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■bout 1,100 1 exas A&M students
and faculty members are participat
ing in the first four-year study of the
effectiveness of reduced doses of the
standard influenza vaccine on the vi-
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^Hhe study, coordinated by Dr.
John Quarles for the Baylor College
of Medicine, is designed to test pro
tection from the flu producer! by
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dudecef Students were chosen for the
i its su studs last semester on the basis of
illation: whether or not their blood con
tained antibodies to the Taiwan flu,
re goin. the most common strain this flu sea-
n addii son, Quarles said. The flu season
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traditionally begins at the beginning
of the spring semester.
When a person has the flu, his
body produces antibodies that make
him immune to that particular
strain. But when the composition of
the flu virus changes, his body hasn’t
developed a system to fight the new
virus yet, Quarles explained.
He said his team chose to test the
vaccine on people without these anti
bodies.Quarles’ team also looked for
people who will be around for the
duration of the study — freshmen,
faculty members and five-year engi
neering students.
The drug, Amantadine, protects
against all current flu viruses classi
fied as type-A influenza, Quarles
said, but it has unfortunate side ef
fects, including blurred vision, swell
ing and increased risk of seizure
among patients with a history of sei
zures.
These side effects are similar to
those produced by antihistamines,
but they are especially dangerous to
the sick and elderly because the drug
increases their chances of contract
ing pneumonia, he said.
Decreased dosages, Quarles said,
should reduce these side effects — if
not completely eliminate them — al
lowing the drug to be used safely on
all patients, particularly the elderly.
The study focuses on two partic
ular questions, Quarles said. It will
compare the protection and side ef
fects resulting from nose drop vac
cines, as opposed to the standard flu
shot, and will determine how long
protection lasts with the lower doses.
Three officers
implicated in
jail sex scandal
DALLAS (AP) — Two detention
officers resigned and another was
placed on leave following an investi
gation into allegations t! tat jailers ob
tained sexual favors from female in
mates in exchange for cigarettes,
authorities said Monday.
Three county detention officers
allegedly received sex from as many
as 10 inmates in an elevator at Lew
Sterrett Justice Center, said Jim
Ewell, a spokesman for the Dallas
County Sheriffs Department.
“One officer still faces a hearing,”
Ewell said. “We expect him to follow
the same line that the others did and
resign.”
He said the first detention officer
resigned Sunday, the second quit
Monday and a departmental hearing
on the third was pending.
Officials said all incoming in
mates, male and female, are proc
essed into the county’s four jails
through the central intake section at
the Sterrett center.
Female inmates are processed on
the center’s first two floors, officials
said. Jailers transport them by eleva
tor to the second floor where the in
mates receive prison clothes.
The investigation began Jan. 17
after jail officials heard rumors
among inmates that several jail in
take officers were sexually involved
with female prisoners, Ewell said.
Ewell said Lt. John Slovak, a
watch commander, saw a jailer and a
female prisoner enter an elevator
and was curious because the jailer
was not assigned to escort prisoners.
Slovak told investigators he took
an adjacent elevator to the second
floor, where he waited for about 12
minutes for the jailer and his pris
oner to arrive.
The prisoner told officers the
man had propositioned her in the el
evator, but that the two had not had
sex. Ewell said Slovak reported the
incident to the department’s Inter
nal Affairs Division.
Ewell said the prisoner told inter
nal affairs officers six days later that
she had sexual intercourse with the
jailer in exchange for cigarettes. She
also told investigators she had sex
with another officer on March 3.
Two jailers have told investigators
that they have had sex with female
inmates, Ewell said.
clotron grant designated for equipment
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By Ronda Tapp
Reporter
$3.7 million Department of Energy grant re
cently awarded to the University Cyclotron Insti
tute will provide new equipment for research and
student training, as well as funds for research
conducted over the grant’s three year period.
l)t. Dave Youngblood, director of the insti-
•KoF tute, said the equipment will be used for a new cy-
,N clotron, now being built by Texas A&M staff.
HThe estimated $8 million used to build the new
^■lotron was provided by the Robert A. Welch
meFoundation, which specializes in chemical re-
ntbsi 11 ^ search performed in Fexas.
Kit f new cyclotron is expected to be operating
this summer, Youngblood said, and will provide
new experimental capabilities not available any
where else in the United States.
The institute’s building was expanded in 1982
to accommodate the new cyclotron.
“When the new cyclotron goes into operation,”
Youngblood said, “the old one will be shut down.
We don’t have the demand or the resources to
keep it operating.”
The cyclotron primarily is used to gain an un
derstanding of the properties of nuclei as well as
what holds them together. Youngblood said it is
used for basic research, but in the process, new
technologies and applications to industry and
medicine are discovered.
The new cyclotron will allow researchers to
probe deeper into the nucleus of the atom be
cause it will accelerate ions to high speeds and be
cause it contains a magnet three times stronger
than the one used in the old cyclotron, he said.
Youngblood said students will be able to carry
out better research projects for their theses with
the help of the new cyclotron.
The approximately 25 graduate students now
working with the cyclotron will help build a new
apparatus to accompany the new cyclotron.
“Nearly all research done here is done in con
junction with graduate students,” Youngblood
said. “We also train individuals to later make con
tributions to research.”
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