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SG to review A&M blood collection policy
By TRENT LEOPOLD
Staff Writer
In 1983, the Texas A&M Student
Jovernment decided to allow the
Hadley Institute of Dallas to Ik- the
ole collector of blood on campus,
jespite protests from Red Cross offi-
rials.
Are-evaluation of blood drives on
:ampus will begin Wednesday and
:ontmue through next spring, says
Btudent Government Chairman for
plixxl Drives, Elizabeth Hill.
Red Cross officials, who have not
teen allowed to collect blood here
for two years, say they want to con-
Juct one yearly blood drive here to
help replenish the blood used at lo-
alnospitals by Texas A&M students
md faculty.
"We’ve never been told exactly
why we are not allowed to collect
blood at Texas A&M,” says Sherry
Beheler, director of Red Cross blood
donation programs in Waco. “We
would like to collect just a small por
tion of what Wadley collects at Texas
A&M.”
Beheler says the Red Cross is con
stantly facing a shortage of blood
here and a yearly campus blood
drive would solve the problem.
Student Government representa
tives said in 1983 they did not like
the idea of both the Red Cross and
Wadley collecting blood at A&M.
The representatives said they felt it
could confuse students accustomed
to donating blood to Wadley each
year.
Linda Thomas, who was the assis
tant continuing programs coordina
tor for Student Government in
1983, said Wadley was given the ex
clusive rights to A&M because a joint
blood drive would promote unheal
thy competition between the two or
ganizations.
Drifters find work,
shelter at Mission
Editor's Note: The is the first
part of a three-part series exam
ining the plight of the Brazos
County homeless.
By DAINAH BULLARD
Staff Writer
The popular image usually
portrays Americans as upwardly
mobile people striving tor suc
cess, wealth and acceptance in so
ciety.
However, a growing number
of people are forsaking the tradi
tional goals of career and family
to spend their lives drifting from
city to city. They sleep under
bridges, in crates, on park
benches or in public buildings.
No place is home.
In Brazos County, the only
shelter available for these people
is the Twin City Mission in Bryan.
The mission is the only place in a
100-mile radius of Bryan-College
Station where transients can find
shelter overnight.
The mission is a member of the
International Union of Gospel
Missions found throughout Can
ada and the United States. About
48 men find shelter each night at
the local shelter for homeless
men.
The men’s shelter is the largest
of four shelters sponsored by
Twin City Mission. Other shelters
are Sheltering Arms (for chil
dren), Phoeoe’s Home (for
abused women and their depen
dent children) and a family shel
ter (for transient families).
February was the peak month
for the mission in 1984. During
that time, 98 men, four women,
nine children and 30 family
members were housed in the four-
shelters.
June was the mission’s slowest
period, with 75 men, nine
wdmen, five children and 16 fam
ily members housed in the shel
ters.
Alice Stubbs, acting executive
director of the mission, and
Joann Sebesta, assistant director,
say their residents drift because
they cannot cope with American
society.
“Many people don’t under
stand this/’ Stubbs says. “They
don’t understand why they (the
homeless men) don’t get out and
work. They’re nice men, but they
just can’t cope.”
Transient men are allowed to
spend two nights at the shelter,
and during that time, they must
seek employment. Some men join
the mission’s work program and
stay longer at the shelter. Sebesta
says these men collect and repair
donated items, work in the mis
sion’s stores, and work as night
watchmen, janitors and cooks.
“About three-fourths of these
men do stay and work in our pro
gram for a while,” she says. “We
have some who have been here
since 1970, or 1972. About eight
to 10 (men) have been here that
lon $-’’
Six of the men living at the mis
sion are “room-and-boarders,”
Sebesta says. Because of age or
handicaps, these men cannot find
commercial jobs, she says. They
live on Social Security and “Grant
in Aid,” an allowance which the
mission gives its workers.
The size of the allowance de
pends on the work done, Sebesta
says. Permanent mission resi-
See DRIFTERS, page 6
Aggie blood donations
help other needy Texans
By KENNETH SURY
Reporter
More than 2,200 Aggies do
nated a pim of blood during the
Aggie Blood Drive Mar. 18-21.
But it’s all gone now. Or at least
it has changed form.
It’s not a bag of dark red liquid
anymore. The Wood donated
during the drive by now' has been
processed, frozen, distributed
and used.
Pete Smith, administrator of
the Blood Center at Wadley, said
each pint of blood can serve up to
four people, because each pint is
broken down into five different
components: white cells, red cells,
platelets, plasma and cryoprecipi-
See AGGIE, page 7
“We don’t necessarily want to
come to Texas A&M at the same
time Wadley does,” Beheler says.
“We would just like to come once a
year.”
Beheler says the Red Cross would
not be able to use as much blood as
Wadley collects.
“We aren’t trying to compete with
Wadley, we just want to get enough
blood from Texas A&M to cover
what is being used in Brazos Coun
ty,” Beheler says. “And the Red
Cross is the one supplying the actual
blood in Brazos County.
“We try to provide the blood as it
is needed, but it is hard to do when
we can’t get it.”
Hill says Wadley gives Texas
A&M students a good deal through
the Aggie Blood Club.
According to the Aggie Blood
Club system, for each blood unit do
nated by an Aggie, a credit is added
to the blood clun account. When an
Aggie needs blood, the accumulated
credits are exchanged for blood
from the Wadley Institute.
