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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1978
Students told
Influenze at Texas A&M Univer
sity is nearing epidemic pro
portions.
flu spreading
rapidly here
The Student Health Center
treated 480 students Monday,
though not all had flu. “We re see
ing 500 a day and seeing lots of
flu,” said Dr. Claude Goswick, cen
ter director.
Goswick said the center’s in
patient clinic was not full Wednes
day. “We re managing to keep stu
dents on their feet, or at home,” he
said.
“This is a short-term disease, and
won’t have a heavy impact on class
attendance. As many as 30 to 40
percent may be absent in a given
class per day during the period, but
it’s a different set of students each
day.”
“About the only precautions a
person can take is to keep distance
from someone with obvious symp
toms,” Goswick said.
He added that students should
not try to diagnose themselves, that
confusion with pneumonia could re
sult.
Recommended treatment for flu
is bed rest, aspirin and plenty of
fluids.
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Alcohol for cars
The 1 million automobiles
that operate in and around the
city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, do not
run on pure gasoline but a mix
ture with 20 percent alcohol.
Prof. Jose Goldemberg, direc
tor of the Institute of Physics at
Sao Paulo, told professors and
students at Texas A&M Univer
sity Wednesday that research has
shown the mixture to be effective
without engine modifications.
He said Sao Paulo residents have
used the fuel for six months with
no adverse effects.
Goldemberg also said the gov
ernment there helped fund re
search that converted 200 au
tomobiles to run on a 100 per
cent alcohol fuel. The study is in
progress.
Use of alcohol for fuel is not
new in Brazil. Goldemberg said
many persons were using the
fuel 40 years ago — not to avoid
oil imports but to save the ailing
sugar cane industry.
Sugar prices were down so the
industry had to supplement its
income by producing alcohol
from the cane. Later, sugar
prices increased and alcohol
production for fuel was stopped.
Today,, sugar cane is again
being utilized to produce alcohol
for fuel. Gasoline in Brazil costs
consumers $2 per gallon while
alcohol costs $1.40 per gallon to
produce, Goldemberg said. He
added that if the oil prices con
tinue to rise and quantities di
minish, it will make alcohol a
competitive commodity.
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Professor Jose
New campus bus route popular
By TERESA ROACH
Imagine leaving G. Rollie White
Coliseum and arriving at Zachry
Engineering Center in seven min
utes. That is what Richard Page
does. He saves 10 minutes with the
help of a new on campus shuttlebus
system.
Page, a sophomore mechanical
engineering major, takes the Green
Route of the intra-campus shuttle
bus system. The new system is also
free of charge.
The Green Route begins at the
corner of Joe Routt Boulevard and
Throckmorton Street and moves in a
clockwise direction north to parking
lot 50, west to the College of Vet
erinary Medicine and south to the
new College of Agriculture build
ings. It stops at parking lots 56 and
61 before returning to its stop near
Rudder Tower.
The Red Route makes the same
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stops but moves in a counter
clockwise direction and does nol
stop at parking lot 50.
It takes about 20 to 30 minutes for
each bus to make its route.
The buses tend to be crowded
the mornings, but the number d
student passengers tends to
crease in the afternoons. Shuttlebii
officials have not commented on
number of students riding tlr
buses.
“It’s hard to find parking places
on campus now,” said Bill Ander
son, a junior animal science major
“Last week I missed two classes be
cause I couldn’t find a parking place
by the Agriculture building. No#,
with the shuttle bus system, Idonl
halve to worry about parking.”
Anderson said his only complain!
“is that the buses fail to postr
schedule to indicate where the
stop. A schedule would be helpful
Gale Minzenmeyer, a senioi
floriculture major, said that las:
semester she “detested walldn;
across the railroad tracks to horticul
ture lab.”
“It’s going to be much easiertogei
to class by riding the shuttle bustk
semester,” she said.
“The only thing I don’t like abonl
the shuttle bus is that it doesn’t stop
close enough to the Entomologv
building.”
“I’m a horticulture graduate stir
dent and I’m always having to picl
up supplies across the railroai
tracks,” said Sylvia Meadows,
sides, half of my department is over
there.”
The intra-campus shuttle systeii
runs from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Meadow
said she wished the buses would rm
later, because many students
classes that end later than 5 p.m
Many of these students have to wall
across Wellborn Road to gettotheii
parked cars.
“The shuttle bus service is almos
as good as driving a car,” said
Boehm, a senior animal scienci
major.
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ing their cars, the buses keep oaf
out of the weather, said Lawrence
Mikeska, a junior agriculture major
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working out well,” he said. “It’s
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