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KOIIIJVOOII 7-PElV SET 3165 Series $37.99 Reg. $79.50 A&M Approved EDG Kits $22.99 Soft Pouch Space Saver DRAFTING TABLES 24” V 36” - 131.99 30” v 42” - 139.99 36” v 48” - 169.99 Free vinyl board covering with purchase of table! LINDA SANTINOCETO The Texas A&M College of Medi cine graduates have once again earned top honors on the Federal Licensing Examination, a national test taken by all physicians. All three of the 1984 graduating classes, the seventh graduating class for the College of Medicine, earned top scores on the FLex. Mary Ann Dickson, assistant to the dean of the College of Medicine, attributes the high performance to the personal attention and outstand ing clinical training students receive. She said having the medical school on the main campus is another ad vantage because it allows students to do collaborate research. The College of Medicine accepts only 48 students each year out of the 1,500 applications submitted. Only 1,200 students are accepted into all Texas medical schools annually. Applicants are selected on the fol lowing criteria: Medical College Ad mission Test scores, grade point av erage and a personal interview by four faculty members. “Superior quality, medical educa tion, and medical research are the primary goals of the College of Med icine,” Dickson said. With a c She said small class sizes alh and a jug close association with faculty m® hers in all phases of the curriculum The medical school’s four-ya program is divided into two The first two years are spenttakiii| basic medical science courses j Texas A&M. Students o their clinical training on theTemplf campus at either Scott and tflin Memorial Hospital orOlinE.Ta gue Veterans’ Center “The medical school has a stron) ei inary cc the countr Today t the main i commitment in education and building research prognimsofm tional status,” Dickson said. Some research being developed: ^graduates cooperation with other campusdt *‘ L ^—*' partments includes: microcirci tion (hyper-tension and heart 4 Ins have ease), geriatry (the study of elderly), ocular pharmacology(s coma research), molecular and (d biology (genetic research and tat cer) A medicine science library, loin completed in June 1985, shared by the College of Media# By M veterinaru ran a gk> hundred terinarit edical p ith theoi tune slant About a in the Uni exas A& ledicine, t&M. Mo hecurrio Dr. Get allege for ge strer rams. D< merest in lus of ve and the College of Veterinary Mdl in some . _ cine. A tunnel lacing constructedii:j says, Texa der University Drive will connecttkl in high d< library to the Veterinary Medic:[theirspeci Complex. Student Discount with student I.O. 10% off on all supply items excluding sale items 15% off on all blue line and sepia copies Mastercard/Visa Accepted 108 College Main IV. 846-2522 RHA prospering, president says “We’ve aching elton s; sident ; am patt an med nanans raining. 1 ribute to Shelton By JEFF WRIGHT Reporter The Residence Hall Association at Texas A&M University is alive and doing well, says president Gina Har low. The dorm president and one del egate from each of the 27 dorms at A&M are automatically members of RHA. Other dorm residents are en couraged to become members through payment of an optional dorm fee. The association works on problems within the dorms, works with the administration and plans dorm activities. [athology ne, equi ne. The RHA was established in 1973 by Student Affairs Director Ron Blatchley. Since that time, RHA has become a strong organization that serves as the connection between the dorm resident and the University. Through committees, it works di rectly with the administration on matters such as getting longer visita tion hours, microwave ovens and better security. Along with improving dorm life, RHA sponsors events such as RHA Halloween and Almost Anything Goes. In the latter event, dorm teams compete against each other in games involving such oddities as cracking raw eggs in the partici pants’ mouths and smearing mud all over their bodies in an effort to raise money for United Way. The biggest "lich offe pnger rel would-be gamblers a chance (oi ] Instead, tl their luck in a casino atmospbliaining ii created by game tables, card dealmp saloon girls and play money. Community programs are ati;j part of RHA’s program. All throne the year, the norms host barbemt and games such as tug-of-war t: raise money for the Village of Hop an African village helped by Christian Children’s Fund ant' Texas A&M. RHA also organizesa: Adopt-A-Fish program with Campus Aggies. This programisfot freshmen unable to getoncampu hut who want to be a partofadom They can join any dorm by pay® the dorm activity fee, which alb: them to participate in all dormfuit tions. In addition to these program RHA provides educational pnt grams for the dorm councils. Itw ers subjects including alcohol» ness, rape control, safety conditioS and party planning. The pi has helped in the past and it continued in the future, Hark event is Casino Night, which offers says. The RHA participates in t conferences during the year: Southwest Association of Resident! Halls and Universities, the Teas Residence Hall Association and4 National Residence Hall Assodawt of Colleges and Universities, plans to put in a bid for the Nationt School of the Year Award givenb the national association, Hark' says. Computer network helps A&M campus By BONNIE LANGFORD Staff Writer Convenience has its price. For the student of using comput ers, the convenience of having a computer terminal in the dorm room means several things. Cur rently, that student has one choice: a phone modem to link his computer to the AMDAHL or the PRIME or any of the mini-computers for doing his homework in nis room. The modem must convert the computer’s digital. (electronic) information to analog (sound) information for transfer by telephone. The phone links are slow and not extremely reli able. And computer sessions can take hours at a time. This all adds up to a frustrated programmer, a tieel- up phone line, a mad roommate and a parent wondering just who junior has been yakking with for hours on end. For the University, the problem goes beyond just tying up phone lines. It compounds when comput ers communicate between the main campus and the area across the tracks. The price tag on this interac tion is large; phone tariffs increase because a major thoroughfare is crossed. But Texas A&M is working to solve these problems. Currently, the Data Processing Center is studying a pilot Local Area Network system to help the situa tion, says Butch Kemper, assistant director of DPC technical services. The LAN system has linked the DPC, the DPC annex and the space research building. The network uses cable similiar to that used by cable television, he says, but LAN allows two-way communication. The cable information for television only goes into homes — no reply can be made from the home back to the orginal source. With LAN, both input and output are possible. LAN allows quick, inexpensive communication while eliminating re dundant cables. Before networking, computers could communicate in two ways only: phone modems an |^t -_ direct lines. Direct lines allow c® puters to go anywhere and i* IjPHHHH amount time for communicationii r cut — no one has to worry alk missing phone calls, as with mate | use. But direct lines also meant ing up to each and every compu* | you want to communicate with. “If you want to communicated computer A, and then with cou puter B,” Kemper says,“then)« | have to have a line to both. The tern of direct lines growsastronot t cally.” Three computers computers: quire three lines; four need six;as having five computers talking! each other requires 10 lines. The best anology of LAN woi* he of the system used bybanksf >: ; the car lanes, Kemper says. m computer cables are like them® action tubes. T hey carry the packs (computer information) from tbj car (terminal) to the main ofW (computer). All the terminals a^ connected to the main cable by sp branches. The terminals an Id* onto the main line and community with other terminals without nff ing a direct line, because the otk terminals would also have tlte | branch to the cable. Though the pilot LAN systeml' ii been in operation for about i* 1 |S months, don’t expect to hook 1 -? Is right away. Kemper says if the p'J" system is approved, it would taM least a year to install cable campus. And those would c..., _ the major trunk lines. Installation 9 '* all the minor branch lines woo take at least a year and a half. However, once the system is 11 the possiblities for uses go bey 91 computers. Cable television couP pumped to classrooms as dorm rooms. Educational pr 0 could he originated at KAMIP for use in classes. A Univeis® l| phone system could be established The cable system also would a’ University police to run betterca® pus security A place 3600 i ilium