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PLEASE CONTACT YOUR PLACEMENT OFFICE OR FOREIGN STUDENT OFFICE FOR Aft APPOINTMENT Muster speeches compiled in new book by A&M prof By LORA BEST Reporter One of the most unique and re vered Aggie traditions is Muster. First helcl in 1HH3, the Muster cere mony honors Aggies who have died during the past year. Muster gained national recogni tion during World War II when a group of Aggies held a ceremony while under fire on Corregidor Is land in the Phiiipines. But the Muster speeches, a major component of the ceremony, have only lieen documented by private taping — until now. John C. Adams, assistant profes sor of speech communications at Texas A&M, has assembled most of the Muster speeches since 1946 and made them available to the public. The compilation of Muster speeches includes those by former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, James Earl Rudder, Olin Teague, Maj. Gen. Wood B. Kyle and ( ol Tom Dooley. Adams says it took Five years to complete the research for the book. “I wanted to make sure I got as many speeches as I could get my hands on,” he says. He says that when he felt sure ev ery available speech was in his pos session, another one would surface. Speeches made over a long period of time are difficult to gather, lie says. “That’s the way speeches are, they’re spoken and they’re gone,” Adams says. While his major research area is the history of American public ad dress and rhetorical theory and crit icism, Adams explains that personal reasons also compelled him to com pile the speeches. He says his brother-in-law was killed while they were both serving in the Vietnam War, and Adams was asked to escort the lx>dy back to the United States. That event had always remained in the back of his mind. When he came to A&M after fin ishing his studies at the University of Washington, Adams says he as signed students in his freshman- level classes to write a paper on pub lic speech. Many of the students did I japers on Silver l aps, and he says te could see the emotions involved in the writing. So Adams decided to attend a Silver l aps. He says he was moved by the ex perience, anti then someone told him about Muster. “This is a significant event —there are not ttx> many events like this any more," Adams says. Adams says the book is like a hym nal full of spoken hymns. He ex plains that Muster speeches cele brate a certain set of values such as courage, justice or wisdom. ' In this case, he explains, A&M and the values Aggies possess are being celebrated. From the material in the speeches, Adams says he is; describe an Aggie. “(An Aggie is) Somebody who k a balanced respect for tangiblei intangible rewards that comesh shouldering responsibility," hec plains. “There is also a deept to preserve an attitude." Adams says he originally planned to have the speeches®! m the archives, hut he begantoih about having them published ! /.os Valley Printing published! book. The txxiks are available at Valley Printing and at Santpml Bookery in Culpepper Plaza . J will have a book-signing Nov.J Sampson’s B<x>kery. Fisc i>< u cut of the profits*ili:| donated to the Speakers Burail group of students who imf throughout the state and nalion] give speeches about A&M too zations such as mother's clubs £ former students groups. Carolyn Adair, director of si activities, says while the burcniii not received any money ytt, knows where it most likely dlj spent. “We'll probably get morey with it to let clubs around I trv know we’re available," says. Some of the proceeds alsot lx* used to buy a mini-camera n cord the students’sjieeches,shea Pharmaceutical companies pay participants in medication studies CAMPUS VISIT Monday, 21 October 1985 Get to the answers faster. With theTTSS-II. By TAMARA BELL Smll Writer It’s mid-semester and you’re down to vour last dollar. If being a guinea pig doesn’t bother you, then participating in clinical lests con ducted through Texas A&M is a wav to earn extra money. The clinical tests are open to fac ulty, stall and students, says Ferry Coghlan, a biochemist in the CoJIege of Medicine. About 90 percent are students because of the money, he says. The tests require students who have allergies or asthma to take medication that hasn’t been ap proved by the Food and Drug Ad ministration, Coghlan says. “The risks are minimal to the stu dents who participate because by the time the medication is ready to lie tested on people, it has already un dergone extensive animal testing," Coghlan says. “The medication will undergo more testing after we’re done,” he says. “After an additional three to five years, the pharmaceutical com pany will take the information to the FDA and submit the medication for a license based on the laboratory tri als in Europe and the United States.” For three years experiments at A&M have lieen conducted by Cogh lan along with Dr. Barry I'aull, an as sistant professor of medical micro biology and immunology, Coghlan says. Money to pay the students comes from the pharmaceutical companies who want to market a particular drug, he says. Before a student is admitted to a study he must first meet certain re quirements, Coghlan says. For example, a student must suf fer from allergies to lie admitted to an allergy studv, be says. After it has been determined that the student suff ers from allergies, he signs an informed consent, Coghlan says. T his paper tells the participant what is going on during the study and what was found in previous studies. It also informs the student of the number of blood samples that are drawn, the potential risks and benefits and the basic side-effects like an upset stomach, he says. “The study can last either one day or 28 days," Coghlan says. “For a good percent of the experiment the students are on their own. The stu dents take the medication through out the day and record the informa tion in a patient diary we send home with them.” Although the companies are! |x*i cent sure <>lThe side-eilecis dents aren't allowed to takei medii ations during the irial pen in < use something unusual shn happen, he says. “ I he tests are designed ion into account all the variables, I Ian s.ns. "It's a double blinds# l>e< ausc some students willbeonS celxi. sugar pills, while somen taking the actual meditation.Eu we don’t know which studentsaiti what, i his allows for an unbiasdi search." Because female students art c hild-hearing years, they aren^ lowed to participate in the tsie ments, Coghlan says. The FD.ll established this rule becauseol: liability involved if a former para pant should have a physical^ formed child, he says. Coghlan says students makej subjects liecause they are b® about the results of the medi® and they follow the rules of: study. On the other hand, lies students make had subjects bed they continue to consumealcoM though they’ve been warnedaf it. T exas A&M Flying Club Monthly Meeting Tuesday, 7:30 p.m,, Oct. 22 at the Airport Clubhouse. For More Information Call Don Read, 696-9339 What you need to tackle the higher mathematic^ of a science or engineering cur riculum are more functions — more functions than a simple slide-rule calculator has. Enter the TI-SS-II, with 112 powerful functions. You can work faster and more accurately with the TI-55-II, because it’s preprogrammed to perform complex calcula tions — like definite integrals, linear regression and hyper- bolics — at the touch of a button. And it can also be programmed to do repetitive problems without re-entering the entire formula. Included is the Calculator Decision-Making Sourcebook. It makes the process of using the TI-55-II even simpler, and shows you how to use all the power of the calculator. Get to the answers faster. 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