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Aggie Blood Drive, sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega.
Omega Phi Alpha and Student Government will be con
ducted this week by the Wadley Central Blood Bank.
Bloodmobiles will be parked by the Blocker Building and
by the fish pond. Blood will be collected from 10 a.m. to 7
p.m. in the Commons Lounge Monday through Thursday,
and in 224 MSC Monday through Wednesday.
Chairmen applications available
Class of ’85 chairman applications are available in 216
MSC. Class officers will be interviewing those interested for
the Ring Dance, class gift, senior banquet, sales, executive
aids and public relations committees charmen. For more in-
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Several students were honored at the Chemistry Depart
ment Undergraduate Awards Banquet April 12. Senior
Laurie Kilbourn was named outstanding undergraduate in
the department. Juniors John P. Casserly, Cheryl A. Cook
and Brian R. Miller and seniors George S. Mill and Philip
D. Strucely received outstanding achievement awards.
Frank E. McDonald, a senior, received the American In
stitute of Chemists Outstanding Senior Award. The Merck
Index Award, which is presented an outstanding graduat
ing senior going to medical school, was awarded to Paul
Vandevyver ami the Hugh McLean Jr. Award, which is pre
sented to an outstanding senior who has overcome financial
difficulties in pursuit of a chemistry degree, was awarded to
senior Gary P. Shrum.
Nine students received George C. Bauer Memorial
Scholarships. They were sophomores, Molly Barlow and
Norman Johnson, juniors, Ronald Slusher and DerekS. Ng
Tang and seniors, Leigh Campbell, Robert Glenn, Samuel
Hanna IV, James Judice and David Ramsey.
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Museum hosts summer nature camp
The Brazos Valley Museum will host a Summer Nature
Camp beginning June 4 and continueing through Aug. 17.'
Children ages 3-4 can attend from 9 a.m. to noon and chil
dren ages 5-12 can attend from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Participants
will spend the mornings outside and the afternoons doing
arts and crafts. For more information, call 779-2195.
Underclassmen compete in math
The annual Freshman and Sophomore Mathematics
Contest will be April 17 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. First
place winners will receive $100, second place winners will
receive $60 and third place winners will receive $40. No cal
culators will be allowed. Test material will he provided. The
prerequisite for the freshman contest is knowledge of calcu
lus through Math 151 or the equivalent and for the sopho
more contest, knowledge of calculus through math 253 or
the equivalent. The freshmen contest will be in 216 Milner
and the sophomore contest will be in 201 Milner.
mbryo transfer
search makes
abies possible
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niversity News Service
he successful attempt to
uce a baby from frozen
bryo, kept secret from the
Id until Tuesday, can trace
roots to interdisciplinary
k by animal scientists, bi-
edical investigators and vet-
1 laty researchers who tested
liniques on animal models
-/says a Texas A&M scientist
performs research on fro-
catlle embryos.
he same can be said for the
cess of “test-tube baby” clin-
said Dr. Duane Kraemer,
tknown as a pioneer in em-
'o transfers.
ustralian reseachers from
University of Mqmash, who
lounced the world’s first fro-
embryo infant, worked with
izen animal embryos before
ending the technique to hu
ms, Kraemer said. Dr. Alan
Xtnson, senior scientist of
Monash research group, is
animal scientist by training.
for “test-tube” work, the
liversity of Pennsylvania
ist be credited with the exten-
sin vitro or “test-tube” ferti-
llion work in rabbits that
>1(1 be applied to human vol-
leers at the same research
Her—and even later to cattle
explained Kraemer, a Texas
cM veterinary physiologist.
The animal work did form a
id basis for performing the
He or similar tasks in hu
ms," he said.
With in vitro fertilization,
js from the female are ferti-
d outside the body with
mm from the male, giving
rto the test-tube nickname,
fn Kraemer’s field of embryo
nsfers the eggs are fertilized
idethe body, then the result-
embryo is flushed out of the
tus and placed into a “host”
Hher where it matures until
th.
Work n which reseachers
Hved that embryos could be
levered directly from the ovi-
ctsof rhesus nionmkeys and
inferred successfully to the
mb of other monkeys — thus
couraging such attempts
tn earlier in pregnancy than
Author researching murderer
Lucas called innocent
this time
United Press International
AUST IN — A man who is
writing a book about confessed
mass murderer Henry Lee Lu
cas says he does not believe Lu
cas is guilty of killing the
woman for whose murder he
has been condemned to die.
