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mwm THE BATTALION Page 3 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1981 .ocal A&M club helps local writers ar apart uld raericanl s the teed hni 1 Jme day ai i' bottles k isition nedf re feedings. 1 Soviet ki eaks and k m a crib, ' meaningles ioviets may ; tactics, nr sposabledii Getting organ-ized Staff photo by Dave Einsel [rs. Richard J. Dunn accepts Aggie ind pledges for the Living Bank from pid Commander James Hughes, right, Ken Johnson, student body presi dent. Dunn, wife of the “Spirit of Aggieland composer, accepted 171 pledges on behalf of the organ bank at halftime of Thursday’s football game. pt lifeandi \D experiment on blacks be discussed by author iku tWRIUE WOELFEL Mineral Wll , Battalion Staff Bn witholding or syphilis treat- from uneducated black leans by government and e agencies between 1932 972 will be the topic of a is program Tuesday. M Universi [ James Jones, associate pro- at the University of Hous- d author of the book “Bad will make speak at 7:30 in207 Harrington Classroom grows up ges in foot!) do his best: ipingbypfl e worse afairchaiw ehen a ie program is being spon- by the Texas A&M Histpric- iety, the Women’s Student ization, the MSC Black in every ii , ness Committee, the his- be date oil lepartment and Phi Alpha -16, has A , a history honor society. Bible, hat om 1932 to 1972 the U.S. re I the In vouldp t ei e the higl 11 sity or pro! fair chanci M. Olsen [lift on, To Pub fie Heiilth Service, the Alaba ma State Department of Health, the Macon County health depart ment, the Veterans Hospital in Tuskegee, Al., the Tuskegee In stitute and several private physi cians purposefully withheld treat ment from more than 400 illiter ate, unskilled black men who suf fered from syphilis. “Bad Blood, published in Sep tember 1981, deals with Jones’ re search into the government- supported experiment. The book also discusses the medical ethics involved that allowed the doctors to decide the fate of the men in the experiment. Jones’ book focuses on how this research happened and continued to happen for 40 years without public attention. LOST A BOOK RIGHT BEFORE FINALS? Lou Will Loan You One ’til You Take Your Exam! And WeTl Buy The Used Ones You Do Have LOU NEEDS w YOUR USED^^f BOOKS! ULOUPOT'SH Northgate — At the corner across from the Post Office Senate as more Than the - e d w’a- =v blood zlmim 5 ' = was a =ss that .sinesS' ■-omb 6 Chanello’s i 846-3 768 d v..lilt! ciuniui $1 with ihis.i t.upt to you! .u!<lr» from the lene v i 2 FREE COKES Off 1 with every PIZZA lutl il It IS I'.ot riellM-ieit -m m s- witiiin .so hv.,1, i.- - purchased jchaneikS i! IHBPBmvBfT" L®f 6 ;.i7. 6 .®.j846-3768 DEAR PIZZAEATER, I am writino to let you know that CHANELLO’S is your «I Pizza Place at TA&M AND it is interesting to know THAT besides having THE GREATEST PIZZA made from the highest Quality ingredients available, loaded with melted marzarello cheese that will string two feet, fresh chewy homemade dough, special blend of tomato sauce and spices, and topped with your favorite meats and vegetables, (did u get all that?), we also have FREE HOME DELIVERY. Call CHANELLO’S and your FRESH HOT PIZZA will be delivered in about 30 minutes. By JENNIFER CARR Battalion Reporter If you have a creative fancy with pen and paper, or if you’re known to spend hours at the typewriter pecking out poetry or prose, there’s a campus group for you. Local writers now have oppor tunity to meet with other writers “Most of us are at the transition stage — the point where you're writ ing for yourself and your friends. It's the step to wards submitting things regularly for publica tion. Most of us haven't made that step yet, and that's what I want the group to help with. " — Alyson Williams, Wri ters Club chairman. to exchange ideas and criticism in the Writers Club. The group was created by a secretary in the economics depart ment, a general studies student and three other writers. It meets Sunday nights at 6 in the Sterling C. Evans Library to discuss pro jects that members are currently working on. The 12-member club is in volved in various projects includ ing novels, poetry, songs and a stage play. Alyson Williams, the econo mics department secretary, said die group meets to read each other’s work and to help with any thing from spelling to story ideas. Although members are kept in formed of outside contests and are encouraged to enter them, the group members do not compete among themselves. The only contest members con duct is to see who can collect the most individual rejection slips. However, not all the members are writing for publication. “Most of us are at the transition stage — the point where you’re writing for yourself and your friends,” Williams said. “It’s the step towards submitting things regularly for publication. Most of us haven’t made that step yet, and that’s what I want the group to help with.” Williams, who calls herself chairman by default, said the club’s purpose is to give writers an opportunity to meet each other, which she said is rare at Texas A&M University. Williams said she and two other student writers met in Janet McCann’s creative writing class (English 325). The three students got together with another writer and decided to form a club this semester to see who else was writ ing at Texas A&M. The club has received help and advice from McCann, an English professor and published poet. She is able to advise the poets in the group on how and where to submit their poetry, and to a certain ex tent, whether it will sell, she said. During one period while the re search was underway, a treatment for syphilis using penicillin did ex ist, hut it was purposefully with held from these men by the doc tors in order to study how syphilis develops and how it affects the body. “In other words, these men were used as guinea pigs without their consent, explained Linda Ann Sawyer, a senior history ma jor and member of the Texas A&M Historical Society. “Doctors knew in the beginning that some of the men would die from the disease.” When the story broke in 1972, tlie Tuskegee Institute was ac cused of racism against blacks dur ing the 40 years the secret experi ment survived. SCUBA DIVERS! We now have Air,. Sales, and Rentals! (J.S.mVIEKSCO. “The Most Complete Scuba Shop Between Dallas and Houston!” Open 9-6 Mon.-Sat. Reserve Your Wet Suit Newt TRI-STATE A&M SPORTING GOODS 846-4743 3600 Old College Rd. " v ' - ■ 846-4744 Aggieland Inn College Station