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Researchers link
Cancer to genes
United Press International
IICAGO — Cancer researchers
“working around the clock” to
lue the discovery by a Philadel-
iia scientist of some of the strongest
Bence yet linking a form of cancer
Abasic units of heredity.
B)r. Carlo M. Croce of the Wistar
pstitute of Anatomy and Biology
>iind what may be the way a certain
Ine is activated to turn normal cells
ito malignant ones.
Kroce reported his findings at a
fiposium sponsored by the Univer-
■ of Chicago and discussed the
fork Wednesday in a telephone in
n-view.
iThe development could lead, in
■ral years, to new ways to treat can-
ferjsaid Dr. Janet D. Rowley, sympo-
lum coordinator and an expert on
B>rmalities in chromosomes, the
within cells that carry the
“It is very exciting,” she said. “It’s
one step in a long process of under
standing how a normal cell becomes a
malignant cell.”
Croce studied hereditary material
known as DNA from a patient with
Burkitt’s lymphoma, a cancer involv
ing lymphoid cells most commonly
found in African children.
He found a gene known to cause
cancer in chickens had moved from
one chromosome to another. He also
found the cancer gene had recom
bined with an active gene involved in
the production of immunoglobulin, a
protein active in the body’s defenses
against disease.
Croce said his laboratory has evi
dence the cancer gene was activated
and produced a protein.
He said the next step is to find out
how that gene product works and
once that is understood, he said re
searchers will attempt to find a way to
shut off the apparent cancer-causing
mechanism.
“We are all excited,” he said. “We
are working around the clock.”
A scientist from Harvard Universi
ty reported at the same symposium
Croce’s finding had been confirmed
in the Harvard lab.
Dr. George Khoury, chief of the
laboratory of molecular virology at
the National Cancer Institute outside
of Washington, said Croce’s research
was significant in the effort to under
stand how cancer genes are turned
on, and possibly how they can be
turned off.
“The assumption is that the move
ment of this in some way turns on this
gene,” Dr. Rowley said. “And it’s this
turning on that may be related to the
cancerous nature of the cell.”
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Battalion Staff
A major concern of the'committee
tudying the future of the Academic
mndl is to prevent overlap between
e council and the proposed faculty
nate, committee chairman Clinton
Phillips says.
The ad hoc committee, appointed
Texas A&M President Frank E.
andiver, met this week to begin
dying the council’s future role and
unction.
■The Academic Council is the only
niversity-wide body dealing with
demic matters. The council pri-
rily is made up of administrators,
Rans and department heads — only
B of the 167 members are elected
faculty members.
A faculty senate was proposed a
tear ago to increase the faculty’s role
TUniversity governance.
Faculty members will have a chance
Idiscuss the senate’s proposed con-
tution during an open meeting of
ie senate steering committee at 3
Tuesday in Rudder Auditorium.
The faculty will vote on ratification
of the constitution Nov. 9. If passed,
the constitution must be approved by
the Texas A&M System Board of Re
gents. The proposal is not on the re
gents’ November meeting agenda, so
it will be January before the board
takes action on the senate proposal.
The proposed constitution calls for
a unicameral body but doesn’t
address what role the Academic
Council will have.
“We’re going into a transition
period,” Phillips said. “It all hinges on
whether the faculty approves a
senate.”
A committee may be established
during the transition period to help
define senate and council roles, Phil
lips said.
“The ad hoc committee felt it was
not in a position to come up with spe
cific recommendations yet,” “he said.
The committee did agree to reduce
the size of the council. Since faculty
members would be represented by
the faculty senate, faculty delegates
from each college and department
probably would be eliminated, Phil
lips said.
“It’s hard to predict what’s going to
happen to the council,” he said. “We
really are not sure what role this coun
cil will play in the future. The func
tions of the Academic Council ... du
plicate what’s in the senate docu
ment.”
The council handles primarily
routine matters presented by various
council committees. The council
approves or rejects new courses, cur
ricula changes and degree candi
dates.
The faculty senate constitution
states its functions will include review
ing or initiating University policies
and regulations, curricula changes
and approving degree candidates.
