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88 Page; State/Local The Battalion Tuesday, Dec 1988 Page3 Students miss bonfire festivities o assist frightened rape victim t Thursday's ase three By Melissa Naumann Reporter Heroes are hard to find in a world there bystanders often turn away ignore cries for help. But on c : tjonfir 6 night, two Texas A&M stu- >1 the Aggie team I (| etl t; S proved that heroes can be T>und anywhere. Mandy Ussery and Robert Collins ere leaving a friend’s dormitory at evening when a female student Aiproached them. “She ran across the quad to us, ahbed me and started screaming,” rricane Bowl” has labama. Bull ition. prayer, an Aggie func- said Ussery, a junior elementary ed ucation major from Bay City. “She told us she had been raped.” Collins said they took her back into the dormitory, where they called the police. “She was really up set and we thought we should take care of her,” the sophomore me chanical engineering major from San Antonio said. After the police arrived, Ussery and Collins accompanied the victim to the hospital. “We couldn’t just leave her with the policemen,” Ussery said. “After all, she had just been raped and then was supposed to go with the officer, a man she didn’t know, to the hospi tal. I would have been terrified if I was her, so we volunteered to go with her.” Ussery said the woman didn’t want to go back to her room, so she stayed with her the rest of the night. Bob Wiatt, director of security and University Police, thanked the two for their “courageous and com passionate involvement” in a letter of public commendation. “What you both did is, unfortu nately, a rarity in today’s world,” Wiatt wrote. “Your willingness to be come involved, the care and concern displayed for the victim and the dis regard for your own personal wel fare and holiday plans, was exem plary and praiseworthy. “Hopefully, your deed will be re garded as a ‘traditional’ Aggie re sponse in time of another’s need.” Ussery said they did what anyone would do. t Ease on povertv y that explained r make endsraeei nber of poverty w|| >norance but just becausea adequate amount I red to death. male, eventhougli hood and try to rrson in vour other urges parents of tots, teens ;o be on lookout for Reye Syndrome n it should notsti ndent body. mother’s house for cas alarmingsinceit;! 1 loyal Ags having ight away. 1 was r “Farmers Fight. s for helpingme feed. MARSHALL (AP) — Carolyn ymes lost her child to Reye Syn- Jome six years ago because, she ys, of the lack of knowledge about iedisease at that time. And with the Id and flu season approaching this at, she is concerned about public areness. “As far as people being aware of it, there is not enough publicity,” she sjys. ■ Reye Syndrome is a disease that ■flicts infants to teen-agers. It af- gets all the organs, but most -se- pusly the liver and brain. Its symptoms include vomiting, ild convulsions, sleepiness and irri- ibility. If it is not treated right away, patient slips into a coma, then It s or suffers brain damage. According to a report by the Na- bnal Reye Syndrome Foundation, iere is a possible link between the sease and products containing as- itin. “It’s the flu season, and people are ing a lot of aspirin,” Hymes says. She said she wants to tell people ey should not be using aspirin for eir children because of the in- eased chance of contracting Reye. I According to David Perkins, exec utive director of the National Reye Foundation, a recent study has shown that the likelihood is four times greater of contracting Reye if the patient has taken an product containing aspirin. “Unless you have a specific indica tion that aspirin is needed to treat a disease, I would not give aspirin,” he says. “In general, don’t treat aspirin lightly. It is a powerful drug.” Perkins says that in June 1986, the Food and Drug Administration or dered that a warning label be placed on all aspirin products on a two-year experimental basis. He says the warning label was strengthened and made a perma nent fixture on aspirin products last December. The link between Reye and aspi rin is also recognized by the Center for Disease Control and the U.S. Surgeon General. Often Reye is misdiagnosed as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), diabetes, drug overdose (in older patients) or meningitis, as was the case with Hymes’ son, Dustin. “A lot of that can be Reye, doctors say,” Hymes says. “They thought Dusty had a virus at First, then men ingitis, then (the doctor) diagnosed it as Reye Syndrome.” After the doctor told her that Dustin had a virus, she began giving him aspirin, but he did not get bet ter, so she took him to the hospital. But the disease was diagnosed too late. After Dustin died, Hymes joined with a Reye Syndrome support group