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Thursday, January 26, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11 offshi iheoih toutofi recessii; jst bed amenta! A&Mfi ing »i curra I costi? e Souit- a rublt mportf, rice, Be t is ate pared! : $1.501 guavui live,' Around town Graduate receives entomology award Frederick P. Baxendale, who received his master’s de gree and doctorate at Texas A&M, received the John H. Comstock Award for his outstanding graduate work in en tomology, at the Entomology Society of America annual meeting last month. Baxendale was a graduate teaching assistant and a gradu ate research assistant at Texas A&M. He was also an under graduate teaching assistant at Cornell University. Troupe searching for male dancers Male dancers are currently needed for in the Texas A&M Dance Troupe. Experience is helpful. Male dancers with experience in ballet, jazz or modern dance can contact Lynn Berry, 268 East Kyle from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. by Friday. Defensive driving course offered A defensive driving course, conducted by the Brazos Valley Safety Agency will be Friday and Saturday at the Ramada Inn. The class will meet from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday evening and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday morning. Stu dents must attend all eight hours. Another class will be Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 also at the Ramada Inn. The class will meet from 6 to 10 p.m. both evenings. Those interested can pre-register by telephone at 846-1904 or 846-9271 or at 5 p.m. at the Ramada Inn before the classes. The purpose of the defensing driving class is basic driver improvement. By taking the class the driver can obtain a 10 percent reduction in insurance rates and traffic fine dismis sal. Fees for the class are $20 per student payable at pre registration. Tickets sales continue for pageant Tickets are now available for the 5th Annual Miss Texas A&M Scholarship Pageant scheduled for 7 p.m., Feb. 25. Tickets are $3.50 for students and $6 for non-students and can be purchased at the MSC Box Office. Mills committee to award fellowships The W.G. Mills Memorial Fellowship Committee is accepting applications for the W.G. Mills Fellowship in Hyd rology for the Spring semester. Deadline for application is Jan. 27. The Fellowships provide finacial support to four or more highly qualified graduate students in hydrology. Appropri ate areas of study include engineering hydrology, stochastic hydrology, hydrometeorology, geohydrology, watershed management and hydrologic techniques in water resources planning. A&M offers foals’ ‘blue baby’ test By CAMI BROWN Reporter Texas A&M is one of the few places worldwide that can pro vide a blood serum test to pre dict the often fatal “blue baby syndrome” in a mare’s foals. The $10 test, which is in its second year of existence at Texas A&M, is very effective in determining if a mare will bear a foal with neonatal isoerythroly- sis, or NI, which is like the blue baby syndrome in humans. NI is a rare and often fatal disorder contracted by the foal during its first hours of life as it nurses the mare’s colostrum, the life- sustaining milk secreted by the mare just after foaling. Depending on how potent the harmful antibodies are in the colostrum, the foal can live a varying number of hours before it dies. Death is caused by a lack of red blood cells, which burst in the bloodstream in the presence of the harmful antibodies. To test a mare for the NI- causing antibodies, the owner may send a sample of the mare’s blood serum to the Texas Veter inary Medical Diagnostic Labor atory one to three weeks before the mare is to foal. If the test proves positive, the foal simply is not allowed to nurse until the mare is “milked out” of colostrum. During this time the foal is given stored col ostrum or a commercial substi tute. Although similar tests have been used to diagnose disorders in other animals, the NI test has recently been adapted for use with horses. Dr. Bruce Abbitt of the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory attri butes the adaptation to the dra matic increase in the value of horses over the past decade. “Very few places offer the test because NI in horses doesn’t occur very frequently,” Abbitt says. “Less than 1 percent of the foals born are affected with NI.” Yet the possibility of eliminat- Nursing home looses funding for second time in 5 months United Press International LUBBOCK — Brentwood Manor Nursing Home has lost its federal funding for the second time in five months, state health department officials said Wednesday. The home was decertified in August because of skin lesions on many patients as well as other problems. State health official Jimmy Harper said a survey team found violations during a December inspection, but the latest problems were not as se rious as those in August. The home was decertified the first time and put on vendor Corps trder E Film funds )eraff resear way if croptf ■ed tlif reseat ■ubs it; trail!