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CT ., ) 1:15 4:10 7:30 10:25 KAZAAM (PG) 11:20 1:40 4:15 TWISTER (PG-13) 9:30 THE ROCK (R) 7:25 10:35 THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (G) 11:15 1:30 3:45 6:00 STRIPTEASE (R) 8:15 10:50 Page 2 • Tin Batt alion • Wednesday, August 7, 1996 A&M residence halls get checkup By Brandon Hausenfluck The Battalion ' NO PASSES OR SUPERSAVER ACCEPTED http://www.ipt.com 601 Harvey Rd. — ME UP \f Family owned & operated Quality Service since 1987 “People who know use Valvoline" <cx College Station • 693-6189 Mon - Sat 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Going Home? Don’t break down getting there! Before you leave get your free trip inspection which includes: * Brake inspection * Engine performance * Belts & Hoses * Battery check * Airconditioning check Cali for an appointment or stop by and Ask for Bruce Residence halls across campus are getting a checkup. On Jcily 15, crews started work on studying the stability of the halls. The Texas A&M Department of Residence Life and Housing has hired two out-of-town firms to examine all the dorms and Uni versity apartments. The firms will inspect the buildings to see if they are structurally secure and develop a long-range plan to im prove student housing. Ron Sasse, director of the De partment of Residence Life and Housing, said in a press release the study will shed light on areas that need improvement. “Before we can chart a course for the future, we have to know the condition of the ship we’ll be sailing in,” he said. “This study will give us that insight.” Halff Associates, an architec tural engineering firm in Dallas, and R.G. Vanderweil of Boston will conduct the examinations, which should be finished by the beginning of the fall semester. Kim Walter, an assistant to the director of Resident Life and Housing, said the study will de termine what needs to be done to upgrade the residence halls. “They (contractors) are in the middle of the studies right now,” she said. “The rent increase will be used to fund cable TV for all the dorms. The study will let us know how we can get cable to the halls.” About 2.6 million square feet of residence halls and Uni versity-owned apartments will be examined. Although some students say the study could be beneficial, some have doubts. Jeremy Hubble, a former Dunn Hall resident and senior civil en gineering major, said some changes should not be made. “I think the cable thing is a big waste,” he said. “Most people on my floor didn’t even have TVs.” Hubble said the rent increases on campus should be avoided. “It’s beginning to be more eco nomical to live off campus be cause the rent (on campus) is al ways increasing,” he said. “It’s starting to cost the same (to live off campus) without the perks.” Curtis Pete, a sophomore com puter engineering major, said the problem is that students who live in the dorms do not take care of them. “There are a lot of people who don’t care,” Pete said. Other students think the Schumacher Hall and other dorms across campus are beingki to see it they are structurally secure. dorms could use some work. Brett Sawyer, a freshman general stud ies major, said although he has not lived in any dorms before this summer, he thinks some improve ments can be made. “The walls don’t \ooVte Sawyer said. “But the aii i tioning is great." The study will be co*. ed before the beginiE! the fall semester. Unfaithful husbands may take cervical cancer home to w« WASHINGTON (AP) — Unfaithful hus bands may give their wives cancer. That’s the conclusion of a study that found women are five to 11 times more likely to devel op cervical cancer if their men frequent prosti tutes or have many sexual partners. The cancer is directly linked to human papillomavirus, or HPV, a virus that is commonly spread by sexu al intercourse. “Male behavior is the important thing in this cancer,” said Dr. Keerti V. Shah, a profes sor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He said men who have many sexual partners are very likely to carry home the HPV virus and that up to 97 percent of cervi cal cancers are infected with virus. “In effect, the husband takes cancer home to his wife,” said Shah, co-author of a study on cervical cancer to be published Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Although the study showed that men brought the virus home to their wives, any woman can put herself at increased risk by having many different sexual partners, said Shah. The cancer risk for women, he said, increases with the number of either direct or indirect sexual exposures. The study, conducted in Spain, compared the sexual patterns of husbands whose wives have cervical cancer with a control group of husbands whose wives were healthy. The study took into account other lifestyles influ ences, such as smoking. The study also took genital swabbings to test for the presence in both spouses of the HPV virus. In the study group were 183 women with cervical cancer and their husbands. The con trol group had 171 couples. Risk of cervical cancer was increased 11 times for wives of men who had 21 or more other sex partners. The cervical cancer risk was eight times greater among wives of men who frequented prostitutes, the studyfc Dr. Willard Barnes of Georgp University School of Medicine sa::' study reinforces evidence that "cen cancer in many ways is similar top venereal disease.” “HPV is a very common type of vircSs said. “It has been known for someta it places women at a higher riskofcef cancer. The message from studies liketf that men should stay home.” There are more than 75 different :t of HPV virus. Some cause ordinary^ ' the hands, arms or legs. At least two,?.# number 6 and 11, cause genital warts ' 1 cervical cancers are related to HPV nr# 16 and 18. In the study, Shah said ths searchers found all different typ# HPV strains in genital specimens! from the husbands. 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