Instructional standards, hiring of
faculty, tenure promotions, overall
University planning and evaluation
of University administrators, person
nel and appointments also are a part
of the proposed constitution.
staff photo by Jorge Casari
Just following orders’
Howard Higgins, a sophomore from San Antonio, carries
a stuffed elephant on campus Thursday. When asked
why he was carrying one of the symbols of being a
senior, he said he was “just following orders.” Higgins is
a computing science major.
Provost
search
may end
soon
The search for a provost/vice pres
ident for academic affairs may be
nearing its final stages.
Clinton A. Phillips, dean of facul
ties and chairman of the search com
mittee, said 75 nominations were re
ceived by the Oct. 1 deadline. He said
search committee members, who
have been reviewing dossiers on each
nominee, will meet next week to pare
down the list.
The committee may be able to give
University President Frank E. Van
diver a list of its recommendations by
mid-November, Phillips said.
Nominations have come from all
over the country, he said, and there
are some strong candidates.
“This is a better crop than last
time,” he said.
One search was conducted by
another committee, but the commit
tee was unable to recommend anyone
for the position. Vandiver formed a
new committee in July to reopen the
search.
The position has been vacant since
January when Dr. J.M. Prescott res
igned to direct the Texas A&M Insti
tute of Occupational and Environ
mental Medicine. Dr. Charles
McCandless, associate vice president
for academic affairs, is serving as in
terim vice president.
The addition of provost to the title
of vice president for academic affairs
was made by Vandiver as part of his
University administration reorgani
zation plan. The provost/vice presi
dent will be second in command to the
president.
Colombian wins Nobel
United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Colombian author Gabriel
Garcia Marquez — in self-exile because of his socialist
beliefs and friendship with Fidel Castro — Thursday won
the 1982 Nobel Literature Prize.
“He has gradually confirmed his position as a rare
storyteller, richly endowed with material, from imagina
tion and experience, which seems inexhaustible,” the cita
tion by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
Garcia Marquez, 55, was the first Colombian writer
and fourth from Latin America to win the prestigious
prize, which this year was worth $157,000.
The citation said Garcia Marquez won for his work
combining fantasy with reality to show “a continent’s life
and conflicts.”
“There was no conflict over the choice of Garcia Mar
quez,” Academy Secretary Lars Gyllensten said.
“We have had long deliberations over the principles of
choosing a winner. It’s not our aim to find the world
champion of literature, but to find a good author who
merits the prize,” he said.
Garcia Marquez was cited also for his journalistic work,
in which he stands “strongly committed” to the poor. The
Academy said he continues a tradition in Latin America
of drawing from a rich, “spiced and life-giving brew” ol
literary genres and influences.
The author moved to Rome in 1954 and has lived ir
exile since then, living at different times in Barcelona
New York, Paris and Mexico.
Raise drinking age
to 21, group says
United Press International
AUSTIN : —Despite a prediction by
Gov. Bill Clements that raising the
legal drinking age to 21 will find
rough going in the Legislature, the
Governor’s Task Force for Traffic
Safety has recommended such a
change in state law.
“We felt our job was to try to sub
mit recommendations that would
save lives, and for that reason we felt
like we could not ignore the life
saving possibilities raising the legal
drinking age to 21,” said Department
of Public Safety Director Jim Adams
who headed the 16-member task
force.
Raising the legal drinking age
from 19 to 21 was among 38 propos
als unanimously recommended by
the task force Thursday. Another ex
pected to draw fire is the recommen
dation that open containers of alcoho
lic beverages in^automobiles be
banned.
“With an open container law, that
would add official sanction to what
everyone knows, and that is that
drinking and driving doesn’t make
sense,” Adams said.
The task force’s year of study fo
cused on ways to reduce driving while
intoxicated and related traffic
hazards. Adams said the drinking age
and open container recommenda
tions are crucial to curbing DWI-
related fatalities — primarily among
teenagers.
Adams said national statistics
showed alcohol-related auto acci
dents were the leading cause of death
among young people between the
ages of 16 and 24.
The task force also proposed man
datory jail time and suspension of
drivers licenses for repeat DWI offen
ders.
Aggieland
photos due
The deadline for freshmen and
sophomores to have their pictures
taken for the 1983 Aggieland has
been extended to Friday, Oct. 29.
Students can have their pictures
taken at the Yearbook Associates
studio at 9700 Puryear Dr.
Photos of juniors and seniors
will be taken until Dec. 17.
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