- (continued from page 1) Burton said that none of these changes are iron-clad and that he is willing to look into the pos sibilities of modifications. A modification that Joseph said he would like to see is per mission to wear combat boots on Corps-wide runs. He said that the use of tennis shoes on such runs would be embarrassing to the cadets. Another policy change has been initiated by Corps staff. It modifies study hours for juniors. Abbott said that juniors can fall into three categories: diverted to playroom United Press International AUSTIN — While Gov. lies d Mark White was praising the Texas Film Commission for the fine job it did last year, commis- ouraf sion director Joel Smith was lamenting the loss of more than $42,000 reportedly diverted to 0 u | a it remodel a playroom for White’s with I sons - The Fort Worth Star- Telegram Wednesday quoted a source as saying White exprop riated $42,221 from the film commission last July 26 and another $75,000 from other adminstration funds. The newspaper said the funds went to “mansion ex pense” and other administrative expenses. Comptroller records show more than $34,000 was paid last year to a contractor and architect to convert a room of the carriage house behind the governor’s mansion into a play room for White’s sons Andrew, 11, and Wells, 13. The revamped playroom in cludes a toilet, shower and kitch en, storage space and a bumper pool table. The boys use it to do homework and entertain their friends, a governor’s spokes woman said. “We could have used the money,” said Smith. “It hurt us. [There were some things we could have done that we really needed.” Among them were the purch ase of word processing equip ment and the printing of a new locations brochure, which the commission would have used to promote promising spots in the state where producers can film their movies. Meanwhile, White was prais ing the film commission’s work at his regular Tuesday news con ference. Some 30 feature-length theatrical and television movies were made in Texas in 1983, in cluding the major productions "Terms of Endearment” and "Silkwood.” In 1982 13 movies were shot in Texas. “I think we have had truly outstanding successes the past year with Joel’s leadership in the film commission,” White said. MSC RECREATION 4r presents: ACU-I QUALIFYING TABLE TENNIS TOURNAMENT MEN & SINGLES & WOME N DOUBLES JAN. 28 $3.00 SIGNUP AT MSC BOWLING AND GAMES FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 845-1515 f tli( hold this time, which means the temporary withholding of Medi caid reimbursement payments. Harper said the survey team did not report any immediate threat to patient health. Brent wood Manor is owned by the Holiday Management Com pany, which in March assumed the home that has a history of problems. The 15-year-old home has changed owners five times in the last four years. Texas Depart ment of Human Resources offi cials said if a home is put on ven dor hold twice in one year then its contract is cancelled. • If their overall and semester grades are below 2.0, they will have mandatory study five days a week. • If their overall is below 2.0 but they made above 2.0 for the semester, they will study three days a week. • If their overall is above 2.0, but they made above 2.0 for the semester, they will study three days a week. Abbott said that the new study policy is also open to modifica tions. We’re tooting our own horn Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611 ATTENTION SENIORS! nominations for PREFERRED PROF AWARD: what: Nominate your favorite professor for this award presented to one outstanding professor on campus how: Write a brief statement explaining how your prof demonstrates leadership, scholarship, and service due: 5:00 pm Wednesday, Feb. 1 room 208 Animal Pavilion ing even the smallest chance of half a million dollars before it NI is well worth the $10 fee for hits the ground,” Abbitt says. the test, he says. “We’re getting to the point now where a foal could be worth nervous.” “When you start dealing with that kind of money people get ^SPECIAL DISK SALE ' S2*95 each 5 1/4 single side, double density, verbatim, Datalife disks OTHER SERVICES COMPUTER RENTAL ($3.95/per hour includes free use of business application software) WORD PROCESSING & RESUME SERVICES TH€ COMPUT6A PLACE 764-1190 Texas 707 Shopping Center (Suite I08E) A cancelled contract means the home must reapply to the Department of Human Re sources to get funding rein stated, officials said. Manor administrator Elva Jackson said the home was de certified in August not only be cause of present violations, but because of its history. “I think because of the home’s history of noncompliance, we’re picked on a little more than other facilities, not by state health officials, but by the pub lic,” she said. She recently was named administrator. Attend the 1984 Career Fair Banquet % Wednesday, February 1 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. MSC Ballroom Reserve a seat with the company of your choice. Tickets are on sale this week in the Blocker (AirA) foyer from 9 a .m. to 4 p .m. $5.00 per person — ■J' MSC Cepheid Variable Presents a future you’ll probably live to see. fe>©£7 gmS IM an R rated, rather kinky tale of survival LQ/Jaf 'A BOY AND HIS DOG' DON JOHNSON SUSANNE BENTON ALVY MOORE Technicolor® m i special appear; , JASON ROBARDS Cap and Gown A Boy and His Dog Rudder Theatre : UPTOWN Class of 86 BALL with music by the DEAITRS Feb. 3,8-12 IWSC Ballroom $12.00/couple (it s sooner than you think) Tickets available at MSC, Commons t w e r e* s r e * e 11 e