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A woman believed to be the
youngest to receive an M.D. degree
in the United States this year grad
uated with honors from Texas
A&M’s College of Medicine Satur
day.
Lani Kay Douglas, 22, says she ap
plied to medical school while she was
a second-year premed major at
A&M because, “Life is short and you
need to accomplish as much as you
can in a short time.”
Douglas, who now is serving a
three-year residency in family medi
cine, says she felt she was ready to
start medical school after two years
at A&M.
“I just knew I was ready,” she says.
“1 would have enjoyed spending an
other year being involved in extra
curricular activities as an undergrad
uate, but 1 wanted to go to medical
school more than anything.
“1 don’t think going to med school
early is for everyone. You should
only go if you think you’re ready. No
one should be pushed into med
school before he feels ready.
Lani Kay Douglas
“Because of summer school and
credits by exam, I had junior hours
when I applied (to medical school).
A&M was the only medical school I
could apply to because when 1 went
through the application process I
didn’t have enough hours to apply to
any other schools.”
Douglas says she was excited
about her acceptance in to medical
school.
“I thought I had a decent chance
(to be accepted), with my grades and
my interview,” she says, “but every
one told me they were real strict
about who was admitted.
“I had the attitude that I wanted
to get in, but if I didn’t I’d have an
other chance.”
After she began medical school,
Douglas says being younger than the
other students didn’t bother her.
“The other students were only
about a year and a half older than
me,” she says. “They made baby
jokes, since I was the youngest in the
class, but it was all in fun and it
didn’t bother me.”
Douglas said she doesn’t think the
increase in medical school tuition —
to $ 1,219 per semester will affect en
rollment.
“Everyone who graduated had
pretty substantial debts to pay off
anyway,” she says. “The increase
probably won’t make or break any
one. I’d be more concerned with the
cut in financial aid.
“Even with the increase, I think
medical students in Texas will still
get a better deal than most students
in other states.”
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A&M grounds maintenance
working behind shrubbery
By AMY BOWMAN
Reporter
People driving to the Texas A&M
campus and admiring its grounds
may never realize how much work is
required to keep its 1,100 acres in
tip-top condition.
About 120 people work every day
of the year to maintain the campus
grounds and roads.
“This is not an easy task,” says Eu
gene Ray, director of grounds main
tenance for A&M.
The grounds maintenance de
partment is in charge of all the land
scaping on campus, the roads and
pavements on campus, campus irri
gation and plant production. It also
works with golf course maintenance
and does work for other depart
ments.
One of the most innovative pro
grams implemented by the grounds
maintenance department is a radio-
controlled irrigation system for the
campus. More than 500 acres of the
campus are irrigated by sprinklers
activated by a computer in the
grounds maintenance office.
A computer records the starting
and stopping times of different
sprinkler systems all over the cam
pus. A lighted master panel shows
where water has been turned on and
shut off.
This year, A&M has received only
$1.5 million in state funds for main
taining the grounds. Each state uni
versity in Texas receives state funds
based on factors such as number of
students, acreage of the campus, lin
ear perimeter of the campus and the
amount of foliage around campus
buildings.
Much of the funding A&M re
ceives for grounds maintenance pays
for employee salaries. Landscape
maintenance, which employs around
60 people, is the largest division of
the department, Ray says.
For the fifth year in a row, the
grounds maintenance department
has gone without any staff additions,
despite continued growth of the
campus. In the past four years 14
new buildings and building areas
have been added to the campus.
Several of the employees in the
department are profesional land
scape architects, but most aren’t.
“Some of the department’s best
people are those without degrees,”
Ray says.
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that illiteracy remains a threat to the
American way of life and more and
more Americans are realizing how
extensive and devastating the prob
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“The tide is turning,” Bush told
the General Federation of Women’s
Clubs meeting in Houston.
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Bush, who serves as honorary
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Forty percent of adults with an
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welfare programs and unemploy
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more than $56 million, she said.
Almost 85 percent of the juveniles
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estimated $6.6 billion is spent every
year on 700,000 inmates, she said.
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