Blood processed at the Wadley In
stitute is shipped to hospitals nation-
, . _ , . , , Photo by DEAN SAITO
Woody prepares meals for the homeless in
the kitchen of the Twin City Mission.
Department head selections
Faculty Senate discusses changes
By KIRSTEN DIETZ
Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate discussed a
proposal to recommend changes in
the department head Selection proc
ess and approved the formation of a
subcommittee to study a standard
ized evaluation system at Monday’s
meeting.
The Senate also tabled a proposed
;eology curriculum change and
leard a report from the parking
committee.
The proposed department head
system discussed by the Senate calls
for the establishment of a standard
ized procedure to select, evaluate
and retain department heads. The
Senate will vote on the final proposal
at the April meeting.
If it is approved by the Senate, the
recommendation will be sent to Pres
ident Frank E. Vandiver for final ap
proval.
Currently, each college has its
own criteria for selecting and retain
ing department heads. The proposal
would allow the faculty to participate
in the system.
In the proposal, a seven-member
selection committee will search for
candidates, which are ranked and
presented to the dean, who makes
the final selection. If the dean does
not select the top-ranked candidate,
he must submit a written explana
tion to the search committee.
Each department will review and
evaluate the department head half
way through his first four-year term.
If the department head seeks a sec
ond term, the department again
evaluates him and votes whether to
retain him. The department head
must be approved by a 66 percent
faculty vote.
The dean appoints an interim
head if the heaa is not approved,
and a new search is begun.
At the request of the Student Sen
ate and the recommendation of the
Academic Affairs Committee, the
Faculty Senate approved a resolu
tion to form a subcommittee to study
the development of a standardized
course and instructor evaluation sys
tem.
The policy would be used to en
courage and reward good teaching.
The subcommittee also was in
structed to study and recommend
other similar policies.
The subcommittee will be com
posed equally of faculty and students
and co-chaired by a member of each
senate. Selection of members will be
gin immediately.
In other business, the Senate ta
bled the proposed geology curric
ulum because of confusion about the
curriculum’s computer science re
quirement. The proposed curric
ulum would delete 10 hours of
classes and replace them with 12
hours of different classes.
Parking committee chairman Dr.
George Miller reported that, in re
sponse from faculty, Vice President
for Operations Charles R. Cargill
has established 24-hour reserved
parking spaces for faculty in eight
lots. Three other lots will have these
spaces in the near future, Miller
said.
Also, Miller reported that Texas
currently is funding a study of the
feasibility of a five-story parking ga
rage on the current physical plant
site.
But Miller said Cargill is not in fa
vor of the garage because parking
fees would be raised to cover the
costs. Instead, Cargill recommends
using current surplus parking funds
to build a single-level parking lot on
the location.
Miranda
decision
revised
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In a major
victory for law enforcement officials,
the Supreme Court said Monday
prosecutors sometimes may use as
evidence the confessions of criminal
suspects not initially told of their
rights.
By a 6-3 vote, the court said con
fessions given to police by criminal
suspects who receive the police
warnings required by the court’s
1966 Miranda ruling may be used as
trial evidence even when earlier con
fessions by the same suspects were
obtained without the required warn
ings.
wide, but is not used in Brazos
County hospitals and 27 other coun
ties because they are not associated
with the American Association of
Blood Banks as Wadley is.
The Red Cross, a non-profit orga
nization, must charge a processing
fee of $33 to cover the costs of col
lecting blood. Wadley charges $35
per unit.
These processing fees are almost
always covered by health insurance,
and the patient almost never has to
pay them, Beheler says.
“It really doesn’t make any sense
when you stop and think about it,”
Beheler says. “Wadley can send a
slip of paper to a patient in a Brazos
County hospital who is covered by
the Wadley promise to Aggies, but
that piece of paper doesn’t do the
same thing for you as a pint of blood
can.”
First U.S.
free trade
pact set
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Reagan
administration is planning to initial
later this week a free trade pact with
Israel, the first such accord by the
United States with any country, U.S.
and Israeli officials said Monday.
The agreement provides for elim
ination over a 10-year period of all
tariffs, subsidies and other barriers
to trade between the two countries.
U.S.-Israel trade reached a total
of $3,944 billion in 1984.
The free trade pact is to be ini
tialed Thursday in a private Wash
ington ceremony by U.S. Trade
Representative William E. Brock
and Israeli Finance Minister Yitzhak
Modai, according to Candace
Strother, a special assistant to Brock.
Victor Harel, press counselor at
the Israeli embassy, said Monday
there were still a few “technical”
points to settle.
Modai is scheduled to meet with
Secretary of State George P. Shultz
and congressional leaders during his
four-day visit.
Brock said last week that he hopes
there will be more American free
trade agreements. He added that the
idea is to show countries that are re
luctant to open up their markets
how much mutual benefit can result
from freer trade.
Israel, in addition to eliminating
tariffs on American goods, would
undertake to end the subsidies it
pays on many goods it ships to this
country. American business people
see these subsidies as unfair compe
tition, making their own products
comparatively more expensive to
prospective buyers.
Details of the U.S.-Israeli
agreement have not been officially
released, but Keim said duties would
continue to be collected for some
time on Israeli goods that compete
with U.S. products considered to be
“sensitive.” Textiles, shoes, orange
juice and tomatoes are included in
that category.
The United States sells more
goods to Israel than it buys — with
exports totaling $2,194 billion in
1984 compared with imports of
$1.75 billion.
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