SARAH WHITE
Battalion Staff
chemistry is a big part of Dr.
Rizzo’s life as an assistant pro-
Ir at Texas A&M University.
Izzo talks eaily and after a few
lites seems like an old friend,
dark eyes look out from behind
trimmed glasses and he smiles
hd he has a lot to smile about,
(life is filled with teaching, re-
|ch, family and music.
said that he finds both teach-
[ and research challenging.
mixes biochemistry, music
MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1977
Teaching is challenging because the
more students there are the harder
you must work, he said. Rizzo has
taught freshman level courses in
biology and will teach a graduate
course called Molecular Biology of
the Nucleus this fall,
Rizzo is currently writing a grant
proposal for a research project that
he estimates will cost around
$106,000. He said the first year of a
project is almost entirely tied up in
making preparations for the actual
research.
edical biologist
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By SARAH E. WHITE
Battalion Staff
r. Karin Ihler is a wife,
jther of two, associate profes-
of medical microbiology at
s A&M University and re-
:h scientist.
Jer weaves these facets of her
Jylife together well with a lit-
Joutside help. Her husband is
new head of the medical
ihemistry department. Ihler
she took the job at Texas
‘M because her husband de-
id to take his offer. They are
•ying their jobs, she said smil-
tlli |hey have two children, a girl
■ y eaf s °ld and a one-year old
™t is tfie< >1 Mer has some of her daugh-
ersart work posted on a cabinet
jefbffice. She explains that the
■stinct figures are a sunny path
rough a ghost town.
Ijer children have adjusted
11 t0 having a working mother,
le iid, because she has always
ked. She stayed home for
tfour weeks after each birth,
said. She has been fortunate
r to hire people that really
for children to wateh over
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■Heal microbiology. Ihler will
won masitot teach this fall but will
lize her research projects
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As a scientist she finds research
very stimulating, she said. The
aspect she enjoys is designing a
method and experimenting to an
swer a question of practical use,
Ihler said. She likened research
to a puzzle and said she always
enjoyed figuring them out.
Her current research interests
involve transmissable plasmas.
These are extra pieces of DNA
that can be carried by bacteria.
Some carry genes for drug resis
tance which render the bacteria
resistant to one or more antibio
tics which are used for treatment
of diseases in the body, she ex
plained. Ihler said that she is
working on the mechanism by
which the drug resistance is
transferred, the genes which
must be expressed for transfer,
what specifically must happen
and the products of these genes.
Plasmas caught her interest in
graduate school and she has al
ways wanted to know how they
work, she said. Ihler said she be
came interested in bacterial ge
netics while doing her post doc
toral work at Harvard. She
enjoyed the reasoning in genetics
because it is like a logician’s she
said. Ihler said that the research
on ecoli plasmas and how they
transfer drug resistance is the
biggest puzzle in her field today.
She said she thinks the most
interesting questions are those
you can’t guess the answers to. A
certain determined look in her
ice blue eyes when she says that
makes you think you will be hear
ing more about her.
His research inter ests include in
vestigations of the T 0 ! 6 °f chromo
somal proteins in th e development
and differentiation in eukayctes, the
role of hormones in the regulation
of development and differentiation
in eukaryates, and the function of
hormone receptor proteins, and
many others. These concerned
with the regulation of gene activity
in higher organisms, he said. •
He is currently w or ^i n g on one-
celled algae called dinoflagellates.
He said he hopes to f) n< J information
about gene regulation mechanisms
in dinoflagellates thi*t can assist in
understanding gene regulation in
higher organisms.
He displays his young son’s art
work on his office wall and his fami
ly’s portrait on his desk.
The other love in bis life is music.
Before entering college, playing in a
band was his sole support> he said.
He was leader of a musical group
called Sneaky Pete and the
Sequents and he still has their busi
ness card. He play 5 ihe acoustic
guitar calling himself a picker.
He said that he sing s a lot of Bob
Dylan, Jim Croce, Elton John and
the Beatles’ songs. In addition, he
has written 10-20 songs himself.
With the exception of two or three,
though, none are finished, he said.
Rizzo blames this on his limited
spare time, saying he wishes he had
more time for his nmsic. He per
forms in a local restaurant.
Music is his hobby, but biology is
an easier profession, Rizzo said. He
had a bad experience in the music
business back when h e was Sneaky
Pete,” he explained.
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Orientation teaches
Corps way of life
By MARY BECKER
Battalion Staff
The week before the fall semester begins, part of the incoming
freshman class at Texas A&M will be learning how to make a bed,
march in parade formation and what to say to an officer.
Col. James R. Woodall, commandant of the Corps of Cadets esti
mated that 25 per cent of the incoming freshmen at Texas A&M will
be in the Coips. However, about 20 per cent of those who join will
drop out because of low first-term grades and the discovery that
being a Cadet takes time.
The Corps Freshmen Orientation was organized to cut down on
the numbpr of freshmen who drop out of the Corps.
The week-long camp is not a new idea at A&M according to Mike
Gentry, 1977-78 cadet colonel of the Corps. But the last one held in
1967 failed because the freshmen were drilled too hard and many
dropped out.
Since then, the freshmen only had a two-day training session.
The idea for the week-long session was revived this year by Robert
Harvey, 1976-77 cadet colonel and Gentry.
The two got the idea after visiting the Naval Academy, the Virginia
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schools have training camps set up hr their freshmen.
They took the idea to the commandant of the A&M Corps of
Cadets and found that someone from the Navy department at A&M
had worked up a similar project as a master’s thesis and submitted it
to General Ormond Simpson, vice-president for student services.
The company commanders were asked for ideas of what they
thought the freshmen should learn during the week and before
Spring break. The program was set.
“We finally got an idea of what we wanted to do that week. Then it
was just a matter of allocating the time for those things and asking
people to come talk to the freshmen,” Gentry said.
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eighty juniors and seniors from all the outfits were handpicked to run
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