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The Daily Tar Heel Friday, October 14, 19885 Prog ram to help Ih i school! 4ydeot Visit UNC By WILL SPEARS Staff Writer High school students interested in visiting UNC and learning about campus life will be able to stay on Donations By ANDREW WATERS Staff Writer Donations for the new alumni center have passed the $10 million mark, nearly reaching the $12 million goal set by the General Alumni Association, said Karen Arwe, asso ciate director of the Alumni Center Campaign. Gifts and pledges to the center total $10.2 million, Arwe said, and alumni association officials expect to reach their goal by the end of this year. Construction on the new alumni center will begin in spring 1989, and the project will take from 18 months to two years to complete, Arwe said. Groundbreaking is expected on commencement weekend of 1989, she said. Funds to build the center, which will be located in the wooded area I m p ro v ing By ANDREW THOMPSON Science Writer Recent psychiatric research has shown that schizophrenics can be treated effectively with lower levels of anti-psychotic drugs than most doctors now prescribe, thus reducing serious side effects. - Schizophrenia is the medical term for madness or insanity. Figures vary, but officials say that between one in 1,000 and one in 100 people world wide suffer from some form of schizophrenia or its equivalent. In the United States, schizophrenia is diagnosed on the basis of two sets of symptoms. "Negative" symptoms are social withdrawal, apathy and lack of motivation. "Positive" symp toms, which are associated more commonly with " madness, include wild and confused chains of thought, delusions of grandeur, hallucinations "(often the hearing of voices) and paranoia. What are the consequences of schizophrenia? Robert Golden, a professor at the UNC Mental Health Clinical Research Center, described it as "a devastating disease." "It destroys the lives of young people and adults in the prime of their lives and also has a horrible impact on their families," Golden said. "It greatly diminishes their capacity to form relationships, to enjoy life the essence of what being a person Manufacturer's closeouis and bankruptcy buyouts mean GREAT deals for you! (iM IT TMURS.-SAT. SUNDAY 9 UNDER THE SfflKDES- over 3,000 pairs of name-brand athletic shoes 400 IFF reg. price save up to $40 on selected styles ALL SALES PJSi?i final! 4600 Chapel Hill Blvd campus with UNC students this spring as part of a new orientation program. The program, initiated by sopho- more Sabine van der Meulen, will foir aluoiimi next to the Rams Head parking lot near Kenan Stadium, are coming from donations by UNC alumni and other interested people, she said. Student leaders said they are still concerned that the center will disrupt life around the area, especially in the area of Scott Residence College. When plans for the center were first revealed last year, students voiced concerns over whether the. building would complement the buildings already in that area, and whether the building would disrupt on-campus parking for students. "We're concerned about the prob lems that go along with construction of any building," RHA President Jimmy Randolph said. These problems include the safety of students near the construction, the aesthetic appearance of the area treatment Science Report is all about." Schizophrenia is usually "chronic," haunting a person for many years with varying degrees of severity. Because doctors are not sure what causes schizophrenia although many contested theories exist they have found no complete cure for the illness. However, schizophrenics can be treated. For most psychiatrists, the first line of treatment is prescribing anti-psychotic drugs such as chloro promazine. These drugs, developed in the 1950s, do not cure schizophrenia, but rather subdue some of the positive symptoms, enabling many schizoph renics to be discharged from hospitals. However, there are side effects to the drugs. Schizophrenics on a long course of treatment tend to become more apathetic and withdrawn. Moreover, psychotropic drugs are believed to be responsible for move ment disorders. The most serious disorder is known as tardive dyskine sia, and is found in a significant minority of chronic patients. Patients with tardive dyskinesia are unable to control their facial expressions or the movements of their arms and legs. 