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...lose a lot of fluid out on the river without noticing it," Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of UHS, said yesterday, adding "there's also a difference between being overcome by heat on a basketball court with a lot of people around, and being overcome by heat all alone in the middle of the river." The boathouse will stay closed "until the weather breaks," athletic department spokesman Brian Gordon said yesterday...
...cases of heat prostration or heat exhaustion serious enough to require hospitalization have been reported so far, Wacker said. He advised the elderly or those with chronic illnesses to avoid exertion and drink plenty of fluids. "Anytime the temperature is over 95 degrees and there is humidity like this, people should be careful," Wacker said...
...waits for money. No one knows for sure what advice will come from the study which "did everything but take Winthrop apart brick from brick," according to Davis, or what new repair work energy-slashing measures and $12 million will allow. But Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, master of South House and Oliver Professor of Hygiene, sees the new study presenting "both a challenge and an opportunity to upgrade the place, to make it more liveable and economical in the long run," Wacker adds...
...quite a few Harvard affiliates: relief from the yearly flu epidemic. The annual blight hit from late November to mid-January, keeping dozens of Harvardians bedridden for days. While healthy scientists busied themselves in their laboratories, sickly patients could only follow the age-old advice of Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, who recommended rest, fluids and aspirin...
...Politics now openly regards gay politics as a subject worthy of debate in the Kennedy School forum and last year sponsored a panel on gay issues. The University Health Services (UHS) director has also listened to requests that UHS doctors treat gay students fairly. Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of UHS, spoke before a GSA meeting and has taken the lead in "sensitizing" physicians and psychiatrists. Nevertheless, most counselors at UHS still regard homosexuality as an indication of psychological distress and confusion that needs treatment, several gay students say. Schatz, whose medical record includes the fact that...