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AIDS
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died and "within a few years all of those
people will be dead," according to
Vandrick.
AIDS is so lethal because it attacks the
body's defense system and leaves the vic¬
tims helpless against a variety of "oppor¬
tunistic diseases." But scientists from the
Public Health Service say they have iden¬
tified the probable cause of AIDS, which
they call HTVL-111, a Human T-Cell
Leukemia/ Lymphoma Virus. That dis¬
covery could help researchers develop a
vaccine within a few years.
Development of a vaccine would be
welcome news to homosexual men. They
account for 70 percent of all reported
cases, according to figures from the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Servi¬
ces. But CSUF professor Pat Hennings-
Smith, who is working with the CSUF
Student Health Center to educate faculty
and studentsabout AIDS, said some peo¬
ple misunderstand what this means.
"Students in the gay community feel
there is a vaccine [already]," Hennings-
Smith said. "There is no vaccine." Never¬
theless, she said students believe that such
a miracle cure does exist and disregard
health warnings that could save their lives.
People normally get infected through
homosexual intercourse, therefore experts
recommend against having multiple sex
partners. This may apply to heterosexual
men and women as well since researchers
have found the disease is transmitted from
bisexual men to women, particularly
prostitutes. Vandrick points out that a'
prostitute can "infect as many people as
she can accomodate in a number of years."
The infection can also be transmitted
through blood. Intravenous drug users
account for the second largest group of
AIDS victims, because they often share
the same needle with several other people.
Some have caught the syndrome
through blood transfusions, so many
blood banks around the country screen
the donors, suchas the Central California
Blood Bank. The discovery of HTVL-111
has also led to the development of a blood
test which would screen out all carriers of
AIDS.
While scientists work to find out all the
Dr. Simmons predicted. He said that
many diseases in history have already
done so. "But before it goes, it will take a
lot of people with it," Dr. Simmons
concluded.
Racism
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year period. The number of
Indian students fell by 11 from 1974, and"
again the percentage rate dipped by .2
percent in 1984.
Non-white Pacific [slanders enrolled at
CSUF during Fall 1974 numbered 163,
but by 1984 this fell to only 45, for a .9
percent attrition rate. Of all minority
enrollments, Hispanics and non-resident
aliens showed the only percentile increases.
Hispanic student enrollments number¬
ed 1,352 in Fall 1974 and increased to
2,041 by 1984, for a 3.8 percent increase.
Non-resident alien enrollments also rose,
from 462 in 1974 to 1.088 in 1984, showing
a 3.9 percent increase.
During the same period, the number of
Caucasian student enrollments declined
from 10,935 in 1974, to 10.802 in 1984.
The percentage of Caucasian enrollments
fell from 76.3 in 1974 to 70.1 in 1984,
reflecting a 6.2 percent decline, the sharp¬
est decrease of all students polled.
The minority enrollment decreases may
in part be due to counselors within the
CSUF academic community who advise
some students to go to other schools. The
Bee article paraphrased one Fresno City
College counselor who advises his black
transfer students to steer away fromCSUF
to other schools with stronger black stu-
The reasons attributed for this attitude
are that some counselors feel black stu¬
dents would be more comfortable in an¬
other environment, where the atmosphere
for black students is more hospitable and
the support programs more effective.
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Daily Collegian
Vol. XCI, #2
CSU, Fresno
Wednesday, Jan. 23,1985
Ex-heroin addicts
praise Third Floor'
ByBobWrach
Staff Writer
For two years Kithy and Fred Rush walked these stairs at The Third Floor to tb
group mednp. Today Fred is a pre-school teacher and Kithy is a welder. Their M
Thomas, Is 10 weeks old.
Fred and Kathy Ruff were in the right
place at the right time. The right place was
The Third Floor drug rehabilitation facil¬
ity; the right time was the occasion they
met while kicking narcotics.
Fighting the stigma of prison records,
they had been told they had no futures. As
"graduates" of The Third Floor at 120 N.
Howard, however, Fred and Kathy are
now racing five children, serving as "aftercare"-
role models for other ex-addicts and
enjoying careers. Fred, 29, is a pre-school
teacher, Kathy, 35, is a welder. Most
important, their life together is drug-free.
The couple are the first to admit they
did not do it alone. The Third Floor
replaced Kathys "S400-a-day habit" with
a sense of family by teaching her to share
hrrfeetings;plus a sense of team work by
helping her to ascend an in-house ladder
of responsibility. All this gives "the family"
a level of "self-awareness rare among non-
addfets on the outside," said female resi¬
dent Chris, 22. No wonder, she added,
most Third Floor residents in "the re¬
entry phase" find jobs on their own,
despite high national unemployment averages.
