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Monday
YELL LEADERS, ALL UNIVERSITY NIGHT: Coach Wilson and
the football team will be announced, followed by a yell practice at
7:30 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
THEATER ARTS TRYOUTS: Tryouts for the first play of the year.
Happy Birthday, Wanda June,” will be held in the Forum from 8
to 9 p.m.
GRADUATING SENIORS: Graduating seniors may order gradua
tion announcements today through September 28 in Room 217,
MSC from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tuesday
DISCO ASSOCIATION OF A&M: There will be a fall organizational
meeting at 7 p.m. in Room 402, Rudder Tower.
AGGIE CINEMA: “Fiddler on the Roof,” will be shown at 8 p.m. in
Rudder Theater.
THEATER ARTS TRYOUTS: Tryouts for the first play of the year.
Happy Birthday, Wanda June,” will be held in the Forum from 7
to 8 p. m.
SILVER TAPS: Silver taps, to honor six Texas A&M University stu
dents who have died since Aggie Muster in April, will be held at
10:30 p.m. on the mall in front of the Academic Building.
Wednesday
CAMPUS SCOUTS: The Campus Scouts is an organization for all
persons who believe in the scouting ideals and want to keep in
touch with other scouts. There will be a meeting at 9 p.m. in
Room 308, Rudder Tower for all members and interested pros
pects. There will be outings planned. For more information, call
Vince at 845-5957.
DEADLINE: Today is the last day to enroll for fall classes.
HILLEL CLUB: There will be a Hillel picnic at the Hillel Founda
tion Building on Jersey St.
Neiv method to identify cancer
Test animals can be spared
with new testing techniques
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p.m. Where: Brazos Center Lecture
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Battlefield located
by A&M scientists
Results from a Texas A&M Uni
versity cancer study of several pes
ticides and other chemicals support
the idea that cell cultures in petri
dishes can be as effective in identify
ing carcinogens as lab animals.
Microbiologist Dr. John Quarles
said the advantage of such an ap
proach are speed (results in 10-21
days compared to months or years
for animal tests) and the sparing of
countless test animals for other re
search.
Quarles explained that of 13,000
cell cultures in a control group not
exposed to suspected cancer-
causing chemicals, not a single cul
ture showed cell transformation re
garded as a bellwether of cancerous
activity.
But of over 37,000 cultures ex
posed variously to more than a
dozen chemicals, all showed some
transformation even at low levels.
The results may have more signifi
cance than medical researchers had
previously thought.
Findings from the 37,000 cultures
also correlated well with results
garnered from test animals exposed
to the chemically treated cell cul
tures, noted Quarles. The study was
carried out in cooperation with the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory for
the National Cancer Institute.
“Although the correlation was not
100 percent because this method is
still experimental,” he remarked,
“the results showed that growth in
agar (a medium for cell cultures) can
be a useful aid in screening for trans
formation to cancer-causing ac
tivity.”
Quarles also said that in such cell
culture techniques, scientists
shouldn’t discount low rates of cell
transformation as insignificant.
“In this study, two known car
cinogens yielded rates of less than 1
percent,” he explained.
Of three nitrous pesticides tested
— nitrosocarbaryl, nitrosomethomyl
and nitrosolandrin — all three were
found to cause cell transformation
that leads to cancer, but only one of
the “parent” chemicals (those with
out nitroso compounds) indicated
some transforming activity on its
own. That was landrin, said Quarles.
Quarles expressed hopes that the
more exacting and more controlled
cell culture method might even help
improve on current cancer testing
techniques.
A blue ribbon White House
committee on environmental qual
ity reported last week that more
than 100,000 Americans die each
year from on-the-job exposure to
chemicals and that prolonged expo
sure contributes heavily to the na
tion’s cancer rate, sometimes as
much as 38 percent.
The panel also warned that no
dose of a chemical that causes
cancer — no matter how small —
can be considered a safe level.
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Four cannonballs and dozens of
smaller pieces of ammunition un
earthed near Brownsville have con
vinced Texas A&M University sci
entists they have pinpointed artil
lery positions from the Battle of Palo
Alto, first skirmish of the Mexican-
American War.
If their calculations prove correct,
Texas A&M researchers could save
taxpayers thousands of dollars by
enabling the National Parks Service
to buy only the land it needs to es
tablish the boundaries of the na
tional historical site.
No previous study has located the
battlefield so accurately, said re
search scientist Clell Bond of Texas
A&M’s interdisciplinary Cultural
Resources Laboratory.
Bond believes the current cache
of artifacts excavated from six inches
of topsoil is probably the Mexican
battle line, where field pieces from
the 6,000-man Mexican army and
2,000-troop American force dueled
in the hot sun on May 8, 1846, sig
naling the opening of two years of
formal hostilities.
Bond said the field work near Los
Fresnos northeast of Brownsville
also uncovered part of what may be
a cannon and a number of personal
articles from the same time period,
but it is not yet known if the buttons
and bottles are directly related to
the battle.
He explained that the excavation
has shown that the site of the battle
lines are not where they were pre
viously thought to be, and that a
20th century monument com
memorating the engagement is ac
tually closer to the site than most
people had believed.
The artifacts will be returned to
the National Parks Service after
analysis here.
The Cultural Resources Labora
tory at Texas A&M is a service avail
able to university scientists and to
the off-campus sector.
Other researchers at the lab are
working on a project to raise a 115-
year-old Confederate ironclad from
the harbor channel in Savannah,
Ga.
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