The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 58, Ed. 1 Friday, January 23, 1987 Page: 1 of 6
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Arts:
Computerized
Mozart
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Sports:
A tale of
two guards
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The North Texas Daily
Friday, January 23, 1987
North Texas State University, Denton, Texas
70th Year No. 58
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Reban finds
Soviet people
warm, open
By Paula A. McKay
Staff Writer
Openness, criticism and cold weather
were just a few of the many experiences
encountered by an NT political scientist
on a trip to Russia during Christmas break.
"It was great," Dr. Milan Reban said.
"There were so many themes to deal
with. We barely scratched the surface of
some of the activities we were involved
in."
Reban left for Russia on Dec. 27 with
a group of NT students, faculty members
and other guests. They visited Moscow
and nearby Zagorsk, "one of the cities
which is a part of the Golden Ring, a
circle of cities that predate Moscow,"
Reban said.
From Zagorsk, the group visited such
places as Leningrad, Erevan in Armenia
"almost on the Turkish border, near
Mount Ararat," Helsinki and Peredclkino.
DURING A New Year's Eve party at
the Hotel Rossiya in Moscow, "an ugly
monstrosity of a hotel," he said, Reban
said he observed that "the party didn't
take notice of Gorbechev's anti-alcohol
policy. There were Georgian wines and
vodka," he said.
It was in Armenia that Reban experi
enced local criticism to Gorbcchev and
Moscow. "Down in Erevan, an ancient
city 2,700 years old, I glimpsed this non-
Russian Soviet Union," he said.
"Moscow is so far away," Reban said
to an Armenian man, "Thank god," the
man replied to Reban.
Nearly half of the 1 million people that
live there are not Russians, Reban said.
"They are very proud, very outgoing and
charming."
John Bauer, an NT student and Carrol-
lton junior who accompanied Reban on
the trip, said that he had been comparing
Armenians to Texans. "They're very
independent, very individual," he said.
"People talk more openly about their
social problems," Reban said, referring
to the Soviet people that he encountered.
For instance, "the Russians have to wait
for hours to buy their drinks. One man
said to me that when times arc hard, we
like to find a little solace in our vodka.
"The Russian anti-alcohol campaign
resulted in not seeing as many people
drunk or that tell-tale odor of vodka on
the metro (Soviet trains)," he said.
REBAN SAID that there is an AIDS
epidemic and that it is openly discussed
in the Soviet Union. "They (the govern-
ment) still publicly do not to wish to
acknowledge it," he said, "but the size
of which may be magnified by rumors.
"We were worried because Soviets
don't use disposable needles, and we
wanted to make sure that those of us who
were ailing would not land up in the
clutches of a Russian hospital," Reban
said.
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Photo by DR MILAN REBAN
As for openness, while Reban was in
Peredclkino outside of Moscow, he met
a Russian poet who was a friend and
caretaker of Boris Pasternak's grave, the
author of "Dr. Zhivago."
"The poet told us that they fully expect
the availability of all of Pasternak's
books," which have been banned from
the Soviet Union for more than 30 years.
Children of Russia show off their new candy-filled boxes.
"These are very prominent times,"
the poet told Reban. "1 hope it will be
lasting. Things are happening." But the
changes arc clear. "The bureaucrats are
dragging their feet because they are reluc-
tant to change and want to protect them-
selves and their elite friends," Reban said.
Reban spoke to the poet at Pasternak's
grave in weather that was 20 below zero.
It was when he flew to Leningrad where
he encountered the cold.
"Immediately upon landing, it seemed
we were stepping into a vast ice cube
The air seemed to be brittle. It fluctuated
from 40 below to around 30 below zero,"
he said.
REBAN EXPERIENCED "a little
frostbite on my ear," and others had spots
of frostbite on their noses and hands
Martin Lemont, an NT student and Dallas
sophomore who also went, suffered from
walking pneumonia.
"It hasn't been that cold for years."
Reban said "That was the coldest snap
since the second world war in 1942, when
Hitler's army invaded Russia.
