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Che Battalion
Vol. 68 No. 99
College Station, Texas
Thursday, Apr. 1, 1976
lesolution lowers
^PR requirement
?r two hours of debate, the Student
} passed a resolution last night to
the grade point ratio requirement for
ifficer.positions. The GPR was low-
•om 2.5 to 2.25
same resolution was passed by the
Thursday night, but based on
t’s Rules of Order that meeting was
ted. There had not been enough prior
^ersity regulations require thatoffic-
bfficially recognized student organi-
t have at least a 2.0 GPR overall.
The resolution will affect only write-in
candidates in this election, but will affect
all the candidates for future elections.
Roger Harvey proposed the resolution
because he said some of the senators felt
they had made a mistake by raising the
requirement from 2.0 to 2.5 last October.
The resolution stated that the 2.5 require
ment is too high because class officer posi
tions are not as time consuming as execu
tive positions. The executive requirement
remains 2.0.
Sen. Scott Sherman said the 2.25 allows
a safe margin.
“I’m for the 2.25 — but not for any elitist
reason—just incase you goof up,” he said.
Just before the meeting was adjourned,
Wesley Harris, President of the Judicial
Board addressed the group. He said that
the J-Board was tired of ruling on assanine
election requirements for student offices.
He said that unless the requirements were
changed, the Senate would soon be im
peaching J-Board members for not uphold
ing the requirements.
— Cissy Auclair
udicial Board objects
o campaigning rules
By GALE KAUFFMAN
( lent Senate members applauded
il Board Chairman Wesley Harris
le spoke out against the Judicial
at a specially called Senate meeting
lesday night.
with upholding asinine regulations,” he
said.
Harris presented his views to the Senate
after a Judicial Board met to reconsider the
disqualification of junior Kim Schaefer for
campaign violations.
human error and forgetfulness.
“I’m interested in serving the students
and to deprive me of this chance was really
bad,” she said. “It’s a case of going by the
rules or bettering student involvement and
activities.”
International talent
This group of Venezuelan musicians performed activities. There will be a roundtable discussion
Wednesday night as part of the International Week tonight in rm. 601 of the Rudder Tower.
Teamsters strike
ILi will have to impeach the entire
f l Board because they will blindly,
gly and openly allow election viola-
said Harris.
-
laddressed the Texas A&M Student
ft and recommended that the Senate
sider the student campaign regula-
jat the next regular meeting. “The
rd is getting thoroughly disgusted
Schaefer, who was running for Resi
dence Hall Association presidency, was
disqualified by the Student Election
Commission for putting a campaign sign in
a tree.
Schaefer appealed the decision to the
Judicial Board, basing her appeal on “the
grounds that the penalty was too severe for
the crime. Schaefer said it was a matter of
fhese flowers, with many others, can be found in the floral test
[ardens of the College of Agriculture. The gardens, located on
fouston St. across from KAMU, have plants at all times.
Nationwide walkout result of benefit, wage dispute
After one and one-half hours of delibera
tion, the board ruled in favor of Schaefer’s
disqualification by a 5 to 3 vote.
“If it is determined that a violation took
place, the board is required to follow the
prescribed punishments,” said Harris. Ac
cording to university Regulations hand
book, no campaign signs may be placed on
any trees or shrubs. Any candidate who
violates the election regulations, in this or
any other area, will be disqualified.
After the meeting. Judicial Board
member Shannon Walker said, “The rule
(of disqualification for any violation) is not
in the best interest of the student body. It’s
too restrictive and it’s the student body
who is being hurt by this particular legisla
tion.”
In his address to the Student Senate,
Harris said that these harsh punishments
restrict the number of qualified candidates
for student offices. Harris later stated that
it should be left up to the Judicial Board to
decide what penalties go with what of
fenses.
Associated Press
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. — A
nationwide Teamsters trucking strike
began today with thousands of drivers on
picket lines and the nation’s economy fac
ing a crunching shutdown in the interstate
flow of goods.
