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"Catching Sight of Longwood from atop the Sesquicentennial"Mount" VOL. NO. 68
NO. 12
JANUARY 31, 1989
Influenza Plagues Longwood Community , By PAM HIGGIN8, Asst. Director of Student Health Service Influenza appears to have reached the Longwood Community. Visits to the Student Health Service have doubled this week for students experiencing may symptoms of viral illness. Influenza is a respiratory infection that occurs in epidemics, most often during the winter months. Several kinds of viruses are responsible for this illness. Influenza is highly contagious, which is why it tends to occur in epidemics. The most common initial symptom is headache, usually across the forehead. Headache is often accompanied by pain behind the eyes that worsen when the eyes are moved up or to the side. Early in the course of the illness, muscles ache and you may feel weak. Fever is often present, usually ranging from 100 to 103°, but higher in some cases. Fever generally subsides over 2-3 days but may last as long as a week, even In uncomplicated cases. Cough, usually dry and hacking, sneezing, runny nose.
sore throat, itching eyes, and chest pain may be present from the beginning of the illness, but more commonly appear as the early symptoms begin to subside. Uncomplica<ed illness lasts from 7 days to 3 weeks.
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Treatment usually consists of relieving symptoms by Dhumidifying the air to make it easier to breathe and to cough up sputum from your lungs, 2) Increasing rest, 3) and managing fever (remember, during the flu season not to use aspirin or products containing aspirin because of the Reyes Syndrome). Your health care provider can diagnose this infection, sugASA girls dance with ATM at Midwinters. gest ways to treat your symptoms, and be alert for complications. Because Influenza is caused by a virus, antibiotics are ineffective, except when there is also a bacterial infection present. You should notify your health care provider first group to try It out will be By STEPHANIE NEELY if you develop any of the folLongwood is stepping up in faculty and staff. Approxilowing symptoms: extreme the world of telecommunica- mately 2.000 phones with shortness of breath, fever tions. In cooperation with digital touch-tone dials will over 102°. frothy, blood- Centel of Virginia. Longwood be Installed at first; however, tinged phlegm, earache, sudthe system will have the caden deterioration in your pacity to Include up to 5,000 condition after a period of of these new phones. All em(Continued on page 3' ployees will have computer terminals hooked up to their t.lr phones; the majority of the fir HI faculty will use a single-line llll nir phone with nine features yL. IW n«t ■U -Ml while administrators, secreiit> I 111 taries, and receptionists will receive a more complex will be undertaking the multi-line phone with the biggest Centel project for a possibility of up to twentyVirginia college or university. four additional features. The students should get a This project is a result of an taste of the new system by the approved contract between ! fall semester of 1990 when the Board of Visitors and every residence hall room Centel to install a new phone system which will provide of- will have a new phone and fices and residence hall payment for the use of the rooms access to mainframe phone will be included In computers, phones with spe- room and board fee. Some opcialized features, and lower portunities the new system will offer students having long distance rates. I In mid-February of this microcomputers is access to year, the first phase of this the colleges mainframe and library computer, doing comcampus-wide "Integrated Two students enjoy throwing a frisbee during last week's voice-data Image" phone puter-related homework and system will begin and the bibliographic research, and unseasonally warm weather. ««*» c~dtt R ***• Gantt
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By ANGELIIY BREWER The bash of 89 took Longwood by storm. Midwinters, sponsored by Student Union. Greek Council, and entire Greek body brought over 500 students to Lankford's Red. White. Green, and Gold Rooms this past Saturday night. An All-Greek happy hour put the party In full swing from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. In order to congratulate all new women pledges. The semi-final ball then opened Its doors to all students at 9:30 p.m. Hors d'oeuvres and drinks were served In the R. W. and G Rooms while progressive bands rocked the Gold Room. Music was performed by (Continued on page 5)
Longwood To Receive $2 Million Phone System communicating with other students who have computers all from a residence hall room. Each student will be Issued a personal account number for long-distance calling which must be keyed In to be connected; this may help eliminate billing errors. Also rates should be cheaper because the college will use four long distance carriers. (MCI. Sprint. Allnet. and AT&T.) The system will be operated by a central computerized switch called the SL-7. which records all calls and chooses the cheapest carrier for particular area codes on long distance calls. Longwood will only accept the system If the SL-7 does not fall to operate within a 30-day trial period and a one-year warranty after acceptance is included in the (Continued on page 3)