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Terrill
nears
completion
By Hai Van Hoang
Staff Writer
Photo by HEATHER HALL
During construction. .
The departments of psychology and
philosophy will soon move back to
Terrill Hall after waiting for more than
a year for its renovation, the director of
NT's physical plant said Thursday.
Basically, Ray McFarlane said, the
contractor has finished renovation on the
major pan of the project. "But they
still have some touch-up on the second
floor." According to the contract NICO
Industries, the construction company,
must complete its project this month.
"If they fail to meet the deadline,"
he said, "according to the contract they
will be penalized $420 a day. But, we
are very pleased with their perfor-
mance ."
"The Board of Regents initially ap-
proved on June 14. 1985 for phase I to
renovate the elevators and stair towers
at the south entrance of the building,"
McFarlane said, "and we received a
final approval (phase II) for the interior
renovation on Febuary 14, 1986." He
said many suggestions from the vice
president for academic affairs, chairmen
of departments and faculty members were
made to NT Chancellor Al Hurley, who
took the final recommendations to the
Board of Regents.
The construction contract for renova-
ting the building was for $2,160,601 with
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NICO. The design for interior renovation
is made by Corgan Associates, Mc-
Farlane said.
Terrill Hall, which has three floors,
will be equipped with a central heating
and cooling system. McFarlane said,
"On the first floor, we rclcveled and
changed it to have two large halls that
have 101 seats with many continuous-
. . .almost finished.
writing surfaces." Some clinical coun-
seling offices will be on that floor, he
said.
The department of communication and
public address, two large rooms for the
teaching assistants and for psychology,
and animal and statistic laboratories will
share the second floor, McFarlane said.
"On the third floor will be the de-
partment of psychology, its faculty
members' offices and several rooms for
the Center for Texas Studies," Mc-
Farlane said.
The department of psychology will
be a major group to use Terrill Hall.
"This building was first built in 1939
as a dormitory for women," McFarlane
said.
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NT health center warns students of AIDS risks
By Michele Longoria
Staff Writer
Administrators of the student health center previewed a Film on AIDS Thursday
morning in the hopes of selecting a film that will inform the campus about
cause and prevention of the disease.
Shiela Meyer, Administrator for the health center, said "If we don't deal
with it (AIDS), it will start to deal with us. People need to be scared. We just
want to educate people before its too late."
The film, cntiltlcd "AIDS; What everyone needs to know," lasts 18 minutes
which Meyer said was a good length. "The film is just the right length."
Meyer said. "It says everything that needs to be said before losing the attention
span of the audience."
The film begins by showing the silhouette of a man suffering from the disease.
The audience learns that the man is a heterosexual who contracted the disease
from drug use.
"I like the fact that they began the film with a heterosexual because it lets us
know that the disease is not limited to the homosexual community," Meyer
said.
The film explains that AIDS is a breakdown in the "body's second line of
Besides abstinence, condoms are the first defense against AIDS
defense, the skin and mucous membranes, because the virus attacks and weakens
he immune system." The skin and mucous membranes of the mouth become
he body's only defense when the internal defense is shut down. These exterior
evices are easy to break into.
High risk groups, as stated by the film, are homosexuals, biscxuals, drug users
nd prostitutes.
According to the film, at least I million people probably carry the disease
ind do not know it. The virus can lie dormant inside a person for as long as five
'ears before any symptoms, if any. appear.
The virus is carried in the blood and semen. That is why the disease can be
ransmitted through exchange of body fluids that occur during sex, blood
ransfusions, the uterus in pregnancies, and by the use of needles during the
njections of drugs. The film says that there is no evidence yet that the disease
•an be transmitted through saliva and tears, although it is possible.
Most patients die within two years of diagnosis of having the disease.
"So many young people have the 'It can't happen to me attitude ." Meyer
said, "this film really proves that wrong "
The film suggests that the best form of prevention is the use of condoms and
limiting the number of sexual partners Meyer is confident that the film will
serve the purpose of educating students about the disease. "It is really terrifying.
"We hope to help people understand it better.''
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