Union and trucking industry officials said
negotiations, which failed to bring about a
settlement in time to avert a walkout,
would resume at 9:30 a.m. after a recess.
Wages, fringe benefits and a cost-of-living
clause remain in dispute, they said.
Labor Secretary W. J. Usery, Jr. and
other federal officials had no comment
early today, and there was no immediate
indication that the Ford administration
would seek a Taft-Hartley injunction to
keep the nation’s trucking pipeline from
drying up as the strike spread.
Picket lines appeared at freight yards
and truck terminals from Connecticut to
Georgia to Colorado.
Teamsters President Frank E. Fitzsim
mons said three hours after the midnight
strike deadline that Teamsters were “on
record if we didn’t conclude an agreement
by 12:01 midnight that our people weren’t
going to work .... There is a strike. Our
people have walked off.”
The strike, Fitzsimmons said, covers
“the entire United States of America. Of
the possibility of a federal back-to-work or
der, Fitzsimmons said, “It’s entirely up to
the government.”
“We haven’t reached an agreement, he
added. “At one point we were very op
timistic. Unfortunately, we came to this
point.” But, he also said, “We re in the ball
park.”
The Teamsters leader refused to elabo
rate on the latest industry offer. Earlier,
though, Willian G. McIntyre, chief
negotiator for Trucking Employers Inc. —
the trucking firms’ bargaining agent — told
reporters its offer had been improved sub
stantially.
How many firms would be forced to keep
rigs off the road remained uncertain as local
Teamsters around the country continued a
push begun Wednesday to pressure indi
vidual companies to sign interim agree
ments.
This strategy, seen by union sources as a
means of breaking up the employers’ sol
idarity, would guarantee the Teamsters
demands until an agreement is reached.
Before the midnight deadline, more
than 160 firms had adopted the agree
ments, in return for assurances that their
trucks would continue to operate without
Teamsters’ interference in event of a
strike.
Fitzsimmons said he did not know how
many companies had signed the agree
ments.
The union lists 400,000 members.
McIntyre, who first announced the im
passe, said the talks would continue and
“hopefully, sometime we can produce a
contract that will stabilize the transporta
tion system of the country.
“If I thought that the continued efforts of
TEI were hopeless, I would be on my way
back to Washington at this time. I intend to
stay here as long as there is any move
ment .... We ll continue to be here.”
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Remember to vote on Saturday
Index
The Battalion makes recommenda
tions for the city council positions
and the charter revision issue. Page
2.
The transportational development
of Bryan-College Station is recount
ed in “100 years.” Page 5.
Tampa and Seattle now have play
ers to fit into those new uniforms.
Page 8.
Sportfolio takes a look at “Dear
Abby”. Page 9.
THE FORECAST for Thurs
day and Friday is fair and mild
becoming partly cloudy tomor
row. Today’s high, 78; tonight’s
low, 51; Friday’s high, 83.
Heartache:
Vets aid dachshund
with weight problem
By MARILOU WOMACK
Gunther could have been an
overweight American.
He might have suffered the
humiliation of always bringing up the
rear on playful romps with the boys,
the heartache of having the new little
girl on the block pass him by without
so much as a sniff, the discomfort of
having his stomach scrape the as
phalt every time he wanted to cross
the street— not to mention the utter
degradation of getting stuck under a
fence.
Gunther has a hypo-thyroid condi
tion. He has no way of seeking help
for himself because Gunther is a
dachshund.
Fortunately, he belongs to Dr.
Dan Hightower, Doctor of Veteri
nary Medicine and professor at Texas
A&M University’s College of Vet
erinary Medicine.
Dr. Hightower is engaged in the
study and clinical application of nuc
lear medicine. At the veterinary
Ford to make Texas
campaign visit in April
Associated Press
Texas, considered a key state in the Re
publican battle for the presidential nomina
tion, will be the object of some courting by
President Ford this month during two
quick visits to the state.
White House sources Wednesday said
only that “there are reports” that Ford will
come to Texas around the second weekend
in April, but other sources in Texas said
that the President will be in the state April
9-10 and again April 28-29.
