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Dy JACKIE DOUGLAS
Staff Writer
Ms
"odern day media it can
a blessing or a curse
.when a person must face a
confusing array of campaigning
techniques before election day. But
when the voter understands that
each group is only trying to package
its candidate in the best possible
way, he may be able to get through
the campaigning hype and examine
the real issues.
"When talking about the media's
presentation of political candidates,
you are not only talking about
reporters, but also about the people
behind the scenes who run a candi
date's campaign," said John Swee
ney, assistant professor in the
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Contact lenses
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By CRAIG ALLEN
Staff Writer
As the alarm clock screams
in your car, you become
aware of a stinging sensa
tion in your eyes. You scramble
down the ladder of your loft, and
the sting becomes an intense,
burning pain.
You realize, with a sinking
heart, that you forgot to clean
your contact lenses.
If you wear contacts, especially
those of the extended-wear var
iety, you may have had an expe
rience like this one. Disposable
contact lenses, a new product
recently introduce by Johnson
& Johnson, will help solve this
type of problem. i. 1 .
A major advantage of.the new
lenses is convenience, said Dr.
Judith McKenna. Lens wearers
no longer have to worry about
cleaning solutions. And losing
lenses is no longer a problem
because there will be extras
available.
There is no loss of visual acuity
or sharpness when people try the
disposable lenses, according to
optician Jeff Bright, owner of
Optometric Eye Care and Eye
Care SuperOptics. The lenses can
be fitted to almost anyone that
wears contacts.
But even though convenience
may seem to be the best reason to
wear the new lenses, safety is also
a benefit, Bright said. He said the
risk of infection due to bacteria
buildup was greatly reduced with
Asbestos
Wilson Library, Lenoir Hall, and
the School of Public Health are some
buildings that have already under
gone asbestos removal, said Donald
Wilhoit, the director of the Health
and Safety Office.
Dr. David Kaufman, a professor
of pathology, said that asbestos is a
carcinogen which, in concentrated
amounts, affects the lung area. The
chances of lung cancer are increased
for people who have been exposed
to asbestos, particularly if they
smoke. But the most common type
of cancer caused by asbestos is
mesophelioma, the cancer of the
lining and surface of the lungs,
Kaufman said.
"It is common for people who have
worked with asbestos in manufactur
ing to have lesions of one kind or
another," he said. "It is quite uncom
mon for the general public."
There are two types of asbestos,
friable and non-friable, Hackney
said. The friable type is more dan
gerous because it crumbles easily and
is more likely to end up in the air
if it is disturbed. While friable
asbestos exists in about five buildings
on campus, it is only in pipe insu
lations which are wrapped in other
materials and is not exposed, Hack
ney said.
The majority of the asbestos that
exists on campus, including that in
the Student Stores and the Union,
is non-friable and therefore less of a
hazard. Non-friable asbestos is found
primarily in a decorative finish similar
to paint. This finish contains about
5 percent to 10 percent asbestos and
is present mainly in buildings con
structed in the 1960s, Wilhoit said.
The Health and Safety Office
discovered last spring that Hinton
James had non-friable asbestos on the
ceilings, Hackney said. The ceilings
in James were repainted to prevent
School of Journalism.
A political candidate has advisers
who handle the media aspect of the
campaign. The advisers design com
mercials, send out direct mail; in
effect, they create a candidate's pub
lic image. "There is a huge number
of people who are involved in creat
ing this persona," Sweeney said.
Reporters have a difficult job,
Sweeney said. "They want a balance
between what a candidate wants the
public to know and what they think
the voter needs to know."
Reporters sometimes find it neces
sary to investigate the personal lives
of candidates, Sweeney said. "The
question involved here is whether or
not a past or present action will
affect the person's performance in
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disposable lenses.
"People don't always clean
extended-wear lenses properly,"
Bright said. "Bacteria buildup
begins, and that's where infection
begins."
Because extended-wear lenses
must be cleaned often, lack of
time and laziness sometimes
keeps the lenses dirty. And this
lack of cleanliness can sometimes
lead to serious health problems
for the eyes. But the possibility of
these problems is eliminated with
the new disposable lenses,
McKenna said.
