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Monday, March 23, 1987/The Battalion/Page 5 Hsf Ir » 3 PM eats :al Student,^ 30 Nii.. S UP Monday DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING: Dr. Bill Moses will hold a review/help session on thermodynamics at 6:30 p.m. in 103 Zachry. PEER ADVISOR: will hold an information session at 7 p.m. in 308 Rudder. Applications are available in 108 YMCA through Friday. AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: will hold square dance lessons and nominate new officers at 7 p.m. in 226 MSC. TAMU MEN’S RUGBY: will hold practice at 4:30 p.m. in the parking lot behind Zachry Engineering Center. TAMU POLO CLUB: will hold practice at 6:30 p.m. at Dick Freeman Arena. STUDENT ACTIVITIES BUDGET WORKSHOP: two workshops for treasurers of eligible student organizations will be held at 3:30 and 4:45 p.m. in 225 MSC. Budget re quest forms are due at 4 p.m. Friday, in 217 MSC. TRANSFER CAMP ’87/STUDENT Y: applications for coun selors are available through Friday on the second floor of the Pavilion. Tuesday ALTERNATIVE CINEMA: will show “Seduced and Aban doned,” an Italian postwar comedy, at 8 p.m. in Langford Auditorium. TAMU MACINTOSH USERS GROUP: Alan Kay will speak on the future of personal computing at 7 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. OUTDOOR RECREATION CLUB: Dr. D.J. Pisan will speak on environmental conservation at 7 p.m. in 205 MSC. COWBOYS FOR CHRIST: will meet for Bible study at 8 p.m. in 101 Kleberg. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days prior to desired publication date. A&M professor: Animals can give people diseases By Sandra Voelkel Reporter Many people are unaware of a group of diseases called zoonoses man can- contract from animals, a Texas A&M professor says. Brucellosis is the most widely dis tributed zoonoses in the world to day, with about a million cases re ported a year. Dr. Leon Russell, professor of veterinary public health, says. Russell says humans acquire bru cellosis through animals, such as cattle and swine, or through inges tion of raw milk or undercooked meat containing the infectious orga nism. Russell says brucellosis is charac terized by fever, night sweat, pain, head and muscle aches, arthritis, weight loss and depression. The fever has an erratic pattern, he says, making the diagnosis of the disease difficult. The disease can become chronic and is difficult to cure, Russell says. He adds that the bacterial disease may last for months or years and eventually can get into bones, caus ing severe damage. Russell says brucellosis also shows up in workers who slaughter ani mals, in ranchers and farmers with hangnails and in veterinarians who have treated infected animals. Vaccinations and slaughter of in fected animals are some of the pre ventive measures used, Russell says. He says dairy products should be made out of pasteurized milk and cream to prevent the spread of the disease. The Federal Drug Association is considering the elimination of the transport of raw dairy products from one state to another, he says. The proposal has sparked a con troversy because some people be lieve they are being deprived of the right to have the natural food prod uct, he says. Russell says scientists have deter mined the time and temperature it takes to heat milk and kill the orga nism, but brucellosis is one of the most resistant organisms transmitted in milk. “Pasteurization was designed to remove disease-causing organisms in dairy products by killing the orga nisms with the heat process,” he says. As long as a person buys pasteur ized dairy products from reputable grocery stores and eats well-cooked meat, there is no need to worry, Rus sell says. 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Critics say the Border Patrol has moved into Zapata schools in a crackdown to prevent families from applying for amnesty under the new federal immigration law. The Border Patrol, however, says it takes children of undocumented aliens out of school to keep deported families together. Arresting potential amnesty appli cants, says the Border Patrol, has nothing to do with removing chil dren from schools or deporting their parents. School officials say the Border Pa trol’s move into local schools is un precedented in the community of 8,000, about 50 miles southeast of Laredo. Officials at Zapata’s high school, elementary, middle and junior high schools say uniformed Border Patrol agents recently have taken nine chil dren from their classrooms. Alberto Luera, executive director of Centro Atzlan in Laredo, a non profit group, says arresting families, including picking up children at schools, is becoming common in ru ral areas but not in cities such as La redo, where such a move would en rage the public. The center, says Luera, is consid ering a class-action lawsuit against the Border Patrol. School officials say that all of the children’s families have lived in Za pata for years. But the officials could not say whether the families lived in the United States before Jan. 1, 1982, a condition of amnesty under the new law. Aliens who can prove they have lived in the United States since 1981 qualify for amnesty under the new law. But the Immigration and Natu ralization Service will not begin tak ing applications until May 5. Rafael Torres of the American Friends Service Committee in La redo says the action in Zapata is an unprecedented move by the Border Patrol to disqualify as many families as possible before amnesty applica tions are accepted. Border Patrol Agent Richard Marroquin, second in command at the Border Patrol sector in Laredo, denies the accusation. Marroquin says agents picked up the children so that they would not be left without someone to care for them. Marroquin also denies that taking children from school is unprece dented. $ Thursday Night: The Sword in the Stone Sleeping Beauty Something Wicked This Way jSomes Friday Night: K. ~ Big Trouble in Little China Escape From New York 1 The Thing Saturday Night: Alien Aliens Poltergeist Sunday Afternoon*^ Labyrinth Science Fiction, Fantasy and Fun! b Four-day pass only $9; tickets in Rudder Box Office.} ENSES ollstpi I* SOFT !ES DAILY mil—!■ * iwmwmmmm ' y JUSTIN WILSON Will be at the Texas A&M Bookstore (lower level) Wed. 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