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Tuesday, December 11, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 Student to be on health council By MARY COX Reporter Kathy Bartholomew Sulte- meier, a student ol the College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A&M, was recently appointed to the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education. The council is concerned with the future of eight health profes sions: medicine, dentistry, veteri nary, optometry, pharmacy, po diatry, osteopathv and the allied health professions. '‘We are looking where health services are headed," Sultemeier said. The council's duty is to advise Congress about the needs and wants of the health profession, she said. Though the council gives its recomendations, the Sec retary of Health makes the fim 1 decisions. The council advises the Secre tary of Health regarding pro grams of financial assistance to improve the quality of health pro fessions educational programs. “The real concern in the last few legislative sessions was grant proposals for health professional schools,” she said. The council adv ises grant pro posals that would aid underprivi- eged areas by attracting family residency students. This incentive program subsidizes students to encourage more people in these areas of the health profession. On the student level, the coun cil monitors different types of loans for health profession stu dents and determines eligibility, Sultemeier said. The 2()-member council in cludes 18 people in various pro fessions as well as two student members. “ To my knowledge, it's the first time Texas A&M has had a stu dent on the council," she said. Sultemeier said she was sur prised when she learned of her appointment to the council. SuT temeiei said she thinks she was nominated because she has been involved in policy-making deci sions in undergraduate as well as professional schools. “There's a lot about the [posi tion that Tin still learning," Sulte meier said. Because the council has rep resentatives from across the United States, Sultemeier said it can be a little intimidating at times. “1 feel a lack of knowledge when I’m sitting there with [peo ple who are administrators, deans or presidents of schools," she said. T he educational experience of seeing how politics works is valu able, she said, although she will miss some classes attending the four council meetings in Wash ington, D.C . “T he council opens my eves, and I get a chance to get involved in what’s happening in the rest of the world," Sultemeier said. Protestors won’t talk to consulate United Press International HOUSTON — A state lawmaker, minister and a third man arrested for refusing Up leave a building hous ing the South African consulate de clined Monday to meet with consul ate officials. Rep. Al Edwards, I)-Houston, the Rec. |. Don Honey and Onovvalle Dwight Allen, all black, were ar rested Friday lot trespassing after they refused to leave the building busing the consulate office. A woman speaking to the men through an intercom at the consul ate made a 3 p.m. Mondav appoint ment for them with the consul gen eral. But Edwards and other mentlpers of the Free South Africa Movement refused Monday to at tend the meeting. “Representatives, of the Free South Africa Movement will not he meeting with the South African Consulate today," said a statement issued by Edwards’ office. “This al leged meeting time and date was ar bitrarily set by the South African Consulate without collaboration with the Free South Africa members. "Due to this lack of input, we of the Free South Africa Movement feel no obligation to meet with the consul general at (his time." Nautical archaeology more than diving Prof speaks on shipwreck University News Service T o Dr. (Teorge Bass, often called the “father of nautical archaeology,” the [past two seasons of excavation in T m key brought him in contact with the shipwreck he’d always dreamed of. Bass, who holds the rank of both alumni professor and distinguished professor at Texas A&M, is elated pecause he began his career in I960 in the same region with the excava tion of another wreck, also carrying copper ingots. But the latest discovery was the first Bronze Age shipwreck with its hull largely intact. Results ol the project - which un covered the most extensive collec tion of Bronze Age goods ev er from the sea - were presented last week in a Washington [press conference by the National Geographic Society, which supported the excavation by researchers with A&M and the Insti tute of Nautical Archaelogy. The wreck, one of the oldest in the Mediterranean at some 3,500 years, is providing important clues to Bronze Age maritime trade and ship construction, Bass said at the press conference. It apparently sank upright with its cargo of ingots, [pot tery and even an elephant tusk. “For 22 years, I had wanted to find a slightly older ship to prove or disprove theories about the 1960 si te," said Bass, past president of IN A - a nonprofit research group now af filiated with A&M, and the nucleus for the world’s leading training pro gram for nautical archaeologists. Bass returned to the Washington press conference after several weeks at King’s