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Thursday, October 30, 1997

Community Briefs

Threat of TB outbreak

at UC Berkeley false

After diagnosing a UC Berkeley student with active tuberculosis last week, University Health Services officials required her classmates to take TB tests but said there is little threat of a campus outbreak.

Peter Dietrich, medical director of University Health Services, said the chances of a widespread disease are slim.

"In order to be exposed to the disease, you have to have very close, prolonged contact with someone," Dietrich said. "The highest risk individuals are those who had contact with her for extended periods of time, like roommates, partners and household members."

UC health officials said they were concerned about educating students about the disease and having the patient's classmates tested.

"Most students are not at risk," said Pam Cameron, assistant director of clinical services at the Tang Center. "You should be more worried about getting hit by a bus."

But health workers also said they were taking precautions for those who might have been exposed to the ailment.

Search for UCI's next chancellor underway

University of California President Richard Atkinson has appointed a committee formed of Regents, faculty, students, staff and representatives of the alumni association and University of California Irvine Foundation to advise him on the selection of a new UCI chancellor to follow Laurel Wilkening, who will resign June 30, 1998.

Wilkening, 52, was appointed UCI's fourth chancellor in 1993.

A 17-member committee will review a list of candidates for the position beginning this fall. The president of the committee will then forward a recommendation to the UC Board of Regents.

The first stages of work by the committee will be to meet with faculty, students, staff, and alumni and community leaders of UCI to gain perspective into the selection of the next chancellor.

Video-lending library caters to AIDS patients

In an effort to bring entertainment to homebound AIDS patients, a local philanthropist operates a video-lending library as a part of the AIDS Project Los Angeles. The Hugo Au Go-Go Lending Library offers more than 1,000 movie videos and books on tape.

"I started Hugo Au Go-Go's during the O.J. trial when I had a lover who was homebound and there wasn't anything on TV," said Hugh McPherson.

The library services are free of charge for clients who are sick or living on a fixed income. For more information, call (213) 255-4590.

Workshop offered to aspiring sleuths

"So You Want To Write a Mystery," maybe you should consider this one-day workshop. UCLA Extension is offering this $75 full-day class for aspiring detective novelists to be taught by Edgar Award, author of Simple Justice recipient of "Best First Mystery Novel of 1996."

This workshop will outline all of the necessary steps in creating and marketing a successful novel in the growing mystery novel marketplace.

The class will meet on Nov. 8, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in 2214 Public Policy. For more information and registration call (310) 825-9971 or (818) 784-7006.

Compiled from Daily Bruin staff and wire reports.

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