Tiger Final Day for Having Retakes Made
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s>o ■GE LIBRARY OUTH CAROLINA COLLECTION Taps Deadline Friday, September 26, is the final day for having South Carolina's Oldest TAPS pictures made. Pictures will be taken from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the TAPS offices on the top floor of the student center. This is also the The Tiger final day for having retakes made. Those students desiring retakes are requested to bring their origi- College Newspaper nal proofs and turn them in to the photographer it when their retake is made. He Roars For Clemson College" Circulation—7,000 CLEMSON, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1963 Vol. LVII—No. 3 A Hair-raising Proposal Tiger Medics Fight Flu New Methods Mean Edwards Meets The Press By Emmitt F Bufkin No Needles Needed In an effort to improve communications between the administration and tht With no needles or pain, the had flu shots this year, they Dr. Hair, who explained that a student body, Dr. Robert C. Edwards presented THE TIGER staff with a banquet Student Health Service will con- have not had the new strains." person carrying the poliomyeli- on Monday, September 23, at the Clemson House. The highlight of this annual af- duct a student immunization Since the introduction of the tus in his intestines can give the fair, which was instigated by Dr. Edwards soon after becoming president, is a program on October 7 and 8 in flu vaccine during the epidemic disease to an unprotected per- the Student Lounge above the in 1957, Dr. Hair says that it son. rapid fire question and answer period. Representatives at the banquet were de- Loggia. Armed with only an has proven to be effective partment heads and key members of every branch of the college administration. This vaccine will contain all air gun and many hundreds of against the influenza virus; he Members of THE TIGER staff are free to direct questions of any nature to cups of distilled water, Dr. Jud- also says, along with many three strains, which are some- members of the administration. Frank Gentry, editor of THE TIGER, stated, "As son E. Hair, director of the other doctors and patients, that times given in separate doses. Student Health Service, "wants he feels there are fewer colds The oral vaccine is superior to far as I know, this is the only meeting of its kind on any college campus where 100 per cent of the student among people who have had the the previous needle shots. Dr. Hair stresses that "you can members of the administration are made subject to an open press conference." body" to receive the polio and flu shots. "Anyone who can eat In his opening remarks, Dr. an egg can take the flu shots," never get too much of the vac- flu immunizations and the tu- Edwards said, "THE TIGER continued Dr. Hair. cine." He says that anyone berculosis screen test. C-L-E-M In Cadence has become the communications Dr. Hair urges full participa- POLIO VACCINE who has not had any polio pro- A small cup of water and two tection should definitely take the link between the administration tion because unless there is full of the college and the student coverage of the students, "the drops of poliomyelitus vaccine oral vaccine, anyone who has is the polio immunization step in had the series of shots should body. We appreciate what THE people who really need the im- take the oral shot since it is TIGER is and what it repre- Dr. J. E. Hair, Director of Student Health Services, presents munizations and test will stay the three part program. The to the Student Senate plans for mass immunization of the poliomyelitus vaccine will clear more effective, anyone who is sents . The administration away." Since "no needles will of this school will not seek to student body against influenza and polio. (Photo by Lank) up any polio virus in the intes- not sure of what he has had be used," Dr. Hair hopes the should participate in the pro- censor any material in the pa- program will be a success. tines and will give complete jper. The school has no secrets." immunization against polio, says gram, and everybody should COLOR FILM take it regardless of what they The first question of the eve- Since the program is the first have had. ning, fired by Stan Woodard, Rigid Curfew j cartoonist, was concerned with of this type, the pharmaceutical TB TEST company, which is suppling the Apply Today; the selection of student seating drugs, will make a 10 to 15 The final phase of this pre- ' at away football games and minute color film "to show what ventive program is the Tinel jin particular the Clemson-U. S. Limits Dates Clemson is doing and how it is test for the presence or part! C. game. It was explained by Government presence of tubercle bacillus. | ! Mr. Gene Willimon, business Clemson College is very for- urday nights, and 11:00 per- being done." The company will use the movie as a demonstra- This test will indicate if a per- I manager of athletics, and Dr. tunate to have a plush women's mission on Sunday nights. I Edwards that the individual residence dormitory this year tion of its equipment and the son has come in contact with Sophomores have 10:30 permis- the disease-causing bacteria. j schools decide their own seat- for the sixty-three coeds living effectiveness of mass efforts. Grad Grants sion Monday through Thursday This test consists of pressing a ling arrangements; but there is on the campus. Their rooms Dr. Hair will also personally Only five more weeks remain nights, 11:30 permission on Fri- four-pronged, V-shaped capsule, J a mutual agreement to give are adequately furnished with carry the movie to the national in which to apply for a 1964-65 day, 12:00 permission on Sat- which is about one millimeter students "better than average wall-to-wall carpeting, two meeting of the College Medical U. S. Government grant for urday night, and 11:00 per- in length, against the skin. On seats." desks, modern chairs, extension Association "if the program is graduate study or research mission on Sunday night. Jun- the end of each prong is a pre- In answer to a question con- lamps, and bulletin boards. For iors have 11:00 permission Sun- a success." abroad. Competition for the scholarships, available to quali- measured amount of the test cerning beer advertisements in each suite of six rooms there is day through Thursday nights, AIR GUN vaccine. According to Dr. Hair, THE TIGER, needed to make a study lounge, showers, utility 12:00 permission on Friday and Injected by compressed air, fied graduate students under the Fulbright-Hays Act, is adminis- when the capsule is pressed up for the deficit caused by re- room, and telephones. 12:30 permission on Saturday. the influenza vaccine will be against the skin, it slightly cent tobacco cancellation, Dean A House Council has been or- Seniors have 11:00 permission "pushed by the blast of high tered by the Institute of Inter- national Education. scratches the skin much like a Walter Cox, dean of student ganized so that representatives Sunday through Thursday velocity air through the skin small pox vaccination. affairs, opposed any use of beer of the girls can make the rules nights, and 12:30 permission on pores. It feels like a metal In addition to Full grants, or liquor advertisements in a and regulations. The general Friday and Saturday nights. disc placed against the skin, which provide round-trip trans- On Thursday and Friday of college newspaper. Dean Cox opinion of the girls is that the There is no penalty for being and it doesn't break the skin," portation to any one of 51 coun- the same week the reaction stated that with some thirteen rules are very lenient in com- late until the student has ac- says Dr. Hair. The vaccine will tries, as well as tuition and must be read, if the results are hundred plus young students parison to those of other schools. cumulated ten minutes. The contain six strains of the virus maintenance for one academic positive, a person will then entering this college each year, Some of the more important first ten minutes accumulated in one dose for immunization year, two other types of grant have an X-ray taken to de- he did not want to encourage rules are as follows: The dormi- will constitute a week-night re- against all types of influenza. are available: Joint U. S.-Other termine if there is TB present. drinking in any way. Dr. Ed- tories close at 11:00 p. m. striction. After the first ten There were originally only four government grants offered co- A positive test is not an indi- wards added that from the col- every night except Friday when minutes, latenesses exceeding strains; two strains have been operatively by the U. S. (which cation that a person has TB, lege annual budget of more than they close at 12:30 a. m., and five minutes will constitute con- added this year for the first provides travel) and a foreign but that he has built up a re- Freshman Initiation, college expansion, academic standards, $15,700,000 each college function Saturday when they close at 1:00 secutive week-night restrictions. time, and according to-Dr. Hair, country (which provides tuition sistance to the bacteria. Dr. and improved communication were among the many topics receives its share.