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Volume XC Number 10	University of Southern California	Tuesday, July 21, 1981
Rural Irishmen less violent, prejudiced
Citizens of Northern Ireland who live in rural communities may be more peaceful and less prejudiced than their big-city counterparts, an Irish sociologist concluded from a recent survey.
Dr. John Hickey, a senior lecturer in sociology at the New University of Ulster in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, interviewed 400 residents of Limvady, Northern Ireland, a town of about 5,000 to determine if relationships between Roman Catholics and Protestants are different in rural Northern Ireland than in metropolitan Northern Ireland.
Dr. Hickey recently discussed the survey and his findings in an interview at the university, where he’s a visiting profesor of sociology this summer.
In the study, supported by the Ford Foundation, Hickey found that:
1.	Most Limvady residents accept intermarriage between Roman Catholics and Protestants. In addition, about 10% of the citizens surveyed have a “mixed” marriage. (Hickey said most sociologists previously beleived the intermarriage rate in Northern Irelnd to be nil.)
2.	Both Catholic and Protestant residents express sympathy for “the other side.”
3.	Most residents say they would cooperate with a boss of the opposite religion and be friendly with a neighbor of the opposite faith. Hickey found a “high degree of acceptance of Protestants by Catholics and vice-versa.”
4.	Both Catholics and Protestants want a stronger, more autonomous government, but they reject plans for a united Ireland or for corporation into Britain.
Two-thirds of the respondents wre Protestants and one-third were Catholics, the exact proportion of Protestant to Catholics in Northern Ireland.
“Within the small twon of Limavady exists a degree of goodwill and a degree of mixing,” the Irish sociologist noted. “After all, in a town of 5,000, it’s virtually impossible for a person to live in a group apart, never mixing with people of the other faith.
“In contrast, the residents of Belfast live in Roman Catholic or Protestant sections and can spend their entire lives mixing only with their own kind. There, a Catholis would never go into a Protestant area.”
Despite the good news of community harmony from Hickey’s Limavady survey, he also found some rural residents who favor complete segregation.
“I found a hard core of people— from both faiths— who don't want to mix. Some Protestants show strong hostility toward the Catholic Church, and some Catholics feel they have been exploited, supressed and discirminated against as second-class citizens. The hard core is big enough to continue the problem.”
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Senators not pleased
By Kevin Olson
It has been more than a year since the Student Senate placed a special referendum on the Spring 1980 general election ballot and called for the approval of a University Center. The referendum, which placed 50% of the first phase financial responsibility upon the student population through a $10 dollar per semester assessment, was immensely popular and passed easily.
The idea of a recreational/activity center had been discussed by administrators and students alike for many years. It was assumed that a modern, centralized complex would greatly benefit the University. The Center would help counter the increased student interest in recreational activities and provide a safe, attractive, and stimulating environment needed for a well-rounded education.
In addition, the Center would enhance social and cultural activities, and provide space and services for
interest clubs and student organizations. More importantly, the Center would finally give our campus an up-to-date student center that so many other major universities in the area already have.
And this is exactly how the Student Senate promoted the idea to the students; an athletic and activity center where the common student could finally enjoy facilities that weren’t half-a-. century old.
But now, after a prolonged retirement from the student sight, the University Center is back in the spotlight and many members of the Student Senate are not happy with what they see.
Andrew Littlefair, the recently elected Student Senate Chairman, is worried that the Center may become just another facility for the athletic department. “The problem now, after a year of very little student attention, is that the University Center may be moving in a direc-fContinued on page 4j
Photo By John C. Ferraro
HERE COMES THE SUN— The sun rises over the nearly completed Seeley G. Mudd building, at the corner of McClintock Ave. and Downey Way.
Medical school dean offers advice to foreign travelers
It’s 2 a.m., Hong Kong time, and you’ve got more than a touch of flu.
What to do?
Seek help from a university-affiliated hospital, if possible, suggests Dr. Allen Mathies, Jr., dean of the university School of Medicine and an expert of communucable diseases.
Through a teaching hospital, he explained, you’re likely to obtain a good listing of doctors with a wide range of medical specialties, or an appropriate referral to a specialist. Another possibility is to call the local American consulate or embassy for a list of qualified doctors.
“If you choose a hospital at random,” Mathies said, “it may or may not be staffed to take care of your particualr needs.”
To keep vacations happy and healthy, Mathies had a number of addit’onal suggestions.
Before starting a journey to foreign lands, update your-in-noculations. “Be sure to update the routine innoculations for diptheria, tetanus, and measles. Then, depending on your destination and the diseases
endemic there, you may need to get other vaccines as well,” Mathies said.
Very few innoculations are needed these days, he said, but it’s a good precaution to check with the county department of health aboutinnoculations needed in specific countries.
“Cholera is still a problem in Southeast Asia, for example,” he said, “so you may need an innoculation if your journey takes you there.”
If a strain of influenza appears in another country before it appears here, Mathies added, it’s a good idea to be innocu-lated before visiting that country.
Travelers planning short trips abroad should get a gamma globulin shot to prevent hepatitis A (the infectious type), Mathies suggested. Since the innoculation is effective for only about three weeks, the best time to obtain it is as close as possible to your departure date.
Travelers with a history of certain conditions can plan ahead to make their vacation more enjoyable, Mathies suggested. Motion sickness, for ex-
ample, can often be relieved by over-the-counter medication. Persons with upper respiratory infections often find altitude -changes bothersome, but they can usually remain comfortable if they’re careful to take their presrcibed medication to dry upthe excess mucus as much as possible.
When a traveler passes through multiple time zones, his biological clock needs time to adapt. "Plan your trip so you^have sufficient time to adjust,” Mathies suggested.
Then, during your vacation, be sure to budget some time for rest. “People try to do too much on a trip, to squeeze too much in,” Mathies says. “So they don’t get enough rest. They get overly tired. And then, they’re less able to fight off infection.”
Other tips for safe trip, Mathies said, are to avoid drinking the water or eating raw shellfish in foreign countries. With contaminated drinking water, the most common result is diarrhea. With raw shellfish such as clams or oysters, hepatitis transmission is < Contmuec on page 4)