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i Tuesday, July 15, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local Students can give 'gift of life' at drive today Bjr KATHRYN GREENWADE Reporter ■Once again, students and fac ulty at Texas A&rM are being asked to give the ‘gift of life’ and donate blood at several locations o| campus this week. ■Representatives from the Wad- ■ Blood Center in Dallas will be on campus through Thursday aid will take donations at Rudder ■untain and the A Lounge in tlte Corps area from 1 1 a.m. to 7 V 1 ' jWe’ve had a blood drive at MM since 1959, so it’s def initely atradition," said Carol Hill, a re cruiter with Wadley. n Forrest, a chairmen the fall blood drive, said the ftgest fear people have of giving blood is pain. ■They also use the fear of con tracting AIDS as an excuse not to donate, he said. ou cannot get AIDS from blood,” he said, “They use c a sterile needle each time blood is '■taken then throw that needle auav." /■Hill said the campus blood drive makes it possible for all stu dents, faculty, former students and their families to receive blood f ree of charge and the blood col lected this summer will be avail able to Aggies for one year. The program works much like a checking account. Hill said. When blood is collected it is cred ited to an account and that num ber of units is subtracted from the amount available, she explained. Hill said the Wadley center services about 57 hospitals in eight counties in the Dallas area and these hospitals have record of the Aggie account. If an Aggie or his family needs blood replacements at a hospital not serviced by Wadley, he can contact the Student Government office and they will make the ar rangements with Wadley, she added. Hill said Wadley is sponsoring a summer sweepstakes. When ever a person donates a unit of blood they become eligible for va rious prizes. He said they hope this will give people even more in centive to give blood. 3 interviewed for top chemistry spot By Nancy Conces Reporter Three Texas A&M chemistry pro fessors were interviewed this w^eek by a search committee seeking a re placement for the head of A&M’s chemistry department, Dr. Donald T. Saw yer, w ho resigned in June. Sawyer, 55, whose resignation be comes effective Aug. 31, said he was disenchanted with his role as an ad ministrator at A&M because of de partment cutbacks and administra tive duties. “I w as f inding that most of my day • was consumed with necessary - you might even say essential - adminis- trative work,’’ Sawyer said. The budget cuts also slowed the rate at which his department could embark on senior level recruiting, an effort w'hich, Sawyer said, involves crucial timing. The budget cuts would slow' the pace at which he could implement his recruiting program for several years, he said. Sawyer said he now plans to con centrate on research and teaching at A&M because he has more to con tribute as regular full-time faculty member. “I felt I had about 10 years left in my career as a scholar and a chemis try professor as w'ell as an adminis trator," Sawyer said. “I would rather spend that time doing research and teaching, which I found I was not able to do nearly as much of as I had anticipated. “I think my research is significant and if I’m going to get all of the re search done that I want to before I retire, I’m going to have to spend more time at it.” The search committee, chaired by Dr. John Fackler, dean of the Col lege of Science, finished interview ing its third candidate for depart ment head this week. Fackler said the committee hopes to make the appointment this sum mer. The committee also expects the position to be Filled by someone who has contributed to the development of the department and who has strong research and scholarship cre dentials, he said. Dr. W. B. Smith, head of the Sta tistics Department and a committee chairman, said the committee will hire from within the chemistry de partment, primarily because of eco nomics but also because the depart ment has a large number of full professors to choose from. Probe of athletes’ academic careers sought By Olivier Uyttebrouck Stuff Writer The Texas A&M Faculty Senate recommended Monday that a long term study be made assessing the academic careers of A&M student athletes. The motion was passed despite strong opposition by a minority of senators, and if approved by the ex ecutive committee, the study will be assigned either to an ad hoc or a standing committee of the Faculty Senate. Sen. Sam Gillespie, dean of busi ness administration, supported the study, saying, “I’m concerned about the way we advise (student athletes). I think we have an equal obligation to see that they have a quality educa tion.” Sen. Larry J. Reynolds, an asso ciate professor of English, took the issue a step further, saying that sepe- rated