Battalion TATE & LOCAL Friday, February 3,1989 ion ck Drug Awareness’ comes to A&M enter looks to provide ‘Directions to New Attitude’ on campus i a lot of piil By Denise Thompson ng, my pa{ lege. TheylpjAFF WRITER ss it wastheiT lajority ofptlg Although “Just Say No” is perhaps the most 'ge today known anti-drug slogan in the country, the I think ili exas A&M Center for Drug Prevention and Ed- . • • cation hopes to build upon that idea with the gret mtssinj . r _ i acation, the ation, bull t a reverence “Direc- mpaign for Drug Awareness Week Ions to a New Attitude.” Similar to Alcohol Awareness Week that was Jponsored during the fall, Drug Awareness en throuj;li /eek at A&M is a spin-off of the National Colle- 1 make ad# iate's Drug Awareness Week, Ann Coombes, as- stant coordinator at the center, said. Although Alcohol Awareness Week had a vari- ty of programs to educate students, Coombes lid the center decided to put more emphasis on 1 always 1(Jsmaller number of activities for this event. i‘H “We decided to tone things down from Alco- lucation. i , . . i»r i , ° ' f IM Awareness Week and generate more energy n it tor a f ew er number of activities and make them s like lor- (juality activities,” she said. degree sow The week officially begins Feb. 6 and ends ie. ; Feb. 10. Throughout the week, the center will I lave a resource table in the MSC with different Ipes of information available about drugs. Dif ferent organizations will be at the table on differ- here. Many :hance to aiii ptdays. [“The Corps and APO have already agreed to .. . help with the table,” she said. “We’re hoping to applied, v | ave t | ie Q)U e g e Station police come in with the r graduate. BcGruff crime dog and man the table one day. pursued fo sake of a Also, we are trying to get the DPS office to set up their drug display for one day.” Coombes said the Student Y plans to incorpo rate part of its Big Hug event into Drug Aware ness Week because the two events are the same week. “They’re going to try and get bumper stickers made up that say, ‘Give Hugs — Not Drugs,’ ” she said. The first main program, a presentation for faculty, staff and students, will be Feb. 8. Spon sored by Parkside Emergency Services, MSC Great Issues, the Drug Awareness Committee and the center, the presentation will focus on co caine, crack and designer drugs, Coombes said. “Our activities for drug awareness week differ from the alcohol awareness week also in that the programs for alcohol awareness week focused more on students, and drug awareness week is focused on students but also on faculty and staff,” she said. “A lot of faculty members have children and are going to be interested in the questions this presentation will cover, such as how drugs are done, where you get them and how they’re trea ted.” The other major event for the week will be Feb. 9. As a spin-off of MTV’s game show, “Re mote Control,” the center will help sponsor a game called the “Drug Control Game.” Contes tants will be drawn from various student lead ership organizations, Coombes said. “We hope to have student leaders from stu dent government, the Corps and we’ll probably have Reveille,” she said. “Questions about drug usage and prevention will be included in the game.” Although Coombes said the center hopes to have an impact on A&M, she said drugs have not been a major problem at the University. “That’s probably because of the conservative nature of the school,” she said. “It could also stem from the evolution from the military.” While A&M ranks relatively low in comparison to other metropolitan schools’ drug problems, Coombes said some areas require attention. “We still rank alcohol as a drug, and there is a high incidence of alcohol abuse on this campus,” she said. “Marijuana and cocaine have also been seen here, as well as designer drugs such as ecstacy. So we do have a reason to sponsor a drug awarness week. “However, hopefully the events we have planned for the week will at least start educating people to what drugs really are and what they can do to you.” plating a leek is unllai; t shows a pn loney, and an won’t help nt it.” Pick up permits or forfeit spaces in parking garage a senior join im :e you’ll fin at a blacksmi Texas A&M University sin- who have paid for a re- / I he Battalii served parking space in the new mits may do so until Monday. After Monday, any reserved irking permits that' have not / been picked up by the students ^ who purchased them will be jiade available to students cur- ently on the waiting list for park- ng spaces. Lawmaker wants to suspend licenses of school dropouts AUSTIN (AP) — Some high school dropouts could have their driver’s licenses suspended for one year under a bill announced Thurs day by a state lawmaker who says it’s time to try new ways to keep stu dents in school. “I do not believe that public rela tions campaigns alone can effectively discourage students from dropping out,” Rep. EL d d i e L u c i o, D - Brownsville, said. “I think that this (driving) is a privilege that especially students in high school like and cherish, and if it in any way is endangered, hopefully this would motivate them to con tinue (in school),” Lucio said at a news conference. Lucio said that under his bill, school districts would be required to notify the Texas Department of Public Safety of a student who drops out. The student then would have his or her driving privileges revoked for up to a year, he said. The DPS couldn’t reinstate a li cense before one year unless the stu dent re-enrolled in school and had been in attendance for a full semes ter without any unexcused absences. The bill is expected to be changed to allow exceptions for special cases, Lucio said, such as students who drop out for economic reasons and must drive to work, or those who earn a high-school equivalency di ploma. Lucio also said he would work to ensure the bill would not conflict with the compulsory attendance law, which requires students to attend school through the year of their 16th birthday. nething thai mfortable,!)! wice when i! tround with: ;t. . Basical); ■es up ward, p: xibility and or the spine. or no curve. itself. Theai of like theh for me tosta: ack and for rable misund irs. bly sensed h id they’ve ret ves stubbed ai ice they get ersonally wl: oot any mort gize, he er one, too,l; [edia Services, It ti STATE This Spring Break, go Grey Ik Kind instead. 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Dr. Karl Goodkin, psychiatrist and assistant professor of psy chiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, said a report containing these findings is preliminary and part of an ongoing longitudinal study. A patient goes through two stages before developing acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The first stage is the appear ance of the immunodeficiency vi rus (HIV). An infected person may remain virtually symptom- free for years and may not test positive for a variable length of time after being exposed to the virus. The intermediate stage, or pre- AIDS stage, is AIDS-related com plex (ARC). The time it takes to develop AIDS after being in fected with HIV is extremely va riable, ranging from three months to eight years. “Lor this reason, my colleagues and I think psychosocial factors may play a part in that variability by extending that time,” Goodkin said. Goodkin’s study included 40 homosexual males, some who were infected with HIV but had not progressed to AIDS. Others in the study either were not HIV- infected or had been diagnosed as having AIDS or ARC. Results of his study showed that those who had HIV but had not progressed to AIDS had less stress in their lives, more social support and more effective wavs of coping with stress than either the non-infected group oW the group that had progressed to AIDS or ARC. “In our research we’re trying to find a psychosocially at-risk population of people who don’t have symptoms but have been ex posed to the virus,” Goodkin said. In some cases he believes in us ing denial instead of acceptance of the disease. “Denial is best used when HIV positive patients have no symp toms at all,” Goodkin said. “We encourage them to do things such as exercise regularly, get enough sleep, and avoid alcohol and drug use, cigarette smoking and caf feine intake.” If someone tests positive for HIV and continues to abuse drugs, drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes, the disease is more likely to progress rapidly, he said. “All of this is highly speculati ve,” Goodkin said. “We will need follow-up studies with larger groups before we can be confi dent that we have an association of stress and coping styles with progression of HIV.” Dr. Howard Kaplan, Texas A&M professor of sociology, said Goodkin’s findings are consistent with other findings that stress-re lated phenomena are correlated with changes in the functioning of the immune system. 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