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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words _■» Texas ASM m m -m • The Battalion Serving the University community Schroeder Improving steadily United Press International loULSVILLK, Ky. — On the sec ond anniversary of the first perma- nltit artificial fteart implant, Bill Siroeder continued to progress “vay ahead of schedule” as he began his second week with a plastic and meial heart. Ebn Dec. 2, 1982, Barney Clark made medical history when doctors at the University of Utah removed hldiseased heart and implanted the Janik-7 heart into the Seattle den tist. He died 1 12 days after the his toric operation. | Allan Lansing, director of the Hn- Hia Heart Institute, Sunday said Htors remain enthusiastic about the progress of Schroeder, the sec- ■ patient to undergo the perma nent artificial implant. BHe looks absolutely great this morning; he’s been out of bed; he Kched television last evening,” Hsing said on CBS’s Face the Na tion. “He watched the (Kentucky- Purdue) basketball game and read ||e newspaper.” Ransing said Schroeder, 52, who \fes only hours from death Nov. 25 when he was wheeled into the oper ating room for the implant surgery, could leave the hospital within two months, earlier than had originally betn expected. ■He seems to be way ahead of jchedule at this present time,” Lan sing said, adding that chief surgeon William DeVries thinks Schroeder could leave the intensive care unit within a week. ■His spirit of the ‘blahs’ he had a couple of days ago seems to be |one,’’ Lansing said. ■Schroeder spent, a restful Satur- lay night at Humana Hospital Au dubon, but doctors said the former ■nitions inspector from Jasper, nd. was still tired after his week- png ordeal. ■He has a good appetite, and is poiv eating soft, solid foods,” a mid- Hrning medical bulletin said. ‘‘He ptill tired, but is resting comfort- ablv. I ■Mr. Schroeder continues to make satisfactory progress. He had a good pight and his vital signs are normal. ■uK artificial heart is functioning 'veil." ■fis temperature remained nor mal fora second consecutive day, a sign that his body was free from in fection. ■chroeder is particularly suscepti- Be to infection because he is a di- abetir, doctors said. The high level |f sugar in the blood of diabetics im- iiirs the body’s ability to fight infec tion. J No further tests were scheduled /Sunday with the portable Heimes wive unit, a pump that can be worn |ver the shoulder like a camera bag ■ will enable Schroeder greater ■Dbiliiv as he continues his recov- ■ |Clark was never healthy enough | [ry the 11.4-pound Heimes unit I instead was confined to the 323- nd, shopping-cart-sized Utah- fe unit. chroeder was successfully ked up to the portable unit twice Hay and one more time Saturday, p test Saturday lasted three irs, the longest period permitted. Editor’s note: This is the First arti cle in a two part series on core cur riculum at Texas A&M. By BARBARA BROWN Reporter A potential controversy over a core curriculum at Texas A&M is simmering in the individual colleges, which are waiting for the Faculty Senate core curriculum committee to make its proposal. Last year, A&M President Frank Vandiver asked the Senate to study the general education requirements for baccalaureate degree programs. The Senate appointed the core curriculum committee in February. It has 20 members, with representa tion from each college. The commit tee is studying the desirability and feasibility of a core curriculum for all undergraduates. At present, the only courses com mon to all baccalaureate degrees are a state-mandated requirement of six hours in American history and six hours in political science, and a Uni versity requirement of four hours in physical education. The committee is considering sev eral proposals for a set of distribu tive requirements in categories such as math competence/computer awareness, logic/argumentation, nat ural science, speech and writing skills, cultural heritage, and civic awareness. The chairman of the committee, Dr. Samuel Black of the College of Medicine, says all students need background in many different areas to be well-educated. “It is the view of the committee that it would be nice to give an array of courses that would be possibilities in each of those categories,” Black says, “and simply require a certain number of hours with the courses to be determined by the student within that category.” This would give the students flexi bility in meeting the requirements, a flexibility that has diminished. Black says. But it’s not the students who are pushing flexibility. It’s the individual colleges. Black says the Southern Associa tion of Colleges and Schools requires a minimum of 25 percent of the un dergraduate degree programs to be liberal arts or general education. So if the University is going to continue to be accredited, it’s going to have to meet this requirement. The question seems not to be if the University needs this core curric ulum change, but how it will be done and whether a compromise will be reached that will please everyone. Just how many hours will be re quired is the committee’s current de bate. Once the committee reaches a compromise, it will present a propo sal to its parent committee, the Aca demic Affairs Committee of the Fac ulty Senate, sometime in December. Then the Faculty Senate plans to hold hearings to allow students and the public to discuss the issue before any changes are made. Although there are no decisions yet, there are plenty of opinions stirring around the colleges. The dean of the College of Agri culture, Dr. H.O. Kunkel, says the college