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by Scott McCuliar Thursday, April 19, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5 ,le l ypes of L Bniain. Sj)e t5 nc lude wine Iorn Septet 'etober i n FL B'om Septet December sheep heif "iber throujli vv Zealand, giblefortheil ugram, yom s old, a fult ai > accredited versity and a permanent must also It 'OU upon enttt ' to support or first pavcluj lor thepropi “nd theCoundl ving: Prof says ‘1984’ isn’t here ludents advised to check egulations for final exams pleted and sd « By ED ALANIS Staff Writer of full-tii ithjust over vwo weeks left [fore final exams, students ll faculty alike have begun ■ frantic process of trying to passport-si« U p a semester. Kix projects and two lab finals npleted ref during dead week, and i fromtheC | ur comprehensive finals L ‘ mslr uctor iamnied into the first three ver lays of finals week ... everyone at language || ows die story. And for se- or Germany |ji 0 | S fortunate enough to be [>f adequate graduating, everything is due a :e for GerauuBglr earlier. JWell, if you think you’ll never IDYnaeed !8 el b all done and you feel like ™ ™tr professors are being un- Jr, there may be a way to ease le of the stress. r .,,1 Double check the University ^Wl iulations and make sure all of professors are in compli ance with the rules. Are your fi nals being held at the time scheduled by the registrar’s of fice? Do you have three finals in one day? If you’re a graduating senior, is your last exam com prehensive? If your professors are in violation of these regual- tions, there is something you can do. Assistant deans and advisers say that most conflicts can be worked out with the professors themselves. However, students should not hesitate to take their complaints to the department head when professors refuse to comply with University regula tions. “Most professors that do not follow the rules are new profes sors, who are unaware of what the rules are,” said Patricia Burk, an undergraduate coun selor for the College of Liberal Arts. However, Assistant to the Dean of Business Administra tion, Lynn Zimmermann says there are some cases of flagrant violations. “We don’t have a perfect fac ulty,” Zimmermann said. “With a population of this size, there will likely be someone who will flagrantly challenge the rules.” Many students think the have a complaint, Burk saic when really it’s a misunder standing of the regulations. Graduating seniors complain about unannounced exams at the end of the semester, when actually they missed the day at the beginning of the semester when the exam was announced, she said. icy id, ets warn dog owners bout flea, tick dangers y Abroad Pt(J domic projf colleges oil I arts svides slud« a wide range] ueriences. igly in the l in an Intel in which id :1 in inlei working wit!) Rizk-Finne 1 Abroad Pr(® icir sensiti KIMBERLEE D. NOR- -es and L: •» RIS ic experiencft’l Reporter A Texas A&M Veterinarian |ys that maintaining a good and tick program is the best to protect dogs from a po- Intially fatal disease which is e DeparW Ipreading rapidly through iguages also-Wexas. programs.Dr. Alice Wolf said that the s are held tst way to prevent pets from ause of be® eting canine ehrlichiosis, a dis- dent partidpi ^carried from Viet Nam to id. the United States by Army pgs, is to protect them from its triers. The April edition of the lexas Veterinary Medical Jour- pl reported on the spread of disease, which Wolf said is language P r ev alent in Texas because the izatiorl an« !l J i ma ve is suited to ticks. How- ver, she said, dog owners can Wect their pets by keeping tern away from tick infested eas. "Some dogs catch the ‘bug’ nd get over it with no after ef- 8Cts,” she said. “Others are se- Abroad larture orieni rives infoi ’eat, what to ncerning into its don’t s\ n the clasirt tty of free- ijoy being Planned archil e art, tes are par 1 verely affected and will die without treatment.” Another Texas A&M veteri narian, Kenita S. Rogers, said the disease has two stages — the acute stage when the illness first begins, and the chronic stage which is usually fatal. “If an owner or vet can catch it early, it can be successfully treated with the antibiotic tetra cycline,” Rogers said. “After it has progressed further, more heroic measures, like blood transfusions, can be required to save the dog.” Wolf said the severity of the disease is different for individ ual dogs, and compared it to human exposure to influenza. “You and I might catch the same flu ‘bug’,” she said, “but I could be sick for weeks while you are hardly affected. 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I I .im 2am Sun. 12 noon midnight Limited Delivery area Not Valid with other Special* Expires nay 31.1984 The exact rules can be found on pages 10 and 11 of the 1983- 84 Texas A&M University Reg ulations handbook. If you have a complaint, Zimmermann said there are three steps students can follow: • Talk to the professor. Probably he or she is simply un aware of the rules. • Talk to the head of the de partment. Keep in mind how ever that his or her first ques tion will he, “have you discussed this with the professor?” • Talk to the dean of the col lege. Most conflicts are resolved by talking to the professor, Burk said, and few cases go higher than the head of the depart ment. By KATHLEEN REEVES Reporter George Orwell’s “ 1984” is not a hopeful novel — in the end it leaves readers with the impres sion that totalitarianism will continue to reign. But Dr. War ren Dixon, assistant professor of political science here, said Tuesday night that a totalita rian regime such as Big Brother in “1984” would be difficult to establish and sustain. Orwell created Big Brother as the immortal regime that controls the consciousness of everyone except the lower working class. Dixon said he thinks that kind of regime must have mor tal, flesh and blood leaders. He said the immortal Big Brother was not plausible and used to talitarian regimes in recent his tory to illustrate. “Would Nazi Germany have been Nazi without Hitler?” he said. He said a real leader is needed to provide the will and the energy of the total regime. And if a real leader is needed, he said, it is assumed that this leader will die. Thus, he said, a mortal leader produces diffi culty for the total regime. The regime would be unable to re produce a clone and the next generation would have diffi culty replicating the same kind of terror the original leader had. He said when a leader dies the institution is still in place but the founding leader’s will is not. Dixon said Orwell thinks there is still hope within the working class because they are the only ones left alone by Big Brother. But Dixon feels Or well’s optimism is misplaced. He said he believes the optimism lays with the middle class think ers not the workers. He said it would take someone whose da ily job was to think in order to resist the internal pressures. Custom Alterations By Bea 779-1774 Professional (jualitylreasonable rates 9:30-5:30 M-F —9:30-1 Sat. 804 Villa Maria Rd., Br dog of any breed can catch the potentially fatal disease. The symptoms are hard to pinpoint, she said, because they could de scribe so many illnesses. “In its early stages, the dis ease is characterized by fever, lack of energy and poor appeti te,” she said. “Later, it can cause excessive bleeding, especially in the nose.” Wolf said the disease causes the victim’s bone marrow to compress, making the blood cells unable to manufacture platelets. Platelets allow blood to clot. She said the blood ves sels in the nose are easily bro ken, so a nose bleed can be the first indication of a problem. “The ehrlichiosis organism is similar to Rickettsia rickettsia, the bug that causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever,” Wolf said. “But this disease is not transmittable to humans — spotted fever is.” Underground QUALIFY FOR Championship Playoffs Men's & Women's Divisions - April 28, 1984 Sen Antonio, T exas El Tropica no Hotel Sign Up Now For Next Weekly Tournament Tha Baaamant of Sbl*a Dining Room THURSDAY 7:00p.m. MARCH 29, APRIL 5,12,19 PLAY OFF APRIL 26 WAREHOUSE SALE If you DREAM of wearing famous designer clothes... You can NOW AFFORD THEM! 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