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Senior civil engineering major Alan Vaughn
makes a fancy dive at Wofford Cain Pool. Vaughn
Photo by Sarah Cowan
was a gymnast but turned to diving because gym
nastics was too hard on his ankles.
Some A&M housing
will be demolished
By Rosaline Aguirre
Reporter
The phrase, “Something old,
something new, something bor
rowed . . .” signifies a beginning for
many married couples. But for the
married students at Texas A&M
who live in the Southside Apart
ments, “something old,” signifies the
reason their homes must be torn
down.
As for “something new,” well,
that’s still in the developmental stage
and is undecided.
The Texas A&M University Sys
tem Board of Regents approved a
University proposal June 14 to de
molish the 59 units of married stu
dent housing on the south side of
campus.
The apartments, which were built
in 1936, have become difficult to
maintain in recent years. The high
maintenance costs have caused a
negative cash flow, said Gen. Wesley
Peel, vice chancellor of facilities
planning and construction.
Although University officials have
no definite plans for the location af
ter demolition, the apartments will
be vacated by next summer. Those
students who still seek housing will
be offered housing north of campus.
The University offers married
student housing north of the main
campus with monthly rates from
$165 to $260, but Southside Apart
ment rates are only $166 and sport
larger floor plans. All bills are paid
with the exception of air-condition
ing in the summer, which makes liv
ing expenses very economical for
married students.
Although the lowest rent for
Photo by Robert W. Rizzo
A park located in the Southside apartment complex.
housing north of campus is $1
cheaper than south side rates, the
north campus apartments are
smaller and there is no guarantee
that at that rate it will be available for
those seeking housing next summer.
John Sodolak, manager of all Uni
versity-owned apartments, said he
cannot adjust rates to meet the fi
nancial needs of some south side
tenants.
“That (rate adjustment) is up to
the Board of Regents,” Sodolak said.
“I have no control.”
Clay Hanks, a two-year resident,
described how the move will affect
his neighbor’s financial situation.
“If they had to pay a penny, or
$10 more a month, they couldn’t go
to school or even a movie,” Hanks
said. “They really depend on this
place. It will be a real financial bur
den on them.”
Lisa Morris, a new tenant, said she
doesn’t understand the need to de
molish the apartments when there
presently is a need for more married
student housing.
“I think that it is crazy to be tear
ing these down — there is a real
need,” Morris said. “We signed up a
year ago and have been on a waiting
list.”
Some tenants were surprised to
See Apartments, page 8
Lawmaker seeking investigation
of Clements' involvement at SMU
AMA calls for mandatory testing
of AIDS for immigrants, prisoners
CHICAGO (AP) — The Ameri
can Medical Association on Tuesday
called for mandatory AIDS-virus
tests of immigrants and prison in
mates and endorsed lessons about
the deadly disease for elementary-
school pupils.
Policymakers for the 271,000-
member organization debated less
See related stories, Page 3
than half an hour before adopting,
virtually unchanged, 17 recommen
dations from an AMA board of
trustees’ report released Saturday.
“We hope this is the framework
for a national policy,” Dr. Robert E.
McAfee, an AMA trustee, said after
the 406-member House of Delegates
voted Tuesday.
“But we wish to be sure national
policy is not just federal policy,” he
said. “The recommendations de
mand substantial private-sector in
volvement.”
Most of the recommendations
concern testing for presence of the
AIDS infection, which the trustees
said should be required for prison
inmates and would-be immigrants
but not for everyone seeking a mar
riage license or entering a hospital.
Blood and organ donors already
are tested for the AIDS virus in this
country, as well as members of the
military.
With the delegates’ approval, the
recommendations become the basis
for AMA education and lobbying ef
forts on acquired immune deficiency
syndrome, which has struck more
than 35,000 people in this country
and killed more than 20,000.
The delegates also approved rec
ommendations calling for:
• Routine testing of patients at
sexually transmitted-disease clinics
and drug-abuse clinics, unless sub
jects raise specific objections.
• Greater educational efforts
aimed at doctors and the public, in
cluding voluntary media guidelines
for public service announcements
about AIDS.
• More federal funding for
AIDS-virus testing, counseling of
those found to be infected and re
search to determine the most effec
tive counseling methods. The trust
ees said the $ 1 billion expected to be
appropriated by Congress for 1988
will not be enough.
AUSTIN (AP) — A state lawmaker said Tuesday he
would file a bill calling for a special House committee to
investigate Gov. Bill Clements’ involvement in im
proper payments to Southern Methodist University
football players.
Also Tuesday, Attorney General Jim Mattox said he
would try to determine if Clements or others involved
with SMU violated any civil or criminal laws. Mattox
said his review was requested by four lawmakers and
several SMU alumni.
“It has been expressed to me that something clearly
has been done wrong, either morally wrong or legally
wrong,” Mattox said, although adding he has not seen
enough evidence to decide whether there were viola
tions of state law.
