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Monday, May 4, 1987/The Battalion/Page 7 oinputet ,cr Cenif enter or® •y a coDik; s of Ixil! t ' Kempt f'DOVisi, inch quid hod, and! l ative eve ise. e direct ies to nee ill out i) 1 is availaii Station Is pends oiu! efix), his-, e student® 'V box. 0® '(Hit $250. m ,dv they can® a out and || re begin® ation dui® of $15,® be billed® w M ■i * . a-: , i * ^8SSSi^< • iii V$8§ mkm lispatcliet the Hous itiel Union ikes thej) ealfsaid. and keep ugh.” :ad' om the the past, to thee ates andli s involved my R«ei< port and ts. xerciseio 1 dds. “i' ( ■{he Reset have it of thef' ,ur Reset Dog Day Afternoon Senior Paul Hinds contemplates graduation as he reads a card outside the Aggieland Station Post Photo by Jay Janner Office. His pet dachshund, Danke, keeps him company Sunday afternoon. Medical students examine hard courses, dead bodies By Adrienne Dunbar Reporter mSmt 1 he transition from an under graduate university to a medical school is a drastic and difficult one. Texas A&M Medical School students lived inikl 0111151 quickly adjust from from tak ing 12, 15 or 18 credit hours a se mester to taking the equivalent of 18 ar more hours in a quarter system. “We like to call it the ‘blitzkreig ystem’,” says Mike Clark, a second- U.S. tr(®y ear medical student. “You are over- tationed* whelmed the first quarter. They just give you more and more and more o know.” One professor in the department seems to disagree. Tom Champney, a neuroendocri- nologist and assistant professor of anatomy, describes a first-year medi- o f 0 uri cal student’s curriculum. “They will take two anatomy classes, gross and micro, and a medical humanity,” Champney says. “That’s a relatively asy quarter.” Microanatomy, called medical his tology, studies the basic cells and how they function. Gross anatomy is what one might guess, the study of the human body in its entirety. “The first day of class you go for a few hours of lecture and then they put you in front of the body,” Dave Schneider, a second-year medical “The first day of class you go for a few hours of lec ture and then they put you in front of the body. The head, hands and feet are all covered because a lot of people freak out when they see a body. ” — Dave Schneider, medi cal student student says. “The head, hands and feet are all covered because a lot of people freak out when they see a body. It helps the shock.” Champney says the bodies don’t shock people, the work does. “Gross (anatomy) is fairly easy for med school,” Champney says. “There is a one-hour lecture four days a week, and four or five hours of lab every day. Micro is usually two hours a week, and a humanity is usually one hour. All the rest is free time, most use it to study.” The undergraduate attitude is hard to shake, he says. “Students ask me ‘What do I need to know for the exam?’ and I try to stress that they need to know every thing,” Champney says. “Med school is not the same pace and volume as other schools, it’s a lot more. Some just get blown away.” Because students are training for a profession, they must be precise. “We don’t want generalities,” he says. “A lot of information comes at them (students) full-barrel. They have very little time to assimilate, yet they must take in as much as possi ble.” Although anatomy is the first class facing a medical student, it is the most important. “This is the instrument they will be working with,” Champney says. “They need to know it well.” Flag flies despite neighbor's complaints a flagpole business he owns in Ir COLLEYVILLE (AP) — Steve |Symonds wants to fly his flag high tnd he’s leading a drive to seek a Ireferendum election against flag- jpole height restrictions set last week |by the City Council. Symonds, who has been at the It enter of the flagpole controversy, |says he thinks the people should de ride the height limit. Some skeptics contend that Sy- Iraonds is using the flap to advertise vmg. “I think that all he wants is the publicity,” said Bedford Mayor L. Don Dodson. Symonds denies the allegation. “I’m in the flagpole business, but that’s not why it’s up there,” Sy monds told the Fort Worth Star- Telegram in an earlier interview. “It’s something we enjoy. I don’t sell flagpoles from my home.” The council Tuesday approved an emergency ordinance, aimed at Symonds, requiring a building per mit for any flagpole taller than 35 feet. Half of Symonds backyard is in Bedford and the other half in Col- leyville. In February, neighbors in both cities complained of the flapping noise made by Symond’s 20-by-38 foot flag and the spotlight he kept trained on it. ALPHA KAPPA PSI NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS FRATERNITY Congratulates and Bids a Fond Farewell to Our Spring and Summer Graduates: Gary Ashmore James Elkins Ash Harris Mary Kirchner Mary Wilkie Kevin Blacketer Paul L. Gilbert Jill Jenkins Barbara Maley Janet Wyatt GOOD LUCK!! 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