dailyemerald
Vol. 82, No. 88
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Eugene, Oregon 97403
Wednesday, January 28, 1981
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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 "