College, Scotland, on a vis iting professorship, during which he spent researching the wreck further. Bass earned his first two degrees from Johns Hopkins University while studying the archeology of the Near East, and later attended the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. While working toward his Ph.D. in classical archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania, Bass was field director of both the I960 ship wreck excavation near Cape Gelido- nya and the Yassi Ada Byzantine shipwreck. Bass joined the A&M faculty in 1976 when he and other top re searchers with INA agreed to move their group from the University of Pennsylvania. He has spent some of his time warning [people of the rigors in volved in his field. It is not enough Up he well-versed in history and exca vation techniques, Bass says. One must alscp learn the intricate details of conservation and preservation. Dr.George Bass Perhaps the greatest shock of all to new students is the fact that un derwater diving and swimming skills are almost irrelevant - researchers spend two years on land studying ar tifacts for every month they are in the water, fie said. Committee to decide coble TV controversy By CATHIE ANDERSON Slut I Writer Nearlv 60 percent of 1,605 dormi tory residents favor the idea of in cluding the price of a 12-channel ca ble television package in their residence hall rent, according to a recent survey bv the cable TV im provement committee, part of the office of student affairs. If the cable telev ision fee is part of the dormitory rent, students will not have a choice on receiving the serv ice. The cable will be hooked up and the fees automatically added to the students dormitory fees. The committee distributed the questionnaire to get students’ opin ions on the uses and improvements of cable TV on campus, but Ron Sasse, who heads the committee, said the group was disappointed that only 1,605 of the 1 (),()()() on-campus residents replied. “We don’t want Up make a decision that excludes the students,” Sasse said. “We want their input rather than us (the student affairs depart ment) just sitting over here in the YMCA Building making decisions.” Regardless of the lack of input, the committee will make a recom mendation by mid-January on the cable television situation to Ron Blatchley, director of student affairs, and to Dr. John Koldus, vice presi dent for student services. Of those responding to the sur vey, 65 percent were not pleased with their cable service. The biggest reason for students’ displeasure is the [price of the service available. If the committee does propose that cable costs be included in the dormitory rent, the price will be as low as possible, Sasse said. Sasse said that off-campus resi dents of Bryan-College Station expe rienced a rate increase on Dec. 1, which dormitory residents will not see until they return to school in Jan uary. “The students are sitting in their dorm rooms, not even thinking that it (the rate increase) applies to them,” Sasse said. “Soon they’re going to wish that they had paid more attention. T he campus is not immune up the increase.” Cable rates in residence halls will increase to $36 for the Spring 1985 Semester, Sasse said. But if the cable committee decides against including cable rates in the dormitory fees, stu dents could be paying as much as $43 by the Fall. “If we could build it into the sys tem the students would be paying far less,” Sasse said, “because we might be able to negotiate with them up make it, say, $10 instead of $50.“ Sasse said that the committee sees several other advantages in adding the cable rate to the students’ resi dent hall rent. "When they (the on-campus stu dents) sign up for cable, they may not get it right away,” Sasse said. “The students sometimes wait up to a month before they get their servi ce.” But if the cable service is already part of the dormitory fee the cable serv ice already would be hooked up. The committee also wants to have a fixed rate that can’t chi nge until the contract expires, Sasse said. He said that the plan would also stop vandalism because students wouldn’t try to hook up cable tele vision cpn their own. The survey also asked which 12 channels the students would most like tep have in the package, and (heir decisions, ranked according Up the number of votes, are as follows: • Music T elevision • Home Box (Off ice • The Mcpvie Channel • KHTV, Houston • KT XH, Houston • WTBS, Atlanta • KBTX, Bryan • the Entertainment Sports Net work • KPRC, Houston • WCN, Chicago • KCEN, Temple • KTRK, Houston Either HBO or the Movie Chan nel could be included in the [pack age, Sasse said, but not both. He alscp said that five stations must be included in any cable package. These stations include KBTX, Bryan; KCEN, Temple; KAMU, College Station; KTVT , Dallas; and KPRC, Houston. Before McCavv Cablevision bought Midwest Video and Commu nity Cable, the two cable companies had jointly serviced the campus, and the students were able Up decide which company they would patron ize. At that time University oliicials had considered [putting the campus out for bid Up the two companies, Sasse said. 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