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Herpes vaccine
may help man
By CATHIE ANDERSON
Reporter
A successful vaccine against the
herpes virus in cattle has pro
vided information which ultima
tely could help prevent herpes
and other herpes-related diseases
in humans, says Dr. Stewart Mc
Connell of the Texas A&M
School of Veterinary Medicine.
, Dr. Saul Kit, head of biochemi
cal virology at Baylor College of
Medicine, developed the vaccine
which McConnell tested on cattle
at A&M.
1“ Swine and cattle herpes do not
affect humans, but the viruses are
similar in their chemical makeup
and ability to cause recurrent in
fections, Kit explained in an ear
lier press release.
H “Information we obtain from
developing and testing these vac
cines will also be transferable to
preventing herpes virus infec
tions in humans — particularly
chicken pox, genital_and oral her
pes,” Kit said. I
■ McConnell, who has worked
with Kit for two years on this ex
periment, said researchers are
looking for a preventative
method for herpes, not necces-
sarily a cure for people who al
ready have the virus,
ft “This is not its (the vaccine’s)
intended purpose,” he said. “K-
nowing the difficulty when it
comes to getting studies done (on
humans), I feel that it will take
another five to 10 years before we
come up with a vaccine for peo
ple.”
p Even this estimate, he said,
may be too optimistic.
1, Several animal vaccines for the
herpes virus currently are on the
market, McConnell said. These
vaccines, however, can be poten
tially harmful to animals at cer
tain ages or at certain stages of
pregnancy.
“The uniqueness of the new
product is that it’s a little safer
and that it prevents what we call
‘colonization of the ganglia,”’ said
McConnell. “I guess the best way
to explain this is ... if you have
any friends who have cold sores,
you may find that they will get
them after a condition of stress.
Our vaccine stops the condition
from arising because of outside
stimuli-like stress.
“I feel good and bad (about the
vaccine), ” McConnell said. “I feel
good because there’s something
promising coming. I feel bad be
cause we haven’t got it for use
right away, and I’m really sad that
it can’t go into the hands of peo
ple (ranchers) who really need
the product.”
The product cannot be mar
keted yet to animal owners be
cause experiments are not yet
completed.
Several cows, from 45 days to
four months pregnant, were vac
cinated on July 12, McConnell
said. Next, on Aug. 22 the cows
were inoculated with the herpes
virus.
“They’re all healthy,” McCon
nell said. “We’re expecting them
to calve in either late December
or early January.”
A one-time vaccination that
could be given to pregnant ani
mals would be a major benefit for
ranchers, farmers or feedlot own
ers, McConnell said.
Speed reading has drawbacks
By MARCY BASILE
Reporter
While you attempt to read Beo
wulf, your friends are out partying.
Instead of getting frustrated and
ditching your studying to go out,
why not investigate another option
— speed reading.
At least one speed reading course
is offered throughout the yetir in the
Bryan-College Station area.
The Learning Center, located at
505 University Dr. E., offers a speed
reading course individually tailored
to the student. The course, accord
ing to Learning Center Director Dr.
Carol Robeck, consists of reading a
prepared booklet aided by a speed
encourager.
“Students read to i tape that has a
beeper,” she said. “The object is to
keep up with the beeps. The beep
er’s timing is preset for each individ-
uzd.”
As the student progresses, the
beeper is set faster. Eventually, the
student is taken off of the beeper
and reads while being timed. This is
to see if the increased reading speed
is being maintained.
The objective of the Learning
Center’s course is to alter the usual
word-by-word reading style. “Chun
king,” or reading groups of words at
a time, is a faster reading style. The
course also helps students with out
lining and organizing ideas.
Do speed reading courses actually
increase reading speed?
“Depending on the person’s be
ginning reading speed, reading
speed could possibly double,” Ro
beck said. “If a person comes in
reading about 180-200 words per
minute, they could be reading prob
ably about 400 words per minute.”
College students often take speed
reading courses to help them make
better grades.
But think twice before taking k
speed reading course. Speed read
ing is designed for certain types of
reading material.
“You can’t speed read things you
need to comprehend,” said Jerry Os-
lin, a senior English mkjor who took
a speed reading course at Richland
Junior College. “You should speed
read only things at a sixth grade
level, magazines and newspapers.”
Robeck agreed with Oshn.
“Speed redding is kssociated with
certain material,” she said. “Once
past a certain speed, a person is just
skimming the material. Comprehen
sion does drop.”
Oslin said 40 percent comprehen
sion at the fast reading level, be
tween 700 and 900 words per min
ute, was extremely good. A reason
for a decrease in comprehension is
the totkl emphasis on increasing
reading speed.
The Learning Center’s speed
reading course costs $100 for eight
lessons. The lessons are given over a
four week period, two lessons per
week./"
Pope Paul begins first Canadian visit
United Press International
QUEBEC — Pope John Paul II
arrived Sunday in the cradle of
North American Catholicism, begin
ning a historic 12-day pilgrimage to
Canada with a tribute to Quebecers
as the “first witness to the faith” in
the New World.
The 64-year-old pontiffs char
tered Alitalia DC-10 arrived at Que
bec City Airport at 11:25 a.m. after k
flight from Rome’s Leonardo Da
Vinci airport, marking the first time
a pope has visited Canadk.
