1997-10-20; Central Michigan Life

              Central Michigan LIFE
Volume 80, Number 25
Mt. Pleasant,  MI 48859
©1997 CM LIFE
78 years of serving the community
MONDAY
October 20, 1997
14 pages
Lottery for Sandler tickets easier for students
By Clayton Mastaw
LIFE Staff Writer
While waking up for an 8 a.m. Friday
class might be  a nightmare for students, more than 500 Adam Sandler
fans happily rose at the crack of dawn for the
chance to buy tickets to this week's show.
Since the demand was so high for Sandler,
CMU signed him to a second show and
agreed to pay him an additional $20,000 flat
guarantee.
Students showed up at Warriner
Auditorium between 8 and 9:30 a.m. to enter
into a lottery system for tickets to Sandler's
9:30 p.m. Friday show. The process differed
greatly from the sale of the first show Oct. 7.
Many of those waiting in line were losers
the first time tickets -went on sale.
"I waited in line last time, but didn't get a
voucher. I guess I want to see him because I
Additional $20,000 gives 500
students a chance to see comedian
never saw him before," said Steve Wejroch,
Inkster freshman.
Interest was so great in the first show that
students began lining up the night before the
tickets went on sale. After several nearby residents complained about the noise, university officials decided to hand out vouchers to
students several hours before they were
scheduled to go on sale.
In an effort to avoid problems that occurred
during the previous ticket sale, a lottery system was implemented during the Friday
sale.
At 9:45 a.m. the auditorium doors were
locked, and students inside were each given a
coupon, designating them
a place in line for the lottery. Once the starting
number was picked designating the first person in
line for tickets, students were gathered
numerically and led over to the Central Box
Office 100 at a time to purchase tickets.
The process took more than four hours
from start to finish. But with a two ticket
limit and low number of students showing
up, every student who was at the auditorium
walked away with two tickets.
"I like this process better than last time.
People really got ripped off last time," said
Christina Boyle, Jonesville sophomore.
"The lottery is a lot better than the last system they used. You don't have to be here at 5
a.m., and at least you get to have a life," said
Daryl Greer, Beaverton senior.
TONY CEPAK • CM LIFE
About 500 loyal fans showed up Friday morning at Warriner
Auditorium in hopes of snagging a ticket to the recently added
Adam Sandler show.
Health
Services
offers
Hepatitis
vaccine
By Julia Jones
LIFE Staff Writer
University Health Services is
offering a vaccination this week
which will protect people from
being infected by a virus that
kills more than 5,000 people a
year.
According to Sarah Campbell,
director of Health Services,
Hepatitis B is a viral infection
that can be transmitted sexually or by blood and other bodily
fluids.
"Hepatitis B is 100 times
more contagious than the HIV
infection," Campbell said.
Campbell said those who
have been exposed to Hepatitis
B may not be aware of exposure
because any break in the skin
that would allow blood, vaginal
or seminal fluids to enter puts a
person at risk.
"The virus can survive for a
week in dried blood on clothing
or other surfaces."
Campbell said the infection
can be so mild the person does
not realize they have it, or it
could be so severe they need to
be hospitalized.
"One in 20 people have it, or
will have it," she said.
Campbell said there are
200,000 new cases of Hepatitis
B in the United States each
year.
"There is no cure for it other
than the body's immune system, that's why the vaccination
is so important," Campbell
said. "The body has to develop
antibodies to defend itself."
Symptoms of Hepatitis B
range from nausea, vomiting
and fever to the eyes and skin
appearing yellow and fatigue.
Years after an initial bout with
Hepatitis B, Campbell said
there is a risk of cirrhosis or
cancer of the liver.
Campbell said there is a
much larger segment of the
population now being immunized against it since the vaccine is now required as part of
the infant immunization series.
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Above, Lynn Jones, a 6-year-old Shepherd resident, uses his quick ninja powers to help his
team win a relay race Saturday morning at the
Student Activity Center's "Monster Madness"
party.
Monster
Madness
SABRINA   BURTON •
CM LIFE
(left)Luke Chudej,
a 4-year-old Mount
Pleasant resident,
uses his X-Man
powers to win
points by tossing
a hula hoop
around the farthest pumpkin.
Breast cancer month aims to raise awareness
Liz Wishaw
LIFE News Editor
Females across the U.S. must face their own
mortality each day as they realize the fact that
they one day may have breast cancer.
One in nine woman will be diagnosed with
breast cancer in her lifetime — it could be you,
your aunt, mom, cousin, friend or neighbor.
