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The Battalion
Tuesday, June 18,1991
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Early detection of STDs
key to successful cure
Hickman: A&M needs more emphasis on arts If
Continued from page 1
Genital warts affect about 3
million Americans each year. Of
ten, this STD does not cause no
ticeable symptoms. Signs in
clude small bumpy warts on or
around the genited area.
Chlamydia and genital warts
can be treated and cured.
Genital herpes, however, is
one of the two STDs that is in
curable. The other is Acquired
Immunodeficiency Syndrome
(AIDS).
Genital heroes is a viral infec
tion that prociuces flu symptoms
with some sores in the genital
area. These symptoms usually
last one to three weeks.
"Herpes has a cyclical activ
ity," Gonzalez-Lima said. "Once
the first critical episode passes, it
can remain dormant for six
months, one year or more.
"Certain triggers can make the
herpes reappear," she added. "It
can be stress, poor nutrition or
an abnormally fast and unheal
thy lifestyle."
Syphilis is a STD that, much
like herpes, begins with an initial
outbreak and then can remain
dormant for several years.
Syphilis is a bacterial infection
which enters the bloodstream,
infects the entire body and goes
through several stages.
The first stage is a sore on the
genitals called a chancre. It can
occur on the inside of the body
and go unnoticed. The chancre
disappears within a few weeks,
but the disease will progress if
not treated.
The second stage, a skin rash
which might cover the entire
body, usually appears two to 12
weeks after the chancre disap
pears.
The rash, however, might not
appear until three to five years
after the first stage.
If syphilis goes untreated be
yond the second stage, it can
lead to blindness, heart disease,
brain damage and death.
The Texas State Department of
Health in Bryan has a disease in
tervention specialist who, when
people test positive for syphilis,
lal i
obtains a list of their sexual part
ners.
The specialist then notifies the
sexual partners and tells them
they need to come in for testing.
"He has a very rough job,"
said Health Educator Tracy An
derson of the Texas State Depart
ment of Health. "Some people
can't remember all of their sexual
partners in the past month."
After years of being on the de
cline, syphilis is reported to be
on the rise again. In 1989, the
number of reported cases of
syphilis in the United States rose
17 percent, to about 101,000
cases.
Gonorrhea, though it is still
common, is the one major STD
that reportedly has decreased,
falling 10 percent to 700,000
cases in 1989.
Gonorrhea is a bacterial infec
tion of the sexual organs, rec
tum, eyes and throat.
Symptoms are a burning sen
sation when urinating, discharge
from the vagina or penis, swol
len joints, fever and pain in the
pelvic area. Gonorrhea also can
lead to PID.
Gonorrhea can be cured, but
strains of gonorrhea have been
found that will not respond to
the treatment, Anderson said.
"Some people come in who
have had gonorrhea five or six
times," Anderson said. "After
having the disease that often,
the treatment begins to fail on
that person."
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difference here if you're willing
to work. That's not true every
where."
One thing Hickman would
like to see change at A&M is the
establishment of a school of fine
arts. Though he believes the Col
lege of Architecture produces
artists, the area needs many
more.
"The University suffers
from a lack of artists," he sai
"This community needs them.
They give us alternative visions
of the world, which the sciences
and even the humanities don't
always do."
greatly policy
e said. Hickrr
Hickman, who chews cigars
much more than he smokes
them, is an avowed workaholic.
He teaches several classes each
semester, usually about the phi
losophy of technology.
He is a fourth-year faculty sen
ator, member of the Senate's Ex
ecutive Committee, and has
served on committees active in
drafting the University's AIDS
and improving the library,
ickman also writes a quarterly
opinion column for a local news
paper and still is active with
GLSS.
When he is not doing any of
that, he spends time at home
with his wife, gardens or plays
handyman around the house.
"It has always struck me that
academics tend to concentrate
on one thing to the detriment of
others," he said. "To stay
healthy, one has to stay balanced
in his work."
Hickman, who spent his
youth in the Rio Grande Valley,
quickly learned about life's dis
advantaged. He picked cotton
with migrant workers for several
years for pocket money, but his
Hispanic counterparts toiled in
the fields for a living.
That experience and many
others in the valley made a great
impression on him.
"A lot of the reason I stick n-
for people comes from the ft
Grande Valley," he said. "Frot
the time I was a boy, Hispait;
were heavily discriminaft;
against. It was an eyeopener s.
kind of racial prejudice there."
Hickman recognized ear
how the system is weighit
against society's minorities. R
wey's lessons of action incorp
rated with thought are the pi
losophies Hickman maintai:
today.
"Dewey believed thinkings
to some end," he said. "Ifo
that admirable."
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U.S. should side with Yeltsin, A&M expert says 1
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"They realize the army could
step in and take control, but the
question they ask is whether or
not they can keep it," he said. "If
the entire country shuts down in
a general strike, there isn't much
the army can do. The army may
have the guns, but the demo
crats have the power of the peo
ple."
Hatchett said dealing with the
Soviet Union will require a new
diversity in policy.
"We will nave to find a way to
communicate with more than
one faction," he said. "For the
long term, however, we don't
want to be caught backing the
side that finds itself out of
power. We can't pour money to
Gorbachev if he ends up losing
power despite his position.
"The era of a strong American
presidential tie with Gorbachev
nas drawn to a close," Hatchett
said. "We now need to draw to
ward the democratic element
found in the Yeltsin camp."
Hatchett said the Yeltsin peo
ple admit Gorbachev is a re
former but not one working to
ward democracy and a free
market economy.
"Gorbachev wants to create a
human face for socialism," he
said. "He wants to find a way to
make it work better. He wants to
keep state ownership and retain
set market prices."
U.S. as well, must consult wit
Yeltsin and others in nearly af
their dealings with the Sow
Union."
Hatchett said some of Gorba
chev's chief economic advisers
complained their advice was not
being taken. They label Gorba
chev a socialist reformer, not a
democrat, he said.
"We have to listen to more
than one faction now," he said.
"Not only Gorbachev, but the
As a result, Hatchett said tit
United States must be carelt
how funds are given to theSov
ets.
"The funds can't be put into
black hole," he said. "1
money needs to be put sontt
where it can help the average q:
izen, and to do that we must it;
gotiate with these factions. The:
we can decide how to best he!:
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Neighborhoods, hospitals, prop
erty ownership, parks, beaches
and many other facilities have
been legally desegregated.
But many blacks, faced with
widespread violence in black
townships and a 2-year-old re
cession, feel their living condi
tions have worsened despite the
political reforms.
The right to live in an affluent
white suburb means little when
most blacks cannot afford homes
even in poor black neighbor
hoods. Black townships and
schools are overcrowded and
poorly financed. Good hospitals
are far away.
Critics also complain about
loopholes in desegregation.
chools may
•opnoie
White
public schools may now
be integrated, for example, but
only if 72 percent of white par
ents at a school vote to accept
children of other races. About
100 schools in Johannesburg,
Cape Town and Durban area:
cepting blacks, but nearly a!
schools are still segregated.
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