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"In the plan I saw, they will build two separate buildings, one on each side of the path, with an overhead walkway connecting the two build ings," Sipe said. f o r sc h izoph re n i cs uncontrollably and grimace repeatedly. The serious side effects of these drugs has prompted a group of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine to investigate the possibility of lowering doses of anti-psychotic drugs. Gerard Hogarty and his colleagues carried out a two-year study, as reported in the Archives of General Psychiatry, on 70 schizophrenic patients recently discharged from a psychiatric, hospital. Half the patients, chosen at random, received a standard dose of 25 milligrams (mg) of the anti-psychotic drug, fluphen azine, once every two weeks. The other half received a much lower dose of five mg. Neither the patients nor the practitioners giving the injections knew who was in each group. At the end of the two years there was no significant difference between the two groups in the number of patients who had relapsed and required hospitalization. Although the relapse rate was the same, the low dose patients had more minor flare ups of symptoms. However, the condition of these low-dose patients was stabilized by temporary boosts in medication, to no more than 10 mg of fluphenazine. Despite' the, "minor bouts of psy chotic symptoms,-the. low-dose OVER $500,000 WORTH OF SPORTING GOODS REDUCED OR MORE! TTEMMS save up to 500 FF. reg. retail of name-brand racquets. Tennis balls $l"can (limit 4) QUANTITIES limited! UNC students in a residence hall overnight or for a weekend, van der Meulen said. Students who apply to the Carolina Contact orientation program will be The lighting in that area will be improved by the building, he said. The alumni, center will provide facilities for reunions and homecom ings, as well as expanded office space and board and meeting rooms, Arwe said. "The building will basically allow us to serve the alumni in a better manner," she said. The center will also contain a 7,500 square foot banquet hall that will seat about 500 people, making it the largest banquet hall facility on campus, she said. One of the" center's primary uses will be to house many of the festivities of the University's bicentennial celebration. "It (the center) will be the alumni's gift to the University in honor of the bicentennial," Arwe said. patients were more successful in coping within the community. They worked more hours at outside jobs, got along better with their families and were less apathetic than their standard-dose counterparts. The standard-dose patients also showed more of an increase in movement problems,1 a possible precursor to tardive dyskinesia, than the low-dose group. Golden was optimistic about the research, but was skeptical that all patients could get by on low doses. "With any medication there is going to be variability across people, in the same way that an equal amount of beer affects people in different ways. I am convinced that there will be some schizophrenics who will still require high doses." However, for many schizo phrenics, reducing dosages will min imize the side effects of the anti psychotic drugs while not increasing their chances of major relapse. " It also sends a message to prac ticing clinicians. "They need to recognize that there is always the need to fine-tune the treatment for a particular patient," Golden said. In the future, researchers should investigate ways of separating the patients who need high doses from those who need low doses, he said? 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UNC -students must be willing to let the high school students stay in their rooms for the program to be successful, van der Meulen said. "Students would gain a lot from being hosts," she said. "It's a way to get to know someone and form a friendship. It's fun. It's a chance to show someone what UNC is all about. It will only work if we can get hosts." Resident assistants will ask inter ested residents to host the high school students starting in January, she said. Students would also gain personal satisfaction from being hosts, Ran dolph said. "People who love UNC want the P"" n n n pi n with purchase Mimi mast ween rees with this ad through October 31, 1988 Limit 18 holes per person pe$day 1 8-hole Public Course q Complete Line Jj Driving Range to Golf Course t.-i Eo IFcfaimMnim (Stolen mm On Amber Alley) experience of showing it off to! someone." he said. "A host can find! self-satisfaction in convincing some-! one this is the place for them. We're! asking a student to become a sort of; buddy for the day." ; The program will be self-; supporting, and the high school; students will -pay; all of their own; expenses, van der Meulen said. ; One potential problem with the; program that has not been resolved; yet is the legal responsibility the host may have for the visitor while he is on campus. Randolph said. That would include any damage the stu dent causes or any injuries that might occur. ' "Once we have the legal question ironed out, we will look at the demand there is for the program." It will be beneficial to high school students who want to find out more about the University, said Wayne Kuncl, director of University housing. "The program has a lot of possn bilities," he said. "I'm really interested in the idea. We need to sit down and work it all out." , ; Dean of Students Frederic Schroeder said he also is in favor of the program. ; "I think it's an outstanding thing," he said. 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