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Friday, February 10, 1989
University Press
Serving Lamar and the community for 65 years Vol. 65, No. 28
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esting, data
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Every
American baby should be tested for
signs of the AIDS virus, television
networks should air condom com-
mercials and drug users should be
gjven sterile needles in efforts to
stem the AIDS epidemic, a govern-
ment advisory panel recommended
Wednesday.
*A National Academy of Sciences
oommittee, charged with finding
ways to slow the spread of AIDS,
concluded there currently are no
good statistics on how many
Americans are infected with the
Human Immunodeficiency Virus,
^hich causes AIDS.
Best estimates of the nation’s
AIDS epidemic “lie in the vicinity of
1, million infected people,” the com-
mittee said, adding the number
oould be as low as 500,000 or a high
3s 2 million.
“Without better information on
She incidence of new HIV infections
in the population, the United States
will lack adequate means for deter-
mining whether current strategies
for controlling the spread of the
^irus are working,” the panel states
in its 589-page report.
To get a clearer picture of the
AIDS problem, the committee called
Qn the federal Centers for Disease
Control to anonymously test every
U.S. newborn infant for the presence
Qf AIDS antibodies.
A positive test would mean that a
baby’s mother is infected and the
baby itself is at high risk for
developing AIDS. Such testing could
be done using the blood routinely
drawn from newborns for identifica-
tion and medical purposes.
CDC spokesman Chuck Fallis
pointed out 44 states currently are
conducting or soon plan to start
testing newborns for AIDS an-
tibodies. Under CDC guidelines,
those states are required to test at
least 25 percent of newborns, with an
ultimate goal of screening all babies
nationwide.
The CDC is also conducting two
pilot trials in the Dallas and Pitt-
sbugh areas to determine if it is
feasible to survey the entire U.S.
population for the AIDS virus in a
fashion similar to a census.
In addition, CDC is testing blood
taken from women at certain
reproductive health clinics in 30
cities and surveying HIV prevalence
among patients at drug treatment
centers, tuberculosis clinics and
clinics for sexually transmitted
diseases.
On another point, the panel called
health leaders to use “clear, explicit
language” to tell Americans of the
various ways they can reduce their
chance of getting AIDS. As part of
that effort at frankness, television
networks should accept commer-
cials for condoms, the report said.
Rape on campus
. , - Photo by Bill Ataber
Wood chips, ahoy
An 18-wheeler rig waits to unload woodchips at a wood-
chip unloading facility at the Port of Beaumont. The
woodchips have been sold to a Japanese company and
will be used in the manufacture of paper and paper pro
ducts, port spokesperson John Roby said. This is a new
business for the Beaumont port. The chips in the rig
above will be included in the second shipment of wood-
chips to be shipped by boat, Roby said.
: There wasn’t anyone to help me’
By Marlene Auster
UP assignments editor
* The date was going perfectly — a
relaxing dinner, a good movie and
enjoyable company. Renee had
Wanted to go out with Peter for mon-
ths.
At the end of the evening,
however, everything changed.
Renee became the victim of date
rape.
« Renee, a fictitious name used to
protect the student’s privacy, is a
2H-year-old Lamar sophomore. She
said she doesn’t date many men and,
when Peter, another fictitious name,
dsked her out, she was ecstatic,
ecstatic.
“Well, you know, he’s Mr. Frater-
nity, real cute. I couldn’t wait to go
out with him,” Renee said.
* She told no one of the incident. “I
didn’t tell the police because
everyone would know. That’s so em-
barrassing,” Renee said.
She said she feels partly to blame
because she might have led him on
by allowing him to kiss her.
“Things were getting pretty
heavy. Then I told him to stop, but he
said he wouldn’t. I screamed outside
of my dorm, but no one heard, I
guess.
“He forced me in (to her room).
He’s much bigger than me, and he
was drunk. It was over with pretty
fast, at least,” Renee said.
“I did not want to go to bed with
him — not so soon.”
Eugene Carpenter, chief of police
at Lamar, said police received only
one rape report last year at Lamar.