Ford’s visits will be political campaign
affairs designed to store up defenses in the
state to meet the challenge of former
California Gov. Ronald Reagan in the May
1 primary.
“It is a campaign trip and the whole thing
is being coordinated by his campaign head
quarters,” said Texas GOP chairman Ray
Hutchison.
Reports published in Dallas said Ford
will first come to Texas on April 9 for a
speech at the Alamo in San Antonio and
then will fly to Dallas for a political rally.
The next day he will hold a news confer
ence and then go to Abilene and Amarillo
for speeches there and then return to
Washington.
The tentative schedule for the second
trip has Ford landing at Fort Worth for a
speech and then flying to Houston for a
fund-raising dinner.
The President will visit Lubbock on
April 29 and then will fly East to Tyler and
possibly Longview.
school nuclear medicine largely in
volves a technique called imaging.
“We give a radio-pharma
ceutical,’’ Hightower said. “We
know what behavior is supposed to
be. At some time after administra
tion, we look at how the radioactivity
is distributed. Then we can compare
it with what it should look like and
make a diagnosis.”
Dr. David Hood, an associate pro
fessor at the veterinary college, is
currently working with lung imaging
and brain imaging.
Dr. Hightower said that at pre
sent, veterinary nuclear medicine is
primarily important in diagnosing
illnesses, as in Gunther’s case, rather
than in curing them.
“There are a few applications in
therapy, such as internal radiation
therapy for chronic leukemia,”
Hightower said. “However, most of
its applications are diagnostic. Nuc
lear medicine doesn t replace any
thing, but it gives us additional in
formation which would be either dif
ficult or impossible to obtain with
other methods.”
Hightower cited the example of
kinetic studies — finding the rate at
which, things are going on in the
body.
“In glomerular filtration for in
stance, we study the rate at which
plasma is filtered by the kidneys,” he
said. “The old method required that
we measure the urine over a period
of time. This works fine with people,
but unfortunately animals don’t
cooperate very well.”
He said that with nuclear
medicine techniques, a radio
pharmaceutical can be injected into
the animal’s blood. The plasma
clearance through the kidneys can
then be followed without taking
periodic urine samples.
Dr. Hightower received his de
gree in veterinary medicine at Texas
A&M in 1946. Since then, he has
taken courses in radiation biology at
Reed College in Portland, Oregon,
and received a master’s degree in
applied physics from North Carolina
State.
Ten years ago he returned to Texas
A&M to teach. He has since been
engaged in the research and practice
of nuclear medicine in addition to
teaching and treating patients from
the veterinary clinic.
Hightower also works closely with
Dr. James Smathers of the nuclear
engineering department at the A&M
Cyclotron. Smathers works with
M.D. Anderson Hospital on the
treatment of cancer patients.
Dr. Smathers said that because
experiments and treatment with the
facilities involved are very costly,
most of the work done with animals is
used to probe the frontiers for treat
ment of humans.
At the cyclotron, Dr. Hightower
conducts experiments with swine,
studying the effects of high energy
neutrons on skin and the fat layers
beneath it.
Before Dr. Hightower began his
work, veterinary nuclear medicine
had already been underway for some
time at A&M under the direction of
Dr. W. C. Banks. Dr. Banks, headof
the radiology department at the Col
lege ofVeterinary Medicine until his
death in December 1975, was one of
the first veterinarians to work with
nuclear medicine.
“There are other veterinary col
leges involved in nuclear medicine,
including Cornell and the University
of Missouri,” Hightower said, “but
by no means are all veterinary col
leges working with it.
“For one thing, it’s very expen
sive. We are probably one of two
schools in the country with an anger
camera, the device used to look at
the distribution of radioactivity in
imaging.
“Another thing in our favor is that
A&M University is tremendous in
the field of nuclear science, he ad
ded.
Dr. Hightower said the study of
veterinary nuclear medicine at Texas
A&M is not aimed at producing
startling discoveries.
“For us, it’s more a question of
slowly but surely going about our
jobs,” he said.