"One of the biggest problems
(with extended-wear lenses) is
compliance, getting people to use
their solutions properly,"
McKenna said. "This (the new
lenses) goes right past the prob
lem of cleaning of lenses because
you start with a fresh pair every
week."
So you may be wondering if
the cost of the new lenses is out
rageous. Not really, McKenna
said, when compared with all the
solutions and replacement costs
of conventional extended-wear
lenses, which must be replaced
every six to nine months.
Bright offers the lenses at $175
for the initial fitting and $75 for
each additional three-month
supply.
So, if you don't want the wise,
bespectacled look, but you don't
want the hassle of extended-wear
lenses either, you may want to try
the new disposable contacts.
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escape of the asbestos, he said.
Melissa Finley, area director of
Hinton James, said flyers were sent
to every resident informing them
about the asbestos and asking that
they not disturb the ceilings. The
Health and Safety Office also held
a training program for all of the
James resident assistants, educating
them about the types of asbestos and
its effects.
While Hinton James is the only
residence hall where the substance
exists anywhere other than pipe
insulations, the ceiling of the Under
graduate Library has also been coated
with the decorative finish which
contains asbestos.
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office, which is something that is
controversial itself," he said. "If the
reporter thinks it's in the national
interest, then it's the public's busi
ness to know."
Tripp Jones, press aide for the
Dukakis-Bentsen national cam
paign, said there are a variety of
methods advisers use to present their
candidates. "Through rallies, public
speeches, meetings, and TV and
radio commercials, we are able to
present Governor Dukakis and the
ideas he believes in strongly," he
said.
"We also have relations with the
press," Jones said. "It is our job to
give them information that will facil
itate their ability to write knowl
edgeable articles about Governor
Dukakis' ideas, values and
positions."
Negative campaigning often
results from an effort to distinguish
between different candidates' ideas
and positions, according to Jones.
"Sometimes pointing out the differ
ences is perceived as being negative
campaigning.
"Generally speaking, I think the
media is fair. They have a very diffi
cult job, and that is to tell the story
as it is and be as objective as possi
ble," Jones said.
David Sandor, assistant press
secretary for the Bush-Quayle cam
paign, agreed that negative cam
paigning often is the result of two
candidates' different views on an
issue. "A large part of any campaign
is to contrast a candidate's belief on
an issue with the opposition," he
said.
Direct mail, radio, TV, speeches
and surrogate speeches are the main
sources used in the Bush-Quayle
campaign, according to Sandor.
The job of the press is to cover
both sides of the issue for the public,
Sandor said. "However, at times,
news coverage is negative toward a
certain candidate because he is
Scientists
By ANDREW THOMPSON
Science Writer
At first glance the disciplines of
geography and medicine seem unre
lated. However, recent geographical
research at UNC has helped medical
researchers understand one of the
possible causes of prostate cancer.
The relationship between geo
graphy and medicine is not new. In
1854, British doctor John Snow used
maps of London to track down the
cause of an outbreak of cholera in
the city. . . . ,
By pinpointing all the incidents of
cholera on a map, he discovered that
they were localized in a district
around Soho. From this, he deduced
that the water supply in this area was
spreading the disease. He saved lives
by closing down the contaminated
water pump. The new knowledge that
water transmitted the disease also
averted future epidemics.
Today, the threat from cholera to
the people of Western countries is
, negligible. Now, we are more at risk
from degenerative diseases such as
cancer.
Cancer of the prostate, a small
gland that is part of the male sex
organs, is the second-leading cause of
cancer death in males after lung
cancer. This year in the United States
an estimated 28,000 men will die from
the disease.
At present the cause of prostate
cancer remains obscure. However,
there are two traits which increase the
chance of a man getting the cancer
age and race. The cancer almost
always strikes older men, aged 50 and
over, and is much more common
among black men than white men.
A clue about another factor that
might influence prostate cancer came
from research on other cancers.
Vitamin D was found to slow the
growth of tumors in the skin of mice
as well as colon cancer in humans.
This year two researchers in UNC's
epidemiology department, Gary
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wrong in his position on an issue, or
he has something in his past that
isn't positive.
"In the situation surrounding the
Republican vice-presidential nomi
nation of Dan Quayle, there was a
great deal of negative journalism,"
Sandor said. "Here, I think the
media went way beyond journalistic
objectivity."
