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Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, January 27, 1986
Is it That Great ?
Proposed AIDS
hospital gets
opposition
s^MSC GREAT ISSUES
Februaiy 5
8 p.m.
Rudder Auditorium
Admission: $1 00
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Houston’s health
director says he opposes converting
a local hospital into an AIDS treat
ment and research center because
segregation of AIDS patients could
heighten public hysteria over the
disease.
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Officials at American Medical In
ternational Inc. have proposed the
conversion of the 150-bed Citizens
General Hospital, one of 1 1 Hous-
ton-area hospitals owned by the cor
poration.
propos
from the University of Texas medi
cal school, which would participate
in the project, said Richard D’ Anto
nio, spokesman for the Beverly
■ Hills, Calif.-based hospital corpora
tion.
Besides offering treatment for ac-
a uired immune deficiency syn-
rome, an incurable disease, the
hospital would be a research and ed
ucation center, D’Antonio said.
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But Dr. James Haughton, Hous
ton’s health director, and members
of the Houston homosexual commu
nity say such a hospital isn’t needed
because AIDS patients can be taken
care of on the infectious disease
wards of any general hospital.
“We have enough hysteria in this
city already about AIDS, and any
further effort to isolate AIDS in a
special hospital only feeds fear and
hysteria,” he said.
But American Medical officials
said the hospital will be needed to
handle the skyrocketing number of
AIDS cases.
In Texas, reported cases in
creased from eight in 1981 to 418 in
1985. Of the cases reported last year,
192 were in Houston, authorities
said.
However, Haughton said he be
lieves heightened awareness of how
the disease is spread is slowing the
rate of increase.
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AIDS is contracted through ex
change of infected body fluids such
as semen and blood.
Dr. Peter W.A. Wansell, who op
erates an AIDS program at M.D.
Anderson Hospital and Tumor In
stitute, said he sees no proof that the
rate of increase is declining.
Officials said they did not know
when Unviersity of Texas
would act on the proposal.
regents
In Advance
Hal Holbrook will perform
'Mark Twain Tonight!' at8
By MARY McWHORTER
Staff Writer
Three decades of tradition will
be coming to Rudder Auditorium
Tuesday night at 8 p.m.
Hal Holbrook will perform his
one-man-show of “Mark Twain
Tonight!” in which he made his
first appearance in 1954. Hol
brook began researching the
show in 1953 after a year of un
employment as an actor. In 1959,
after five years of researching
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(Mark Twain) and perfecting the
act in front of small town audi
ences all over America, Holbrook
opened the show in a small off-
Broadway theater in New York.
The rest is history, as the story
goes. The show was a success and
after a 22-week run in New York,
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he toured the country again. Bay.
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his act to Broadway in 1966j|onsu
made a television special "Mitel his
Twain Tonight!” which wasna 0 niic '
mated for an Emmy. Kl ev
Holbrook now tries to pro#’
Twain from overexposurehylij^ cc
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in the American character,”! 1 v
brook says. “He was independe J e m ‘
He had a terrific sense ofhuE P 1 ” ce , I 1
He could take serious subj-^ 1 ^
and tear them to shreds will)
sense of humor.”
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MSC Council will present^
budget 1986-87presides
The 1987 budget for the Me
morial Student Center will be
presented tonight at the first
MSC Council meeting of the
spring semester, MSC President
Denis Davis says.
The council will meet at 5 p.m.
in 216T of the Student Programs
Office in the MSC.
Perry Eichor will be presenting
the $2.9 million budget, Davis
says. About 70 percent of that
amount is self-generated,
says, while the other 30 percer
allocated from student
fees.
The MSC Council also har
? ;un the selection process of Bi|
icers for next year and wii
non nee the new president aii
meeting.
Also discussed will be theft
gram approvals foi the upcorJ
semester.
8 films to be shown at A&l
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to honor SesquicentennicI
The Texas A&M College of
Liberal Art’s Humanities Initia
tive Committee is sponsoring
eight films on Texas for the
Texas Sesquicentennial. A guest
rill introduce each fill
• “The Border” starring]
Nicholson to be shown in
Kleberg Feb. 10.
speaker will introduce each
Tonight “The Big Show” is be
ing shown in 115 Kleberg Animal
and Food Science Center. The
film stars Cene Autry. Don Gra
ham, an author and University of
Texas English professor, will in
troduce the film.
• “Tender Mercies" lol
shown in 115 Kleberg Feb.24
• “The Wind" starring
Gish to be shown in 113 Kiel
March 3.
The other films include:
• “Touch of Evil” directed by
Orson Welles, to be shown in 1 13
Kleberg Feb. 3.
• “Roadie” starring
and Meatloaf to be shown in
Kleberg March 10.
• “The Ballad of Grego;
Cortez” to be shown in 11511
berg March 24.
All films will begin at 7:30p
and admission is free.
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Last chance to have
your picture taken
for the *86 .Aggieland
Photos will be taken until February 7 at
Yearbook Associate’s studio, above Campus
Photo Center at ETorthgate.
Office hours 8:30-12:00,1:00-4:30
No pictures will be taken at the Pavilion this year