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Adam Pietruszka, the highest- ranking Interior Ministry officer charged in the death of the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko, played a “cynical” role and created “ an atmosphere conducive to committing the crime.” Popieluszko was beaten to death and thrown into a reservoir last Oc tober. There was a great public outcry over his murder, and the public trial of the four security agents was un precedented in a country where se cret police normally are beyond re proach. The lawyer for Popieluszko’s fam ily called the verdicts “just,” and a church spokesman said a 25-year- sentence gives a man “a lot of time to think about himself and about oth ers.” The five-judge panel rejected the prosecutor’s request that the ring leader, Capt. Grzegorz Piotrowski, 33, be sentenced to death by hang ing. It convicted Piotrowski of kidnap ping and killing the popular, outspo- Animal- (continued from page 1) do anything repetitive or unneces sary. Also, through unannounced on site inspections, the committee has the power to shut down any experi ments that do not adhere to the reg ulations concerning housing and caring for the animals. Researchers must maintain the animals at the highest level of health possible, San ford said. Sanford said there are always bad apples, but most people in the sci ence community go through the same mental anguish as lay people when deciding to use animals for re search. “We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t love animals,” Sanford said. “That’s why we got into this business in the first place.” He said the scientific community usually agrees that when research can be conducted without live ani mals, it should, if the research can still achieve the same level of compe tency and results. Stanford said it takes less time and less money when research is done without live animals because the lab animals are expensive, being bought only from those people licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to insure the animals quality. That means the animals have been inbred so they are genetically close, and therefore fewer animals can be used. Before the LARR, each depart ment or college was responsible for the care of its own animals, making it dif ficult to be sure that each person was following the guidelines. Dr. Dave Gross, professor of vet erinary physiology and pharmacol ogy, believes that the first issue to consider when using animals in medical research is whether people believe there are significant health problems that are of great impor tance to society and need solutions. “If people accept that premise, then the issue is, is there any way to accomplish that aim without using animals,” Gross said. He said that one must try to find out if a drug or surgical procedure is dangerous or efficacious, and that “this sort of thing does not lend itself to computer work,” or using live cell or tissue from an animal. “You cannot model this very, very complex system (the human body) in a cell culture,” Gross said. And there is no way to tell how something is going to happen in an entire system when it has only been tested in a minute part of the whole, he said. Gross said almost 500,000 people a year, in the United States alone, have cardio-vascular disease. “We’ve made huge strides in the last 50 years based almost entirely on animal experimentation,” Gross said of his medical field. “If you don’t think that’s a worthwhile thing for ken priest along with two lieutenants — Leszek Pekala, 32, and Waldemar Chmielewski, 29, who were given 15 and 14 years respectively. Piotrowski and Pekala wept as the sentences were announced, journal ists reported from the courtroom. Chmielewski, who has been troubled by a nervous disorder since the kill ing, trembled, keeping his head low in the defendants’ dock. Pietruszka, 47, remained impassive. Twenty-five years is the most se vere punishment in Poland short of death, which was the maximum pen- alty faced by the defendants. Piotrowski al be denied all civil rights for 10 years after they get out of prison — which costs them their military ranks and honors, and the right to vote and hold office. The government said it would re fuse comment On the case. The Ro man Catholic Church said it would issue a statement after a Feb. 13-14 meeting of the bishops of this de voutly Catholic nation, but a spokes man at the episcopate in Warsaw said prison terms were severe enough punishment. “The church is not going to crit icize it (the verdict) as too high or too low,” said the Rev. Henryk Brunka of the episcopate press office. “The death penalty is very rare in Poland. In cases of a 25-year sentence a man has a lot of time to think about him self and about others.” society to do, that’s a philosophical question for each person to answer.” Gross said another important de cision to be made involves who should do experiments and how. “Anyone doing experiments of any kind on animals should have as a part of their philosophical make-up, and of their training, a reverence for life,” he said. “That means that you don’t waste an animal’s life. That whenever you use an animal, the ex periment is well thought out ahead of time and provides an answer. “The general public has no way to judge what is good science and what is bad. Their general response is to stop everything. The answer to that is not to throw away the good sci ence, you can’t throw the baby out with the bath water.” Gross said he sees very little dif ference between raising a rat for re search or raising livestock for slaughter. He said those people who think animals should never be used in research, should never use any animal products of benefit from any research done on animals, lest they be hypocrites. McMurray said that people mis treating pets is a more common abuse of animals, than the inhumane treatment of animals in the labo ratory. “Irresponsible pet ownership is another kind of animal abuse,” Mc Murray said. “And now you find people who say you shouldn’t use pound dogs for experiments. If we don’t use them for something, they’re simply going to go up in the smoke stack of your local A.S.P.C.A.” Gross asked what the dif ference is between a relatively untrained per son loading animals into a gas cham ber and asphyxiating them, which he saed is painful, and a trained person putting a needle into the animal and putting it to sleep? Dr. Paul Wellman, assistant pro fessor of psychology, also does re search involving live animals. He supports the work done by animal rights groups. “One of the things that the animal right’s people have done, is to make people more sensitive,” Wellman said. “Academia tends to produce researchers without a clear rationale in mind, without having a reason for doing it. I think we’re beginning to move beyond that.” Pam King, president of the Brazos County Humane Society, said she worries most about research that is repetitive and that causes pain to the animal. Kim said she is not sure if it is ethi cal to do research on live animals, but there are many experiments that she feels are definately wrong. “Most of the animal rights groups are not trying to wipe out animal ex- perimentaion, but are trying to give a base of thought to it,” she said. Battalion Advertising — let it work for your business. Call 845-2611 Today. 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