Bill Taylor, chairman of the UNC
College Republicans said the media
in this country was not fair in how it
presented certain candidates. "The
major news media sources are very
liberally biased."
For campaigning, Taylor said his
group used bumper stickers, posters,
pens, buttons and other political
map out the causes
Science Report
Schwartz and Barbara Hulka, pro
posed that vitamin D could inhibit
the growth of tumor cells in the
prostate gland. Conversely, a lack of
vitamin D could increase the likeli
hood of getting the cancer.
How could this hypothesis be
tested? The answer was in the way
we obtain vitamin D.
A small part of our vitamin D .
requirements is obtained from foods
such as milk and fish oils. However,
most of our. vitamin D is produced
by our skin when exposed to ultra
violet (UV) light. UV light is an
invisible band of the light spectrum
from the sun. When UV light reaches
the dermis layer of the skin, it starts
a complex series of chemical reac
tions, which produce vitamin D.
The vitamin D is then transported
to the kidney, where the active
component of vitamin D is formed. '
The vitamin .D can then carry out
its hormonal functions of building
bones and the day-to-day running of
cells.
Schwartz and Hulka reckoned that
if their vitamin D hypothesis was
correct, people exposed to more UV
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paraphernalia that they obtained ,
through the local or state campaign
headquarters.
"Our job is to promote any
Republican, whether on the local,
state, or national level, who wants to
be promoted and supports Republi
can ideals and philosophies," Taylor
said.
Wayne Goodwin, chairman of the
UNC Young Democrats, said they
use flyers, buttons, posters and
bumper stickers to support candi
dates from every level of
government.
"We try to accentuate the positive
side of a campaign by telling what
our party and candidate can do,"
Goodwin said. "No one likes a nega
light would have fewer cases of
prostate cancer and vice versa.
Schwartz approached a member of
the geography department, Carol
Hanchette, who was willing to carry
out the necessary study as her
master's thesis.
Hanchette's method was to com
pare the level of UV light reaching
the 3,073 U.S. counties with the
number of deaths from prostate
cancer in each of the counties.
Direct measures of UV light were
not available so mathematical models
were used to estimate the UV level.
The major influence on a county's UV
light level is its latitude. The farther
south the location, the greater
amount of direct sunlight and UV
light it receives. Less important is the
elevation of the county above sea level
in the mountains there is more U V
light. Cloud cover was also taken into
account, as clouds can block some
of the UV light.
The results of several statistical
tests supported Schwartz and Hulka's
hypothesis. As the estimated UV light
levels increased, the number of deaths
from prostrate cancer dropped.
This result was most apparent with
a geographical statistic known as
"trend surface analysis." It compared
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tive campaign.
"Television is the most used
source of information to the public,"
he said. "Because there is only a
limited amount of time in a news
cast, the news has become like enter
tainment. It's geared to keep peo
ple's attention, so it sometimes
stresses the negative side of a candi
date or an issue. Also, the news may
seem biased because people don't
watch it as closely as they should."
The election is only a few weeks
away, and voters have to rely mainly
on the media to inform them about
the candidates. But with a little
more understanding of the purpose
of today's media, they can examine
the real issues more closely.
of cancer
the counties along a north-south axis.
The rates of prostate cancer were
highest in the counties of the North
east and lowest in the sunny
Southwest.
Although the measured relation
ship was quite small, it was significant
in both a statistical and epidemiolog
ical sense. Because there are so many
factors involved in causing cancer,
even a slight relationship, as in this
study, can be important.
Will this research lead directly to
successful treatment of. prostate
cancer using vitamin D? Professor
Melinda Meade of the geography
department argued that finding a cure
for this cancer will not be easy. "Her
(Hanchette's) work is not a magic
bullet. Rather, it suggests a new
direction for health research."
Medical research has already
started to further test the vitamin D
hypothesis. Schwartz and his col
leagues are measuring the level of
vitamin D in the blood of 50 patients
with prostate cancer and 50 control
patients without the cancer.
Whatever the outcome of this and
future research, Hanchette's work has
shown the value of applying geogra
phical knowledge to a medical
problem.
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