Tne pope, brushing back his hair
against k stiff breeze, left the plane
at 11:42 a.m. and kissed the tarmac
at Ancienne-Lorette Airport. A 21-
gun salute was sounded.
He arrived protected by the tight
est security ever assembled in Can
ada following last Monday’s bomb
ing in the Montreal Central Station,
in which three people were killed
and more than 40 injured.
Canadian Prime Minister John
Turner, Quebec Premier Rene Le
vesque and Governor General
Jeanne Sauve were kmong 2,000 in
vited guests on hand to greet the
pope on the first stop of a 12-day pil
grimage through Canada.
On nis arrival at Quebec airport,
the pope said he had come to Can
ada as “pastor and brother” to the
11.4 million Catholics who make up
43 percent of Canada’s population
of 25 million.
The pontiff stressed he was mak
ing his first visit ever to Canada as a
spiritual leader, and not as a head of
state. “My word does not claim to
furnish an answer to all your ques
tions or to replace your searching.”
John Paul, who will spend a third
of his Canadian visit in Quebec, said
he wks “very happy” to begin his na
tionwide pilgrimage in the cradle of
North American Catholicism.
“I greet you, Quebec, first church
in North America, first witness to
the faith, you who have raised the
cross along your roads and who have
spread the Gospel throughout this
blessed land,” he skid.
Sauve greeted the spiritual leader
of the world’s 800 million Catholics,
saying “we receive you as k prophet.
“More than any other contempo
rary leader, you have been success
ful in identifying the causes of our
universal anxiety,” Skuve said.
As the pope’s plane approached
Quebec, he broadcast k statement by
radio hailing the “dkuntless faith” of
Canadians and prkised French ex
plorer Jacques Cartier, who founded
Quebec and held the first mass in
North America on Sept. 8, 1535.
“On this day it is with a full heart
that I pky tribute to the dauntless
faith of those men and women who,
following Jacques Cartier, were will
ing to cross the seas to establish the
faith and the Church in Canada,”
the pope said in a prepared
statement broadcast by radio.
“Here, 450 years ago, Jacques
Cartier raised the cross,” the pope
said, recalling Cartier’s first trip to
“New France” and the explorer’s ex
pressed desire to evangelize the na
tive people.
Authorities refuse to discuss spe
cific security arrangements or to dis
close how many federal, provincial
and municipal police, military per
sonnel and volunteers are assigned
to protect the pontiff.
About $15 million of the $50 mil
lion total cost of the papal tour is be
ing spent on security.
A Vatican spokesman said the
bombing in Montreal Monday did
not change any plans for the trip,
John Paul’s 23rd trip outside Italy.
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As a group grows larger, the need
for communications between mem
bers becomes more important. To
help improve communications be
tween the student body and the stu
dent leaders of Texas A&M,
Lambda Sigma, a sophomore honor
society and service organization, will
be sponsoring a series of talks.
The talks, called Sully Sympo
sium, will be held every Wednesday
between 11 a.m. and noon in front
of j the Lawrence Sullivan Ross
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The purpose of the symposium is
exchanging ideas, primarily between
student leaders and the student
body, about the needs and responsi
bilities of all students, says Cindy
Gay, Lambda Sigma president.
“We wanted to bring back what
A&M was like in the past, the atti
tude that we had when the school
was smaller and there was more con
tact between people,” Gay says. “We
wanted to carry out the services of
years past, plus something distincti
ve.”
Robert Beard, in chkrge of public
relations for the new project, agrees
with Gay.
“Originally we thought of it be
cause we thought there was k pretty
strong need for it,” Beard says.
The symposium gives both groups
a chance to communicate in an
open-air type forum, in which all are
encouraged to give their views and
ideas.
“We don’t want to control the
crowd; we don’t want them stifled,”
he says. “We want a freer exchange.
We want people to be able to speak
up and give tneir ideas.”
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chemical engineering and fkculty
advisor of the group, supports the
students’ efforts to improve commu
nication on campus with the Sully
Symposium.
“It is important to establish and
maintain good communication be
tween the student body and student
leaders, the faculty and administra
tion,” Darby says. “Communicktion
is the key to effectiveness in any or
ganization.”
Three A&M football players —
Matt Darwin, Ray Childress and
Scott Polk — will be speaking at the
first symposium. Darwin says they
will be discussing what it is like being
a student athlete, but said specifics
of the talk have not yet been de
cided.
Other speakers lined up for Sully
Symposium for the next few weeks
kre Dr. John J. Koldus, director of
student services; Dkvid Alders, stu
dent body president; and Pat Wood,
director of the Memorial Student
Center,
Confirmation of the six other
speakers for the semester still is pen-
aing.
Gay says that they chose those
people to speak because they rep
resent groups that are of interest to
all Aggies. Dr. Koldus, although not
a student leader, was asked to speak
beckuse he works so closely with the
students, Gay says. She says that
more students would like to talk to
him than almost any other adminis
trator.
Every student leader has jumped
at the chance when asked to speak,
Gay says.
Other Lambda Sigma activities in
clude: an annual Christmas tree sale,
an elevator escort service to A&M
alumni at football games, and poster
routes.
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