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Volume CXVI, Number 3
University of Southern California
Thursday, September 5, 1991
Science
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Medicine
One in six Americans gets herpes each year
By Linda Sellers
Staff Writer
— First in a two-part series. One out of every six Americans has genital herpes, according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The center reports between 30 and 40 million cases annually in the United States.
It is known as the "Immaculate Disease" because many don't know where they contracted it.
But despite its ugly reputation, herpes deaths are exceedingly rare.
Herpes is a retrovirus that lays dormant in the central nervous system and thus becomes a part of the person's DNA. It can lay dormant for years before a person experiences their first outbreak.
There are three different kinds of herpes, according to Jerome Eder of Borroughs-/ Welcome pharmaceuticals.
•	Herpes Zoster is defined as reactivation of the chicken pox virus and can strike people of any age, whether they have had chicken pox or not. The disease manifests itself as shingles, herpatic lesions break out on the trunk of the body.
•	Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) I is characterized by chancres, cold sores and / or I fever blisters around the outside of the mouth. They are common and usually go away within a week.
» Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) II is characterized by red, raised bumps in the genital area that mat itch and bum. After a few days the bumps will turn into chancre-type sores that may last up to three weeks during a first outbreak.
Patients with HSV II may have multiple outbreaks that usually occur in the same area [ or areas, Eder said.
May patients have prodrome, symptoms warning that an | outbreak is about to occur. These include:
•	Pain at the outbreak site
•	Itching and/or burning
•	Flu-like symptoms
•	Lo-grade fever
•	Muscle fatigue and / or| aches
It is important to note that some patients do not have these symptoms and only know they are having an outbreak by examining the site.
(See Herpes, page 6)
Building blocks
Edward Siegel / Dally Trojan
Walter Liem (left), a graduate student in electrical engineering, and Paul Hayes, a junior majoring in computer science play Tetris on an IBM PS / 2 555x as part of a promotional collegiate tour by IBM PS 12. The booth will be on campus today and Tuesday.
Magazine tax trouble
Medical library forced to cut subscriptions
By Arwen Adams
Assistant City Editor
The USC Norris Medical Library will cancel $56,000 worth of medical journal subscriptions over the next school year due to a recent state sales tax levied on periodicals, university officials said Wednesday.
The tax — which raises the price of all journals, magazines and newspapers in the state — affects newsstand sales and subscription rates. University libraries are not exempted from the tax and must factor the increase into the budget, said David Morse, associate director of the medical library.
"Our first cut included some of the more expensive, specialized journals," Morse said. "At this point the people most affected will be those here on research grants with a need for specialized, current data."
Morse said the library staff consulted the faculty before deciding which periodicals would be eliminated.
"After we talked to the teachers, we did an in-house study to see which journals would be missed the least," he said.
Among the discontinued subscriptions were the Journal of Comparative Physiology, with an annual subscription rate of $2,400, and the Archives of Urol-ogy, with an annual rate of $1,300.
Cobb shifted out of athletics
Dougherty says ‘numerous complaints’ were filed on the ex-assistant athletic director
By Robert Moran
Staff Writer
Marvin Cobb, who has filed a lawsuit accusing the athletic department of racial discrimination, was transferred from his position as assistant athletic director to an administrative position on the Health Sciences campus.
In a letter dated Aug. 6, Dennis Dougherty, senior vice president of administration, informed Cobb that he would be reassigned to the office of Vice President Fermin Vigil, dean of business affairs for the School of Medicine.
Cobb was to report to Vigil's office on Aug. 19, according to the letter, which stated "Your salary, grade level and level of responsibility will be commensurate with your current position in the Athletic Department."
Cobb was not available for comment and Vigil did not return phone calls Wednesday.
Dougherty began the letter: "The Athletic Department has documented numerous complaints with your job performance over the last several years. In September, 1990, you expressed your dissatisfaction with your work environment by filing a grievance against Dr. (Michael) McGee and again,.most recently, against your primary supervisor, Mr. Michael Garrett."
Cobb filed a lawsuit against the university in November 1990, alleging racial descrimination on the part of McGee, the university's athletic director.
In the complaint, Cobb claimed he was passed over for promotion by McGee because he had complained about the treatment of black athletes during his time as assistant director.
Cobb amended his suit last February to include former university President James Zumberge and baseball Coach Mike Gillespie after a memo was sent by Gillespie to McGee offering to help get Cobb get fired by setting him up in a phony drug arrest.
The memo was later dismissed by athletic department officials as a
(See Cobb, page 3)
Dennis to
discuss
reforms
for Greeks
By Connie Standley
Staff Writer
An information session scheduled for Sept. 4 to debate the recently-released Greek reforms was cancelled by the Office of Student Affairs because the anticipated crowd would have been too large for Bovard Auditorium, university officials said.
The meeting, rescheduled Tuesday, was to take place between James Dennis, vice president of Student Affairs and author of the reforms, and re-presentitives from all the Greek houses.
Dennis said he will now meet with each Greek house individually, rather than in an open meeting.
Kristine Dillon, associate vice president for Student Affairs,
(See Sessions, page 19)
"This tax is only an added mess," Morse said. "The university has to look at the overall library budget. And they haven't been compensating for the price increases the (book) publishers are enforcing.
"As librarians, we aren't anxious to keep pouring money in to these publishers," he said. "They know they have a captive audience and take full advantage of the fact."
Morse said the staff considered reducing the book budget to compensate for the tax increase, but the book budget had already been reduced for the upcoming year.
Lynn Sipe, assistant university librarian for Collection Development, said that the entire university library system has been affected by the sales tax.
"So far, nothing has been cancelled or removed because of the tax," he said. "However, if the law does not change to exempt libraries, it could cost us a great deal more to remain at the current level of operation.
"We have a goal to cut $130,000 from the overall budget," Sipe said. "We don't have a complete list of the potential cuts yet, but we will by the end of the month."
Sipe said the 1991-92 budget was in place before the tax took effect, so no money was set aside. Figures for the 1992-93 budget could not be pre-. dieted at this early date, he said.