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dailyemerald Vol. 82, No. 88 1 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Wednesday, January 28, 1981 _ Flu bug bites Colds, coughs catch students; rest, time two best remedies By BILL MANNY Of The Emerald Staying healthy during the winter is more a matter of luck than precaution. “Cross your fingers," advises student health center director and physician James Jackson. Although a number of students have come into the center with the flu and other winter illnesses, Jackson says there’s no danger of an epidemic. Winter brings coughing and sneezing people indoors, providing a breeding ground for infec tion, according to Jackson. Students who come to the University from across the country con tribute all kinds of viruses. “It makes the University a foci for infection,” Jackson says. Assaulted by a myriad of viruses, “students at the University are more susceptible to infection. “It’s a season for almost any type of respira tory virus.” The University has been “lucky” to avoid outbreaks in the past few years, although it has had its share of colds, flu, bronchitis, and upper respiratory infections. The respiratory infections include those of the throat, nose, ears, larynx, lungs, and bronchus, says Jackson. The current prevalent variety of flu is type A’ Bangkok. Jackson says the symptoms are: • No energy. • Headache. • Muscle aches and pains. • Frequent nasal congestion. • Sore throat. • Dry cough. Severe symptoms — like prolonged coughing with lots of sputum or mucous, a persistent fever or sore throat — should be treated at the health center, Jackson says If the flu strikes, the only cure is to give it time Jackson recommends: • Reduce activites. • Stay in bed and get lots of rest. • Take an aspirin or aspirin substitute for headaches, chills, muscle aches and sore throat. • Drink lots of fluids. “Just lay low for a few days," Jackson ad vises. It usually take 72 hours for the ailment to run its course. Even though there may be some residual sypmtoms later, activities can be re sumed. Rest is important since these illnesses can lead to pneumonia and bacterial infections. What can be done to avoid getting the bug? "Knock on wood,” Jackson says. “Really, the stuff is around and there’s noth ing you can do about it.” "Stay away from people who are coughing and sneezing,” he advises. Graphic by Ken Babbs Kulongoski lashes out at racist remarks By GREG WASSON Ol the Emerald The University’s Environmental Law Clinic has filed successful law suits and received injuctions unfavorable to the timber industry. That activity has an gered some timber interests, and they have threatened to withdraw their sup port of the University unless the clinic is scrapped. Tuesday, state Sen. Ted Kulongoski, D-Junction City, charged that attacks on the clinic have become attacks on the law school’s new dean, Derrick Bell. Kulongoski says detractors of the pro gram have seized on the fact that Bell is black as a way to scuttle the program. “And for those of you who think that it’s cranks, that it’s bigots who run around in white sheets," Kulongoski told the senate, “I would suggest to you that racial bigotry knows no economic, it knows no educational and it knows no social barriers.” Kulongoski says the racist remarks were made by Eugene lumber lawyer Louis Hoffman, attorney for one of the clinic critics, at a weekend meeting. When contacted by phone, Hoffman had no comment for publication Kulon goski attributed to Hoffman remarks that Bell is “a civil-rights activist, and we can’t tolerate that type of individual in Senator says Eugene lawyer criticized new law dean Bell legislative issues Oregon.” The statement made Kulongoski livid. "I’m going to tell you now, that if these people want to address this issue on that 11 level, if they insist on attacking the inte grity of Derrick Bell because he will not bend to their desires, then if it’s a fight they want, it’s a fight they’ll get." Kulongoski said he wasn’t there to defend Bell because the dean “is very capable of defending himself. But what I am going to defend is this great state. It is unconscionable to me that people in these influential positions would attack a clinic to get at the dean because he is a civil rights activist. “And you know, they say that civil rights activists are no different than en vironmentalists, and Oregon doesn't need them, they say." Ironically, Bell made an analogy between racism and the attack on the environmental clinic in an interview two weeks ago. “Blacks didn’t bring on double-digit inflation. We didn’t have anything to do with the Arabs setting the oil prices so high. We didn’t provide the kind of infla tion and unemployment that we are suf fering now But, as in past times, whites look around and say Who can we jump on?’ Bell said “The same thing with the environmen tal law clinic We didn’t provide 20 per cent interest rates that made house building go down, that made the market dry up We re not in charge of the whole environmental effort But, they look around and they can’t do anything about that and they say Look at those so-and so’s down there.' There’s a direct paral lel, and I recognize it very, very well "