The American Cancer Society estimates that
in 1997 some 180,200 new cases of invasive
breast cancer will be diagnosed among women
in the United States. An estimated 1,400 cases
will be diagnosed among men.
October has been named Breast Cancer
Awareness Month, which will allow students to
learn more about monthly breast self-examina
tions and mammograms.
According to the American Cancer Society,
about 77 percent of women •with new* diagnoses
of breast cancer each year are over the age of
50, while breast cancer is relatively uncommon
in younger women. Women ages 20-29 account
for only 0.3 percent of diagnosed breast cancers.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of
cancer death in women, exceeded only by lung
cancer. It is the leading cause of cancer death
among women aged 40 to 55.
Just by being female, a person is at risk. Age,
family history and reproductive history all play
a part in diagnosing cancer.
Even though cases of breast cancer have
increased in  the past few decades, many of
those cases have been early
detection cases. Awareness
is the key to preventing
breast cancer and it could
help prolong a woman's life.
The medical profession is
finding out more each day
about -what causes a woman
to fall prey to this disease.
Even though there isn't a
cure yet for it, there could be
in time for this generation's
daughters to not have to suffer.
See page 10 of the Et cetera section for more
information about breast cancer awareness.
Breast Cancer
Awareness
Montr-
Alumni
director
search
underway
By Jennifer Ackerman
LIFE Editor
Less than two weeks after
Carol Hyble announced plans to
take a job at Alma College, many
are guessing who will be the
next director of Alumni
Relations.
Before the ink dried on the
advertisement which will be
used to conduct a national
search for the position, rumors
were circulating last week that
at least one individual with ties
to the Alumni Office had been
talked to in regards to the open
position by Annie Stafford, associate vice president of University
Relations.
Stafford says the rumors are
false.
"Carol hasn't even left yet,"
Stafford said. "All we have done
so far is to assemble a search
committee. We haven't even
completed the job description
yet."
When asked if she had offered
the job to anyone, Stafford said,
"Not at all, not at all. It tells you
a lot about rumors. It tells you
about the interest in this position. Absolutely not. I wouldn't
do anything like that."
When asked if she had discussed the position with Gary
Henderson, a CMU alumnus and
current top aid for Sen. George
McManus (R-Traverse City),
Stafford said, "Oh, no. Not at
all."
Stafford said she doesn't have
the authority to offer the position on her own.
"It's not in my power to offer
the position," she said.
"We have a search committee
to do that," she said.
While Stafford was surprised
by the rumor, Henderson confirmed that he did speak to
Stafford about the position.
"I can't say I've been contacted
in an official capacity,"
Henderson said. "Right now, I'm
happily employed by State Sen.
McManus."
Henderson explained that
when the two saw* each other
during Homecoming, "Annie
said, 'Would you like to talk
sometime (about the job.) It certainly -wasn't in any official
capacity."
While Henderson, who is a
member of the Alumni board,
said he is not actively seeking a
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Organizers hope to coordinate bone marrow drive to help alumnus
By Julia Jones
LIFE Staff Wnter
Local organizers are trying to coordinate a bone marrow drive to help a CMU
alumnus in need of a transplant.
Steve Szmigiel, a 1991 CMU graduate
and resident of Dearborn, was diagnosed
in May -with Chronic Myelogenous
Leukemia. The disease can only be cured
with a bone marrow transplant.
Margaret Steslicki wants to help.
Steslicki, a volunteer for the Saginaw
Valley Blood Program and a nurse at the
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, is a bone
marrow transplant recipient herself and
has helped coordinate bone marrow drives
at CMU in the past.
"It's a very personal issue with me," she
said.
She said there is a possibility of scheduling a bone marrow drive at CMU, but
nothing has been set as of now. Steslicki
said it is possible to get funding for the
tests from the National Marrow Donor
Program. She said there was money
donated for bone marrow testing to the
Relay for Life, and if that funding is available testing could be done at University
Health Services.
Steslicki -welcomes any help from students or student groups in organizing a
drive on campus. Those interested may
call Steslicki at 772-0900.
Steve's mother, Sylvia, said initially
they weren't sure what was wrong with
Steve since there is no pain with the disease, just fatigue and loss of appetite.
"It got to the point he was so tired he
wouldn't eat. He was just sleeping and
working," she said.
Sylvia said he thought he may be deficient in some nutrients, but after vitamins
failed to make him feel better, he went to
the doctor.
After the blood test, he was diagnosed
and was placed in the hospital the next
day.
The fight for the 28-year-old's life had
begun.
"It just basically happened overnight.
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