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The Battalion Tuesday, Dec
1988 Page3
Students miss bonfire festivities
o assist frightened rape victim
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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,”
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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.
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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.
Under Bullock’s revenue esti
mate, state lawmakers will have
about $25.5 billion in available
revenue for the two-year budget
period that begins Sept. 1.
The LBB staff budget is about
$1,068 billion more, at $26.62 bil
lion.
“Hopefully, the public realizes
that there is not just an abun
dance of surplus money,” Lewis
said.
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