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Serving the University community
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College Station, Texas
Monday, November 26, 1984
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Board plans
to discuss
enrollment
By ROBIN BLACK
Senior Stuff Writer
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The Texas A&M Board of Re
bents will consider an enrollment
jnanagement plan for the College of
Business Administration during a
Special meeting this morning.
J The regents regular meeting was
^supposed to be Thursday but was
Changed to today.
^ The management plan would
limit enrollment of juniors and se-
®^liiors in the college to its current
™evelof about 3,000 students.
The plan is being considered be-
ause of recent growth in the busi-
less college. Enrollment now ex-
leeds the capacity of the college and
jeopardizes the quality of under-
raduate education.
The plan was submitted to the re
lents by system Chancellor Arthur
). Hansen.
“In order for a student to be con
sidered for enrollment in the junior
nd senior level courses in the Col
lege of Business Administration and
ssible admission into a major field
f study in the College of Business
dministration, a student must have
atisfactorily completed all require-
wits for such admission as stated in
he. 19g{j)-gfr edition of the Texas
University Catalog for the Col
lege of Business Administration,”
the proposal says.
If approved, the new policy would
ive preference for available seats in
unior and senior courses in the busi-
tess college to students majoring in
hat college. Any open spots left in
he courses would then be granted to
tudents from other colleges for
vhom the business course is on their
degree plan, and who meet the
ourse prerequisites.
The enrollment management
plan would go into effect in the Fall
1985 semester.
Man receives
artificial heart
Victory at last
Photo by DEAN SAITO
Jackie Sherrill smiles as he is carried from
the field by Rod Saddler (99) and Mark Le
wis after the Aggies upset no. 17 TCU Satur
day by a score of 35-21.
United Press International
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Surgeons
implanted an artificial heart Sunday
in the chest of a man whose natural
heart was expected to fail within a
week, but returned him to surgery
six hours later to stop excessive
bleeding.
William J. Schroeder, 52, of Jas
per, Ind., had been awake four
hours after the 6Vi-hour implant op
eration when doctors decided to put
him to sleep again and reopen his
chest to stop the bleeding.
“They have found the source (of
bleeding) and have corrected it,”
Humana Hospital Audubon spokes
man George Atkins said one hour
and 25 minutes after Schroeder was
returned to surgery. The second op
eration lasted a little more than an
hour, Atkins said.
Schroeder’s family was kept in
formed of the nature of the setback,
which did not affect the artificial
heart, Atkins said.
Schroeder was the second person
to have a mechanical blood pump
sewed permanently in the cavity left
by the removal of a severely diseased
heart.
Dr. Allan Lansing said earlier the
clicking, air-driven, plastic and metal
device was working “beautifully” in
Schroeder’s chest, pumping 4.3
quarts of blood through the 60 miles
of vessels in his body every minute.
The $15,500 Jarvik-7 heart was
implanted by Dr. William DeVries,
the surgeon who placed the first per
manent mechanical heart in Barney
Clark at the University of Utah two
years ago. Clark survived for 112
days, dying when his body was no
longer able to cope with an infection.
Lansing, one of Schroeder’s sur
geons and chief medical spokesman
at Humana Hospital Audubon, said
Sunday before Schroeder was re
turned to surgery, “We are very sat
isfied with his course right now.
“We’ll be happier at this time to
morrow,” Lansing said in the early
evening news briefing. “But as of
this moment, I would say he is just as
well off as we could possibly hope he
would be.”
Schroeder, a heavy smoker for 30
years, was wheeled into the operat
ing room for the first operation
while his wife of 32 years, an uncle
and one of his six children stood by.
An assortment of classical music and
jazz played in the second floor surgi
cal suite to reduce tension.
The larger two of the natural
heart’s four chambers were cut out
and DeVries began sewing cuffs
made of dacron felt to the pulmo
nary artery that takes oxygen-de
pleted blood to the lungs and to the
aorta that feeds oxygen-rich blood
from the lungs to the rest of the
body.
Similar cuffs then were sewed to
what was left of the natural heart —
the upper blood collection chambers
called atriums.
DeVries snapped the artifical
heart, about the size of two clenched
fists, into the four awaiting cuffs.
The heart consists of two pumping
chambers held together by a Velcro
patch.
Two thin plastic tubes providing
the air pulses that drive the heart
were led through the skin of the up
per abdomen and protruded in spe
cial “buttons” designed to minimize
the risk of infection.
The drive lines connect to two 8-
foot hoses that run to a 323-pound,
wheeled console.
Schroeder, a one-time military air
traffic controller who later worked
as at a Naval weapons center in
Crane, Ind., was reported to be dete
riorating so rapidly that the surgery
was advanced a week.
World universities combat basic problems
Frank E. Vandiver
Editor's Note: This is the first of a
three part series on the future of Texas
A&M.
By SHAWN BEHLEN
Staff Writer
A world university is an institution
working on problems of fundamen
tal importance to the world, says
Texas A&M President Frank E.
Vandiver. Over the past two years he
has proposed the development of an
international network of such re
search universities and he wants
Texas A&M to be one of them.
In speeches, articles and inter
views, Vandiver has expounded on
his original concept, and it is now at
tracting worldwide interest. He first
outlined his ideas in the inaugural is
sue of Quest: Research and Schol
arship at Texas A&M in 1982.
“I submit that the best hope rests
with development of a handful of
strategically located ‘world universi
ties,”’ he wrote. “Another way of de
scribing them would be ‘essential
universities,’ those which have the
resources, or could effectively use
them if they had them, to contribute
to solutions to ‘Four Horsemen’
(war, famine, pestilence and death)
type problems. They would be
linked together through a network
of cooperative programs, sharing
their expertise and helping one an
other and the people they serve.”