housing and dining facilities for athletes are “ill-conceived.” “I don’t think it’s in the best inter ests of Texas A&M or . . . of the ath letes themselves,” Reynolds said. In other action: • The Senate approved a new course that will allow students to re ceive up to 18 credit hours in busi ness administration for studies abroad. Designated Business Ad ministration 301, the course must now be approved by University Pres ident Frank E. Vandiver. • Koldus discussed the health center’s elimination of weekend and evening counseling services. He said that because the health center no longer retains the services of a doc tor at those times, no qualified per son would be on hand to make a de cision in the event a patient needed to be committed to a mental facility. ref students get more clinical work By Greg Calvin Reporter S Bdie number of cases at Texas ■M’s veterinary hospital are in- :re,ising and as a result fourth-year HArinary students are receiving nore hands-on experience in clinical '^*s, said Dr. Lynn Turner, a veter- mu clinical associate. •ffiC'B'urner said for the first three i\i tears of veterinary school students iji Btiid required classes and labs and ^ late some surgical training. But stu- Kits don’t get any practical experi- :nce until their fourth year, she said. :k niiS e "Whiting the students’ fourth year muvithev continue surgical training with at two hours of lecture a day and the rest of the day devoted to clinical cases. Turner said. The cases range from routine vac cination shots and spaying to spe cialty cases like orthopedic and inter nal medicine. Turner said. There is a team approach to all clinical cases, she added, and all cases have a doctor’s supervision. The students review the cases first, and then a doctor does, she said. The medical diagnoses are done by both students and doctors, she said. “People have the idea that we are going to experiment with the ani mals,” Turner said. “The animals are treated and there is nothing ex perimental. It is just like a hospital.” A&M has approximately 130 fourth-year veterinary students, Turner said. The students are assigned cases according to their interests, but all students are required to spend half of their fourth year in the small ani mal clinic and half in the large ani mal clinic, Turner said. Dr. Kenneth Knauer, a clinic pro fessor, said veterinary medicine at A&M involves procedures that are comparable to procedures per formed on humans. Pacemakers are put in dogs and cats can get a GAT scan, he said. Turner said that these specialty cases can be treated by private prac titioners who have the proper equip ment, or by the A&M clinic. The A&M clinic has specialists in internal medicine and surgery and receives referrals from practicing veterinarians. Sometimes there are cases at the clinic that require a specialist that is not available at A&M, such as a root canal specialist or an open-heart spe cialist, Turner said. In such cases customers are referred elsewhere because A&M doesn’t have the proper facilities, she said. Turner said that in most cases, the clinic will charge just like a private practitioner, but in a minority of cases, the clinic will assume a portion of the cost if the case has a teaching value not only to the students, but also to the teachers. Governor hasn’t set date for special budget session PORT WORTH (AP) — Gov. Mark White said Monday he isn’t yet ready to name a date for con vening a special session of the Legislature to try to balance the state budget. White said last month he is pre pared to call a special session if needed to solve the state’s budget crisis. Comptroller Bob Bullock said on May 30 that the deficit has reached $2.3 billion and will go significantly higher by Aug. 31, 1987, unless action is taken. The House Appropriations Committee began work last week to try to find areas where spend ing could be cut to reduce the deficit and eliminate a cash-flow problem that could force the trea surer to write hot checks by later this year. White in mid-February issued an executive order asking some 200 state government agencies to voluntarily trim spending by 13 percent. Asked Monday how that effort was going, White replied tersely that it is “Working very well, thank you.” woul choif & r THE BLOOD CENTER at Wadley Dat^- JULY 14. 15, 16, 17 Tji-pfa; 11‘.00 a.m. — 7:00 p.m. Place; MSC Fountain & “A” Lounge-Corps Area Poster designed by Felicia Gardner, a student at H. Grady Spruce High School. "No Aggie’s education is com plete without MTV, Dr. Ruth, Dangermouse and Mouseter- piece Theatre. Trust me." Dr. Will McVourday Professor of Relaxation Therapy No education^ ^ _ complete without cable television. McCaw Cablevision makes it easy to set your complete education and say "Yes” to cable this Monday through Friday at the Memorial Student Center from 8am to 5pm. i