The last rape reported before that
occurred four years ago.
Carpenter said it is hard for a rape
victim to make a case against her
accuser, especially on a date rape.
“She should have reported the in-
cident as soon as possible,”
Carpenter said. “If the police have
no evidence to work with other than
she said she was raped, she has no
case.”
Beginning Feb. 16, five students
will patrol the campus for the police
department, Capenter said, to sup-
plement the full-time staff.
The students will provide services
at night to relieve regular police of-
ficers.
Their duties will consist of patroll-
ing the grounds and conducting in-
ternal security inspections of cam-
pus buildings. They will report
discrepancies by phone, radio or
written report to the officers.
Other duties include ascertaining
doors and windows are properly
secured and admitting authorized
people to the buildings when
necessary.
“This will mean we will have more
manpower,” Carpenter said. “We
will be able to cover a larger area.”
The students will be paid to work
six hours per night.
“We’re short handed, and there
are so many demands on us,”
Carpenter said.
All patrollers hired will be in-
vestigated to ensure that quality
people make up the force.
Renee, the rape victim, said she is
glad to hear about the extra service.
Had the patrol been in effect last
summer, she said, someone might
have heard her scream for help.
“I couldn’t believe no one heard
me. There wasn’t anyone to help
me,” Renee said.
She said one of the worst parts of
the ordeal was how she felt after-
ward: “Dirty and used,” she said. “I
felt like I .was violated.”
“I see him on campus, and he
piack history involvement keynoted
February celebrates achievements
#
By Cathy Faughnan
typ staff writer
J “Black Awareness Month is not so
much about our past but more a
•celebration of being black and of our
achievements,” said’Darrell Cage of
Lamar’s Black History committee.
a Cage, a Houston senior, is a
member of several black organiza-
tions on campus, including the com-
wiittee.
“What happened in the past is im-
portant, but we also hope to en-
tourage students to participate not
only in black organizations but all
^organizations. They can only benefit
from them. That’s why I like the
name Black Achievement Month in-
stead of Black History,” he said.
The Black History Committee and
''the university have scheduled many
^events for February.
“We tried to come up with events
"that would be a learning experience
*and enriching to people,” Cage said.
“Just like the Chinese and Egyp-
tians had rich cultures that we learn
Kabout, we believe the black culture
is also worth learning about, and
*also to help others understand
blacks better by learning where we
*came from and what we are about.”
, Highlights of the events scheduled
by student organizations include the
"‘Fun Fair, March on Montgomery
,and the Black Achievement Awards,
all sponsored by the Black Students
"Association.
“The Fun Fair is for Beaumont
*area children. We are going to have
‘a Lamar University professor read
poems and talk to the kids about
‘some important blacks and
Darrell Cage
Photo by Drek Reese
recognize their accomplishments,”
Cage said.
The March on Montgomery, which
will take place Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. in
the Setzer Student Center Arbor.
Members of the Black Students
Association will re-enact the march
on Montgomery.
“The highlight of the whole month
will be the Black Achievement
Awards,” Cage said. “This is a com-
bined effort of the various black
organizations on campus to
recognize students, faculty and peo-
ple in the community for their con-
tribution and accomplishments
within the black community.
“This is not only awards for blacks
but all people.”
The month also will include a
series of lectures sponsored by the
Southeast Black Historical Society
featuring national figures who will
share their contributions to black
history.
One of Cage’s main concerns is
communication between students
and the administration at Lamar.
“Blacks don’t know enough about
minority scholarships. The Minority
Scholars Institute is a major step by
the university to recruit blacks. It is
geared toward quality students that
have achieved levels of excellence in
high school, but we need more
scholarship information,” he said.
“Hopefully, this month will help to
get black students to see the impor-
tance of being involved,” Cage said.
“I became involved because of a
close friend of mine, Mike Brezina,
who was always oh me to go to Stu-
dent Government Association
meetings. I did it to keep him quiet
at first, but I began to see the impor-
tance of being involved.
