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'^Medical school applicants THE BATTALION MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1978 Page 3 ‘Good percentage’ accepted I By JUDY DUNN |More than 60 percent of Texas A&M’s applicants have been ae- gipted to medical schools since ,1953. according to a Texas A&M Graduate Medical School Data Heft. ■Compared to other large institu- |ons. that is a good percentage, said . Gilbert Schroeter, associate lessor of biology, and chairman the Premed and Predent Advi- y Committee. Last year 85 out of 154 A&M ap- Jjcants were accepted into medical schools, according to the sheet. Kty-three graduates went to Uni- iersity of Texas medical schools in Dallas, Houston, Galveston, and Hi Antonio. Eight went to Baylor Afcdieal School in Houston, and Bee went to Texas Tech Medical Early cold School in Lubbock. Eleven other graduates went to other medical schools in the U.S. In 1977, the Texas A&M Medical School opened its doors to A&M applicants for the first time. Out of 114 applicants, 31 were accepted. Eleven students were sophomores, 18 were juniors, and two were seniors last year. “There has also been a recent in crease in the number of women ac cepted from A&M,” Schroeter said. In 1976, four women from A&M were accepted to medical schools. In 1977, there were 21 accepted, and seven out of those 21 were ac cepted into the A&M school, he said. Most Premed students graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology or zoology, Schroeter said. A few students graduate with a B. S. degree in other fields, such as mi crobiology or biochemistry. How ever, according to the Texas A&M University Undergraduate Catalog, a student can enter the program in medicine if he selects a curriculum which includes certain courses in chemistry, biology, general physics, calculus, English, American His tory, political science, and physical education. According to the Medical School Admissions Requirements book for 1978-79, the Texas Tech Medical School in Lubbock is the most ex pensive among other medical schools, and Texas A&M’s is the cheapest. Students at Texas Tech pay $4,562 a year. Students at the UT medical school in Dallas spend $4,400 a year. Baylor medical stu dents pay $4,150, and UT students in Galveston pay $3,300, and stu dents in San Antonio spend $3,110. A&M medical school students pay $2,600 a year. All of these prices in clude tuition, student fees, room and board, books and supplies, and microscope rental. At the A&M medical school, stu dents also pay for building use fees, which is included in the $2,600 they pay per year. “We pay a building use fee be cause we are on campus and use the same buildings other students use at A&M,” said Susan Rudd, a freshman, and Student Senator for the medical school. “Even though we pay a building use fee too, the A&M medical school is still the least expensive of the medical schools,” she said. Concert features ‘My Fair Lady’ The mid-winter concert of Texas A&M’s University Sym phonic Band will be presented Thursday. Consisting of students from all segments of the university, the symphonic band will perform at 8 p.m. in the Rudder Theater. The program will feature selections from “My Fair Lady,” a guest-directed Cole Porter symphonic portrait, a piano solo by Tracy Sowders and the six- member trombone section in a unison solo on “Morceau Sym- phonique. Joe McMullen directs the 71-member symphonic band which is in its fourth year. It performed in a prestigious guest band role last year at the Texas Music Educators Association conference in San Antonio. Lt. Col. Joe T. Haney, Aggie Band director, will take the baton for the Cole Porter por trait. Ms. Sowders will perform Debussy’s “Claire de Lime.” The concert will also be high lighted by the first joint appear ance with the symphonic band of Aggie Concert Band members. They will provide antiphonal brass choirs in the performance of Kalinnikov-Bainum’s “Finale from Symphony No. 1.” The brass will be located at the rear of the theater, for a stereophonic ef fect, McMullen said. Admission is $1 for any stu dent and $2 per non-student. y cures—added benefits By MARY JO PRINCE ■It is often wondered how our pre- BAcessors battled the coughs, colds, grid fevers that accompanied their fl| seasons. Antibiotics and decon gestants were still in the discovery iges. lAccording to John Q. Anderson in Texas Folk Medicine,” there is a cure for what ails you. ■Has that upset stomach slowed ■u down? Get back in the race by cutting off some hair in the moonlight and throwing it over your jshoulcler. ■Ifthat fails, wash and boil the lin- of a chicken’s gizzard; drink the resulting tea at half-hour intervals until your stomach is settled. Those irritating colds and hacking coughs have no advantages when you’re trying to sleep at night or at tempting to be attentive in class. Sniffles and sneezes will cease if you make a powder of dried frog skins advise folklorists. Mix it with fruit juice and drink. You can muffle those hacks if you add one teaspoon of sugar to some 100-proof whiskey and set it afire. When the liquid stops burning, drink it. If this drug has no effects, eliminate the sugar and the burn ing. 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The onion, folklorists say, should absorb the germs. This cure has an added bene fit: your friends will be out of danger because they will not come within a hundred yards of you or your germs for some time- Should these treatments prove ineffective, there is one more - “wives tale” you might find helpful. Find your way to the nearest cam pus Health Center and disappear for two hours! vRyj -vs/’ W,' tvs/' tj W.' j W, j j lv*/ IIwL. tm mWtSZ Every Day Is $$ DOLLAR DAY $$ at the Subway! Every day one of our 20 varieties of sandwiches will be on sale for 2 ft. & 4 ft. subs available for your next party 109 Boyett (Next to Campus Theater) 846-8223 846-3901 20et P a ers °na^s 3 rea/ an d bikini n ^r d/s ,n g Or, yo Ur you’re . P/ c / f th ° a/ 0 o . e - (k Pfi Ph °Oe. °/7e °rn er >al! orr,, M i*| | I ' i. m ' Tilii '