“I don’t know how many peo
ple he’s killed, but I don’t think
he did this one by any stretch of
the imagination,” said Hugh
Aynesworth, an author who has
spent 25 hours interviewing Lu
cas.
Lucas, 47, was convicted of
capital murder and received the
death sentence in San Angelo
Friday for the killing of an un
identified woman whose body
was found near Georgetown in
1979.
Along with sometime com
panion Ottis Toole, Lucas
claims to have brutally killed
360 people in a spree that be
gan after he murdered his
mother in 1960.
Although Lucas confessed to
the killing in Georgetown, Ay
nesworth said there is a lack of
evidence to link Lucas to the
crime, and there is evidence Lu
cas did not strangle the woman.
“There are some of these
cases Lucas has confessed to
that he didn’t do, including a
couple he’s been indicted for,”
he said.
Aynesworth, the co-author of
a book on convicted triple mur
derer Theodore Bundy in Flor
ida, made his comments in an
interview published Sunday in
the Austin American-States-
man.
Lucas is “street smart, but his
IQ is in the 70 to 80 range. You
have to ask the same question in
many ways. He repeats every
question. If you mention 373
E eople he’s killed, he’s say 373,”
e said.
“He’s lied to me already on a
couple of murders,” added Ay
nesworth.
Last week’s conviction was
Lucas’ fourth for killing a
woman. He served 15 years for
stabbing his mother to death in
Michigan and is currently serv
ing life in Texas for the death
of his 15-year-old common-law
wife.
He pleaded guilty in the kill
ing of a Ringgold woman and
was sentenced to 75 years in
prison.
Aynesworth says it was Lucas’
remorse over the killing of his
common-law wife, Freida
“Becky” Powell, that prompted
Lucas to agree to his biography.
“The only two people who
ever looked up to Lucas were
Toole and Becky,” he said.
Aynesworth said he is less in
terested in verifying and chro
nicling specific murders than in
“getting to Lucas psychologi
cally.”
“The psychological apsect is
virtually untapped — why he
did this, how he felt, who he
likes and doesn’t like,” he said.
“I think people will want to
know if Henry killed more peo
ple than anybody in the world.
People are going to wonder
what happened to him
t,
9 Klcmsmen, Nazis found
innocent in rights trial
United Press International
WINSTON-SALEM, N.G. — Nine Klansmen
and American Nazis were found innocent Sun
day of violating the civil rights of participants in a
1979 “Death to the Klan” march during which
five communists died.
An all-white federal jury of six men and six
women deliberated three days before returning
the verdict at 5:08 p.m. EST.
Five members of the Communist Workers
Party died Nov. 3, 1979, shortly after a caravan
of vehicles driven by Klansmen and Nazis arrived
at the staging area for the communist-sponsored
anti-Klan march.
The defendants, five of whom had been
cleared of murder charges in state court, main
tained they were attacked by a communist mob
and acted only in self-defense.
Prosecutors claimed the Klansmen and Nazis
drove to the rally with seven dozen eggs and nu
merous guns, eager to pick a fight and avenge
the communists’ disruption of a Klan rally four
months earlier.
The Greensboro shootout was filmed by tele
vision news crews and the videotapes became the
key pieces of evidence in the three-month trial.
Defendant Virgil Griffin, the Grand Dragon
of a Ku Klux Klan faction, raised his arms
straight over his head when the verdicts was read
by William Ivor, court clerk.
Defendant Edward Dawson, who served as an
FBI informant while a member of the Klan, cov
ered his face with his left-hand and sobbed as he
realized all of the defendants were being found
innocent.
Dawson turned to reporters and said the ver
dicts were a “clean sweep —just like I thought it
would be the day we walked in here.”
“I just think I died and went to heaven,” he
said.
The verdicts came at the end of the third day
of deliberations. Jurors, deciding not to take a
break for church, began deliberations at 9:40
a.m. Sunday.
Outside the jury room defendants and their
families — some dressed in their Sunday-best —
waited for the jury’s decison on the 25 charges
against the men. Sunday marked the beginning
of the 15th week of the trial.
Jurors showed no emotion as they walked into
the courtroom with the verdict.
