.. I VOLUME 33 FEATURES Under the sea: The latest January 31, Omnimax movie playing at the St. Louis Science 2000 Center, "Island of the Sharks" reveals the truth ISSUE 978 about these sea creatures. ..... See page 3 http://vvVVlN.ulnsl.edu/studen tlife!current . UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST. L O UIS U screening classmates of student who contracted TB BY BENJAMIN ISRAEL Neither Schoenberger nor Ellick Berkeley, if tiley bring a copy of the at the site of the infection," the manu· figured that since he was being seen by ..., .. ..... ,. ....... " .. staff editor would identify the srudent. Ellick said alert with them. al said. professionals, they would know how last week that the department notified According to the web site of the If untreated, it Catl be fatal, but to bandle it," she said, Nurses at University Heal~ his workplace as soon as it found out American Lung Association, "TB is physicians can readily cure TB with TIle srudent called her to tell her he Services are checking to see whether he had tuberculosis, but "we found out spread by genus in the air, germs put antibiotics. But it takes a long time, ·'It couldn't continue to attend class and to any students at the University of he had been a srudent just last week." there by coughing or sneezing. takes six months to a year for treat­ arrange to finish his classwork. "He Missouri·St. Louis contracted tuber­ Schoenberger said Health Services Infection is not spread by handling a ment," Schoenberger said. first told me he was ill," Hirson said. culosis from a student who was diag­ plans to send out an alert to his teach­ patient's bed sheets, books, furniture The Merck manual states that "Then he told me how ill he was," nosed with the disease last semester. ers and the students in the three class­ or eating utensils. Brief exposme to a tuberculosis was endemic in Europe Hir'son said she doesn't remember Amy Schoen~rger, a nurse and es he took last semester: few TB germs rarely infects a person, 200 years ago when roughly 30 per­ him coughing or being ill in class. health educator with Health' Services Communication 337, section 1; It's. day-after-day close contact that cent of its population died ofTB. Last . Hirson does remember that he was said the St. Louis City Health English 215, section 1; and Spanish 1, usually does it." year, the city of St. Louis had 42 cases, "an outstanding student. He made Department didn't notify the section 2. According to the Merck Manual, with three deaths, Ellick said. good contributions to the class." University until Jan. 20, The srudent, a All students and faculty who came most people infected with the tubercu­ Diatle Hir'son, lecturer in commu­ Another of his teachers, Susana city resident, is being treated by the in contact with him can take a free TB losis bacillus never contract the dis­ nication and one of the infected stu­ Walter, a lecturer in Spanish, is on city Health Depattment, said Ellen skin test at University Health Services ease, "The immune system of a person dent's teachers last semester, said sbe leave in South America, said Roland Ellick, a spokeswoman for the city or at the Jolm C. Murphy Family infected with tuberculosis usually did know he bad TB, but did not know Health Department. Health Center, 6065 Helen Avenue, in destroys the bacteria or seals them off that she needed to notify anyone. "I see TB, page 8 UMSL, legislators hope to resolve charter school issue BY SUE BRITT Ehlmann said. 'They did sit down, •. •• ' .... ... · . · .·.· •. ·0· staff assistant atld we worked this thing out." Bob Samples, director of '. S1udy Sb8ws The Charter School dispute University Relations at UM-St. Louis, between lTh1-St. Louis and some said that he could not yet confirm that '. ... ile,'clFease In Jrosh Missouri legislators may be heading the applications would be reviewed toward resolution. Chancellor but that the parties are negotiating. beer Cf!jffSumption Blanche Touhill met with some sena­ "The Chancellor met with Senator tors Monday, Jan. 24. Ehlmann and several other elected BY IAENE HSJAO Senator Steven Ehlmann said that officials on Monday, and I believe he tabled the remonstrance he had they are working toward a reasonable · j.;i;;;;tajj6Ii~Y ' \fTiidctit--'" " submitted to the Missouri Senate and compromise to achieve the ultimate goals ' of bettering education in St. (U-WJRE) TUCSON, Ariz. - that a compromise is being worked FTeshmen may be less drunk toward. Louis:' Samples said. "I think they tnan ever before - at least 'The University will agree to were working toward the compromise according to new research, review the applications that are ready which would be that [Touhilll would Alcohot consumption has because those people have spent a lot go forward under certain Circunl­ decJ'eased among fresh meA cot­ of money putting the.