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A&M residence halls get checkup
By Brandon Hausenfluck
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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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