“The only way to change anything
is to be aware of what’s going on and
being involved in our school and
community.”
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doesn’t even talk to me. I wonder if
he has done this to other girls.”
Gerry Juhan, a counseler at
Lamar, said the victim probably
was so upset that she found her feel-
ings hard to verbalize.
“No one would have to know. That
was the worst thing she could have
done,” Juhan said. “It’s very com-
mon, though.” .
Juhan said more people complain-
ed in the past, believing police were
not aware of the problem. Concern
about rape victims has increased,
she said, and more rapes are
reported.
“Many (victims) felt it was their
fault or partially their fault,” Juhan
said.
A recent survey by researchers at
Santa Monica Rape Treatment
Center in California showed that
rape is an epidemic on college cam-
puses.
After interviewing victims during
a sudden and dramatic increase in
rape cases reported to the Rape
Treatment Center, they found one of
every six female students said she
had been a victim of rape or attemp-
ted rape.
The study also found that one of
every 15 male students said he had
committed rape or had attempted to
do so.
“It’s always a good idea to walk
with someone else at night on cam-
pus,” Carpenter said. “Security is in
numbers.”
Carpenter hopes the new patrol
will ease people’s minds about rape
and assault on campus.
“With two extra people a night, we
can cover more ground and meet
people’s needs faster,” he said.
Sugar, caffeine incite
moods, studies show
COLLEGE STATION, Texas
(UPI) — A Texas A&M researcher
says chocolates may not be the best
gift for your sweetheart on Valen-
tine’s Day.
Larry Christensen says that
refined sugar and caffeine cause
depression, fatigue and moodiness
in some individuals — hardly a
winning recipe for love.
Since the late 1970s, the Texas
A&M psychologist has been study-
ing how diet affects mood.
He found, after developing a
34-item test scale, that sucrose and
caffeine affect emotional distress
in some individuals, based on
cognitive, behavioral and
physiological responses. Now he
wants to determine if other
behavior disorders can be aided by
diet restrictions.
“Not everyone is affected, and
different people respond different-
ly to sucrose and caffeine,” he
says. “There are tremendous
degrees of variation and, of course,
depression can be a result of more
than just diet. Individuals respond
differently to dietary substances
just as they do to different drugs.”
Although individuals placed on
the diet are usually quite diligent
about following the restrictions,
Christensen says infrequent
cheating seems to be relatively
harmless.
“The longer you stay off the caf-
feine and sucrose, the more likely
you are to be able to violate it once
in a while. It takes a while for
depression to build up. It’s not
something that occurs immediate-
ly after ingesting the food,” he
says. “Ultimately, it’s a perma-
nent lifestyle change.”
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While individual sensitivities to
caffeine make it difficult to specify
a dosage producing adverse
psychological symptoms, previous
research found that 9 percent of
caffeine users ingest more than 500
milligrams (mg) of caffeine a day,
equal to five cups of coffee.
Subjects may be surprised by the
infinitely long list of foods and
medications that contain caffeine
and sucrose, he says.
An eight-ounce cup of coffee con-
tains about 100 mg of caffeine,
while a chocolate bar can have up
to 25 mg. Most caffeine-containing
sodas have 25-73 mg of caffeine and
an eight-ounce glass of iced tea has
about 50 mg. Some medications
also contain caffeine, such as some
over-the-counter headache
remedies, which have up to 60 mg.
If people think they could over-
come depression by quitting caf-
feine but keeping sugar,
Christensen cautions that sugar
can be more of a culprit than caf-
feine. Sugar also affects most in-
dividuals more slowly than caf-
feine.
“The impact of sugar should be
rapid, from a metabolic point of
view, because sucrose is rapidly
split into glucose and fructose with
a rise in blood glucose occurring
within 30 minutes after ingesting
it,” he says. His studies show that
individuals can react to sugar
anywhere from 24 hours to five
days after continuous consump-
tion.
Caffeine is taken up by all tissues
and organs within about five
minutes after ingestion and
reaches maximum blood levels in
about 30 minutes.
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