-;e propo als stances to review' the applications we together. In return for that. we agreed had received, though I don't know that lege students, according to a Joe Martinieh, professor of business, and Bernard Getz. a Normandy resident, examine a study by the Higher Education to get [the University 1som mon y [in all th acti ity related to that has been map of the planned 1-70 reroute at an open house J an. 27 in the J.e. Penney B ~lding. Research Institute at the the next appropriations bili):' done yet:' University of California Los Angeles. This year, the annual study shows the lowest levet of freshmen beEr drinking in the Administration unveils 34-year history of the survey. Faculty approve goverJ~ance Additional findings of the sur­ vey were an increase in stress at1lGllg college freshmen and a restructuring byzuide margin plans for 1·70, expansion high percentage of freshmen who reported being bored in BY SUE BRITT incorporate the faculty body into the BY BEN.JAMIN ISRAEL Mike Ellennan. a mechanic at with some land on the north side of high scllOOL staff aSSI~,tant voting University Assembly. He said '., . .... ... · St~i/~aito,. the ni \'ersity who live, in the highway, said Reinhard Schuster, . The nUlnber of freshmen who that the new governance structure FlOlissant. aid th plans were fr€qQently or vice chancellor for Administrative drank beer occa­ The new can1pus governanc.e struc.­ would be about half the size of the Si'onally was down t-o 50 percent The Uni ·mity di played plans impressive. "When you dri e down Services. In addition, the ture devised by a committee of the existing Senate. in 1999, compared to 7> percent for a major expansion at an open Highway 70. you'r going t say. Transportation Department will pay University Senate has passed a vote of "We currentiy have two bodies, in 1981 . Uquor and wine rates house sponsored by the Missouri ·Yeah. that's the Universi ty of for aesthetic enhancements to the the faculty by 196 to 4 and will be for­ were 67 percent in 1987, when something called the Senate and some­ Department of TranspoI1 ation M~ sOUli-St. Louis .... EJlernl3l1 ;;aid. bridge it plans to build at the warded to the UM-System Board of the que$ticm was first asked, and: thin" called the Faculty Council. Thursday. The Transportation Department Flori, sant Road interchange. The have now fallen to 54 percent. Curators for approval. Three hundred Essentially the Senate has almost all the Visitors could see an aJ.1ist"s ren­ held the upen h use to display i t~ two sides are still working out Kereen Johannessen, forty-five ballots were sent out. power and the Faculty Council is dition of a hotel and conference cen­ $35 million plans for straightening details. UniVersity of ARzona dtrector of TImothy McBride. a member of the entirely fac.ulty members, and they ter built over multi-level parking ou! and leveli ng In terstate 70 ·The big things to be worked are · neat-ttl ,prometien and pr:eventive Joint Senate-Faculty Council dOn't really have much power," garage.s at the Hanley Road between Bermuda and Hanley what value is the right of way and · servic.es, said UA freshmen drink· Governance Committee, said that the McBride said, 'There's only a couple MetroLink station. a new grand wad;" and rebuilding the bridges bow much the improvements aJ.·e ing hasdrop~ by 20 percent in new governance structure, if approved official duties and really the only pur­ entrance to the University at and imercbanges there. worth," Schuster said. a su~ done l<lst year. This 'fig­ by the Board of Cmators, will consist pose of the Faculty Council is to raise Florissant Road and a map sbo\ying To acquire land [0 m ve the Plans call for highway construc­ ure is based on five or more of a Faculty Senate and a University issues and then bring them to the a University-owned office park on highway to the south, the tion to begin by the end of this year · dfitiks in the .Iast two weeks 1n Assembly. Senate." the north side of the lnterstate Transportation Department and tbe and finished by the end of 2002, one sittjng, she added. Unlike the existing structure that 1·1cBride said the existing structure stretching from Bermuda' Road to University have agreed to swap t:19rinking has been declining has a Faculty Council that is not a part Hanley Road. land, with the Univel ity ending up set! O PEN HOUSE, page 8 in the la.st several years,. so it .