Since then, Vandiver says his
ideas have become more coherent.
“That was sort of the first blush of
the idea, and I have discovered in
the past two years that there are a
great many people interested in
this,” he says. “Latin America is very
much interested.
“We’ve been going around —
members of the University — trying
to sign memorandums of agreement
with Latin American universities,
and they all ask, ‘Will this tie in with
the world university idea?.’ So I
think the idea is catching on.
“The question is: everybody won
ders how do we go from concept to
reality and that’s the thing I’m al
ways trying to work on.”
One of the possible answers to
that question is the signing of mem
orandums of agreement. So far,
A&M has signed forty of the
agreements with other universities.
These are promises to exchange fac
ulty and students, both undergrad
uate and graduate, and to cooperate
in research ventures.
“I would like to see us have
agreements with at least two hun
dred institutions around the world,
of cooperative nature, and then
work on the ones that have the best
opportunity to develop into this type
of world university,” Vandiver says.
Another answer might be univer
sity consortiums. In an Aug. 24,
1984, article for Science magazine,
Vandiver wrote of his views on con
sortium feasibility.
“Consortiums may be the outline
of what universities will become in
the next century,” he wrote. “Intel
lectually or geographically kindred
campuses that are linked by
agreements might be able cooperati
vely to exchange people, courses,
and equipment to achieve a matrix
organization that would provide
wider research and educational op
portunities to students and faculties
while still preserving separate cam
pus identities and loyalties.”
A&M is already involved in one
consortium. Along with the Univer
sity of Texas, the University of
Houston and Rice University, A&M
is working to win the contract for
building the world’s largest atom
smasher. The four universities are
now researching the project at The
Woodlands with a $2.2 million grant
from the Department of Energy.
“That kind of consortium is the
beginning of a world university ap
proach, seems to me,” Vandiver
says.
He says one advantage of both
memorandums of agreement and
consortiums is that they would pro
vide a network in which world uni
versities could cooperate in research
ventures.
“Universities working together
can begin to attack the problems al
most immediately, as soon as they
get the brain power put together
and tie in the resources and recog
nize that there is a problem they
want to work on,” he says. “I would
hope that in due course these collec
tions of universities would be linked
together by satellite communication
so we can just talk to each other and
find out what’s going on.”
As of now, Vandiver is working to
See VANDIVER, page 11
Seven men die in Alabama accident
Weekend death toll over 300
LL
United Press International
The Thanksgiving weekend traf
fic death toll surpassed 300 Sunday,
the final day of the long holiday. In
the worst accident, seven men died
in a car that slammed into a tree at
100 mph in McIntosh, Ala.
A United Press International
count showed at least 314 people
died in accidents nationwide. The
National Safety Council estimated
up to 500 people would die during
the long weekend, which ended at
midnight Sunday.
The NSC predicted 17,000 to
20,000 people would suffer disa
bling injuries.
California reported 33 fatalities,
Texas 29 and Florida 25.
Three women died Saturday
night when a Rimrocks Stages bus
slid off an icy highway near Helena,
Mont., and overturned.
Authorities said they were sur
prised that only one fatality was re
ported in Missouri.
“Usually more people are killed in
traffic accidents over the Thanksgiv
ing holiday than any other holiday,”
said state patrol Sgt. Roy Dallam. He
said fewer people were traveling this
year — and those who were used
more caution.
Seven men were killed Saturday
in the southern Alabama town of
McIntosh when their car left the
road at a curve and slammed into a
tree at 100 mph. Officials called it
the worst accident ever in McIntosh.
The only survivor was listed in sta
ble condition at the University of
South Alabama Medical Center.
The victims were identified as
Van Reed, 23; his 20-year-old
brother, James Reed; and two dis
tant relatives, Randy Reed, 30 and
Clarence Reed, 24. Joseph Weaver,
25; Michael Dixon, 26; and the
driver, Roy Cordelle, 48, also died.
05307900Policeman Matthew
Roberts said the accident was “noth
ing like I’ve ever seen before.”
A man and a woman died and
their three children were injured in
a fiery two-car crash Saturday night
when an oncoming car crossed the
center line on an Arkansas bridge.
Five deer hunters died Friday
when their pickup truck failed to
make a curve on a rural Arkansas
mountain road and four people —
three of them teenagers — died Fri
day in a two-car crash on an icy high
way near South Haven, Minn.
The victims were identified as
driver Darren Derrick, 17; his twin
brother, David; and Daniel Murgess,
16, all of Monticello.
Argentine voters approve
Beagle Channel treaty
United Press International
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
— Millions of Argentines Sunday
overwhelmingly approved a
treaty with Chile to ena 100 years
of conflict over the Beagle Chan
nel, a strategic and potentially oil-
rich waterway at the southern tip
of South America.
With nearly all the votes
counted, official returns showed
10,391,019 Argentines voted in
favor of the proposed treaty
while 2,105,663 opposed it — a
margin of 81 percent to 18 per
cent with 2 percent casting blank
or null ballots.
The vote totals represented
66,215 of 67,565 voting districts.
Despite a call for a boycott by
the opposition Peronist party, an
estimated 60 percent of Argenti
na’s 18 million eligible voters had
been expected to participate in
the referendum.
Under the terms of the set
tlement, Chile is awarded sover
eignty over three main disputed
islands in the Beagle passage.
Chile’s president and army
commander, Gen. Augusto Pino
chet, reaffirmed support for the
Beagle treaty last Thursday, say
ing “it is going ahead.”