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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1981
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By PHYLLIS HENDERSON
Battalion Reporter
The annual flu epidemic has arrived at Texas A&M Uni
versity, said Dr. C.B. Goswick, director of the A.P. Beutel
Health Center.
“It’s definitely an epidemic,” Goswick said. The center
has been averaging 350 to 425 patients a day, he said, and
the majority of these cases have been flu or respiratory
illnesses.
However, the epidemicwas not unexpected. Every year
the center sees the beginnings of an epidemic like this the
first week of the semester, he said, and it usually doesn’t
taper off until spring break.
Most students will get well when they leave for spring
break, Goswick said, and when they come back the epide
mic will probably end.
The Bangkok flu is the prevalent influenza the center has
found among students, Goswick said. Fever, headaches,
backaches, muscle aches, coughing and a sore throat are
symptoms of this strain, he said. “However, not every
student has all these symptoms,” he said.
“Bangkok flu has a relatively short duration — a matter
of two or three days, on the average,” Goswick said.
However, he added, some cases have lasted as long as a
week and others have been over within a day.
There are few precautions students can take to avoid the
flu, Goswick said. “This is an airborne thing,” he said. It’s
passed by coughing and sneezing and it’s impossible to
avoid these in crowded dorms and lecture rooms.
The changing weather conditions can also be blamed in
part for the epidemic, Goswick said. “It has something to
do with it, in terms of resistance, ” he said, “but the weather
is not as important as the crowded conditions.”
The only treatment for the flu, Goswick said, is relief of
the symptoms. “Bed rest is probably the single best treat
ment there is,” he said. The student should also drink more
fluids in order to avoid dehydration.
The health center has been hit hardest by the epidemic
in the waiting room, Goswick said.
Because of the epidemic, Goswick said, the center has
too few personnel. Many of the doctors and nurses have
caught the flu. At one time the center had only three of its
seven doctors on duty.
He said there are several heavy sign-in times: all day
Monday, early mornings, lunch and late afternoons.
During these peak times, a student may have to wait as
long as two hours, Goswick said. “You hear a lot of exagger
ated times — three and four hours,” he said, “but no one
waits that long.”
Students come in the morning, sign in, wait for a while,
leave and return in the afternoon, Goswick said. These
students are credited with the time they spent waiting in
the morning, and this causes a backlog of cases when they
return in the afternoon.
However, he said, students are not credited if they don’t
wait for a while.
Students also think they will get in and out easier if they
come to the center near 5 p.m., Goswick said, and this also
causes a backlog in the late afternoon.
In order to lighten the burden on the doctors and cut
down on waiting time, the nurses in the cold clinic screen
patients and refer only the more serious cases to the doc
tors. Others are given medication to relieve their symp
toms and told if they become worse to come back, he said.
Goswick said the center discourages anyone from com
ing in with only minor symptoms that can be treated at
home. “But we would encourage any student to come in
who felt he had a serious problem,” he said.
Photo by Becky Swanson
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Battalion Reporter
Sometimes when you “Mickey Mouse around” you can really be
doing something — Brian Replogle has over 3,000 signatures on his
petition against the cancellation of “The Wonderful World of Disney. ”
Replogle dressed as Mickey Mouse Wednesday through Friday and
pent a total of 13 hours in front of the Memorial Student Center urging
iveryone who walked by to add their name to his petition.
“Some people don’t even realize it’s going off the air,” Replogle
aid. NBC has decided to cancel the series after this year, which
Replogle said would be “un-American” because so many Americans
have grown up with it.
Replogle participated in the “March for America” parade down
Texas Avenue on Saturday to get more publicity. He was again dressed
like Mickey Mouse and rode in a car which proclaimed that “Disney
Lives On.”
Replogle said that the parade was “fantastic — I got waves from
veryone — they agreed with me. ”
Replogle said people’s reactions to what he is doing has been an
inspiration. “People care, that’s why I was out there acting like a nut. ”
Replogle said he decided to go straight to the public because “the
people who are taking it off the air don’t know what the real people
vant.”
Replogle said, “I think A&M is the greatest place to start it at. ” He
aid he plans “to challenge the rest of the Southwest Conference
ichools and see what they can do. ”
Replogle first decided to “do something” at the beginning of this
emester after talking to a friend about the cancellation. He said he had
een reading the book “See You at the Top” by Zig Ziglar which
'“inspires you to come up to full potential for yourself by doing some-
hing for yourself, others and society. ”
Replogle began by giving a speech on Feb. 10 to the Texas A&M
niversity chapter of the Texas Student Educators Association. He
laid he was able to get 23 of the 40 members to help him.
Replogle said the reason he went to TSEA for help was because
. “they’re concerned about children’s films and programs.”
Lynn Landrum, president of TSEA, “put in a lot of time and effort —
[kind of like our little manager,” Replogle said. He said this was the
SEA’s first campus-wide project.
Replogle plans to go to San Antonio on March 13-15 to speak to the
SEA there.
Replogle said “The Wonderful World of Disney” is having to
ompete with “60 Minutes” and should be re-scheduled.
“I think PBS would be much better for it since they’re into educa-
KAMU-TV-- Please Stan
“Please do not adjust your set.” transmitter are worn out, and re- 15 transmitter “pops” offthe air for
This may be a frequent announce- placements have been ordered, four to five seconds every now and
ment on KAMU-TV for the next Most replacement parts can be then.
few days. Channel 15, the public kept in stock for the station, but KAMU engineers have taken
television station licensed to Texas since these particular tubes cost steps to reduce the frequency of
A&M University for the Brazos $10,000 each, they are only the transmitter failures, but some
Valley, is experiencing some tech- ordered when needed. occassional outtages may continue
nical problems. Viewers may have noticed for for a few days until the new tubes
Two tubes in the television several months that the Channel arrive.
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INVITATION
Panhellenic and Delta Delta Delta Sorority invite all Texas A&M
women interested in Tri Delta’s Spring Colonization to an informal
Open House
Wednesday, Febraury 25, 7-9 p.m.
Chi Omega House
1501 Athens Drive
For more information, call:
Judy Perry, 846-0872
Karen Roberts, 846-3838
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presents
Feb. 23 - Mar. 6
Sore Losers/Jaws 23 — A comedy based on the shark
scare.
Arlo's Gang — Arlo Guthrie and
Hoyt Axton do their early hits.
Week of Feb. 23 only.
VTN Concert — Pat Benatar, Jethro Tull, The Babys,
and more.
T.V.s are located in the MSC Lounge, second floor lounge,
and Health Center. See monitor for schedule.
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MSC OPAS proudly presents
Lyric Art Quintet
February 26/8:00 p.m.
Rudder Theatre/TAMU
Tickets available at MSC Box Office or
Telephone VISA/MASTERCARD orders & pickup at the door
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