (UT
Austin's Cactus yearbook staff)
have the authority or ngftt to
include an organization in their
publication that discriminates on
the basis of race," Rep. Ron
Wilson, D-Houston, told The
Daily Texan. The reference is to
sororities at Texas, who refused to
sign an agreement in 1968 that they
would not discriminate in selecting
their members on the basis of race,
creed, or national origin.
Austin sororities are the only
groups in the state that have
refused to sign the agreement.
Because of this, UT sororities had
to become off-campus or-
ganizations, losing privileges held
by university sanctioned groups.
The legality of allowing sororities
at Texas to have their pictures,
rosters of members, and activities
published in the UT Cactus
yearbook has been questioned by
Attorney General Mark White.
In Wilson's request to White, he
asked if "allowing a sorority to
have its material appear in the
Cactus violates any of the federal
or state laws which affect funding."
Wilson explained that the Cactus
is a product of Texas Student
Publications, and TSP is an arm
Rebuilding
America's Industrial Power:
The High-Technology
Path to Prosperity
In the 1980's
Featured speakers:
Dr. Friedwardt Winterberg
Research Professor, Desert
Research Laboratory,
Reno, Nevada
"The Fusion Frontier: Nuclear
Power for Energy and Space
Propulsion"
Sunday, November 16 1:00-5:00 PM
The Grand Hotel 2525 West Loop South
(North of the Galleria) 995-1864
Students Free
Dr. Uwe Parpart, Director of
Research, Fusion Energy
Foundation, "The McCormack
Fusion Bill and Reindus-
trialization Policy for the
United States"
of the university. The university
receives federal funds and there is a
federal statute against using
federal funds for discrimination."
Chairman of the House
Committee on Junior College
Funding, Wilson savs he is
concerned with the loss of any
federal funds.
Apparently the issue is not a new
one. The legal question of
allowing sororities to buy pages in
the Cactus has been raised in 1972
and 1976. Sal Lavatino, at the time
assistant to the president of the
university, said, "This (the sorority
yearbook pages) is nothing more
than another form of reporting,
and I do not see how it could
conceivably be argued that the
university was engaged in
discrimination." The General
Counsel of the University ot Texas
System later issued a statement.
which read, "We believe that the
Cactus yearbook may carry group
photographs of social sororities ol
university students without
violating federal laws or university
system regulations." In spite of the
official stand-still on the issue
Lloyd Edmunds, general manager
of TSP believes the legality
question will be brought up again
at the next TSP meeting in
November.
D00NESBUKT
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MY BOOK HELPS YOU CHOOSE THE REAL
ESTATE LIFE STYLE THAT'S JUST RIGHT
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1 SHOW THAT REAL ESTATE IS ACCESSIBLE
TO EVERYONE FROM DEVELOPERS TO
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ARE GETTING INTO IHE ACT
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LUBRICANT THESE PAYS IS NO
LONGER. BOOZE OR GRASS -
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IS THAT REAL ESTATE UPSCALE
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YOU PO. YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY1
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NIQUES WHICH CAN PARLAY A
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INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, ANP
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STIMULATE THE AREA'S PRUNE
IN ORDER TO BRING POWN
LOCAL. PROPERTY VALUES
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FOR INSTANCE,
DISTRIBUTE SPRAY
PAINT ANP CROW
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I'VE GOT THIS STRAIGHT
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IN DECAYING NEIGHBOR-
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LIMITS. WE ASK
THEM NOT TO
TOUCH THE COP
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Dees, Richard. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 13, 1980, newspaper, November 13, 1980; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245455/m1/3/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.