in Dallas to increase aware ness of the disease. The group’s main goal was to gain recognition of the disease by the Na tional Center for Disease Control in Atlanta so research could be more adequately funded. She circulated petitions and col lected hundreds of signatures. Eight months later, the disease was recog nized. “They will investigate it now,” she says. “They are now aware and they keep track.” Reye is recognized and reported, but not automatically and not in all states, Perkins says. “It is still difficult to get good sta tistical data,” he says. Of the cases reported, he says there has been an increase of the dis ease in the teen-age population. “We don’t have a reason for it,” he says. “Our thoughts are that these children are self-medicating. They are not sufficiently aware of the role that aspirin plays.” Hymes says she has now found a doctor who is aware of the disease and routinely administers blood tests to detect Reye and other diseases. Hymes advises parents to find a doctor who is aware of the disease and will test for it. She also strongly advises that parents be careful using aspirin products and consider using aspirin substitutes. If parents even suspect their chil dren have Reye, Hymes advises they get the children tested immediately. “If there is any doubt, get that child to the hospital or a qualified doctor,” she says. “If you drag your feet, the child’s going to die.” Perkins says doctors are better in formed of Reye Syndrome today, but, he says, there is still work to be done. In order to increase awareness NRSF has a slide and tape program available for doctors’ use. Perkins says they also mail information about the disease to school superin tendents. Budget board report: Texas faces shortfall of at least $ 1 billion AUSTIN (AP) — State law makers face at least a $1 billion shortfall, which could possibly balloon to $2 billion, to maintain the current level of state services, budget leaders said Monday. Figures from the Legislative Budget Board staff dampened last week’s revenue estimate by State Comptroller Bob Bullock, who noted a statewide economic recovery that would result in $1.6 billion more in revenue than dur ing the current budget period. But even with the additional $1.6 billion, state lawmakers will face a $1 billion shortfall to fund a two-year state budget recom mended by the LBB staff. The LBB staff budget main tains the current level of spend ing, plus additional funds to cover the costs of increased stu dent enrollment and prison con struction. The staff budget does not take into account any pay increase for state employees, nor inflation, ex cept in some human service areas. Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, chairman of the budget group that includes House and Senate members, said he thinks the deficit could in crease even further. “Actually, I think a more realis tic figure would be $2 billion when you take into account pub lic school financing,” he said. A state district court judge ruled Texas’ school finance sys tem is unconstitutional because it discriminates against students in poor schools, which are unable to raise as much money to educate students as wealthier districts. But neither Hobby nor House Speaker Gib Lewis, D-Fort Worth, would say whether a tax increase would be needed to bridge the revenue shortfall. “Nobody can really answer that question right now,” Hobby said. Lewis said the attitude at this point is against another tax bill. “That’s not saying three months from now some situations may exist where we may be forced to do it,” Lewis added, ref erring to federal court orders to improve prisons and mental health-mental retardation facili ties. In 1987, the Legislature passed and Gov. Bill Clements signed into law a record $5.7 billion tax bill. Lewis said Comptroller Bul lock’s revenue estimate may have “I think a more realistic (deficit) figure would be $2 billion when you take into account public school financing. ” — Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby been misread by many. “The comptroller’s estimate was made in light that conditions are better today than they were two years ago,” Lewis said. “It may have been misinter preted by some that life is rosy,” he said. “That is not a fact at all.” Hobby said the budget board will direct the staff to come back with a budget within available revenue. This would entail reduc ing the staff recommendation by about 3.8 percent. Jim Oliver, director of the Leg islative Budget Board staff, said there is not much room in the budget to bring the recommenda tion in line with available reve nue. One big-ticket item that would face the budget ax is $330 million for construction of 10,000 prison beds, he said. 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