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Chancellor supports.measles fight
By Paul Worthlngton
Staff Writer
A measles-immune student body is the
goal of a free immunization program
ordered by the CSU Chancellor and about
to be implemented at CSUF by the health
center director.
Chancellor W. Ann Reynold's order is
the resuit of concern oyer "some rather
wide-spread outbreaks*' in several mid-
western universities of red measles, which
can cause severe illness or death in adults,
said Dr. Robert M. Paull, director of
student health at CSUF.
Students who fail to comply with the
program by either proving they have had
an immunization shot or by getting one at
the health center will have a hold placed
on their registration, Paull said while
outlining the program.
Affected by this order will be: all new,
re-entry, and transfer students; those living
in the residence halls; any who received
their primary and secondary education
outside the U.S.; and students engaging in
health care education or work that exposes
them to young children.
A letter, just finished by Paull, will be
sent to those students identified by the
registrars office as fitting into any of the
categories listed above. This will explain
the program and contain a return envelope
as well as a peel-off identity sticker. Those
students who do not answer either with
proof of immunization or by visiting the
Health Center will receive a reminder in the
Spring semester. After that, a hold will be
placed on their registration until they
comply.
Exempt from the requirement will be
those who have a valid medical excuse
from a physician for reasons such as
allergies, or-those who sign a statement
detailing religious or personal beliefs
against the immunization shot.
If you do not know whether you are
immune or not, you "might as well go
ahead and get the immunization," said
Paull. "There is no harm.*1
Paull said many who think they may
have had the disease in childhood and
thus be free from worry now, may actually
have come down with one of the "mimic"
viruses, and still may be susceptible to the
measles virus. Also, many who were immu¬
nized as children before 1969 may have
received a less effective inoculation than is
presently available.
Although considered a childhood dis¬
ease, Paull said red and German measles
(Ruebella) are not benign adult diseases. In
college-aged victims, one in'ten can come
down with pneumonia or a serious ear
infection; one in 100 may suffer enceph¬
alitis, an inflammation of the brain, as the
result of red measles. One in 10,000 may
die, Paull said.
Ruebella, if caught during pregnancy,
can produce severe birth defects, mental
.retardation, physical deformities and ail¬
ments such as blindness or deafness in the
child, he said.
"There is no reason measles and small
pox cannot be eradicated," J»aull said.
With all incoming students how being
protected from them, he said in four years
the student body will be immune. Element¬
ary and secondary schools now require
the shots, and this program on the college
level is aimed at those' who were out of
high school before the requirement would
have affected them.
"The only thing I'm concerned about,"
Paull said, "is the tendency to procras¬
tinate, especially when it comes to shots."
The Health Center may have to process
over 5,000 students, only one-third of
which Paull expects to be already immun¬
ized. Over the semester a certain amount
of procrastination would be easier on
everyone, but Paull said he is "afraid
everyone will wait until the end of the
second semester," resulting in a line around
the Health Center that would echo those
seen before only at registration time.
D.C. group may fund left-wing college papers
(CPS)-A liberal think tank says it may
soon start funding overtly liberal papers
on a number of campuses.
Copying the strategy of the conserva¬
tive Institute for Educational Affairs
(IEA)—which has provided start-up
money for some 60 overtly right-wing
campus papers since 1983—the Center for
National Policy (CNP) in Washington,
already have "expressed interest" in get¬
ting funding from CNP, reports the CNP's
Peter Scher.
Scher, who refuses to say how much
money the group will spend or how many
papers it plans to fund, says the CNP will
start choosing which papers to underwrite
in October.
"Oh, we have a lot of student interest in
D.C.   says it will try to start funnelling   starting alternative newspapers," Scher
money to leftist papers sometime this
year.
Students from William and Mary, Bos¬
ton College, Penn, Texas, American Uni¬
versity and  Michigan, among others.
says. "On many campuses, the more con¬
servative element has resulted in one¬
sided issue debates only."
The idea for mounting a liberal alterna¬
tive to the IEA's funding of campus pap-
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ers first arose at an early August CNP
meeting at which Scher, CNP President
Kirk O'Donnell and about I00 collegians
from around the country bemoaned how
conservatives had come to dominate
campus opinion.
"I'm sure some people still think the
world is square, too." replies IEA Presi¬
dent Leslie Lankowsky.
The CNP's O'Donnell says, "our major
purpose here is to promote public dia¬
logue and public research about public
problems."
The conservative papers have promoted
dialogue by adopting many of the issues
and arch tones of the 77ie Dartsmouth
Review, which was the first conservative
paper published with IEA money.
The Dartsmouth paper is now self-
sustaining, Lenkowsky reports, though
the IEA still makes annual grants of about
$3,500 each to 33 other conservative
papers.	
The papers themselves have stirred up
almost constant controversy by readily
attacking campus homosexuals, "liberal"
professors, course catalogs, anti apartheid
activists and others with pejoratives in
their news colums.
Most recently, Dartsmouth  Review
staffers stood trial for vandalizing anti-
apartheid "shanties."
to be neoconservative. The feeling was
that there was not enough conservative
papers around."
"The danger," he adds, "exists when���papers receive subsidized financial back¬
ing to create an artifical political point-of-
view that doesn't exist in the community
already."
The CNP and others fret campus
papers—those funded by students as well
as by the IEA—no longer reflect the liber¬
alism that exists in the college community.
See FUNDING, page 8
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