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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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ZAPATA (AP) — The 5-year-old
girl was in her kindergarten class
when the school principal walked in
and told her she had to leave.
Anselmi Trevino, principal of
North Elementary School, says he
could not bring himself to tell her
that Border Patrol agents arrested
her mother and father on illegal im
migration charges and that they
were being held in a van in the
school parking lot.
“A Border Patrol agent came into
the office and said. Tin coming for
the little girl,’ ” Trevino says, add
ing that he didn’t let the agent go
into the classroom.
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.
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