The panel had returned to the courtroom
twice earlier Sunday, both times with questions
about a charge against Griffin and Dawson of
conspiring to obstruct a federal investigation.
The first time, the jurors wanted to know
whether the obstruction had to deal specifically
with federal officers or whether the jury also
could consider an attempt to obstruct the work of
state and local law enforcement agents.
District Judge Thomas A. Flannery said the
government must prove beyond a reasonable
doubt there was an attempt to delay or prevent
communications to federal investigators. He said
an attempt to prevent or delay communcations
only to state and local police would not be
grounds for a conviction on the charge.
The second time, the jurors wanted to know
whether the two men had to know beyond a rea
sonable doubt that they were evading federal law
enforcement agents. Flannery replied the gov
ernment must prove only that the defendants
conspired to keep other people from giving in
formation to the FBI.
Flannery noted the Klansmen were not ac
cused of evading arrest.
On trial, in addition to Griffin and Dawson,
were Coleman Blair Pridmore, 40; David Wayne
Matthews, 29; Jerry Paul Smith, 36; Roy Toney,
36; Roland Wayne Wood, 39; Raeford Milano
Caudle, 42, and Jack W. Fowler Jr.
The defendants could have receive sentences
ranging from five years to life imprisonment if
they had been convicted.
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was believed possible — stood as
an important milestone during
reseach to produce the world’s
first test-tube baby in 1978,
Kraemer said.
Kraemer’s own research
teams performed the world’s
first successful embryo treansf-
ers in non-human primates (ba
boons), cats and dogs.
“Again we see the enormous
contribution of studies on ani
mal models that has been car
ried out by a variety of biomedi
cal researchers in various
disciplines,” he said.
The first embryo transfers, in
fact, wre carried out in 1891 at
Cambridge University on rab
bits. In 1932 and 1933, Texas
A&M scientist R.O. Berry —one
of Kraemer’s early professors
— carried out the first success
ful embryo transfers in goats
and sheep.
A year ago, Kraemer’s em
bryo transfer training program
offered to veterinarians was
recognized by the National Uni
versity Gontinuing Education
Association which presented
Kraemer with its Creative Pro
gramming Award.
Kramer noted that nonsurgi-
cal transfer of a new human
embryo from one mother to an
other might even prove saver
and more convenient than the
more widely known test-tube
programs for couples unable to
have a child. ’
Women with a history of mis
carriage, couples with sterility
problems, or women with li
gated fallopian tubes who
change their minds and want
more children all are prime ex
amples of the kind of clients
who could benefit from embryo
transfer in humans, he said.
The first successful embryo
transfer in humans was recently
carried out by UCLA reseach
ers.
Freezing and storing the re
covered embryos with liquid ni
trogen takes the process a step
farther by allowing scientists to
bend time limits normally asso
ciated with how long embryos
can survive outside the body, he
explained.
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I M TAKING COURSE 481 !
MANAGEMENT OF
STUDENT
ORGANIZATIONS
COURSE CONTENT
The content and organization of the seminar will emphasize
practical application rather than theoretical concepts. Instruction
will cover such topics as:
Principles of leadership
Goal setting
Communication skills
Motivating student members/volunteers
Running a meeting effectively
Publicity and public relations techniques
PARTICIPANTS
While the seminar is intended primarily for leaders, potential
officers, or officers of student organizations, it is open to any
Texas A&M student interested in learning more about working with
student groups.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The seminar has been carefully designed
to provide an overall picture of operation
of a student organization. In addition to a
survey of the management principles involved,
students will gain functional knowledge of
the various activities involved in success
fully leading a student group. The class
setting will also provide students with the
opportunity to interact with fellow students
and professional staff on a routine basis.
INSTRUCTORS
The course will be taught primarily by
the professional staff of the Student Activ
ities Office. The instructors will utilize
various guest speakers in addition to a team
teaching approach in order to provide the
most effective presentation of course
material.
REGISTRATION
Due to demand, this course will be
offered twice in the fall. Students inter
ested in taking the course should register/
add " Seminar in Management " 481 C, Section
505 (meeting on Tuesday) or Section 506
(meeting on Thursday) to their fall 1984
schedule. Each class will meet at 2:00 p.m.
in Room 205, Agriculture Bldg. The course is
worth one credit hour. Questions? Call
845-1133.
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