Program Coordinator Charles Lewis
attributed The Third Floor's success to
the project's "therapeutic community"ap-
proach to treatment. The process, which
takes up to two years, is based on "a
surrogate family structure" characterized
by self-help and residents' mutual sup¬
port. Group therapy and one-to-one
honesty sessions replace the kinds of form¬
al counseling by appointment found at
various other rehabilitation programs, Lewis-
cxplained.
"You have no friends when you're a
dope fiend," said Kathy, relating an epis¬
ode where she was left for dead by peers
following Ju> overdose.     "Real friends
O'Brien says Bee story wrong
CSU F professor John O' Brien is charg¬
ing that a Dec. 28" Fresno Bee article
misrepresented the facts pertaining to the
disciplinary action proceedings taken
against him by the university.
The article said the disciplinary action
committee found that "none of the charges
against him [O'Brien] were serious enough
to warrant dismissal or other discipline."
O'Brien said the committee's findings
were more definite.
"The committee that heard these
charges," said O'Brien, "found me not
guilty of anything. That was a unanimous
decision."
He said the article also misrepresented
the facts by stating that the recent action
marks the second time in three years the
university has dropped dismissal charges
against him.
O'Brien said the charges of verbal and
written abuse of peers, which had been
dropped April 1982, were leveled again in
the hearings along with the recent charges.
He said he signed an agreement with the
university that if he-moved from his posi¬
tion in the School of Business to teaching
applied ethics, the charges would be
dropped.
"When they raised the charges they
already dropped, they rescinded the agree¬
ment of 1982," said O'Brien.
The article's failure to mention the re-
leveling of the 1982 charges in the recent
hearings caused a misrepresentation,
claimed O'Brien.
The charges, which O'Brien has been
denying for the last 14 months, were
unprofessional conduct, dishonesty and
failure or refusal to perform the normal
and reasonable duties of his positon.
The charges were filed by Warren
Kessler, professor of philosophy.
The writer of the article was Shirley
Armbruster, the Beet higher education
reporter and a parttime instructor for the
-CSUF journalism department.
O'Brien claimed that Armbruster's
employment at CSUF and her reporting
on stories regarding the university pres¬
ents a conflict of interest, pointing out
that she has been employed by CSUF off
and on since 1980.
"Her article whitewashed the university
because it made it appear as if they
dropped the charges," said O'Brien. "1
don't know where Mrs. Armbruster got
her information-
O'Brien, a graduate of the University of
London, had one word for the charges
against him — "preposterous." That's
the same as the American expression
"trumped-up,'" he added.
"The judges said not only should Dr.
O'Brien not be dismissed," he said, "they
said no penalty should be imposed."
O'Brien said the ordeal has done harm*.
Sec O'Brien, Page S
would have taken me to a hospital—not
dumped me in a park," she added.
Not only did The Third Floor teach her
to trust, but also to be trusted. She no
longer has to con people to get a fix.
Positive reinforcement is another reas¬
on the program works. But this was not
always true. Kathy, who sought help
there eight times during her 12-year bout
with heToin, said The Third Floor was
originally understaffed and consisted only
of heroin addicts. When junkies get
together, she added, they can talk of little
else but scoring and fixing. In this atmos¬
phere, they were more likely to "stay a few "
days, split to get loaded and go back into
the criminal justice system."
Besides good superbvision, today s Third-
Floor has more than just heroin addicts.
The common ground is no longer a specific-
drug, but rather the underlying causes of
substance abuse, Kathy explained. Disc-
See Heroin, Page 2
Hispanic
convention
confirmed
By Maria Carter
Staff Writer '
The State Hispanic Chamber of Com¬
merce will hold its 198S convention in
Fresno despite opposition from the
Fresno chapter of the organization, which
is against a $5,000 contribution from
Adolph Coors Co.
Carmen Navarro, president of the
Fresno chapter, said the local group is
opposed to Coors being a focal point of
the convention. She believes that Coors is
using the Hispanic organization in order
to sell their beer while endorsing political
groups and candidates counter to the
interests of minorities.
"They have given large amounts of
money to the Heritage Foundation, the
John Birch Society and have taken out of
office sympathic representives of our '
interests," Navarro said. "We don't want
their presence in Fresno."
She said a Fresno Bee article inaccu¬
rately reported that the convention may
still be moved because of the opposition.
The state chamber board members
voted last week to leave the convention in
Fresno but decided to meet Jan. 30 to
discuss how the Coors money will be
The Fresno Hispanic Chamber has pro¬
posed to use the money for scholarships
rather than for the convention.       ' ~
Navarro said the group would rather
not use the Coors money at all, but "we've
wasted a lot of time talking about Coors
and we're wiling to find a happy medium.
We would acknowledge a Coors scholar -
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