The Republican governor said Mattox, a Democrat,
and Democratic lawmakers are politically motivated in
calling for investigations.
The request for a legislative investigation came from
Rep. A1 Edwards, D-Houston, who said he wants to
know if Clements committed any impeachable offense.
“We can’t ignore the fact that it exists,” Edwards said
of Clements’ involvement in the improper payment of
SMU football players. “We can’t just put it under the
rug. The press is not letting it go under the rug, and the
general public is not letting it go under the rug.”
Edwards said the bill, co-sponsored by several other
Democratic lawmakers, could be filed by week’s end.
He met Tuesday with Speaker Gib Lewis, who said a
Clements investigation could unnecessarily cloud law
makers’ efforts to solve the state fiscal crisis.
“I hope we don’t have to deal with it,” Lewis, D-Fort
Worth, said.
A 48-page report issued last week by a bishops’ com
mittee described how Clements, then chairman of the
SMU Board of Governors, helped continue improper
payments to SMU football players while the school was
on probation for similar activities.
Connolly, Cisneros support
tax increase for education
AUSTIN (AP) — Former Gov.
John Connally and San Antonio
Mayor Henry Cisneros went to the
Capitol Tuesday to tell lawmakers to
increase taxes to improve education.
“What we need to do is screw up
our courage to pass a tax bill,” Con
nally said at a news conference.
Cisneros, a Democrat, said the ap
peal by himself and Connally, a Re
publican, is a “bi-partisan, multi-
generational concern.” The mayor
called on Texans to play an active
role in the state’s budget dilemma.
“This is not a political game,” Cis
neros said. “This is not an interest
ing budgetary fight. This is not a
standoff of personalities. It is far
more important than that. What we
are facing is nothing less than the fu
ture of Texas.”
Connally and Cisneros are among
Texans who fear that education
spending — both for higher educa
tion and public education — could
suffer as a result of budget cutting.
“Right now in 1987, we are plant
ing the seeds of unemployment for
the year 2005 and 2010 in the
schools across this state if we cannot
provide the highest education possi
ble,” Cisneros said.
Connally said lawmakers will find
that there can be political life after a
tax bill.
“I think what we’re trying to say to
those who serve in the House and
Senate here is that they shouldn’t be
afraid to pass a tax bill to meet the
essential needs of this state,” Con
nally said. “People of Texas fully un
derstand what education means.
“I don’t think a single member of
the House or the Senate was ever de
feated for voting for a tax bill. The
people of Texas will understand, will
appreciate and will applaud those
who have the courage to stand up to
their duties and their responsibilities
and pass a tax bill, if indeed they un
derstand why they are doing it.”
He said a tax increase of about
$3.6 billion, in addition to the $2.9
billion that could be raised by contin
uing the temporary sales and fuels
levies now in effect.
A&M professor calls research
using animals a necessary evil
By Sandra Voelkel
Reporter
Animals play an instrumental
role in the development of medi
cine and science.
But that role often demands
their sacrifice for the benefit of
mankind, as is reflected in the an-
Using animals in research
Part one of a two-part series
nual death toll of approximately
100 million research animals.
Dr. William McCulloch, a
Texas A&M professor of veteri
nary public health, says biomedi
cal research and education have
relied on animals as subjects for
tests, evaluations and demonstra
tions.
Limitations on research using
human subjects have also in
creased the necessity to use ani
mals in research.
McCulloch says animal re
search now provides benefits to
both humans and animals.
“However,” he says, “I have
used animals for both teaching
and researching, and I wish scien
tists could get answers without us
ing animals.”
Some present benefits to hu
mans that required animal re
search in their development are
immunization against diptheria,
the mumps, measles and small
pox; radiation therapy and che
motherapy for cancer patients;
procedures for open-heart sur
gery; insulin for the management
of diabetes; and medications that
control epileptic seizures.
Nevertheless, humans aren’t
the sole beneficiaries of animal
research. Biomedical research
also has produced major break
throughs in veterinary medicine,
such as treatment for parasites,
control of heartworm infections
in dogs and a vaccination against
rabies.
And A&M has been a major
contributor to many medical re
search procedures and devel
opments.
Researchers in A&M’s College
of Veterinary Medicine have
done credit extension work in
embryo transfer that has been ap
plied to both animal and human
medicine, says Noberto Espitia,
A&M’s Small Animal Clinic su
pervisor. And embryo transfers
have proved successful in the
cattle industry.
McColloch says many of the
procedures that are available in
cardiac surgery and transplants
were pioneered through the use
of chimpanzees.
Cancer research also is being
done through a cooperative ef
fort between A&M’s veterinary
college and M.D. Anderson Hos
pital in Houston, he said.
The veterinary college, he said,
actually performs a function to
See Animals, page 8
J.R., a golden retriever, is one of the research animals used at the
Texas A&M Small Animal Clinic.