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By JEANNE ISENBERG
Reporter
Muscular dystrophy is a disease
which became a household word
with the help of Jerry Lewis and his
annual telethon. Now some local
people are striving to increase
awareness about another wide
spread disease.
Members of a new organization at
Texas A&M say they are working to
bring multiple sclerosis out from un
der the shadows of Jerry Lewis and
Ml) dance-a-thons, walk-a-thons,
rock-a-thons and various other
fund-a-thons.
i Students Against Multiple Sclero
sis, in its first semes.. - is participat
ing in a national effort to increase
awareness of MS, what it is, and to
encourage help for those who have
it, says Mark Board, president of the
A&M chapter of SAMS.
1 “The National Multiple Sclerosis
Society has been approaching chap
ters around the country after a test
run for SAMS last year in several Big
Ten colleges was successful,” Board
says.
I Multiple sclerosis is a disease
which affects the neurological sys
tem. Parts of the myelin sheath, an
insulation shield around the nerve
fibers of the brain and the spinal
cord, are somehow destroyed.
Scar tissue forms over the dam
aged myelin, and that is called scle
rosis. When many areas of the brain
and spinal cord are injured, the
name multiple sclerosis is applied.
Sclerosis leads to interruptions in
the flow of nerve impulses and possi
bly the total obstruction of certain
ones, and when that happens the MS
symptoms may show.
“Patients may have to deal with
double vision, loss of bladder con
trol, tingling sensations in the limbs,
poor balance, spasms and eventually
either partial or total paralysis,”
Board says.
“There’s no cure yet, and it’s not a
good outlook for the victims of MS,”
Board says. “It hits people between
the ages of 18 and 45 — not really
young and certainly not old. That’s
one of the worst things — it hits peo
ple in their prime.
“The average patient, after a few
years, ends up in a wheelchair. The
mental damage is as much a part of
it as the physical, because they just
lose their will to walk. But with phys
ical therapy, some people can come
Koldus to talk about job,
A&M’s future at symposium
Dr. John Koldus, vice presi
dent for student services, will be
the guest speaker at Wednesday’s
Sully’s Symposium.
The Symposium, sponsored by
Lambda Sigma, the sophomore
honor society, begins at 11:50
a.m. in front of the Lawrence Sul
livan Ross statue by the Academic
Building.
Koldus will talk about his posi
tion at the University, the power
and influences of his job and
what the future of Texas A&M
could be like, says Stacey Allen,
chairwoman for Sully’s Sympo
sium.
At the conclusion of his speech,
Koldus will answer questions
from the audience. I
back. We hope that SAMS will be
able to help with that.”
SAMS was organized at A&M with
three major goals in mind.
“As to our first goal,” Board shys,
“we’re involved with the MS national
fund-raiser, a rock star look-a-like
contest.
“For some local flavor, though,
we’ve turned it into a rock or coun
try star look-a-like contest which will
take place sometime around the end
of February or the beginning of
March.”
Contestants will be recruited from
the dormitories, fraternities, sorori
ties and other organizations, and the
contest will be held in conjunction
with a big fund-raising party, he
says.
“The winner will go on to regional
contests and eventually to a national
one,” Board says. “That winner will
appear on MTV with his or her or
their act. The university of the win
ner will get a free concert. MTV is
hoping to do for MS what Jerry Le
wis did for MD.”
Second, SAMS hopes to spread in
formation and educate people about
MS and how they can help its vic
tims, Board says.
One of the SAMS advisers, Mary
Catherine McBrien, agrees.
“I’d say we’re hoping to create a
lot of public interest in MS with
SAMS,” McBrien says. “I’d like to be
their go-between with the commu
nity. I am an MS patient myself and
work with the MS group in Bryan.”
And third, Board says, more than
anything else SAMS was established
to help the victims of MS.
SAMS meets Tuesdays from 8:30
p.m. to 10 p.m. in Rudder Tower.
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