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The Battalion Friday, Oct. 21, 1988
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‘Hallewood Squares 9 helps inform
Aggies about drinking responsibly
Photo by Fredrick D. Joe
Student leaders participate in Hall-e-wood Squares.
By Sharon Maberry
Staff Writer
Texas A&M students had their
own version of a game show Thurs
day with “Hallywood Squares” as a
part of National Collegiate Alcohol
Awareness Week. The competition
between different A&M residence
halls took place at Spence Hall and
was sponsored, in part, by the Resi
dence Hall Association and the Cen
ter for Drug Prevention and Educa
tion.
The event followed the format of
the game show “Hollywood Squares”
with student leaders in nine windows
of Spence Hall forming a square. Stu
dent leaders, including representa
tives from RHA, Off-Campus Ag
gies, Student Government, Alpha Phi
Omega service fraternity, Interfrater
nity Council, bonfire crew, yell lead
ers and Reveille, answered questions
about alcohol and responsible deci
sion making to which contestants ei
ther agreed or disagreed.
The yell leaders started the game
with a few yells for about 200 specta
tors. The panel of student leaders
amused the audience (and them
selves) by periodically throwing wa
ter balloons from the windows.
The panel answered general ques
tions about alcohol and about its use
on university campuses. Questions
ranged from the chemical formula for
alcohol to the best way to handle a
drunk person to the percentage of stu
dents that use alcohol regularly.
Contestants from 15 residence
halls competed for gift certificates
from local businesses. There also
were prizes for residence halls with
the best participation.
This is the second year that “Hally
wood Squares” was a part of National
Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week.
Matt Krasin, from RHA, said the
event was coordinated by a small
group representing RHA.
“1 think it went really well,” Krasin
said. “We added more to the event
this year. We had better signs and
more publicity.”
Last year’s coordinator of “Hally
wood Squares,” Darby Roberts,
agreed that this year’s event was suc
cessful.
“We didn't want to lecture, but I
think people learned things (about al
cohol) they might not know,” he said.
Debra Doyle, a graduate assistant
at the Center for Drug Prevention and
Education, said other events for Na
tional Collegiate Alcohol Awareness
Week Thursday included an Open
House at the Center for Drug Preven
tion and Education on campus to let
students know about available serv
ices and “Think before you drink”
night at Grafitti, sponsored by Gra
ft tti and Alpha Phi Omega.
Insulin eye drop research may provide
alternative to injections for diabetics
By David Stanaland
Reporter
The development of insulin eye drops
s an alternative to needles and syringes
las been a major advancement for treat-
nent of diabetes patients, a Texas A&M
Jniversity pharmacologist said.
Dr. George Chiou from the A&M
nedical research center said research
/ith eye drops is still being tested on ani-
tials and it could be at least a year before
eeye drops will be tested on humans.
He said that the use of eyedrops could
e particularly critical to patients who
JsSuffer hypoglycemic crises.
Hypoglycemia, a low blood-sugar
fevel, results from too much insulin,
or diet or overwork. A hypoglycemic
crisis can result in an irreversible coma,
and death can occur within 30 to 45 min
utes, Chiou said.
He explained that the sudden drop in
the blood-sugar level is a result of the
body’s inability to produce glucagon.
Unlike insulin, which is produced by
the body to reduce the blood-sugar level,
glucagon raises the body’s blood-sugar
level.
Chiou said that hypoglycemia is es
sentially the opposite of diabetes. When
the blood-sugar level drops below the
normal level the person becomes dizzy
and weak and will eventually lose con
sciousness if the imbalance is not cor
rected.
Chiou said it would be easier and
quicker for a person experiencing such
symptoms to use glucagon eye drops, as
opposed to the time it would take to use a
needle and syringe.
“According to tests in rabbits, gluca
gon eye drops are just as effective when
administered intravenously or by intra
muscular injection,” Chiou said.
These tests reveal that both treatments
have a reaction time of 30 minutes.
During a hypoglycemic reaction, us
ing eye drops would take four to five
minutes less than would self-injection of
the glucagon, he said. These few min
utes, he said, could be critical to the pa
tient’s life.
Other benefits of eye drops, Chiou
said, is that they require almost no train
ing to use, are less expensive and are
generally more appealing to people than
needles and syringes are.
Despite these benefits, Chiou said,
more testing is needed before the eye
drops can be made available to the pub
lic.
Chiou said that he has been testing
glucagon’s effectiveness on rabbits with
excellent results for about a year. The
next stage of experiments will test the
drug’s safety.
Glucagon will be given in large doses
to the rabbits over long periods of time.
The testing process is done for any new
drug to test for possible side effects, he
said.
“We are confident that we will not see
any side effects because the drug is a nat
ural element of the body,” Chiou said.
If the results are satifactory the Food
and Drug Administration will approve
testing on humans.
The testing will be conducted on a
very small scale under a doctor’s close
supervision, he said.
Chiou said that if the test results are
approved by the FDA, glucagon may be
made available for public use.
Glucagon would be only one of the
drugs that can be administered with eye
droppers.
“Eye drops have a very wide applica
tion for any peptide drug,” Chiou said.
Peptide drugs are those produced natu
rally by the body. If these peptide drugs
are swallowed they would be destroyed
in the body’s digestive tract.
Until the discovery that eye drops may
be used with peptides such as insulin and
glucagon, he said, the drugs were in
jected with a needle and syringe.
Authorities
plan to stop
vote fraud
AUSTIN (AP) — Vote fraud in Texas
will be prosecuted vigorously, a state
election officer said Thursday, as Texas
and federal authorities described efforts
to guarantee a proper election Nov, 8.
“What I want to see is to treat vote
fraud with the same toughness that we
treat other crimes,” assistant secretary of
state Randy Erben said.
“We’re here to tell you that we are
going to investigate, prosecute and pun
ish, to the fullest extent of the law, any
one that we can detect that’s committing
vote fraud^,” Erben said. . _—
Deterring vote fraud also is a goal,
said Erben, who appeared with three
U.S. attorneys for Texas and representa
tives of the FBI and Texas Rangers par
ticipating in a vote fraud task force.
“I hope that inspectors, simply by be
ing at a polling place, will deter those
tempted to tamper with an election,” Er
ben said.
The secretary of state’s office said
more than 250 inspectors have already
been recruited to observe and to report ir
regularities. They were recruited primar
ily from among attorneys and state em
ployees .
In addition to areas where voters have
made requests, inspectors will be sent to
areas where vote fraud problems histori
cally have occurred, including East and
South Texas, Erben said.
He said those areas were determined
after discussions with U.S. attorneys, the
FBI and the Texas Department of Public
Safety, and after examining past election
inspector reports.
Ed Martin, executive director of the
Texas Democratic Party, said he was
concerned about Secretary of State Jack
Rains, a Republican, sending inspectors
to areas with Democratic and minority
concentrations without requests from lo
cal officials.
“We’re going to be watching it with a
very careful eye. If this thing is done in a
way that has any partisan overtones, I
think we’d suggest the secretary of state
and his assistant . . . ought to just take a
leave of absence and go to work for their
beloved Republican Party,” Martin said.
Martin said Democrats would closely
scrutinize the program to ensure voter in
timidation does not occur.
“We’re hopeful this will be run in a
proper manner. If it is, we’ll be the first
to say that they’ve done a good job,” he
said.
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