The Battalion Serving the University community 176 No. 140 DSPS 045360 32 Pages In 2 Sections College Station, Texas Friday, April 22,1983 Students hold candles traditionally lit to The 100th Muster was held in G. Rollie honor Aggies who died in the past year. White Thursday. duster is ‘rededication if Texas A&M values’ by Kathy Wiesepape Battalion Staff Every member of the Texas A&M Jrps of Cadets memorizes the de- ABition of Muster from the Corps jBndard during his freshman year: ] I; n April 21 each year, on the liversary of the Battle of San Jacin- Aggies gather together, wherever y are, to commemorate fellow gies who have died during the ir. ” iince 1883, Aggies have gathered :e a year to remember their college is. In that year, a “roll call for the lent” was taken, and friends of gies who had died during the year swered “here.” That same roll call was taken again s year. The 100th Texas A&M , ister was held Thursday night in G. ; j 'Hie White Coliseum. A candle was | for each Aggie from the Brazos Bunty area who died during the past year. The Ross Volunteers Fired a 21- gun salute, and “Silver Taps” was played. The Aggie Band and the Singing Cadets also performed. Muster Chairman Paul Cooper re minded the audience of the most famous Muster, held in 1942 on Cor- regidor Island in the Phillipines, 15 days before the island fell to the Japanese. Haskell M. Monroe, president of the University of Texas at El Paso, told the audience that coming back to Texas A&M to speak at Muster was like coming home. Monroe served as dean of faculties and associate vice president for academic affairs here until 1980. He said Texas A&M had changed a lot since he’d been away, but the essential qualities are still the same. “The fun is still the same — good bull is still good bull,” he said. Monroe describes himself as an “Aggie by choice,” and he challenged each student to ask himself: “What kind of an Aggie are you?” “What does it mean to our lives to have been here?” he asked. The people that have attended Texas A&M in the past have made it the special place it is today, he said, and for that reason students and for mer students pause once a year to remember them. “Muster is a rededication of the values, not only of Texas A&M, but of the United States of America,” Mon roe said. “The success of our efforts after leaving College Station is the purpose of A&M,” Monroe said. For that reason, he said, students should strive to work hard and never be content with less than the best so that they will be worthy to be remembered at Aggie Muster. 13 students to serve as link with System by Denise Richter Battalion Staff A student group that will serve as a “communications link to students ab out System issues and planning” was approved by Chancellor Arthur G. Hansen on Thursday and will go into effect immediately. The Chancellor’s System Student Advisory Committee will consist of 13 students from Texas A&M, Prairie View A&M University, Tarleton State University and Texas A&M at Galves ton. The committee will deal with such System-wide problems as minor ity recruitment and fee increases, Hansen said. In addition, a committee represen tative should attend meetings of the Board of Regents, he said. “It’s important that there is some one ... who becomes acquainted with the regents and System office,” he said. If the committee representative wanted to present a proposal to the regents, Hansen said he would call on the student during the portion of the meeting that is reserved for his com ments. The committee was proposed by the Legislative Study Group, a Stu dent Government committee that represents the views of Texas A&M students in the state Legislature. “The students came up with the idea, worked with great care and have put together a very fine proposal, which was enthusiastically endorsed by the presidents of each institution,” Hansen said. The group will allow students to voice their opinions on System prob lems of general interest and concern, he said. “It’s a vehicle for me to communi cate to students some of the things that are happening,” Hansen said. “So often things are talked about and rumors spread, but the students don’t really know what’s going on. “It was the understanding of the presidents of each university that (the students) would bring System-type see related editorial issues to me and I would meet with the group periodically. 1 do not mean to usurp the prerogatives of the va rious university presidents.” Nicole Williams, a member of the Legislative Study Group, said the president of each institution sent in enthusiastic letters of endorsement for the committee. Within the next two weeks, she said, the presidents will appoint a selection panel that will choose the committee members. The committee is expected to begin meet ing during the summer. Texas A&M will be represented by five students, Prairie View and Tarle ton each will be represented by three students and Texas A&M at Galves ton will be represented by two stu dents. Fred Billings, administrative dire ctor of the Legislative Study Group, said: “We didn’t want (representation on the committee) to be strictly based on population and we didn’t want it to be equal because we wanted to take into account A&M’s size. So we found a workable compromise. Representa tion is weighted by size, yet it still allows Prairie View, Tarleton and Galveston to increase membership on the committee as their enrollments grow.” The student body president of each university will serve on the com mittee. The remaining members will be selected by a panel consisting of two students, a representative from the administration and a representa tive from the faculty. The committee chairman, who will be elected at the first meeting of each year, will act as a spokesperson for the group and function as a link between the students and the chancellor. Stu dent body presidents are not eligible to be elected chairman. An administrative adviser to the committee will be chosen from the same university as the chairman. He or she will be chosen by the university president and will not be a voting member of the committee. Committee members, who will serve a one-year term, must have completed at least 27 hours of college credit, have attended his or her uni versity for at least one semester and have maintained an overall 2.25 rade point ratio. The chairman must ave completed at least 60 hours of undergraduate credit with the same attendance and GPR requirements as other committee members. Struthers to visit A&M by Angel Stokes Battalion Staff Sally Struthers will speak about the Christian Children’s Fun hearts remain. Some people express concern that heart transplants are “man playing God.” Others cite ethical problems, charging that medical professionals are using the patient as a guinea pig. Many of the controversies lie in such questions as whether those costly medical techniques can be made available to everyone, and the potential over-population problem that could result from people living longer and longer. Dr. John J. McDermott, profes sor of philosophy and medical humanities at Texas A&M, said the task of medicine is to prolong life. He said he feels science has not gone too far, nor has the medical profession suffered any loss of ethics. McDermott said, however, that it is important to keep certain things in mind when such operations as transplants are being considered. “For one, there is the extraordi narily sophisticated aspect of con sent,” he said. “All of the possibili ties of the operation must be known (to the patient) — have the patient study the 130 days of Bar ney Clark ... The second point is that it (the operation) should not be done manipulatively or seduc tively; everyone has to tell the truth.” McDermott said the third im portant aspect of conducting such operations is that they should not be done solely for experimental purposes. “They (the operations) must be experimentation with sufficient expectation of success,” he said. Clark’s operation was successful in extending his life for more than 100 days. It also provided valuable information to surgeons and re searchers working on the artificial heart, which is only in its infancy. The Jarvik-7, once described by its designer as “the Model T of artifi cial hearts,” is already back up on see HEART page 10 Set clocks up Sunday An hour will be lost Sunday when daylight saving-time begins. Clocks should be set ahead one hour before going to bed Saturday night, although daylight saving time actually begins at 2 a.m. Sunday. 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