cannot add hours and re main a competitive program: “Our biggest biting point is that a degree is four years. Period. We simply can’t find room for somebody else’s ideas unless they can fit within the quality requirements of the Texas Educa tion Agency or our own college.” Kunkel is concerned about the w'ay the committee will choose the courses. “I am not negative to general edu cation courses,” he says. “I would not want to see any student coming out of the College of Agriculture any less educated than any other Texas A&M student. Unfortunately, most See CURRICULUM, page 8 United Press International WARSAW, Poland — The under ground Solidarity movement Sun day said a union activist had been ab ducted, beaten and murdered and two pro-Solidarity priests were tor tured by unidentified assailants in southeastern Poland. The report came a month after the beaten body of a pro-Solidarity priest, the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko, was pulled from a reservoir in north ern Poland. Three secret police officers con fessed to Popieluszko’s Oct. 19 ab duction and murder. A police colo nel has been charged with instigating the crime, a state-run newspaper said Friday. A statement issued by the under ground Solidarity leadership, the trade union banned by the commu nist government in October 1982, said Solidarity activist Stanislaw Chac died in the hospital two days after being abducted, beaten and tortured on Oct. 19. The union said Chac, 42, a Solida rity leader in a Lublin automobile plant, was found unconscious on a street Oct. 20 by ambulance workers who had responded to a police call notifying them of his condition and whereabouts. Solidarity said an autopsy showed Chac suffered severe blows to his head and that needles had been driven under his fingernails. The statement also said two pro- Solidarity Catholic priests in the southeastern Polish city, the Rev. Eugeniusz Kosciolko and the Rev. Zenon Ziomek, had been abducted Monday, Decembers, 1984 and tortured. They were later re leased. “On Nov. 19 the Rev. Kosciolko was stabbed with a metal bayonet like object and burned on the geni tals,” the statement said. “The Rev. Ziomek was also tortured in the same way a few weeks ago. “He is still in a state of shock and has not returned to his parish.” Solidarity did not name the per petrators but Kosciolko, contacted by telephone, confirmed that he had been abducted and tortured. He said he had lodged a complaint with a state prosecutor. The body of Popieluszko, a popu lar Warsaw cleric known for his fiery anti-state sermons in support of Soli darity, showed marks of a severe beating, Solidarity sources said after the body was found Oct. 31. The state news agency PAP said Saturday an autopsy showed he had been beaten unconscious with a blunt in strument and suffocated. I he killing set off a sharp con frontation between the state and the Catholic Church at a time when the Polish government was seeking im proved relations with the church. The government has indicated it believes the murder was part of a conspiracy by hardline elements to undermine the regime of Premier Cen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, whom they considerate too moderate in his action against Solidarity and in his willingness to hold a dialogue with the church. Vol. 80 No. 66 GSRS 045360 14 pages College Station, Texas Last hurrah Photo by >y BONN FRIEDMAN Reveille appeared at her final game at the University of Texas — Texas A&M football game Saturday night. Cadets in Company E- 2 escorted the First Lady of Aggieland. Controversy simmering of A&M Core curriculum studied Solidarity says activist killed, priests tortured Ags celebrate football victory By KIRSTEN DIETZ Staff Writer Texas A&M students who didn’t get to Austin's 6th Street still managed to celebrate the Ag gies’ football win over the Univer sity of Texas Saturday night with lots of beer, yell practices, swims in the Fish Pond, firecrackers and flying toilet paper. Most of the celebration cen tered at Northgate, which at one point was barricaded off and traf fic was directed around the area. College Station Police Sgt. John Campbell, who was not on duty Saturday night, said the area probably was blocked off because it is easier to reroute traffic than to send everyone home. Juniors Anne Bernhard and Chris McDade, residents of Hobby Hall, helped lead yell practice from the roof of Char lie’s Grocery. Bernhard said they started leading yells from the top of a friend’s car in the middle of University Drive, but climbed on the roof after police asked them to move the car. “It was great; it was absolutely great,” Bernhard said. Junior Jeannie Buzzard, a Mc- Fadden Hall resident, said, “It was the ultimate party.” Buzzard went to Northgate af ter going to yell practice at the Fish Pond. “I’ve never seen a bigger disas ter area in my life,” she said. Buzzard said she and her friends went to Cain Hall around midnight because a rumor was circulating that the football team would be returning at 1 af.m. One bus with some of the coaches and a couple of players arrived about that time. “There were as many people at Cain Hall as there was across the street at the Chicken,” she said. Skip Krieger, a bartender, said Duddley’s Draw had a standing room only crowd to watch the football game on television, and more people started arriving about 20 minutes before the game was over. Because of the crowd, Krieger said it was hard to keep track of the customers and $300 worth of glassware, mostly beer pitchers, was stolen. Despite all the celebrating, Lt. Russell Kline of the University Police said no violations were re ported.