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Taken from the top of the Oceanography-Meteorology building, the above picture shows the excava
tion site for the foundation of the new Architecture building. The building will be adjacent to the old
Architecture building located top center in the photo.
Greeks finding TAMU
traditions large obstacle
By LORI RAESNER
Contributor
“Sorry, but it’s not for me.”
“That sounds neat! I’m really in
terested and would love to hear
more about it.
“No way! You’ve got to be kid
ding! What the %$!? do you think
you’re doing here at A&M?”
These are some of the widespread
reactions awaiting representatives
of social sororities as they contact
Aggie coeds and urge them to join.
Eight societies have attempted to
gain campus recognition this year,
said Carolyn Adair, Director of Stu
dent Activities. All have been re
fused.
“From way back it has simply
been the policy of the university not
to recognize social sororities and
fraternities,” she said. “When I feel
enough demand from the students.
I’ll recommend that the policy be
changed. However, I don’t think
things are quite ready yet.”
Many of those working to estab
lish the sororities are local residents
who became members at other uni
versities. With recognition denied,
they continue to recruit members
on an off-campus basis by advertis
ing in newspapers, writing letters
and telephoning women students.
In the beginning stages of organi
zation, Adair said, sororities usually-
form small colonies. After sufficient
growth the colonies go through
pledge periods and then are recog
nized nationally.
One of the women organizing a
society reported to Adair that seven
sororities have a combined number
of between 110 and 130 A&M stu
dents who expressed an interest in
joining or have already pledged.
Most of them live off campus and
said they have had trouble meeting
people.
Cindy McGough, resident of
Krueger, has joined a sorority and
enthusiastically supports it.
“I was active in high school clubs
and joined a few groups at A&M
during my first semester,” she said,
“but I just didn’t find a group I felt
close to. The sorority gives me the
chance to become friends with
many different kinds of people. I’ve
found it to be a very open situation. ”
Adair, who was a sorority
member when she was in college,
gave advantages and disadvantages
of joining one.
“The close friendship you can find
in a sorority is probably the best
thing about joining one,” she said.
“On the other hand, it can be a very
narrowing experience if you limit
yourself to the group. ”
Adair said she has received little
feedback from students about the
sororities, but that most of the reac
tions she has heard are negative.
For example, when one of the
sororities held an organizational
meeting in Krueger Dorm, Head
Resident Ann Wampler started an
opposing petition and presented it
to Adair the next morning with over
250 signatures.
“Student opposition seems to be
tied in with other Aggie traditions,”
Adair said. “Sororities tend to di
vide campuses into Greeks and
non-Greeks, and there is a unified
feeling of‘being an Aggie’ that most
of the students want to keep as long
as they can.”
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New methods sought
in drug preparation
A TAMU chemist is developing
new methods to prepare anti-tumor
drugs that are less harmful to hu
mans.
Professor Patrick S. Mariano, is
investigating new syntheses for
mitomycins, drugs which have to
date given good to excellent re
sponse rates with tumors tested in
clinical trials.
“Three mitomycins were isolated
in 1959,” Mariano said. “These
were discoveied by people search
ing for new and interesting com
pounds. Since then, several resear
chers have found that these com
pounds display potent anti-bacterial
and anti-tumor activities.
“Patients with chronic
myelogenous leukemia and other
tumors have responded well after
treatment with these drugs,”
Mariano said. “However, one seri
ous drawback is their high human
toxicity.”
The studies supervised by
Mariano show how pure chemical
research can be applied directly to
human problems.
“The way in which the mitomy
cins reduce tumor growth has re
ceived a great deal of study at the
University of Wisconsin and the
Lederle Laboratories,” he said.
“Several chemical groupings within
the mitomycin skeletons are now
known to be responsible for its drug
activity. Thus, the major purpose of
our efforts is to develop efficient
methods for preparing compounds
which have structures and chemical
groups similar to those present in
the naturally occurring drugs.
“The current studies are really
exploratory in nature and are fo
cused on the development of new
synthetic methods which will help
in preparing mitomycin analogs and
other important drugs,” Mariano
said.
“Once we can easily synthesize
the basic backbone of the drug, we
can introduce a host of different
chemical groupings which will lead
to increased anti-tumor activity and
reduced toxicity,” he said. “What is
most rewarding is the fact that these
current investigations grew out of a
very basic chemical study.”
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