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Dr. Wendy Stock, assistant pro fessor of psychology and founder of NOW at A&M, said the pro gram’s purpose is to educate and raise awareness about mysogyny — the hatred and mistrust of women — in America. Stock will discuss misogyny in popular magazines and in por- noerraphv magazines. The media frequently portrays degradation of women in an ero ticized context that Stock calls “sugar-coating violence.” “Much of the material (in the media) depicts women being de graded and sometimes as victims of violence,” Stock said. “Women are shown enjoying this type of behavior.” Fliers advertising the presenta tion warn that “explicit sexual and violent material will be shown.” Admission to the slide show is $2. 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We just really don’t know a whole lot about it and it can be a very dangerous dis ease. “Chlamydia was not seen as a huge problem until the last five or six years.” The A.P. Beutel Health Center reports chlamydia trachomatis is the most common of all communicable diseases among Texas A&M stu dents and its incidence has risen in the past year. The center treats mostly females with the disease, but this is primarily because males usually ignore the symptoms or attribute them to some thing else. However, 80 percent of females and usually all males show no symptoms. Miller says local cases of the disease are increasing. “The cases of chlamydia treated at the Brazos County Planned Paren thood have increased markedly over the past couple of years,” Miller said. “The cases of chlamydia are about 13 per 100 women, compared to cases of gonorrhea, which are about 2 per 100 women. I strongly suggest that women be checked for chlamy dia every time they go in for a check up.” The infection, caused by bacteria, most often is found among people under 25 years of age, especially high school teens. “We find chlamydia in younger sexually active people because they aren’t married and are more likely to have multiple partners than older, married people,” Miller said. In an article in the San Francisco Examiner, Phyllis Schoenwald of Planned Parenthood reports teen age females may be at a higher risk than older women because their cer vical cells are at a critical state of de velopment. Symptoms of the disease may ap pear two weeks to a month after ex posure and for females may include vaginal itching or a heavy white dis charge with an odor, lower abdomi nal pain, bleeding between men strual periods, an inflamed cervix or a low grade fever. If chlamydia in fe males is left untreated, it can cause a painful pelvic infection that may re quire hospitalization. Males may experience a discharge from the penis or a burning sensa tion during urinaton. If the male’s case of chlamydia is left untreated for several months he may develop epididymitis, an inflamation that causes pain near the testicles. Permanent damage to the repro ductive organs resulting in sterility may ultimately occur in both sexes, and babies can get pneumonia or eye infections if the mother has chlamy dia at the time of delivery. Dr. Claude Goswick, director of the Beutel health center, said the treatment for chlamydia is 10 days of tetracycline, an antibiotic. Both partners must be treated to prevent the “ping-pong effect,” or reinfec tion by the partner who carries the germ and isn’t getting treatment. The health center sells the medi cation to students for about $3.50. Miller said barrier methods of contraception — a condom or dia phragm — provide the best preven tion. Spermicidal methods are some what effective, she said. 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