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Alfredo’s Now Introducing Burritos Featuring the Alfredo’s -Deluxe Burrito- Still Always Open till Midnight Check out our new pool tables & video games! Page 4/The Battalion/Thursday, April 12, 1984 Myths surrounding hot tubs dispe lied Home of the 43 Pitcher By ED CASSAVOY Reporter China beside Texas, next to Rome snuggled up to Califor nia. Any geographer would say impossible. But in the four bub bling hot tub rooms of the Oasis spa, utopias that go by these names arejust a step away. The modern hot tub’s biggest enemy is bad public relations, says Jewel Hill, manager of the Oasis hot tub spa in the Wood- stone Center. “We’ve had people come in and ask us if they can rent girls with the rooms, or ask if we show movies,” says Hill. “And, there is no red carpet or velvet wall paper.” AGGIE BLOOD DRIVE April 16-19 MSC Commons Blocker Sbisa #> sponsored by Wadley Central bank APO, OPA, and Student Government Hill says she dispels the neg ative images about hot tubs sim ply by letting people see the benefits of hot tubbing. Most customers ask the same ques tion: Will I catch a social dis ease? Hill admits that there is a risk of catching diseases if the tubs are not kept clean, but adding chemicals to the tub water every three hours removes all bacteria from the water. Hill also has the four redwood tubs scrubbed twice a week to keep the wood healthy. “A lot of people are now real izing how therapeutic hot tubs can be for muscle pains and sports injuries,” Hill says. “When people go to a place like Nautilus the temperature is around 105 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit so you’re basically going to sweat, then get out,” Hill says. Hot tubs average around 100 to 102 degrees, so a person can stay in for hours without dis comfort, Hill says. A customer who becomes dehydrated can take a short shower to cool the body down. Each of the four rooms are equipped with a shower. Contemplating life is easy in the light-speckled China room, If you get tired of musing about your favorite haiku poem, just dry off, pick up your glass of champagne, and walk next door to the Texas room. Texas is a wild western hang out. First, hang up your towel on the horse-shaped coat hooks. Then, hunker down in the tub with a cold brew, and admire the longhorns hanging on the wall. Just below, the Lone Star beer sign. In the Roman room you too tri-state Sports Coiator GHB •All Steel •Portable $ 24 95 2023 Texas Ave., Townshire Center 779-8778 Save 25 to 50 % Beginning April 13 th All Sales Final Save $ on these Items: T-shirts Tennis Shoes Gym shorts Windbreakers Books Calculators Agr quet F p.m. C Ticket cultun ture B The liet A | availal $4 for Ross Shepherd, a junior Environmen tal Design major from Karnack spends some time Wednesday af ternoon at The Oasis. can live the life of Caesar, lei surely sipping a goblet of wine in the shadows of Roman col umns. Think decandence. Next door in California, sit in the healing waters of the hot tub with your favorite music rolling over you, and be mellow. Just don’t smoke anything ille gal. Cranking up the volume of the rock music in the China room (there are Alpine speak ers in every room), Hill says business peaks Friday and Sat urday between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m.. It’s not unusual to go through 20 groups in this six- hour period. Hill says. “We haven’t had anyone die in there yet," says Hill —joking. “We have had a couple of peo ple come here very drunk, so we would check on them (using an intercom system) every so of ten.” Hill says wine, beer, and champagne may be brought in by customers. Hard liquor is forbidden, because the hot tubs cause alcohol to enter the bloodstream more quickly, speeding up inebriation. As for what goes on in the r. rooms, for groups uptoeijl people, Hill says she doesi know. “We warn all custom about the rules and precaulK! then leave them alone," says, “they can always call im the intercom if they needsom thing. There aren’t any den cameras in the rooms." Hill says the University pit vides a ready market for thei month-old hot tub busies About 30 percent of her hi ness is from repeat customti Hill says, roughly another 'rcent is people over 40. Fatal dog disease spreading United Press International AUSTIN — The Texas Vet erinary Medical Association said Wednesday its members are reporting an increasing number of cases of a potentially RESTAURANT 4* fatal dog disease, canine eliii chiosis, imported from View and carried by ticks. Early symptoms include Its lessness, fever, poor appetis and weight loss, Dr. Cani Klecka, chairman of TVMA’s public relations mittee, said in an article Tic! MSC £ are $3 Un The Contes winnei $60 an will be uisite throug contesi equtva and th Tick Box O the sec are S3 leu •De Mr Fresh, authentic Chinese e reasonable prices "Quality Health Food” Taste our Lemon Chicken! OR SMALL PARTIES AND BANQUETS WELCOMED Serving wine and beer current issue oftheTexasVi erinary Medical Journal. If not treated early, thei 1 ease may be fatal within 5W 100 days after infection. I Unitec Klecka said the disease ca»i diagnosed through a bloodts and is treated with antibit and removal of ticks from animal, and its livingquarteti Texas is one of 26 siai where the disase has been 4 tected, she said. Correction 846-8345 Mon. Mon. Sun. Sat. 11 am - 2 pm 5 pm - 10 pm 3805 TEXAS AV. - BRYAN In Wednesday’s edition,i Battalion incorrectly identif* the people who played the of Romeo and Juliet inthetl* ater art department’s [ dolph Allen played the pari Romeo and Annie Suite the part of Juliet. BROW ;nse cot jillion at larked pressec it John 'ednesd; Tower, Armei id pape led on e plan i inburg acturinj Univer: rpus ( ts and lent at LIVE! ON STAGE! BROADWAY’S SMASH HIT MUSICAL! BEST MUSICAL 1982 TONY AWARD NOMINEE GALLONS OF FUN! JUNE HENRY GABLE GROSS starring in A FULL TANK OF ENTERTAINMENT.’ -WILLIAM RAIDY, NEWHOUSE NEWSPAPERS Presented by MSC Town Hall Broadway, April 16 & 17. Rudder Auditorium, Texas A&M University. For ticket info call MSC box office, 845-1234. 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