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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
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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<i at 8 p.m.
Monday in Rudder Auditorium as
part of her two-day visit to Texas
A&M, which begins Sunday.
Struthers, who plays Gloria Bunk
er Stivic on the TV show “Gloria,” has
been CCF’s national chairperson
since 1976. Struthers is visiting Texas
A&M to thank the Corps of Cadets
for raising money to sponsor chil
dren.
Struthers was invited to visit Texas
A&M by University President Frank
E. Vandiver and Dr. Robert Scott
Kellner, an English professor and loc
al CCF sponsor.
Last year, the Corps sponsored
five children. In February, cadets
held a drive to raise money to sponsor
four more. The cost to sponsor one
child for one year is $218, which pays
for basic food, clothing and educa
tional needs.
Struthers is visiting campus follow
ing a recent trip to Africa. She has
Sally Struthers
lived and worked with children there
since March. Struthers’ work with
CCF also has taken her to the slums of
Latin America in 1978 and to South
east Asia in 1982.
CCF was founded in 1938 during
the Sino-Japanese War to help needy
Third World children. During the
1970s, CCF, with a decreasing spon
sor base and declining revenues, was
struggling to survive.
But since Struthers became chair
person in 1976, CCF has become the
world’s largest child-care organiza
tion, assisting about 325,000 of the
world’s poorest children, their fami
lies and their communities.
A tentative schedule for Struthers’
visit includes a noon luncheon hosted
by Kellner and MSC Great Issues
members, and attendance at a Corps
formation in the evening. During the
luncheon, representatives from the
Catholic Students Association, the In
terfraternity Council and the Panhel-
lenic Council will present a pledge for
a Christmas drive to raise enough
money to sponsor an entire village of
children.
Struthers is scheduled to tour the
Veterinary Medicine Complex on
Tuesday before returning to Los
Angeles.
Soviet diplomats expelled
United Press International
WASH INGTON — The expulsion
of two Soviets and the voluntary de
parture of a third for trying to obtain
U.S. secrets was not in retaliation for
the recent ejection of an American
diplomat from Moscow, officials say.
In cases fit for a spy novel, the FBI
announced Thursday three Soviets
were caught in separate incidents this
month attempting to gather classified
material and were told to leave the
United States.
The incidents involved one Soviet
who approached an aide to Rep.
Olympia Snowe, R-Maine; another
who tried to retrieve film from a
“dead drop” at the base of a tree, and
a KGB agent who tried to get classi
fied data about the U.S. aerospace in
dustry from a double agent.
FBI director William Webster said
the three men have left, or are in the
process of leaving the United States.
Officials denied the U.S. action was
taken to get revenge for the recent
expulsion of American diplomat
Richard Osborne on grounds he was
caught spying for the United States in
Moscow.
However, a State Department offi
cial said the expulsions were
announced in detail because of the
publicity the Soviets gave to
Osborne’s case.
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Artificial hearts draw criticism
by Maureen Carmody
Battalion Staff
On March 23, the world said
goodbye to a latter-day Lazarus,
and hello to another medical
breakthrough.
Dr. Barney B. Clark spent the
last 112 days of his life living this
miracle — a permanent artificial
heart. The two men held most re
sponsible for the achievement are
Dr. William C. Devries, the
surgeon, and Dr. Robert K. Jarvik,
the designer of the artificial heart.
Clark’s surgery was just one of
the rapidly progressing medical
achievements that have helped
some 200,000 Americans with
heart disease during the last year.
Other new medical equipment and
drugs include the computerized
axial tomography (CAT scan) that
could be put to cardiovascular use,
a group of such drugs as digitalis,
which help the heart’s pumping
ability, and diuretics, which rid the
body of excessive water.
But those achievements have
not come about without criticism.
Perhaps the most controversial
treatment for heart patients is the
most radical of all — the heart
transplant.
Presently, the limiting factor of
transplants is the lack of donors.
But attempts have been made to
remedy this problem by creating
an artificial heart or attempting to
perform xenografts — transplants
using hearts from animals.
Dr. Sam Black, professor and
head of medical microbiology at
Texas A&M, said he thinks xenog
rafts are not the wave of the future
because the tissue of an animal
heart couldn’t be readily accepted
into a human host. He suggested
that artificial hearts seem to be
making more progress.
Heart transplants actually be
gan 15 years to the day before
Clark underwent surgery in Salt
Lake City. Louis Washkansky was
the first heart-transplant patient.
Washkansky’s surgery was the be
ginning of the controversy, but
certainly not the end.
Shortly after Washkansky re
ceived his heart, the operation was
being practiced around the world
until it became evident that reci
pients didn’t live long after the
surgery. The operation became
more rare, and heart transplants
did not regain popularity until the
late 1970s and early 1980s. But
complaints about the morality of
transplanting — and creating — >
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
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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.
Daylight saving-time originally
was started to give farmers more
daylight time to work. But the
change, which began more than a
century ago, only took place in cer
tain states.
During the energy crisis in the
1970s, daylight saving-time was
started again as a way to conserve
energy. At that time, daylight sav
ing-time became mandatory for all
states and was observed year-
round.
But problems occurred with
states that were on the borders of
time zones — it was too dark when
children went to school and acci
dents occurred.
Daylight saving-time now is op
tional and includes the months of
April through October.
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Cloudy to partly cloudy today with
a 30 percent chance of showers and
a high of 81. A decreasing chance
of showers tonight with a Tow near
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Saturday with a high near /9.
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